Time to let everyone in on a little secret..

Kayla Russell, is actually Kayla Gangi..

Kayla Gangi is my 19 year old daughter who helped us out and is very hard to track down to do more shows.. We'd love to have her, and may have her again in the future.. But.. she's off being a 19 year old and Dad doesn't pay much (or anything tbh) for her to do the show..

So.. if you happen to see her.. tell her we'd like her on the set to do another show

Quote from SpikeyMarcoD :

A little question guys. Did you already report Ms. K. Russel missing?
Once upon a time she hosted this week in sim racing.....

The Div-X player is a small download.. To play the hi res version, you need the Div-X player. You can download the div-x version for later viewing. If you click the small arrow thats pointing down on the divx viewer, you can download the whole show.

There's also the lo-res of each show that is viewable.

I'll update the downloads page soon.. There's a lot of stuff missing from it.

Quote from tailing :

Is there a way to download the shows? I'm not going to install the DivX Web Player when it's not really necessary.

Also thanks for the compliments to those that gave them!

Yes it would and we're hoping to do just that :-)

Quote from Nobo :

Would be cool to see a indepth report and test about the new patch when its out.
With all up- and downsides. With all good new things and those things long year simracers still wish to be implemented.

I've tried a couple full motion simulators and so far the CXC Motion Pro is the best. I have yet to try the Force Dynamics or the other one you mentioned here. When I do (hopefully), we'll report on it.

I gotta tell you though.. the CXC Motion Pro 2 kicks ass ! Considering everything it comes with and how it's built, it's worth the money if you have it.. This is obviously not for the average sim racer. We felt it was a great thing to report on though.. I know every sim racer out there would love to have one or something like it .

Check out the full show on the Motion Pro to get a better look at how it performs.

www.simracingtonight.com

Someone also mentioned that it bounces too much. First off.. Thats all adjustable.. Secondly, you need to try it yourself before you say that. I would take Chris up on his offer if you're in California..It's a ride you will not soon forget..

Hi All,

We have some of the shows we promised for November now up and viewable.

We have the latest "This Week in Sim Racing" up that covers BOTT as well as the LeMans series as well as some other great league updates and footage.

http://www.simracingtonight.com/pages/section/twisr5

(Don't listen to Shaun at the beginning of the show saying we'll have a show out every friday by 8:00 EST. hehe) As much as we'd love to have them ready by then, various hurdles may stop us from accomplishing that. We will try our best though to have them out by that time. We will have a show every week of some kind. That doesn't mean 52 new shows a year though. There will be weeks that we may run repeats, re-cuts or best of shows.

The full Special Report on the CXC Simulations Motion Pro 2 Simulator is now up as well.

http://www.simracingtonight.com/pages/section/SRTSPC1

Also, check out the new site layout !! We now have direct links to our forum and store as well as an archive page.. Thanks to Jeff Carriere for hooking us up !

If our .com site is down, visit our www.simracingtonight.tv site.. It's not the current layout, but has links to all of our videos.
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Sim Racing Tonight

huh.. funny I don't

Quote from bbman :

There are times/cars where you have to modulate the throttle and not just plant it... In those moments, it wouldn't matter how tall you are, you'd still get that movement in the pedals...

I've driven the CXC model many times and you're right, the pedals and steering don't move..(wheel is a VPP force feedback wheel so it has feeling) but.. You quickly forget about that.. The simulator definitely tricks your mind and you quickly forget that it's all not moving as one. I personally love the experience ! Takes sim racing to a whole new level..

BTW, that was rFactor he was driving.. I've driven LFS in it as well

In regards to seat vibrating, and you hear it in the throttle.. Thats because Alex isn't that tall and his throttle foot wasn't planted on the base of the simulator. With some adjusting, that would go away.

Wait till you see me driving it in the full segment we're releasing this weekend. Also we have another pro driver Derek Hill, son of racing legend Phil Hill at the wheel.. It didn't do that for him.. He is over 6' tall.

The Force Dynamics model looks cool, but, don't eat before running in it. hehe.. I also heard you need to bolt the Force Dynamics to your foundation. CXC, is plug and play. (I've never tried the FD system)

Here's part of an upcoming segment we're doing on the CXC Simulations Motion Pro 2 simulator.

