Just for some fun, top trumps style, who's got higher stats? These are from LFS World, not CTRA.

Distance driven: 22472 miles
Fuel burnt: 6521 litres
Litres burnt per mile (fuel burnt / distance): 0.29
Laps: 10315
Average miles per lap: (laps / distance) 0.45
Podium average: 51.6%
For the above add races won, second and third places then use as a percentage of finished races.

Last edited by yeager, Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:01.

I just clicked on one of the links to an open report I have and saw the following error;

Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a0411'
Name redefined
/inc/functions.asp, line 16
dim fs,f

Calling page was;
http://www.raceauthority.com/m ... port_a.asp?ReportID=XXXXX

I replaced the reportid with XXXXX's

I'm going to be trying it out as well, i have the money, it's time I don't have... we'll see if I can get a few weekends and evenings in on it.

Quote from SamH :

Chris recently emigrated to the UK from the US..

and me visa versa.. I moved from Aylesbury (shit hole) to San Francisco (culinary delight)

UK also has the FQ400 Evo, which would eat up an STR4 no problems. The guy who built my last drift/race car (http://www.ap-tuning.co.uk/gal ... ShowItem&g2_itemId=53) has recently built a 700hp Evo 7. Not sure you'd get that sort of oomph through the front wheels.

EDITED: to say, sorry Chris, hope you don't think i'm having a pop... I just am not a fan for FF cars.

Last edited by yeager, Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:06. Reason : Apology

I've just read the SRT4 is FF? Chris are you sure people are putting 500hp through the front wheels? Sounds very high... i've driven cars with 300hp at the front and boy the torque steer was painful and it struggled with the grip.

They also released em in the UK I see... interesting Dodge is trying to have a go at the Evo/Scooby market.

Quote from jbirdaspec :

Evo X?

Evo 8 MR

Superb, thats a perfect edit Sam.. top fella.. off to drive my new Evo now

Quote from SamH :

iRacing's launch of some version of a sim racing authority isn't really a win for the CTRA in any way, shape or form.

But they are going to have to work pretty damn hard to do better than LFS & CTRA combined. LFS does need a face lift, it's starting to look, hell it always did look, very dated. But the game play and quality of racing in LFS is second to none. With the CTRA system on top, and that it is free... iRacing is going to have to be rather special. I've registered as i'm sure many here have... so lets see what transpires.

Honourable CTRA website developer types... I'd like to float a suggestion.

When I click on my National Rank in My CTRA, it takes me to the top country stats page and pops up a window which details a list of racers by country. In the US, and I am sure other countries, you also separate by state.

In the columns of the data I can sort by points, wins, fast laps etc... What i'd also like to do is sort by State (or at least filter) so I can see together all the drivers in California. I've been trying to climb position by position and it would be nice to see this data all together...

Any chance? Pretty please? With knobs on... shiney ones...

EDITED: I just realized only the US has "State", even tho i'm an ex pat, any chance still?

Last edited by yeager, Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:36. Reason : I dont do my research!

Quote from AlienT. :

Thoroughly enjoying this, but I have a question...

Me and this other chap were battling it out like mad in FOX on lap 19 out of 21 on FE3, A FJR then comes up behind us, so we're under blue flag of course. So should we both slow and let him pass? or is it up to the FJR driver to pass us as neither of us want to slow as we are having an intense race, we're not intentionally blocking the FJR but he is angry that we're not giving way easily. I know from racing in the multicalss GFC that it is upto the F08 to pass the FOX when lapping, there is no requirement for the FOX to slow and let FO8 pass. I was wondering what the rule/view of this is on CTRA?

If I am wrong then sorry to Jean Alesi

I would expect the F08 to wait and pass when he can, if you were both racing for position then you are in your right to continue that battle. Unless of course your pit manager told you otherwise

The F08 has enough power to pass you on the straights no?

