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Laxmikant–Pyarelal | |
Laxmikant (left)- Pyarelal (right)
Background information | |
Also known as | LP, Laxmit–Pyare |
Genres | Film score, Fusion music |
Occupation(s) | Composer, music director, orchestrator, conductor |
Years active | 1963 | –1998
Laxmikant–Pyarelal were a popular Indian composer duo, consisting of Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar (1937–1998) and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (born 1940). They composed music for about 635 Hindi movies from 1963 to 1998, working for almost all notable filmmakers including Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, B.R. Chopra, Shakti Samanta, Manmohan Desai, Yash Chopra, Subhash Ghai and Manoj Kumar.
Early life[edit]
Laxmikant | |
Birth name | Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar |
Born | Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India (now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) |
3 November 1937
Died | 25 May 1998 | (aged 60)
Years active | 1963–1998 |
Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar, was born on the day of Laxmi Pujan, on 3 November in 1937. Probably, because of the day of his birth, his parents named him as Laxmikant, after the goddess Laxmi. He spent his childhood amidst dire poverty in the slums of Vile Parle (East) in Mumbai.[citation needed] His father died when he was a child. Because of the poor financial condition of the family he could not complete his academic education either.[citation needed] Laxmikant's father's friend, a musician himself, advised Laxmikant and his elder brother to learn music. Accordingly, Laxmikant learned to play the mandolin and his elder brother learned to play the tabla. He spent two years in the company of the well-known mandolin player Hussain Ali. He began organising and performing in Indian Classical Instrumental Music concerts to earn some money. Later, in the 1940s, he also learned mandolin from Bal Mukund Indorker and violin from Husnalal (of the Husanlal Bhagatram fame). Laxmikant began his film career as a child actor in the film Aankhen. He also acted in some Gujarati films.[1]
Pyarelal | |
Birth name | Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma |
Born | 3 September 1940 |
Years active | 1963–present |
Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (born 3 September 1940) was the son of a renowned trumpeter Pandit Ramprasad Sharma (popularly known as Babaji), who taught him the basics of music. He started learning violin at the age of 8 and practised it 8 to 12 hours daily. He learnt to play violin from a Goan musician named Anthony Gonsalves. The song "My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves" from the movie Amar Akbar Anthony is regarded as a tribute to Mr. Gonsalves (the movie had music by Laxmikant–Pyarelallal). By the age of 12, his family's financial condition had deteriorated, which in turn forced him to earn money by playing in studios. Pyarelal then used to frequent and play the violin in studios such as Ranjit Studios, to earn money for his family.
Formation of composer duo[edit]
When Laxmikant was about 10 years old, he once played mandolin in a Lata Mangeshkar concert in Radio Club, Colaba. Lata was so impressed that she talked to him after the concert.
Laxmikant and Pyarelal met at Sureel Kala Kendra, a music academy for children, run by the Mangeshkar family. After she came to know about their financially poor backgrounds, Lata recommended their names to music directors like Naushad, Sachin Dev Burman and C. Ramchandra. Similar financial backgrounds and age made Laxmikant and Pyarelal very good friends. They used to spend long hours at the recording studios, sometimes getting work for each other and even playing together whenever they got the opportunity.
Pyarelal often used to frequent the Bombay Chamber Orchestra and the Paranjoti Academy, where he would perfect his skills in the company of Goody Seervai, Coomi Wadia, Mehli Mehta and his son, Zubin Mehta. Laxmikant–Pyarelal were not content with the payments being made to them for their music, so they decided to go to Madras (now Chennai). But, it was the same story there. So, they returned. Once Pyarelal decided to leave India and go to Vienna to play for symphony orchestras, just like Zubin. However, he stayed back at Laxmikant's insistence. Some of Laxmikant–Pyarelal's colleagues at this time included Pandit Shivkumar Sharma (Santoor) and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia (flute). Later, Shivkumar and Hariprasad also ventured in Hindi Cinema as Shiv-Hari.
Laxmikant–Pyarelal worked with almost all reputed music directors (with the exception of O. P. Nayyar and Shankar-Jaikishan) of the 1950s. In 1953, they became assistants to Kalyanji-Anandji and worked with them as assistants till 1963. They worked as music arrangers for many music directors including Sachin Dev Burman (in Ziddi) and also for his son Rahul Dev Burman (in his first film Chhote Nawab). Laxmikant–Pyarelal and R D Burman remained very good friends, even when Laxmikant–Pyarelal started giving music independently. R D Burman played mouth organ for all songs of Dosti. Laxmikant once made a guest appearance playing role of himself as a Composer of Song "Dil Ki Baat" in Teri Kasam (1982), which had music by R D Burman.
Music career[edit]
In their early days, Laxmikant–Pyarelal's music was very similar to Shankar-Jaikishan's music, as Laxmikant was a great fan of theirs. Once Shankar even changed his orchestration to make sure that his music did not sound like Laxmikant–Pyarelal's.[citation needed] Laxmikant–Pyarelal's first film as music directors was not released. The first released movie which featured them as music directors was Babubhai Mistry's Parasmani (1963), which was a costume drama. All the songs of the film became immensely popular esp. "Hasata Hua Nurani Chehara", "Wo Jab Yaad Aaye" and "Mere Dil Main Halki Si". Throughout their tenure as music directors, Laxmikant–Pyarelal only used A-grade singers. Their mentors, Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammad Rafi, agreed to sing for them in spite of low budgets, and Laxmikant–Pyarelal always remained indebted to them. In fact, both Mohammad Rafi and Lata have sung the maximum number of songs in their career for Laxmikant–Pyarelal.They continued to give patronage to Mohammed Rafi, sometimes against filmmakers' wishes. They had a great rapport with Kishore Kumar as well. Kishore Kumar sang maximum songs (402) for LP among all male singers, followed by Rafi(about 365 songs).[citation needed]
Laxmikant–Pyarelal hit the big time with Rajshri Productions' 1964 film Dosti. The film had two newcomer heroes who never became popular, and the film was a success due to its music. Songs like Chahoonga main tujhe shaam savere and Rahi manava became very popular. At that time, many used to think that there was a single person by the name of Laxmikant Pyarelal. Laxmikant–Pyarelal won their first Filmfare Best Music Director Award for the movie, ahead of stalwarts like Shankar-Jaikishan (for Sangam) and Madan Mohan (for Woh Kaun Thi?). Then came Lootera a super hit musical non-star cast film which is remembered only because of Lata Manageshkar's super hit songs with Laxmikant–Pyarelal.
