BF1 forced TV view driving backwards on the dragstrip. Nah, not really, although forced TV view would be awesome for banger racing.

I may start something up in the mid-April, early-May timeframe. I'll be sure to spam all over the place and PM most of you to make sure nobody misses it.

No comments on the race yet? Maybe it's because I actually got to watch the whole race, but I thought it was pretty good. Of course the threat of rain always makes things interesting. Turn 1 lap 1 looked a lot like a public LFS server, but beyond that there was some good racing.

I was also glad to see that the broadcast crew didn't focus on Danica all the time.

I did like the excitement of the pitstops, especially the way the cars bounced coming off the jackstands.

I didn't think the race was that boring considering the nature of the track. Although with refueling gone and tire preservation is the big story, it was a little discouraging that the tires fared as well as they did. With the high temps and sand blowing on the track, this should have been a killer track on tires. Hopefully they pick compounds for the rest of the races on the soft end of the spectrum.

I hadn't posted the Screw yet for this round, so here it is. Given his connection problems pratically every round, glenh deserves a Rusty Screw at some point. I'm sure he was frantically trying to replace the tin cans and string on his router as we were forming up the grid for race 1.

Congratulations, glenh!

Oh don't worry, I'll make you learn to hate a different car next time

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Bear in mind the G string is actually tuned higher than the C string (it should be a thinner string). You're basically tuning to an open C6 chord, with the fifth (G) on what you'd expect to be the bass string.

Oh, that's different than what I thought. The toy ukes seemed to have a thicker string for the bass string. I suppose on a normal uke, the thinner/tighter string for the bass would be to even out tension? In any case, thanks for the info. Makes me want to go buy a proper uke now.

Some friends of ours have some toy ukes around the house. When I've played them I've always tuned them in fourths, like the lowest four strings on a guitar. This thread inspired me to look up the standard tuning, which is apparently the like top four strings (4th,major 3rd,4th) of a guitar. Now that I've learned something I can go home for the day.

I could have done this last week, but I was too lazy to make a trophy then, so here goes...

Congratulations to Cabby for winning his second consecutive S3R league In case you're wondering, the other one was a UF Baby R league at race2play. He ran up front most of the time and hung around for decent points even on his off nights. Even if No-Sho (hehe) had been at all the races, Cabby would have been very tough to beat. Well played, Mr. Cabby!

Quote from Cabby :

Ok, was that a real story or something you made up? If it was real I want to read the rest of what it has to say about Percy Jackson.

I made up the part until the Percy Jackson review. After that it's all Roger Ebert.

I'm going to be driving in circles for a while. We'll see how long that lasts. I'm sure whatever league I join will fall apart right after I get there, so I'll be back running another LFS league soon. I have some ideas kicking around that sound interesting to me at least.

Nice racing this week again, and congrats to Cabby and CSF for the wins. It's interesting how most people's laptimes improved by about 2 seconds in race 2. It almost seems like we've made a gentleman's agreement not to practice

Nobody stood out for the rusty screw to me, although Eau Rouge seemed to claim a few victims early in both races.

After feeding the massive pile of ballots through the Florida board of elections, we have a two way tie!

Congratulations to both T-Sho and Elderado for the dual victory. Elderado had some authentic-looking crap on his car, plus as Cabby pointed out, a great bumper sticker. T-Sho pushed the boundries of technology by coloring parts of his skin with crayons. Very retro!

Enjoy your reward!

Quote from z-ro 8 :

Maybe Brad learned to race in LFS.

Seriously though, Brad and his brother both raced years ago in the Main Event Racing series, which uses 600+ hp 2700 lb. late models on 3/8 to 5/8 mile tracks, against some pretty tough competiton. Racing against guys like Rich Roher and Gary Whipkey can either scare the shit outta you or make you a hard-nosed competitor fighting for your place and respect, so you end up carrying that behavior with you for a long time...

As a matter of fact, i think you can browse some old pics at www.maineventracingseries.com . i used to crew chief a late model on 2006/2007 in that series. Bad-ass cars.

OT:

I grew up going to Barberton Speedway (an awful track in retrospect) most Saturday nights. I remember Gary Whipkey from back then (25+ years ago :schwitz and I've seen him race with the MERS at Columbus Speedway in the last few years. Could it be the same guy?

In the case of Talladega, the right thing was NOT to back out and let a guy in. Unless the right thing was to let somebody else win. If someone is cutting across your line, you shouldn't back out to keep the guy from wrecking himself.

Everyone worships Dale Sr. because he never gave an inch to anyone. But if a pimple-faced kid drives like that he's a menace. Give Keslowski some zit cream and a soup-strainer mustache, you'd start seeing #12 stickers on the back of pickup trucks.

Voting closes at the end of March 9th (tomorrow 11:59 pm), so get yer votes in quick! Currently we have a three way tie :|

Quote from z-ro 8 :

Way to go Carl Edwards trying to kill another competitor.
What a F**king douche...

Killing a competitor is one thing, endangering fans is another. It seems NASCAR didn't think through the "let boys be boys" policy very well.

Glad you guys enjoyed it. Of course I can't take all the credit for the humor, or the good racing for that matter.

I'll second that nomination. So it is with great [insert appropriate word here] that I present Gil with his second consecutive Rusty Screw.

