As Bean0 has said - its somethnig that is a well known and well documented issue with the FJR.

You can help it by shifting at a certain rev band or by changing your setup gear ratios etc etc, but like Bean0 said the best thing to do is use the clutch.

silly question - but don't you have a team skin already - or can one of your team mates make to the skin??

Quote from henrico-20- :

how many mistakes can u make before you will get a life time ban? then i mean, slight mistakes and not like driving on purpose in the wrong direction or something like that! i had one short term ban because of a confusion between me and some other guy ( it's oke now ). I hope i won't get banned for life ever because racing on CTRA is the best there is for public online atm.

Every report is judged on its own merits - you should sleep easy..... for now

Quote from Becky Rose :

I'm not sure, I wasn't aware of any. I don't know if he was 'planning' his responce that way or it just came over like it

just came across like that nothing more :grouphug:

Quote from Becky Rose :

hey if you wonna put compulsory pitstops into CTRA then go for it, i'm not going to stop you, i'm just expressing why it wasnt done in my time at the institution and putting a reasoned argument against it.

'lol' at the institution comment

No one says that CTRA are or are not considering this atm or at all even...


This thread was made by one guy who 'asked the question' about possible compulsory pitstops in SS on Endurance days

But bearing in mind that the OP has already changed his mind by contradicting everything he wanted after you (Becky) made your original post I don't think the suggestion is gonna be going any further anyhow..




Regarding your plans for your STCC Season 2 - good luck with that and all you are 'planning' to do with it both with existing apps and future ones you have yet to make.

When you have all the full details about it then I'm sure you will post about it in the relevant STCC sub-section and everyone can go and have a read of them there

To be frank, there is no point talking about them here in the CTRA sub-forum...like you say there is no link or involvement between the 2 parties anymore and the continued and persistant inclusion of STCC information/material here in the CTRA sub-forum only ever makes the seperation harder to do and acheive........ something I'm sure you are trying to do yourself, after all STCC is your baby, lock stock and barrel.

Best Regards,


Dru.

Quote from HVS5b :

If it was up to me, it would have been permanent.

Dru - yer too generous :rolleyes:

First time anyone has called me that.... The purpose of the CTRA is to make sure that people 'learn from thier mistakes' so its only natural that people will get a second chance... what they do with that second chance determines if they are going to be about to be on the christmas card list

Quote from Becky Rose :

So drivers in a low position dont report, thus fostering a poor attitude by race leaders to those at the tail of the pack? I would encourage you to report next time regardless of your own position, it's not the position the admins care about, it's the poor drivers with bad attitude .

+1 absolutely correct

Quote from Becky Rose :

When I was in CTRA I always said forced pitstops would be over my dead body. Here's why:

The destroy the on track action.

I dont know what reasons you guys race for, but I love going wheel to wheel with other cars, I dont want to hotlap.

The moment you introduce pitstops you introduce a system for not fighting other cars, because i'm a racer i'll use the pitstop to get myself involved in as few battles on track as possible because this is the fastest way.

It's not the most fun way though.

Funny isn't it that you did have some races in your STCC league with them then isn't it........

Quote from mcintyrej :

Just seen the times.

PHEW!

you lucky dog

Quote from yeager :

I've just been catching up on GP2 races on my PVR. In GP2 they have a mandatory pitstop, no refueling, just a tyre change. I was wondering what would be the chance of doing a mandatory pitstop when the SS servers are on endurance days?

The racing on CTRA servers is of such a high quality that I think it would be a really nice challenge to time your tyre wear (esp on SO tracks) so that you can get a position on track with a cleverly timed pitstop...

Admins, what do you think? Worth a trial?

From my point of view - it would be a idea to consider. As it would be a good 'learning' curve for new racers - however If you need to change your tyres in a CTRA endurance event then I think that you maybe need to improve your setup or driving to make the tyres last

so +0.5 from me

Quote from Psymonhilly :

ROFL thanks Burnie I have a fan base

lol

its ok to have a fan base - as long as they don't keep you up the night before the race partying too hard

Quote from Dizzydarryn :

With regards to bad habits... Lucky enough/unlucky enough, in real life, we are generally limited to one race car for a season. Or at least, if you serious enough about your racing, you generally not gonna be a car slut like you can in sims. So as much as i agree with your comment, the aspect i was trying to get at, is that, one night you can be driving a real wheel drive single seater, and the next, a front wheel drive tin top.

I guess that brings about another question: If you start taking your sim racing seriously and try to stick to, say single seaters, does this hurt your ability to drive for a team, who may compete in a wide variety of racing categories?

Well, the answer to your question regarding types of cars is purely down to the team that you would be driving for..... are they a 'general team or are they specific in one type of catagory more so than others.. ie single seaters or enduro.

