Quote from jrd.racer :

Noo more Solstice bashing. Its easy to drive and you don't even need any setup changes. Just run the Baseline.

on another note, I need to go test the Mx5.

Have you driven it on this build? It's not easy to drive any more.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

I used to love it. Now I find it handles like a drunk chick on a Friday night

This. It's now as bad as it was good. The MX-5 now though. Wow. It almost handles like it's in LFS <3

Quote from Klouczech :

Tire update is horrible. Cadillac can do one lap and that the tires are gone....
MX5 is so boring now

At least I can actually drive the MX-5 now...... But what have they done to the Solstice?! It's awful! Why do they fix things that aren't broken

EDIT: And oh good god the Street Stock. I imagine the rookie races are going to be CARNAGE. (not that they weren't already!)

GoPro mount arrived so now I can actually do stuff with it!

Highlights of indoor karting yesterday.

Quote from Bmxtwins :

Redknapp set that the players at QPR are over paid. So I think the problem started well before him.

He's just bought Samba for £12.5M and is paying him £100k a week

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

Meh, I guess my wheel settings are crap, just doesn't feel right even if I run that configurator. I'm 1.2sec slower @ Laguna with the Stang than 1+ year ago. I have a crappy MOMO Racing with 240° rotation and I couldn't find anything on the iR forums how to set it up correctly. The "worst" wheel people are using is a G25.

Lock to lock range: 240°
Limit lock to lock range: 360° - set by the configurator, but later I tried 540 and 900. I have no idea what this is.

When turning the wheel like ~ 45° almost nothing happens, while at ~ 60-90° it turns like mad. So it's not linear at all.

Can we swap? My wheel is quite old and so has a really dodgy deadzone in the centre - it's dead easy to fix in LFS but in iRacing I can't drive anything even vaguely fast without me wiggling from side to side down the straights. Even in the SRF it's bad

EDIT: And how it thinks I have a 340 degrees lock to lock I've no idea......

Quote from logitekg25 :

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Lad.

Quote from Boris Lozac :

How it's decided who's the host in these English cups, do they flip a coin?

It's whoever comes out the bag first

0.59KB/sec

No, wait, now 0.00KB/sec!

Quote from Bmxtwins :

I know people who have had similar issue. Havent heard about it on the iPhone though (iPhone> Android)

Because the iPhone doesn't have an SD card...?

Is it just me or is that the world's worst attempt at a Photoshop

Had lots and lots of snow here in Bristol

Was Charlotte on the Carb Cup schedule before??

Quote from BlakjeKaas :

Sure, here are some BBT comics.

Quote from vipex123 :

As a result of the DSQ's there are now cars starting the race who are up to 4 seconds off the pace in qualifying alone. On a fas narrow track this should be real fun! Especially as those in question have already been crashing into / causing considerable inconvenience to those practising on the server. I know rules are rules but prehaps a loss of fastest lap, or even a grid penalty would be more appropriate to those who broke the rules rather than a mass DSQ? My two cents.

My 2 cents: I think the penalty should probably have been a loss of all laps from an illegal pit exit until a legal one was done, but I doubt deko would have assumed so many people would do it (I did lol rather reading the results!!). I can't really see a problem with him enforcing the rule as it was, I mean it's in the thread and I assume he would put it in the PM? If this whole thing had reduced the field down to 10 cars or something then yeah, sure, but it's still at 28 now which isn't bad

As for the "n00bs", report them and I'm sure deko will investigate

And on a rules/precedent front, I'm sure this has happened before where there hasn't been a full field after pre-qualifying, haven't people who didn't pre-qualify been allowed onto the grid in championship order? And so in theory as these people "didn't pre-qualify", those at the front of the champ (#58 & #65 as far as I can tell) still in theory be allowed to race?

