New Dimension Racing Events // GTAL 2011 (Season 2) - Round 3
6 Hours of Fern Bay Black (FE4)
You want to smoke some grass ? May you want a watch ? Or some Sunglasses i got in my pockets ? Just kidding, but we're giving you a warm welcome from the stunning seaside of Jamaica, on Fern Bay Black Circuit, where the 3rd Round of the Grand Touring Amateur League is taking its part. With 6.6 km length it is the 2nd longest track in the season and we all looking forward to have a great race here, which will be very hard for all the teams, because of its fast and slow corners, followed by short and long straights, and most important the risky chicanes with very high curbs. All in all not very much time to take a deep breath and prepare for the next corner, or concentrate on, as we'll see in the coming lines.
We've already seen some cars rolling and flipping in the Green Chicane while qualifying. This gives us some look ahead what may can happen in the race too and maybe can cause some safety cars situation. Besides this fact, we have to keep in mind that this is an amateur league, where the chance to have some cars crashing or flipping all over the place is a bit higher. But well, hope for the best, expect the worst.
The sun is shining all over the place here, its very hot outside and we can hear the seagulls singing MINE MINE MINE MINE from the coast, which is only some footsteps ahead. Right in that moment of nearly silence and idyllic moments, the powerfull GTRs starting to goose the engine and going out of the pits to find their spot on the start/finish for the upcoming long race. I'm walking through the grid and was able to speak with some racers, while some others are trying to find some break and a moment of silence, because its going to be a hard race. We also had no chance to talk with someone of Cargame.nl, because the starting driver P. Krüger was already sitting in his car, speaking some last words with the mechanican Jos Meerten and the second driver from estonia, T. Lomp. After the great result from Westhill International Circuit some teams were having their focus on them and the officials and moderators of the event also were having an eye on them too. With not such a good position 17 placement in the qualifying here, they try to do their best for sure to finish their car in a top 15 position again.
It's 15:00 UTC as the safety car with the driver Stuart Baker moves away to start the rolling race, having the polesetter R. Heijerman from Genuine Racing for the very first time in the young season there, who set a superfast 2:21:98 in his FZR, followed by DRUNK Teams M. Wentjärvi, whose teammate A. Falck set a 2:22:40 and P. Navarette of Just Driving, whose teammate E. Leyton drove on position 3 with 2:22:49. The fastest FXR was F. Gehammar who had a stunning run with a 2:22:63 he drove in the first qualyfing session earlier this week on saturday.
Here we go, GREEN FLAG as the race goes on, and already having a big mess up in the first hairpin, when A. Falkenhain of RAPTOR Racing collides with Joe Holmes and get pushed to the very end of the gravel nearly hitted the walls. He pushes the throttle hard, the tyres are spinning as he tries to get out of the gravel there, while one corner ahead in turn 2 chicane P. Krüger of Cargame.nl is having problems with the wheel and spins out there, standing across the track, but still able to continue back on position 23. After we've seen some great battles in the first 15 minutes when M. Wentjärvi does a stunning barrel roll in the Green Chicane, landing back on the tyres, damaging his suspension very hard, with no chance to continue at all, he still manages to drive the car back to the pits, but forcing the safety car coming out for the first time this race. After the first restart Heijerman still leading in front of Isaac Price and Gehammar in the strong FXR which is supposed to have some better perfomance here on the track then on all the others during the season, doing a great job so far. Simon Cattell of Adenoids Racing which is the guest team here, starting from position 18 behind Cargame.nl and almost reached position 4. Still having some problems, P. Krüger of Cargame.nl Team decided to switch the driver after just half an hour of driving on the track, trying to get some pace and positions back with T. Lomp. Still on second place we have Isaac Prace loosing the connection the server, right in the moment he flipped in Green Chicane, as the race goes on he finds the way back to the server. After the first stint goes by and some drivers changed over, the race continues with great battles in front and middle of the grid, when the safety car needs to come out again after 1 and a half hour of racing. And we will see some more safety car situations this race, to be exactly 12.. no, 13.. or was it 14 ? We couldnt even count them after many of them, mostly caused by flipping cars in the green chicane, when the cars laying on their roof next to the corner over there.
