I just laughed so hard i shit myself.

Funniest post of the year so far.

Head to LFSworld (link at top of page) and go to the hotlap section. if you click on the hotlap time in the list you'll be able to d/l the replays straight off there - theres even an option to 'test drive' their setup in LFS

the hotlap replays are *.SPRs as opposed to *.MPRs which record in less detail (i think:shrug

I think the main reason NASCAR is so popular over there is that it's spectator friendly,,,, it's gotta be cool sitting trackside with 30 or so V8s all humming round at 200mph.... even so,,,, it's all tactics and caution flags,,,, not very exciting racing.....................................

Drag racing is F'ing awesome tho',,,, I love it.... theres not too much that compare with watching a 10,000 Bhp car hit 300mph in 4.5 seconds....

BTW you've just reinforced a few of my own american stereotypes,,,,, although i might offend somebody if I elaborate further

(gotta love the punctuation :P)

Last edited by Theafro, Mon 27 Mar 2006, 13:07.

Just seen the replay, it's a heavy shunt, looks like he flew a fair way after the initial impact. I'm fairly sure he landed (heavily) upside-down too

I don't wanna sound cold hearted but thats what happens when you buy you're seat in a series you're not fit for. IMHO

Last edited by Theafro, Mon 27 Mar 2006, 13:22.

Motorsport is dangerous!

It's the risk we all take when we strap ourselves into a car. It's not nice to report on the death of a fellow racer, we can only be thankfull that the prime concern nowadays is safety.

It seems like it may have been Dana's fault for not slowing down under caution. although nobody would wish the result on anybody.

IRL seems to be a rather dangerous formula. As soon as they sort out one sefety issue, another crops up almost immediately.

yup, as long as you don't do anything silly with you're registry LFS will remain unlocked. I've had my offline workshop PC running LFS since S2 came out, so you should be ok.

You can have a few machines running the same licence, you won't be able to use them online at the same time but you can run a full S2 lan game if you like with no problems. (a good way to introduce LFS to your mates )

Last edited by Theafro, Mon 27 Mar 2006, 01:31.

300Mhz is the absolute bottom end for a reliable server tho', It'll work although not with more than a couple of players and laggy at that even on a LAN. I'm currently experimenting with a 500Mhz x 128Mb machine and that seems to be a nice 'practical' minimum. still nice and cheap (sometimes free)

as far as i'm aware LFS doesen't need a huge amount of ram, Trouble is, Windows does.

It's a bit 'lighter' with a linux install + wine. although sometimes tricky to set up, and you'd wanna use one of the smaller disros to save on bloat IMHO

Diesels are inherently heavier, due to the increased compression and more violent combustion. so they carry a slight disadvantage to petrol engines.

You've gotta remember that more than 50% of the cars Audi make are diesels, and diesel sales are increasing at huge rate. with diesel demand increasing, it's not gonna be long before we start to see Touring car and maybe even GT teams running diesel power. It's already pretty common in rallying (the lower classes anyhow) so we might even see a WRC rule change for diesels within the next ten years or so.

Rather than banning them I've got a feeling we'll be watching many more DERV powered racecars in the future.

BTW McNish is better

Quote from DodgeRacer :

It was Grand-Am actually, but at least they kept their helmets and stuff so it was just a shove match

I'm pretty sure i saw one punch thrown but he didn't try it again! - If you're gonna have a scrap trackside, KEEP YOU'RE LID ON!

'erm - how come they're racing a RWD LMP car then? they're much better off racing proper events like Le-mans than F1 anyway

Diesels are awesome, I'm a truck mechanic, so I'm quite at home with 600Bhp turbo diesels, although most of the engines i see are 6 cyl 13Ltr BEASTS with Humungous (12") variable geometry turbos and 1600Psi fuel injection systems. But they're still not quite as impressive as the V12 in the audi.

IMHO It sounds awesome, not loud but low and mean.

The commentary I heard at sebring said they'd managed to actually make the gearbox lighter than the R8s - suprising considering it handling nearly twice the torque, although i'm betting they've taken another leaf out of the truck book - they're prolly just gearing the drivetrain speeds up, in order to drop torque levels (power = torque x speed), kinda like ford did with the Focus WRC.

Last edited by Theafro, Sat 25 Mar 2006, 15:18.

It seems to me we should all just take sides and fight it out. there's absolutely no way that racers and drifters could possibly co-exist!

I mean it's not like there's a choice of server out there or anything.


And we should completely ban noobs too!