That was some excellent racing, apart from running out of fuel in 2nd place, on the last lap and only needing 0.2litres to finish But I really like SS2 when it's a bit busy, the fox can actually keep pace with the F08 on the Fern Bay Green... mucho liko....

I get the error;

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'
[MySQL][ODBC 3.51 Driver]Too many connections
/inc/functions.asp, line 74


When accessing the My CTRA page... looks like the CTRA is getting popular!

Quote from Lateralus :

The "$track" screen has a list of the track records for each car. On FE Gold at least, that list is too long so it pushes the "OK" button completely off the screen and there's no way to click it.

A temp fix is to switch to a much higher resolution, if you can, and then the table should fit in the window.

Quote from SamH :

We haven't collected points information in relation to time in X-System, but it is part of X2.

Ahhhh sounds good... any chance of releasing a little tit bit of info on the new improvements in X2? Any idea on timescales?

A question for the CTRA website developers. How easy would it be to graph the acquisition of points against time? You must have all the data points, it would be nice to compare my stats over time against another racer. I often look at the 10 in front and behind me in the stats tables and wonder if they are long time racers, slowly accruing or if they are hell bent on a fast rise through the ranks, no sleep, no food, just LFS.

My gosh drifter92, sit back and read this thread in its entirety, you should be able to see why people are responding in the way they are.

I've been grip racing since I was 20 and drifting since I was about 26, and i'm now 32. I've competed in championships and had some pretty good experience on all sorts of surfaces. I have to say by far that the high speeds of tracks like Silverstone and Snetterton are the best tracks i've ever drifted... and they sure were not built for drifting, ask Sterling Moss

Here is a quick video which I edited from a DVD. I'm driving the pink Nissan. It's at Snetterton in the UK, that top bend was a 110mph, 4th gear, hand brake yank and pray drift... loved it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1195369569770518069

And this is a practice session at Silverstone on one of their big flat tarmac areas.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6475997310120561538

Both of these could easily be recreated in LFS. LFS has some awesome tracks for high speed drifts, there are some areas with decent 3rd gear transitions as well.

drifter92, go spend more time practicing than posting, you'll feel life is much more rewarding.

Last edited by yeager, Wed, 5 Mar 2008 04:37.

Read the bottom of this article for a good description on double declutching.

http://www.hiperformancestore.com/guiboDSclutch.htm

Quote from SamH :

Essentially what's being asked for, here, is what is in development now.

Fantastic... I can't wait!

Quote from The Moose :

No i don't, sorry for the upset i've caused you

No, no, fine fine, i'll keep pounding towards the Silver license and hope there is more fun to be had there.

Quote from psychometalist :

Sorry if my response was tough, didn't mean it

Eke thump, i'm not that thinned skinned

Quote from psychometalist :

I quite don't understand this. I've got 10507 points and I'm gold, then I'll start again from 10507 points and I'll be copper?

I'm saying you would have 10507 total race points, with a Gold license from the 2008 season (which you achieved a total of 4000 points in) and currently hold a 2009 Copper license with 300 points...

Quote from psychometalist :

Three servers for Race 1? Hmm... Might be nice but there are a lot of GTR fans who never ever look back to driving slow cars with road tyres for sure. That's why Race 2 has been a bit empty for a week or so (Maybe that's because everyone I know on the servers have obtained their platinum license and having a go at GTR cars or I may be wrong).

They have to open up 2 new servers (which will cost some more money) or change Race 2 and 3 to Race 1 silver and Race 1 gold and above. Which they probably will, because these servers will be empty for some time. But think about it this way, I can race 12 hours a day (for instance), and B races 3 hours a day. I'll probably get to a higher license in 3 weeks, and he'll be there in 4 months. Because of the Race 1 gold server (which was Race 2) I will progress but can't find a higher tiered server, so I have to wait for the others to climb up. Or, as I (and some more) demand a higher tiered server, this one will be closed and changed to Race 2, and the B guy will have to move to the Race 1 copper/bronze. Something we never want There is also the option to set up another 2 servers but they cost money. Without even paying a cent, I'm glad that I'm racing on very clean InSim programmed servers and I don't have the face to ask for more (an old Turkish saying).