In 1966 LP started cementing their place in Hindi Film Music. LP's first musical hit film, with big star cast, Aaye Din Bahar Ke was released, followed by Pyar Kiye Jaa. Even in films with lesser-known actors, LP scored hit music: Sati Sawitri (Songs:"Tum Gagan Ke Chandram Ho", "Jeevan Dor Tumhi Sang Bandhi", "Kabhi To Miloge"); Sant Gyaneshwar (Songs: "Jyot Se Jyot Jagate Chalo", "Khabar More Na Line"); Hum Sab Ustaad Hai (Songs: "Pyar Batate Chalo", "Ajanabi Tum Jane Pehachane Se"); Mr. X in Bombay (Songs: "Mere Mehaboob Quayamat Hogi", "Chali Re Chali Re Gori", "Khoobsurat Haseena"); Shriman Fantush..(Songs: "Sultana Sultana Tu Na Ghabarana", "Yeh Dard Bhara Afasana").
In 1967, LP consolidated their position in the Hindi film industry with a series of hits by one after another. Non star cast film Farz was LP's first golden jubilee musical hit followed by big star cast films like Anita, Shagird, yet another Golden Jubilee hit, Patthar Ke Sanam, Night in London, Jaal and another evergreen musical hit Milan. LP received their second Filmfare Trophy for Milan without any stiff competition. The rise of Laxmikant–Pyarelal, Rahul Dev Burman, and Kalyanji-Anandji marked the end of an old era of Bollywood music, which belonged to Shankar-Jaikishan, Sachin Dev Burman, Naushad (Mausicar-e-azam), C. Ramchandra, Khayyam, Madan Mohan, O. P. Nayyar, Roshan and others. Big film producing names, like Prasad Productions, Rajashri Productions, J. Om Prakash, Raj Khosla, Manoj Kumar, Ramanand Sagar, Madan Mohla, Mohan Sahagal, V.Shantaram, Raj Kapoor, Yash Chopra, Manmohan Desai, Subhash Ghai and many more, started replacing their regular music directors and preferred Laxmikant–Pyarelal on regular basis and in return LP have given an outstanding music to justify the replacement with big names.
The team of Laxmikant–Pyarelal and lyricist Anand Bakshi churned out some of the most popular songs in Hindi Cinemas history. The combo composed songs for more than 250 movies. Anand Bakshi was the lyricist who wrote the maximum number of texts Laxmikant–Pyarelal gave music to. He was actually the lyricist for all the films for which Laxmikant–Pyarelal won Filmfare Awards, except their very first award.
Style of music[edit]
Laxmikant–Pyarelal composed Indian classical music as well as Western music. But they were most popular for their folk tunes and semi-classical music. In Shagird, they created Rock-n-Roll-style foot-tapping melodies. The film Karz is worth specially mentioning here where LP successfully, gave disco-like music, in this film they had experimented with a ghazal "Dard-e-dil Dard-e- jigar" by westernising it. The song is strongly remembered even now, and the duo received the Filmfare Best Music Director Award for the year. Although its tune "Ek Hasina Thi" is a Blatant lift from George Benson's 'We as love' (1977).[2]
Although not as a rule, Laxmikant mostly looked after vocals and Pyarelal used to take care of orchestration. Both had vast knowledge of various music genres, musical instruments and orchestra management.
Binaca Geet Mala[edit]
LP dominated the Weekly Hindi Film songs Countdown programme Binaca Geet Mala, the most popular musical radio programme of its time. Its first broadcast was in 1953 by Radio Ceylon and its host was the Ameen Sayani. The Binaca Geet Mala ranked the most popular Bollywood film songs according to sales in select shops in select cities.
In the third quarter of 1963, LP's first ever songs Hasta Hua Nurani Chehara form Parasmani hit the "Binaca Geet Mala". After that LP's songs were regularly and prominently aired on "Binaca Geet Mala". There used to be sixteen songs in each of the weekly "Binaca Geet Mala" programme, more than half the numbers of the songs were of LP.[citation needed]There are certain weekly Binaca Geet Mala programmes in which more than 13 out of 16 songs of LP were broadcast when LP were right on top of their career.[citation needed] BGM used to broadcast annual (Vasrshik ) programme giving the orders of the top 32 songs of every year. In this programme also LP were having upper hand. Not only that, on an average, there used to be at least more than 15 songs used to be of LP, that too about 50% of the songs in between top to first ten positions. The Binaca Geet Mala records shows that Laxmikant–Pyarelal have completely dominated this musical programme.[citation needed]
Popular Songs[edit]
Year | Film | Song | Singer(s) |
1967 | Milan | "Sawan Ka Mahina" | Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar |
1968 | Shagird | "Dil Vil Pyar Vyar" | Lata Mangeshkar |
1969 | Intaquam | "Kaise Rahu Chup" | Lata Mangeshkar |
1969 | Do Raaste | "Bindiya Chamakegi" | Lata Mangeshkar |
1974 | Roti Kapda Aur Makaan | "Mehngai Mar Gayi" | Jani Babu Quwal, Lata Mangeshkar, Mukesh & Chanchal |
1980 | Sargam | "Dafali Wale" | Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar |
1983 | Hero | "Tu Mera Hero Hai" | Manhar Udhas, Anuradha Paudwal |
1985 | Sanjog | "Yashoda Ka Nandlala" | Lata Mangeshkar |
1986 | Naam | "Chithi Aayi Hai" | Pankaj Udhas |
1988 | Tezaab | "Ek Do Teen" | Alka Yagnik |
1989 | Ram Lakhan | "My Name Is Lakhan" | Mohammad Aziz, Anuradha Paudwal, Nitin Mukesh, Anuradha Sriram |
1993 | Khalnayak | "Choli Ke Peeche" | Alka Yagnik, Ila Arun |
1993 | Ashiq Awara | "Main hon Ashiq Ashiq Awara" | Udit Narayan |
1998 | Deewana Mastana | "O Mummy Mummy O Dady Dady " | Udit Narayan |
In all, 174 songs of LP appeared in Binaca Geetmala finals.
Relationship with leading singers[edit]
Mohammad Rafi played a very important role in the Music Duo's career. Laxmikant–Pyarelal started their career with a song of Rafi in the film "CHHAILA BABU IN 1967" Rafi Sahab sang for LP for free and blessed them that- " This music Duo may work together to their last breath" Therefore Laxmikant–Pyarelal always respected Rafi till the end and Rafi sang his last song-"TERE AANE KI AAS HAI DOST..." in music direction of LP which was recorded on 26 July 1980 in Mahboob studio at 10:00 AM.
Lata Mangeshkar also played a major role in shaping up the careers of LP. She sang the maximum numbers of songs for them. She sounded extremely melodious under LP. Lata Mangeshkar and Laxmikant–Pyarelal shared a long, close and rewarding association. From 1963, to the next 35 years, Lata Mangeshkar and Laxmikant–Pyarelal were to chalk up around 712 songs together, which accounted for one in every 10 Hindi film songs recorded by the Melody Queen, and one of every four songs composed by the duo[citation needed]. Their work includes a variety and range; there were chart-slammers and classics, and chaalu numbers as well as connoisseur choices. Laxmikant-Pyarelal dominates LATA's voice in "Sati Savitri" 1964, "Lootera" 1965, "Intequam" 1968, "Sharafat" 1970, "Abhinetri" 1971, "Mera Gaon Mera Desh" 1971, "Jal Bin Machhali Nritya Bin Bijle" 1971, "Raja Jani" 1972, "Bobby" 1973,"Satyam Shivam Sundaram" and "Ek Duje Ke Liye", 1981... all have different variety.
