Quote from Rappa Z :

If Rand Paul is using a group though, he ought to go for the group record...

57 days.

Yeah, I don't think that'll happen.. At least it's at the beginning of the session if it does though

Knowing that Obama is having dinner with 12 Senate Republicans tonight I'd be surprized if it lasted any more than 24 hours.

I'd like to see him take the record length from Strom Thurmond though, just simply because Rand has a better cause than what he did

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes ... s-brennan-nomination/?hpw

About time somebody stood up to this

Rand Paul stood up at around 11AM EST and continues to this time. I beleive he's in his 7th hour now . I beleive that he has others supporting him on the Senate from each party (but I've only seen that mentioned on one source)

Edit: I have confirmed that he has support from other Senators. Only 1 of which is a Democrat.

Last edited by Cornys, Wed, 6 Mar 2013 23:40.

They must have adjusted the Phoenix results again . Thanks gougoodthing

Quote from Rappa Z :

Cornys, you're up to third.

I'm second.

Nice My GF is in 17th (She's a JJ fan ) and my mom is in 6th

Fueled By Pizza is 9th, LLM is 13th, Mike Busch Racing is 18th, Falcon is in 23rd along with the Soviet Russians

Did I miss any of us? I know who a few of the others are, but that's not important to you guys

We're all chasing howlingwolf1 though with 77 points and the Phoenix win. Rappa, you have 72 (-5) I have 66 (-11).. and back to 23rd it's only down to 46 points (-31 points).

Last edited by Cornys, Tue, 5 Mar 2013 01:59.

I got 3rd and 21st in the first two races respectivly. That means I should have 40 at Daytona and 22 at Phoenix for a total of 62. 1st and 34th should give you 47 and 9 for a total of 56 . The league ponts standings havn't been updated yet so it's just going off of race #1 right now.

Article on the Gen-6 car: http://www.nascar.com/en_us/ne ... earn-about-gen-6-car.html

TV Ratings for Phoenix were up 6% and was the highest for a post 500 race since 2008. Not impressive, but anything not a loss is an improvement. I thought that the race was above average and much better than the 2012 fall race there (the first on this new surface and configuration)

Link: http://www.jayski.com/cupnews.htm#20130304d

There are 44 entries for Las Vegas. There was only 1 start and park last week by my count also

Vegas entry list: http://www.jayski.com/news/sta ... Las-Vegas-2013-Entry-List

Last edited by Cornys, Mon, 4 Mar 2013 23:56.

That's pretty good Phil

After only 1 downforce race what are you guys's feelings about the Gen-6 car?

I thought that today's race was pretty good myself

Yeah, F24 doesn't allow race director to work properly because it goes off of the .pth file for Fern Bay. Thanks for the feedback

No problem sjoblom Sobis pointed it out to me, otherwise you would have just had a bad qualifying time

I was pretty impressed by the way that today's went guys. Thanks to those of you who came out and made the event such a success

Those of you who watched the stream, what did you think of the manual cameras? I know the running order appearing like in the Race Director was a big loss, but visually how was the stream?

Kid, you didn't do bad for your first attempt . I was impressed.

Thanks Jonathon for running the Camera

View the stream on demand here: http://racemedia.org/video/Fer ... f68ed16ff414ed309aec85281

SimRace.TV Stream #1
Race Complete! View the stream replay here!

The Fern Bay 150 starts today at 15:30 GMT. This is the first league race on the new (F24) Fern Bay Oval.

Special thanks to Jonathon Provost (Camera operator) and Zdeněk Cagas (Commentary)

Last edited by Cornys, Sun, 3 Mar 2013 16:46.

Wathing the Grand-Am race on replay now I'm only 1 hour in and it's been pretty exciting

Yeah, any appropriate skin not having a number displayed which is not your's is fair use .

