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boothy
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.144 only it seems
boothy
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Well we will surely do it for LFSF peeps in week 13, if not before.
boothy
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You've done 59 miles online in LFS - you haven't even touched the amazing bit of the game which is online multiplayer racing, you don't need shitty looking low quality BMWs and Nissans to have great racing.
boothy
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Quote from chanoman315 :Is there a LFSers iRacing league or something? I really hate that I have to wait a lot for sessions and stuff

What series are you running? If it's just rookie then you have 3 cars you can be racing/qualifying/practicing to keep you busy...

And in fact this week you can do the Grand Touring Cup at Summit Point.
boothy
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So the program says someone overtook under SC. Why would drivers do that? Do they think that they can get away with it? That says more about the admins, penalties applies for overtaking under SC and other drivers if they don't protest it.

But would you be entirely confident of the program's accuracy? I wouldn't and would probably feel the need to double check it before giving someone a race ruining penalty.

Generally with competent admins, hefty penalties and drivers that report passing under SC or who fall into line in close calls, there's no real need for this.
boothy
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No problem, for anyone else that has the same issues:
  1. it should be $mainLogoSrc and $mainLogoLink in config.php
  2. if you have not defined any classes in config.php or teams.yaml/.csv, then you need to change line 149 of stats.php to

    <?php 
            
    if ($XMLRACE['numClasses'] > 1) {
    ?>

  3. change max_execution_time to

    <?php 
    ini_set
    ('max_execution_time'90);
    ?>

    - i.e. with quotation marks
These will be included in the main zip when I next update the tracker with more stuff.
boothy
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That's the OTM you twat
boothy
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Quote from 5haz :(In the UK this is signified by stationary yellow flags and a board with 'SC' on it displayed at each marshals post

You mean waved yellow flags + SC boards.

Generally the difference between SCs/FCCs are what they are brought out for, and their length. If you had watched Petit Le Mans for instance, you'd know they are brought out in America when generally in the rest of the world they'd be covered by waved yellows and a snatch vehicle. And they last a lot longer, when you've got the danger cleared away within a lap or two, the pits are still closed and the pass by is being conducted, then the pits open for LMP/GT on separate laps, then you have the wave by, and finally back to green after what seems like ages.

Just do some searching on youtube for various international series "le mans 2011 crash" etc will get you plenty of stuff to watch and see the differences.

Actually just remembered that the Britcar 24 hour race at Silverstone was red flagged a couple of years ago in the late night/morning due to fog - basically if you can't see the next marshals' post you know there's a visibility problem!

You also have things like http://www.youtube.com/watch?f ... e&v=KzbxytdHnQE#t=40s where the last cars on a 1:16 lap collide and the car is out of the way before the leaders come back round!
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boothy
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Quote from tinvek :ITV actually stated that they did not want F1, and there's no way C4, C5 etc would be able to come up with the budget, channel 4 just made £40 million profit in total in 2010 and channel 5's former owners lost that much financing it in the first 6 months of 2010. given that BBC had to cut their costs and given that bernie has shown before now that he's quite prepared to not make a deal rather than cut the cost of it, the sky solution is probably the best outcome that was going to happen.

You forgot about http://www.graphicalhouse.co.uk/projects/channel-4 and the fact that even if Channel 4 went to Bernie with shitloads of £, he couldn't do anything because the BBC had the contract:
Quote from Bernie :

“I spoke with ITV too, and came up with the same problem as Channel 4 had. We had a contract with the BBC which didn’t run out until 2014.”

Asked if the BBC “held all the cards” when it came to selecting a co-broadcaster, Ecclestone insisted: “Yes, absolutely.

“If they (Channel 4) had said they wanted to sign a contract today to start broadcasting for 45 million pounds a year, then we would have probably done it.

“But that’s the problem. We couldn’t deal with them, even if they had wanted to.”

boothy
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Hmm that's a strange thing with the main image and empty position - any chance you could zip up your tracker folder and database, then PM/email them to me? Thanks

I had thought about that feature request, the problem is though the tracker doesn't really know when a new session has started. I could however make a page in the admin section which would delete/move the html files, I'll have a look into that.
boothy
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Quote from loud_rocker :I'm new and am not sure by what you mean by "you need to be in AU1 to see those layouts"

Go to single player, select Autocross and the layouts beginning with AU1_ should appear on the list.