Audi R10 drivers Allan McNish, Rinaldo Capello, and Tom Kristensen brought home the first ever win for a diesel engined car in a sports car event, at the sebring 12 hours.

Audi are looking good for yet another win a Le-mans this season, and although i'm not an Audi fan, I've got to give it to 'em - the boys did well!

I'm just wondering how long it'll be before we start seeing diesel F1 cars

Quote from Scawen :

It's really from the BBC Micro. It might be the same as the ZX Spectrum but i don't know.

<nerd> I always knew you were a beeb man! Death to all spectrums! </nerd>

My personal preferance is for full manual clutch (an old microsoft wheel/pedals), Sequential shifting (courtesy of the DFPs stick) and no aids at all. It gives full control of the shift.

since the amount of clutch required differs with the rev difference and throttle position, it enables me to make flat(ish) shifts on the straights and more refined shifts in the corners.

It's also handy in RWD cars once the rear lets go to be able to pin the clutch and let the rears freewheel themselves to an acceptable speed, rather than simply letting straight off the gas.

It can be hard to quantify, but there are some advantages to using a manual clutch, and even a button clutch can be usefull sometimes.

I made the mistake of racing on the demo servers today, bad idea! illepall

The main thing i noticed was the speed in which somebody can be kicked/banned (banning is more common i'm sure). It only takes a single incident for somebody to be branded a wrecker. and mere seconds for the voting to be completed.

It seems that the more inexperienced a racer is - the more likely it is they'll kick/ban somebody, it takes a while to truly understand what racing is like.

I don't mind terribly if i get taken out by another racer's mistake, I'm happy to simply cruise 'round and wait for the next race at worst, but I've noticed that the less experience you have, the longer the races seem to be. To a noob, waiting for the next race seems like waiting forever, hence the mad dash to be first into T1 and the intolerence of other racer's mistakes.

I love that Gasometer

Give the boy some credit, He's keen at least!

Although I reckon its prolly gonna be a lonely race.

BTW I always have my post-race briefing before the race, doesn't evrybody?

I'd like to ask one favour tho'. Please make the race available on LFS Spectator, I'd love to be able to watch at least.

And besides I'm still gonna try and whoop all yo asses in the practice races

Please, don't worry about moving the GP for my sake. I'm not too worried about missing it. I don't wanna piss anybody off.

well, me and cawwa are gonna set up a 60 lapper for the sunday after! and boycott the ATC one

Hmmmm, i like that idea!

since it's such a long track shouldn't we get another week for praccy

(I'm afraid it was the most eloquent word i could find :shrug

I can't race this one, I'm gonna be in Germany at a Doom-Metal festival:headbang:


As some of you may know, Budshovel (my team) are also a Stoner/Doom band and a few of us are making a trip to the biggest and pureset Doom-metal festival in the world.

http://www.doomshallrise.de/ :bat:

Unfortunately, this means i will have to miss the RB4 action at Kyoto, although i'm still gonna join you all for the practice sessions as i'd quite like to learn the track/car properly.

I'm leaving on the 29th and returning late on the 2nd so i might just be in time to catch the end of the race. you never know, if i'm home on time i might just be able to make the start! It might be interesting to see how i perform after 5 days of abuse.

Zeug - i gotta say, Good Race dude! You got that 2nd place by being consistant, and staying cool, & 1337 keyboard skills, nice one!

DrDink - You had the speed to beat me, the only action i really had all race was having you glued to my bumper for the first 15 laps , nice little battle! You deserved to do a lot better than you did, but thats racing

I quite enjoyed that one but i've got a feeling i'm gonna get my ass whooped next time!

We are a UK based Touring car team, we're all local mates and marijuana enthusiasts.

Members:

BSR.TheAfro
BSR.Jarmin
BSR.DaveAngel
BSR.Dundus
BSR.Jimi

Since it's such an easy (and satisfying) project, I suppose i'd better knock up a how-to or something.

I'm gonna take some pictures once i get going on the proper version, as it's still in the prototype stage,

It looks like i'm gonna be able to use the 2 spare axes (throttle/rudder) on the joystick to replace my 'clutch' wheel (it's a pain having 2 wheels knocking about just for one pedal) and adding a handbrake should be easy. I'll prolly just end up building a big box to clamp on to the side of my seat.

Will hopefully have a nice enclosure for it in a few days, i'll sort out a proper how-to for it then.


BTW the software can be found here: http://forum.rscnet.org/showthread.php?t=232514

FF joysticks use this: http://forum.rscnet.org/showthread.php?t=214673

Last edited by Theafro, Wed 15 Mar 2006, 18:11.