I agree in part and hence the reason for voicing my idea, to gain some feedback and eventually, probably, actually realise it was a bad idea

Quote from The Moose :

There just don't seem to be enough Americans/Canadians playing LFS .

May well be the case here. Infact, this is the ONLY downside to leaving Aylesbury and moving to San Francisco...

Quote from The Moose :

Without wanting to sound elitist in any way, i prefer to be racing a higher standard of racer than is generally found on Race1 anyway.

Do you mean you just don't like the race 1 class cars or the standard of racing on race 1? I can imagine that once i've had a few months in GT cars that i'm really not going to like the old XFG/XRG races.

Quote from The Moose :

Race 3 has been packed for weeks (though maybe not in your timezone) It appears to have taken a downturn in the last week or so though.

This may well be my experience with the gap between Bronze and Silver. It may also be an issue with that the Single Seater classes are new and not well defined yet.

Quote from The Moose :

I appreciate the fact you are only trying to suggest ideas to get more people racing, but i just don't think this is the way.

You don't like my idea at all do you... It hurts... it really does!

Quote from psychometalist :

We, higher license holders, are having problems finding people to race on Race 2, and you say to reset all points every year? Yeah right.

I expected tough responses, and have thought through my idea and feel its worth thinking about.

Quote from psychometalist :

1) I've been working hard on my points, and I don't want them to be deleted.

I am not suggesting they are deleted, only license status is reset each year.

Quote from psychometalist :

2) On Race 1, people are still smashing each other for points to get a higher place in the results, can you imagine what will happen every january of the year? I mean, Race 1 is the only server to start with, and it's S1 so 27 connections and 20 people on the grid (Total Racers Entering X-System: 15,619). Not enough. Even when people are spread out in different time zones, it won't be still enough.

Hence my suggestion to have a Race 1 for non license/copper holders from the previous year, a Race 1 for Bronze/Silver and a Race 1 for Gold and above. This would avoid experienced racers having to "muck in with the great unwashed" I agree about server capacity however, this would be tempered to some degree because there are less higher licensed drivers, therefore the servers dedicated to them are more likely to be open for racing. Therefore the current situation with non licensed and Copper licenses having the busier Race 1.

Quote from psychometalist :

3) CTRA isn't a league, it's a bunch of servers to have friendly and competitive racing.

I agree on the league, I thought about this a lot and I think what would be achieved is some advantages of a league system, such as fresh newcomers being able to compete fairly with old timers whilst retaining the long term profile status that those who have worked hard to get to the top, stay there.

Quote from The Moose :

I put many months of effort into getting where i am and have absolutely no wish to go through it all again.

I ,and i imagine all the high licensed drivers would just go and race elsewhere rather than go through the system again.

Ouch, you make it sound like all the racing you did to get the higher licenses was arduous and unrewarding! I'm quite enjoying the progression but fear i'll be bored. In fact, there are so few racers on SS2 that getting the National B was pointless. Maybe silver status is entirely different.

Race 1 also (in the times I am racing, West coast of America) seems to always have the most racers, i'm dreading getting on the higher servers and racing with 3/4 people at a time. Again, i'm relatively new so i'm only going on the visibility of how busy these servers are.

I was just so deflated to get National B, I hope going to Silver is more rewarding. I would imagine so, I then get access to a wider variety of racing.

Quote from pearcy_2k7 :

A wheel barrow would have it in the corners though eh!

I saw a mustang today entering i280 (highway near San Francisco) and he booted it around the curved on ramp and boy that thing lumped about like a boat on the high seas. I was half expecting him to erect a mast and throw a sail to the wind in the hope of getting some mid corner stability.