I think S14 is on a 30 day ban from posting on the forum.

Your Team: SRS
Driver to Report/Team: 39
Race Time: 2h38m
Lap/Sector: Lap 65 (for our car) sector 2
What Happened: 39 spins and gets stuck in the gravel. Comes back onto the track and our driver spins in avoidance. I didn't see the accident from in the server; only on remote, and it looked quite dodgy so I thought it best to report.

I don't know, I haven't checked yet

The chicane idea only got 2 posts of criticism; I'd go for it anyway because it's up to the drivers not to wreck each other's races by hammering through the tyres.

It should be in your team leader's PMs; which will contain a link with a username and password for a web page. It was sent before Round 2.

SRS' skin for the final round

Hi, sonicrealms.

If everyone hates the KY3 chicane so much, why don't you use a layout that forces the drivers to brake quite heavily for it? I guess people like to beat the WR during practice, but I'd much rather see the drivers on their toes, with unfamiliar corners to battle. Making the KY3 chicane slower would accomplish that and get rid of the always-awkward cutting debarcle.

Quote from Johno95 :

Its an fxo now

Do you have an LFS S2 licence? If not, then you can't use the FXO.

Quote from Minimaxman :

The worst example I've seen is Matt Neal at Brands, almost every time he was behind someone he'd wait until the entry to Clearways, give them a little tap to make them run wide then slide up the inside. He must have done this 4 or 5 times and that's not racing, that's ramming. A driver with good racecraft would work out a way to get around the other guy without touching, not go through him.

I remember that; it really irritated me that he got away with it without any kind of warning; it was totally unfair on all the drivers he passed.

Well, it says he's over 200ft high, so maybe he's in a helicopter.

Yes I know it's sea level!

But, I've seen so many fantastic races where contact has only been made as a result of an overtaking maneuvre, not to create an overtaking maneuvre. That's where the rules should be clear (they may already be). If contact results in a pass, it's not technically fair racecraft. However, if a car overtaking is already ahead and contact is made as a side-effect, that's ok in my book.

Quote from Becky Rose :

However I would DQ and issue a licence endorcement to O'Neil for loosing control under yellow flag conditions.

Naw, the yellows came out very late; later replays show no yellow flags until the start finish line and even those were late.

Quote from Bean0 :

Sorry to use the meme, but

Quote from garph :

Have you ever seen a BTCC race cause it really doesn't sound like you have.

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I hope you're talking to Harjun!

Quote from garph :

It's touring cars, I've seen much worse many, many, many, many times and no punishment given at all.

..maybe you can only get away with it if your name is Plato or Neal.

Your white text: I used to think people who posted that were morons, but as every season of BTCC goes by, I am starting to agree a tiny, tiny bit. However, Plato and Neal haven't caused any big crashes through dangerous driving in quite a few years.

One thing that drives me potty, and I mean stark-raving bonkers, is the use of apostrophes in plurals. Car's. King's. Lemon's. It hurts to type this kind of thing. But I am a grammar-terrorist, so I guess it makes sense for me to be enraged.

As for American English, it's mostly okay for me. Sometimes it's more efficient.

I think the stewards will also have seen the way he was driving in the laps leading up the incident. I was standing at the Esses and every time the cars came through you could see and hear Nash hitting Collard's car quite hard on the right-hand part of the Esses, pushing him wide. Nash took advantage of the contact and went for a closing gap; and realised too late that he had to back out.

I think the stewards have set a precident; although in the case of Jonathan Adam at Brands, it was only a 1 place drop rather than a full DQ. I agree that Nash needed some kind of heavy action taken against him because it was a dangerous situation he caused.

I guess it only updates once every few seconds/minutes so it can't. Although it would be a nice feature for the software to automatically clip the route to the roads.

Quote from Mackie The Staggie :

Whats more uncanny is that I'm becoming more and more like Earl Hickery when having my photo taken

Oh WOW! Someone please draw on Earl Hickey's moustache! You could make some serious cash out of being his lookalike. Just grow some more head hair.

Team Name: Sim Racing Society
Car Number: 09
Drivers:
M.Passingham [Mp3 Astra] GBR
E.de Souza [de Souza] BRA
J.Barrington [count.bazley] GBR

You also speak good english.

As the sun rose on July 25th 2009, nobody knew that it would be SRS's most successful day of racing in their 363 days. Contrary to our name, Sim Racing Society, it was actually in real-life racing where we triumphed. Real-life is, arguably, more important than Sim Racing. But don't tell anyone!



Scott MacDonald, James Barrington and Michael Passingham were there to represent SRS at the LFS UK Kart Meet, held at G-Force Karting, South Wales. There would be ten teams, each made up of three drivers, parcitipating in two races; a 1 hour mini-enduro and a 3 hour full-enduro. In the mini-enduro, Passo started the race and was able to reach a high-point of 2nd in the standings, having started 8th. Mackie drove second, and kept us on the podium in a consistent drive. CountBazley was to drive the final stint, and to the shock of everyone at the meet, brought the kart home in 3rd position, netting SRS their first ever endurance podium position.



In the full-enduro, Passo once again started the race. This time, he started from 3rd on the grid and managed to take the lead in a dramatic first stint; the most notable part of which involved a multi-car pile-up at the top of the circuit, which ended in a violent collision, breaking 2nd place driver's, Becky Rose, left-front wheel. Escaping the drama, Passo was able to pull out a lap lead over the field after his first stint and ended the stint with his number plate in his hands, waving it dramatically at the timekeepers. The race began to settle for the next hour, with a final surprise greeting the drivers in the final three stints; we had a different kart to drive! While we cannot admit that the kart we originally drove was much better than all the other karts, we will freely admit that our new kart was a "pile o' crap". Despite this drama, SRS managed to bring home the bacon in 2nd position; another SRS record smashed!


After the drama and physical strain of racing, it was time to head back to the host's (jasonmatthews) house and "recover" from the tiring day's racing. Obviously, the use of alcohol for this task was required.
On a serious note, on behalf of SRS, I would like to thank all of the organisers of this event and everyone who turned up for a fantastic day's racing!



If you're interested, you can watch a video of the weekend, made by Passo.



SRS was founded in July 2008 by Tim Beaudet, Eduardo de Souza and Michael Passingham.
Visit www.simracingsociety.com for more SRS-related news and events.

This server reminds me of Project Gotham Racing, the classic cone-driving and drifting game. The only difference between them is that I was good at PGR.

That'll explain why the upload never completed... The old rules said that 1gb was the limit! Thanks very much troy!

I can't remember who took it (although I have a sneaking suspicion it was Joe K), but does anyone know where the pic of the SRS team is? I'd like to use it for a glorious news article for the website, showing our spendid success!