Hi Guys, sorry if this is in the wrong place.

But... I havent reached my bandwidth cap for many many months... one month (3 weeks actually) of LFS and i've been capped. I have increased my cap but i am just curious what the download rate (not sure if thats even the right name) is. I currently play on CTRA and live in South Africa...

thanks

here's my skin, should i compete in the series...

Name: Darryn Lobb

Licence name: Dizzydarryn

Screen name: Darryn Lobb

Country: South Africa

Team name: NONE

I have my own skin: Yes

Last edited by Dizzydarryn, Tue, 27 May 2008 11:11. Reason : I realised i had wrong colour on windscreen, have fixed it!

Hey guys, nice to see a couple people talking real life racing.

I race in the South African production car championship. I race a Nissan 350Z for the SAM racing Dealer Team.

I raced a shelbycanam sports car last year and won the South African championship and im taking a bit of time getting used the "tin top" racing with all the Body roll...

Anywayz, i have been playing LFS for a month or so, and even tho, ive been doing most of my laps in the XFG (CTRA race 1). I thought i might be doing the wrong thing (FWD vs RWD) by racing the XFG the week before our 4th national, but i didnt struggle at all.

It definitely helped keep my eye in and i felt on it from lap 1, session 1!

Good show, love the game!!!

Quote from pacesetter :

Yes, i was just saying in terms of, would that be the kind of class you could run it in ? and they are run in VdeV

I guess is would be something similar, but as far as i know, VdeV, run duratech motors and have weight limits etc. Shelby's are relatively heavy (900kgs driver and fuel).

In terms of the car itself, a little bit bigger (bulkier) that VdeV cars. I will give u more info later. My dad was going to go over and do a drive in one of their endurance races, so he'll know exactly how the cars compare.

Shelby's are also run in SA as a one make strictly controlled formula which is slightly diff to VdeV

hmmm, the WTCC seat diesel team was here testing a lil while ago, think the fastest they did was a 1m53 odd around kyalami, and the shelby's are a 1min 47... im not so sure how they compare to a juno, they run in the VdaV series in europe right?

Quote from pacesetter :

oh right, that must be very quick

yeah, they are pretty quick. I am currently racing in SA production car championship (similar to BTCC) and the shelby is approx 9s a lap quicker around Kyalami (approx 4 km circuit)

They are great fun... www.shelbycanam.co.za and www.productioncars.co.za

Quote from pacesetter :

what chassis is that sportscar darryn?

Its a shelby chassis. the cars were originally raced in the states with different bodies and Dodge motors. They were brough into SA and motors changed to Nissan V6 motors +-300bhp with a new fibreglass body

Quote from Thunderhead :

well, I'm on it. Hope this time no one is gonna do it before me...

Cool, i look forward to see what you come up with!

so i decided to add some pictures in any case

Quote from Thunderhead :

Provide better pictures and I'll do it.

if you provide more pics of that prototype in pic number 3 I *might* make the livery of it too.*

*as long as I dont have to do them on open wheelers.

If you're keen to do something like that, i can definitely add more pics. dunno what car it would look good with. but it was quite a neat design. It was done my a graphic designer in South Africa. I won the South African sports car championship with that car so i have very fond memories. let me know if you are still keen and i can add pics.

thats awesome! thanks so much man... Great job!!!!

Anyone?

ja thats good stuff... thanks, i suppose i just need to get abbreviations for all the tracks as a starting point! but thanks guys, that helps a stack!

Quote from keith203 :

Here you go Dizzy. I wasn't able to make out several of the logos. Hopefully this is good enough.

Hey, thanks man. i've added a couple extra logo's that you couldnt see from the photo's. The funniest part was trying to do it usinng windows paint . lots of cut and paste and re paste. but its looking alright now. thanks for the help!!!

Hi guys,

I was just wondering. how do you keep track of all your different set ups? i tried a couple diff sets last night from other racers. but even now im confused already as to which ones were for which tracks etc...

do u name setups starting with track code

yup, me to, im busying enquiring as to the costs to upgrade my line so hopefully i can get it sorted soon. do you ever play CTRA race 1

Quote from Gekkibi :

Also, convince others not to use internet while you are playing.

LOL, i was spitting mad last night... Im a super newbie, but i won my first race last night. I think my next 2 games i was disconnected. lying second and then lying third (all over second place) with about 3 or 4 laps to go. I lost 2 potential podiums so u can just imagine

hmmm, server wasnt very busy hey. probably between 6 and 10 other drivers. Ive got an ADSL line (384).

Just thought of something. if my brother or someone else in the house (home network) was surfing the net, surely that wouldve made an impact.

Would upgrading to 512 help?? (obviously i assume)

Quote from Gekkibi :

1) You tried to mid-race joining too many times (It spectates you if mid-race joining isn't allowed)
2) You were not driving fast enough (In one lap)

no, its not kicking me, it says "lost connection"...

it starts lagging and then all of a sudden it gives me that?!?

hi guys, sorry to bug again, all of a sudden tonight ium getting kicked out of almost every single game. think ive only finished 2 tonight. is it cause im so far away from the actual servers?

Quote from Becky Rose :

lfsworld.net

thanks but does that also track CTRA races?

Hi Guys, just a quick one, is there anyway where we can review our last (say 10 races) results, ie, position finished, fastest lap etc without being in the game itself?

thats pretty cool man. thanks... I race a 350Z in SA so im pretty keen on them!

Quote from J@tko :

Haha - we're not that organized yet

We'll get started on this a bit after the Kyoto 500 has finished.

LOL, ok, ill keep checking!

Quote from J@tko :

Hello

Yep - Season 2 of the LFSBC will start around October-November time, and we'd love to have you compete with us

Before that, around August(ish), we'll be having a Mini-FBM Mini-series, which will be a short series with a 45% restricted FBM around a couple of AX tracks and a couple of the shorter road courses. It will only be a short series, but should be alot of fun.

Hope to see you racing with us soon

sounds great... where do i sign up?