Quote from minimax :

lol

[MG] Minimax, put me down but i'm afraid i can't gurantee (is that spelt right?:shy i will be there, but i will try

Not to sound rude, if you can't guarrantee you will be there, then I won't put you in. If you can make it, sign on, but if you are unsure, don't sign in.

Quote from popps258 :

You Clearly stated this

My race was destroyed at start! by BMWE24, and THE END was lapping you and he hit him :S and hit Shaguar illepall and more i didnt see...
My race was completely ruined from lap one.... so i bowed out as my car was ruined and everyone was leaving and there was alot of inexperienced drivers there and 2 proper teams really (ITEK, and MG).... Looked good... until it came to it

Racing accidents do happen !! Blue Flags? did you read the rules on blue flags??
First lap of 50 and you gave up??
You are an experienced driver Yes??
Why didnt you rejoin??
If you did as i had to do on a couple of occasions after being hit, I did pit and go back out but didnt complain about it.
you probably could easily have made up ground.

I am a fair racer and do move out of the way when being blue flagged.
and would have done so on the short straight rather than on the bend,
it was upto the faster cars to negotiate the slower whilst being blue flagged, that what the rules clearly stated.
If you were patient enough shaguar, you would have got passed without any incident.
read some of the other posts, about teams complaining or is it just you guys think that you are better than others, or is this a SKIN issue??

I drive a lot on the FM team OVal Junkie track, and if you were to go there and ask the Administrator FM Failure, he will advise that BMWE24 is a fair and decent driver.
BMW E24

There is a thing called "PM" second of all, you showed no sign of apology, and lacked experience of obey the blue flag.

You drive a lot on the OVAL, this is completely different to what you experience on the Oval servers.

Quote from Captain Slow :

i hope it goes better than my shambles did.

I'm studying Administration in college, and with the experience, I'm sure it'll be a walkover.

Organiser: The End

Server: [ITEK] Racing Team
Password: ITEK
Combo: F08/Blackwood
Distance: 40 laps.
Date: Sunday 15 October 2006
Time: 20:00GMT (19.00 UTC) Qualifying starts 20:15 (19.15 UTC)
Slots: 20
Pits Required: Yes. One. Pit between lap 5 and 35.

The qualifying will start with 30 minutes. Followed by a short break, and a 40 lap race.

Safety car and Assistance car may be involved (for added realism) incase car is beached, or heavily damaged.

To apply, either PM me, or post your Race name on here .

Entrants so far:

1.The End
2.ZyberWax
3.Cropsy
4.B11TIME
5.exhausted mule
6.Storm_Cloud
7.[SR]Thor
8.Paavon
9.Dygear
10.[sr]jack
11.Sweet Reid
12.Calum
13.SERT●Anakin
14.alracer
15.MARSH2a
16.[MG]Bradracer
17.Maishaupt
18.Der_Dude
19.Ben
20.[MG] Shokd

All positions filled.

Last edited by BigDave2967, Sun 15 Oct 2006, 19:44.

Quote from Captain Slow :

good for you.

and how is it my fault if a server i have nothing to do with goes down, when it should of been there. the reason everything was last minnit is because i didnt find a server till last minnit, and if i did carry on racing i would of coused more trouble than worth, so next time something goes wrong jus shut ya gob and accept it. ok

You would have had the decentcy to ask on the forum for a server, if yours was down.

Also I accepted that due to collions, I was willing to carry on from both restarts. I even collided with BMW and I still carried on. Oh wait, you didnt see that, you were away "stressed out"

And telling me to shut my gob isn't going to make things better, you'd end up making things worse, so cut out those kiddy threats, it's not going to do you any good.

Next time, just plan ahead, make notes, have backup plans. What happened here infront of us, was evidence of what would happen, if you are not properly organised for hosting an event.

Quote from jamesrowe :

My race was destroyed at start! by BMWE24, and THE END was lapping you and he hit him :S and hit Shaguar and more i didnt see...
My race was completely ruined from lap one.... so i bowed out as my car was ruined and everyone was leaving and there was alot of inexperienced drivers there and 2 proper teams really (ITEK, and MG).... Looked good... until it came to it

He hit me, but I still carried on. I didn't moan or press Shift+S. Contact comes into the territory, you need to expect that to happen at all times, no one is like Shumacher or Alonso, mistakes will happen in this simulation.

Quote from Captain Slow :

IM OFFICIALLY NEVER ORGANISING ANYTHING AGAIN.

jesus. i hope everyone had a good race. i ran away cos i couldnt concentrate and i was getting stressed. and my sista dicided to ring me after the restart to see how i was. instead of actually getting her arse back home. pheeww. now breathe.
and big big thanks to [mg] for saving my ass
and big big thanks to [itek] for offering to save my ass.

One thing is for sure, I am not going to an IES single event again, if it was organised like that.

