Quote from TFalke55 :

Sign ups tracked under http://spreadsheets.google.com ... beK1HHq0g&output=html

Simon Murphy is from the country of GBR, not USA.

Something Awful Racing skins

Last edited by pik_d, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 17:39.

Team Name: Something Awful Racing
Number: 24
Car: FZR
Drivers:
pik_d, S. Rose, USA
phatdragonx, R. Young, USA
tmehlinger, T. Mehlinger, USA
wilko868, C. Wilkinson, ENG

Quote from Bmxtwins :

How do we know if it's under the benchmark time?

Look here. For the two hotlaps you have uploaded the times under "Distance to benchmark" are green, and the percentages are less than 100%. Also you can read that your time in the "Laptime" column is quicker than the time in the "Benchmark (103% of WR)"column.

If you want to know what the benchmark is before setting a lap (but can't work a calculator) you can look at Criminal-Team's stats as he's done all 940 hotlaps. You can than sort using the drop down menus in the "Display selection:" part of that page.

Was it a bunch of road cars?

Quote from PMD9409 :

Heh, don't feel too bad, they don't even have the official 250 results out yet...

Everyone involved lost.

Something Awful Racing
Car #19: Randy Young
Car #22: Spencer Rose
Car #60: Dennis Lind
Car #76: Simon Murphy


If it never changes do we have to re-post it for each round?

Last edited by pik_d, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 17:21.

NDR.Timo : actually, I'll rename the race to the "Phil Diaz Girls aloud Kyoto GP"

please let this be true

n3rd

Quote from pearcy_2k7 :

Wait, so you got 3 DT's, started 26th and still won? Who were you racing? AI's?

Well 2 of the DTs were before a SC. They still mattered sure, but a lot of what they lost was wiped away.

Isn't that just repeating what I said with more words? :P

I'll do it and I think everyone who attended SSL's first event last night will agree that sa| knows how to organize a league.

I'll do it for free too. No safety cars and everyone gets a sticker (though some may be offensive if you're a twat).

Quote from Alec01 :

You missed my point bud but I think I know what you are getting at.

Obviously not everyone on here is a silly little dork

Oh believe me I know you were saying that the forums are filled with immature people of all ages. My point is that the more mature people probably/usually stay out because of all the filth.

Quote from Alec01 :

Jeez that old? To look at most of the threads you would think everyone on here was an angry little teen or something.

Two things to think about:

The most vocal group is not necessarily the majority.

LFS has been around for the better part of a decade. People who started playing as teenagers are now in their 20s (myself included, I was 19 in December of 2006, though obviously that's not the best example).

Heretic! There will always be room for the Hotlap-Endurance league.

Quote from PMD9409 :

If it stays around.

Assuming it doesn't collapse due to negligence from the admins the top GTAL guys will do MoE and a new crop of noobs will take their place in GTAL. It may not have the same faces but I don't see why that means it'll die.

Quote from Bmxtwins :

EQ its me again. After you fixed my LFSei I was raicng ovals with [AA] Bud
(UKMANUK) and my LFSei went from like 301 to 292.9... 2nd time its been reset

Happened to me once too. I figured out it was that my hotlap section wasn't being counted. I can only assume the server hiccuped when it was retrieving that.

How in the heck did Conquest's K. Iskra make R2/R2s last 25 laps?

Quote from Karolis[Lt] :

In my opinion, it is clearly Eric's mistake. I see him not moving and leaving Runas less space for entering the corner on purpose. Later expecting to have more speed and pass him. Just my thoughts. Despite this, the car in front has the rights to do whatever he wants, the car behind has to deal with it.. I say it's a racing incident..

Eric was on the white line on the left hand side of the track when he was hit. Runas had almost the entire track to turn in from. The car in front has the rights to the road when they are clearly in front. Eric had about 40% overlap which grants him right to racing room according to NDR's sporting code.


Though I have to ask, what is wrong with holding a line and not giving someone else more room? If someone gets overlap and they're in the middle of the road, they're entitled to drive down the middle of the road. Why do they have to give the person on the inside more room?

You pretty clearly drove onto Eric's line. He had overlap, and therefor right to the line. You hit him off the road before the braking zone, so I don't see what "stupid move" he made. Drivers to not have to move over for someone else who is driving into their lane. It doesn't matter if he had half the track to his left. If he is in a lane and has overlap then you do not have the right to drive into him.

I fail to see how you driving someone off the road is a racing incident.

Quote from MuderGO[LT] :

I wanted replay not beause of this accident, but anyways thanks for it and looking from my point of view that it's racing accident. As I moved towards you to get better racing line and you just didn't move, despite that you had much space.

http://www.spdoracing.com/eventdb/session/7679/replays

Quote from MuderGO[LT] :

Maybe can get race replay?

I've used mpredit to cut it down to just surrounding the incident.

Quote from menantoll :

I believe he means a shame because it therefore will not be on all servers as not all want to pay for the full version. Not a shame that it's a pay for product.

Yeah, this is what I meant. EQ Worry makes something really useful, then makes it so only a fraction of the servers will have it. Obviously everyone could pay, but realistically that'll never happen.

Quote from dawguk :

Indeed, it is cleaner racing. I don't think it's just the SR or MPR that make the biggest difference though - I think part of the reason there is less wreckers in iRacing is because wreckers don't want to pay money to drive like a dickhead.

Yes... that was the entire point of my post. Cheaper = more people who don't take it seriously.

Ohh it's all sticky It really was great fun, looking forward to the summer series.

Quote from 5haz :

Is simply forcing someone not to crash the right approach though? Perhaps convincing people not to cause crashes through consequences and punishments is an easier way.

Easier? Debatable. Better, I would say so.




Edit. I think a lot of what's being complained about is a direct result of how approachable LFS is. You can download it and play demo with pretty much anything, hell you could probably get a powerglove to control LFS if you had the right connector. The full version isn't that much more difficult to get into, a one time fee (for the foreseeable future) and you can race on most servers without even having done a lick of practice.

iRacing isn't as approachable (the cost drives many away) and from what I hear has cleaner racing. Then of course it has a built in safety rating. The two games have completely different directions with how they handle things and the communities are going to be different because of this.

I'm not saying we should just accept LFS for what it is and throw our hands up in defeat, because there's people like EQ Worry with his already-mentioned experience index. Just a shame you have to pay/donate to get your hands on that.

Last edited by pik_d, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 22:14.