Next race with his 10 place penalty will be revealing. He will have to fuel a little on the heavy side as he can't sit in the middle of the grid on a short two stopper. I just wonder if from 11th - 15th whether he will have the necessary patience or will he be spamming "MOVE OVER I AM FASTER" at all the poor schmucks who don't get to drive a McLaren or Ferrari.

We are particularly interested in hearing from XRR drivers as we are usually a bit stretched on a Saturday night for IGTC - for the last race I had to do a 2 hour stint just after running 1 hour 40 minutes in OWRL F1 :tired:. I am getting too old to do that, so if you like the XRR and want a slot in IGTC, come and say "Hi!"

The way they are pricing reminds me of The Sims 2 that I seem to buy every week for my daughter. If there was a shiny Sims 2 box in the shop with all the add-ons included for £150 I would not buy it for her, yet that is probably at least what it has cost me.

Having said that, if iRacing becomes the leading means of competing in online sim-racing then I guess I will have no choice but to buy it.

Can we have some more mid-week practice sessions please? Saturday and Sunday are pretty full with league races. For example I couldn't make this evening's test because I was driving in OWRL and I can't make tomorrow evening's test because that clashes with LFSCART, which I also can't make because it's a double clash with GFC.

Welcome back Big Dave!

Ah, that was me - I embellished the holiday story with the beach thing

Ships that pass in the night, DWB - I won't be at the next event as I'm hoping to polish off another GFC Championship on Sunday. Definitely coming back after that though in the hope that the numbers pick up.

Don't forget the mysterious new area of South City that is on the LFS Remote map...

I'm not really fussed about the pace of development. I'm a "League Whore" so there's always something to practice for, always someone to try to beat. I see LFS more as a means to compete rather than a game. In a sense it's a bit like a football pitch, which is a means to compete at football (or soccer if Forbin's reading this ).

Football hasn't really changed much at all in its fundamentals. Looking at the next "Premier League Patch" they've upped the number of substitutes from 5 to 7. Hardly earth shattering but I still can't wait for the new season to kick off.

How does the Nation's Cup work?

Good luck, especially to Rudy who I have raced closely with many times. It is a shame you left spdo and therefore OWRL F1.

I've had a "lowly" TN panel for a few weeks now (22" Samsung 2232CW I think).

I am very happy with it. I know that the common consensus is that you have to be slightly retarded to like TN panel monitors but consider what you are using it for.

Mine is just my PC and it is mainly for games, with a bit of work brought home and internet surfing too. It doesn't matter in the slightest to me that you can't view it at an angle and I haven't really noticed colour differences because I don't really care about that. It is, in my opinion, a great monitor for LFS and general PC use. It's also fine for watching DVDs.

So, decide what the monitor is for and choose your model based on that, not what graphic designers want.

Quote from Darkone55 :

The FO8 is a great car, that more people should drive!

I think that there would be even less people driving it when it had 600 HP. It's fine as it is... No, it's not fine, it's great!

Mostly agree.

450hp is a bit low. Push it to 550hp which is about A1GP level and we get room for a 350-400hp FO6

Safety car and the new pit lanes rules could have a massive influence on this race. It is impossible to predict. If someone pits just before a SC then they will get to the front as everyone else cycles through. Pitting early would be the smart thing to do, except that could put the front runners right in the middle of the pack.

If it is complete chaos then who knows? Maybe Button, Webber or Rosberg could win.

Quote from samjh :

I haven't watched the Q footage, but if McLaren is faster in S2, it probably means their suspension is softer. I think that might help them if it rains during the race: less chance of aqua-planing and so forth.

Not an expert, of course, just a semi-educated guess.

Could be anything. Could be shorter wheelbase, different diff settings - all sorts of things.


On a happy note - I see that it is raining for the Porsche Supercup race.