Also expect a "This Week in Sim Racing" very soon !!

http://www.simracingtonight.com/

Great comments everyone and the funny thing about my saying Marquee and not Mark.. I thought about it as the show was burning "did I say that wrong"...lol crap

And Renault.... Thats how we say it here in the states. Sorry..You know what I meant though...heheh

One last thing... We'd love to report on more LFS stuff, but now that we're rolling, we've found that new content in this arena is a little harder to find. If you anyone out there has some good stuff for us to report about LFS, peripherals, leagues, drivers please let us know and we'll do our best to cover it..

Thanks for watching !

Hi All,

Episode 4 of Sim Racing Tonight is now up in Hi-Res, Google lo-res is uploading now..

www.simracingtonight.com

In SRT 4 we covered the following

Buttkicker review
ORR 2 review
NR2003 Look back
GP79 2.0 review
TSW Cup wheel and Speed Shifter review

Hope you all enjoy it !

Good one :-) Let see.. We also have Van Halen - Eruption during the Bullrun 1000 segment.. hmm.. What else did I use..hehe.. I think Gorillaz and some other trance..

Don't think I used any Joe Satriani in that one.. I've used him in just about every other though..hehe

Glad you guys like it.. We're working on Episode 4 of SRT and hope to have it done by the weekend.

Darin

Quote from srdsprinter :

:43 - 1:04 - 311 - Homebrew

Great Work, interesting to see SimRacing Outside of my LFS bubble.

Make sure to get us the write up and replay and we'll feature you guys on SRT as well

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Arrow, I wouldn't mind giving it a shot maybe. I do have an example of my own work, on the UKCT Page (http://ukct.net/news.asp?NewsID=13), which I wrote about my own result in one of the earlier LOTA GTC races.

Hi All,

The 4th installment of This Week in Sim Racing is now up.. Guess we should think about changing the name since we don't get it out every week..

Hope you all enjoy it !

http://www.simracingtonight.com

Hi - Res is back up www.simracingtonight.com

Quote from deggis :

http://video.stage6.com/1738043/.divx

Download link ain't working...?

Well.. I didn't go to the MOE forum to complain but trust me.. I was a pinball out there at times in my GT2 car..

But.. Being an admin for a dual class racing series, I know how tough it can be to get the drivers to respect the other class.. Overall, MOE put on a good show and I know the admins are taking steps to have the drivers show more respect for the other classes which is a reason we'll be back.. The shift P rule I can do without ;-) even though my flip would have been race ending..

And yes, we love LFS .. Thanks for all the compliments and critique, it just helps us with future shows.

Also to the person with the lighting and sound tips, thanks we'll make some tweaks to see what we can do. one of our problems with the green screen is.. it isn't exactly green..hehe.. We think that may be part of why we can't dial the chroma key in better. Look for an improvement there and also we'll see about changing the backdrop to make it lighter.. We did have it that way with a This Week in Sim racing and the halo was still there..

Quote from N I K I :

Just watched whole episode and i love it as usual.

Only real thing i didn't like was that pointing on GT1 drivers being rude to GT2 drivers in MoE! I haven't had not even 1 collision or problem with them and i haven't heard anything about that on forums. I even had collision lapping SERT (GT1 car).

Looks like you guys really like LFS. Oh well who wouldn't

That lap on Valencia is really something

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Episode 3 of Sim Racing Tonight is now up ! We had some delays but we're back and hope you enjoy the show.

Episode 3 Features :
The Sim Report - 4 stories on whats going on in Sim Racing
G25 and G51 Review
Masters Of Endurance In Depth
Team Redline Techniques
History of Sim Racing Part 3

www.simracingtonight.com

We tried to get some new stuff.. You heard the man..

Quote from three_jump :

Nice Interview and cool that they did it with a nice video and some footage (including the KY3 MOE race ).

Bit boring for those who have read the other interviews as there was no new info on the game or Victor. But on the other hand I guess this interview is more directed to the people who have just discovered LFS

I've added the interview to the direct downloads page..

http://www.simracingtonight.com/pages/section/srtdls

Hope that helps..

Glad you all like the interview.. Transcripts would have to come from Shaun..

Quote from ORION :

can anyone give me the direct download link for the divx file? (in the web player there is a link)
cant install the plugin here on the uni computer...

Sim Racing Tonights Shaun Cole sat down with Victor van Vlaardingen of the Live for Speed development team for an interview.

