Quote from jayhawk :

I mean, the Bathurst is one the great "drinking races", am I right or wrong this one, people.

Totally true. It's not just a test of endurance for the drivers, fans have been known to DNF as well.

If you guys from O/S ever get a chance to go to Bathurst, not only will you see a cracking motor race, you will see a side to Australian culture that no tourist brochure can ever (legally) show. Just don't take your girlfriend.

I just leave my wheel at full rotation so that means I'm racing with 720deg in the road cars. It took me a long time to get used to oversteer with 2.5 turns of lock but I found practising at the skidpan with the GT-T helped. Now I'm completely comfortable with it.

My early attempts at LFB in a real car invariably ended up in a screeching halt. But then I tried LFB in LFS and I started to develop a finer sensitivity with my left foot. Now I can LFB fairly confidently in real cars, but I rarely attempt it in manuals because I'm usually changing gear (and therefore using my left foot on the clutch) when under brakes. Consequently, I only LFB for fleeting moments when tuning my line mid corner.

But in an auto my left foot gets bored and it's LFB all the way.

Quote from Blackout :

If there is more grip and cars are more easier to control, why not? But its good they reset them.

I don't think lack of grip is the problem with LFS. Surely the devs know how to simulate grip in steady state cornering correctly - it should be very easy to verify. It's the transient behaviour of the tires that is probably the subject of the next patch.

No intakes are better than fake intakes...

http://bradbarnett.net/mustang ... 1999FordMustang-14-WP.jpg

http://bradbarnett.net/mustang ... 1999FordMustang-13-WP.jpg

I agree the RB4 GT has the same front as the Supra but the proportions are completely different. To me it looks a lot like a Celica GT4 (check out the rear spoiler, the side profile and the bonnet intake) with a Supra nose grafted on.

http://images.google.com.au/im ... 6hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

Also the RB4 and Celica GT4 are very similar mechanically.

It's in Options --> Player

Very useful information. I always thought people were flat shifting during races...

I agree that lifting off during upshifts is more natural and I seem to get cleaner sounding shifts (dunno if it helps my pace).

Thanks. I'll keep experimenting with it to see which I prefer.

Besides the greater sense of involvement that comes from controlling the engine revs during a shift, is there any advantage to turning off the 'throttle cut on upshift' and 'throttle blip on downshift' assists if I am using auto clutch? (I don't have a clutch).

I just bought S2 as a reward to myself for finishing my thesis!



Had I bought it before, I'd be repeating in next year...

Lotus obviously takes soapbox racing pretty seriously. See here