Quote from Storm_Cloud :

You could add Brundle to that list. Smashed his ankles to pieces in his first year, which up to that point had been pretty stellar considering the car he was driving.

But Brundle still managed to give Schumacher a tough time in 1992, and he still got some good results in his career while driving mostly crap cars, so I wouldn't give Brundle as big an emphasis as Panis and Massa (a very good point is the fact that Brundle never won a race)...maybe Barrichello after Imola 1994, after some opinions I've read on other forums, as he was hyped by Brazil and Portugal as the future Senna when he got into Jordan for 1993 (but haven't found much stuff that proved his talent before his crash).

Quote from Mustafur :

Too many careers have been destroyed by injuries, the only advantage kubica has is a modern rehab program to heal it.

I can see kubica coming back but it might take half a season to regain form, if he's fast off the bat then my expectations of him will be blown out the water.

This. I can count at least Panis and Massa who had more competitive futures ahead of them before they had an accident that badly affected their performance and their careers.
It's like the new meaning of "death" in Formula 1 (at least for me, and before I put on the flame coat, this is just a metaphor!!)

Tough luck, mein bitch.

Quote from underline015 :

FXprint,racet,xfrq,xrtprint,xrts. screenshots in GTevo game + LFS + photoshop, my first prints :}

Were you on GTA San Andreas or something before you decided to make these edits?

Meanwhile, David Coulthard finally managed to beat Raikkonen to the WC.

Quote from kart-36 :

Imagine if they found a loop hole in the rule book and gained an advantage, that would be a shocker
That's my part

I doubt they would go as far as closing and reopening, but good point

Quote from rageshgr :

Just trying to summarise what admin has said in the last few pages:

1. Yes, this question has been answered in the previous page. If the 72 Pilote from Hell case is a reference, then yes, 25 SOH won't have penalty if Mr. Goik left the team, just like 72 PfH does n't have penalty since Dalda left

2. Also answered by the admins is the fact that point #1 above holds good only if the driver leaves the team on his own accord. You can't kick a driver just to avoid penalty. Otherwise teams would be kicking/swapping drvers to avoid penalty.

Pardon me if I sound nosy, but it seems to me that the only reason for deleting 25 and creating 27 is just so because you can circumvent the penalty. Also, hoping that you are already aware that 72 PfH's grid penalty was moved along with Dalda in Round 1 to the newly created 80 TRD, it is only consistent and fair that the grid penalty for 25 SOH is moved along the driver Goik to the newly created 27. Hence the case of 25 vs 27 is not unprecedented. The ruling is as expected and there is no surprise elemt IMHO.

Again apologies if I sound nosy in your team matters, but had to clarify this.

Thanks for making it short and sweet! Hopefully all that mess will make people think twice about trying to escape penalties!

Wow congrats, not bad for a first sponsor!

Nice article and a great read as well, keep it up!

Quote from XCNuse :

Or will the UF1000 never have a competitor?

Any ideas for one? All I can imagine is some crapbox shaped like a VW Beetle or a Smart car

...Or even better, bring in one of these!!!

Quote from DANIEL-CRO :

every spam post more = 1 day later scirocco

in that case not even our grandchildren would be able to live long enough for the car to be released

Quote from Fuse5 :

havent you heard?
the Scirocco Awareness Month is about to start

<-- Straight after the American Pie: The Reunion awareness month? wow!

LOL, we might as well make a special event to celebrate the 3 year anniversary...of waiting for the Scirocco.

Quote from Intrepid :

But F1 is fast becoming a gentleman's series.

F1 always had a bit of a gentleman-ish thing to it, the problem is that the gentlemen in question can't be able to put a private team of their own together anymore (not like they used to back in the 50's-70's).

Watching that time where Stifler tried to hide that "chocolate truffle" from Jim's mother-in-law...

EDIT: Ninja'd, crap!

Quote from xtraction :

Round 3 race discussion..? its only 1 week and a half away :L

already? we're still missing the official results and standings!

