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Er... What's the point in flying this old plane again? Just for nostalgic "Look, there's an old plane" reasons?

Because this plane was one of the best at giving you the spine tingling WOW!! factor at airshows... for aviation enthusiasts like me, anyway.
Hope they are able to chuck it around the sky like they used to, i.e. like a x10 scale fighter
I saw it's second last display in the early 90's, awesome!

Replay
enjoy

Make no mistake, LFS takes effort. You have to concentrate to drive competatively, relative to pick-up-and-play console games.

When I want more interest in LFS, I join a league - but Road Sport Winter Cup has ended now
...but this is forcing you to practice/race regardless of whether you wanted it

Change it yourself you lazy arse

Quick mod of our skin for name changes

People look at me funny when I tell them I'm checking my oil level. Pretty necessary with an Alfa T-Spark engine, best to maintain it at the max for long engine life.

Has engine design advanced so much on modern cars that no-one needs check the vital fluids between 12 thousand miles? Unheard of 20 years ago and I wouldn' trust it. People assume the bonnet gets lifted only when there's a problem.

How much wind?!!
In the 15 minute qualification it did not go smoothly. I got some damage after hitting a wall, and every lap I ended up catching the same guy infront and aborting the quicklap. I was positioned at something like 12th. I had to sit by the trackside so he could get a huge distance in front and then realised I only had one more shot at it before time ran out. Despite my damage I managed to post a pb and jump up to 2nd

On the start grid and the message reads a huge 16mph wind, uh-oh.
This race was one of my most nervous and again things didn't go smoothly. I had to make sure I finished ahead of lococost so that he couldn't take 3rd place in the championship away from me, so I was very careful at the dreaded green chicane. I still made many mistakes as I tackled the wind and slipped down two positions, I didn't care, I just had to bring it home. It took me 5 laps to finally suss out the wind direction and how it affected the braking zones and lines.

Vain and DaveWS had been fighting between themselves in front so had not go too far ahead. Vain then found his legs and trotted off into the distance while I began swapping positions with DaveWS. I didn't contest his passing attempts, I just wanted to be careful. Didn't help when I outbraked myself on lap 6!

After about half way I started finding the groove. My practice had resulted in unuseable red tyres after approximately 7 laps, and this was a worry going into the race. But my conservative style meant I had perfect greens throughout. I think DaveWS then struggled with his tyres in the second half of the race, all the while I was getting faster. So I finished 3rd with Vain a distance in front and Hannu another light year in front of him. Congrats to Hannu, commanding and deserved winner.

I suppose you could just wire an external buzzer instead of the LED, though it would draw more power than an LED. It would then continuously buzz until the gear is changed or revs drop.

... then you're braver than I am.
No practice = where's the limit = hello barrier

I can't confirm for a long time so will drop out and make way for others. Sorry

Quote from Knight_Atack :

Well, I gave it a try.



Examples given on 2 colored bg (will work with basically any color), full logo and mini-logo, as well as an example of seeing the logo on a possible website.

Now those seem more in keeping with what was wanted (my opinion) and are great! I was about to suggest little cars in the lines of the first one, but saw you had done that for the website example
Maybe top down cars?

Never give up!
Even when ending up at the back of the field after lap 1 of a full grid, you're sure to make 10 places just from retirees :S

I suggest an official practice/help session on the night before a race. That's when most seem to be doing the combination.

Since the seasons don't run concurrently, a general Road Sport Cup userbar would be enough and won't need changing.

You’ve done such a good job, things should largely remain the same. This leagues great because of the organisation and the racers taking part. It’s the only place to get decent RAC/FZ50 racing. Once every two weeks is ideal for me.

It’s a pity that the numbers dwindle away as the league goes on, but lots of leagues have that problem. We were down to about half the number of original entrants in the last race.
It’s hard to keep everyone keen without incentives. I suppose the weight handicaps help there. Broadcast coverage also helps, but that’s hard to get.

You’ve arrived at a good qualifying method that doesn’t take excessive time.

The variations introduced in the winter cup were welcome, maybe have more than one double race and endurance race each. I would suggest the endurance events get more points. For the double headers, how about reversing the top # number of positions. Or this may all just complicate things.
Maybe more weather variations, they seemed to disappear.

Keep up the good work

From my post at team forum

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In the dying seconds of the qualifying I pipped hannu's time by 0.05 seconds (pb) to gain pole.

Nevertheless, hannu had a better start and was ahead after T1. Going side by side also meant Ghost_CZ had squeezed through by the next turn. I had decided on carrying 80% fuel and was on cold tyres, so wasn’t worried at this stage. I got up to speed over the next lap and regained 2nd position on lap 3, and started pulling away. Hannu was pulling away in front, I was maintaining a similar gap to 3rd. Things were looking good.