I was thinking of asking drivers to include "5haz" and their entry number on their plate

Maybe a little bit of exageration, but I could see it on the downforce tracks. There's better camera positions anyways I think.. like on the middle dash of the car

Danica rolls of the grid in 40th in the first downforce track race of the 2013 season

Every time I watch Mark qualify on a downforce track I just light up. He goes so much slower than his fellow competitors entering the corners, but as soon as he reaches the 2/3 mark of the corner the tracker slides straight to the left (the front). It just makes me think that the other drivers just aren't as smart as the old guy . He's much better in cars with less power though. Look at his record in the Nationwide series. (49 wins (2nd most all time) in 236 races with 112 top 5's and 152 top 10's)

Or the truck series: 7 wins in 25 races with 20 top 10's and 23 running at finish & lead lap finishes

This marks his 55th carrer pole in 855 starts (40 victories, 271 top 5's, 449 top 10's, 541 Lead Lap finishes (Most of any driver) , & Running at finish in 736)

These numbers aren't as impressive as Jimmie Johnson or Jeff Gordon, but you have to remember that it was much more difficult to finish on the lead lap in the 80's and 90's than what it is now. That, and Mark didn't start his career in the best equipment by any means.

Oh, and how could I forget his International Race of Champions record of 5 championships with an average race finish of 3.8 . He won 13 of the 47 IROC races that he entered (usually 12 drivers). These races were in supposedly equal cars, and it was a really exicitng series with World of Outlaws, NHRA, IndyCar and Champ Car drivers racing along with Sprint Cup, Nationwide, and Truck Series drivers selected based upon their performance

Last edited by Cornys, Sat, 2 Mar 2013 14:13.

Speaking of Mark Martin, he's on the pole for Sunday's 500km Sprint Cup race in Phoenix

Quote from Cornys :

I will ask that all competitors do something of this sort in the race day PM

Correction, in the pre-race drivers meeting. It will have nothing to do with the skins though.

Quote from teppo.jr :

hi, its almost march 6th, year ago from that day ''5haz'' past away... how about if everyone (well if u can) could use skin that has something like ''we miss u 5haz'' or ''R.I.P Joe Shaw''. just in memory of him.

I will ask that all competitors do something of this sort in the race day PM

Please confirm that you will be attending this round by posting here. This is required. Failure to do this will result in your car not appearing on the tracker and/or the stream.

You will receive a drive-through penalty at the drop of the green flag if your confirmation is not submitted prior to March 4, 2013 at 13:00 GMT

Please submit the completed form below.

DO NOT change XRT in your confirmations.
DO NOT add any spaces around the commas. Thank you.


Example:

NOT

Realistic NASCAR , XRT , 00 , Cornys , Cameron Corns , USA

Last edited by Cornys, Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:40.

Taking a look at Mark Martin's carrer in the Daytona 500 I found this interesting

(0 Fall Race Wins)


Now looking at Tony Stewart (2, 400 mile summer race wins)


I feel more for Mark than I do Tony (not a big fan of Tony), but seeing either win would be nice Mark may not ever race in the 500 again though. :/

Well, taking it out automatically I don't like. If the waiter or waitress doesn't deserve it I'd like to have the option to give less or given none rather than 15% no matter what

When we went to the race in Dover we stayed on the beach and there was a Pizza Hut. We waited forver to be served, and then we waited 30 min to have our order taken after we were taken to our seat. We didn't give a tip that day. If it was automatically taken out we would have been ticked...

That's the only reason why I don't like it being taken out automatically. Otherwise it wouldn't be an issue.

Phoenix Cup Entry List
Event Paint Scemes

Nobody will be headed home on Friday this week. Only 43 teams will attempt to qualify (to be expected with the new car).

One of my favorite tracks personally for it's semi-banked nature and unique shape . I'm excited to see the increased speeds and see how the Gen-6 car races at a handling race track. Look for the racing to be more competitive with the reduced adjustment capabilites of the Gen-6 car, the reduced weight, and the increased downforce

Also, how will Patrick fair at the non-drafting tracks? (I'm assuming much worse than at Daytona)

Last edited by Cornys, Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:53.

Quote from Rappa Z :

I miss [FM] FOX Junkies. No SS racing except for demo servers nowadays.

edit: Racing hours stink, too. Peak hours are 3-6 pm here, when I'm always ****ing busy.

I suck at anything with downforce, but the racing hours always suck. Most everybody likes cars with downforce even so

What did you think of the Daytona 500?

Hope you had a good time here

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/d ... r&utm_campaign=nascar

Dinger to be in the 51 this Sunday

NH has always been rather boring to watch a race at on TV

Also, NASCAR is looking at making some "minor changes" to the Gen-6 plate track package

http://espn.go.com/racing/nasc ... head-next-restrictor-race

Last edited by Cornys, Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:26.