I know that the pay version provides higher resolution images in a lot of areas, but I don't know about how often they are updated.

Cool stuff. I have been playing guitar for 15 years, but not regularly for all that time. I am probably not a lot better now than I was 10 years ago to be honest! I have recently really started to enjoy playing bass guitar, so once I get my amp all set up I will be doing that a bit more. My brother plays drums so we sometimes get a friend over and jam.

I went out in my MX-5 with a bunch of Subaru guys, some with 2.5RS's, some with latest model WRXs, some stock, some modified. We were on some fairly twisty roads and I was constantly slowing down on straight bits to let everyone catch up after I pulled away in the corners. After we pulled over, one WRX driver said he was happy we stopped as he didn't have any brakes left. When he commented that the Miata must have good brakes, I told him I didn't really use them I wasn't pushing that hard on that day anyway, as I never do when I have other cars following me that might not know their own limits. And in autocross I'm pretty much always quicker than WRXs and usually faster than most STi's. A lot of people underestimate the Miata...

Anyway, I'm sure some of it comes down to driver. If you had put one of the Subaru drivers in my car on that day and me in a WRX perhaps I still would have pulled away from them on the roads we were on, who knows.

I wouldn't worry too much about your concern with the DFP. You do want the centering effect in the profiler set to zero, as the in-game FF will provide accurate FF effects based on what's happening at the front wheels, including centring effects. The common complaint with the DFP is not that it won't self-centre (maybe this is an issue, but I have not had any trouble with it), but that if you are trying to turn the wheel very quickly (say to correct oversteer) it can sometimes be hard to overcome the resistance of the FF motor. I don't find this to be an issue in road cars where usually corrections don't have to be super-quick, but sometimes I wish the wheel was a bit faster if I'm driving something like the BF1. Really though, 95% of the time the wheel does everything I ask of it and I really enjoy using it.

Outside.

Two wheels or four?

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Sure do, and I am giving it it's first Nurburgring trip in no less than 4 days

Nice. Will this be your first time at the 'Ring on a bike, or have you ridden there before? How about in a car? I've been there once in a car and spent a couple of days driving it.

Well, I've had my bike for a few weeks now and have a couple of hundred miles on it now. Taking it pretty easy so far as it's my first bike and I want to keep myself in one piece. It has decent low end and I'm enjoying the comfortable riding position. I don't know about the top end yet, ask me in another few weeks

Yeah, my Mum has one of the newer ones with the 2.5 litre 5-cylinder, with a 6-speed auto. The engine sounds a bit rough when it's cold (not much better when it's warm!) and the auto box is rediculous, it shifts up before 2000rpm even if you're going up a hill, and is forever changing gears.

Anyway, kind of OT even if this thread is about Beetles! Nice effort with the redesign Elderado

When the Racing Legends website was first launched there was a link to the forum. It just filled up with speculation, complaints about lack of info, and that sort of thing, so after a while of trying to moderate the forums and compile very detailed updates, they decided to remove the link from the main page to the forum. The forum remained active, you just had to know the url, but I don't know if there's been any moderation since then.

Ludwig was quite active on the Racing Legends/West Racing Forums for quite a while too iirc. Had some good laughs while reading some of his threads.

I'd definitely prefer it if it was an option, and I think if the devs looked into it at some stage that's what they'd do.

I think it's a cool idea, but I agree with Dajmin, in that I'm not sure how well it would actually work out. For example, I usually spend more time on LFS during the winter when it's crappy out, and for those of us who do (if we live in the Northern Hemisphere at least!) we may be driving UK-based tracks in a lot of rain and not much sun.

I read on the comments on Autoblog that the $10 million bid was not genuine. Not exactly a reliable source, but it wouldn't surprise me!

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Yes it is Dan iirc. But for some reason that colour scheme (by far the nicest I've seen) is not available in the UK. Idiots.

Yeah, I wonder why it's different? Here we have it in red or blue. I'll take the Ninja stickers off today I think. After all it's not a proper Ninja. Trust me, I'm not complaining! 75hp and comfortable riding position is just what I need!

I'm very happy to say I can add some pictures to this thread as of today! I just picked up my Kawasaki 650R. It's my first bike and something I've been looking forward to for years. Nice and light which is definitely good, and so far really easy to handle. Can't wait to get out there again tomorrow!

Something good happened, I played S2 all day

Good question... I think this happens in real life too. I autocross quite regularly and was having a discussion the other week with someone about guys who only autocross their own car and do it for years on end. They are very quick in their own car, but then if they try something that's significantly different, they have to start from scratch.

I think most people can get pretty quick in LFS just by repetition, but I think the fastest guys definitely need some talent. One thing I don't like about hotlapping is that someone like me who is fairly quick but doesn't have any world records can get that one lucky lap that is not really representative of my speed. I feel being consistently quick in a race and being good at managing tires at the same time is more impressive than being quick on a hotlap. When I see someone lap within a few tenths of a world record lap consistently for a 20 lap race, then I'm impressed. Then I guess there's also the question, are they one of those guys who can do this because they only race that one combo, and have done thousands of laps there....okay, maybe I'm really impressed when someone can hop in any car at any track and be consistently quick, that's got to show talent!

I now have some bad mental images happening! Hopefully I'm not scarred for life!

About the power washer...just make sure you use the nozzle that doesn't slice open skin.

If that's the case, I'll take the G25 from you!

And I think left-click takes you to one colour and right-click takes you to the other to save you clicking cars twice to get the option you want.

I use 720 degrees on the road cars with my DFP and for the most part find it okay. I find it can keep up with corrections in the XRT no problem, not quite so well with something like the LX6. I actually find the DFP hardest with the single seaters which, although they have less steering lock, need quicker inputs than the road cars.

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Please, leave me be

...coming from a guy who just started a thread on the subject.

Quote from Cr!t!calDrift :

(I sense that irony will erupt from this thread )

You're not wrong

Edit: Forgot to say, buy S2! :P

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I definitely enjoy driving the RAC more with the latest patch, but I still have a lot of trouble on some of the bumpier SC tracks.

Haha, yeah that would be nice! I haven't read much about them but from what Dennis has said on his website, they cost around $28k US and only a few have been made so far. Would make the ultimate Miata though I'm sure!

Yeah, the Hartley V8 being used weighs only about 200lb, less than a lot of 4-cylinder car engines!

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I was even thinking why not have an "offer setup-ON" option too, so someone could share their setup without having to do anything, just a constant green (maybe another colour?) S for everyone to use on the conn list.

I really like that idea