Singer Mohammad Rafi has sung as many as 388 songs under the LP. This is the highest number of the songs sung by Mohammad Rafi with any of the music directors in Hindi Film Music. Songs from "Dosti","Aaye Din Bahar Ke", "Aaya Sawan Jhum Ke", "Mere Humdam Mere Dost", "Jeene Ki Raah", "Dharm Veer", "Amar Akbar Anthony" and "Sargam" etc have the dominance from Rafi...
LP also produced some memorable songs rendered by Kishore Kumar, 402 songs, the second highest numbers of the songs sung by Kishore Kumar under any of the music directors in HFM, namely "Mere Mehboob Quayamat hogi", "Pyar Batate Chalo", Mere Naseeb Main", "Ye Dard Bhara Afsana", Vaada Tera Vaada", "Ye Jeevan Hai", "Mere Dil Main Aaj Kya Hai", "mere Diwane Pan Ki", "My Name Is Anthony Gonsalvis", "Aap Ke Anurodh Pe", "Ik Ritu Aaye", "Gadi bula rahi hai", "Ruk jana Nahi" and "Om Shanti Om" and many more hits.
Laxmikant-Pyarelal kept the balancing act between Mohammad Rafi (388 songs) and Kishore Kumar (402 songs). During the peak wave of Kishore Kumar after Aaradhana, it is Laxmikant-Pyarelal who gave maximum numbers of the songs to Mohammad Rafi.. In 1977 LP brought back the glory of Mohammad Rafi through, "Amar Akbar Anthon" and "Sargam"..
LP worked with also worked with Mukesh, Asha Bhosle, Manna Dey, Mahendra Kapoor, Amit Kumar, Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan, Shailender Singh, S.P.Balasubrahmanyam, Anuradha Paudwal. However, they also gave big breaks to many newcomers like, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Mohammed Aziz, Suresh Wadkar, Shabbir Kumar, Sukhwinder Singh, Vinod Rathod, and Roop Kumar Rathod.LP always wanted to engage the voice of Talat Mahmood so they specially composed a very melodious song 'Mohabbat ki Kahaniyan' in 1971 for the film 'Wo Din Yaad Karo" in which Lata accompanied Talat Sahab.
On 7 May 2011, event house Kakas Entertainment arranged a show called Maestros, by Pyarelal where they relived old songs with singers like Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Sudesh Bhosle and many other Bollywood singers.[3]
After Laxmikant's death[edit]
After Laxmikant's death, Pyarelal has done some work independently. When the playback singer Kumar Sanu turned music director, he approached Pyarelal to arrange music for him. Pyarelal was approached to assist in the music of Farah Khan's Om Shanti Om song "Dhoom Tana".In 2009 Pyarelal won the Sachin Dev Burman International Award for Creative Sound and Music at the Pune Film Festival.[4] Pyarelal has done a show with Kakas Entertainment called Maestros A musical Journey of Laxmikant–Pyarelal[5]
After Laxmikant–Pyarelal made debut as a music director duo in 1963, they were nominated for the Filmfare Awards (Best Music Director) almost every year. Many times, they were nominated for three or more numbers of films in a particular year. At the same time LP narrowly missed the awards for musical hits like Aaye Din Bahar Ke, Intquam, Do Raste, Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Shor, Daag, Bobby, Ek Duje Ke Liye, Utsav, Sur Sangam, Farz, Shagird, Tezaab, Hero, and Mr. India.
Laxmikant–Pyarelal have won seven Filmfare Awards.
- Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Won
1965 Dosti
1968 Milan
1970 Jeene Ki Raah
1978 Amar Akbar Anthony
1979 Satyam Shivam Sundaram
1980 Sargam
1981 Karz
- Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Nominated
1971 Do Raaste
1973 Shor
1974 Bobby
1974 Daag: A Poem of Love
1975 Roti Kapda Aur Makaan
1976 Dulhan
1980 Jaani Dushman
1981 Aasha
1982 Ek Duuje Ke Liye
1983 Prem Rog
1984 Hero
1986 Meri Jung
1986 Pyaar Jhukta Nahin
1986 Sur Sangam
1989 Tezaab
1990 Ram Lakhan
1992 Saudagar
1994 Khalnayak
- Bobby has been rated the 17th best soundtrack ever by Planet Bollywood on their "100 Greatest Bollywood Soundtracks".[6] Other soundtrack in the list include Amar Akbar Anthony (25), Roti Kapada Aur Makaan (27), Dosti (32), Hero (36), Ek Duuje Ke Liye (44), Karz (50), Ram Lakhan (59), Kranti (61), Tezaab (65), Do Raaste (74), Milan (75), Khalnayak (77), Prem Rog (85).
- ^ Ashok Da. Ranade (1 January 2006). Hindi Film Song: Music Beyond Boundaries. Bibliophile South Asia. pp. 310–. ISBN 978-81-85002-64-4.
- ^ http://www.itwofs.com/hindi-lp.html
- ^ [1]
- ^ It was in Pune that I started my journey in 1945, says a nostalgic Dev Anand
- ^ [2]
- ^ "100 Best Soundtracks". Retrieved 12 February 2012.
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Vic Elford leads new class of Sebring Hall of Fame inductees
Vic Elford at speed at Sebring in 1971 on the way to winning with teammate Gerard Larrousse. Photo by Pete Lyons courtesy of Porsche.
Versatile veteran Vic Elford is set to headline the class of the 2014 Sebring Hall of Fame inductees on March 14 at the Chateau Elan Hotel and Conference Center located adjacent to the fabled Florida track.
Established in 2002 on the 50th anniversary of the first running of the 12-hour endurance race held on a former World War II Army airfield, the Sebring Hall of Fame honors drivers, organizers, and other key players in the history of one of sports car racing's toughest and most renowned events. Held every other year on the day before the running of the main event, the induction luncheon on March 14 will also see the enshrining of Peter Gregg, Bob Tullius and Wayne Taylor.
Brumos Porsche 1972 911 RS, raced by Peter Gregg and Hurley Haywood, at the 2004 Rennsport Reunion. Photo courtesy of Porsche.
In a bit of a curve compared to other halls, the Sebring Gallery of Legends, as they call their permanent hall of fame that opened in 2008, also inducts manufacturers and race teams. This year's honoree in that category is the Jacksonville, Florida-based Brumos Racing team, led by Gregg from its founding in 1971 until Gregg's death in 1980. Brumos can lay claim to one overall Sebring title, in addition to three class wins and three overall titles and four class trophies at the Daytona 24 hour race.