Having read it again I think if you buy the "old" cup car in the 90 days before the "new" cup car release date you get all your money ($11.95) back. I think. It's not worded that well

Quote :

As far as price of the cars, we want to be as fair as possible, but we still have licenses to honor with the manufacturers along with the costs associated with cars that we need to recoup. Our plan is to sell both cars at normal prices of $11.95. However, if you own the existing Chevy class A cup car, on or before February 25th, we will give you $6 of credit (basically 50%). If we release the new car before the 25th, we will also move the date up to the day before the car releases for getting the credit. Additionally, if you bought the car in the last 90 days from February 25th or the date we end up with, we will give you full credit, $11.95 instead of the $6 (so you essentially received the old cup car for free if purchased in last 90 days). Again, the Ford Fusion will simply be a new car at normal price of $11.95 but you don’t need it to drive in the series or own it to still see it out on track if you own only the Chevy and vice versa.

Worth pointing out that, at the minute (although apparently they are fixing this "soon"), if you want a hosted race with the new cup car you're gonna have to fork out for both.......

Last edited by J@tko, Wed, 9 Jan 2013 20:40. Reason : nvm

They're also now bringing in some new cars:

NASCAR 2013 Car

We can have either a Ford or Chevy (!!!!!) and they race together against each other (!!!!!!!), but they share the "same physics". And you have to buy them separately..... i.e. pay for the same car twice...... subtle edit: is the difference between the cars in NASCAR really so small that you can model them as the same??

Kia Optima
Same deal as with the Caddy, so hopefully it'll be free. FWD 274bhp. Races in the class below the Caddy in whatever RL series it races in. Some American series with lots of letters IIRC.

Courtesy of Chris Ford.......

http://www.101greatgoals.com/g ... uarez-scores-v-mansfield/

Great draw for the FA Cup 4th Round:

Norwich City v Luton Town

Oldham Athletic v Mansfield Town or Liverpool (play on Sunday)

Macclesfield Town v Wigan Athletic or Bournemouth

Derby County v Blackburn Rovers

Hull City or Leyton Orient v Barnsley

Middlesbrough v Aldershot Town

Millwall v Aston Villa

Leeds United or Birmingham City v Tottenham Hotspur

Brighton & Hove Albion v Swansea City or Arsenal

Crystal Palace or Stoke City v Manchester City

West Ham United or Manchester United v Fulham or Blackpool

Southend United or Brentford v Chelsea

Reading v Sheffield United

Huddersfield Town v Leicester

QPR or West Brom v Sheffield Wednesday or MK Dons

Bolton or Sunderland v Cheltenham or Everton

Quote from matijapkc :

Isn't it shut up and take my money? /meme nazi

:doh:

Quote from Sobis :

it is

P.S. J@tko, I understood all of those. That 'huh?' was just my reaction to them

Oh I see I think I was still slightly asleep when I wrote that this morning anyway

Quote from Sobis :

Huh?

They're all memes, but shit-ified. e.g. the last one is "take my money and shut up"......

Congratulations guys! I don't think the little 15 year old me could ever have foreseen what this would eventually turn into. I still remember getting this PM from a strange American demo racer with a weird username asking if he could help me out with this league I was setting up. Probably the best thing I ever said yes to! (I should get out more.....) Big thanks to JP for keeping the ship going (especially with the "help" he has ..... ) and to everyone else for supporting in whatever way they do, whether by commentating, replay checking, racing or spectating. I wish I could help out/race a bit more these days but sadly I just don't have the time

Some of my personal NDR highlights:

"INSIDE ELLIS!"
Many, many iTCC races
Summer Event a few years back where Rik de Jong got a puncture with 10 mins to go and won it at the last corner.
Some great KY500 finishes
So many amazing commentary moments

Here's to many more years and many more amazing moments. Cheers guys!

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

Make sure you post some footages.

I shall try! Most of my karting this year will probably be indoor, but I've got at least a bit of outdoor at some point. And gliding depends on how much money is taken up on the former.....!

EDIT: Oh yeah, and I suck at karting :P

Last edited by J@tko, Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:20.

Quote from Hahmo :

Oh and tw@tko, I wanted one of those. Gibe pls?

Not if you call me that

Got it mainly for karting, but hopefully can use it for some gliding too