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Nice to see that the forums aren't just full of middle aged men
Welcome to LFS!
hope you have fun, and don't let crashers etc. ruin your racing experience!
I need to get a wheel too, Using mouse at the moment, i was wondering the same sort of thing about the G25, but i'll probaly get a cheaper one
Have fun!
Welcome to LFS!
hope you have fun, and don't let crashers etc. ruin your racing experience!
I need to get a wheel too, Using mouse at the moment, i was wondering the same sort of thing about the G25, but i'll probaly get a cheaper one
Have fun!
:doh:
+1
BTW, the immature side of me is coming out.
Pics or GTFO!
Thats a joke round here btw, we're not serious :P
Cool, a girl.. I don't care unless you are a good driver and will become a member of my team
You got it wrong (and yes...I cannot believe i'm quoting from 4chan but.....) TITS OR GTFO!!!!!
LOL sorry, I know bad way to make a first impression of myself. Just ignore that as that message was more for Jatko than you
Anyways, hi, welcome to the community. I'm Lizard, the oval racer of the bunch
LFS is a very tight nit group here and you'll have loads of fun with both casual racing and serious league competition.
When do you get licensed I suggest you try out the CTRA Race 1 server. Good luck and hopefully I'll see you on the track
Heyyyy....that's gender discrimination
It was hannah who got jumped on before Laura..
Welcome to LFS! Hope we race soon.
Oh and Blakey, why not assist her in demo
Welcome to LFS! Hope we race soon.
Oh and Blakey, why not assist her in demo
I was going to put that but it does sound a tad rude
This thread doesn't make a sense anymore, imo lock.
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Wow, rereading that thread makes me laugh.
Why is there so many ancient tv show/movie jokes??? It makes me feel like I was just born yesterday
Pfft, i thought id try cars rather than busses
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It would seem 4chan's taint reaches farther than i'd expected!
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I am Assisting Laura "teaching" if you will (I'm no master by a LONG way though)
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If anyone would be willing to counsel the both of us.. that would be awesome!
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It would seem 4chan's taint reaches farther than i'd expected!
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I am Assisting Laura "teaching" if you will (I'm no master by a LONG way though)
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If anyone would be willing to counsel the both of us.. that would be awesome!
Sourpuss! -- Its a welcoming thread, people are being accommodating! Thread seems to be living up to expectation of a "hi i'm new here" thead.
Also, the 2 of us can ask joint questions here, without spamming new topics every few minutes (trust me.. we have so many questions you do NOT want us to leave this thread..)
Post a replay of you driving 
That's the best way to learn, by people telling you where you're going wrong
That's the best way to learn, by people telling you where you're going wrong
sure, please send pics and bedroom preference and I'm sure the 'counselling' could be arranged
j/k
welcome tho
Ok, ill get onto that now, by the time the replay is saved.. one of you schmucks better tell me the preferential upload site that you lot use!
Save a short replay, two or three laps, and it should be small enough to upload to the forum.
Uh, no upload sites needed unless you're going to be posting hours of driving. After you've completed what you want to show, press '1' to save an SP replay or '2' to save an MP replay and attach it to your forum post with the 'Manage attachments' feature 
thanks guys.
I'm a little dare i say.. hungover right now, ill see what i can do! be back in 10 mins or so i guess.
I'm a little dare i say.. hungover right now, ill see what i can do! be back in 10 mins or so i guess.
Hungover after a sunday... dude...
It's Tuesday...
Oh, yes, welcome to LFS and all that.
Oh fail!
its christmass! i have the week off, and damn all those who oppose me!
considering this is my 3rd day of LFS (and any sort of realistic racing in general) go easy!!
setup = "hard track" default
considering this is my 3rd day of LFS (and any sort of realistic racing in general) go easy!!
setup = "hard track" default
i thought it would be better to be consistently slow, but stay on the track.. rather than to try to show off, push myself (and the tyres) too far.
However, perhaps i should be pushing harder? i suppose ill find out when you all Critique me
However, perhaps i should be pushing harder? i suppose ill find out when you all Critique me
We were all there once.
I think the most important thing for you to remember is the old "slow in, fast out" mantra. It will shave seconds off your lap. Although to be honest you're already a bit too "slow in"...Turn 1: You brake too early and not strongly enough. Don't worry too much about locking up the wheels as you go over the crest, a little lock-up and a correction on the pedal won't hurt. Try braking HARD as soon as the kerb on the left comes into view. And KEEP BRAKING until you're about ready to turn in - you take this corner too fast on every lap and understeer off the outside (despite starting your braking too early!
)Chicane: Once you're more experienced if you get turn one right, the whole of this chicane should be an acceleration zone in the XRG. Use plenty of both the entry and exit kerbs, and try not to take too much of the apex kerb or you'll slip and lose time. It's OK to lift a little in the middle of this corner if you feel you've messed up the entry but you will lose time all the way down the back straight if you do. Remember that in corners like this with a long straight after them it's super-important to carry as much speed through them as you can while still getting on the throttle as early as possible.
Turn 3: Again you're braking a bit too early for this right-hander but finishing your braking before you've slowed the car down enough. Try braking a little later and coming off the brake progressively as you turn in. This will help give you a feel for how fast this corner should be, because (so long as you're not steering too much*) you'll spot the speed at which the car stops ploughing towards the outside and actually sticks!
Turn 4: Another corner where you need to get on the power as early as possible on the exit because from here you will accelerate all the way to the downhill right-hand turn 6, you can jump the kerb at the next corner relatively safely so don't worry too much about having a good line for turn 5, just get the throttle down out of 4 and try to muscle through 5 without slipping too much when jumping the kerb.
Turn 6: Again you're braking early and getting off the brake early - brake later!
Turn 7 (final corner): You seem to turn in too early for this one sometimes but so do I - it's hard to see the right line. If you get it right you can carry a lot more speed through it, but get it wrong and you either bounce across the grass on the exit or have to lift, and with the hill up to the start/finish straight it's a bad place to have to lift. Try turning in a little later and when you feel like you've found the optimum curve, start trying to take it a couple of mph faster until you find the limit.
Hope all that helps. It's good to see you driving the XRG rather than the XFG by the way.
* That's another thing I noticed you do a couple of times - applying more steering if the car wasn't turning in. It's a normal reaction, but it doesn't work - if the car isn't turning in the most common cause is too much speed, so you should be applying the brake, not more steering. The tyres have already given up trying to steer.
I think you need to brake harder, and either be on the brake or the throttle. You seem to be coasting before the corners and that is just waste of time, and that also means that you braked too early or slowed too much, in this case not enough sometimes.
I guess the old slow in - fast out is a good advise. Try to figure out how fast you can accelerate from the corners and hit the apex and then find out how late can you brake down to that speed maintaining a good line.
Now to test drive your set and see how is it.
edit. Well, Kev was on it earlier and more detail.
I guess the old slow in - fast out is a good advise. Try to figure out how fast you can accelerate from the corners and hit the apex and then find out how late can you brake down to that speed maintaining a good line.
Now to test drive your set and see how is it.
edit. Well, Kev was on it earlier and more detail.
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