Last night while I was looking at the dedicated server log (trying to find evidence of Cabby cheating ), I found some pretty amusing quotes from the series participants. It's obvious that most of us spend more time on our stand-up comedy routines than we do practicing.

on Gil's unfortunate trust in LFS' fuel calculations
Feb 04 02:18:29 S3R Danke : cool chinese charaters on the skin, gil
Feb 04 02:18:39 S3R Danke : do they mean, "out of fuel?"

glenh sets a new PB
Feb 04 02:24:32 LFSW - new RB4 PB by glenh: 60:00.00 (new)
Feb 04 02:24:34 [DSR] Gil : : )
Feb 04 02:25:00 S3R Danke : within 58 minutes of the WR

polishing up on the rules
Feb 04 02:26:59 S3R Danke : you must finish to score points
Feb 04 02:27:17 RSR.haVoc : but you dont have to be finnish
Feb 04 02:27:25 [SR] Boothy : thank god

got hardware problems, call the Gil Squad
Feb 04 02:54:10 RSR.haVoc : theres a fix for yer momo pedals joe
Feb 04 02:54:17 [DSR] Gil : a large hammer?

staying up on current events in the auto industry
Feb 04 03:20:56 RSR.Celcius : the top side of my left foot is hurting me from pulling up the brake pedal
Feb 04 03:21:05 S3R Danke : RSR.Celcius - I could see your brake lights on the straights. pedal problems?
Feb 04 03:21:12 T-Sho : you have a toyota??

paging Dr. Ruth
Feb 04 03:25:40 [DSR] Gil : I wish I had signed up for UFR earlier
Feb 04 03:26:00 RSR.haVoc : i wish i woulda pulled out earlier.....dam kids

we're talkin' about practice man
Feb 18 02:14:07 [DSR] Gil : I need to mooch a set - been out of town, no time to practice
Feb 18 03:15:37 [DSR] Gil won the race

Cabby saves his divebombs for his teammates
Feb 18 02:49:55 S3R Cabby : sorry bout that T1 Gil... thought that was Dan I was against
Feb 18 02:51:20 S3R Cabby : thought I was on the inside of dan and was trying to figure out why you were sideways in my
Feb 18 02:51:42 S3R Cabby : then after about 6 laps Dan said it was you and he was behind us
Feb 18 02:52:18 S3R Danke : see, he took you out cuz he thought it was me
Feb 18 02:52:33 S3R Cabby : yeah... I'm all for taking out Dan

on one of our favorite banned lfsforum members
Feb 25 02:02:37 RSR.haVoc : get arox in here so i can go Cole Trickle on him
Feb 25 02:02:51 [SR] Boothy : oh yeah if arox joins can we have permission to wreck
Feb 25 02:03:07 S3R Danke : since I have him blocked he can't protest

professional driving instruction
Mar 04 02:29:58 S3R Danke : be sure to be careful on lap1
Mar 04 02:30:07 S3R Danke : esp. the last jump
Mar 04 02:30:21 S3R Danke : it's a mid-air braking zone, so take it easy

Gil's growing love affair with the RB4
Feb 04 01:54:11 [DSR] Gil : I'm growing to loathe this car
Feb 04 03:22:12 [DSR] Gil : I hate these POS front heavy understeering chick cars
Feb 04 03:25:47 [DSR] Gil : screw these heaps
Mar 04 03:22:12 [DSR] Gil : <bleep> this <bleep> <bleep> piece of <bleep> RB4

track: Aston North
laps: 2 races of 9 laps each
grids: race 1 random, race 2 reverse of the finishing order of race 1
server: S3 Racing Thinkin RBs
password: rust

Reminder 1: You must finish a race to score points in that race.
Reminder 2: There will be a "lag lap" immediately before the start of the first race.
Reminder 3: There is no telepitting and rejoining during the race.

Feel free to discuss pre- and post-race here, but keep it respectful. PM me for any protests.

Entries for the skin competition are closed now. Please send me a PM to vote. Anyone who raced in the series is eligible to cast a vote.

Here are the entries:

Elderado

T-Sho

RSR.JoZy

It sure was exciting last night. I had some great racing with JoZy in race 1, although I could tell his suspension was giving up, so I kind of took it easy and waited for a good spot.

Race 2 was a roller coaster for me. Getting into second early after the fracas on lap 1 off the final jump, watching Gil run away, watching Gil pit (tip: bring extra fuel to Blackwood next time ), watching Boothy serve his DT and still reel me in, then get slowed trying to put JoZy back on his wheels, then pass me back on the last lap. It was almost more than my Burger King-coated arteries could take!

I'll take nominations for the Rusty Screw. Lots of DNFs mean lots of worthy recipients. Havoc comes to mind, but anyone who gets strawberry cheesecake between races should be removed from consideration.

Cabby has locked up the championship going into the final race. Congratulations! Rumor has it that Mike Helton has joined the board of the WBC and is lobbying for a NASCAR Chase-style points reset after round 6 next year.

I think it was you that had the Toyota skin at Westhill, when oddly enough, you were having brake problems.

Quote from superbestfriend :

Is it too late to join you guys for the last couple of races?

lfs username: superbestfriend
display name: thorium

Not at all. Added

Just a reminder that voting starts on Thursday, so you need to submit your picture before then.

I've updated the layout a tiny bit on the server. I took one tire stack off the end of the sandpit and put some red and white barriers of doom behind the tires just in case anyone's feeling chippy.