High cost - north of $600 (if you want it all)
High quality - check out the screenies on iR facebook page.
Tyres are a bit fudged at the mo but still very fun & drivable.
Updates to tyres & aero/drafting coming soon.
Subscription based so you have to keep paying over & over.
US company so the bias is toward american race cars, but still plenty of road stuff to choose from.
The best sim version of Spa money can buy.
Oulton/Zolder on the way.
Good community you'd fit right in @ club England. (weekly club events)
Higher hardware requirements. cpu speed/pedals/shifter.
Web based so no offline running at all. If the site goes down no one can race.
Earn credits for racing. Yep they actually pay you to race. $4/$6 for completing a season.
QA event tomorrow they are paying $3/$5 just for taking part.
Use the promo's, $10 for 3 months is a good deal.
Plenty of competitive Star mazda races (middle tier of SS).

I think that about covers most of it.

37 – Anthony Collett – anttt69 – Parkfield Motorsport – England

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Renault positive over Kubica recovery



Renault team boss Eric Boullier is positive about Robert Kubica's rehabilitation after meeting with the Polish driver after the Turkish Grand Prix.
Boullier flew to Italy straight after the Istanbul race to see Kubica, who is still recovering from his accident in February.
Renault said doctors consider the first phase of his recovery over and the Pole will now start heavy rehabilitation aimed at restoring the functionality of his hand.
There are more small operations planned for Kubica, who already underwent a successful one today.
Boullier insisted the recovery will be very long, but he is positive about how Kubica is progressing.
"Robert has made another step forward in his rehabilitation process and doctors are pleasantly surprised by the way in which his condition is improving", said Boullier. "Now, it is a matter of time and even if patience isn't Robert's first quality, he is fully aware that rehabilitation could be quite a long process.
"We spoke about the latest developments of the car and of the team, and he was also interested to hear more on the details of the R31, tyres and strategies.
"Robert is still very much involved, keeping in touch with his engineers, and we have been keeping him informed of every important decision the team has taken. He may not be with us all of the time this year, but he's very much a part of the Lotus Renault GP family."

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Quote from Hoshimodo :

How many times will you start a thread regarding the LFS graphics? And how long will you wait before you finally buy LFS?

This ^^

Quote from SidiousX :

Richard Towler is complaining on facebook about how much iRacing's physics are crap.

To be fair, he's right.

i'll try to be there

Looking at getting my racing licence. Damn MSA want £60 for an application form! then add the ards test @ £250. Thing is i already have a blue book & can borrow the dvd so i only need the form.

Stupid red tape/duty of care bs will stop me from racing. Guess i'll have to stick to sprints.

ah yes well spotted. (4pm now) :sleep2:

darn this addiction

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Down for maintenance last two hours.

Quote :

We are apply sim and web updates

We expect to be back by

EST(-4) GMT AEST(+10)
0900 1300 2300

1300? its nearly 2pm here?

Quote from unseen :

For me anyway, I had run through all the combos and cars so many times that there was just no fun in it anymore. The limited content killed it.

Have you read about the new test patch? All possible combos/routes around the existing circuits have been unlocked, so we now have about twice as many combos to race on.

S3 is in the making, we'll just have to be patient. If you cant wait, there are lots of other sims out there.

Cheapest way to try it will cost you $5.

Btw does anyone have a renewal code for existing members going spare?

damn missed it

Quote from DeKo :

So, if you're so smart, how do you suggest a fault system? Humans constantly disagree about who caused an accident, so how do you expect a computer to do it?

So far there have only been suggestions of improvements to the system. So we are talking of low level simple things such as:

1. Scaling the points to the severity of impact/contact. i.e. a light tap only receives a 1x or 0x as light contact happens quite a lot at club level & is part & parcel of racing.
2. When someone looses control, drivers who end up hitting that person (due to someone else's error) do not receive negative SR. The system already knows when you have spun/left track/hit something, so its quite easy to implement.
3. If you loose control & then crash into someone you receive a double hit of neg SR, they dont take an SR hit.

You cant cheat the system because you will always sustain damage trying to do so.

Its not much, but it is the beginning of an intelligent SR system.

Quote from NSX_FReeDoM :

The reason why the system punishes both drivers is because there is no way an automated system can fairly determine who is at fault.

It already does determine certain things that can be used to assign blame.
See above. It's not impossible. Just imagine the scope they would have if the system knew when you'd locked your brakes, the normal racing line, turn in points etc.

Quote :

If you treat SR like that then it becomes clear why it is the way it is

Thats a big IF. Also this is not real life, it is a simulation. SR is supposed to be a measurement of how safe a driver YOU are, not of how lucky or unlucky you might be. I agree that over time it will balance itself out, but some racers wont stick around long enough for that to happen.
It's like making an excuse for something that can be solved/fixed/improved, then sitting back & letting s**t happen.

Last edited by anttt69, Sun 1 May 2011, 20:03.

Quote from Racer X NZ :

needed to develop "an Australian sense of humour"....
.....the BBC needs to lighten up a bit

It seems that prince Philip already has an Australian sense of humour. Some of those comments are bloody hilarious .

I think that its you, that needs to lighten up a bit. nz

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

It really isn't dumb, what's dumb is that you're not seeing the big picture.

Ironically, the SR system that you are discussing is actually quite narrow minded & short sighted. It chooses to be "dumb" when it could quite easily be intelligent.
I believe that there is no need to punish everyone involved in an accident just because the devs are to lazy/scared to add some code that assigns or absolves blame.
Some simple algorithms have already been discussed (that work in theory) but it seems that for the moment, iRacing have chosen not to go down that path. I sincerely hope that the SR system does get developed, as it really takes something away from the casual sim racer (it puts people off iRacing & is quite enraging).
The SR system has so much room for improvement, it would be "stupid" not to.


p.s.- Quali sessions yield greater rewards than TT's.

Last edited by anttt69, Sun 1 May 2011, 09:50.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Her sister's alright too, bet she's filthy.

I'm betting she's the most popular girl in the palace tonight.
:jawdrop:

nice to see V1 back.

Could someone post up the new season schedule. Thanks

Hey Scawen can we drop the number plates off the GT cars, it makes them look silly.

Quote from vistaman :

video from 0:40.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u65OeDZty7g

where did he get those textures?

Quote :

due to a service error on amazons ec2 servers, iracing.com, inracingnews, and iracing tv are currently down and will be back online once service is restored.

$1.65 = £1
Those night shots look sweeet. Still a long way from complete tho. Missing glowing brake disks, backfires, external light sources/moon etc.)
Visibility in the C6R looks scary.

Last edited by anttt69, Fri 22 Apr 2011, 19:21.

Quote from boothy :

Still waiting (patiently) for Oulton Park :rolleyes:

+1.
Hoping that Spa will be the 2nd night track.

You can have my gts250 for £45, if i can find a replacement.

Night racing! yes , waiting another 3 months for driver swaps not so good .

850 bhp Subaru! Time attack @ Brands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPKjb80fOPc&NR=1