Luckily there has been many safety cars, giving the chance for Cargame.nl to stay in attacking position in front of the field, when they had a bad start, but now able to drive into top 10 position, when T. Lomp pitted and they found their way back to position 17, and some safety cars later surprisingly on position 4. In every restart they managed to defend their position, and stayed out of all the crashes happened their, sometimes forced the safety car to come out again right after. As we told this is going to be a hard race, but some teams managed to stay on track and just giving their cars some rear left suspension damage while going flat through the Green Chicane. After T. Lomp was driving 2 stints he reported that their may be some engine damage, because the car is way to slow on the straights, when he gave the wheel back to P. Krüger he noticed that too and tried to push the hell out of the car, trying to let all the cars behind them because of the very good position they got now.
And again the safety car saved their lives, when Krüger was able to move away on the restart a bit better from Falkenhain in his FZR. Everything seemed to be very fine and maybe they had to much luck during the whole race, driving their car from position 23 after Krüger messed up the start, coming in front to position 4.
4 minutes left in the race, Krüger was concentrating to much on tyre pressure, temperature, cars behavior, position, times between him and the car behind, how many time is left and how many laps that would be and because of that, Krüger lost the concentration and drove way to hard over the left inner curb of the Green Chicane and flips the car on top of the roof, when someone crashed into him and damaged the car even more, but the car of Krüger landed on the wheels again, with both front suspension damaged so heavily that he wasnt able to steer nowhere. He ended in the gravel of turn 9, when the Rescue Car tries to help him out there. Krüger was crying under his helmet, with 3 minutes left and a top 5 position this could have been the best result of the season, he doesnt gave up and still tried to make it to the pits to finish the car somewhere and earn a hand full of points. He only moved some meteres ahead, landing in the grass on the left inner side of turn 9a, still pushing the throttle, tyres spinning as right in that moment the race administration wrote that they need to spectate because the car is too heavily damaged. P. Krüger still full of anger, frustration, you could have seen him crying and shouting out loud "FOR GOD'S SAKE" under his helmet. The Safety Car was moving away for the last lap of the run with Joe Holmes in the lead, finishing the race on first place, K. Harvey made it to second place, with the best FXR position in the season so far, and finally Isaac Price finsihed 3rd, giving us some great racing and overtaking moments.
You have just seen the weirdest race in the season with 14 safety cars and many cars flipping in the green chicane, there are no words left to say than just: CRAZY. But still a fascinating perfomance of all teams, proofing that this amateur league is not amateurish enough, great racing though. Congratulations to the podium and teams that have finished this hard race. Cargame.nl is still in sorrow, when P. Krüger apalogizes a hundred times via team radio and after the race. The team was sad about this, but tried to push him a bit and told him that this is racing and you have to learn from your mistakes, for example that pushing so hard in the last 3 minutes of the race was really not that necessary. And for sure they will try to fight back in Round 4 when they are driving on maybe the most safely track, Aston Grand Touring Reversed.
(c) P. Krüger (aka M. Romboy of Cargame.nl)
Sorry, had no time enough to analyze every single lap and overtaking manouver, also the race was quite long, thats why i maybe missed out some great moments and overtakings, but still tried to make the review clear what was the main fact of the race, with all the safety car situations. Besides this i didnt try to correct all the mistakes in grammar and spelling.
Thank you to the commentary in the stream who showed and praised our team a lot of times, but on the other side this made us even more sad that we couldnt finish the race to proof our stunning performance we was surprised even by ourselfs.
