He completly failed last year in DTM
so will be the next year.
This guy is totally overrated imo
they just took him because of the name and publicity.

Quote from zeugnimod :

?2 hcetomorP

ah ah ah ah

It was more like 17,2 Hours,
(1.032 Minutes) not 72h

Quote from Warper :

Why do you always blame Need for Speed? Why do you always use Need for Speed as the worst example for something what LFS not is?

I don't really blame it (as it's not a racing simlator, so not comparable) but others do it
maybe because like someone else wrote here "NFS is the complete opposite of LFS and that makes it easier to show off the differences"

Or maybe because the more NFS games come out the more it is developed into a completly different direction then LFS.

While a lot of the older LFS fans want more restrictions for realistic setups, tire choices etc.,
the "usual NFS guy" that comes to this forum asks "why is there no NOS, neon, why can't I tweak the engine and race online etc..

They usually show not the real understanding of what LFS is for many of us or what a racing simulator is in general,
mainly because they are to used to the newer flashing unrealistic NFS games stuff.

Or maybe because the name NFS usually embodies today
most of the things a hardcore sim racer doesn't want or like



Side note:
I started my online racing career in 1998 or 99 when EA developed the beta online gameserver for Need for Speed High Stakes
I liked it when the World Rankings (early LFSW) were introduced and I spend so many sleepless nights to get into the top5 there.
I also bought my first wheel because of the first NFS games and got DSL in 1999 because of it etc.
So it also brought me into online racing and I had a great time with it and lots of others.

But like you said the newer titels are games for the masses developed to feed the crowd

Oh and last but not least I do remember your websites and liked them.
Funny just noticed you live in the same city as me

Last edited by BBO@BSR, Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:04.

Qualy:
I was a bit late for the qualy and without warm-up laps and a few mistakes later it was over and I was on the 9th place.

Race:
I changed my strategy right in front of the race.
Took 100% fuel onboard (God I was so heavy and a sitting duck on the straights)
My thoughts were like: I'm already almost at the back of the grid and they will fight infront and loose time.
And if I don't loose to much time on the others and stay close to them then I can make a few places because I don't have to refuel much during my pit stop.

And it worked quite well. But I made a few (lost concentration ) mistakes and left the track 3 times.
Then I waited for everyone's pitstop and had three_jump behind me but I knew that 37 seconds would be not enough for a complete pit stop.
I tried to only change the front tyres to get a few more seconds but that went wrong and all tyres were changed.

Then three_jump was 6 seconds in front and I on the 2nd place with ~ 10 laps to go.
I was abit surprised that I could close the gap a little bit and pushed really hard with a new pb and everything.
With him only 4 seconds in front of me and 8 laps to go I noticed Pingo on my back together with Void.

Then we changed places and Pingo and I could leave Void a bit behind but then I was unsure if I should pass Pingo or not
as he was a bit slower sometimes and during our position fights Void was comming closer and closer again and then he also passed me.

Void passed me on the S/F straight and I wanted to get into his slipstream but when I tried to watch to the left
I accidently pressed the Pit Limiter (Hello Mr. Kovalainen :doh and GODDAMMED I lost 10 to 15 km/h on the straight instantly and Pingo and Void were gone.

Luckily Void had not enough fuel onboard and had to pit again in the last lap and so I could complete this nice podium.

btw I crossed the finish line after 60 laps with 0.2% fuel. Looks like my brain worked when I tried to calculate
the fuel I needed while driving with only 20 laps, no 19 laps, eh 18 laps, hmm wait only 17 laps to go. That really made me sweat.

Anyway it was good fun the raing was fair and clean for me and the result
T7R on 1, 2 and 3 was also not to bad.
:woohoo:



P.S.:
Just in case you missed my upper Post.
Here are some online stats:
http://www.triple-double-cup.i ... 8.08.45_results_race.html


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Last edited by BBO@BSR, Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:01.

Statistics of the Race online:

http://www.triple-double-cup.i ... 8.08.45_results_race.html



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where is the password???

Quote from zeugnimod :

Nooo, I won't be persuaded to join this race.

Buck, buck, buck, BUCK-KAWWWWK!

(<- should be the biggrin smilie but whenever I post it ":" and "D" then the forum or FF makes a small "d" out of it )

Last edited by BBO@BSR, Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:06.

Signed in

Quote from Adrianrrdnd :

Really whats LX?

http://competition.lfs.net/lx_autox/

Quote from Andris@McGillRacing :

I'll confirm the real thing. It was a version of the MRT5 (w.MRT6 bodywork) that was developed on LFS to test the potential effectiveness of aero devices on the REAL MRT6. In fact, we were using the winged version before anyone else had the MRT5.

Quote from Andris@McGillRacing :

If you have any more questions about the MRT5 or MRT6, ask them...

Not really a question
but I hope we'll see / can drive someday a newer version of the MRT (7,8,9,X) in LFS instead of the six (or is it seven) year old MRT5.

One less

Like someone in the german forum wrote
he is not banned forever
he can race again on the 26.05.2036

Good to hear it finaly worked.