Go to our home page
www.simracingtonight.com .

You can go to the direct downloads page here as well if you don't want to stream it.. It's available in Div-X and MP4

http://www.simracingtonight.com/pages/section/srtdls

Enjoy !

Darin Gangi
www.simracingtonight.com

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Dan,

Keep an eye out for it. I meant to get it in This Week in Sim racing but had some problems.. I'll see what I can do to get it on SRT Episode 3

Darin

Quote from danowat :

No RSSC

lol.. I was scared to come back here after my post..hehe.. Thanks for the support everyone and sorry if I went on a rant..

I'll be posting a message about a special segment we'll have up later today about Live for Speed. :-)

We also have This Week in Sim Racing - October 3rd up and an interview with Jan Kohl of The Us Pits.

Check em out ! www.simracingtonight.com

Quote from STROBE :

Don't let it distract you; once you've been around here a bit longer you'll soon learn to ignore them.

I swore to myself that i wouldn't reply to posts that are negative but I had to make an exception since there were two in this thread by the same person.

Gunn...Feel free to put togther a list of all the things SRT doesn't comprehend about LFS so we can make a segment out of it.. Should make for some good entertainment..

Most are supporting us yes gunn.. It's the comments like "You guys don't appear to know it well enough to speak credibly on its behalf" because i said ?? what ?? That I was lost in a race?? That Bawbag is the best ?? ??? Please be more specific instead of making vague comments.. Oh and a personal email would be the best way to solve it, or better yet meet me on Teamspeak or my MSN Messenger account is [email protected] and you can tell me all the ways I can stop to smell the roses..

I'll also be expecting a full write up from THE LFS insider GUNN on the LFS community, the culture, the interface, etc.. I admit this forum is a great place for LFS info. Seeing that LFS isn't the only sim we report on, it's a daunting task to find it all..If you could write an article pointing it all out, maybe you can be the biggest help of all to us

Quote from Gunn :

I don't see anyone yelling at you. People are trying to fill you in on all of the little things that you don't yet comprehend. If you treat this as advice it will help you, if you treat it as complaining, it won't.
People here are trying to help you represent the community correctly. I think you are being genuinely supported by people here. That's a good thing, right?

Funny how a post can generate so many others in so many driections.

To go into more detail on the MOE event.. I never put down MOE for allowing shift p.. Just pointed it out.. If you want my honest opinion of it though.. That takes away from the endruance aspect of it.. You flip a car or get it stuck in rF and you're done which in my opinion stops some people from driving over their head.. I had a good time for the most part and we're going to report on it..

Now.. a little more on my experience.. I became a member of the team I rean with a week ago. Was I unprepared for a 12 hour event.. Heck yes I was.. On top of that I was out of town from Tuesday thru Thrusday.. I was just commenting on it from my perspective..

Never claimed to be an expert on LFS and we'd love to have an official LFS correspondant.. Funny thing is.. I get all these people yelling at me for misreprestinging LFS (which by the way we are going to correct the Intel tour mistake on air) .. but I get no one stepping up to become the SRT / LFS rep. Help us out and we make sure to represent the community correctly..

You have to remember though.. Most of you are biased towards LFS so take things I say with a grain of salt. Just my opinion and yes I have a lot of people listening to me, but, I do my best to be objective, honest and tell my story from my perspective..

To the guy that said "don't think that Bawbag is the only one".. lol.. Believe me I know of lots of other really fast guys.. Just like over in my crowd.. Greger is the man.. but.. There's lots of guys that are pretty close. So.. I just used his name cause it came to mind.

And to Becky.. hehe.. If I told you the hurdles we went through to provide that coverage, you would understand why it is the way it is. We know it's raw, but we are very limited and have done all of that on a shoestring budget. You should see some of the first we did.. We're doing it with what rFactor has to offer, media encoder and a fat pipe.

You mention all of us coming together.. I'd love that.. Over in our world, no one shares technology secrets fearing that someone will out do them or try to take their business.. Flog TV was created only to provide coverage of our events.. We never really intended it for general spectators.. But.. After we started we got some great feedback about how we handled ourselves in the booth and that actually spawned SRT..

So that being said.. How is the quality of SRT compared to our broadcasts ? Lots better huh ?? Thats because we've put a lot more time and energy into it and we're not limited to rFactor short comings , media encoders and we're not in competition with anyone which means that everyone is willing to offer help and suggestions. We flew completely blind putting up the FLOG stuff. I think we did an ok job..