6 Hours of Fern Bay Black (FE4)
You want to smoke some grass ? May you want a watch ? Or some Sunglasses i got in my pockets ? Just kidding, but we're giving you a warm welcome from the stunning seaside of Jamaica, on Fern Bay Black Circuit, where the 3rd Round of the Grand Touring Amateur League is taking its part. With 6.6 km length it is the 2nd longest track in the season and we all looking forward to have a great race here, which will be very hard for all the teams, because of its fast and slow corners, followed by short and long straights, and most important the risky chicanes with very high curbs. All in all not very much time to take a deep breath and prepare for the next corner, or concentrate on, as we'll see in the coming lines.
We've already seen some cars rolling and flipping in the Green Chicane while qualifying. This gives us some look ahead what may can happen in the race too and maybe can cause some safety cars situation. Besides this fact, we have to keep in mind that this is an amateur league, where the chance to have some cars crashing or flipping all over the place is a bit higher. But well, hope for the best, expect the worst.
The sun is shining all over the place here, its very hot outside and we can hear the seagulls singing MINE MINE MINE MINE from the coast, which is only some footsteps ahead. Right in that moment of nearly silence and idyllic moments, the powerfull GTRs starting to goose the engine and going out of the pits to find their spot on the start/finish for the upcoming long race. I'm walking through the grid and was able to speak with some racers, while some others are trying to find some break and a moment of silence, because its going to be a hard race. We also had no chance to talk with someone of Cargame.nl, because the starting driver P. Krüger was already sitting in his car, speaking some last words with the mechanican Jos Meerten and the second driver from estonia, T. Lomp. After the great result from Westhill International Circuit some teams were having their focus on them and the officials and moderators of the event also were having an eye on them too. With not such a good position 17 placement in the qualifying here, they try to do their best for sure to finish their car in a top 15 position again.
It's 15:00 UTC as the safety car with the driver Stuart Baker moves away to start the rolling race, having the polesetter R. Heijerman from Genuine Racing for the very first time in the young season there, who set a superfast 2:21:98 in his FZR, followed by DRUNK Teams M. Wentjärvi, whose teammate A. Falck set a 2:22:40 and P. Navarette of Just Driving, whose teammate E. Leyton drove on position 3 with 2:22:49. The fastest FXR was F. Gehammar who had a stunning run with a 2:22:63 he drove in the first qualyfing session earlier this week on saturday.
Here we go, GREEN FLAG as the race goes on, and already having a big mess up in the first hairpin, when A. Falkenhain of RAPTOR Racing collides with Joe Holmes and get pushed to the very end of the gravel nearly hitted the walls. He pushes the throttle hard, the tyres are spinning as he tries to get out of the gravel there, while one corner ahead in turn 2 chicane P. Krüger of Cargame.nl is having problems with the wheel and spins out there, standing across the track, but still able to continue back on position 23. After we've seen some great battles in the first 15 minutes when M. Wentjärvi does a stunning barrel roll in the Green Chicane, landing back on the tyres, damaging his suspension very hard, with no chance to continue at all, he still manages to drive the car back to the pits, but forcing the safety car coming out for the first time this race. After the first restart Heijerman still leading in front of Isaac Price and Gehammar in the strong FXR which is supposed to have some better perfomance here on the track then on all the others during the season, doing a great job so far. Simon Cattell of Adenoids Racing which is the guest team here, starting from position 18 behind Cargame.nl and almost reached position 4. Still having some problems, P. Krüger of Cargame.nl Team decided to switch the driver after just half an hour of driving on the track, trying to get some pace and positions back with T. Lomp. Still on second place we have Isaac Prace loosing the connection the server, right in the moment he flipped in Green Chicane, as the race goes on he finds the way back to the server. After the first stint goes by and some drivers changed over, the race continues with great battles in front and middle of the grid, when the safety car needs to come out again after 1 and a half hour of racing. And we will see some more safety car situations this race, to be exactly 12.. no, 13.. or was it 14 ? We couldnt even count them after many of them, mostly caused by flipping cars in the green chicane, when the cars laying on their roof next to the corner over there.
