Old fart me doesn't like this new Silverstone podium thingy. Not the flippy-screen flags, and not that futuristic design of the...podium. The interviews right after the champagne aren't such a bad idea though.

An amazing race. With the problems that I had with schedule, then trying to recruit drivers who accepted at first and then couldn't race afterwards, and after all of this, going into the race with only Anton to help, not being 100% ready for the race and still making setup changes at last notice (overheating tyres were a bitch), we've done an amazing effort all race, with two very long stints, and with that said, huge props to Anton for driving for 4 straight hours, staying up to pace during those 4 hours and bringing our bus home in 11th.
I'd be really happy for a finish alone, but 11th overall? ****in awesome.

I'm not too happy about what happened in the final lap, though. #71 didn't seem to like the fact that we let them through and started lashing out at Anton after the race. Care to explain why?

Like I said before, dolan comics suck and meme comics rule! (ok last time I said rage comics, but memes are funny too. Y U PPL NO POST MEMES)

Definitely a career-ender as far as top level racing is concerned.

Quote from Intrepid :

New FIFA rankings.

1 Spain 1691 0
2 Germany 1502 1
3 Uruguay 1297 -1
4 England 1294 2
5 Portugal 1213 5
6 Italy 1192 6
7 Argentina 1095 0
8 Netherlands 1079 -4
9 Croatia 1050 -1
10 Denmark 1017 -1
11 Brazil 1012 -6

HAHA

And a collapsed lung, too (from what I read)

That's a slight relief. Still, if she makes it through this unscathed (without any lasting injury), it's going to take a while for the "amazing" to sink in.

Quote from Senninha25 :

manager: {Mustangman759, Matt Kingsbury}
viceManager: {Senninha25, Rui Pinto}
teamName: Revolutionary Racing
class: Am
car: FXR
number: 27
drivers:
- {Senninha25, Rui Pinto, Portugal}
- {t.nuvolari, Tuomo Jussela, Finland}
- {pajkul, Paweł Kulijewicz, Poland}
- {EliteAti, Anton Moroz, Finland}
- {, , }

That's what we have atm, will probably update the entry with one or two more drivers.

Added Anton to team roster.

teamName: Revolutionary Racing
car: FXR
class: GT2-Am
number: 27
drivers:
- {Senninha25, Rui Pinto, Portugal}
- {EliteAti, Anton Moroz, Finland}
- {, , }

We're supposed to bring a 3rd driver in before confirmations close.

Last edited by Senninha25, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 20:43. Reason : Replaced Pajkul with EliteAti.

Weird how my prediction is becoming more and more realistic by each caution...

25 + a Red Flag just for deko to rage at the field (whoever's left anyway).

New skin for #27. Big thanks to Gerdoner for the skin!

Let's be honest, the time difference never helped.

Noted, Here's my skin without the good-looking yellow airbox. #24.

I'm in a "may the best team" win scenario right now. Portugal's not going to win, so it's not like I'm giving a shit about who wins anymore.
As long as the final goes without incidents, confrontations or any other bullshit, it's going to be a good match...and maybe just to piss Michele Platini off (pretty much Portugal's #1 public enemy after the crap he's been spouting lately), Italy is going to win the Euro 2012!

That's gonna take the rest of the week for the butthurt to go away. SO. ****ING. CLOSE.

By the way, I'm betting a cookie on how the media shitstorm is going to hit Ronaldo for choosing to be the 5th kicker. Just saying

Praise indeed, thank you

On Saturday, the 30th of June, the 2012 Kyoto 500 race day, 4 out of the 8 Last Lap Motorsports entries will mark their presence in one of LFS' main events of the year. It's a great result for the team, having 4 of its drivers (3 full-time) with a guaranteed spot for this race, but Rui Pinto in the #24 and Ray Kingsbury #25 also came close to advancing through to the race. Pinto delivered a sub-par first run (av. 37.0025) that led him to be bumped off 30th place with 2h30 into Bump Day, later improving to 37.0000, which wasn't enough to get back into the top 30, and with one hour until the end of Bump Day, connection problems delivered the killing blow to the persistent Portuguese driver's hopes.
Ray Kingsbury also saw himself in the same situation as Pinto. After doing runs of 37.0100 and 37.0075 on Pole Day, Ray improved his average to 37.0000 in his initial Bump Day attempt. Knowing that that wasn't going to get him through to the race, Ray went for his second try shortly afterwards but only managed to match his previous average time. An hour later, Ray went out and risked his final attempt with hopes of improving on his 37 average, but sadly lost his connection during his second flying lap, which with his previous time deleted, and his last attempt used, completely dashed his qualifying ambitions.

However, the sensation of Qualifying was #944 Rihard Suur, who duelled with well-known Kyoto 500 top driver Dan Sanger for 2nd place on the grid (Bump Day, Pole Position was taken by this point) and came out on top with an amazing 36.9600 average, which would be enough to gift the Estonian Pole Position on Pole Day! #20 Nathan Lamothe fairly comfortably qualified in 17th, Matt Kingsbury qualified a not-so comfortable 26th and Jack Atkinson just made it, being bumped to the bubble after Matti Wentjarvi's first, and very last run of Qualifying, with all three of them carrying their Pole Day averages.

Here are the results of Qualifying until further notice by the NDR Administration:

#944 Rihard Suur - 2nd place, average of 36.9600 (faster than the top average set on Pole Day)
#20 Nathan Lamothe - 17th place, average of 36.9875
#21 Matt Kingsbury - 26th place, average of 36.9925
#26 Jack Atkinson - 30th place, average of 36.9950
#24 Rui Pinto - 34th place, average of 37.0000 (DNQ)
#85 Tim Chadwick - 37th place, average of 37.0075 (DNQ)
#22 Jordan Lavrikov - DNQ, NO TIME SET
#25 Ray Kingsbury - DNQ, INVALID ATTEMPT

Congratulations to Rihard, Nathan, Matt and Jack for making it into the race, and honorable mentions go to Rui and Ray for fighting for a spot in the race until the very end of Bump Day. Bad luck but great effort!

Pajkul will work this GT2 season with me and Tuomo in the Revolutionary Racing car, so Round 3 in two weeks should be his first race as a LLM member (not under the LLM team, though).

Quote from PMD9409 :

Who cares, just be happy you are in the race. Whoever has pole gets passed exiting T1 anyways.

Definitely +1. The average differences were waaaay too close to guarantee a spot for more than half of the field.

Want some lARSEn's biscuits with that?

That would be worth bragging about if he actually bothered to do his laps on Pole Day :doh:

Veery p'd off after being left without a chance to improve my time after my internet packed up on me. ****ing providers.

This race? Not bad for such a crap track.