Lastly.. Becky, we would love for you to come over and help us put together the ultimate broadcast and vice versa.. I would love to be part of one of your shows as a broadcaster or doing behind the scenes stuff..You put it out there.. so lets do it !

I'd like to say a few things on the subject of sim vs sim..

There is not one perfect sim.. All the sims out there have components to make a perfect sim. Matter of fact, Im sure you'll see an SRT segment on what Shaun and I feel would make the perfect sim.

LFS definitely has a lot of those components.. I can say now from experience ( I raced in the MOE event today) that it has it's short comings in some areas as well. One of my complaints is that I was literally lost out there today on the track. Especially after I flipped the car and was able to Shift - P back to the pits and start all over..

Now when I say lost.. I mean I had no idea where my closest competition was. I have the map, but it doesn't give me any reference has to who is near me. I also had no idea what was going on with my tires, or damage to the car...It's probably me not being familiar with the F9 - F12 screens.

On the other hand.. One thing I really liked about the LFS enduro experience was the driver swaps being seemless.

Bottom line is.. For rfactor, it depends on the mod.. When you find the good ones, they can be really good and feel just as real as LFS.. There's honestly some really horrible mods out there as well that feel worse than the old Pole Position..

Thats one area that LFS beats rF, the quality of the cars and their feel on average. With no quality control in the rF world, LFS beats rF hands down..But rF beats LFS in a lot of categories as well..

Anyway.. I can go on for hours.. SRT will be covering all forms of sim racing because we feel there's real racing in every one of them.. From back in the Nascar 1 days on Hawaii to LFS, rFactor, ARCA, NR2003 and the Sim Bin titles, it's all racing.. It may not have had as real a feel, but my adrenaline was pumping the same.. Thats what it's all about...

Oh and on the subject of Greger Huttu vs Bawbag, etc.. For a while in our communities we've referred to them as Aliens.. Put Greger in LFS and he will be an Alien... Put Bawbag in rF and Im sure the results would be the same..

I would be interested to see the two or a similar pairing go head to head.. There's also some amazing drivers in the world of stock car sims. Derek Wood comes to mind.. This guy is fast in anything I've seen him in. GTP cars, Trans Am, Stock cars, you name it.. Put him against Greger and Bawbag and Im sure he'd give em a run..Putting it together is another story.. Maybe in one of my SSCA endurance races someday

Speaking of.. How about an LFS team driving in my 8 Hours of Nurburg? Shaun and I ran in your community (which we feel at home in by the way).. how about some of you come over to ours for a race.. Shaun and I will take you under our wings and it would actually make for a great story.. Some of the best rfactor drivers participate in the SSCA races.

Last edited by DarinSRT, Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:52.

Mazz,

You're not the first to suggest it and as a matter of fact Shaun and I have discussed something like it.. Maybe someday in the future

we think it's a great idea..

Implementing it may be a bit of a task..

Darin

Quote from Mazz4200 :

Hi Darin, here's a little thought i've had rattling through my aging and slightly potty brain for a while now.

For many a year the name Gregor Huttu has been well know as probably the best sim racer on the planet. As far as i know he and almost all of the quickest guys from GPL migrated into GTL/GTR and Rfactor. But since i moved to LFS and raced against some of the quickest guys here, i've always wondered how our "Aliens" would compare with the likes of Gregor Huttu et al.

You seem to have both contacts and influence in most of the popular racing sims out there, kinda like middle men if you will. So, do you think it would be possible to arrange some sort of Inter-Sim Championship ? i.e a round at an LFS track, then another at an Rfactor track, GTR, GTL etc. Obviously it would take a tremendous amount of cooperation and time from the drivers and organisers etc.

Perhaps if each sim has some kind of playoff to find maybe 3 or 4 guys to represent their sim and then all come together to race in a "World Sim Championship". I can imaging the viewing figures would be quite high if SRT ran the races live.
Granted there will be problems with familiarisation and a driver not having such and such sim. But, if i knew one of my guys were competing and in a sense representing me and my game, i would'nt mind giving a few quid to buy him another sim (hopefully others would feel the same way to).

It's just a thought, don't be afraid to say it's a crap idea, and feel free kick me back under my rock.