hi,
I'm currently waiting on the Jump'n'bump server - waiting for you!
I just joined the JnB-Server while 3-4 ppl were just getting started driving "The Maze"/LX4.
I then joined in after the race was over - that was as soon as I could do it. It's a fabulous combo that car on that particular layout. But all I could read as I made my way from restart to finish was: "I don't know the way" - and everyone was disconnecting in a hurry.
HEY: I would be glad to show you the way and then race you, cause one night I had the most blessing close-race, full-pack racing known on the whole lfs-ctra-system (i.e. the whole world).
I simply loved it!
Why wouldn't anybody at least try to drive something new (and maybe even fall in love with it, just as I did myself)???
*going into a state of self-despair*
edit: All there is to it: you start on a "hidden straight", just because there is nowhere else on this layout that would accomodate a full grid of racing-cars. Note that this is only the location of the start, NOT THE FINISH. You _never_ go down that particular part of the track when completing the first lap!
After that you jump over the backway, run around a loop, keep left. You are now crossing your previous jump in a right angle facing the fence of the carpark. Try to take the following right-hander by sticking to the fence as close as possible. The reason for this is: it is the beginning of the two-way part of the track, the "extended loop" that is driven "clock-wise". After coming to the other end of the carpark, you decelerate brutally and drift about 240° - you want to meet the entrance to the backway of the same piece of tarmac you have just smashed down - do not fall for the stright-forward start-line! That one, as I already pointed out, will invalidate your lap, if you chose to take it. There is only avery narrow opening back on the "two-way" street-like part of the track.
Next is that nasty little corner with the fence to the right and the ramp to the left. You will want to try and stick as close to the ramp as possible 'cause the way leads left just a few inches off it's end. You swing the car left, and then right again just to take another left hairpin (two consequtive hairpins), rund around another 3/4 circle anti-clockwise and enjoy the jump again (that you already know from the beginning of the round).
You just successfully finished your first round (and a bit) and are now ready to go to try and go around all the upcoming traffic.
Well that's all there is to it: think of it as an expanded '8'-figure with an attached U-turn to its head. Oh, and a another airstrip attached to the jump to get "airborne". Really, not that hard to figure out - there are even some signs painted onto the ground.
I admid: those signs could be easily bigger in size & number; plus fitted to more appropriate spaces ( so that people would actually notice them when going fast in a race)
I think this is the best combo out of the newly introduced ones - easily, and by some length!
Go then and try it out for once. Everyone who loves to throw his/her car about will have some great fun, guaranteed!
Cheers
DrBen
edit: thx for the racing action tonight. Was a blast!
Would be awesome to meet up again: same server, same combo, different day ;-)
I'm currently waiting on the Jump'n'bump server - waiting for you!
I just joined the JnB-Server while 3-4 ppl were just getting started driving "The Maze"/LX4.
I then joined in after the race was over - that was as soon as I could do it. It's a fabulous combo that car on that particular layout. But all I could read as I made my way from restart to finish was: "I don't know the way" - and everyone was disconnecting in a hurry.
HEY: I would be glad to show you the way and then race you, cause one night I had the most blessing close-race, full-pack racing known on the whole lfs-ctra-system (i.e. the whole world).
I simply loved it!
Why wouldn't anybody at least try to drive something new (and maybe even fall in love with it, just as I did myself)???
*going into a state of self-despair*
edit: All there is to it: you start on a "hidden straight", just because there is nowhere else on this layout that would accomodate a full grid of racing-cars. Note that this is only the location of the start, NOT THE FINISH. You _never_ go down that particular part of the track when completing the first lap!
After that you jump over the backway, run around a loop, keep left. You are now crossing your previous jump in a right angle facing the fence of the carpark. Try to take the following right-hander by sticking to the fence as close as possible. The reason for this is: it is the beginning of the two-way part of the track, the "extended loop" that is driven "clock-wise". After coming to the other end of the carpark, you decelerate brutally and drift about 240° - you want to meet the entrance to the backway of the same piece of tarmac you have just smashed down - do not fall for the stright-forward start-line! That one, as I already pointed out, will invalidate your lap, if you chose to take it. There is only avery narrow opening back on the "two-way" street-like part of the track.
Next is that nasty little corner with the fence to the right and the ramp to the left. You will want to try and stick as close to the ramp as possible 'cause the way leads left just a few inches off it's end. You swing the car left, and then right again just to take another left hairpin (two consequtive hairpins), rund around another 3/4 circle anti-clockwise and enjoy the jump again (that you already know from the beginning of the round).
You just successfully finished your first round (and a bit) and are now ready to go to try and go around all the upcoming traffic.
Well that's all there is to it: think of it as an expanded '8'-figure with an attached U-turn to its head. Oh, and a another airstrip attached to the jump to get "airborne". Really, not that hard to figure out - there are even some signs painted onto the ground.
I admid: those signs could be easily bigger in size & number; plus fitted to more appropriate spaces ( so that people would actually notice them when going fast in a race)
I think this is the best combo out of the newly introduced ones - easily, and by some length!
Go then and try it out for once. Everyone who loves to throw his/her car about will have some great fun, guaranteed!
Cheers
DrBen
edit: thx for the racing action tonight. Was a blast!
Would be awesome to meet up again: same server, same combo, different day ;-)
