Out of the 210 posts in this thread I say kudos to the 20-25 posts that actually suggest a race car for this racing simulator.

Quote from terrymccann :

lotus escort

hehe

To be honest I'd love any new content at this stage, even that

Most people are lucky to get one day off work to move house, let alone a month and a half.

Quote from tristancliffe :

I've always considered track days to be for fun, and for fun (as opposed to lap times) the less grip the better - the more the car moves around, slides and generally communicates to you the bigger the grin. Slicks require too much commitment and provide too much grip to be fun enough for me on a track day.

That's what wet track days are for, Knockhill has plenty of those

I see where you are coming from though.

Quote from ajp71 :

Slicks are pointless on a trackday car, put some hard compound performance tyres on it and you should get several trackdays without going noticeably slower.

No thanks.

Quote from danowat :

I can beat that, I get 7mpg out of my bike at Snetterton

lol

I took the track insurance as I had just got the car, I probably wouldn't do that again. I was getting 9mpg on the track, ouch, and I trashed the tyres and brakes.

Sometimes the track days have slick for hire, which are worth it in my opinion. For scoob events a rally truck would turn up fully kitted with scooby wheels with slicks fitted.

My track days cost £50 to enter. But then it also cost me the following:

£100 - fuel
£150 - set of brake pads
£350 - set of tyres
£150 - track insurance

£800 for a morning entertainment. Sore one.



Car's changed a bit since then:

Depends on the track\group organising the track day.

I'm a member of the Subaru Impreza Drivers Club and the track days I have attended at knockhill have been open pit-lane types where between 09:30 and 13:30 you can come and go as you please.

Whats the lastest update on this patch? It seems to have been @ Z10 for a long time now?? Has a big issue been found?

I'd be more excited if this was a new race car for the race sim.

similarly when a track gets to the end of it's run, IE CTRA is going to change the track at the next restart, post race vote restarts should be banned. I ended up leaving race 3 two nights ago because of the number of post race restarts on AS5

Maybe I'm wrong but I seem to always score higher than first place when I finish second to an FXR in GT1, I thought that was due to the weighting, maybe it's other factors.

Once you're platinum and driving the GT1 class the scores are weighted in favour of the FZR.

The first response in this thread should have been stfu n00b. I would have lol'd hard

You have to play on the entry level CTRA servers and earn the right to play on the servers that host the big cars like GTR's and F08's.

When racing on the CTRA servers you earn points, depending on where you finish, how many yellow etc, points = licenses and you need the right license to race the FXR.

The CTRA server tracks your points automatically, you need to set the password to view your stats on the website mainly.

Quote from 5haz :

Eric is busy sorting out the scirocco, so that you will all shut up.

I sure hope that since S2 Alpha was released he's been working on more than that.

Eric may do models but what does he actually do? What's his work-rate like?

As for my LFS setup I have it set so I never use the full travel of the brake pedal and I modulate my braking to try and achieve maximum braking at all times.

Onboard footage of series like the Aussie V8's shows drivers dabbing the brakes way before a corner to ensure they still have pedal pressure. I've seen this commentated on more than once.

I only recall seeing this done on street circuits though, although I'd bet they do it on the way down the hill at Bathhurst as well.

Last edited by SabersKunk, Mon 29 Dec 2008, 13:40.

We've been waiting years for the FZR interior and we probably still have years to wait.

Well they are definately a lot closer than the 1 sec a lap difference from that Jan thread. I just think it just needs a little tweak and the balance will be near perfect.

I didn't realise that. Cool. Is that due to the perceived difficulty in driving the fzr over the fxr?