Vic Elford at the Porsche Rennsport Reunion 2007. Photo courtesy of Porsche.
Elford, who has known the winner's circle in almost every type of racing, claimed the checkered flag for Porsche in 1971, teaming with Gerard Larrousse in the dominating 917K. Sports car fans will be familiar with Bob Tullius and his green-and-white Group 44 racers. Today a resident of Sebring who makes his home within earshot of the track, Tullius won the GTO title in a Triumph TR-8 during the 1980 running of the 12 Hours of Sebring. Tullius can also make the claim to fame of winning the very first Trans-Am race, while driving a Dodge Dart of all things, at Sebring in 1966.
The South African-born Wayne Taylor began competing in his home country and Europe before taking on IMSA full-time in 1989. Competitive right away, he dominated the latter half of the 1990s, winning four consecutive IMSA WSC titles from 1995 through 1998, including scoring the American endurance double in 1996, winning outright at both Sebring and Daytona.
In addition to the hall of fame induction, Elford has also been named the grand marhsal of this year's 12 Hours of Sebring.
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The Real McCoy 1956 Corvette SR Prototype. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions.
In 1955, Chevrolet was struggling to find buyers for its Corvette roadster, which had yet to be proven in competition. Chevrolet engineering head Ed Cole understood that the surest way to boost the car's stock was with an on-track victory, so Cole reached out to legendary American driver John Fitch. Tasked with producing a victory at the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1956, Fitch and his team worked tirelessly to test and improve the Corvette before the race, and when the checkered flag fell, a pair of Corvettes took class wins at the prestigious event. Now, the 1956 Chevrolet Corvette SR prototype that first crossed the finish line at Sebring, known as The Real McCoy, will head to auction next month.
While Fitch's skill as a driver was without question, Cole needed him to act in a team management role as well. With just five weeks of development time before the race, Fitch's initial experience with the Corvette was disheartening. While Smokey Yunick prepared four cars for the race, Fitch began testing with a Corvette mule at Sebring, only to find that the car was scarcely capable of turning a lap at speed without a component failure. Engines lost oil pressure, wheel bearings seized, oil seals failed and so did the cars' brakes.
When Yunick delivered his Corvettes, the situation failed to improve dramatically. Each issue discovered in testing had to be sent up the chain of command by an on-site Chevrolet engineer, and improved parts had to be sourced from suppliers or constructed in house. In keeping with SCCA regulations, each improved part had to be cataloged as well, available (theoretically, at least) for any Corvette owner to purchase.
Three of the cars prepared by Yunick were equipped with Chevrolet's 265-cu.in. V-8, fitted with a custom-ground Duntov camshaft, and fed via a pair of dual four-barrel carburetors. The fourth car, a modified 1955 chassis (number 1194) with a prototype 1956 body, was fitted with a bored and stroked V-8 that now displaced 307 cubic inches, and thus would compete in a different class during the event. To handle the engine's higher output, a custom four-speed transmission was supplied by ZF, and on race day the car would be driven by Fitch himself, paired with Walt Hansgen.
The 307-cu.in. V-8, topped by a pair of dual four-barrel carburetors.
Though Fitch, Cole and the others involved in the project (including legendary Corvette engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov, who was heading the parts engineering effort in Detroit) struggled to get the bugs worked out in advance of the event, five weeks wasn't enough time to develop a fully sorted race car. To maximize the team's chances of victory, each of the 265-cu.in. V-8 cars (numbered 5, 6 and 7) would run a different strategy involving gearing and engine speed. As for the 307-cu.in. car, issued number 1, it would be up to Fitch and co-driver Hansgen to bring the car home in one piece, hopefully with a class win.
When the green flag flew, things immediately began to look bleak for the Corvette team. On the second lap, the clutch on car number 1 began to slip, while just 20 miles into the race the rear axle failed on car number 5. Two hours into the race, car number 7′s engine let go, and car number 6 experienced a transmission problem that left it with only top gear. Despite the obstacles, cars 1 and 6 pressed on, down but far from out, and when the checkered flag waved, both cars had taken victories in their respective classes. Fitch and Hansgen's car crossed the line first, finishing ninth overall. A few minutes later, the second Corvette, number 6, finished the race in 15th overall position.
Though the victories immediately prompted Chevrolet print advertising to bill the Corvette as "a tough, road-gripping torpedo on wheels," and, more significantly, "The Real McCoy," they achieved far more than that. The general availability of the homologated high-performance parts suddenly made the Corvette attractive to other racers, and more and more Corvettes began appearing at SCCA events. In 1955, the first year of the V-8 engine, Chevrolet had produced just 700 Corvettes; in 1956, this number swelled to 3,467, and in 1957 jumped again to 6,339. Any thoughts that General Motors may have had about conceding the two-seater market to the Ford Thunderbird were banished, and it's quite likely that the victory realized by Fitch and Hansgen saved the Corvette from extinction.
In addition to its class win at Sebring, chassis 1194 was also driven by Arkus-Duntov to a new two-way Flying Mile Speed Record at the 1956 Daytona Speed Week. It's been the recipient of numerous awards over the years, including a 2012 Bloomington Gold Great Hall induction and the Spirit of Detroit award at the 2011 Concours of America.
Mecum will offer the Real McCoy Corvette at its Kissimmee, Florida, auction, which will take place January 17 to 26, 2014. For additional details, visit Mecum.com.
UPDATE (10.February): The 1956 "Real McCoy" Corvette sold for a hammer price of $2.3 million, but the transaction was later postponed over a dispute involving the ownership of parts used in the car's restoration.
Four-Links – preservation exhibit, Graffiti 40th, soggy Sebring, Johnny Cash's Plymouth
* The Larz Anderson Museum in Brookline, Massachusetts, already has a nice collection of original and preserved vehicles, so the curators are well qualified to put together an exhibition focusing on such unrestored, unprimped cars. The Old Motor this week provided a glimpse into the new exhibit.
* Autoculture this week reminded us that 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most popular car guy movies: George Lucas's "American Graffiti."
* Are there rainouts in endurance racing? Not in 1965 for the 12 Hours of Sebring, as the Chicane wrote up the story this week.
* In the early 1970s, Chrysler hired Johnny Cash as a pitchman and out of that partnership came a contest to find the country's nicest 1954 Plymouth Savoy. It wouldn't be the one Cash owned, but it wound up much nicer. CollectorCarAds has the story.
* Finally, Frank Peiler of the Consumer Guide Daily Drive this week wondered what the 1955 Chevrolet would have looked like if Chevrolet's competition took a crack at it.
Austin-Healey Le Mans prototype heads to auction
Photos courtesy Coys.
The Austin-Healey Sprite has a well-deserved reputation as a successful club and vintage racer, but for several years they campaigned among the world's elite on no less a stage than the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and this weekend one of those purpose-built racers will cross the block in England.
