I played it a few times on a friend's XBox... I enjoyed leaping through that archway at the top of a hill at a roundabout with bodies flying all around me. That was enjoyable.

Just saw this now, very nice work! Only comment I have is that I currently (or rather, did when I was still playing) have a cracked road texture for FE. I don't remember who made it, but I felt that it fit the feel of the circuit very, very well. Any chance at getting a version of the road with a very pale asphalt (sun-bleached, as is common in the tropical countries) with a lot of cracks and maybe a bit of tar filling some of them? Would bring the road surface to life imho.

Great work as always!

Quote from farcar :

A strange choice of screenshots, for sure. But geez there are some whiny little people yapping away in here.

The bottom line for me is that I've never played a GTA game I didn't love ('cept the first 2), and I have no doubt this will improve on GTAIV.

Can't wait.

I never got GTAIV (I was a little late to the current-gen console party and everyone was already wasted) but I'll probably pick this one up. I'm sure I'll have as much fun with it as i did with GTA3, VC and SA. And Saints Row 2 (but not 3, that was crap).

Quote from Yuri Laszlo :

Tell me how you think racing at breakneck speeds, with the car jumping with every bump of the road, and the engine overheating with every late gear change, while having the view of your surroundings skewed by a glass screen with a plastic disk for a wheel constitutes fun for you.

... How is that not fun?

Quote from Tango :

But they release content to attract new customers,but the new content is almost undriveable,and doesnt make me wanna keep racing it,they really need to knuckle down and focus on the important stuff,then release some content thats half decent,i love laguna seca but theres been next to no work done since release,fortunately Bathurst is the jewel in that sim,my fav track of all and its the best version of it yet.
Tango

Uhhm.... do you even understand the development of a video game, or the development model of pCARS? When you pay for a toolpack you are buying into a development cycle. They are giving you access to the development of the game. They're not releasing content to attract new customers, they're just developing a game and letting you watch in exchange for helping fund it.

If you want a finished game, you have to wait for it, or play something else. Clearly you have no idea what the point of what they're doing is.

Quote from Racer X NZ :

Clearly you guys are missing the point of a police state.

Also, not being in the US, based on where you two are, your use to the concept of total state control.

If you want to control the population then you want to know what their doing and who they talk to.

And people don't post stuff on Facebook ?

Point 1: the EU has already had a go at the US over Echelon regarding stealing business communication.

Point 2: this is about controlling the population when the economy collapses, not happening ? Does the word Libor mean anything ?

Point 3: when you have a 'war on terror' then everyone is a potential terrorist, the population must accept that these terrorists are after our freedom ( quote G Bush ) therefore we must sexually molest you if you fly, have checkpoints to check your papers, and you need to give up some freedoms to stay safe.

When you remember that most 'terrorist' attacks are carried out by the state for whatever twisted reason then a good question to ask is: Why ?

Why is there a 'war on terror' ?

Who benefits, who makes money, who gets control etc.

My suggestion, watch the Olympics but don't be there.

I didn't click your links, but what the hell does the 'war on terror' have to do with FB screwing up peoples' address books?

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Everything is a 'meme' now, you can create a black spot in Paint, write some rubish like 'hai spot Y U so blck'? And i*iots on the internet will laugh..

Quote from Intrepid :

...That made me laugh. Context FTW!

Quote from PaulC2K :

Also, havent seen it mentioned, but the Nordschleife/Eifelwald track isnt available to the Junior license, its Team Members+ same as the 2 country road tracks. Dont want people signing up for the €10 account only to find they cant try it unless they pay more again.

Didn't know that! (Then again, I really haven't been paying much attention...)

I'm finding myself less and less interested in pCARS these days. All I want to do now is drive the 60s F2 cars in rF. =/

Quote from Nadeo4441 :

the new vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5jUfe5jKk8

The last shot is really amazing, looks totally real. (except the rubber mirrors )

Damn, that's impressive.

I haven't given pCARS an honest go in a little while... Probably will pick it up again in a few weeks and see how the FFB has progressed. That was the major drawback it had last time I drove in it; it felt like most of the others.

rF2 with the old formula cars and LFS are still on top for FFB for me. I haven't played LFS in over a year, though, at least. I miss the FOX at SO...

I'm not sure a driver can race with only one eye; depth perception is very, very important in racing and with only one eye you essentially have no depth perception.

Quote from BlueFlame :

Not to forget Toomas Heikkennen

Was that the rally driver that shorted the jump in xGames practice? Looked like a nasty impact; hadn't realized he was injured, though.

Quote from Intrepid :

Beitske Visser fractureed her vertebre in Formula ADAC as well

I never heard about that one. That's 4 drivers with vertebrae injuries this season.

This has been a very bad few weeks for motorsports. Three drivers who've frctured vertebrae (though IIRC one was a cycling accident, not motorsports related), two more drivers hospitalized from incidents at Road America, Gronholm hospitalized after accident in the X-Games, and now this...

Glad to hear she's awake and alert. Hopefully there is no lasting damage from this.

Quote from deggis :

Here's a book that might interest you:

http://books.google.com/books/ ... rome.html?id=mN9YPDrMiAUC

^ I think that cover photo is from Reims, and what is amazing that they have left the old pits there:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/cpakmoi/2536546375/

I came across this one a few months ago, and I would absolutely LOVE to get my hands on it, but it's prohibitively expensive (IIRC copies are going for around $350USD) so I can't get it. Yet. It is in the plan, though.

Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

This site is a true gold mine.

OK, it treats of pre-WWII racing only. And there aren't a lot of pictures. But you will find plenty of public road circuits names on it.

