From the Historic Sports Car Racing School.

24 page mini manual. Not sure if it's a repost but it might be useful. And it's free so why not?!

HighPerformanceDrivingManual.pdf

Contents:
Proper Seating Position Page 4
Visual Acuity Page 4
Steering Wheel Hand Position Page 5
Heel-and-Toe Page 5
Imagineering Page 6
Braking Page 7
Oversteer and Understeer Page 7
Vehicle Control Page 8
How A Driver Affects Balance Page 9
Cornering, The Essence Of Advanced Driving Page 9
Rules Of Cornering Page 10
Types of Corners:
Long Curves Page 11
Increasing Radius Page 12
Decreasing Radius Page 13
Compound Curves Page 14
Negotiating The Corner Page 15
The Apex Page 15
Late Apex Page 15
Early Apex Page 15
The Apex and The Ideal Line Page 15
Transitions Page 16
Rules Of Transition Page 17
Putting It All Together Page 18
Do Not Be Intimidated Page 18
Goal 1 Visualizing The Ideal Line Page 18
Goal 2 Execute Your Plan Page 19
Goal 3 Keep Your Eyes Up Page 20
Goal 4 Overcome Fixation Page 21
Racing Flags Page 22
Information About the Author Page 23


Mods, please move if not in the right section.
Cheers.

Unfortunately the competition's been closed to three teams; RDT, D-pigs and iD.
It was also only open to Australian and NZ drifters.
Sorry, I should have updated this thread.

Hey guys,

We're going to be holding a drift series on Sundays either weekly or fortnightly (depending on interest).

The series will be held similar to the DA D1GP format:

- 2 competitors make 2 runs each, one leading, and one chasing.
- The runs are made over a short number of corners. (4-6)
- Scoring is based on entry, angle, speed, proximity and line.

Competition is open to all Australian and NZ drifters, so spread the word.

Add your name to the list if you're interested (and PM me your e-mail address for info, news and reminders)

1. [RDT]ERRUPT
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3.
4.
5.
etc.

We're also after a judge, so if you want to put your hand up, that would be great.

Cheers,
Jack.

Awesome, I have been waiting for something like this forever. However I can't get it to work on my PDA

I can get it to connect to lfs saying outguage is enabled and the log file says it's recieving VER and Tiny packets however no telemetry is displayed

Any ideas?
Oh, I have disabled my firewall aswell.

One thing that reallly gets me is when people say "I could care less" when they're saying that they don't care for something. It's "I COULDN'T care less" people! Honestly, think about it.

Quote from Bob Smith :

Booze not a problem:

ZOMG! lfs hipflask! :jawdrop:

Meh, I should have stayed home and played lfs instead, the new years party I went to was pretty boring.

Quote from Gabkicks :

some macs come with photoshop elements

Heh, even my old sony vaio laptop came with elements.

Well I wanted a G25. But I needed a new graphics tablet

Quote from Davo :

You really shoud've gone with a 7900GT instead of the 2 7600GS in SLI. With the 88xx cards coming out the 7900GT is gona drop in price soon so 7900 SLI goodness would be affordable. Not to mention that one 790GT is just as fast as 2 7600GS without the hassles of using nvidias dodgy SLi drivers.

Hehe, little late now. But the truth is, I got the 7600's really cheap. I'm talking like 80 bucks each. So when the time comes around I can upgrade without losing much.

Thanks mate, you're a champ. I won't be buying for a while so I maybe the pcau lot will have them in stock by then

Argh, damn you guys. I'm considering the G25 now. If I can get the G25 $400 or under, I'll probably get it.

Quote from chiapet :

I got my wheel at JB hi fi in Sydney for $400 aussie, which is a damn good price for a wheel of this quality. When I called up DickSmith, they said they could match a price of 350 if I showed them the ads, but they didn't have stock and I couldn't wait till next shipment hehe...

Damn, if I could get it at 350 that would be a certainty. Do you know where I can get the JB ads so that I could get the discount at Dick Smithe?

Also, is there a way to change the shift knob on the G25, I can't stand ball knobs

Last edited by ERRUPT, Mon 20 Nov 2006, 23:57.

Yeah, I understand the G25 wheel is much better than the DFP, but the pedal case is plastic and anything plastic under my feet feels cheap to me and I feel like i'm going to break it (size 11.5 feet)

And when it all comes down to it, I just can't justify spending nearly $500 on a gaming controller all in one hit

But anyway, I'm off to bed. Thanks for the replies guys.

Quote from tristancliffe :

I think you can, yes. But as it's (going to be) Christmas, why not treat yourself to a G25, and sell the Momo on eBay

Yes, that would be nice but the g25 is way overpriced here in oz. I'm kinda thinking long term here aswell. The way I see it, get the DFP now with a shifter, get some A1 pedals a month or two down the road, sell the momo on ebay. Then I'll have better quality pedals and possibly shifter than the g25 for roughly the same price.

Allrighty then, I recently upgraded my computer because something went bad in my old one and I couldn't be bothered figuring out what (I'll figure it out later.)

Heres the specs of my new system incase anyone is interested.
Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-SLI
AMD A64 3800+ (939)
Asus 512mb 7600gs (x2 in SLI)
2gb (2x1024) Memory
200gb Seagate 8mb HDD
Winfast TV2000 XP Expert TV Tuner

So christmas is coming up and because DFP's are starting to drop in price I was thinking about asking for one.
Now, the plane was to use my current momo's pedals as a clutch. So this means I would have two wheels plugged in. Okay, this should work right? I just won't plug the momo's AC power in so there is no FF on that wheel.

Okay, so next problem. Now that I've got a clutch, I need a H-shifter. So i was thinking of either buying an Act-Labs one or modding a joystick. So here's my question. Can I have three usb devices plugged in and working at the same time?

Thanks guys.

Last edited by ERRUPT, Mon 20 Nov 2006, 11:30.

I'm not sure if I understand what you mean.

But there's a leader board if you press F9 and F9 again to get rid of the trye info I think.

Quote from KeMoT :

He has posted the same two times... kinda weird...

Sorry I didn't realise I posted it already, I was at school and had another window open and thought it didn't post.

Here's my first render with my favourite FZR skin (not made by me).

I cheated and used one of Ian's magic scenes

Here's my first render with my favourite FZR skin (not made by me).

I cheated and used one of Ian's magic scenes

I'm right handed and I drive in Aus (so on the left hand side) I have also driven left hand drive cars with the shifter on the right. I must say I find it easier with the shifter on the left because while changing gears I can keep my dominant hand on the steering wheel thus having more control over the car.

My $0.02

You can get DFP's anywhere between 250-300 aussie dollars on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/PS2-Gen ... ZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

EDIT: Oh wait, you were talking about the G25.......My bad

Thanks for the comments guys,

Well I tried the border thing and it just didn't seem right, but I've got the 3-1

This is only my first skin btw.

Well waiting in anticipation for Australia's first world cup match to start against Japan, I decided to knock up a quick skin for the XFR. This is in no means finished, I'm looking for suggestions

I'm not quite sure about the soccer balls on the roof (My brothers sugestion)

C'mon Australia!

No, netdemon got it pretty much right although there is another form of bracket racing.

You dial in your time say 18secs and the competitor dials in say 14secs

Now because you have the slower car you get a head start of 4secs but if you go under your bracket you get redlighted.

Although the way netdemon described is how most pro races are run.

Here's a quicky I just whipped up, nothing spesh.

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room17/430887/F08%20copy.jpg

Well done man, What FPS do you get ingame and what resoulution do you run at?

Just out of curiousity, which WR do you hold....I'm to lazy to check :P