Valtteri Bottas, 18 years old from Finland.

Third place in the Formula Renault Northern Euro Cup, best rookie. Five wins from his last six Formula Renault races, including 3 wins and a second from four Formula Renault UK Winter Cup 2007 races. He also tested a Formula Renault World Series car and was fastest by 0.6 seconds at Paul Ricard. He'll probably be racing in Formula Renault UK next year, if he does well there, Formula 1 is a likely destination within the next few years! He was also recently named Finnish Young Driver of the Year, with Raikkonen winning the main award.

Racing Profile / LFS Profile

Edit: There's an onboard video on youtube showing Vale testing the Formula Renault last year in Finland.

Last edited by joshdifabio, Wed, 2 Jan 2008 23:25.

Quote from Victor :

... Your list of updates seems good, though i'm not sure about racer profiles. ...

I'd like to be able to get personal data (real name, DoB, nationality etc.) too, though I can understand if you are bothered about possible privacy issues. The data is already publically available to anyone on LFS World though, so maybe there's some other reason you wouldn't want to do it?

When someone is under the WR the comparison is bugged.

FO8 @ SO2 (Sprint 1) - WR 43.21

Hawku has done 42.22 online and LFS World says "WR-diff -0:00.". Evans has done 42.36 online and LFS World says "WR-diff -0:00.150".

FBM @ AS3 (National) - WR 1:55.55

MarcG has done 1:55.44 online and LFS World says "WR-diff -0:00.890".

If you add 1 second to the comparison times they are almost correct, although Hawku's time with FO8 @ SO2 is totally bugged. I don't know what happens when someone is 1 second or more below the WR time.

Edit: Hawku just did 42.06 which is 1.15 seconds below the WR time, LFS World now says "WR-diff -0:99.850".

All you should be doing to compare the times is:

1) Convert both times to milliseconds
2) Subtract the WR time from the PB time
3) Convert the new number to mm:ss.th format

It seems that your function is over-complicating things.

Last edited by joshdifabio, Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:36.

Quote from duke_toaster :

I'd agree with you there if there was not one problem - what about smaller nations that can only get two or three drivers, all of which are committed.

I'm not that keen on MHR either, it also means no RallyX. Maybe RB4 at BL Rallycross would be a great addition.

What about countries with only one committed driver? I know it sounds harsh but I think it that if countries can't get at least 4 or 5 drivers then they aren't ready to compete. There should be enough suitable countries to sustain the competition.

I agree that there should be at least two drivers per country in each race.

I also think that, unlike with BoTT, there should be a limit to the number of times each driver can race. It shouldn't be possible for a country to just use the same driver(s) in every race.

LFSWorld Username: joshdifabio
would like to run for the position of nation's manager: no
Skills: Driver

Germany and Finland are probably the two strongest nations in the LFS scene. Is anyone going to enter them?

Quote from The General Lee :

You need FOX/Aston Club & FBM/South City Chicane.

lol?

Quote from anttt69 :

I was forced to teleport to pits as I was on my wheels but facing a barrier (no reverse). I cant see how starting a lap down would cause any problems?

Rules are rules. You cannot instapit and then rejoin!

I really enjoyed the races which I took part in, so thanks a lot for the organisation Arrow, Fusion, Mercury and anyone else who was involved.

I've run a relatively small league in the past, and that could be stressful at times. To run a league with up to 90 drivers participating on one night so smoothly is a great achievement .

Quote from Arrow. :

Points are done.

Stay tuned for Season Presentation thread for discussion.

Well done, better late than never .

Thanks to Sermilan and dodo, I've now got the correct server 2 qualifying replay online.

That server 2 quali replay appears incomplete. I'll try and obtain a complete replay asap.

spdoRacing

Driver #1 - spdoHuppis (Hawku)
Driver #2 - spdoJosh (joshdifabio)

We are Qualifying on Server: 1

Thank you admins .

Quote from sidi :

It was on as i tried afew laps offline first but afaik it will only add to the server side 80kg if it was set at anything over the 80kg,if i'm wrong in this then i'm stupid and have been running with to much weight.

Nah you're correct.