Thanks for the link! I'll have to check it out when my boss leaves the office....

I never thought to look at Fuji (mostly because I hate every variant of I've seen with every fibre of my being), but I'll see what I can find for the old circuit! Hockenheim should have some nice stuff deep in the forest, too, and I'll look up Marlboro Raceway; never seen it. Thanks!

Thanks, mate

I've got a bunch of images from Rouen and LeMans (a little different than what I'm looking for, but still some nice corners on the old circuit). I have a little bit from the Mille Miglia but I should try to dig up some more pics from there, great suggestion

Montjuic is more urban than what I'm looking for (though still some nice spots there, too!) and I've never been a fan of Reims; all out in the middle of nowhere with no nice scenery.

I'm sure there's a whole bunch more but they're just not popping up in my head. Maybe I should look for more Bremgarten, too...

Quote from Mustafur :

Don't get me wrong though, im for open Engine Regs, and if someone gets left behind then so be it.

Apparently this might help Reliability though because they are lowering the boost, because the engine failures this year have been quite extreme(every race numerous people have to get a new one).

That is a good point; maybe that's the driving factor with the boost reduction in the first place? The P2P is just a 'you still get to use all of it.. sometimes...'

Quote from Mustafur :

actually you might of stuck somthing here, because the boost is lowered to allow the boost to previous standard boost, lotus may not get any restriction on the turbo as a form of engine equalizer.

Randy has been talking about a program to get lotus back on pace.

I've got a better idea to get Lotus on pace: Build a better engine.

I seriously don't get all this performance levelling BS. If you want your equipment to win, make it better. Simple as. Everyone has the same rulebook. All this faffing about with equalization just dilutes the sport. The whole foundation of it was the best car won, that's the point.

Quote from TypeRacing :

Images

Thanks mate, there's a couple in there I haven't come across before.

Quote from amp88 :

Schlegelmilch Photography is probably one of the best sources for the kind of images you're looking for. There are thousands of F1/Sportscar/CanAm etc shots available. The publicly viewable images are typically quite low-res, but they should provide you with some inspiration anyway. Here is the entry point. Have a look through some of the years.

Here is a list of 'street' circuits, though it doesn't appear as though you can filter by year.

Another thing you can do is to Google image search for things like "Watkins Glen 1966" and check out the sites for particular photos. You'll sometimes find a Flickr set or a Blogspot page that has many similar images.

I've probably got half of the public images from the 60s saved on my HDD in my inspiration folder LOL I love that site. I'd still like to order a print of Clark on the grid at Zandvoort for my father (Clark was his childhood hero) when funds allow me to...

Can anyone think of any other circuits for me to look up? I'm having trouble finding good pictures of Clermont-Ferrand, but I also can't think of any other similar circuits to look up; that's really my biggest hurdle at the moment.

Thanks for the help

I'm looking for images of historic circuits in the vein of Spa, Nurburgring, the original Watkins Glen Street Circuit, Clermont-Ferrand and the Solituderennen. Can anyone think of any other similar circuits? I'm looking for long, fast public road circuits (I'm aware Nurburgring isn't normal public roads, but you get the idea) from the mid 60s. I'm drawing a blank on similar circuits, but I know there are plenty more.

Images of road race motorcycle circuits are good, too, from that era; like the Isle of Man TT course and similar courses.

Anything you guys can provide (or even circuits you can name!) would be fantastic!

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Quote from mrodgers :

Hey not to worry. After about 15 years of marriage in which your children become the age where they hate you, you'll be able to have your hobbies back. I was just out flying my RC airplane this evening. Wouldn't have been able to do that 2 years ago as I wasn't just a stupid dad whom needs to be hated back then.

Teenage years are starting way too early for my kids...

What if we don't have any kids? That's more the line in life I'm aiming for... at the moment, anyways.

Stick with it, though. Your wee ones will love you again once they finish college!

Quote from Klutch :

I couldn't do that... I could deal with it if my partner wasn't into the things i was, but if it was making it hard for me to do said things...i'd go nutty.

I couldn't ever be with someone that didn't enjoy the things i do, i love it that my gf comes out and enjoys fetching me spanners/sockets.
Shes slowly distanced herself from the raving/clubbing, but she still enjoys coming out occasionaly with me.

She makes an effort, but it's only the stuff that we go out to do (I've been to more concerts since I met her than I probably had in the previous 23 years of life). My own personal at home hobby stuff is what is getting the shaft; I've only fired up a sim once in the last 4 or 5 months probably. Not that I'm a recluse who needs his video games, but damnit I love driving vintage formula cars around a wet Spa (and into the trees, when appropriate).

She's a sweetheart though.

I'd say it looks like you've achieved what you set out to do. Nice stuff!

Quote from Kid222 :

Fresh news from V8 FB page:

1997 Formula 1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve is the shock fill-in for Greg Murphy in the Pepsi Max Crew Commodore at next month’s Sucrogen Townsville 400.
The Canadian will take the wheel of the #51 Commodore and make a cameo appearance, replacing the four-time Bathurst winner in North Queensland who recently underwent surgery to fuse two vertebrae.

I think he might do okay in there.

Quote from NotAnIllusion :

Until T1, if history is anything to go by.

^ What he said.

Ugh, Scion? I want the BRZ!

And I've never liked TRM, either. I don't much like most of the Asian tracks in general, to be honest.

My pink glasses are a little more of a brown shade at the moment (I kid, I kid)

We'l eventually have to sort out this whole 'time together' thing, though. I need my damn hobbies back! It's been over a year!