I liked video - even though the music was "meh" and the video a bit choppy and some scenes are missing.

Looking forward to that

I'll have to skip round 1 due to festivities. See you at round 2

There's actually tons of interesting moments in those 7 races (the legendary crash in Race 1 in R4 for example ). As soon as I get my hands on an Core i7 and a cheap x58 mainboard I'll probably complete it. But it might be late December when I get that :/

I made a BC trailer/teaser thingy. I actually wanted to include more footage but my poor old Athlon 3700+ struggles recording LFS at 30 FPS (you'll probably see some scenes already that are on the brink of stuttering). The rendering & encoding is also a pain so that's all for the moment:

http://n.ethz.ch/~dnovak/download/lfsbc-muxed.zip


You'll need a H.264 capable player like VLC.

Quote from dougie-lampkin :

Most of the improvements I'd agree with, except the ballast one. If anything, more needs to be added. It was the same few racers up the front in every race, even with ballast. That's fine, as they're the fastest. But they were still pulling away from the field, even with ballast. I think they should get more ballast, to at least bring them closer to the pack

I agree on that one: There should've been more ballast.

- For worst fail I'd actually put in Joe again. Not only did he manage to miss the second SC phase in Round 2 but he also managed to crash Darryn in FP in Round 3

But since he already got that one last season I'd go for Stefan Alfons

- Most improved: I'd go for Michael Klenke or Mike Bingo. They both improved pretty well in my opinion.

- Best Driver: Darryn - who else?

- Most friendly: Tough decision because all people were friendly in this competition. I'd probably go with Joe Keaveney (for not being too harsh with me for that incident in R4 ).

I guess we can just collect the award ideas and the set up polls for each one which we deem to be good enough to be defined as an award-category?

I just remembered: I wouldn't be able to make it on 15th due to the diploma-ceremony.

Quote from dekojester :

Car 177's penalty has been reversed. I made a mistake. Penalty reversed. Results updated.

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Thank you

Entry requirements: Check

Hypothraxer; David Novak; 177

Quote from dekojester :

I observed you without the limiter from the hairpin until the green flag flew.

I will double-check this in the next 72 hours - a busy next couple coming up.

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Take your time - there's no hurry. It doesn't really matter whether I receive the penalty or not position-wise. It's just for 'correctness'

I could only check right now - and just to be sure:

We had to apply the rev-limiter at the hairpin and release it once the green flag was shown - is this correct?

In that case I don't understand why I received a 30 second penalty. I applied it before the hairpin and released it once the green flag was shown (as can be seen in the attached screenshot). Am I missing something?

You could use the awards that were used last season?

- Worst Fail
- Most Improved
- Best Driver
- Most friendly Competitor

Quote from dekojester :

- After seeing Round 5, I moved (and J@tko seemed to agree) that 37% would be a better restriction on the FBM for the MiniFBM. You'll have to join us in the MiniFBM league starting in a couple of weeks to find out, yeah ? :-)

Sign-up's haven't opened yet as far as I've seen

Surely a "Driver who got bumped off the track the most" award would be nice - I should win that!

From my point of view the Beginner's Cup was well organized and extremely enjoyable.

So I guess these few points I list can be seen as 'nitpicks':

- Less bumps from the SC after Qualifying sessions would be nice

- While the track selection was very nice we had Aston a little often on the programme. Maybe Round 4 could've been done at Westhill?

- The car selection was also very good apart from the Mini-FBM which was a bit slow and thus made Round 5 look a bit like Round 2. A less restricted car would've been better I guess.

- Maybe you could start a LFS Experienced Cup?

Quote from dekojester :

The following cars are recieving a WARNING for late formation into double file:

47
69
72
222

The following cars are recieving 30-second time penalty for failure to be on pitlimiter after being formed into double-file:

177
86
05
33
46

Car 99 is recieving a 45-second time penalty for dangerous driving actions on the start procedure which led to accordian effects in the field on both files.

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That's why I was suggesting to make a rolling start in FP - because I knew something like this would happen

Quote from J@tko :

http://i36.tinypic.com/20h0jzn.jpg

Nah we've got a while to go yet, we'll decide finally when we get to it

They could call it Masters of FZR's instead I guess. No balancing to be seen at all.

Quote from evilpimp :

And sorry Novak I REALLY didn't want to end up hitting you and damaging more but after (I think) seeing you move back 2 inchs then stop I thought you were just gunna wait a bit till it clearrs and go so I took the normal line since there was space and bang :S.

It was entirely my fault. I thought you were far away enough to let me get onto the grass but then I realized you were closing in so I did not apply full throttle - and afterwards it was too late.

So - sorry again for my mistake - it was entirely my fault.

Quote from evilpimp :

The race was... Special for me... Got slowed down by Novak at the start, I had a good start so I started pushing him but it wasn't enough so moved to outside line and passing him.

Again - my fault I thought we were supposed to run on the rev limiter until the green flag was shown but apparently we did not (or at least Ken wasn't because I almost passed him) and because of this I forgot I was in 3rd gear.

So yet again: Sorry for that mistake as well.

Everything that could go wrong did go wrong I guess

Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

I also need to say "big thanks" to David, I used his set during the race.

I guess I should hit myself for that

@Darryn: As I said - don't worry. Stuff like this happens. I did an even bigger mistake by rejoining so badly so I don't feel very well either.

Edit: And of course a big big Thank You to Deko, Jack, Joseph, Timo and Falke for organizing the events. I enjoyed it very much and all of your decisions were always spot on (yes - even the last one where I was in doubt. I guess I was still confused from the bump).

I got hit by Darryn's screensaver - then misjudged distance to Taha and shot him off. At this point the concentration was gone causing me to hit the tyre stack and damage the car. Then I received a stop-and-go for hitting Taha, additionally another stop-and-go for speeding in the pit lane (why it wasn't just a drive-through is a mistery to me). So I had to do 2 full laps with a totally damaged car and was pretty much off.

In any case - congratulations Yann for the championship and of course also congratulations for all the others who finished.

And last but not least: Congratulations Darryn for being (at least for me) the best driver in this championship. Don't worry about the bump - bad luck happens (usually to me ).

Last edited by Hypothraxer, Sat 1 Nov 2008, 22:12.

Quote from Timdpr :

Looks good! I wish I had the time/inspiration/tools to create a skin like that!

It's actually pretty easy. Download the templates from here:

http://www.lfs-gear.com/kitz.html

Open them with GIMP and off you go.

I didn't have much time to draw this one together (hence it looks a bit like the FXO skin with reversed gradient).

When can the other cars start to overtake? When the green flag is shown or only until green flag is shown AND after you've crossed the start/finish line?

Maybe we could do a practice start in the Free Practice Session?