On lap 8 just before the second split my screens went black, NOOOooooo!
I initially thought ‘Not another powercut?’ but realised the lights were still on. A couple of seconds passed and I realised my PC was still on… I moved my mouse and the screens came back on. Had this been the screensaver switching the monitors off? It hadn’t happened before, I moved the mouse every few laps from then on.
The screen came back to life showing me pointing towards a barrier, I don’t know where, only now I lifted my foot off the throttle. Apologies to anyone I might have affected. Checking F10 I was amazed to see that there was no damage, however the clutch damage bar was bright red. By the time I joined the track again, the last driver had passed and my car sounded like a Yugo CVT – had the same performance also

It took 5 laps of granny driving to get the clutch temperature back down to orange where I could resume with full throttle racing. I was now over 20 seconds behind the last guy (position 17), and I reckon I lost 70 seconds for this incident. I decided to race on.

Over the next 12 laps I had passed some stragglers and had come upon –willi- in 12th. It took 3 laps to get past him, despite my speed here I can’t pass for toffee!
After a quiet few laps I next caught Dan and Bean0 fighting with each other. It’s not easy passing those FZ50 lardarses and I must admit to getting frustrated. After passing Dan I was next trying on Bean0, but with Dan right behind. At one point I aimed to go left of Bean0 approaching a corner but he closed the door at the very last second, I had to stab the brakes to avoid a collision. So Dan bumps me because of this and I’m fishtailing for control while he takes the position back. Enough of this, time to pit and get that extra fuel.

Rejoining in 12th on lap 29 and I quickly get back to 10th position. Then another long spell of clear track and quick times. I don’t know if I had picked up any engine damage in my incident, but the times were not too far off. On Lap 40 I caught Dan again and made the pass stick since Bean0 wasn’t immediately in front. Past Bean0 on lap 42, and thought I would end up 6th. But I was catching [GR]Evolution, so there was a chance. Lap 47 he went wide at the chicane and I did an ambitious dive to the right, unfortunately we swapped paint which spun me. I thought I would have had another lap to try but hannu had just lapped me so it ended there, with 6th position for me.

A disappointment for all my effort, but not bad I suppose following the incident.

Can we have clarification on how we should consider the pit entry and exit? Should we avoid crossing any pit lane lines, or only on the exit?

I can imagine there will be close side by side action coming on to the start/finish straight. Are we allowed to stray into the pit entry lane if we're not coming into the pits? (In my LFS the pit entry lane suddenly appears when I'm almost upon it)

Quote from NorwegianViper :

Dewushka....anyone remember her?
probably the fastest female driver in LFS evah
Think she was a mouser as well? c`mon fordi...u prolly remember...

Ah yes, I remember getting owned by Dewushka (translates as little girl?)

I've got the stupid situation where the wireless connection for a second PC cannot stay connected, unless I switch encryption to WEP. It's a strong signal, I've tried many channels, but WPA and WPA2 encryption disconnect all the time.

Worth a try for you?

The wall plug thingies...
There's a chance that several houses, or half a street are on the same phase (fed from the local substation from 1 of 3 phases). These devices transmit high frequency signals down them, I've also seen something similar for sending video signals around a house.
The tricky part is finding out if the neighbour is on the same phase. I wonder if they come with encryption/password?

I nursed mine by bathing them in warm yaks milk every second lap, while easing their tension away with a lode stone massage. All the while gentle whale music was played in the background.

Then it was back on for a thrashing trying to keep up with the leaders! They lasted

Things didn’t go well yesterday. My car broke down and is now left with the mechanics. And then last night a short power failure seems to have killed my computer’s PSU.
So, I will try my best to rush and get one after work, and fit it in time for tonight’s race. Apologies in advance if I don’t make it.

I've got it programmed to a button on the G25 shifter.
If you want it on another controller; assign a spare keyboard key to handbrake within LFS (if not already defaulted to one). Use profiler software to assign the joystick/gamepad button to emulate the keyboard press.

Oh this is torture on the tyres, how am I going to last 21 laps?

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I CLICK THE ACCELERATE BOTTEN AND PUSH THE PEDEL BUT NOTHING HAPPENS

Have you changed the option for accelerate/brake from button to axis? (If I remember correctly)

Then
Options > Controls > Axis
Click on Accelerator, press the gas and watch which axis is moving (bottom right) then click on it to assign.

Congrats to both of them.
The Road Sport Winter Cup grid is looking decidedly yellow!