Mmmm... Emmental

Is it the same with timeout disconnects?

Since you give me points for just driving around on the Race 2 it's only fair that I give something back.

In the end he managed to drift it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3MH1febavY
Or was it another driver?

@KamkorPL
Not offended. You do realise that you and K. Tsuchiya are making me see drifters in a different light. You guys are the first ones ever to try to explain the meaning and motivation behind drifting.

Thanks to you I burned my rear tyres on the CTRA Race 2 yesterday.

You really should use the search function before making a new thread.
Try this thread

Quote from kamkorPL :

Please tell me what exactly(facts) your opinion is based on.

My experience with drifting is limited to the following:

• Icy carpark in the middle of the night over 10 years ago. The handbrake and power slide thingy which really isn't drifting but what very many youngsters do and call drifting. Though then it was only called having fun. None of us even knew there was something called drifting.
  
• Watching Initial D. This is the first time I came to know the term "drifting".
  
• Got myself the Keichi Tsuchiyas Drift Bible. Thoughts at the time of seeing were: Oh shit! You have to learn the racing line to do this properly.
  
• Trying desperately to drift in LFS. Yes, I can go sideways but the control isn't there. I do save myself from time to time with a "drift" as I tend to overshoot my braking points.

My antipathy towards some elements of the drift community have risen from:

• Countless threads about wanting a "drift car" added to lfs. You can drift any car with minimal mods. LSD being the most important. Lo and behold! LfS already has LSD!
  
• Countless threads about NOS, bodykits, wings etc. I think the only really good Impr.&Sugg. thread related to drifting was the 45 degree steering lock one. At first I was like "what for?" then after your post detailing the reasons I was for it. Then some dork (a demo drifter iirc) started spoutin some insults and the like and I changed my mind.
  
• The constant bickering about whether drifting is racing or "just" a motor sport. Yes the racers that take part in these are just as stupid. Me included. If someone thinks it's not racing then why do you care? Many of you say you do it for the fun. Have fun and don't give a -uck about what other people think. Some people think playing computer games for fun is stupid. Some think that driving RC cars is stupid. Yes, so? I think both are fun and I don't give a fetid dingo's kidneys what you think about it.
  
• Many drifters are always on the offencive if anyone dares to question their über 1337 skillz. Even if someone asks a perfectly legitimate question.

Quote from nihil :

Then I would immediately put the image out of my mind, and get on with listening to your REAL story.

Exactly! You would do that but many don't.
For the record I don't have a HD or any other motorcycle. I just like a vehicle to have atleast four wheels.

Quote from flymike91 :

I don't see any difference between so called "dorifto" graphics and regular racing liveries

Read the following sentence and make sure you comprehend it too:
Neither do I.


Post too long to root out typos and grammar errors.

I believe it was a time problem. The new FBM had to be implemented and the interiors were put aside.

Correct.
Imdb linky

Here is one for the car movie fans.

Did you see the movie too?

It's not as great as the series though.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Quote from nisskid :

as it is justified in a lot of cases unfortunately.

Just make sure you yourself don't enforce the stereotype.

Quote from Woz :

Not the cars fault but that is how sterotypes work

Exactly the same thing as with Harley Davidson motorcycles.
Drive one and you are instantly seen as a member of a motorcycle gang.

A few bad apples ruining the fun for the rest. But in the case of drifting it's a whole bunch on mindless dorks who ruin it for the few.
Only a few top drifters and millions of teenage dorks doing handbrake turns and power sliding.

The reason racing is not affected as well is the amount of media coverage it gets. You see racing on TV all the time but there is rarely a show about drifting on. So people have a pretty good hunch what racing is about. But drifting "knowledge" comes from the movies.

@K. Tsuchiya
Thank you for the drifting article. That was a good read.

Quote from flymike91 :

KING HARE DECREES THAT NO CARS IN ANY MOTORSPORT ARE EVER TO BE PAINTED IN HIS KINGDOM!!
race cars are often painted pretty insanely too brostradamus

LOL!
You sir, are a complete twat. Find me a quote where I ban the use of skins in LfS. Or graphics in any RL motorsport.

I dare you.

I double dare you.

You should really work on your reading comprehension. Way to go

Could it be because, as I was out of the way, I waited until it auto-spectated me?

The other few have been disconnects. Does the system count them as retirements?

This is the replay of todays flip.

Just noticed somethin.

The long yadda yadda about me on the CTRA site lists 66 retirements. But I know for a fact that it should read more. Atleast 2 more.

EDIT2: Just checked the values on the MyCTRA and the calculation is correct. But I'm sure it has been 66 retirements for quite some time. Is there a problem in the retirement detection?

It's been 66 for quite some time and even today I got a retirement. You are going to recieve a report about an offencive tyrewall!

EDIT: What's the LFS name of the tyre stack nearest the track in the last turn of FE Gold? I can't get it shown in the replay with the Ctrl+Shift combination.

Last edited by March Hare, Sun 17 Feb 2008, 22:03.

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Man that was difficult.

You are a lucky bastard pine!
If I'd been drinking something you would be owing me a new keyboard.

Haven't seen that one.

The problem is that many of the cars featured are so far gone that you develop some kind of immunity.

Still a real shitter.

PS. Have you read the "Members Sheds" thread? It's a killer.

Quote from Bandit77 :

"per say"

Sounds just like the Finnish word "perse" which means arse.

I think using a sorry bind means you don't really mean it. If you really are sorry you should atleast write it. But still actions speak louder than words.

What annoys me is that some people have so many binds that they forget which is which and as a result spam 10 binds instead of writing something like sorry or hi.

Quote from spankmeyer :

Should have opted for a Bowler Wildcat.

Which actually isn't a Bowler anymore. Qt Services took the reins in November 2007.

Still way better than a Skyline

And where does it say that those virgins are female?

Besides don't you americans hog all the credit for school shooting! Even we in Finland have had ours!

Quote from Gener_AL (UK) :

And most slow guys think they own the road also

How is that? It's the faster guys responsibility to make a clean pass. Not the slower guys responsibility to get off the road to let the faster guy through.

A slower guy has all the right to choose his line if he is in front.

Go read the rules.

You hit the nail on the head.

You are allowed to report higher licensed drivers if they act like idiots.

Some fast guys seem to think that because someone is slower than they are then it's alright to bump him or ram him. (Just reported such a driver a few days ago.)

The slow guys have rights too. And if you are so bleeding super fast why don't you pass them when it's safe for everybody.

XRG harder to drive so you get more points for using it.

Quote from atlantian :

my point is that rice is a derogatory term for a "poser's car"... which is totally non-applicable to track cars...

So if you, once, take your riced up shit mobile to a track day it magically is not "rice" anymore?

Try the site Moose linked. Great for inducing beverage related problems for your keyboard and screen.