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dawguk
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Starting to see a few rain drops on those camera lenses ...
dawguk
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Quote from Electrik Kar :The way it's going now, it's like punishing sim racers for being sim racers.

No, it's punishing wreckers and idiots that have no interest in serious racing, and letting the rest of us who are passionate about it, spend a bit of cash to get some quality on-line racing.

Also, back to the OP - why does it exist? We're not all 18 years old without a care in the world - some people have families, and aren't willing to risk their health in a real racing car. Or how about people who don't want to spend the night being driven into barriers by a bunch of kids trying to win a race in the first corner? Time is money at our age
dawguk
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I for one am quite happy with this being news worthy, instead of the continual "just in case you didn't know, there's a CREDIT CRUNCH" headlines.
dawguk
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However much I tristancliffe with you all the time, I can't help but disagree with you now, agree.
dawguk
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However much I disagree with you ALL the time, I can't help but agree with you now, tristancliffe
dawguk
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Id' just like to say, that I did my updates and was playing ALL last night with no issues. What a fantastic service that I paid for! It did exactly what they promised it would do, because I followed the instructions perfectly, and I was racing again within half an hour. In fact, I'm so happy with my service, I think I might pay my sub twice this month
dawguk
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Quote from boosterfire :I must say that I'm getting bored of having a 4 to 8 player championship while there's 20 cars on the field. You could just get rid of everything except ferrari, renault, mclaren and bmw and it would be about the same thing. If everybody not only had the same engine, but the same car, F1 would be MUCH more interesting. Imagine having 20 cars all within 3 seconds or so.

That's pretty much GP2 that you just described.

F1 is the pinnacle of motorsports development, including engines. chassis, aerodynamics, etc. You take that away, and it stops being F1.
dawguk
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We were bumming fags long before the yanks turned up

Don't even mention fanny packs, mind you ...
dawguk
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Quote from Jertje :Yes, the Mazda and Radical have a lot more options to fiddle with.

\o/
dawguk
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Another query:

As a rookie, I can't change any of the car setup, which I suppose I would expect. Using the normal Solstice, I can just alter suspension settings. Is this a limitation of the car, and do setups become more advanced when I'm in a more advanced car?
dawguk
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Pfff. These figures mean nothing! I have 2004.21 bogomips and a clflush size of 64! Ner!
Ferrari make F1 engine row threat
dawguk
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/7694009.stm

Quote : Ferrari are threatening to review their participation in Formula One if plans to introduce a standard engine for all teams go ahead from 2010.

Interesting ...
dawguk
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BTW, for those not in the know, I meant these flying saucers:



dawguk
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Quote from BattleChickenChris :A really ugly hooker.

There aren't any other kind of hookers are there?

Spare tenner, I asked this at work, with the following responses:

"a tenners worth of donkey porn"
"a hand job from a mysterious woman in a box"
"
10 quids worth of any currency that is getting stronger than the pound currently"
"a tenners worth of flying saucers"
"a tenners worth of boot licking from the queen"

personally, i'd go 50/50 on hand job and flying saucers.
dawguk
S2 licensed
Query:

As I've just started driving this simulator, I'm still using the rookie Solstice. Now official week 13 has just started there is two circuits to race. However, I only ever have the option to drive one circuit, regardless of which date I select the session from. Anybody know what this is all about? Do I need to race at least one circuit before I can race the other, or what?

iRacing.com is a nice system, but damn either the information is really hard to find, or it just doesn't exist.

Cheers chaps.
dawguk
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Quote from col :How come so many here feel hate towards Hamilton and then give irrational reasons that have little if anything to do with Hamilton e.g. 'Alonso vs Maclaren'... 'James Allen said Hamilton is the new Senna' etc.

I suspect that there is a direct correlation to age.
dawguk
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Quote from Shotglass :considering the state our primes hair was in before she got into office id say the former
http://web.ard.de/galerie/bild ... 06/powerfrauen/merkel.jpg

It's Peter Kay's half sister

dawguk
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Quote from col :EDIT:
dawguk is definately not an exception either - looking back through this thread, there is nothing he has said that is in any way extreme or unreasonable, on the contrary going by his posts in this thread he seems aware of Hamiltons faults and defends him using calm language and sound logic.
If you think he has been in some way extreme in his posts in this thread, you really need to go back and look at his them, then rethink your point of view.

Thanks. I'm not kown for possessing the vocabulary that's sometimes required to make the point that I want to. In fact, most of my posts are written, and rewritten until I can justify my comments with factual representation, in a language and tone that mostly agreeable.

People might call Hamilton fans blinkered, but when those same people are presented with facts (that can be dug up quite easily on the internet), they choose to ignore them completely. And so, the merry-go-round of insults and controversy spins longer and longer.

As such, I'm pretty tired of the discussion, as it's long since run it's course as an actual discussion. I'd hope that some people can agree to disagree, and move on with their lives, instead of letting such disagreements rule their forum existence

Quote from SamH :Glib response.

Not seen this before, had to look it up. For a while, I was thinking "what does this have to do with GTK?"
dawguk
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Quote from SpikeyMarcoD :It is apperantly to save on mayhem .

I think that this whole sim was created with that in mind - more racing, less dicking about
dawguk
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Just signed myself up for iRacing, and had a blast in the rookie Solstice for a couple of hours last night. Was surprised at how real this simulator feels, probably more so than any other sim that I've played. Well impressed
dawguk
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I'm sure that drivers would stop much more frequently in future, if they got a firm guarantee from the FIA that they won't get penalised in the next race for it

Let's be honest, Senna was indeed a gentleman and a genius, but he was also of his rocker
dawguk
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Moar semi-interesting motor insurance related stats (see attached image).

However, this probably only proves that men have more spectacular accidents than women
dawguk
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Quote :that to make ends meet they have to pay out as little as possible in every other case

Sadly, very true. In 2007 there was 10,504,000 net written premiums, 8,146,000 net claims, accounting to an underwriting result of -£263,000,000.

I guess my premiums make me angry, because I'm one of the few that hasn't taken advantage of his insurance payouts
dawguk
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Basically, if you have a prang in your motor, the insurance company will take a report on your car. If there is any single thing in the report that they would class as a modification that needed declaring that you didn't declare (tires don't make any difference, so long as you have at least four of them!), they will try to nullify your insurance.

It's one of the multitude of ways the thieving bastages make money from you, so for the sake of your pocket in the long run, declare every thing, regardless of how trivial it might be
dawguk
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What gets my back up, is some of these people that claim to be religious, spend Sunday morning praying in church / mosque / garden shed, then the rest of the week breaking all of the so called rules that their bible has laid down for them. But that's OK, because they then claim that "oh, you aren't supposed to take it LITERALLY". Until of course it suits them. Most religion is so full of hypocrisy, it's no wonder so many people have a distaste for it.

Personally, I don't understand how someone can base their life around a book that provides no evidence for it's source and that was written x thousand years ago, and assume that it's relevant in today's society.
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