yeah UFR+XFR should be allowed, it's a bit more like real endurance racing when there's a bit of different machinery flying about.

But whatever it is please decide soon, cos' i'm useless at blackwood rev and not much better at fern bay

It just makes it far less likely i'll be watching any F1 for a while (i haven't watched a whole race for at least 4 years)

It's a shame for the supposed pinnacle of world motorsport is going stale like this. and it makes me sad to think that it's the only motorsport most ordinary people see.

when's the combo gonna be official?

just been for a quick test, Good choice i reckon.

The curbs are gonna eat some people alive though, i'm sure we'll see plenty of wreckage on the track.

I'd personally like a slight extension to the schedule tho'

60 laps would last about 1:15, 80 would be about 1:40, and 100 would be just over 2:00

I'm in favour of a longer race, the last GP at AS_club was waaaaaay too short

BTW has the idea ever occured to run a 500 lapper? might tie in nicely with some sponsorship
10 hours of tin-top madness!

you're not supposed to

Fern bay!

wicked combo, sorry vain, but Blackwood's for noobs :P

has there ever been a fern bay GP before? might be nice to cruise about in the sun for a bit (fern bay always makes me wanna drink rum tho' for some strange reason)

although you've gotta admit, LFS cars do look pretty good at the 'ring. If you can get past the shoddy GFX of rFactor.

I've got no problem personally with this, it's just a shame about the quality of the conversion, might detract (although not much) from LFS' image.

I've gotta admit i love rFactor for one thing - It reminds me how good LFS really is.

erm.. i'm begining to think it's not gonna happen

are there any races set over the le-mans weekend?

i'm sure to be in the mood for a bit of a thrash after watching the coverage.

or is evrybody watching it?

tsuchiya is a bloody drifter after all!

awesome 'cockpits' guys! it's the ultimate in real-car feel!

yeah my DFP D-pad is bound to the arrow keys (no shift)

I was only having a bit of a rant , it'd be nice to see a server always dedicated to LX racing 'cos ATM it's all about the whims of the admins.

and before anybody suggests it, my server is broke!

I'm well up for testing this new system out. I'm pretty good with hardware but i suck at software!

I've been looking into what the flight sim boys are doing and they seem to be using a usb interface board

like this one-

http://www.simkits.com/product.php?prodid=343

they supply software with it that interfaces with M$FS but i'm sure the code monkeys out there could figure out how to get it working with LFS.

It looks like the controller would work with homebuilt gauges using standard servos (usually found in model shops for R/C stuff) so that means i can build a rig nice and cheap (flight sim gauges are seriously expensive!)

BTW the controller board is 89 euros ( about 60 quid)

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Why are there no LX servers out there ATM? last week there were 1 or 2 servers out there that offered the LX4 (albeit with the TBO cars too) and i've had some great racing. now it seems the only place i can drive the LX4/6 online is in bloody drift servers. I've got nothing against drifting, I just can't find any RACE servers hosting the little beasts.

I was hoping that with the new tyres I'd get to race my favorite cars online more often.

Hazard warning lights

We're all hedonists

:doh:


I'm assuming we'd need a seperate program to take those UDP jobbies and send them to a port in the desired manner

BTW is it too early to ask for an oil pressure guage? it doesn't have to really do anything (yet) but maybee move a little when you rev

good plan tho scawen been waiting for something like this to complicate my cockpit setup


edit: and headlights (all 3 kinds would only be needed once we get real-time lighting)

anybody else remember the parking challenge we had in S1? it was just a simple timed run into a tight parking space but the competition was fierce!

methinks somebody should sort a proper comp out again, that was fun!

Wooohoooo!

Just make sure it's a long one! 2-3 hours is just about enough time to settle in to a nice rythm.

I'm sure he is, or a kid (the spoilt type)

I'm far too stoned ATM to make any real suggestions, but i agree!

you could just have fully adjustable/customisable mirrors x 3 in all views

It'd be safer

I'm well happy with the new tyres, much more realistic IMHO.

I took a LX4 on a 45 minute stint at AS_historic (SP) just for fun last night and the car was fantastic (after a few setup tweaks to sort the balance/turn in out) I managed 14 laps (at a healthy 3.05 pace) before i finally fell off (spin at eau rouge :tilt

before patch S/T i would struggle to make it around the track more than 3 times without bending the car, and i've driven quite a few 7s IRL.

I reckon the LXs are gonna end up being very popular

It's a shame we don't have those lights in the 'wheels only' view, it's nice to have an RPM indicator that you don't have to actually look at, you simply wait until you see red in you're peripheral vision and shift. I'm mainly going by sound ATM, 20,000rpm is quite a distinctive note

you could just wear a lid indoors i suppose.