Also - it depends upon the reason why you did join a team in the first place.... for instance if you joined a team for purely a enduro ride/role and then spent most of your time single seatering and that affected your enduro racing - then someoen might have a case to get narked with you (so to speak)

There are a few 'hard core' or 'pro' teams in LFS which this might take place in, but generally these type of teams take them selves so seriously that they don't tend to be generally seen or posting on the LFS forums..

Most teams here on the LFS forums are a friendly bunch - there are teams of all levels and there will be ones which (if you wanted to be in a team) want you for several different reasons..... ie singles or enduro, pickup or league racing etc etc...

The world is your oyster... just don't pick a duff 'un

It also of course depends upon how much time you have to make your 'transition'

I can not just jump in a ss and be quick or rather hop from one car to another and be quick, i'm not in that 'alien class' but then if it only take a few laps than it is generally not much of a problem.

Quote from Gavin UK :

anyone willing to make the 3 skins from the psx destruction derby game??

(rookie, reaper and smoothie cars)

The first and most important question from anyone who 'might' be able to do this is for which car?

Quote from modelmotorracing :

Hear hear. I was nudged off track yesterday by an admittedly faster driver (for position, not unlapping); he'd got half way past me, moved across to take his line for the corner and clipped my front wheel in doing so knocking me into the guy on the other side of me as well. After the race he claimed "I was past you, it's your problem then". Looking at his CTRA stats, a good portion of wins, but many yellows and a poor finishing record; seems to be a common theme with fast but aggressive drivers. To my mind making a clean pass involves a duty of care to the car you passed, and not leaving him in a position where he has nowhere to go or where he could lose control and take you out further along.

you report it....we deal with it


you don't report it - we can not do anything

nice site and well done on the team with a good result at kyalami.

It's weird - with your comments about not sure of the benefits of being in a team in LFS I half expected you to be a single car outfit... so when I saw that you had 3 entred cars I was a bit set back.

Surely with 3 drivers you sohuld be sharing information, tips and setups in real life, just like we do in teams in LFS?

Regarding the points about picking up 'bad habits'.... maybe that would happen with running more 'real race laps too' It is surely all about your dedication and commitment. If you treat online racing as a simulator and a benefit for real life racing, then you should take it seriously and not allow yourself to pick up those bad habits

Quote from lars.se :

ABSOLUTLY BRILLIANT!!!!
Appreciate this LOADS!!!!
If u can, let me know how to make skins!?
Regards,
Lasse

i'm glad you liked it.

With any skin - go and get a prokit - these are available from masterskinners

then you get your reference material and go about making it

Quote from StableX :

better than nothing

depends what server it records you being on

as far as i'm away - not all the 50 confirmed their entry and some 'officially dropped' out - meaning that some reserves were promoted - Bean0 will corrdct me on that or confirm it....

... i'm sure there is no leak

Quote from -NightFly- :

well, there are also reserve drivers listed, arent they... so i can't tell if im currently in or out

not that I am aware m8 - only the 50 original drivers were given the password...

Quote from dawguk :

The guy behind me drop the finish line, then turned around and pushed me over the finish line ... haha genius ... I'll never cut my fuel so close again though

Be aware that if the guy crossed over the finishing line, then turned around, drove backwards on the circuit onto incoming traffic and pushed you across the line then he would be banned on a CTRA server. That sort of stuff is 'interfering with people in the race'.... just bear that in mind

Quick heads up.

There is only today left for round 1 pre-qualifying.

There is only 1.15 seconds between 1st and 32nd place.

http://www.conceptracing.net/babyr/live/round1.asp

For those of you who are outside the top 32 you only have this chance left to make the grid for Thursdays race.

Good Luck all.

Quote from fadeaway :

Thanks , how did i miss that topic..

too busy racing

Quote from NigelY :

Thanks for the reply Sam. If I come across the same thing again I will raise a report. I do believe that even if there's only one racer who's kept their car on the tarmac they have the right to finish their race. This is the first time I've come across this problem while racing on CTRA servers and wasn't sure what your policy was.
Nigel.

The policy - is if you report it - and we see people doing it - we will deal with it with the vengance and fury of...... oh wait... we will deal with it in our unique way :nod:

Quote from fadeaway :

Don't know really where to exacly post this, but here are our new skins in hi res, we'll be using them instead of this
These are private skins and they are to be used only by shd team members in racing online, but organizators and drivers in this league can use them in renders, videos etc.

http://forum.conceptracing.net/index.php?topic=387.0

Here you go mate - just pop them in there

Quote from BenjiMC :

Well, it's not onboard coverage but coverage is coverage. The #3 SRT Vette is having a terrible race so far.

Live text commentary if anyone wants it.

? I'm watching it live in car coverage with no problems on the link provided...