would love an FO8 only league and over 1 hour races would be good as you get proper races in them that arent spoilt by impatient b*st*rds!! and it will give a chance for strategy to play a part as well.

i only voted 'i might sign up' because it depends on where i am and what im doing at the time... as a uni student im moving around a lot atm and nothing is certain for more than a few months.... otherwise i am definitely up for this league

I voted sunday as im more likely to be out and about on the saturday... but having said that sunday really isnt that much better and i usually do most of my lfsing in the week anyway

Does the G25 work well with RBR?? i downloaded the demo but the wheel was sh*t with it.... im hoping that was just because it was the demo which is obviously really old!!

Myself and a bunch of guys from my motorsport course were talking to one of our lecturers today and the conversation got to this question:

'What ten things affect a championship winning racing car... putting the most important first'

A riot pretty much ensued and we couldnt settle on a 'right' answer... just wondering what you guys opinions were on this and what your answers would have been??

Well im a bit hacked off... patiently waiting for the start yesterday and with one minute to go my internet just cut out!!! its still not fixed im at uni typing this.... i can only hope it will be fixed for tonights event but its not looking good!

just so i know and dont get confused, tonights event is supposed to be 5 gmt... that makes it 6 for us uk people because of bst doesnt it??

don't like it either im afraid. one because i dont like the mod and secondly, and more importantly, in rallying tyres are supposed to be road legal for the road sections.

seconded

Im in for a bit of banter!

But this is the last Fantasy league im joining because im already doing 3 other f1 leagues and a couple of motogp and superbike ones!!

names on for public servers... unless the racing is clean (which is unusual!) in which case i turn them off. Always off in leagues because it tends to be more of a friendly atmosphere and you know who everyone is anyway

this also needs to be an option in the poll cos im not sure which to pick.... but i guess i'll just go for public servers as i race there more often

Last edited by andy_bonjon, Wed 7 Mar 2007, 16:44.

great way to waste time -

http://www.teagames.com/games/tgmotocross2/play.php

what time can ya get for all 7 stages??

my best is 1.53.80

The thumbnails came up but they werent clickable to get to the full size version

that doesnt work for me? :-/

anyways, see you in an hour!

sounds like it was good fun well done! looking forward to tomorrow now!

good job xeno!! Entry form didnt work on website though... Count me in for sunday definitely.... and im hopeful of making saturday as well but not 100% sure atm

Suddenly got a free day today and my dad is coming to visit so anyone know if there are any decent motorsport events within a couple of hours drive of london today? cheers

[edit] or any where decnet for arrive and drive karting

Last edited by andy_bonjon, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 08:09.

yup i really think this new procedure will work well! even though it was only a small test tonight it worked well.

After you left xenowolf, david went out in the uf1 and i followed 30 secs behind in the fz5. The difference in stage time was 20 seconds and would have been 25 - 30 if i didnt suck so bad with the fz5! so i think 30 seconds should be a reasonable gap... even if there was an fz5 following the uf1 in an event it would simply drive straight past so it wouldnt be a problem anyway!

nah i dont really use any... i can be online later tonight (after 9gmt) if you wanna test it out

this sounds good, the prospect of more stages is brilliant! Also the fact that you wont know how every competitor is doing compared to you will make it more interesting!

Im currently doing Motorsport Engineering at Brunel University. A 'Motorsport Degree' is more specific than a general Mechanical Engineering degree not the other way around. For example, any normal engineering company will probably prefer you to have a Mech Eng degree, whereas motorsport companies may prefer motorsport but even that's not garunteed.

Im second year atm and the first two years are EXACTLY the same as normal Mech Eng. From what I have seen it doesn't change too much for Level 3 either but thats just Brunel and I could be wrong anyway.

If you are wanting to get a general engineering job later in life then you should definitely do a Mech Eng. Only if you are 100% certain that motorsport will be your life should you do a Motorsport Degree. If you do want to have a motorsport career then pick a university which actually exposes you to motorsport. Don't be fooled by talk of Formula Student either, make sure the uni has some other motorsport outlets. We are currently sorting out our placement years here at Brunel and we have had some feedback from some of the employers about what they will be looking for. Basically the motorsport companies have said that it is almost worthless applying to them unless you have had some hands on experience with motorsport in some fashion and a degree on its own doesnt show too much.

As a final point it depends on where abouts in the motorsport sector you want to be aiming for. If its anywhere other than the top ranks of WRC/F1 etc then a good motorsport technology/engineering course will defintiely be a good choice. If you are aiming to get into F1 then it seems that aerospace engineering is actually the way to go these days!!

Quote from Rubenz81 :

Well i was thinking...
With the current rules if we use custom layouts, the ones that starts last can spectate more time and have an advantage so...
Why dont start from the pit lane end 30 sec after each other; like after 1 min after the race start so we can also have false start (after replay analysys) so everyone can spectate only the organizer lap.
Like first start at 1.00 second at 1.30 third at 2.00...
With that one can learn the difficult passage of the track but cant learn perfectly all the track. A substitute for codriver?
Also starting from the pit lane end we dont have starting guys disturbing finishing guys and viceversa.
Hope that my English wasnt that bad!

i had a similar thinking to you about the staggered starts after the first event that happened and it would work but would need more effort from the admin to calculate the results. Also even if your on track in your car waiting for the start there is nothing to stop you watching other ppeoples laps so the advantage for the latter starters would still be there.

Was just thinking I might whack up an advertising skin or two using the new logo. It can't hurt can it! Im not sure if I'm can make it again today as I've got another coursework deadline on monday it royally sucks atm as its been a while now since i've had the time to race properly on lfs... in fact the first rally was probably the last time!!

im liking it.... just one question.... shouldnt it be the 00 car? it is over here is it different in the us?

Yeah loads of people complain there is no stage rallying, well this is as close is you're going to get for the time being! It's great fun and makes a change from the normal races. One lap on each stage to get things right is pretty difficult!!

surprised to see that the fz5 didnt win! as the stages today are later tonight i should be able to make it!

not going to be able to make it... im still in our design room at uni and im not finished so i wont be home in time... hopefully i'll make it tomorrow night

good luck to every one taking part though