Leaving because you are "stressed" is probably the punishment you deserve. Not only that you moan because you couldn't keep control of the situations, but for the lack of organising and back up plans

I didn't mind at all of the restart, since it was a "3" lap lag race but to see driver moaning and crying because of contacts *which are likely to happen* should expect it, and carry on racing.

To see drivers insulting and moaning is an total embarrassment, I'd rather be in the ATC grand prix, than attend this, that's how I see it.

The event was a total blow out, 4 drivers left in lap 30.... so I was told from my [ITEK] colleague.

Hope that there will be an bigger improvement in organising and discipline the next time IES organises a event.

A nice build up, and not a server in sight.

Why not use ITEK Racing server, we got the server ready and willing to go.

Quote from jamesrowe :

thats because he is captain SLOW!

Where is your SERVER then?

MG wheres the server? Cutting it close with 4 mins to qualifying.

Server isnt even on lol.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=13497

Qualifying finished hours ago, ITV just decided to broadcast it later.

Thanks for the heads up.

If Shumacher wins, and Alonso not finishing in the points. Shumacher clinches the title. Due to having more wins thank Alonso.

Sweet, I'll be up for that.

Are pits required?

Hopefully 3 FO8 spots then

Massa beats Michael to Japan pole Red cars run riot as Renault struggle to stay in touch

Ferrari, as expected, annexed the front row of the grid at Suzuka for Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix, with Felipe Massa just edging out Michael Schumacher to take the second pole position of his career, with 1m 29.599s to the German’s 1m 29.711s. The presence of the two Toyotas on the second row was perhaps an indication of the Japanese team's habitual strategy on home ground, but also endorsed the superiority of Bridgestone’s tyre. Ralf Schumacher just beat Jarno Trulli, 1m 29.989s to 1m 30.034s. In both cases the gaps between the team mates may be a reflection that one has to run a lap longer than the other in the race.

Fernando Alonso and Giancarlo Fisichella both closed the gap to Ferrari with sterling efforts for Renault, but 1m 30.371s and 1m 30.599s left them only fifth and sixth with a mountain to climb in the race. And as the animals came in two-by-two, Jenson Button took seventh for Honda with 1m 30.992s, ahead of Rubens Barrichello on 1m 31.478s.

Nick Heidfeld made it through from Q2 for BMW Sauber, taking ninth place with 1m 31.513s ahead of Nico Rosberg, who made full use of the Bridgestone-shod Williams-Cosworth package to complete the top 10 on 1m 31.856s.

Kimi Raikkonen’s chances of getting into Q3 evaporated when he slid wide in the Spoon Curve, leaving him 11th for McLaren on 1m 30.827s ahead of Robert Kubica, who likewise lost out in his BMW Sauber after nearly brushing the bridge wall on the exit to Degner 2. The Pole lapped in 1m 31.094s. Pedro de la Rosa failed to get his McLaren through to the final session, stopping the clocks in 1m 31.254s which was just enough to stay ahead of Williams’ Mark Webber, who was another to survive a scare at Degner 2. The Australian thus relied on 1m 31.276s for 14th.

Tonio Liuzzi did a fine job as the only one of Red Bull’s four drivers to get through Q1, and pushed his Toro Rosso to 1m 31.943s. Christijan Albers had also made it through Q1 for Spyker MF1, and will line up 16th on 1m 33.750s.

Interestingly, the fastest man in that second session was M Schumacher, in 1m 28.954s. “There is so much grip and they fly through the Esses!” the former champion said. “It’s funny when you think we are running V8s engines.”

David Coulthard was the first of the Q1 failures on 1m 32.252s for Red Bull, with team mate Robert Doornbos right behind on 1m 32.402s. Scott Speed was next up on 1m 32.867s, after an off in Spoon Curve in the Toro Rosso. Takuma Sato beat Tiago Monteiro, Super Aguri versus Spyker MF1, with 1m 33.666s to 1m 33.709s, while Sakon Yamamoto failed to get a time after setting the fastest sector one time and then half spinning and stalling his Super Aguri at Spoon.

So Ferrari start just where they wanted, and with Renault where they’d have liked them to be. “Having Alonso behind me is more important than being behind my team mate,” Schumacher grinned, a man who knows that he might just clinch a record eighth world championship title on Sunday, if things keep going his way.

Source - http://formula1.com/race/news/5084/768.html

Quote from R3DMAN :

well i would have to retake the pic, re edit it and re upload it.

i can mk the plate blank

Wow, that will do it .

Thank you so much!

Quote from R3DMAN :

here is your pic pal, i have had to do it in 1024x768 because my monitor wont go any higher (im on my bro's comp)

hope it ok for you

Looks awesome.

Er... Redman lisence plate? Possible you could change it to [ITEK] or would that take too long?

Plus the Scottish helmet isnt there. It looks awesome netherless.

Teamates would be wondering who R3DMAN was .

Last edited by BigDave2967, Fri 6 Oct 2006, 13:02.

Why did Rubens Barrichello sue Orkut?

