Quote from rovens :

That guide is really helpful, KY GP has just become my favorite track of the moment. Just one small request, could you also do the guides as downloadables, either PDF or Word files that are more printer friendly. Pretty Please.

Trouble is I'm not creating Word or PDFs of the track guides at this stage. I just create them straight off as a webpage. I may do this at a later date but for now you'll just have to visit the site. The next guide should be done tonight with any luck and the images will be far smaller so the page should load a lot quicker.

btw it's worth registering in the forum. That way you'll receive emails of latest news like the publication of new track guides and setups.

Hi Victor,

Posting here because PM is turned off for you Victor.

I'm sure you're busy right now with patch X but I need a new subsection set up in the leagues section if possible.

The league is called 'The Gentlefoot Challenge' (GFC) and the website is www.gentlefoot.com/LFS

Is a dual class formula with FOXs and FO8s on track together Strict rules and penalties mean drivers score more points of they don't hit other cars. First meeting is scheduled for this coming Sunday.

Is it possible to get a banner ad or something for it for the forum?

Thanks mate.

James (Gentlefoot)

Quote from WildRacerUK :

Unfortunately I won't be able to make the first event has I am away on a weekend break with the missus. It's a shame really was looking forward to the first race roll on the 2nd one.

Shame mate. You won't have to wait too long for the next event.

Quote from Storm_Cloud :

No problem - shouldn't take long as it's only a 32 second lap. I like the casual way you ask for a near WR pace hotlap. I will try.

lol - I asked it casually cos I know you'll just be able to casually bang one out

FE Club/FOX guide almost completed now. Just need to stick it all together and publish it. Will be done by the end of tonight.

Quote from Storm_Cloud :

Do you want text for an FO8 version mate?

Not sure weather I will do one for the FO8 around this circuit. Let me think about it

Actually, I've thought about it and yes please mate. And if you could do a hotlap near to WR pace that would be helful too.

Nice one Storm.

OK lads, as promised I have fixed the problem that Firefox users were having viewing the video on my Track Guides pages.

I've now embedded flash which looks much nicer and I installed Firefox and all looks fine to me.

If you could all visit the page and tell me if it's working OK for you that would be great. Happy reading.

FE Club - FOX guide coming soon.

Quote from The Moose :

I wont be taking part....running a 130 odd lap race with these cars at FE club is my idea of a complete nightmare tbh, though i kind of understand your reason for running it there.

Come on mate - it'll be fun and people will soon learn that we have to be sensible with two classes on track.

Quote from andybarsblade :

i have

I only appear to have your championship entry so far mate. No entry for the event on the 27th recieved as yet. Are you competing?

There is an entry for each individual event because there are more championship entries than grid slots. The idea is that people will not make all events but we still want full grids.

First come first served basis for each event with a reserve list.

Quote from MyBoss :

Yeah, I know :P

That was allso why I came up with the idea
But you aren't planing on putting some more weight on the FO8?

Nope - no handicaps for FO8s. The whole point of my event is so that the fast cars have to negotiate the slower cars. Like when LMPs at Le Mans come up behind GTs etc.

Where are all the FOX entries?

Over 40 entrants in the championship but hardly anyone has signed up for the event.

I won't be able to run the event unless there are more entries unfortunately.

No one interested?

Quote from BigDave2967 :

That'd be awesome to practice, is this for the 27th may in particular?

Yes - 27th May is FE Club. I will not always choose this type of circuit. There will be a mixture of tight and open tracks.

Quote from FL!P :

Club is its name, Storm. It's FE1, the shortest tarmac layout (1 mi).

WR in FO8 is about 32 seconds so I have based my calculation for laps on that. This results in a 136 lap race.

This will mean lots of passing of back markers for the front runners so plenty of practice which is just what's needed in preparation for Season 1.

Preparations for the first Gentlefoot Formula Challenge are nearing completion.

There will be a 'dry run' event to be held on May 27th at 20:00 GMT (21:00 BST). Go to http://www.gentlefoot.com/LFS/forum/index.php and register on the forum. You will then be able to sign up for this event by sending me a PM stating your LFS Name, screen name and what car you will be driving (if you haven't entered the championship already).

All the information about the event is in the GFC forum.

Quote from Storm_Cloud :

Which one is Club? Green? Gold? How many laps?