With custom streamlined bodies fitted to pretty much standard Sprite chassis, two of the Le Mans prototype racers competed in the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans, both entered by the Donald Healey Motor Company. Both car #48, driven by John Rhodes and Clive Baker, and car #49, driven by Paddy Hopkirk and Andrew Hedges, retired from the race with engine failures near the 20-hour mark. However, car number 49, or more accurately, chassis number HAN8/R/143, had already proven itself a winner at the 1966 12 Hours of Sebring, where it finished first in class and 18th overall, some 53 laps behind the victorious Ford GT40 of by Ken Miles and Lloyd Ruby (who beat Dan Gurney on the last lap, when his own GT40 suffered engine failure).
According to the Coys auction description for the car, following the 1966 running of Le Mans, chassis HAN8/R/143 is believed to have been sold to Royston Motors in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its next appearance in competition, however, wasn't until the 1970 running of the 24 Hours of Daytona, where drivers William Harris and Robert E. Lewis retired the car after 373 laps, finishing in 34th position.
The next several decades saw a string of owners, many of whom campaigned the car in club or vintage racing events. Its current owner, a vintage racer, ran the car at a 2010 Sebring vintage event before returning it to England. He's since restored the car to period-correct guise (including the orange livery used at the 1966 12 Hours of Sebring), obtained new FIA HTP paperwork and has recovered its original registration number. The car has been actively run in the HRDC "Grand Touring Greats" series, and has participated in the Le Mans Classic and the Goodwood Revival.
To meet modern safety standards, it carries an FIA-approved roll cage, a contemporary fuel cell, an updated race seat and harness, a fire suppression system and modern instrumentation. Though the 1.3-liter four-cylinder engine has been converted to a wet sump, the car's original dry sump components remain with the car. The same holds true for the original Healey magnesium wheels, which are reserved for display use only, while period-correct Minilite wheels are used for competition.
Tom Cotter, a prior owner of this car and a guy who knows a thing or two about tracking down rare cars, said he was never able to find the other prototype Sprite that ran Le Mans in 1966, though he did come across three other prototype Sprites that ran at Sebring, one of which, HAN9/R/238, appears to have been built for use at Le Mans in 1968, but never actually run there.
Coys will offer the Sprite April 27 at its Ascot Racecourse auction with a pre-auction estimate ranging from £200,000 to £220,000 (about $305,000 to $335,000). For more information, visit Coys.co.uk.
Big-tank fuelie 'Vette comes up for sale at Gooding
While Chevrolet officially abstained from racing following the 1957 AMA ban, that only meant the division couldn't field a team of its own. The ban didn't keep Chevrolet from funneling high-performance parts to privateer teams through the unadvertised RPO options, and one of those well-connected privateers was road racer George Reed, whose 1960 "Race Rat" Corvette will cross the block at this weekend's Gooding auction in Amelia Island.
Reed, who started the Reed's Race Rats racing club, wasn't particularly known for campaigning Corvettes. Rather, he'd already found success behind the wheel of Ferraris, a natural choice for Reed considering that his RRR Motors in Homewood, Illinois, served as a distributor for Maranello's finest. Yet in 1960, Reed decided to enter the 12 Hours of Sebring in a Corvette ordered through Nickey Chevrolet and loaded up with all sorts of race goodies. Starting with a fuel-injected 283-cu.in. V-8, Reed added the RPO 687 heavy-duty brakes and steering, RPO 276 5-1/2-inch wheels, and the LPO (limited production option) 1625 24-gallon fuel tank.
That alone wouldn't be enough to be competitive at Sebring, at the time an FIA World Sportscar Championship event, so Reed had Nickey's engine builder, Ronnie Kaplan, fortify the engine (it reportedly puts out 397 horsepower now), and turned to Zora Arkus-Duntov himself for guidance in tuning the suspension. With Chuck Hall and Bill Fritts driving, the Corvette finished 16th overall at Sebring and first in its class. Reed, driving another Ferrari, finished fifth overall.
Afterward, it went through the usual chain of owners, some of whom converted it to run on the street, until it was documented and restored over the last decade to its race configuration.
As Gooding noted in its auction description, the Corvette is today eligible for FIA Historic racing, comes with full documentation, and is expected to sell for $450,000 to $550,000.
For more information, visit GoodingCo.com.
UPDATE (15.March 2012): The Corvette ended up selling for $440,000.
Hemmings find of the Day – 1967 MGB GT
Proving once and forever that the combination of slot mags and fender flares is a formula for great success is this vintage race-prepared 1967 MGB GT, built as a tribute to men and machines that survived the ruinous 12 Hours of Sebring. The MG comes with solid vintage racing history, and is ready for whoever wants to run it around the vintage circuit. From the seller:
1967 MGB GT Sebring styling, car was built for vintage racing in 1998 and has been raced successfully in VSCDA and SVRA ever since. Designed with styling of the famous Sebring cars of the middle '60s. Has full race cage and many race prep details that build reliability. New engine in 2007 built to specs listed below. Eight races on new engine. Race ready as it sits. $18,000.
A complete list of specifications, extras, spares, and racing modifications can be found by heading from here to the actual classified listing. We just hope that the owner stashed away the slot mags before he shod the MGB GT with Minilite-Panasport style wheels. If you're going to get into style, you could do far worse than Sebring style.
More from the Morris Garage for sale at Hemmings.com.


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Mar 18th, 2003, 04:26 AM
Who's gonna take it? :confused:
Mar 18th, 2003, 04:36 AM
i think dinara will take it. i would say in 3 sets because of her dificulties this year with closing out matches.
anna can certainly beat dinara but she hasn't played a match for so long and the last few times she played she was playing badly so i don't think anna will win, but she might take a set.
Mar 18th, 2003, 05:35 AM
i think dinara will take it. i would say in 3 sets because of her dificulties this year with closing out matches.
anna can certainly beat dinara but she hasn't played a match for so long and the last few times she played she was playing badly so i don't think anna will win, but she might take a set.
i agree. she came off a bad loss vs henin and she isnt a good player when shes coming back from injury...i hope anna proves me wrong but i dont think she will...:sad: hopefully the match play will help her though, win or lose...
Mar 18th, 2003, 07:12 AM
Dinara in 2.
Mar 18th, 2003, 07:23 AM
Anna in 3 ;)
Mar 18th, 2003, 07:31 AM
Go Dinara , destroy her ;)
Mar 18th, 2003, 08:00 AM
Anna in 2.
Mar 18th, 2003, 08:02 AM
Safina in 3
Mar 18th, 2003, 08:16 AM
Anna in 2 :D Go Anna
Mar 18th, 2003, 09:14 AM
Anna in 2 :D
Mar 18th, 2003, 11:10 AM
Dinara in 3 sets :)
Mar 18th, 2003, 11:20 AM
Battle of the pretty, i think Dinara will take ;)
Love ya Dinara...
Mar 18th, 2003, 11:25 AM
I HOPE Anna!
