Welcome back =)

Hehe, it would look like that =P

With Christmas around the corner not many people are going to have free cash, after Christmas sounds good. I wouldnt mind going back to the place in southampton, problem is sets that everyone agree's on. Thats the sticky point for my people that don't attend.

Karting would be fun, haven't really raced karts. Been in a kart 30 minutes total in my lifetime =) Really pissed the regular off when I ran with .1 of him and put myself on the front row after 3 heats =)

Grats Ben! So your paying for the next LFS meet right? =P

Quote from lizardfolk :

America really likes the "playoff" style of sports and NASCAR responded to that.

As for people complaining, I really dont know anyone who whole heartedly complained about it.

I complained and stepped away from NASCAR in road circuit racing. So I know it pissed at least ONE person off. It doesn't matter how well the points leader did the first 2/3 of the season, as long as your in the top 12 and finish well in the last 1/3 of the season you win a championship. Nevermind that someone else had dominated the first 2/3 of the season. It does make it more entertaining but it's getting too far away from what I feel real racing is.

Just to explain how into NASCAR I was before they did this. I had $25,000 set aside to run at the local track Kenseth started to kick his career off. My neighbor was running superlates with Kenseth and I was going to get help from him. My Dad also used to race. It was all set and I was getting geared up to race, until they put the 'chase' in. Instead I bought a car to drive daily and play on the computer, which I am grateful for now, it costs too much to race real cars. Even my SRT-4 costs too much and I have only been on Silverstone for a few laps, and thats not even a real racecar, almost though =) To put my car on the track for a track-day would cost me nearly £1,000 for a full day!

But thats OT. I no longer will watch NASCAR and only check the standings once every few months to see where Kenseth is at and thats only because I saw him race when I was a kid while he made his was into NASCAR.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

At most tracks, especially if I'm around drivers I'm not familiar with (would however trust the STCC guys for a while), I'll brake earlier, even If I'm not braking, just to show my lights to warn them.

It's nice to see you using your head Dustin Your on your way, don't let up =)

Xfire consumes less resources than MSN by a large margin, and offers more for the gamer than MSN does. Automatic game updates to name one, and they are accessable through most games, which cannot be said for MSN.

But it's NOT about LFS. It's about the community, which is why it's here, it has nothing to with the LFS application.

This is NOT LFS related and is in the right section.


My name is Vipercar93

LOL James you make me laugh every time you post

Quote from SamH :

hehe.. well, we can all favour an individual sim over all others. I'm well-known for my LFS fanboyism but recently I've come to realise that the sport of simracing is bigger than just "our corner of the market". Sure, I'm only happy when I'm racing in LFS, but it doesn't *have* to mean that I hate all other sims, or that I must criticise them at every opportunity. Though I have done, and often, I gotta stop doing that. Sim racing as a sport is now very important to me.. and it's something I want to help get recognised in the real world. It's a bit of a paradigm shift, but I really think it's worth doing

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What He and She said

Quote from Becky Rose :

I think Quake is his game, and he's not pimply. Although he fullfills other aspects of the stereotype .

Hehe steriotype matched Does he wear glasses? Single? Living with Mom and Dad (before he made tons of cash) from the basement playing in low light conditions?


When's the next broadcast coming out?

Quote from frokki :

Simulators sell a very small minority of racing titles. And of simulators, all the 6 "ISI-engined-copies-of-each-other" obviously rule the mainstream market.

So not a big portion, but enough to feed 3 developers

Haha, they are pretty much copies of each other, I like that

I have always been a fan of quality, not quantity myself.

LFS is probably a few million, but thats not the point. Check in on any of the other ISI games and you would be lucky to find a server that wasn't locked =P

No, but by using SRT you are putting LOTA into that arena and handles are not welcome

I am purchasing a Fatality soundcard. I almost DIDN'T buy it for that exact reason of having fatality on it, but the specs on it are too good to pass up. I thought to myself WTF is Fatality, must be some pimpley teenager who made it big sitting in front of CS for eons

The big issue with real names is not pronounciation. The problem is we are trying to bring across Sim Racing as a viable professional sport and nobody is going to take it seriously if they hear/see "look there goes $IS"(?~#) in his (insert vehicle here)" It just doesn't sound right.

STCC uses real names and it just sounds so much better and helps get rid of the "pimpley teenager geek" attitude towards gaming.

This is not the case, but there is a steriotype thats being fought against here and having N00bzor racing is not going to help matters.

SLI'ing 6600GT's are about the same as a 6800GT with a bit more throughput.

The cards themselves are nothing hot, cheap now =) Did buy them at $160 each a few years ago.

