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.

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.

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.

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.

Quote from bunder9999 :

apparently there is a big brou-ha-ha after yesterday's women's hockey game... after the game was over and everyone left, the team took to the ice for beer and cigars... except that someone was still there and photos were taken, so now the IOC is pissed. it doesn't help that one of the women is underage by BC standards (she can drink in her home province though)...

i don't see the big deal.

I for one was deeply offended. If you're not going to pull a Brandi Chastain and remove some clothing, at least have a no-holds-barred pillow fight at center ice.

Quote from The Very End :

This is just stupid, before you could say negros, but due to the fact it got classified as racism you HAVE to say a colored man / a black man, at least in Norway. I allways thought saying a black man sounds wrong, but it's the politically correct way saying it over here.

This has nothing to do with racism, and I hope your boss understand what you meant too, I see nothing that is out of line.

Well, if we canot say a colored man, a black man, a negro, what can we say? I know there is other ways describing someone other than their color of their skin, but often it's easier.

And no, I am no racist or anything, I just wonder what word I can tell to people without getting them to feel offended.

Here the latest acceptable term is "African-American." I've even seen some American newscasters refer to a black man from another country (Lewis Hamilton for example) as an African-American, which clearly, he is not.

I've always wondered if there are similar terms in other countries, such as "African-Norwegian" or "Afro-Franco."

All of this has been said before, so I hesitate to jump in...

There are a lot of frustrated people in the forum, and that's understandable. But if every LFS license holder stomps off and never plays again, that costs the devs exactly $0. I suspect even the people who are fed up and have said they "will never race again" will buy S3 if/when it comes out.

This great race sim that we'll all so passionate about is the hobby of three talented people. If you want a race sim from a large commercial development company, there are lots of other options.

Quote from UncleBenny :

Anyone else going to run the 500? I think its going to be a wreckfest but I'm going to try it, will be a SERIOUSLY long race if you don't get taken out, I'm thinking 3 hours minimum.

Is it 500 miles or 500K?

Yep, there was a caution with 5 to go (or so, I can't remember exactly) which took them into G/W/CH territory. Guys couldn't make it one lap into the G/W/CH so the caution came out all that was it.

Quote from sinanju :

Just a thought, but have you defined what $Pos is?

$Pos = GetCurrentPlayerVar("Pos");

Same for $LapsDone?

That works, thanks! For some reason I was thinking those were pre-defined variables.

Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

I have a weird/dumb question. I want to give the leader on lap 2 a drive through penalty (odd, I know) using lapper. I thought I could do it by adding a few conditions to the OnLap event.


It doesn't seem to work. Can someone enlighten me?

Thanks

I like rallycross a lot, in fact the Winter Beater Cup is half RX tracks. I'd like to see something like Race Center, but all RX. Unfortunately LFS doesn't have that many RX tracks to choose from.

Quote from Migz :

...So as soon as i come in i can take it off hold(Im guessing it'll have a hold) and put some music on instantly.
No need to wait for my PC to boot.

Not knocking you or the ipad, but we used to have a thing that would play music instantly without booting. It was called a stereo.

Quote from NitroNitrous :

Rally Masters: Race of Champions

It was the best simulator when it came, back in 2001 or so, and nowadays only the great RBR is better.

I agree 100%. Unfortunately there's the issue with PAL-8 textures and newer video cards. Makes me want to build an old spec PC just to play this game again.

I say we all take inspiration from Blackbird and hike to the meet, wherever it is.

Quote from Thunderhead :

I like some Kia and Hyundai models, simply for the fact that in my experience they have proven more reliable than some way more expensive cars that are praised for their reliability and build quality.

Crap to drive tho. But still fairly good bang for buck.

I love the look of the some of the old Sonatas. They look more like a Jaguar than most current Jags.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w ... 2-2005_Hyundai_Sonata.jpg

... and any credit or debit card will automagically convert the price to dollars too.

Hi Victor,

Can we have a subsection for The Winter Beater Cup?

Here's the signup thread:
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=64204

Here's the league webpage:
http://s3racingzone.com/wbc

The first official race is January 13th, but we had a warm up event last night.


Thanks

I have very fond memories of UF1s at FE1. I'll give this a look for sure.

Quote from Gai-Luron :

you seem to have a 5.8 version of LFSLapper. What is your previous LFSLapper install? more change in configs files between 5.8 and 5.9. Start with a freshen release 5.9.1.3 and change the exe to 5.9.1.4

Gai-Luron

You're right, I was using 5.846. When I get a chance in a few weeks I'll try with a 5.9x version.

Thanks

Quote from JO53PHS :

We managed near to that earlier this year on the NDR Public Racing Server... At least one admin was present for most of the day, and any wreckers would be dealt with a 999 ban, with warnings/kicks to people driving like prats.

This combined with shouting at people to be careful, brake in time, and give room at Turn 1 worked actually quite well. Several times we got through T1 completely incident free.

But then we all decided to go and get a life

... and we appreciate your efforts! That was a great place to race. Certainly nobody can begrudge you getting a life and going outside once in a while.

You can't expect people to admin live forever for free. So we're left with automated idiot filters, i.e. insim apps. In my experience, LFS is the only sim where there's any kind of pickup racing happening. Iracing is apparently all pickup racing, and that's because their entire system is an automated idiot filter.

Maybe the need for these systems now is a statement on the player community, but there's not much anyone can do to change that.