I will calculate laps for the event tonight. 75 mins approximately.

Quote from Nick A :

Which server will you be FE Clubbing on?

The GentlefootFormulaRacing server will be set to FE Club from tonight.

Quote from MyBoss :

1 Race, 3 GTR cars, 3 champions, one for each car. + one overall champion

The thought is this.
With the new balancing option we can use lets say
FZR in GTR 1 division, an XRR with weight/less power
for GTR 2 division and FXR with even more weight/less
power in a GTR 3 division.


Thinking about LeMans where they drive many
car classes at the same time around the same track.
Though, there isn't really that much difference between
the fastest and the second fastest group of cars.
The ballancing have to be in a way that the classes are
uneven enough that the leader of GTR2 can't catch up
with the leader of GTR1, unless he/she makes a mistake.
But the classes have to be even enough that the fastest
GTR2 car can have a chanse to catch up with the slowest
GTR1 class car. Lets say 3 to 4 second difference between
the fastest on a track like AS Historic

Doing this in LFS means that we can change these
cars to be highly uncompetitive in a league, and we can
have races with 3 divisions at the same time (catch my drift?)


All drivers and divisions will share the same points system,
meaning that if a GTR 3 car manages to win the race (highly unlikely)
he will get the same ammount of points as a GTR1 car if it had won.
Meaning that there will be four throphy's. One each for the three GTR classes, and one overall champion. (most likely one from GTR1.)


Doing something like this in LFS would have been loads of fun,
the thing is that I don't have the time nor the spirit to manage an
event like this. This is just an idea, and I would love it if someone
made it happen.
This could allso be used with the TBO and LRF classes, maybe the
TBO and LRF classes together even.

Is anyone interested in something like this?

Sounds totally cool to me. Similar to what I'm doing in the GFC. I would enter something like this if I had time but I don't.

Well the sever is always open for public racing. Difficulty is holding a long race without having formal entries - hence doing like this so that people have a couple of weeks to sign up.

But I'll surely be on FE Club for the next couple of weeks developing a set and practicing. I'm sure there'll be a few of us.

But yeah - I may do some short notice unofficial practice runs of say 30 laps or whatever with free entry.

I have now set a date for the pre-season "dry run" event. See http://www.gentlefoot.com/LFS/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18

Points system now added to forum. The system rewards attendance and consistency.

In the forum there are now additional tips for the Track Guide added by Storm_cloud who is much faster than me. Also it was suggested that some comments should be made about the best places to pass and the most likely spots for accidents so I have also added in my thoughts about this. If anyone has any good experience racing on this circuit please feel free to contribute.

I will add a lot more content to the site this weekend. In the forum I have stated what my plans are. The next bit of work I do will be to do with the Gentlefoot Formula Challenge. I plan to add the rules for this in this weekend in anticipation that the patch X may arrive next week - yippee!

Last edited by Gentlefoot, Thu, 10 May 2007 09:49.

I like the FO8 around Aston Historic

Could I ask, please please please, can all GFC entrants go and register on the forum here http://www.gentlefoot.com/LFS/ ... ba7e4a7588179523dff773f75

If you don't you will not recieve important information about the Championship as I am not sending any more LFS Forum PMs to only 5 people at a time and having to wait 60 seconds between posts.

There are still a few of you not registered.

Thanks for your cooperation

Quote from BigDave2967 :

I'm looking forward to this championship , should be a lot of fun. Only thing I'm a tad worried about, is the lag on sundays evenings. The evenings I get dial up speed. I use virgin.net and I hear from ATC fellows that there will be an upgrade in June, so hopefully, I won't be a bother when the league gets underway .

Hope you get it sorted mate. There will be some rules regarding lag. i.e. if you are too laggy you won't be able to compete. So make sure you get it sorted dude cos I want you on the grid.

Quote from MorpheusZero :

Awesome, looking forward to some more track guides, even though I dig the TBO cars more than single seaters...

Thanks mate - apprciated. Think I may do FE Gold next. Or maybe Aston Historic.

Sorry all I haven't sorted the AVIs for FF users yet. But here is a link of you want to go and view them separately.

http://www.drivenbypassion.org/gf_guides.html

I'll embed them soon. Needed a night off last night

Last edited by Gentlefoot, Wed, 9 May 2007 08:22.