Happy Birthday 1st! Cheers to longevity.

Man, I feel soo bad. Did I put my foot in my mouth or what?

Yesterday one of our members suffered a stroke and is now in the hospital.

I want to notify those that have raced with and/or know pjwon63, that he suffered a stroke yesterday and is in the hospital. Our thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family.

I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that Land Of The Free Racing is the oldest team in all of LFS.

How can that be, you have only been a team for 15 months?

Our team members combined ages are a whopping 651.
We have 16 members and our average age is 40 years 8 months.

Is any other team older?

Edit: Maybe this is the wrong place for this, if so please move it.

Appie is never as slow on the track as he his on the forums...

Mike, always one of the first to throw compliments our way... Thanks!
Look for us on our servers in the evenings, we're going to be practicing/racing for IGTC and the 24hr race in the FZR's.

Land Of The Free Racing is pleased to announce the addition of a new Provisional Member today.

With a few members becoming more active and the team gearing up for some exciting new series' of racing, we welcome, Phantom (Indiana Jim) to the team.

Great tool Bob! I often use sets that I have to mod because of my driving style. This utility has taught me much about driving with a stiffer rear end than I ever thought I could.

Quote from Indiana Jim :

I appreciate all that has been said here and the good LOTF reputation. However, it is very hard to find a team that will accept new members in this day and age. Last time I checked LOTF, R4R, Carbon, CoRe, and others, none were accepting new members.

So, that would leave someone like me to start a team, right? What other choices are there? If you want to race and be with folks of your liking, that would be the only recourse.

Joining a league as a loner is fine, in fact I belong to LOTA. But I have to wait for the right event to race as a loner. With a team you can organize your own practice races and more.

For a while here, I fought against myself restraining myself from offering to be a sub-driver on teams to cover for anyone that may miss a race. That could open doors for a permanent position in a team once they get to know you. But to this day I have split feelings of anyone taking me seriously because I am so new at this.

And so it goes. Good luck to you guys, may the moon shine your way and the wind be on your back.

I understand completely. I/we all were in that situation at one time as well.
This team was started under similar circumstances, as many are and will be.
There does seem to have been an over abundance of the "looking for a team" threads, while in the last few months so many teams have come and gone or have revolving doors.
No offense intended, I just thought it would be a bit refreshing to update the community. That is really all we use this thread for. We don't talk any spam here, try not to flame folks, just to keep the thread active. Moo!

Register on our team forum and see more of what we're up to.
http://forums.landofthefreeracing.com/index.php?

You are more than welcome to visit our servers any time. We are more apt to be online in the evenings thru the week. Good Luck and hope to see you online someday.

Last edited by MARSH2a, Wed, 4 Apr 2007 20:06.

Much chatter about new teams, team hunting etc...

So I thought I'd pull this thread back out and add a bit of an update.

In the 14 months of this teams life we have had;
27 different members.
15 of which are still members.
Of which 9 will have celebrated one year with the team by the end of this month.
4 more celebrate one year membership by the end of May.

We have been entered in the OLFSL, OWRL and SCORE's GT Challenge.
We currently have members in League Of The Americas, Sim FIA, STCC and IGTC.
We helped develope and help manage League Of The Americas

We are Husbands, Sons, Fathers and Grandfathers first.
We share an interest in each others lives as well as team related interests. We love racing and we are patriotic.

We are the Land Of The Free Racing

One of our servers is available also. Already set up for Insim Relay and will be running V5 by the end of today.

I think the hosts should make an effort to get insim relay set up so we can use LFS Spectator, or RaceWatcher if the host is running V5.

It was kind of crippling to not be able to spectate or spot in any manner.

Any ideas how to get around the Memory Access Violation?

Nevermind, I realized the zip file didnt create the trk folder. I had to copy it from a December installation of RW.

Nice work Becky, should be a usefull tool.

Last edited by MARSH2a, Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:07. Reason : answered my own Q

I can run RaceWatcher, but when I click on a server I get the Error!
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Error!
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Memory access violation
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OK
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Quote from BenjiMC :

The other safety car driver was grounded so we had a last minute sub in who didn't know, i did say that it's green from the last corner but because the driver in front of me didn't know this, half the field got left behind.

How did you say its green? On TS? We use our own Ventrilo. It needs to be done graphically.

The first lap split from position 1 to last position was 18 seconds... 13 of that on the safety lap..

What happened with the start? The first four cars went green at the point of safety car exit, or darn near. They left the whole rest of the field back. By the time the last three cars passed start line 13 seconds had passed. And the first four were thru the chicane and on theyre way down the long straight as the rest of the field was just rounding T1!

Also I dont recall seeing any indication of a green flag on the start.

Land Of The Free Racing

2048x2048...

I agree. A good rule of thumb for LFS is to use the furthest available (closest to pit exit).

Anything else risks the "car bumped from pit" bug from happening, causing pit catastrophe for the bumped car.

Quote from banshee56 :

What gives? Aren't you already part of LOTF, TypeRCivic?

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=275847#post275847

This guy did join us and that was the last we heard of him. He was a
provisional member for way too long, no activity with the team so he was just released the other day.

"What gives?" is what I've been asking for months...

Please add these two drivers to our FZR.

||| Z51L9889 (Z51L9889)
and
||| NQ (NoQuarter),

Ed is back! And we're gearing up for the launch of IGTC.

We have |||LOTF Racing B set for the IGTC schedule to allow for practice.

The LOTA FV8 and FXR Chalenges are well underway and is some great competition.

:smash3d:

Thanks for the plug! Even though the process sucked!

Land Of The Free Summer Series, not LOTA.. LOTF.

Quote from th84 :

I was in a league (LOTA Summer Series) not too long ago that had "fixed setup" races. The way they did it was, they had two "race admins" that each collected set's from half of the field. No one was allowed to pit or leave until they had sent their setup. They would look over the set's one at a time. I thought it worked out pretty well, until I got busted for not using the fixed set. (not on purpose ftr)

:ices_rofl WTF?

OBTW: LOTF Tommy you noob!

Congrats...

Team: Land Of The Free Racing
Car: FZR
Drivers: ||| MARSH (MARSH2a), ||| PJWon63 (PJWon63)