Not a huge fan of the looks or the name. Side profile looks good but front looks generic and rear is just ugly. What's up with rearlights, they're trying to bring back the 80?

Works fine on Opera 10, grabbing that large Google logo and swinging it around really makes stuff fly and bounce into random directions

Good god, take a small break from simracing and I've lost the ability to drive.
SR now down to 1.35 due to random spins and offs while trying to learn how to drive Skippy again. Down to 1:21.535 on Lowe's which is not where I want to be, but at least I'm having lots of fun.

Quote from Jertje :

Here's to hoping the Jetta series will be very competitive. Same cars, same setups - no excuses and hopefully a lot of close racing

Here's to hoping that it will finally shut up those whiners about setups and how they give unfair advantage.

And on positive note, Jetta is friggin' awesome bucket of fun!

Last edited by Crommi, Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:32.

Quote from richard dk :

I don`t belong at the Pro level in the Riley.... I`m not fast in that car and really no time to improve.. Only one race time per week fits me..and thats on saturday at 20.00 GMT..

I'm in a same situation, on VIR I'm 4-5 seconds off the pace while on Mazda I'm usually within 1 second of the fastest guys. If results are not improving, I'll probably jump back to Mazda or Radical for next season instead of giving away 100 rating per race.

Previous thread: http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=59068

Quote from tinvek :

was digging throught the thread and saw this, so what's your feelings now? obviously you like it given your record but how does it compare to your expectations?

I'm not a big fan of subscription based games, so I was going into beta with intentions to just try for a month and probably then come back to LFS. I was also very sceptical about laser-scanning because it was hyped up to heavens by their marketing department, but as it turns out the tracks are very high quality and it's the first title where I really have to take bumps and road camber into consideration.

Physics, driving feels very natural but we're still missing plenty of features like complete gearbox model, aero & mechanical damage, brake temperatures ect ect....

The main reason why I haven't raced any other sims since getting into iRacing is the quality of competition. Safety Rating system really works and while everyone is racing hard, no one is pushing you off to walls or weaving across the track. Never seen anyone drive in wrong direction or park their cars on track with intentions of causing a wreck.

In short, I went into iRacing not wanting to like it but sim managed to convince me to stay for a year and I've recently subscibed for another full year.

Last edited by Crommi, Thu, 6 Aug 2009 20:36.

Damn, that's why you should draw sketches or at least have general design in mind before starting to model it.

I'll focus completely on Pro Series, DP turns out to be quite difficult car to adapt after racing openwheelers through most of my simracing "career".

It really depends which kind of car you need, tiny car or small car?

Try recording it on different hard-drive, Fraps footage at 1280x960 resolution already takes up 1,5Gb per minute which means running game can stutter if HDD can't keep up.

Quote from StableX :

does that mean you put your game to that resolution too?

Yes, that's the resolution I use ingame and I config fraps to record in "Full-size".

There's still hope for few who just missed Pro licence.
http://members.iracing.com/ifo ... readID=44358&tstart=0

Quote :

Congratulations to all who were promoted to a Pro-License and may i wish you all good luck in the inaugural iPS season.

As you know 250 members were promoted, however, there are some members that were promoted that have inactive accounts.

The iPS is 39 weeks with 8 drop weeks as stated in the Pro-Series Document. With that in mind, those Pro-License Drivers will need to reactivate their membership no later than 31 Aug 09 to retain their license. This will give them 4 drop weeks should they reactivate. If they do not reactivate their accounts, the positions will be filled by promoting the next driver in the rankings. This will also give those replacements 4 dropped weeks.

It's only fair to give them the opportunity to reactive since they have achieved the necessary requirements to be promoted, and an inactive account makes it impossible for them to have seen the rankings, there could be other circumstances we as community may not be aware of.

The member/members have been emailed with the same information. You'll get an email directly from me letting you know of your promotion should these driver choose to remain inactive.

- Shannon Whitmore

Quote from UncleBenny :

To be HD I'm pretty sure it does, I've tried messing around with it before and no matter what quality video I had, if it wasn't widescreen it would not give me HD. For HQ it can be either.

I capture all my videos in 4:3 format with 1280x960 resolution and they appear as "HD" on Youtube and black bars are only visible on fullscreen with different aspect ratios.

Quote from UncleBenny :

HD has to be widescreen I'm pretty sure, or you need to be able to slap bars on the sides of your video. If you can do that, then I think you want this: www.h264encoder.com

No, it doesn't have to be widescreen and it's best if you don't add black bars or anything. Just upload it in same format you've recorded and Youtube will add borders for different aspect ratios on user side.

New site looking sexy!

Quote from DaveWS :

No, C license 4.99. But my last 20 sessions have been very clean. I didn't get black flagged or doing anything wrong to lose an entire lap. The blue flag started appearing halfway through lap 1 to suggest I was somehow a lap down... WTG iRacing.

C 4.99 --> B 3.99 --> A 2.99 then adding that 0.5 for going over X.99 and you end up with SR equivalent of A ~3.50 which probably was too low to qualify for Pro Series.

Quote from StableX :

Congrats to all with the Pro License! I'll stick to my diesel powered Jetta

Cannot...resist...

Quote from DaveWS :

Well, looks like I'm not in. **** it. 35xx iRating, and 4.99 SR... Could have been down to recent race I had which battered my iRating whereby iRacing cocked something up putting me a lap down when I actually finished in 4th place with an awesome field only seconds behind the leader.

Was that A-licence with 4.99 SR, it should have easily gotten you into Pro Series. As for your race, if you got black flag, laps are not counted until penalty is served.

Black stripes, represent!

There was awesome bug with Week 13 series, Pro licenced drivers were ineligible to run

Last edited by Crommi, Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:18.

Quote from trebor901 :

give Webber a drive through for that, Red Bull need to learn to stop being pricks

Lollipop man twitched too early while fuel hose was still on and that kind of mistake could have taken away his confidence to hold the car in pitbox.

Damn, how did Alonso's rear tire get that bad so quickly?

Quote from Gnomie :

Actually I think there's a good chance they'll give us the Jetta for free. After all that will give many people an incentive to buy more tracks! (Since the Jetta schedule uses non-rookie tracks)

Jetta is class D car, so I doubt it's going to be free.

Last minute change to Pro Series scheduling, new timeslot added.

Road
Tues - 0:30 GMT
Thur - 12:00 GMT
Sat - 20:00 GMT
Sun - 23:00 GMT

Oval
Thurs - 0:30 GMT
Fri - 12:00 GMT
Sun - 1:00 GMT
Sun - 20:00 GMT

http://members.iracing.com/ifo ... readID=43517&tstart=0

Quote from spanks :

The lotus better be damn good to distract me from the no physics changes in the road cars

There will surely be tons of whine about every little issue that car may or may not have.

As for current road car physics, I can't really see any gamebreaking flaws with them. I've been having a blast with Mazda and my first real practise session with DP ended on a positive note. A lot heavier but got the power to make it move, definately doesn't feel underpowered like Mazda. Maybe it should have little bit more rear-end grip due to engine placement, but that's hard to say without driving the real thing for reference.