Rubens Barrichello’s pursuit of legal action of Orkut.com may have severe implications for online debate of Formula One - depending on which story concerning the action is accurate.
Pitpass and grandprix.com have reported that Barrichello had a number of Orkut’s ‘communities’ closed down for material that he considered “offensive and pejorative”. Pitpass draws an interesting connection with the many F1 forums where fans debate the sport with little concern for such legal niceties as libel.
It’s a reasonable comparison to draw: In the UK recently controversial baby expert Gina Ford threatened parenting website Mumsnet with legal action over the content of their forum which Ford called, “a gross personal attack.”
Probably every Formula One driver on the grid could find grounds to complain about what visitors to one forum or another has to say about them.
But is that what Barrichello’s gripe was actually about? Not according to realhondaf1.com who state that the lawsuit was directed about users of Orkut who had created a false profiles on the site claiming to be Barrichello’s.
Judge for yourself. But the time that public figures try to wield libel laws against Internet forums will surely come.



Source - http://f1fanatic.co.uk/

EDIT: Barrichello wins legal action
Rubens Barrichello, Turkish GP 2006© The Cahier Archive

Rubens Barrichello has won an interesting legal action in Brazil against the web community orkut.com, a by-invitation chat room offered by Google on which people publish their opinions on whatever subject they choose. Barrichello applied to have seven communities closed down, claiming that they were offensive and perjorative. Judge Francisco Loureiro of the 4th Civil Court in Sao Paulo ruled that Google has five days to take down the sites or will have to pay $500 a day in fines if the communities are not shut down.

Source - http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns17543.html

Fisichella leads Renault fightback

Giancarlo Fisichella put Renault just ahead of Ferrari at the end of Friday's practice for the Japanese Grand Prix. Fisichella made up for some of the criticism he came in for after last weekend's Chinese race by beating the scarlet cars of Felipe Massa and Michael Schumacher into second and third places at Suzuka. Fernando Alonso was fourth. The Italian took his Renault round in 1m 34.337s to keep ahead of the Brazilian (1m 34.408s) and the German (1m 34.565s). Alonso was close behind them with 1n 34.863s and the day’s other ‘aces’ were Honda’s Anthony Davidson (1m 34.906s) and BMW Sauber’s Sebastian Vettel (1m 34.912s).

At the start of the session Davidson immediately lapped at the speed he had worked down to this morning (1m 45.347s) and the initially damp track conditions improved steadily until a dry line had appeared all round the lap by the end. That prompted a flurry of improvements.

Jenson Button had one good lap spoiled when he slid over the chicane, but he made amends with seventh fastest 1n 35.002s for Honda to pip McLaren’s Pedro de la Rosa (1m 35.064s), Toyota’s Jarno Trulli (1m 35.343s), Kimi Raikkonen (1m 35.367s) in the second McLaren, Ralf Schumacher (1m 35.375s) in the other Toyota, an impressive Michael Ammermuller, who at one stage was fastest for Red Bull (1m 35.433s), Honda’s Rubens Barrichello (1m 35.528s) and Williams’ Mark Webber (1m 35.866s).

Nico Rosberg just missed out on this 1m 35s bracket with 1m 36.176s which left him 15th for Williams ahead of Christijan Albers (1m 36.180s) in the Spyker MF1, Alexander Wurz (1m 36.234s) in the Williams, BMW Sauber’s Robert Kubica (1m 36.299s), Super Aguri’s Franck Montagny (at one stage second fastest to Michael Schumacher and an eventual 19th on 1m 36.354s), Toro Rosso’s Tonio Liuzzi (1m 36.441s) and Scott Speed (1m 36.501s), Red Bull’s David Coulthard (1m 36.596s), Spker MF1’s Tiago Monteiro (1m 36.702s), Neel Jani in the Toro Rosso (1m 36.741s) and the Red Bull of Robert Doornbos (1m 36.788s).

At the back came local hero Takuma Sato on 1m 38.533s in the Super Aguri, followed by BMW Sauber’s Nick Heidfeld on 1m 38.799s and Sakon Yamamoto on 1m 38.955s in the final Aguri. Adrian Sutil was last on 1m 43.914s after showing well in the early damp stages before his Spyker MF1 seemingly broke its Toyota engine.

The scene is thus set for a fantastic battle on Saturday between Renault and Ferrari, with the present indications suggesting they are very evenly matched.

Source - http://formula1.com/race/news/5077/768.html

It'd certainly be interesting thats for sure .

Quote from jamesrowe :

yeah, other wise we are going to have a good time in f08s bullying the fox's

It'd be the other way around, some of the F08 drivers have 1.08s as their pbs. But I'm sure they will quickly get new pbs when they practice .

Hope the rest of the slots are filled with FO8s.

Quote from dadge :

qs, do you stil lhave the bl endurance set i made for the gp when it was the other way round? that might do the trick with a few tweeks

Indeed I do. I'll send that over when I see you .