Quote from J@tko :

That'll be because by doing that you're only "saving" the tyres when you're on the throttle. They'll still wear/heat up the same via steering.

I guess that's why for example at the SuperGT Blackwood race, the FXR had to use R3's in the front and R2's at the back. I guess traction plays a part on tyre wear as well, since both cars are AWD and all.

The biggest hit of 2012, mark my words!!!
Forgive me for putting on an emo band, but this is one great track.

I've decided on my choices for "Series Event of the Year" and "Commentator Line of the Year"...amazing stuff from you lot!
(by the way Chris, I can do voice-overs for the hard names if you want some help with them)

Quote from PMD9409 :

You can post it here, its a great read.

The last thing I wanted to do is embarass the Kings bros and LLM even further, but what had to be said had to be said. I can only hope they take this rant as a wake-up call. Sorry guys

Quote from PMD9409 :

Orrrrrrrr, you could watch the replay before making a silly comment about someone who was nice enough to guest drive for you.

+1. Ray wasn't really there to keep track of the race, otherwise he would've kept his mouth shut.

It's a pity, because during race day no one screwed things up. We took every opportunity we had in front of us: Dennis helping us out, the good luck we had on the qualifying heat, and most of all, finishing the main race on the Top 10. No one screwed up: Dennis put it in the top 10, I kept it in the track for the rest of the race, and Nathan spotted for us while we drove. Everyone did brilliantly without making any major mistakes (even the GT500 team made it to the finish, and Stankus didn't even rage at anyone). That's right, for at least once, LLM DIDN'T **** THINGS UP!!!
That was the best race I have ever been part of as a member of LLM.

And all it takes is for the team leader, who didn't accompany our race to make some witty remark about a couple of incidents Dennis got into (one of them wasn't even his fault) to overshadow and put to waste all the good work we've done for the race.
God damn it Ray. You say stuff like that and then keep wondering why people are always slagging us off!

I'm ranting on the forums because quite frankly, I'm getting sick of stuff like this always holding us back; I've been working really really hard to help this team get off the shitpit that it is in right now, and having these efforts killed by some stupid remarks and other bad antics that happened in the past really feels like a kick in the nuts.
Don't think that this is all bad stuff, I've had fun racing and gaming and doing stuff for LLM and made some good friends, you're a pretty cool dude when you want to be (and it's still good fun fooling around on FPS games), but if you don't take things a bit more seriously when it comes to races like this, then I'm taking the tag off.

Sorry everyone, shouldn't really be posting this here but enough is enough.

Last edited by Senninha25, Mon 21 Nov 2011, 18:53. Reason : typo fixed.

Quote from Bmxtwins :

I have the PSD for the FXR this time so it shouldn't be too difficult to recolor.

but please don't tell me you're repainting the whole car again for every different line-up. I don't even know what LLM's colours are anymore!

Quote from chris kasch :

And yes,having to re colour all those LLM skins was a ball ache and just resulted in a lot of crap looking cars

+1.

Quote from Mustangman759 :

In season 1 we stated it was just down to repainting the wing

But the whole car ended up being repainted instead of just the wing.

Can't the colouring just be limited to some parts of the car?
Last season it was a mess, completely repainting every different LLM car.
My suggestion is this: same skin for every team car, same team colours, only different colours on mirrors/bumpers/spoiler. Simple and more organised.

Quote from cyclo :

stop talking so much on this tread my hotmail box is overload with mails from this thread

well tough luck, because here's what I have to say.

I'm glad I managed to qualify our GT300 entry for the main race, but I wasn't too happy with my race stint, as I was slower in that stint than when practicing, and I'm gutted for not being able to hold 6th place in the end (even if it was a car as fast as SR who got us).
Thanks to Dennis Lind for helping us out in the first half of the race and helping out on some of the setup's flaws, sorry I couldn't hold some of the positions gained.

Anyway, can't wait for the race to go on youtube or be replayed, it was really mad stuff, and no one knows how the hell everyone managed to get away with the maneuvers they were pulling!

A fistfight where people wear full face helmets. Makes as much sense as Lerts' crispy bike theory.