I instantly apologised on ventrilo, said that i will correct my mistake and let the passed cars by. So I drove all the lap in a way that would not be dangeruous and still make it possible to let them by. Until t2 i was outside anyway hoping it would get fixed but it took a whole lap. However, within one lap i had done as said and corrected my mistake and let the cars by at the point i passed them. All this i did in a as safe as possible way of course.
Yes, the raw stream capture has it completely, but the file is such a mess that so far all indexing and even encoding attempts of mine have failed to convert it into a usable (seekable) format.
Well, let me say that I started it and it was fine when I started it. I'm a damn bit busy during the race to check that the damn thing is recording every 20 minutes, Okay ? So if you could please lay off on some of this, that would be appreciated. Thanks.
It was the 28th March 2009, a Saturday morning. I was working on my skin for LFS NDR CART. I had had no time for it and that day a pre-season-event, the Kyoto 150 was on. So I tried to make an as good as possible skin and post it in time. Suddenly I saw squares in all colours on my screen. I phoned the guy where i bought my pc and he told me I could bring it there but he'd not be able to check it that day anymore. So I went to my brother's pc, did there a skin (just put the required text on Falke's template) and joined the race there. On monday I got told that the graphic card had broken. He'd put in a substitute meanwhile. So I spent all the time trying to do the best of it, which was more than hard. nvidia for some reason doesn't seem to care much about customer support and so it took those idiots more than two months to do something.
On Friday before the 400 I phoned him for the tenthousandth time to ask about any response from those morons and he told me that finally there was good news. The next day, Saturday, I got it istalled and how sweet it was. But still i had problems with it running mad as soon as performance was asked. So I thought it was gonna be a Saturday just like the one a bit more than two months ago. I joined the NDR CART server and gave it a shitty qualifying lap so that I could see how it is to be in the area where we get our yellow-safety-car-annoying races from. After all this unbelievably bad luck there obviously was nothing to loose and that was my mood even long time after the number of laps had reached two digits.
The turning point came after I had done the obligatories. There I at least was hoping to make it to the finish - no matter if lapped, crashed or whatever. So the race went on and things were getting better. Yet all the time I was just waiting for a a crash since that day would need its peak. And i was not disappointed. Coming out of turn one soon after my pit I touched Barnsley. When I first saw him spin I thought it was just another lagging he was having that race but this time it was not. He had been crashed so bad that he was doing some amazing pirouettes. I halfhearted made the best of it and was still on the leading lap. Later my problems would catch me and i would get hot tyres, which was the reason for touching Teien and damaging the right side of the car. Until the 170 / 180 laps I still was not expecting anything else but another such crap. When 190 and 200 were over I first dared hoping of a top 5 result. Then in the last laps things were ok. Finally I crossed the line with the position number 1 and it felt good.
If i race in the Kyoto 500 and get in a position to score points then sign up for LFSCART when the sign ups are available again, do the points get counted?