Quote from aobrien :

Ok guys .
We have not noticed that tag around so we apologise for that. I have spoken to other manager and we have agreed to change the team tag, we will have new tag as ERT|A.O'Brien but ERT| will be white. im sorry for inconveince caused and hope it is resolved with this tag.
Thanks ,
Andy

Thank you that's more than ok for us

Maybe you just forgot that you and N.Murray have driven with one of our T7R drivers (three_jump) in the Murray Motorsport Cup where he also used our Tag and the colours.
http://www.lfsforum.net/attach ... id=71413&d=1227818163


Nevertheless thank you for your cooperation and good luck with your Team.

Quote from sam93 :

I have cloned the hard drive and I now get an error on bootup.

Error:
(Windows Boot Manager)

Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.

File: \windows\system32\winload.exe

Status: 0xc000000e

Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or currupt.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

How can I fix this, I don't have the Vista disc to repair it. I have read that there is a command that can fix it but I don't know that command. If someone could help me over come this error I will be most grateful

Have you tried to repair it:
see here
http://www.windowsvista.window ... e/repairstartup/part1.htm

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Quote from mrodgers :

I was first introduced to computers other than some simple classroom stuff in college when I started my current job. That was with Windows 3.1.

Win95 was coming and everyone complained how horrible it was. Then everyone had Win95 and it was great.

Win98 came out, and everyone using Win95 for the past x years complained about how horrible it was. Then everyone moved to Win98 and it was great.

WinXP came out, and everyone using Win98 complained about how horrible XP was. Then everyone moved to WinXP and it was great.

Recently, Vista came out, and everyone using WinXP complained about how horrible Vista is. Now look at how many folks moved to Vista and think it's great.

Now Windows 7 or whatever it is, is coming, and look at you all complaining about how horrible it is going to be. I predict eventually, everyone be using Windows 7 and saying how great it is....

for me it was win 3.11

There is lot of truth in what you wrote
but lets not forget that it was usually only like this:

Quote from mrodgers :

it was great

when at least the first service pack was out.

But I'm not complaining as installing all that stuff
for customers still gives alot of money

Oh and you forgot WinME in your list
but that was never great
maybe because there was never a SP for it iirc

Congrats amd good luck

Quote from hyntty :

And even if you do have a fair point, which I'm not saying you necessarily even have, after such a hostile post I wouldn't change anything if I was in the shoes of ER(T). (You at no point used the word please, you only demanded them to do a change.)

But meh, doesn't concern me.

hostile? Looks like you want to see what you wanted to see instead of reading it right
Maybe it's the language barrier again but
I showed what I mean and wrote:
"we would like to see that you guys would think about your team tag again"
That's "english written in a polite manner" like I was teached many years ago.
I didn't really demanded anything anywhere here except that for me the LFS community etiquette would belong to things like that.

Quote from hyntty :

No. I think it's preposterous that three almost same letters in a completely different order (excluding the | here for a moment) is what you consider somehow plagiarism. The only thing that they have in common really is the colour. (And a colour in which, in game you can't tell any letters apar from each other so no one will notice any difference no matter what you put there).

Why excluding the | ?
That is exactly the point.
The question is is it necessary to use something that look that similar?

Would you be happy if others would choose a tag similar to your teams tag
Just as an example:
[NR0]Name
[NDR]Name

Would you then say it's just the colours that make it look similar?
It's not only the colours it's also the other stuff, the whole tag, that makes it look almost the same.
But if you don't get it or don't think like that, it's ok for me.
As it's not really your business or are you part of ERT to whom I adressed my original post.

They just started the team then changed their Tag, shouldn't be the problem to change it again
just a tiny little bit to not let it look like our Team tag.
Things like that belong for me to the LFS community etiquette.

Quote from hyntty :

Err... anything in blue and containing three letters will look the same since it's such an awful colour you can't tell which letters they are. And you can't have blue all to yourself.

I you would have read my post more properly then you would see that your post doesn't make much sense.

I'm not talking about blue colour.
I also said I can live with the tag shown in post#1.
I'm talking about that it now looks almost the same
(especially with the yellow | behind the letters).

We have used it like this in the last years without any problems
because other teams tried to be more creative to find something
more unique (even if it is one simple thing that make it look different).
That's all I've asked for.

As someone already spoke about the LFS community etiquette,
As one of the Team Managers from Triple 7 Racing I also would like to say something:

Quote from pacesetter :

...We have changed our team tag also from [IE] to ERT|...

Looks like you also changed the colours of your team tag again.
I could live with the blue one (see your quote) but (see attached picture) this is more then similar to the Tag we are using online since 2004.

- The same colours as our Tag
- Almost the same letters (in diff. order)
- Only one different "letter" E instead of 7
- Even the streak | is the same

Is that really necessary?

Like it is now it's hard to tell who belongs to wich team etc. and
as much as we at Triple 7 Racing like that others are making us an hommage, we would like to see that you guys would think about your team tag again.

Thank You.

Last edited by BBO@BSR, Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:39.

Quote from blackout :

http://xkcd.com/528/

:biggrinfl