Mar 18th, 2003, 11:32 AM
I think nobody has a clue of Anna's shape...we'll see :)
The Guilty
Mar 18th, 2003, 11:54 AM
Anna in 2
Mar 18th, 2003, 12:25 PM
Dinara in 2
auntie janie
Mar 18th, 2003, 01:03 PM
Battle of nerves, should be interesting!
I pick Anna in 3, due to Dinara's EXTREMELY limited WTA experience. Dinara has played only ONE high-profile match that I recall, at the US Open, and, understandably, she did not look up to speed there. And despite Kournikova's current dismal ranking, this will absolutely be a high-profile match on a show court crammed with photographers, the likes of which young Safina has never seen. Come to think of it, I should have picked Anna in 2! But she is such a headcase :eek:, she so often does not win matches like this one that she clearly should win.
I must say I don't think it will be a high-quality tennis match. The outcome will not be determined by fantastic tennis but by who can control her nerves just a bit better than the other one.
Winner gets Myskina, right? Another interesting one! :eek:
Mar 18th, 2003, 01:12 PM
winner gets Ai
Mar 18th, 2003, 01:22 PM
Anna 6/4 0/6 6/3
Mar 18th, 2003, 01:27 PM
Dinara in 2 or 3 :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
auntie janie
Mar 18th, 2003, 01:37 PM
winner gets Ai
Oh, okay. Thanks for pointing that out. Must stare at that draw a bit more!
Mar 18th, 2003, 02:14 PM
Anna 7-6 6-4
Mar 18th, 2003, 05:27 PM
Dinara in 2
Mar 18th, 2003, 05:51 PM
I think Dinara in 3 cos Anna hasnt played a match :-s
Mar 18th, 2003, 08:15 PM
Dinara in 3!
Mar 18th, 2003, 08:18 PM
¡¡vamos Dinara!! :):)
Mar 18th, 2003, 08:21 PM
Dinara in 3.....but I HOPE for Anna in 3 :D
Mar 18th, 2003, 08:23 PM
When do these two play?? Should be an interesting match, Im going to go with Anna in 2, one of them being a tie break set..
Mar 18th, 2003, 08:26 PM
They should play on Wednesday or Thursday, when main draw action begins.
Mar 18th, 2003, 08:26 PM
DINARA! DINARA! DINARA! :hearts: :angel: :lick:
Mar 18th, 2003, 08:33 PM
Are they both seeds or did they both have to qualify? lots of questions, I know I know.. LOL :D
The Guilty
Mar 18th, 2003, 08:43 PM
Are they both seeds or did they both have to qualify? lots of questions, I know I know.. LOL :D
They aren't seeds and they didn't have to qualify, LOL :). Their ranking was high enough to don't have to play qualifying, but wasn't high enough to get a seed.
Mar 18th, 2003, 08:47 PM
Gotcha I was thinking I hadnt seen anything about them on the website about them having to qualify..... thanks for the clarification!!!!
Light-skinned Girl
Mar 18th, 2003, 09:25 PM
I *know* Dinara will be tough but I *have to* support my fave. Anna in three! :)
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Qt libs linking impact on speed of C++ code
Now my group is doing a small project assigned by our teacher. The task is to create a mini search engine in C/C++ which indexes text files and allows querying to search through them.
What we concern now is the impact of Qt libs linking upon the speed of the C++ code part. We have over 2000 text files (about 134MB) to index. With CLI-only version, the program takes nearly 80 seconds while in no-GUI mode of GUI version, the program takes 200 seconds. We are keeping these two version on https://github.com/herophuong/Search-engine [github.com]. "no-GUI mode"'s code part of the GUI version is pure C++ and is exactly the same as CLI-only version's code. May some experts here can explain this for us. Thanks in advance.
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The question is if you are not comparing apples and pears?
Is your C++ compiled in release mode and optimized for speed?
I have noted in some of my applications that debug mode required quite a bit of time to load everything, while the release mode compilation was much faster. However, this was on Windows.
This is where a profiling tool such as valgrind comes in very useful.
I have only used valgrind to detect memory leak. Thus I thought that this is the only function of valgrind. Thanks for remind me.
Try to use gprof to find out which function takes most time.
Thanks for suggesting the tool. I will give it a try.
Though my question is still there because what I've done is only optimize CLI-only version and then merge the code with the GUI version (which means only the C++ code part is affected). Why are those speeds are not the same in the first place? May be I don't really need the answer for now but in the future projects, the problem may raise up in different situation.
You can see the code of main.cpp in gui branch. (The link is at the first post). If the —no-gui option is passed, the code path is redirected to not run the GUI loop and the program will run as the CLI version do. What I've asked is about the no-GUI mode of GUI version, not its GUI mode.
The GUI mode actually runs slower because of GUI stuff but I think I can not do anything about that. GUI needs to display progress so we don't feel it is frozen while it's indexing files.
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Some thoughts on last night's Hurricane Sandy Benefit Concert, which was a ripoff: who's ever heard of a free televised concert only lasting six hours?
John Bon Jovi, Roger Daltrey, and, to a lesser extent, Mick Jagger, can't sing anymore
Though the hordes of white, upper-middle class baby boomers that filled Madison Square Garden were pumped to see many of their musical heroes last night, the concert proved that not every rock singer ages gracefully. The most alarming one is Bon Jovi, who doesn't even sound like the same person — ten years ago he was belting out "It's My Life;" nowadays it sounds more like a Ted Neeley version. Lucky for him, he doesn't even need to sing "Living on a Prayer," since the audience can just do it for him at this point. Daltrey, while sounding better than his awful Super Bowl performance, still loses his breath easily, although his torso looks nicely waxed. And Mick can still prance around the stage better than people a third of his age, but he's not exactly going to belt it out like he does halfway through "Let it Loose."
Paul McCartney and Billy Joel can
Paul is seriously a freak of nature. The dude is 70 years old and he can still do "Helter Skelter" justice. He can do just three Beatles songs (one of which, the unjustifiably popular "Blackbird," is basically a solo song) and people will go off. Same with Billy Joel, who's still a force on the piano and on vocals — you're just gonna break out "Miami 2017″? How awesome is that?
Kanye looked out of place
Here's the thing: Kanye could have made it work. What he should have done was craft a set of his more introspective songs, ones that people older than 35 could at least attempt to appreciate. If he had done full versions of "All Falls Down," "Jesus Walks," "Runaway," "Family Business," and "Stronger," while using the lighting and special effects that made the Glow in the Dark Tour so great, it would have been way better. Instead, he did low-lit versions of "Clique" and "Mercy" to start off a 12-song medley of his best hits. First of all, "Clique" sucks and, like "Mercy," it should never be performed live. But mostly, dude why are you doing your braggadocio rap songs about all the material things you have when you're performing at a benefit for people who lost all their material things? Speaking of setlists:
Who came up with these setlists?