Luckily there has been many safety cars, giving the chance for Cargame.nl to stay in attacking position in front of the field, when they had a bad start, but now able to drive into top 10 position, when T. Lomp pitted and they found their way back to position 17, and some safety cars later surprisingly on position 4. In every restart they managed to defend their position, and stayed out of all the crashes happened their, sometimes forced the safety car to come out again right after. As we told this is going to be a hard race, but some teams managed to stay on track and just giving their cars some rear left suspension damage while going flat through the Green Chicane. After T. Lomp was driving 2 stints he reported that their may be some engine damage, because the car is way to slow on the straights, when he gave the wheel back to P. Krüger he noticed that too and tried to push the hell out of the car, trying to let all the cars behind them because of the very good position they got now.
And again the safety car saved their lives, when Krüger was able to move away on the restart a bit better from Falkenhain in his FZR. Everything seemed to be very fine and maybe they had to much luck during the whole race, driving their car from position 23 after Krüger messed up the start, coming in front to position 4.
4 minutes left in the race, Krüger was concentrating to much on tyre pressure, temperature, cars behavior, position, times between him and the car behind, how many time is left and how many laps that would be and because of that, Krüger lost the concentration and drove way to hard over the left inner curb of the Green Chicane and flips the car on top of the roof, when someone crashed into him and damaged the car even more, but the car of Krüger landed on the wheels again, with both front suspension damaged so heavily that he wasnt able to steer nowhere. He ended in the gravel of turn 9, when the Rescue Car tries to help him out there. Krüger was crying under his helmet, with 3 minutes left and a top 5 position this could have been the best result of the season, he doesnt gave up and still tried to make it to the pits to finish the car somewhere and earn a hand full of points. He only moved some meteres ahead, landing in the grass on the left inner side of turn 9a, still pushing the throttle, tyres spinning as right in that moment the race administration wrote that they need to spectate because the car is too heavily damaged. P. Krüger still full of anger, frustration, you could have seen him crying and shouting out loud "FOR GOD'S SAKE" under his helmet. The Safety Car was moving away for the last lap of the run with Joe Holmes in the lead, finishing the race on first place, K. Harvey made it to second place, with the best FXR position in the season so far, and finally Isaac Price finsihed 3rd, giving us some great racing and overtaking moments.
You have just seen the weirdest race in the season with 14 safety cars and many cars flipping in the green chicane, there are no words left to say than just: CRAZY. But still a fascinating perfomance of all teams, proofing that this amateur league is not amateurish enough, great racing though. Congratulations to the podium and teams that have finished this hard race. Cargame.nl is still in sorrow, when P. Krüger apalogizes a hundred times via team radio and after the race. The team was sad about this, but tried to push him a bit and told him that this is racing and you have to learn from your mistakes, for example that pushing so hard in the last 3 minutes of the race was really not that necessary. And for sure they will try to fight back in Round 4 when they are driving on maybe the most safely track, Aston Grand Touring Reversed.
(c) P. Krüger (aka M. Romboy of Cargame.nl)
Sorry, had no time enough to analyze every single lap and overtaking manouver, also the race was quite long, thats why i maybe missed out some great moments and overtakings, but still tried to make the review clear what was the main fact of the race, with all the safety car situations. Besides this i didnt try to correct all the mistakes in grammar and spelling.
Thank you to the commentary in the stream who showed and praised our team a lot of times, but on the other side this made us even more sad that we couldnt finish the race to proof our stunning performance we was surprised even by ourselfs.
