Right. Don't tell me you formed your opinion on us as teammates because of that stupid "bumper cars" thing back in SuperGT.
To the OP: I'd say that making a good impression on public servers such as cargame is definitely helpful in attracting attention from good teams. And even better, if you feel confident and willing to put some hours in for practice, join a league that races a car or combos that you're comfortable/fast with. And I agree with Dennis on this: if you want to join a good team like GenR, spdo, Team Vires or CoRe (to name a few) YOU have to do the asking. You definitely can't wait for the magic PM from a top team, because that won't happen.
Well I can still read through the quotes, thanks very much. There's already a Dolan thread for the dolan shit to be posted at, so can we just keep this thread for the 9gag cancer/funny gifs/other funny guff?
Although I'm seriously considering putting the FXO's restriction up to 6% ahead of the test race already.
As far as tyre compounds, only restriction is the R1 compound being exclusive to Qualifying only. For the race, you can try whatever crazy-ass setup you wish, as long as it's with the R2, R3 and R4 tyre compounds.
I am going to suggest having a pace lap before the starts, since the L4Slicks season will have standing starts on both the endurance and normal double-heat rounds.
The main things such as the race calendar, race distance, rules, race and points systems are starting to get some final touches added for the sake of variety compared to other leagues.
With that said, we should announce at least a test race before we finish the schedule, since we only really have the dates to sort out.
During the season we will need feedback from the drivers about the restrictions as we still haven't come to a conclusion about them.
Expect a lot of different things from most RR, RN and NDR leagues, because with Live for Slicks, we are going to be a bit more bold and try a lot of new stuff probably never tried in the LFS Racing scene in a long time (or ever, even).
lol. I've just seen a shot of the ref seemingly KO'd on the pitch, so from what I see, there might be some punishment coming from this (benfica's image is definitely ruined now, it's too late to turn that back).
By the way, being a FC Porto fan, I can't believe I didn't slag benfica off while writing this post. But to be fair to them for once, this had nothing to do with the club, that was definitely Luisão's doing. And when the shit hits the fan, the club is going to end up paying for his mess. Poor sods
Credit to the guy in blue (Johansson, right?) for keeping his cool. Got jumped in the back and still tried to calm the idiot down? That's amazing! I know that if that was me getting sucker punched from behind like that, in such a cowardly manner, I'd be angry enough to try and return some of those swipes.
About the offender, I guess it's understandable for him to be upset in the situation that he was in and all, but his actions were definitely uncalled for. A shove or a verbal attack would be also understandable, but jumping from behind even before the other guy got off his kart? Way too cheap, way too low, too much of an overreaction. Hopefully someone will stand up and protest the little punishment that Lennox-Lamb got, (and I read this on another forum discussing this problem), because lessons need to be learned from this. At the moment, with things as they are, this will come across to other people (and potentially new kart drivers) that it's acceptable for a driver to come in with an attitude like "Hey, this guy just cost me a race/championship, so I guess I'll kick his ass and probably get away with it", and that's when things will start going downhill in terms of healthy competition.
Examples should be made of this, and lessons should be learned from this. It doesn't matter what you've lost, whether it be a race, a championship, a big paycheck, etc. At the end of the day it's racing, stuff like this has happened before to lots of people and will happen again, and if you don't know how to keep your head cool when it happens to you, you will severely get punished for it.
As predicted by the very small time difference between the GT2 field of 28 cars, this 3-hour-race had a lot of action, with high-contact racing, risky overtaking maneuvers which provided very intense, competitive racing and also inevitably, some crashes.
The race was ultimately won by Western Wolves, followed by Team Vires with an impressive race and with Genuine Racing Pro finishing 3rd, with this trio also making the Professional class podium.
In the Amateur class, K&S Racing scored an amazing class win in their GT2 debut, while also briefly leading the race overall, after a race-long battle against runners-up BAZINGA. Genuine Racing Am bounced back from an early connection setback to complete the Amateur class podium.
On the LLM side of the race, things also turned out to go better than expected. Our Professional class FZR, driven by Anton Moroz and Pawel Kulijewicz finished in a satisfying 12th place overall (8th in class) after starting 16th from the grid in what was a relatively calm race for them, where they managed to get through the major accidents and staying out of trouble throughout the whole race.
Last Lap Motorsports' Amateur class XRR had a more eventful race though, and after having to start from the pits, in 27th place after failing to set a time in qualifying, they put on a charge that started by avoiding the Turn 1 mayhem, with the debuting Erikas Bakðenskas making a slightly nervous but steady stint before handing the car over to Nathan Lamothe a bit earlier than expected due to a puncture. After taking the car, Lamothe quickly turned up the wick to recover time lost and even gain some more spots after the only Safety Car situation of the race before giving the car to Jordan Lavrikov for the finish. Lavrikov kept going on the attack during his whole stint, and by the end of his stint he brought the car home in 15th, a position which he managed to hold while struggling with very old tyres, which unfortunately were enough to put him a lap down, taking the unwanted first of the lapped finishers.
The Revolutionary Racing Leagues' Am class entry, the only bus-..sorry, FXR in the field, driven by LLM drivers Rui Pinto and Matt Kingsbury was a surprise. Starting from a low 25th on the grid due to the car's massive disadvantage in top speed on the fastest track of the calendar, Pinto and Kingsbury could only hope to keep up with the rest of the field, let alone go up the order. But both Rui and Matt's race pace was very consistent and that, combined with avoiding the Turn 1 accidents, two flawless pitstops, and a Safety Car that got them back on the lead lap plus taking advantage of some more accidents ahead of them allowed them to go up the order during the race. By the time Kingsbury gave the car back to Pinto for the final stint, they were up to 18th. Pinto gained two more places, and with two laps to go still managed to take 15th place from a struggling Jordan Lavrikov, only for his connection to give in, putting all of the Bus team's hard work to waste. Matt still got back in the car to do the final lap and finish the race in a heart-breaking 24th, 2 laps down.
The next event in the GT2 World Series Calendar will be the 3 Hours of South City, taking place on September 1st, in a month's time.
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A lot of luck involved in our race. We started 25th and took advantage of that T1 mess, and I guess that looking at how I managed to keep up with many of the guys that were ahead of me, we weren't that far off pace. Our real race-saver was that Safety Car that got us back into the lead lap and once again we gained a lot of positions through a couple of perfect pitstops and other drivers' mistakes, and with 1 and a half minutes until the end we were up to 16th after passing the #25.
And I won't say anything about the finish because it really, REALLY pisses me off.