That's pretty fast, my pb is 1:09.9 but I probably won't have time to practice untill saturday. I'm hoping to improve a couple of tenths though.

We'll see, my goal this time is to reach round 2 while Zeug will obviously get eliminated at the first one.

Quote from J@tko :

Poor taha

Not that he needs to try very hard for those disconnections to happen.

Quote from niall09 :

I'd just like to point out that I am not from the UK. I'm Irish, so it should say (IRL) , rather than (UK)

Thanks.

Fixed, along with some minor parenthesis with wrong colors.

Hmm I should have checked before writing that... Will change later.

Thanks for pointing it out.

Hi guys, the results are already up on our website (check the Events Calendar on the right).

The standings will be up soon as we have to sort some penalties yet.

Got eliminated by Taha at first round. Didn't expected any more than this though...

We are very sorry to those that didn't have a chance to qualify, it seems there's something wrong when people keeps timing out and such.
All in all it was a pretty decent event with some great battles.. looking forward to the other events.

Quote from Minimaxman :

k this seems fairer, especially given the nature of some cars where slipstreaming plays a huge role and it's almost an advantage to start in second.

Well it is an advantage, that's why the guy with better time starts second. It sounds fair to me that those who try harder get a few advantages. But your idea isn't bad at all.

@Jack: Hm it might be wrong, I c&p'ed the rules from another place, will ask Tim later.

And no, the combo isn't a joke.

Yes, there is.

Quote from evilpimp :

Downloading, can't believe I only just saw this. Stupid homework -_-.

See, can't be a good thing to study!

Hahah that was so funny!

Hahah.. aw... ok, you won.

That's not funny.

Nothing about me... and I did pay him!

Thanks everyone.

Welcome Mackie, hope you enjoy your stay. Don't worry too much about those things, can't be much worse than our other drivers...

@Mista: lol

No way! It should be something around 20-25, I was going very fast you know.

Hey! 30s...

Getting used to it?

Things weren't as good this time for me. Small bumps here and there at the begining, plus some stuttering (damn win update), plus early damage due to trying to avoid some tyres in the chicane and hitting the wall causing understeer.

That put me in a great battle with Jack (the McIntyre one), Zeug and Predrag that last for a loooooong time... Seemed like no matter how hard I pushed and pulled away, they were there again haunting me at no time.
At this point I must apologize for the contact with Predrag... I was drafting him and he took the outside line after the s/f line, so I went on the inside. But suddenly his car appeared right where I was trying to go, tried to brake but it was too late. I blame lag. (I believe Zeug was behind me at this point so he should have had a better view)

After this I managed to catch and pass Zeug and Jack again, and build some safe gap untill the pit... wich was catastrophic! Fist I missed the spot, and then it took almost a minute to fix the damage and change tyres...

Got back behind Niall Murray (took over from Jack) and Zeug. I was pushing like hell at this point, and managed to pass Niall after some laps chasing him. I knew it was impossible to catch Zeug (gap was almost 40s). It came down to around 30s, and then the server died. :P

Edit - forgot to say two things...
1 - STD drivers were ok. Some were watching their mirrors closely and some not so much. A few (blue XRG with no skin comes to mind) were very undecided what to do when we were lapping, but no major problems.
2 - It's tied with Mr. Seidler now, we're gonna need another one!

Last edited by de Souza, Fri, 2 Jan 2009 23:51.

Quote from zeugnimod :

That was a great 1 hour and 30 minutes event.

You were going to win. :/

Yes please.

Ah ok.

Got a problem with the server?

Hi and welcome.

1) Bigger races usually mean league racing. Take a look at the League & Events section and see if you can find something you like. There are some special events (example) people do once in a while as well that generally have a higher standart of racing than pick-up servers (by higher I mean better, not necessarily faster).
Most of the online traffic happens at Europe's afternoon and night, the time we in America are generally working.

2) I don't know any company that has a LFS team. The teams are just gaming "clans", so to speak (the ones I know anyway). Sure there are some very stable and well structured teams that will provide you with plenty of servers, knowledge, etc... but they just online racing teams.
And yes they generally pick drivers based on his speed. Consistency is important as well, and I wouldn't exclude clean/fair driving and friendlyness (does that word even exist?).

3) Yes generally on the racing itself, setups and skins. Some teams are more about friendship than anything else, but they're not very common. I'm not sure about hardware, there isn't really money involved in a LFS online "career" (I think) apart from renting servers and stuff like that.

4) If you're in a team, probably.

5) Eh?

I guess you could have posted in the General Discussion forum, but not a biggie. And about the invites, try to get yourself in the servers first, and find some people you enjoy racing with. Invites will come naturally if you have the qualities.

Ok I've changed my car to XRT, so Zeug can have some competition.

Couldn't reproduce it now.