This is just going to be a round of questions: Why did The Who play seven songs while Eric Clapton got three and The Rolling Stones played two? Why was one of those Stones' songs "You Got Me Rocking," the most glaring example of the Stones' post-Some Girls generic rock? Who let Paul do a jam with Nirvana that nobody could possibly like (although boy does Dave Grohl look cool when he drums)? How did The Who get through a televised performance without playing "Won't Get Fooled Again"? And one more:
Is "put your cell phones in the air" not the dumbest thing to continuously ad-lib while you're singing?
I think that one basically answers itself.
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In Medley, at NW 87th Avenue and NW South River Drive, in a ramshackle house stranded in the warehouse district, the fire blazes, and from across the river we can see the flashing lights, the orange flicker, the arc of hose-water. We speed along, looking for a bridge to cross, but by the time we pull up to the property, the fire is tamed. On our way over, Siegal has called both Channels 4 and 7. "Both of them sounded interested," he explains. "They'd prefer flames, though."
Eddie Cortes, the overnight cameraman for Miami Bureau, arrives soon after we do. Siegal uses the white hood of a police car to set his camera's tint balance and the two of them shoot, picking angles, zooming, kneeling. Fifty yards away, the owner of the house lies dead and shrouded on the ground. After almost 45 minutes of shooting, we finally film a statement from the improbably alliterative Pete Pacheco, Police PIO (Public Information Officer) for Medley, who then arranges for us to approach the house and shoot more detailed footage of its charred interior.
No footage of flames, though, and given what Siegal has said about station standards, I'm pessimistic about the possibility of selling smoke. In chance conversation with bystanders, some of whom work in warehouses surrounding the charbroiled home, Lib, a short man employed at Pepperidge Farm, declares proudly that he captured the early moments of the fire on his own camcorder. Lib is reluctant to surrender his videotape, which contains his daughter's Christmas party, but Siegal coaxes it from him, offering to courier the tape up and back from the TV stations, and to arrange that Lib be paid for his generosity. And he does - he drives the tape to Channel 7, dubs it onto a compatible cassette (in the name of affordability, Siegal shoots on Hi8 video, which must then be transferred onto the station's Beta operating format), runs the dubbed tape downstairs for editing. All this grunt work for no pay; at the very least he could rightfully have taken some money from Lib's end, negotiated a fair price for the driving and the dubbing. Plus, the longer Siegal spends at Channel 7, the slimmer the chance that he will beat the deadline for Channel 4's morning show, and he has already promised them film. But he's trying to build a business, he explains, and sometimes the early concessions improve your working relationships. So he doesn't touch the money that the station will pay Lib, and he doesn't complain about running up and down the control room stairs.
Channel 7 leads its 7:30 news with Lib's home video. Siegal's night's work - his seven hours of driving, the 100-mile strain on his odometer, his coffee and gas - nets only a few seconds of broadcast footage, a vocal bite from the Medley PIO. He bills, as usual, for $50.
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Why do the first games have to give +-48 ELO, and normal gains loss is like 12-13? WHY? Who the **** designed this? I thought they had realized their mistake after Season 1. Yet I see the same retarded valuation of first games. Why do 2 losses suddenly equal a 100 ELO loss? WHY? There is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON for this retarded system to remain in place. 12-13 points loss or gain is fine, four times that IS NOT.
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It gives all the players chance to climb ladder faster. At the very beggining of your rankeds you will meet "worse" people then higher. You can carry the games easily there, if you belong at the higher elo and you can also go down faster, if you belong there. I must say i like the system, because climbing up to 2000 would be impossible if you would start at 1200 and got 12 for every game. Now you can turbo up to 1700 within 10 games.
Or you can lose a game(s) to reasons absolutely outside your power (leavers (tech problems or whatever), intentional/unintentional feeders, just trolls (troll builds or whatever). The current system allows for the random factor to have way too much influence. Now, I'm not a 2k player or anything, not even remotely. But judging by my last seasons performance, I should be in the 1300-1400 range (I had a bad streak in the end so ended the season at ~1190 or so iirc). I, for the most part, have the best scores for my role on the team (not saying I don't have my derp moments. Last ranked game was a terrible failure on my part.) I can fulfill all roles (though I dislike tanking, and I don't own the newest/best junglers, so I try and get others to fill that part if they have the better picks.) My point is, considering the low ELO difference between my current rating and my (imo) "deserved" rating, It is extremely hard (impossible if the opponents have a clue) to "solo carry" my way out of it. And this unreasonably huge ELO loss on the placement matches isn't helping. And you say it's impossible to go from 1200 to 2000 with small gains? WoW had essentially this same system (you only started at 1500 (this was before the system became what it is now). And you gained ~14-15 per equal win, more vs superior opponents. And it was perfectly fine. There is still no reason for the system to remain in its current state. You can get lucky and get boosted past your "real ELO" or you can be unlucky and fall way behind. Both ways is bad. It's too reliant on luck. Smaller gains would separate the "good" from the "bad" in smaller steps, but putting them 100 elo apart after just one game is insane (assuming both parties are in placement).
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I noticed too, that overall, especially at lowers levels of play this game has just too much randomness in it. For every on good game where both teams can truly say "gg" you have atleast 4 facestomps where you win without doing anything, because the enemy is so bad and wouldn't win even if you went afk for the next 10mins OR you are getting owned so badly that no matter how hard you try you will still lose to that fed irelia/gp who happens to have 10/0 from top lan. So this leaves this elo system with about 80% of randomness in it. And this comes to show, as in season 1 I earned myself platinum. Which should put me somewhere in the Top0.2% as some red with mentioned when he talked about the rewards regarding season ending. With roughly 41k player in EUNE ladder I "should" be ~Top100, but the last games just were a disaster so I am somewhere at the 3000-ish place. I always try to go mid AP and 9/10 i will win it. But my win rate stays around 50%. Why ? Because you can't carry ultra bad players in this game. And I know what I'm talking about. I've been playing this game for a long time now. Since the release of Poppy iirc.
Completely agree with ^ In fact I just had a game with a rumble solo top, he was saying stuff like 'omg i gat gank u no help me' Of course after 10 minutes, he proceeded to go 0/11 and by the time talon came to our lanes he was 1 shotting us, our jungle rammus was doing everything to help him but when he's pushed to their tower there's nothing he can do to gank, this rumble of course had no wards placed anywhere either. Also saw in Hotshot and saintvicious' streams that there's some players at their elo (1800 or so for sv, not sure about Hotshot) who play as bad as 1000 elo people. My biggest problem with the system is the highest elo person gets first pick, and carries on from there. This usually means me and my friend get stuck playing jungler/support, wtf can I do to co-ordinate ganks when my lane partner has 30 cs by 15 mins.
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BUMB, 20 elo + or - the first 10 wins would be plenty.
