Happy Birthday Jack! (Yeah, I know I'm late. But I have a good excuse - a man in a white coat asking questions why I don't feel too good ).

77
Hypothraxer
NDRC
XF-JR

Is it me or is the provided XFR setup just the hard-track setup with a wrong restriction (43 instead of 44%)?

It also somehow seems to me that the UFR is pretty tough on the front tires. I manage to do mid 1:34's but then the tires are a bit toasty.

I'm missing one 'highest climber' in the statistics. In the points-table it's correctly applied.

Does anyone have a setup for this? :b

Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

I'm very sorry for that. This connexion sucked a lot more than excepted. Everything was OK so far, so that was a real surprise to have so much problems during the race.

Yeah - a real shame. It might've been very interesting especially with everyone struggling on the tires.

Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

Oh, and what was weird is that this incident was a remake of the round 5 of the last season : same place, same push, same consequences.

Haha - you're right! Although last time it was entirely my fault - not lag.

The first race didn't go so well for me. I was pushed out by Yann's lag and found myself in 9th position. I managed to get back to 6th and was pushed out once again and was greeted with 9th once more. I was pretty surprised that I made 5th in the end.

The second race was better. I really liked the fight with Simon - even though it only lasted two laps. Looking back at Season 2 I guess I'm only really good in longer TBO races. Where's the 40 - 60 minute TBO championships?

77
Hypothraxer
NDRC
RB4

Quote from zeugnimod :

I guess you will drive circles around the other drivers in the beginner's class after your great drive in GTAL.

According to the rules he should be put into NDRC since his traveled distance exceeds the maximum distance allowed to be put into LFSBC. This also goes by the way for some other drivers who were participating in the first round as 'beginners' and were pretty fast. No offence guys: But if you know you have traveled more than the maximum distance AND drive fast why not just sign up for the NDRC? Give the beginner's a chance to win something.

The race was similar to the one last LFSBC season for me. I fell down to last place after hitting Tim (sorry again - I just couldn't handle the car after Friday's UF1 session) and then had to battle to the front. The SC was definitely too fast - it took me almost two laps to catch up and then I overtook one car before the starting line (although it was really close - LFS reports a difference of 0.00 seconds).

Let's see if round 2 is better.

Quote from felplacerad :

Thank GOD for iCON racing! (xvid, ~4MiB)

I think we should get bonus points for that!

P.S.: Are hybrid-tires on the front wheels so much better than normal tires on FE4? I realize I was the only one of the top five using normal on front. Oh the possibilities! :spin:

Updated with a BL hotlap.

I had some very nice battles at the beginning. For some reason my team mate didn't turn up so I had to finish it up (I think Tobi owes me a beer!).

Car Number: 77
Driver's LFS UserName: Hypothraxer
Class (LFSBC or NDRC): NDRC
Car Selection (XFG or XRG): XFG

Very nice skins from Concept! This will look hilarious - bunnies chasing eggs and vice versa - amazing stuff

Will wind be on or off? I know that in Qualification mode wind changes after each Quali - but I don't know if it changes in practice (i.e. if someone joins into an empty server is the wind set anew?).

Quote from Mp3 Astra :

Thanks for the info.

I've just logged in to the server. I fiddled around with the setup - started a qualifying and when I was about to enter the first turn I 'Lost connection to the host'. And I couldn't reconnect either for some time afterwards.

The ping to the server is a bit high (~230) but I'm not sure that's the reason why I get thrown off. Maybe there's some packet loss along the way.

Any hints on when the Pre-Qualy event will take place?

Quote from Dru :

I reckon that it just kicked me for being so quick

How odd - that's exactly the same thing I thought

If I remember correctly it just states that it 'lost connection'. It might be my connection but it's usually very rare and twice in 'a row' is unusual indeed. However bad things usually like to happen twice in a row

The SRS server doesn't seem to like me. It kicked me off on saturday and the same happened on sunday after some laps

The skin for the iCON team (including a render). Thanks to Tom for the egg

Out of curiosity: Will there be wind? Because the NDR-server has low wind activated at the moment.

Quote from Dizzydarryn :

from the sounds of things... i think i got lucky by being sick as a dog this weekend ;-)

To be honest the driving was a lot better than last round at Fern Bay - although this might come from the fact that Blackwood features a wider track than Fern Bay. The 'social' behaviour on the other hand was 'a little bit' off.

I hope we can see more clean driving especially since the next round is at South City and I'm pretty sure everyone knows what that means.

To be honest I thought the racing this time was better than at Fern Bay. I still got relegated to the back of the field twice and on top of that had another close call but looking at it I'd call it racing incidents - even though they're awfully close to the border (Seriously guys - I can't just disappear at the end of the first chicane).

To add to this: Sorry to L. Baker for hitting you at Race 2. For me it looked like a lag-incident - because the speed at which I hit you shouldn't really have sent you flying at all.

What really annoyed me, once again, was the lack of discipline of the drivers towards the admin. Dear lord guys - the race admin is also just a human! Calling stuff like 'omg when do we start?!' does not help at all and furthermore brings even more pressure to the admin itself.
If the whole procedure is too slow for you why don't you just go to a pickup server? Even in real life bigger events do not start and end at the exact precise time - delays just happen and those 5 - 10 minutes surely do not hurt anyone. Being patient and keeping silent would not only help the admin to sort stuff more quickly but would also make the whole atmosphere a lot more friendly. In all seriousness: At some points I was under the impression that the chat was invaded by a couple of 10-year olds.