Quote from tinvek :

to be fair she has apparently being doing a lot of work to improve her road work and her overall performance. that sort of attitude will go a lot further with people in F1 than michael andretti's attitude did in 93 when he wouldn't believe he needed to do more and insisted on living in the US and "commuted" to test sessions and races. obviously with USF1 there won't be the distance problem but for any F1 driver to be really succesfull they need to dedicate themselves to the team almost on a daily basis so hopefully marco will learn from his father's mistake if he gets the chance.

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I wonder when you Europeans will ever realize that CART (ChampCar) and IRL are not the same. Yes, American open wheel racing has a history of sending champions to F1 only to find out that they are rejects in the eyes of international motorsports. (For various of reasons that may or may not include a lack of talent).

However, most, if not all of these failures were from CART/ChampCar. IRL is as different from CART/ChampCar as F1 is to A1GP.

Take a quick look at the driver line ups/failures that were in F1:

Alex Zanardi = CART
Michael Andretti (lol) = CART
Sebastian Bourdais = ChampCar

Now...the success that F1/euro rejects had in American Open Wheel were also all CART/ChampCar. But the story isn't the same with Indy.

Robert Doornbos (he isn't a bad driver) = struggling in Indy but impressed in ChampCar
EJ Viso = struggling in Indy

The only people I'm aware of that did well in both series were Buddy Lazier and Gil de Ferran...non F1 people.

Now, I dont want to get into the argument of which open wheel series is better...(because frankly that's a very useless argument). But the difference is absolutely stunning imho and people always confuses the two. In fact, I can't think of any IRL driver given a chance or a ride in F1. Ryan Briscoe got a test but no Indy driver has even been invited in the F1 field. Hmmm...

Quote from PMD9409 :

Watch ARCA.

You mean Always Ready to Cause Accidents?

Quote from The Very End :

Haha, you win
Well, if the admin doesn't see that, and you don't get banned it's a win. Might a little selfish, but hell, you won didn't ya?

+1 vote ban

Quote from Victor :

Have you already done some test races and/or have you already got sign ups? In other words, is the league tested and ready to start for real? I cannot find any information on that.
The reason I ask is because I don't want to keep adding subsections for leagues that may not work. A subsection does not make a league successful and I do not want to clutter our forum with sections that become redundant quickly.

We've (AW and **) actually been discussing this league for quite a while now. We've been talking about servers, the mod, and tracks.

While we haven't done any online test races, each of the admins (and potential competitors who were interested) have tested the car and tracks offline.

I've also had a few people interested in the league asking me to reserve places and the admin list is basically set and burnsy was kind enough to offer us a server for league purposes (which is currently online now).

So I would say that we are reasonably prepared and ready to go. I would not have asked a section if otherwise. May we have a section please?

Quote from Vangaurd :

Hey mate just got your email and id love to join the team.


username:Vangaurd
nickname:Vangaurd
preferred car number:22
motorsports discipline: Race

Get back to me

Since this is an invitation there shouldn't be any problems. Go ahead and post in our official forums

Quote from mythdat :

Most likely is Gené, he at least won Le Mans this year

Jean Denis Deletraz has 3 Le Mans class wins...doesn't make his eligibility in F1 any better.

The idea that talent can "cover all grounds" or talented people can hop around is overrated....

Bourdais isn't bad. Have seen worse, and it isn't like Toro Rosso is the best environment/car to be in anyways. But it's all circumstantial and Bourdais' situation was highly circumstantial. I mean, look at Massa. He wasn't exactly impressive before going over to Ferrarri....and look at him now.

F1's weird like that

Quote from J@tko :

IIRC Bob made it have too much engine power as the transmission losses in LFS are bigger than IRL. So it has the same wheel bhp

Oooooh...ok glad to see it's accurate then.

Quote from AstroBoy :

Does anyone have the correct skin layout, i see all the black spots randomly on the skins. Mostly where it joins.

Yeah, I was going to see if I can make a small skin pack for the FXO.

Excuse me but I would like some clarification on the mod. I took a quick look at the engine specs and i'm slightly confused. Does 900 plus bhp seem a little too much power since a CoT's hp is 850? The rpms seems a bit right with 9,046 and I think bhp is lower than hp....

So idk...does it have too much power?

Hello Victor, there's a new league running.

