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Well i have a DELL from 2003 i think, its says intel platinum 4 on the outside and plays LFS on lowish graphics at about 60 FPS fine. Will it be good enough?

Hold the Windows key and tap pause/Break
This will show you your CPU, speed and RAM

I went along and was enjoying the racing under blazing hot sunshine. Then the heavens opened and stayed open, I got drenched.
The daft thing is that when I got home 10 miles North of there, it hadn't rained a drop! Fickle British weather

I've always loved the shape of the De Havilland Vampire :lovies3d:

Oh, great! I'm meant to be going on honeymoon to Mexico in a month!

I've got a G25 next to me here (can't be bothered to go check my car) and the shaft is 10mm (3/8") diameter. I understand that most aftermarket gear knobs fit the G25 shifter.

I think most people would want a short throw distance for racing, instead of the safe long throw of a family car. Unless anyone can advise the distance in something like a Caterham?

Lap 1, T2: Niall09 hits my back corner and spins me as we accelerate away from the hairpin. Both spin 180º, he didn't wait. He only lifted off his accelerator when he began to spin.

I was also disappointed at two other incidents by other drivers where my back corner was hit and they carried on (1 spin, 1 wiggle).

I should also complain about myself hitting the back of MP3 Astra at T1 on lap 17, I didn't account enough for him braking.

I didn't dare race the radical because it's so unpredictable over the curbs. Trying to keep concentration for an hour race is a tall order. Choose the easiest tracks and do 4 time trials for your minimum participation - or did I wimp out?

I still prefer to race the Mazda.

Wii !!
I'm addicted to Mario Kart, it's a great laugh online and with friends

Well I made it to A licence on road, but only because of the relaxation in SR penalty for the last week.
Now we'll see if my SR starts dropping because of 1 incident a race :worried:

Another bad event for me
Qualified 5th with a pb which was nice.

Sprint race: 3id guys coming together after T1 meant Niall09 was very slow through chicane. Tonnes of collisions and I saw Exodus being flipped off the track I lost a couple of places from that to FZ50s
I had a bit of damage but was able to carry on. Managed to get past Bean0 but couldn't find a way past lococost. Last lap I hit the barrier too hard coming on to the railway straight and it flipped me! Game over

Feature race: Lap 2 and DaveWS tried a pass through the sweeping curves which I didn't expect... collision, and I was sent into the wall with medium damage and at the back of the field. I couldn't face 28 laps carrying this damage so decided to pit - resigned to my fate of being bumped to the back again and playing catch up.
Changed F12 to repair damage and pressed enter to confirm, except that switches it off again (thinking of other sims). Had to pit a second time which put me 1/2 a lap down, and then had the 'joy' of hotlapping for 20 laps which is not what I joined this league for. Passed a couple and finished... oh I don't care

I subscribe to Airforces Monthly


I occassionally get a gadget mag, such as T3 or Stuff

I'd like some justice against this cold/bug which has dibilitated me for the past few days! I'm going to miss our work Christmas party also, with free booze (I must be ill)

Quote from danowat :

I think that I have failed, again, to try and make the racing close and exciting, whilst still clean, for the whole grid, which was what the rev champ grid, and similarly the ballast from last season, attempted to do, and any further seasons will drop any attempt to do this, because it just makes things overly complex whilst not achieving the overall goal.

Steady on Dan, I wouldn't call it a failure. There are varying degrees of success but this is not a failure. Face it, there is no ideal solution for what you are seeking (close racing). At least this method encourages people out of the top 5 to still turn up.

I'm full of cold and feeling rough as a badgers arse.
Hoping it clears a bit by tomorrow, haven't turned a lap there yet.

Posted my report on my team website here
I've sinced looked at the replay posted above and compared to my own. Both show Niall09 clipping me which caused my crashing out, so it can't have been lag from my end.

Quote from tristancliffe :

ISo I'm faced with getting an 8GB iPhone (I don't need 16GB as I won't fill 8GB ever), and then trying to get a separate TomTom.

What about a Nokia N95 (standard, or 8GB), or N96. They use S60 OS, TomTom is available for that. I don't know if your existing version is compatible. They also can be connected to an external GPS via bluetooth.

I bought a second hand N95 cheap, just use the internal GPS but there are several Sat Nav programs available. Love the phone, got Wi-Fi as well and a tonne of other 3rd party programs (instead of iPhone's controlling who can release programs)

Whether it is bound to a key or not is not important, the important thing after bumping someone is waiting for the them to start off again before you do, i.e. give the place up and try to pass again later.
Unfortunately this is a rare thing.

The reason I enjoy the Road Sport Cups is because of being able to use the RAC car; my favourtite car and underused elsewhere. I suppose the same fun could be had with one of the LX's which are also underused.

However, they're not touring cars so I understand the options above. I just hope you're not thinking of changing the Summer Cup from RAC+FZ5

Strange, I view it the other war around; the FZ50's zoom ahead on the straight and the RAC's can catch up through the twisties... but then I'm biased

I've got round to writing race reports for event 1 and 2, on my team page news
http://www.triple7racing.net/content/view/151/1/

Quote from sam93 :

As you cant really tell how good the graphics are from videos, I was just wondering are the graphics as good as those in LFS or better or worse?

Way better for some.
I've had to turn down my settings in an attempt to get it running smoothly so it looks worse than LFS for me.

Dan -
I didn't think I had to confirm my team since I thought you only had questions at the top of this thread for those particular teams.
I notice the sign up thread does not list Triple 7 Racing, with myself and Exodus (cmckowen). Or is that just for the teams that are not obviously apparent?

I’m looking forward to the first event. I’d just like to point out it’s not a race to get the first lap of qualifying done.

Unfortunately lots of recent league races have gone along the lines of…
Taking it easy on the outlap, trying to maintain a few seconds gap to the guy in front ready for the first flying lap – yet someone’s right up behind me and pushing to get past! They get past with only 1 corner to go to the start/finish straight, yet mess up and impede me before we’ve reached T3. :doh: :chairs:

Please consider the outlap as positioning yourself with space ahead and behind.

The ballast was aimed to bring balance.
This season it's reverse championship grid for the feature race which aims to do the same thing (the way I see it). I bet it's also to reduce dropout rate, since those doing poorly in the championship get to start near the front.

I think this is a piece of rubber that sits inside the brake spring to make it very much more stiffer.
People have been talking about this over at iRacing, a lot of people like it and claim they are less susceptable to locking up the brakes now. Others say it's too stiff, but I think you're meant to short calibrate your brake to the pressure you like.

Shorter brake travel means less resolution, so people have been combining it with Leo Bodnars Pedal to USB converter. This gives about 8 times more resolsution to the pedals than going through the wheel and Logitech driver.

I've just ordered one of these USB thingies because I've heard great things due to the higher resolution. I'm not bothered about a stiffer brake at the moment.

Edit: Just found a review of both of them on this forum... http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=48196

Last edited by P1lot, Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:12.