wooh, i have an idea in my mind, hm will be hard to make it happen, but i'll give it a try 
i wish that would've happened to me :'(
i dont blaim to anyone, it was just a weird situation with no chance to go anywhere on the track, because there've been like 4-5 cars standing across to the racing line and blocked every single part of the track
let the admins decide, but for me its clear that this was a strange situation with no space to go/leave and avoid even moar crashes
let the admins decide, but for me its clear that this was a strange situation with no space to go/leave and avoid even moar crashes
i just remember a situation where some people in front of me crashed in turn 15 and i couldnt avoid this situation, so i spun and tried to rejoin the track safely, after several cars hit me, but for some reason the other cars didnt notice a yellow flag and didnt even try to slow down and hit me badly in the left rear
you've just seen the most weird race in lfs history
note to myself
NEVER change the priority to HIGH in the taskmanager while the game is openend
i couldnt steer anymore, the wheel was not reacting a bit, i screwed it all up
NEVER change the priority to HIGH in the taskmanager while the game is openend
i couldnt steer anymore, the wheel was not reacting a bit, i screwed it all up
FINAL ENTRY!
1. Preview: http://img84.imageshack.us/f/lx6sopreview.jpg/
2. HiRes: http://img686.imageshack.us/f/lx6sobig.jpg/
3. Original: http://img526.imageshack.us/f/lx6sooriginal.jpg/
nothing special, but still hope you like it :tempted:
1. Preview: http://img84.imageshack.us/f/lx6sopreview.jpg/
2. HiRes: http://img686.imageshack.us/f/lx6sobig.jpg/
3. Original: http://img526.imageshack.us/f/lx6sooriginal.jpg/
nothing special, but still hope you like it :tempted:
nice testrace, i guess about 30 ppl started, me on P15 or somewhere in the middle, turn 1 -> almost everybody spun except me, so i was driving on p5 a long time, until my tyres gone and laprevotte closed the gap in the last lap and i made stupid mistake in the green chicane, p6 in the end, will be great if this was the ofc. result for the mainrace 
Your Song of the Year 2010
post your favorite song you've heard in the year 2010 
chart, club, movie themes, game ... everything which is music and came out this year
for me its clearly
Hans Zimmer - Time (Inception OST)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0kGAz6HYM8
signed
chart, club, movie themes, game ... everything which is music and came out this year
for me its clearly
Hans Zimmer - Time (Inception OST)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0kGAz6HYM8
signed
first i'd like to say thank you again to Joe Holmes for helping out a lot with the setups. i'm totally noob into this. so thank you again for sharing your endurance/hotlap setups with us. in my eyes it is not usual to share setups with other teams in big events, where everybody wants to be the best, but i guess in an amateur league its more usual to help out other racers, which i find very awesome, so i raise all my thumbs up to you and the other experienced drivers for helping out that much, just after having 2 races at all
second thing is, i want to change the arb during the race, but the problem is that i'm a mouse driver and its quite difficult to change the arb during a race when you press the throttle button on your keyboard, shift and steer with the mouse. and besides this there is not much time to relax on FE4 and you must stay focused for the next corner, so its quite difficult to press several button at once to change the arb. so if anybody can tell me how to write a script that i easily can press the Numerus Plus / Minus button to quickly change the rear/front arb during the race, it would be really helpfull
thank you guys
second thing is, i want to change the arb during the race, but the problem is that i'm a mouse driver and its quite difficult to change the arb during a race when you press the throttle button on your keyboard, shift and steer with the mouse. and besides this there is not much time to relax on FE4 and you must stay focused for the next corner, so its quite difficult to press several button at once to change the arb. so if anybody can tell me how to write a script that i easily can press the Numerus Plus / Minus button to quickly change the rear/front arb during the race, it would be really helpfull
thank you guys
via amazon:
Inception DVD
Paul Kalkbrenner Live Documentary
Etui for my Sony Ericsson Vivaz
Inception DVD
Paul Kalkbrenner Live Documentary
Etui for my Sony Ericsson Vivaz
no story, stupid macho jokes, fast cars, hot chicks and it seems to be even moar action in the new one as it was in all 4 past movies, i just love it
cant wait to see it
cant wait to see it
just some random stuff i've made, nothing special. there are some mistakes with the headlights,
but it was quite hard to position them into the right place with the program i've used -> Photoscape
hope you like it anyways
if you wish to edit the original file, feel free to do so, but let me see the result :leb: :bananalla
but it was quite hard to position them into the right place with the program i've used -> Photoscape
hope you like it anyways
if you wish to edit the original file, feel free to do so, but let me see the result :leb: :bananalla
Script for Livechanging during Race
hey guys, i'm a mouse driver and for an endurance race i need a script that i can easily change the settings of the front & rear arb's during the race by pressing a key, something like Numerus Plus / Minus or something
where / how to write a script for it ?
