Quote from Mikkel Petersen :

Anybody who knows why the have chosen the 5-door, when the 3-door would be lighter and a have higher degree of torsional stiffness? (i don't know if 'torsional stiffness' is the right word as all my engineering books are in danish.)

Super2000 rules state that the car must be 4 or 5 doors. The only exception is the Volvo C30 that (as far as I know) only comes in a 3 door version.

17/21

Had a quick go earlier (first race in LFS for quite some time) and was good fun, KY National just calls for chaos as it narrows down into the twisty stuff though!

Luckily my girlfriend hates it as much as I do, she still forced me to get her a card though... £1.75 isn't bad considering one of my friends spent £35 on his girlfriend, I've got off very lightly.

I just have her birthday to contend with next week now.

Foo Fighters - Erase/Replace

No need to brag...

I have 2 words.

You idiots.

I would use stronger words between the 2, but there's young people on here.

People like you are the reason MY car insurance is so damn high (yes I know OP is in Norway but I'm generalising here). You're the reason I get generalised in the 'boy racer' stereotype just because I'm a 'young driver'.

Feeder - We Are The People

Quote from Jakg :

Except I was driving on the Ultimate petrol back when it was "normal" and using the cheaper stuff when it was Icy - so Tesco Ordinary is the clear winnner.

Still doesn't make it a fair test as road conditions are completely different.

Quote from Jakg :

So far with the three runs i've done, I've gotten 36.1 and 36.2 MPG fro Tesco Ultimate, and 35.4 MPG from Tesco Ordinary - however this was during the snow and ice and my car has been idling a lot waiting for the car to warm up / de-ice so it's probably an under-reading. Based on this it's 11.03p per mile on Ordinary and 11.57 per mile on Tesco Ultimate.

Wait until the snow/ice has gone, then you'll have more accurate readings, weather conditions have more to do with fuel consumption than the fuels themselves I think. For instance I use half a tank (ish) a week in my Focus, this week i've used just under 1/3 a tank - driving same distance.

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Changed:

Radiohead - Black Star

Foo Fighters - Stacked Actors

According to this they could be using the new S60! :eek:
http://www.touringcartimes.com/news.php?id=3100

I must say, though, I'd never seen Jason Plato as a Volvo driver, he doesn't strike me as that type.

Quote from Jakg :

WTF is with the UK insurance - I can be insured on a BMW 316i from 1995, or a 316i from 2000 for exactly the same price as I can on a Proton Wira, but if I want to drive a 2.0 Omega which is slower it's £900 more.

Tell me about it... It was £120 more to insure me on a 1.25l Toyota Yaris (55 plate) than it was to insure me on a 1.6l Ford Focus (03 plate). But that might be value of the car that has more to do with it.

I'll shut up now.

Quote from Timdpr :

Oh, and mr x, see if you can get a group of people attending the Historic Rally to go and...erm...say something to the claimants while you're there!

Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=56260629746

Historic Rally event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=62481735147

Protesting in a 'violent' way isn't the way of doing it as it'll end up getting the circuit into more trouble, it has to be peaceful but it still has to show that the circuit has support and people care about keeping the track alive.

Bad news...

http://www.thenorthernecho.co. ... rcuit_loses_noise_appeal/

It's the start of the end for Motorsport in the UK.

I'm attending the Historic Rally this Sunday, and I urge anybody else who can make it to go too to show support for the circuit.

The appeal for Croft is being heard today. Lets hope for some good news.

Quote from TiJay :

Sensible Idea:

If you want something that does 0-60 in sub-11 seconds, gets 35-40mpg (which is good!) and is cheap to insure, get a 1.6 Ford Focus. Go for the Zetec model as it has the "sporty" suspension setup, unlike the LX and Ghia.

You really do not need anything quicker, and you won't get better fuel economy without buying a diesel.

I'd agree with that. I have a 2003 (03 plate) Focus LX 1.6 - cost me £5,000 about 1 1/2 years ago. I'm 20 now, insurance (fully comp) cost me £750 (1 year NCB), but with multi car (Admiral) it's £600. Last year with no NCB it was £900 with Elephant.

The suspension on the LX isn't bad at all (I've never driven a zetec so couldn't tell you the difference), it's still great around corners and brilliant fun to drive. Nomatter how hard I drive it ('eco-drive' or full revs drive), I get about the same fuel milage to a full tank (20-30 miles difference). It's a great car for country lanes and motorways, comfortable and very easy to drive. To a full tank of fuel (which is about £40 at current prices) I can get around around 350 miles.

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Music
Windows Media Player - I like the layout of it, plus it goes into the taskbar
WinAmp - Better organised library than WMP, use it just as much
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Kaspersky Internet Security - Best Internet Security I've used - I get it free from work too.
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware - very good anti-malware program

IM/Chat
X-Chat (IRC) - used for IRC on #liveforspeed and also for dSRC too.
Windows Live Messenger - I like it, better than any of these WLM imitate programs
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Web
Mozilla Firefox - There is no better internet browser out there
uTorrent

Games
RACE07 + STCC Addon - on a full 25 car server in an organised community there is no better sim apart from one listed below.
rFactor - see above
Football Manager 2009 - I am a football fan
Left 4 Dead - Brilliant after a stressful day at work.

Other
Photoshop - Very powerful, and CS4 is by far the easiest to use.
WinRAR - File archiver - can extract pretty much any archive with it.

Last edited by mr_x, Wed 21 Jan 2009, 12:54.

Quote from DeKo :

theres a big thread about this on PistonHeads, with the court case transcript making for very interesting reading. It appears that the claimants, a family, are a mother, father and daughter. interestingly, the daughter is the ex-wife of the circuit owner, and she moved her family there on the premise that she was going to work at the circuit. After going through a messy divorce, it now looks like the ex-wife is just claming as much as she can from the defendant, and fuck everybody else.

Sueycide_FD, your wrong, they moved into the house in a period of inactivity for croft (croft only started motor racing proper in '97).

Yep was going to post that too.

Seems 3 people are trying to ruin the enjoyment of hundreds of thousands of people... nay, millions of people every year. (People who watch on TV etc. etc.)

Somebody created a group on facebook that's growing by the second:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=56260629746

I'm sure he signed up to Syncro-Racing (rfactor/race07 community i admin) asking to play LFS with us via pm to another admin (our website clearly doesn't state LFS anywhere on it apart from in the history) and he was 14 or 15 years old* or something around that age... 9 years racing LFS, starting when he was 5 or 6 AND before LFS existed... Not bad!!

*I may be wrong

Radiohead - There There (The Boney King of Nowhere)

mmmmmmmmmmm cheeeese

Feeder - Descend

Sitting back I only wish
Today will turn out fine
And wash away the stain
The poison in my eyes
What do you recommend
I feel my life descending
I'm falling out of reach
Catch me as I bleed (again).
If I could be all by myself
I could be me
If you could see, live with my pain
The thoughts that I keep.
I hate the way they are
Their patronising thoughts
Tried to get inside my head
Ask the question I have read
But one thing makes it hard
Feel so fragile as I cry
So confused yet so alive
So abused the system lied
You lied to me.
If I could be all by myself
I could be me
If you could see, live with my pain
The thoughts that I keep.
Alone...alone.
Hands appeared around my neck
Felt so hard to breathe I stared
As my focus turned to haze
I could see them.
If I could be all by myself
I could be me
If you could see, live with my pain
The thoughts that I keep.
If I could be all by myself
I could be free
If you could see, live with my pain
The thoughts that I keep
Alone, alone, alone.