Quote from Lateralus :

No it isn't. That's the problem, and why this is a bug rather than some people who don't know the proper technique.

For some people, myself included, the car simply refuses to shift into 4th, 5th and 6th correctly. I can manage 4th sometimes, but the amount of throttle I have to use is very precise. It's more than I normally lift for the other cars (especially FBM), but if it's just a tiny bit too much it won't shift either. The range is very very narrow, and gets worse in 5th or 6th gears. This costs me several seconds per lap on the shorter circuits, which pretty much means the FJR is undrivable for me.

I don't get that. I have no problems with shifting what so-ever. Okay, you can't flatshift all the way to 6th gear, so what? Just lift off the throttle a tiny bit and its fine. The range is everywhere between 1% and 99% throttle. Timing is the most important thing here. Just practise it a little and it should be fine..

I think it's charming.. :P

UNKLE - Chemistry.

Grats, very nice to see you guys in a nice team.

No way my points will be resetted... Not now I am so "close" to the FO8...

Quote from XCNuse :

done, and JUST realized you said "maybe rain for the 2nd"
great minds think alike

My rain and spray aren't the best but .. better than they used to be

Hey, that is really nice man!

Quote from SamH :

Misshift with ignition cut?

Oh that's very easy to avoid. Just life slightly when shifting. With 0% throttle it doesn't shift, and with 100% it doesn't. With everything in between it works like a charm.

Quote from Demon68 :

The FJR is not really a challenge to drive. It's close to the FOX.
Maybe it is possible to give it a little less air intake ristiction.
Than the car is better possitioned between the FOX and the real F08 AND maybe the intake/gear bug will be less prominent.

Well, it's not really close to the FOX. And it's not really easy to drive either. It's about 4/5 seconds per lap faster then the FOX. At Westhill I did 1.29 low with the FO8. The FOX drivers did only 1.35. Although it should be possible to do 1.34 low consistantly, that's still 5 seconds. And I think that's fine.

It's quite challenging if you make an on-the-edge setup, but on tracks like Aston it's too slow. Fern Bay is pretty cool tho. Removing the weight would make it a little harder and faster. But making it faster wouldn't attract more/faster racers. It's still the system itself that keeps a lot of the fast guys away.

And there's a difference between electronic music and dance (Stockhausen vs Underworld...? ) And where's funk/soul? I won't vote since it's not possible to vote for more then one genre. Every genre has his best music.

Sigur Rós - Heima. Ok, it's a movie, but there's a lot of music in it. :P

But playing along with it on the piano made me figure out their style. I'll try to make an á la Sigur Rós sounding track soon.

Quote from AMB :

is there a pitstop?

Nah, race is a bit too short for that, imo.

I think it's fine as it is, although I don't really like the FJR. Ristricting the best car in LFS.. That's like.. buying great speakers and putting in earplugs.

Anyway, I just wish the SS2 server will be more crowded soon. Everytime I look it's empty or just 1 person in it. :/

Guys, I'm really sorry, but is it possible for you to do the race on saturday, instead of friday? I know it's on a short notice, but well..

Very unprofessional, I know, but I got something else then.
Please let me know..

Oeh, I found just this one on my pc.

I'm posting it here, because this is where the people look about skins. In the leagues and events section I posted about a FBM race to win a helmet! Please take a look here:

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=37958

sorry for the crosspost, but I had to get some more interest. :P

I updated the first post. Track will be Fern Bay Gold.

Hehe, nice stuff! Would be cool if it had at least 24 gears.. :P

I tried the setup, great fun! Altough it wasn't really in tune with my penny whistle (also has 7 notes, and 15 if you over-blow it), didn't really tune well. So editted it a bit, if you don't mind. 7th gear is middle C. 1st gear is B3.

I recorded the C and used it in my sequencer, works ok to make harmony's and stuff. Sound a little noisy and dirty, but it's ok. A bit like an organ. :P

Hmm, I wonder, if you make the final drive ratio half the value it is now, will it be an octave lower? In that case you could get more tones with more cars. 3 cars = 3 octaves. :P

Last edited by Darkone55, Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:23.

Hi there!

One week ago the Masters of Endurance 24 hours of Aston Grand Prix started. Specially for that event I made a nice helmet for myself. But now I'm using my 'old' helmet again. Since I can't use two helmets at the same time I want to give this special helmet away!

I want to do this by organising a small event. The winner gets the helmet. The tree colours (blue, white, red) on the side will be changed to the winners taste.

The race will be held in the Formula BMW (FBM)!
- Saturday February 2nd at 20:00 CET (19:00 GMT)
- Track will be Fern Bay Gold
- Qual will be 5 min
- Race will be 20 laps
- Anyone can sign-up!

Server and password will be sent by PM at the day of the race (or day before).

Just post an "I'm in!" or something so I can write you down in the list.
So far there's room for 20 people, but if there's enough animo I'll try to make it more.

1. Jimmy_Lemon
2. Rikje
3. zeromussov
4. Bondster
5. AMB
6. Foqs
7. JasonL220
8. jwardy
9. Dalek0220
10. moskvich3v1
11. BigDave2967
12.

Last edited by Darkone55, Sat, 2 Feb 2008 15:17.

Quote from traxxion :

Made a fastest laptime table for another forum, might as well post it here

Woei! :P

I'd like to congratulate Core GT2 and n!Faculty GT1! I didn't see much from the GT2 winner, but I had no problems with you guys, not that I can remember. :P

n!Faculty just did a great job, all drivers were very very good, and they were sooo consistant. Really nice job.

Quote from joshdifabio :

My complaint is towards those teams that pitted during the restart in order to get fresh tyres. If the admins had said that this was allowed then I could understand it, but they didn't. This isn't fair on the teams that respected the admins wishes and started the race on very cold tyres. I believe that Mercury, SK and Cyber were the perpetrators, there may have been others too.

The problem was that there was a misunderstanding where to start in the top 5 somewhere.
I didn't get it either, and a lot of thing were not right, but ah well..

With fitting helmet!

I only still need to do the visor. Does anybody know what font the "masters of endurance" sunstrip is? Or does anybody have a big (not bend) version of it?

http://fv8.cyxian.nl/rules.htm

I made a small change in the rules. During qualifying it is allowed to chat, and also to block messages now. During race it's not allowed to chat or block messages.

Last edited by Darkone55, Sun, 6 Jan 2008 12:31.

Well, the FZR seemed slightly faster. But, remember this is an FZR track. Also, the XRR and FZR both had to stop once in this race. In the 24 hours, the XRR will have to stop less then the FZR.

And, while I was racing I noticed the XRRs didn't have any clutch heat. One little mistake in the FZR and the clutch is overheated.

In all honesty, I think Chris can do 2.38 mid in the XRR aswell. It's funny, the Merc guys have been practising for weeks, Chris drives in the race for the first time and is such a lot faster? I doubt so..

BTW, I did a 1.51.59. But the best I could possibly get is 2.39.8? Am I being so slow in the last sector?

Ok, thanks for signing up! I will post a pm to everybody who signed up, with information about the server and password.

BTW, there's a server available for practising, called "Formula V8 Event".

Last edited by Darkone55, Sat, 5 Jan 2008 18:26.

Easy.

Check this, starting at 1 min:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFtOKvRDsIg

and then the attachment.