thanks for your help
where / how to write a script for it ?
thanks for your help
teamName: Cargame.nl
number: 19
car: FXR
drivers:
reason0809, Phil Krueger, Germany
Ghost.., Tõnis Lomp, Estonia
-Joske-, Jos Meerten, Netherlands
Litro, Sandis Sietins, Latvia
19 Cargame.nl; Phil Krüger, Tõnis Lomp, Jos Meerten, Sandis Sietens
number: 19
car: FXR
drivers:
reason0809, Phil Krueger, Germany
Ghost.., Tõnis Lomp, Estonia
-Joske-, Jos Meerten, Netherlands
Litro, Sandis Sietins, Latvia
19 Cargame.nl; Phil Krüger, Tõnis Lomp, Jos Meerten, Sandis Sietens
Last edited by reason0809, .
i see many tyres and cars flying in turn 8
almost had this experience when someone is driving in front of you, you cant avoid the tyres flying around then.. so for your safety better stay half a track lenght behind the car in front of you in Qualy.. and in race, well,... hope the best, expect the worst
almost had this experience when someone is driving in front of you, you cant avoid the tyres flying around then.. so for your safety better stay half a track lenght behind the car in front of you in Qualy.. and in race, well,... hope the best, expect the worst
any reasons why Conquest Racing withdrawn from the event ?
yeah i guess i was wrong there
i mean superfast internet, which is not usual here
i mean superfast internet, which is not usual here
interesting to see that i'm not the only one with the problem
i'm having a stable 50 mbit (!) connection via LAN cable to router, so i guess theres no problem with that, as silverracer also explained the thing a bit
@dave, tried the thing without addons too, still loosing connection
i guess i'll leave the server after voting, especially in peak times
i'm having a stable 50 mbit (!) connection via LAN cable to router, so i guess theres no problem with that, as silverracer also explained the thing a bit
@dave, tried the thing without addons too, still loosing connection
i guess i'll leave the server after voting, especially in peak times
Connection Lost when Track is voted
when i'm racing on cargame.nl servers or other ones with voting system, (not sure if its just because of voting system, didnt tried out yet, because i'm not driving on other servers that much) i'm loosing the connection to the server when a new track has been voted. right in the moment its supposed to load the track i see some black screen and hear the annoying "Beep" from the game, it drops be back to the multiplayer menu and i just read "Connection Lost" in red letters
my pc is quite old, but some weeks ago lfs worked fine for me,
i didnt changed anything from the game, except the hi-res package and different slicks with the green line on it. i already re-installed it, but still doesnt work as it should work when playing online
hardware:
graphics: ati radeon 9800 pro
motherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939
cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2000 MHz (10 x 200) 3200+
memory: 2 gb
thanks for help :leb::wave2:
my pc is quite old, but some weeks ago lfs worked fine for me,
i didnt changed anything from the game, except the hi-res package and different slicks with the green line on it. i already re-installed it, but still doesnt work as it should work when playing online
hardware:
graphics: ati radeon 9800 pro
motherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939
cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2000 MHz (10 x 200) 3200+
memory: 2 gb
thanks for help :leb::wave2:
hm weather... theres just cloudy sunset, shiny daylight, and cloudy morning, all in one it doesnt effect much in driving style, if there was some rain in the game, i can imagine the videos would've been better, sliding cars, raindrops on the windows etc... but however, good luck all and i still believe i'm going to see some nice vids 
FGED GREDG RDFGDR GSFDG