Awesome job, congrats =)

Quote from ans7812 :

Here is a simple solution: Learn basic addition and subtraction

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

The CTRA receives more traffic, so you're bound to get "more" beginners purely by statistics. I think Becky that you're taking this too personally/seriously TBH, it was a rash complaint about incidents that happen everywhere, not JUST the CTRA. I realize it read that way, but read between the lines... It is looked upon as the "beginner" CTRA server... because it IS, even though everyone is welcome.

I agree =)

Race 1 is a beginner server. True There are issues present, but it's not the the servers fault and there are systems in place to help these drivers learn a bit about racecraft. There is more that can be done though, but not from Becky's end, she has provided us with an awesome licensing package with great racing to be had, on any server. I have never had too much of a problem on Race1 myself.

Quote from obsolum :

That's probably because the racing there is very different from the racing up front. I've experienced that myself a few times.

It is different in the midfield, it's not down to the servers, it's down to the drivers. I have heard these discussions on the CTRA subforum for weeks now. No system in the world will help drivers if they do not want to learn.

Last edited by Viper93, Tue 25 Sep 2007, 20:05.

Yeah no doors =P If you see one of these cars in RL they are nothing like a real car on the road.

I was wondering when he was going to make another go. I watched both him and Kenseth at MIS in Wisconsin before they went big. Both very good drivers. Kenseth has the edge on him though and Kvapil would stuggle against him. Could have been down to the car though too.

Hehe, no it's not =)

I could easily put my car into the 11's. Just add the S3 kit and a few other little HP goodies(total cost £2500) bringing the car around 350-400BHP and slap on a set of slicks. Guys running the S2 kit are running 12's with slicks, total cost of that is about £1000 plus the cost of slicks.

There is a big difference, but it's easily gapped

You still wanting to do some tracktime Chris? How do your brakes hold up?

Makes perfect sense to me. The teams running in Nextel will have literally hundereds of cars to get rid of, instead of pumping them into the local short-track scene they are being put to good use with different body shells on them. They will remain the same cars, but different bodywork. Making the Bush series a very cheapish division to run in, until the cars run out that is.

There isn't much of a difference now between the car makes. the bodies are nothing like their real life counterparts. Running a different skin is not going to change that =P They all produce about the same hp and torque. There are subtle differences in the areo, but cup cars now are nothing like they are in their every day counterparts. It's all about marketing now more than anything. Sure it says Dodge, or Chevy on it, but you could take an RX7, put a few pieces of bodykit on it and call it a Viper. Anyways this is going OT =P It's a good move to bring the cup cars to bush, but the problem will now be making them slower than the COT cars, least IMO they should be. Chances are they would put restrictors on them to limit them to something like 600 HP or so.

I have a turbo FWD, much like the FXO for a daily driver. I will test it again today but if I point the car exactly strait at a stop I can accelerate without having to touch the wheel =)


It's mainly older FWDs with unequal 1/2 shafts that have the major torque steer problems. Newer FWD's usually don't have too much of a problem if they are designed with a factory LSD.

Quote from Becky Rose :

Both of those Viper93, about half the pit garage space and VIP passes.

If Davidson didnt crash so often i'd have said him, or Sutil, but I think most likely they'll go for a more mature driver to put alongside Hamilton.

Cool, I know paddock slots will mean that they cannot bring 1/2 their equipment. What does the VIP access grant? Easy access to the media? Scrutineers? F1 Managment?

I know once a team scores a single point FIA will fly their cars to the track for free, I think including equipment too, not sure on that. That in itself is a huge expense. My question is what was this attached to? Was it the Drivers standing or the contructors? I would assume constructors, but I have been wrong many times before.

Glad you enjoyed it!

I have taken my SRT-4, which is on par with the FXO(13.8 1/4 witha skidpad around .96 and a slalom over 70mph), out on the track and I have been around Road America for some hotlaps too in the Magnum, Charger, and Crossfire.

It does feel a bit more slippery in the game, but I think that has partly to do with the no-fear situations that happen in games that you pointed to. I think in the sim racing world you can push that much harder and thats where the slipperyness comes from. If you back off a bit and take it easy these cars stick fairly close to how they feel in RL, not exact, but they feel vaguely similar to me.

One instance that felt very similar was when I locked up the inside front coming into a slow lefthander before the big sweeper coming onto the mainstrait at Silverstone GP config. The car pushed wide and as I left off it started rotating again. It felt pretty close to what happens in the FXO under a lockup.

I hit almost 120mph on both the front and backstrait at Silverstone. I didn't have too much of a problem under entry or was that scared but I don't think I was pushing that hard under the braking. I had put in race pads and they didn't bed in properly and I was getting wheelshake under braking so I couldn't use the brakes 100%. But I can definatly see what you mean by the fear of going off, especally when the car is your baby and drive it every day =)