To access those that sinanju mentioned, you need to press ctrl and an X and Y should appear beside the list of tracks - click on X to access, for example, FE1X_ layouts.
boothy
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Well the lack of Watkins (most popular track 2 seasons ago) in the Star Mazda is shocking yes, iRacing decided to use a schedule posted by some arsehole who has now buggered off and doesn't race - he said when challenged that it had been on the schedule for a while but then so has Road America and Sillystone! VIR is one of the least used, see http://members.iracing.com/jforum/posts/list/1490236.page

Schedule discussions will start in few weeks so it should be rectified. In the meantime use: https://docs.google.com/spread ... NLSkU3UXc&output=html
boothy
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Quote from Rappa Z :Rather annoyingly, all the tracks I bought a year or two aago have been shuffled out of my series by the new tracks so they are now completely worthless and I have to pump another pretty penny back into this whore of a game to use anything fast.

I'm calling bullshit, because no series has absolutely none of the tracks it had in the past. Either that or you bought the tracks that were hardly used anyway, so your own fault. But please, do tell us exactly what cars/tracks you have.
boothy
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Quote from J@tko :BECUZ ITS OUR RITE TO HAZ FREE F1 ON TEH BBC COS WE PAY FOR IT!?1/!/?!1/11?!/

Seriously just have a read of any F1 blog on the BBC Website that has comments. It's hilarious. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/h ... t/formula_one/default.stm

I know, some of the pro-Sky trolls are unbelievable!

Quote from Mustafur :Get over it, nearly every country has to pay for subscription fees to get international sport coverage, you are no different.

Nearly every country, however as part of the Concorde agreement F1 cannot be shown only on pay TV in the UK and other major TV markets. The BBC had a year remaining on their contract and instead of letting it lapse to allow another FTV broadcaster to take their place, they got into bed with Sky for the next 5 years. At that point, if no FTV broadcasters were willing to step up to the plate, then Bernie would have to reduce his price to keep it on FTV.

In the end it will not increase viewers contrary to what Bernie says, so for F1 it's a bad move.
boothy
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Pfft old news, heard it on MWM
boothy
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The best way to mute a driver is to remove them from the server.
boothy
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I don't pay Sky anything because it's a luxury I can't afford. £653 is the cost for 1 year of Sky with Sky Sports, and HD, or £5/month less if you don't want the full channel bundle including stuff like Eurosport.
boothy
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Well perhaps not the website, but you can watch it via http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bbc-iplayer/id416580485?mt=8
boothy
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They've said no adverts from the beginning, and if you're paying £600 for 10 races - you still need Sly Sports or Sly HD - then you'd expect that. Apart from HD practice sessions, maybe more red button stuff and watching it on your iPad while on a train or something then there's not much difference to the BBC's coverage or Channel 4's bid. In fact you could probably already watch it on the BBC website on your iPad.

Sky won't be getting anywhere near the BBC audience, which will probably fall itself, making it a losing situation all round - just because the BBC renewed their contract early.

Doesn't change anything for the majority of F1 followers without Sky - we'll still be watching it somehow!
boothy
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I went round the outside of about 3 cars in Old Hall/The Avenue, and then the inside guys wrecked Got up to 8th but was 4secs away from 6th before I failed at Hislops. The 6th placed guy half-spun down to 7th halfway through, and lost out to 6th by 0.13s
boothy
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Hardly, if you were going to buy a track for $14.95 you'd end up only having to pay $10... :rolleyes:
boothy
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I'll save you the trouble (except you go flat out around Historic bend).
boothy
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Race starts in 5 mins, be there or be a habba.
boothy
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFgS-o1hH1U&feature=feedu at least your car crashed further on away from the major carnage
boothy
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Cut him some slack, he's probably got confused by the Weegies.
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