Quote from mcintyrej :

I feel like a dunce for getting it wrong but I blame my source.

http://www.f1-grandprix.com/records.html

8th one down on Drivers Record, white box. It says 6?

Unlucky, but thats what happens when you trust an F1 site run by a woman

Wikipedia is your friend

Quote from Dajmin :

Hold up, hold up, hold up.

You just posted all of that massive amount of text (well written though it may be) just to suggest f*cking tuning options?!

Quote from Zen321 :

I didn't post all that massive (well-written may it be) amount of text to ask (or beg as it seems in your mind) for lonely tuning options.

The idea of my post, and I'm sad you didn't understand it is to give more flexibility to the car system and to the events player/organisation can set-up.

Aye, more flexibilty by adding hundreds of tuning options?
No thanks.

I don't understand, that seems to be pretty much all your OP is? Asking to be able to change engine displacement, exhaust diameters etc.

It's a more coherant request than we normally get for these things, but still *insert burning fruit of your choice*

Quote from RocksGt :

........ and I'm buying the Ferrari chassis that it's really the best quality / prize combination at this moment

Seems like the right thing to do, although in your position maybe worth considering a McLaren chassis and leaving another 7M to spend on engine/drivers?

You've done really well tho to be top of the sub-league and have a whopping great bank balance

I'm sitting with 10.5M in the bank (soon to be 13M after the bonus money comes in) and I'm not spending anything this time. Heres hoping that Honda (:schwitz and RBR (:nod have a good weekend!

Looks like showers forecast for qualifying (30% chance) and more likely for the race (60% chance). Should be fun!

Bonus question time again folks

ps - easier one this time...........

Last edited by HVS5b, Tue 17 Jun 2008, 15:36.

I was on most nights for a fair period trying to gain my Platinum licence on the CTRA servers.

Since then (2 months?) I've scaled it back a bit, plus the summer is here as theres plenty more options of what to do of an evening rather than sit in front of the computer!

So thats every team played once and us punters have had the chance to see what kind of form everybody has brought into the championships.

So far it's kind of gone to form in all the matches. The only slight surprise was France looking so poor and the beautiful way in which the Netherlands dismantled Italy (I'm a 1/4 Dutch so I know where my allegiances lie!).

So how have the teams shaped up, imo obviously

Austria - no comment, don't want to offend anybody from that lovely country, but - lol

Croatia - viable winners until Eduardo was crocked. Lovely to watch and one of the more charismatic managers. Probable semi-finalists.

Czech Rep - struggled a bit in thier opening match, will be interesting to see if they have more to offer. Not too good up front.

France - abysmal display. Clearly had too many non-Leos in their squad. Glad to see their arrogance shattered and Domeneche given a proper wake up call.

Germany - very solid performance against their big rivals, and the strikers look deadly. They will take some stopping, and probably won't be.

Greece - was that for real last night? Shockingly poor and negative. Can only hope they bog off home with a grand total of nil points.

Italy - were my tip to win before a ball was kicked. Looked their age and no real creativity in midfield. Still no mugs, dismiss at your peril.

Netherlands - come on you Dutchies! Too early to get excited, but on that sort of form the Germans might have a proper challenger.

Poland - not even the holy goalie will be enough to save them from an early bath. Expected more from them but it was a tough opener.

Portugal - strangely soft defensively looking despite the individuals on show. Will Ronaldo spark? As long as they stop this 'rolling around as if shot' malarky whenever a tackle comes in. Cringeworthy at times.

Romania - might have been in with a chance of progress outwith the Group of Death.

Russia - harsh for them to lose their main playmaker before the tournament, then to run into the Spanish in that form. Hiddink is no dafty though, can still qualify from the group stages.

Spain - Wonderful display last night against Russia, defence remains suspect tho. If they lose Puyol they are as good as out.

Sweden - typical Swedish team with toughness and guile throughout the pitch. Maybe not enough in midfield in the long run.

Switzerland - valiant triers, a step up in class from their co-hosts. Will still be be lucky to grab a point before the end of the group stages.

Turkey - not got the class to annoy the big guns, looking forward to their grudge match against Switzerland.

So in summary, I'd love to see the Dutch do the business, but those damned Germans are just too good at winning! Honourable mention to the Iberian nearly men.

TBH, I'm not a LH fan but I was getting ready to eat a bit of humble pie when Louise caught him for a short interview after the incident. I was expecting him to totally own up to his own ineptitude and offer profuse apologies to all those concerned, namely Raikonnen.

I mean there was no other way he could come out of that situation with any sort of credibility.

But no. Instead all we heard was "it wisnae ma fault, these things happen"

What a complete fud, but glad to say my judge of charachter remains fairly solid

nb - double lol at Rosberg for going into the back of Hamilton. I was totally RAFPMSL when that happened

No problem with over-gripping or tense legs etc, but I find I tend to hold my breath and only inhale/exhale during the straights

Makes for some weird noises on teamspeak plus others can usually tell when I'm on a good lap!

Splendid <rubs hands in anticipation>

Hi Dougie

I'm one of Turbo Dads racing buddies and just wondered if you are getting on ok or needed any additional input?

