OK - a shot of my pride and joy

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Last edited by Polyracer, Tue 29 Jan 2008, 07:44. Reason : Sake of communtiy

Well was'nt that something?, what a way to kill a weekend.

Great commentry great racing and driving, and showed great professionalism when problems arose.

Congrats to all involved, you made it a great weekend for me.

Whens the next one? - I'll be there with a couple of mates, though we never did find the burger van.......

Quote from MR_B :

Is anyone else having trouble streaming this now? I was watching until 5:30 this morning and it ran like a dream, now it'll play for a while, then the sound will cut off, then after a little while later the video will stop also.

Me too we're both in UK - just keep reloading

Yeah - and I previously would have though maybe a few hundred viewers.

I'm really impressed with the way things have gone, using two PC's - one with remote viewer and the other with Game TV, its brill

I'm listening to and watching the race on the other PC, as I type this.

Very good commentry from Mika , and yes your English is pretty good mate.

Last edited by Polyracer, Sun 20 Jan 2008, 13:23.

6,000 - thats six thousand, count the zero's, - online watching the live stream, big WOW...

Well, I grabbed a few hours of kip and feel refreshed to watch till the end now.
This has been pretty good so far for me, well done to all involved.

Terrific racing, I watched with remote viewer as C Krognes hunted down M.Krouse and then Raymond Moony to take the lead on lap 144.
Watched the whole thing over about 12 laps - terrific stuff

Really enjoying this - it will be getting dark soon, I'm off now to find the toilets and a burger van,

Strange I havn't seen any, does anyone know where they are?

Thanks for the correction Luis (lol)

Nope these guys are different - they put the hours in for their rewards, - they had a goal and got there, yup F1 did sort of turn into the Lewis Hamilton show last year.

But don't you think its so much better than the Michael Schumaker show

Quote from mr_x :

I'm bored of Lewis Hamilton... Like really, really sick of hearing his name!!
Lewis Hamilton just as much.

I could go on...[/rant]

No doub't you could go on, - with this rubbish - quite easy when you make it up as you go along, and it has no truthful basis anyway.

If anyone deserves to be in their position it is they, they have worked tirelessly to make their achievements, - whilst your jealousy builds.

Get a life, everytime Luis speaks I admire his maturity - he will make a fine ambassador for motorsport, as he is already.

No doub't Ron is rewarding Luis for the extra millions of people around the world that are now watching the sport because of him.

Well......maybe except for one

Don't worry shit appens, it should be back up soon.

Even in F1 (RL) thay can miss most of the field cos they turned up with the wrong tyres

Quote from UncleBenny :

Another small suggestion: might be a good idea to label the columns in the upper right hand for position, player name, lap time, number of laps, etc. Just thinking that if someone who isn't familiar with LFS(or racing in general) happens to be watching a race, they might not be able to figure out what's going on.

I'll be watching if at all possible

Quote from lefty :

I was getting about at why is it ok to make 'smart' moves like that in a sim when you wouldn't do those in real life. All it does is make the racing worse when you can't predict what the other drives will do. Will they try to race like in real life or pull some sudden smartypants moves out of their arse. It's about trusting the others to make it through corners and straights without stupid moves that allow door to door racing.

I just don't get where you are coming from, I'm doing exactly what I think I should do or would do IRL, - thats doing what I can to win the race.
If you want to get past, then I'm going to make it as hard as I can for you, and if you are good enough you will do it - and feel good about it cos I did'nt make it easy.

If you are in my draft, that means you are not in a position to overtake, if we crash its your fault, if you get to the side of me then things start to change - depending on the situation.
I don't want to crash or cause others to crash, I want them to come back at me so I can learn and improve my skills.

As the overtaking car, it is your resposibility to get past in a clean safe way, moreso online because of our (slight) handicaps.

Its not my responsibility to make it easy for you.

Quote from SamH :

Races are not just won by the fastest guy on the track. Sometimes they're also won by the "widest car" on the track. Some of the most entertaining racing I've seen on the CTRA has been from drivers who have an extraordinary ability to place their car exactly on the track where the guy behind wants to be. This is a skill that is no less to be celebrated in racing, IMO.

Exactly

Quote :

[It's not blocking, it's about being irrational on a race track. If you fail to see that, tough luck.

"I have seen hundreds of examples of this and no one complains of blocking."

I do it myself, and many others do it to me.

Its about denying the facility to overtake and no blocking is involved at all, and if you fail to see that..............

Personally I disagree with actual blocking too.

If an opponent has gotten close enough to attempt the pass then i do not switch line to block him, and if he is already there with some overlap - I give him space so that no accident is caused.

Last edited by Polyracer, Tue 15 Jan 2008, 17:41.

Quote from lefty :

How is swerving on a race track a good idea, ever?
Besides it makes the passing / racing near impossible for the car behind. Would you trust on someone in front of you making irratic movements left and right as you aproach him?
That's what it is all about, making yourself predictable. There might not be just one car behind you etc.

If you need to get benefit from the draft in order to get into an overtaking position, then you are not yet in a position where the car in fronts movement is dangerous.
Once you have managed to get close enough and are about to make the pass then the leading car should not move from side to side as this is obviously dangerous.
The leading car can place himself slightly offline though, to make the overtaking car go the long way round to make the pass.

I have seen hundreds of examples of this and no one complains of blocking.

Quote from lefty :

So you are making sudden moves on front of a approaching car. Yeah that's a good idea.

I think he's making a perfectly acceptable move, - this is not the same as blocking a pass because he is preventing tha following car from getting a passing opportunity.

Once the pass is on though - you cannot swerve from side to side to prevent it.
You can occupy a line that makes it harder to overtake, even if it is not quite the racing line.

Updated,

These are fantastic and cheap, I paid a lot more for mine - then sold it for a Mark 2.
If you lookin for a cheap race frame you won't get better than this.

Quote from GeForz :

"fuel air mixture" + more air = more "fuel air mixture"
"fuel air mixture" + more fuel = more "fuel air mixture"

right?

Yeah yeah I know,

Just pointing out that there is a difference - to those that don't know how the two motors work.

A petrol engine is fed more air and it meters the fuel to make the correct mixture whereas -
A diesel is fed more fuel and it meters the air to make the correct mixture.

But of course we all knew that did'nt we?

Last edited by Polyracer, Tue 15 Jan 2008, 10:37.

Quote from legoflamb :

Giving a diesel more throttle doesn't allow more air fuel mixture into the engine?

How does that work?

No my friend, I did not say that

Your answer was correct for a petrol engine, in as much as when you press the pedal you open an air valve to allow the engine more air.
With a diesel you open the fuel valve to give the engine more fuel.

Obviously both have a similar effect = more power.

Quote from legoflamb :

It allows more air fuel mixture to enter each piston of the engine.

Thats an actual answer, not "bah you don't know anything", like the other posts.

erm....unless its a diesel

I use auto clutch when using the sequential box anyway, but I still lift and blip with the gas pedal - works fine for me.

In agreement with Scawen :
Someone has to be the first to join a host, I have found this many times.
I used to look at the severs wanting to join where there are a least a couple in there.

Then I would join one on my own, and before long sometimes I would be joined by many - who presumably were also looking to drive with at least "someone", so that they are not lapping alone.

Must be something in the human mentality, I guess we just don't want to be alone, or maybe we don't want to be the first to join a server.

Last edited by Polyracer, Sat 12 Jan 2008, 11:58.