I wasn't...****ing stream kept being a choppy bitch.

Marco Andretti out...terrible luck Oh, and with 11 to go too.

Quote from Cornys :

I honestly expect that an Australian will win every big race this weekend

Webber won, so one down, two to go.

Had a hint at the country that will see Vaillante race with Michel Vaillant in WTCC (or so I heard)

AT Vehicle as in Anti-Tank? I put AA for Anti-Air :/

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Have some of this on your cute AA vehicle...

Gotta love the amazing use and convenience that the ignore list brings

Anyway...bye bye anti-dart system.

Isn't surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, unlike me.

Rock over scissors.

Mind if I bump this thread? It used to be hilarious back in the day, so might as well give it another shot

Carrying on from where Kirmelius left off...



Cherry blossom pwns a simple flower.

Ninja (FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-)

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There were a lot of "promising" movies with racing in mind, but they ended up being the previously mentioned cheesy nerdy shit that makes real motorsport fans cringe at said movies' fakeness.
I really hope this movie is a different matter, though. (as long as it ends up not being worse, and the "staredown" between lauda and hunt doesn't look promising at all)

Can't wait for tomorrow, 2 weeks without watching F1 is just too much! And I'm not taking any wild guesses on winners, it's still all to play for for a lot of teams when it comes to winning the race.

Whatever computer expert smart stuff he said.

Laughed at a computer joke.

Framaris just pointed it out, that's all. And after all this I'm actually starting to think that we should bring Elon back to the roster, since he actually can be arsed to log into msn

What nonsense, man? I loved reading that post You make some really interesting points about team motivation, and I'm starting to think that that's probably what's suffering the most in our training method.
When we only did SuperGT, while it was the only main league running and we had no other leagues to do, we did pretty well, carrying the bus into the Main Race a lot of times and with a fairly stable group of drivers too (but there was more luck than anything else). Problem is, I get the feeling that we're rushing too much into signing up to as many leagues as possible, when we should really only be doing one main series league at a time. We're already signed up into GT2 World Series and LFSCART, and the only thing that saves us is the long time gap between the GT2 races, but I still want to see how the drivers share their practice schedule.

About members with gifts? We could really use a skinner and talented video maker at the moment (I'm so jealous that you guys have BiTurbo in your roster), we had Chris Kasch who made skins for half the cars for last year, but they've been replaced since and a really good thing would be having the same skins for every single LFS car, which we don't.

Quote from Framaris :

Communication and maturity, it is not easy to manage ppls coming from different countries, with different mentality and ages, so respect between members is very important, leader should always handle problems internally and maturely before or right when they start. Leader have to show example and be consistent in their actions, you can’t ask drivers to act maturely if the leader act childishly… Ambiance inside the team is key!

Exactly. This one is for Ray and Matt to take notice before losing their cool and accidentally committing rep suicide in the many polemic moments that this team goes through. With that said, team environment isn't a problem since we actually get along probably better than other teams.
But one big problem is team communication, specially when preparing for races...how many of our racedays got completely screwed because of the lack of team communication...I'm starting to run out of ideas for trying to solve that part, actually :/

Quote from Framaris :

...but I accept that real life has priority and I presume they all have a good reason for it…

This. If members have to go MIA because of school, work, etc., so be it. They shouldn't waste precious studying time on simracing, real life issues always come first before having fun online in my book.

With all of that said, thank you very much for sharing your points and opinions here, now I have a little extra something to work with that might work better with the team

Am I right in saying that Petr Cech should get full credit for saving Chelsea's bacon in that final?

Sounds like he was so butthurt by the Champions League final that he started speaking half-english half-german.

Chelsea haters/Bayern fans, eat your heart out! Suck on that!!

Quote from Framaris :

THX Rui, I think I get your point, but still I can not see in what way inactive drivers interfere with your objectives, I mean I use a site like this http://tracker.ice-wolves.de/t ... /Last%20Lap%20Motorsports to see if I need to recruit or not, the only rule we have is that the inactive drivers are not allowed to complain about decisions which have been taken when they were not there. Of course I am not telling you how you should do it, but I've seen many teams doing the same and I always wondered what were the advantages in doing so?

Well...we like doing a roster cleanup every now and then

Inactive drivers don't interfere with our objectives at all, but if they didn't tell us that they were going to be inactive and if they won't do anything when we need them, then what use do we have for them?

The main advantage of getting rid of those dead-weights is that when you take out the drivers that aren't doing anything, you spend less time trying to find an active driver in the roster. And that helps specially when you need a replacement driver for an endurance race, for example.

Your rule is actually pretty good, as a sort of punishment for being MIA, I like it. But you're on Ready2Roll and Genuine Racing. So you're part of the top teams imo, and you guys have grown enough to be taken seriously by the main competition, and your many drivers are more than willing to race under your team, so there's no need to apply this kind of rules for you, because your drivers won't go MIA without warning when they're in a top team like yours.

So I guess that the conclusion I take is that this rule is made to make sure that all of our drivers participate a bit more in the team.

Quote from Framaris :

I think you evaluate the size of your team on the numbers of active members, but I don’t see why the inactive members could be a problem, I mean a team should be like a family and you don’t remove your brother from the family because he didn’t show up for a year. And I think everyone is very happy to see him if he comes back… It is not like it is costing money to keep them on the team list…any way I don’t get it, so could you explain why plz?

I'll explain. Because we want to grow as much as possible, we need to make sure that the members are here to help with the team's growth by racing, being active with practicing, helping out in organising events, well, pretty much doing something useful in league racing instead of faffing about in public servers and doing nothing in the leagues.
I can tell you that at the end of last year, half (or almost half, 45-50%) of the team's roster were inactive. Only 5 or 6 out of the 20 drivers in our roster were available/willing to race in leagues, and the rest was doing nothing, either they were away from LFS or just doing nothing for the team.
So at the beginning of 2012, we put a rule that drivers who were idle for over 90 days would be removed from the team without warning, and that's how we've been acting so far. We bring in drivers who want to race and be involved in leagues, if they race and are active in the team and interact with their teammates regularly, then they earn their spot in the roster. If they end up joining the team only to go inactive without saying anything, they get kicked. Obvious exception is if they tell us they're going on a long holiday.

Quote from fatalunfair :

FZ50? Just buy a Ferrari and a Porsche and weld them together!

How about sticking an Opel Astra DTM body in a Impreza WRX chassis and tuning it to GT racing spec?

So I guess I've found something.
I found my nomination for this year's LFS Oddball Award.

Well done, you guys were always destined to win a championship sooner or later, and the talent and competitiveness of your roster proves it!
Congratulations!