TBH, I'm also just being nosey b*gger and looking for a wee update before I disappear on my hols tomorrow

Thanks again for all yer help in knocking this up

Cheers,

Rooster

Welcome onboard fellow countryman

Hope you enjoy the ride, c ya on track soon

Quote from vlado_skopsko :

I wish I could understand your high style of writing. sorry but my english is not at that level.....

Don't worry, you're not the only one

Quote from DevilDare :

well i do have a wheel, but i never use it, my mouse/keyboard setup is so better. I cant drive for crap with a wheel, dunno why.

Thats so wrong

Take a leaf from Mr Lampkins book and make an effort!

Quote from Scawen :

That will be the main improvement in Y21.

It's already working in my version and producing good a frame rate increase when there are a lot of cars on the screen.

I just need to update it in the best way to minimise pit-out glitch and memory usage. Iin my version now every car generates its own subobjects and the hardware version of them so pit-out glitch would be a bit worse than Y20. I plan to make it better than Y20 by sharing subobjects between cars in the same way that there is one global helmet mesh shared between all drivers. I'm also looking at improving the wheel drawing system and using hardware meshes for the non-rubber parts as that is now the worst remaining slowdown on cars.

Fantastic, sounds like you may have extended the useful life of my computer by another couple of years

The pit-out glitch has never been so noticeable as it is just now (running Y18) and anything which can be done to improve this would be most welcome

Not too long ago, I found the limiter on my RX8 at 150mph. Beat my previous PB by 16mph

You sound like someone who is complete fanboi about Hamilton. Probably set your position at the beginning of the year that he walked on water, and are now thinking of a million excuses as to why his great performances are not that great, just so you don't make yourself look like a fool. If Hamilton had done what Kimi did nobody would be that surprised.

Please, stop the AS references........ are you related to james Allen?

What about the dozy pair (HK and NH?) who refused to unlap themselves from behind the 2nd safety car and held the race up by a couple of laps?

Their teams need a boot up the jacksy for that blatant time wasting

All in all that was a pretty darn good race to watch, despite the Hamilton/Senna BS live-stream from, from, from........words fail me

Too much was made of McLarens 'outstanding' strategic work (flamin' obvious after LH's puncture) and Ferrari's lost gamble that the rain would return.

Would have loved to see RK score his first victory, I like his style. Hopefully it won't be too long, but McLaren are usually strong in Canada.....

Quote from scoobyrbac :

Urban Terror and Postal 2

Is the latter the long awaited sequel to Paper Boy?

About bl**dy time too

Some nice links here chaps, now to see if any of them can be DL from work......

Quote from Gil07 :

Senna this, Senna that!

Cringeworthy

Quote from Paranoid Android :

I officially hate Raikonnen...I would have scored mad points with Sutil and Force India AND the Ferrari. He ruined it!

Funnily enough, all I could think about was the people who had FI or AS in their fantasy team when Raikkonen ploughed into him, lol I think there was a nanosecond of sympathy somewhere.....

No complaints here, moved all my choices up one place and top scorer in our sub-league this week

Got the standard 3 bets correct, I see a trend developing here!

Quote from zeugnimod :

Did anyone else answer all 3 yes/no bonus questions with yes?

Snap

Went for LH to qualify in PP and win the race too, heres hoping

Upgraded team now reads:

Driver 1 - Button
Driver 2 - Barrichello
Chassis - Honda
Engine - RBR
Fuel - Ferrari

C'mon

Quote from Bean0 :

Bit of a regional one...

Girl goes into a hairdressers in Ashington and says "Can you give me a perm?"

"Okay" says the hairdresser.
"I wondad lurnley as a clood..."

Lol, another one too good to be in this thread

Quote from Mazz4200 :

Thanks for the heads up Hyper

@ Mr Cliffe, it's not as hard as you might think tbh. If you know the track on the right hand side then that narrows it down considerably. Then just find a site with profiles of all the tracks, and have a look at the profiles of those second tracks, and there's your answer. Quite simple really

p.s i don't wanna say to much, otherwise Mr HSBC'V5TBH aka Mr Rooster will shout at me and call me nasty names

[Edit] anyone heard the weather forecast for this coming weekend ?

Who me?
Grumpy auld man before my time

A couple of excellent weather sites for ya
http://www.metcheck.com/
http://www.mwis.org.uk/areas.php

the top one does Monaco for the weekend.....

ps - aye, not the easiest bonus question so far........

Well, for me, on the basis that we are the target audience i Racing has missed the board altogether, nevermind hit a bullseye.

No it's not cost prohibitive, but it's certianly not cheap either.

I agree with many others that the principle of renting the game does not sit well with me at all, but if it turned out to put sliced bread to shame then I reckon a lot of us would swallow our principles and get stuck in there.

The biggest issue for me is the track/car selection - simply too much emphasis on ovals and a poor selection of vehicles.

On that basis, without a free demo to tempt me, I aint going near it.

Re: Super Aguri - I wonder if this means you get at least two guaranted race finishes?