Ye I was expecting them to remove that ridiculous first games decide factor...bad players can go up to 1700 elo and good players can have real bad luck and lose several games in row, basically halting their chances to get into high elo and discouraging ranked, at least solo queue. I myself lost same like season 1 very first game, so just played one more and left solo queue untouched ever since...hate randomness
The reason the first games are played at such high stakes ELO-wise is that the ELO-system will sooner or later get players into the ratings they should be playing at. Sure, you can lose your first 8 games and drop down to 800 rating (not unlike me in season one), but as long as you keep playing you'll eventually, sooner or later, reach the rating you're supposed to be at. If a player who should be ranked ~1100 wins his first 10 games and rockets up to >1500, ELO decay effectively prevents him from turtling and keeping the rating without playing, hence again, sooner or later he'll drop to where he should be. And no, this has nothing to do with the ELO hell we all know of. First of all, it doesn't even exist for everyone, just the 'above average' players (~1500). A player with a true ELO of 1500 could probably not carry his team at 1200. A player with a true ELO of 2000 playing at 1200 certainly could carry his whole team occasionally, assuming there would be no leavers. He could be carrying all the way past 1700, up until about 1800 rating when he would be ~200 rating away from his true ELO, at which point the win/loss ratio drops to about 70% and keeps dropping further. Then at some point the w/l is 50%, and he's at his true ELO. Now this true 1500 player could possibly carry his team at about 700 rating assuming he drops that low for any reason, but at 1200 he's too close to his true rating that this is no longer possible. Since people start at 1200, there can be people of all brackets playing with and against you, but as long as everyone just keeps playing they'll fall into their true brackets sooner or later. This 'WoW-style-ELO' wasn't really realistic and fair. When I used to play (I stopped playing seriously a week into WoTLK), you got 2 rating for a win and lost over 25 for every loss. This was because the vast majority of players were stuck at ratings far below, and if they managed to win a high rated team they would get higher rewards obviously. This happened because the people you should be playing against were slooowly climbing up the ratings, now playing at 500 ELO below you because you started a week before they did. This, in turn, was because they didn't use the placement games. Players who were terrible at arena would start at 1500, and after losing their ten games would drop to about 1350-1400, which meant they would reasonably often be queued against people rated >2000 or even >2200 at slow hours. Needless to say, if you lost to those bad players, for any reason, you shouldn't have lost over ten games' worth of ELO. tl;dr: if you play lots of ranked games, your rating will match your skill. Period. If your rating sucks, so do you. Inb4 >9000 downvotes from bad players thinking they're good.
If there is a problem with these high-stake games and or to much randomness at the start (and I happened to agree there is)!? ..why don't we solve the problem: As I see it there are 2 ways to make this work: 1) "Trail-rating" -1.1 Let the first 10 games be against different elo's. Some how make a mathematical formula (I'm not good at formulas...but I guess RIOT has real good ppl for that kind of things) who gives that player a "trail-rating". After 10 played games you're then being placed into the normal ELO system depending on that rating. -1.2 Flag trails -1.2.1 Let there be a flag or something over a player in champion select so you know if he's a trail. Make the rating loss lower depending on how many trail players you have in your game when you lose. This will ultimately help only higher rating elo's to not get trolled. -1.2.2 This will also make it harder to loose rating at start of a new season since all players are flagged as trails. 2) Let everyone start at 0 rating -2.1 "10 first games" -2.1a) Gain or stay Make first 10 games be more important, but only in a positive way. If you win a game you gain ranking, if you loose a game, you stay on your former ranking. -2.1b) Boosted ranking gained This is the same idea as above, but you could make it work with a boosting the 10 first games too. That way you would get a more spread ranking ladder (if thats what you want). -2.2 "The only way is up" If you make the ladder from 0, with no chance of losing rating so you get negative score, no one could ever say that they got into ELO-hell because of bad luck with noobs, trolls etc etc, everyone would start there. And everyone would have to carry themselves (and other upwards). And the worst thing that can happen is that you get a slower start in the climbing I get that there will be randomness with this idea too, maybe even same amount of randomness, but all will get, and you wont be punished as hard for it Just my thoughts on how you might be able to solve it! // Luthair


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Ryan Giggs insists he can see the twinkling of silverware in the Manchester United dressing room.The Red Devils have endured a difficult start to the season, failing to win away from Old Trafford in four attempts so far to fall five points adrift of champions Chelsea.For the first time in two decades at such an advanced stage, United are even lagging behind neighbours Manchester City, while Wayne Rooney's name is again in the headlines following his rejection of Sir Alex Ferguson's claim that he has been suffering from an ankle injury, hence his omission for the club's starting line-up for the last two games. It is hardly the most positive backdrop to the start of nine games in 29 days that will do much to shape their season.Yet Giggs has seen too many ups and downs on the United roller coaster during his two decades at the club to get sidetracked from the main aims. And the veteran Welshman is confident the season will end with more glory for Ferguson and his men."I see trophies in this team," he said. "The manager has had a lot of problems this season picking the team because a lot of the players have been fit. Look at the quality of those who are not even getting on the bench. It is not very nice for those lads but it is great for the club and the team."We know we will get injuries and suspensions but it looks like we can cope. Last season we didn't. In that respect, we are a lot stronger."
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Posted 20 July 2012 - 04:52 AM
Hey ya'll, I know its R/C, but I wanted to share it with you! My intent is to build one of Western Distributings beauties! As u see from the real photo. These are awesome! It'll have a 3 speed trans, with an auxiliary! (its just a ratio reducer), lights sounds....... Whatcha think!? Made a purple ocean to remove the paint! Will get more pics with progress!!
Posted 20 July 2012 - 06:39 AM
great i think it will turn out nice!
Posted 20 July 2012 - 10:42 AM
That is interesting! It will get interestinger too...
Posted 20 July 2012 - 03:24 PM
Posted 21 July 2012 - 02:08 AM
I don't care if it's rc. It's still a model and I like where it's going. Can't wait to see more. Cheers
Posted 23 July 2012 - 06:14 AM
Thanks guys! Added some paint, and a little shine. The bumper, and wheels are polished aluminum.
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Posted 24 July 2012 - 04:38 AM
This is going to look good!
Posted 24 July 2012 - 07:34 AM
What paint did you use on that chassis? I talked with Dino at Western Distributing and got the paint code they use. I had some paint mixed up but I haven't sprayed any yet. Yours looks really good!
Posted 24 July 2012 - 08:16 AM
I asked as well! They said it was actually called Western Blue!!! The stuff I got is from O'reilleys "Bahama Blue Metallic" I'm goin slow with it. Built it in 2000, tore it down n built it a couple times since. Ex wife tossed it in the yard, cracked the cab, n twisted the frame! Lol Now, a complete rebuild with the lon frame rails.
Posted 25 July 2012 - 09:58 PM
That will be a very impresive Peterbilt
Posted 27 July 2012 - 07:08 AM
gonna be a beauty ,looks great so far