May we have a subsection please?

name: I-SCAR
site: http://iscar.webs.com/

Mod: lizardfolk, 88Reasons, Smokey_4643

REPOST: updated banner

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I'm a little more concerned with whether NASCAR will continue to use rain tires on rainy road courses. Anyone has the answer to that?

Ahhh...much cleaner thanks ian

Quote from Mustafur :

Calder park Clockwise oval?

A race in Australia would be good as well.

Quote from Mustafur :

you can't leave the US the Rednecks will go mad.

Shhh, we're ignoring those

They hare starting to watcing USAR more than NASCAR anyways.

Regardless of what anyone says NASCAR will remain as American as V8 Supercar will always remain Australian. Even if NASCAR now goes to Mexico and Montreal while V8 goes to Bahrain.

Really nothing to complain about imho. Wish the sprint cup would go to other ventures still

Quote from evilpimp :

Lol JV rammed someone in the back IIRC because his team didn't have wipers ready xD so he couldnt see a thing... :P

Scott Pruett and Joey Logano had the same problem

NASCAR's inexperience with the rain showed that day, hopefully the same mistake wont occur again....BUT I'll be doing the rain dance at Montreal this year

Personally I'd rather see NASCAR go a little more international and go to Japan Motegi, Rockingham UK, and Eurospeedway.

Thanks very much titan

I personally liked it but I thought the ending was a little abrupt, could have used a fade

I actually do have access to illustrator but I thought all i needed was photoshop.

Thanks for the tip XCNuse

Unfortunately I have a short deadline for that logo and I dont think I'll be able to learn illustrator in time (although I will get right to work to learning it so I wont need outside help again).

Can you or someone please fix that up for me?

Hi, I need some help on a logo I'm doing

I got the overall design done but unfortunately the image is a little....messy.

I tried and tried but it was a little out of my skill range to bring up the low res image into something sharp and clean

Can someone please sharpen and clean up this image for me? The words are fine, it's the car and the wavy skidmarks that's bothering me

Eh, the only real problem with the treatment of demo users is their noobish mentality sometimes.

If I see a demo user I dont automatically switch my "animosity" mode. But if they (on the track) act like a complete muppet or spam "ZOMG ADD NFS CARS CAUSE DRIFT R0x!" then you can sure bet I will feel justified to respond in an unfriendly way.

I dont bite But I will if your purpose here is to annoy, take advantage or spam

Quote from BlueFlame :

That rain race was funny, most Nascar drivers can't handle the rain..... hahahha funny.

Wtf you talking about?

Throughout that entire green flag session not a single NASCAR driver spun out.

In fact, the only car to crash out was Max Papis...PAPIS, a ChampCar/Rolex star. The only major incident was at the end when NASCAR should have called the race cause the entire track was a massive puddle (look at videos of the race. Not even F1 could have raced in that condition).

After a few laps, all, and I mean all of the NASCAR drivers kept their cool, raced cleanly and impressively. Also keep in mind that with a stock car....yes a 100000 ton stock car, in the rain is not easy to drive and most of the drivers there have never even seen a race in the rain.

The NASCAR drivers performed admirably imho. Sure, they got owned by Ambrose, Pruett, Villeneuve, Fellows and Carpentier. But these drivers have raced in the rain before and some of these guys are even better in the rain (JV, Pruett, Fellows).

NASCAR fans and followers. With the Montreal race coming, is NASCAR allowing rain tires on road courses now as standard procedure?

I really want to see another NASCAR rain race and i hope NASCAR doesnt abandon this. (And maybe eventually lead up to Sprint)

I like NASCAR at montreal. I wish sprint cup would go there. But hey, let's have montreal rain again

Quote from niall09 :

Go back to bed.

A closed cockpit open wheel might actually look pretty cool (like closed cockpit prototypes). But I disagree that it should be standardized

Thanks for the update amp. I'll be eagerly waiting for the results of your hard work ty

Quote from Tomas Miranda :

Oh niceeeeeee

Thank you :P

Unfortunately, the guy above (Chinese) will probably lose any chance to get a slot, would be a nice idea to save a slot in each category for this guy, without him, this failure wouldn't be known I think it's a good prize for alerting about a failure in the system :P

Send him a P, so when he wake up a few hours later he can see the information.

Thxxx

Thanks for the nice thought but we got in fine. There's still some spots left when I got on so everything worked out