Quote from srdsprinter :

Chris, are you Dodge sponsored or something?

You've got a SRT-4 in the UK, and weren't you talking about a SRT-8 on Road Atlanta? If so how was it (one would imagine a bit soft)?

Anyway, gratz on your liscense!

No, I wish =P Maybe one day =)

Which SRT-8 you refering to? I did an SRT track experience at Road America and I took the Charger, Magnum, and Crossfire around the track. Topped out at 130 or so before braking off the backstrait, could probably get 135 but the braking would have been tight =)

If your refering to the Charger, I liked it, until I went into a corner =) It was very tight when trying to get the car to turn, but then we didn't have alot of laps so it could have been me.

The crossfire was nice, felt really good, but like most factory cars still too tight for me.

The magnum was amazing! I loved it, it was such a big car (over 2 ton) but it just loved those corners, the rear end kicking out every time. The instructor couldn't go fast enough and he was actually holding me up =) It helped that he had 2 people in the car though =)

If anyone knows RA it's an amazing feeling going up thunder valley into the corner on the hill with the bridge at 90+, hoping you put enough steering in to not have an off on the other side as the car goes light over the crest =)

100hours seems reasonable, would give more time for the new learners to control the vehicle. When I went for my test there were people bouncing over the curb and lurching it everywhere.

o25% pass rate?! Scary, glad I did it here =)

Quote from Christofire :

Not everyone. I had 11 lessons, passed with no minors, 35/35 on the theory. Passed the bike test the same, only that was a 3.5 day course.

Your usually the exception =P

Thanks =) It's a big relief, I was nervious all day, but the second the instructor sat in that passenger seat it all went away. Now to go drag racing at santapod this weekend trying to cut a 2.0 60' and beat my 13.77 PB with a factory vehicle =), then to a track-day to Silverstone GP config in September =)

My SRT-4, Manual.

Yeah if your starting from scratch it could be considered hard, but these are things you need to know to be able to control the car properly.

IMO the mirror checks are more of a way to let the instructor know that your wanting to be aware of your surroundings more than actually seeing whats going on.

On the 18th of July I took my theory test, I studied about 2 days before for a few hours. I passed.

I went searching for practical exam times and noticed that I was looking at about 9 weeks in my area( I had until the 18th of August to complete my UK license before they wouldn't allow me on the road) So I had found a cancellation in High-whycomb nearish to london. I took two lessesions from my neighbor who is an instructor, he didn't think I had much of a chance of passing having only 2 hours of instructor practice. Anyways today (25th July) I had the test, 2 points off! =) I was happy. He got me on poor hand control of the wheel( basically palming it, thats what I get for growing up on a farm) and he docked my for obsorvation because there was a van that was approaching the intersection very quickly and while I had plenty of room to go he said per the regs I should have waited, other than that it was flawless =)

I think it helped that the guy was a car freak and wanted to know everything about my car after I had passed my test =) He absolutely loved the ride and he could sit all day in it =)

And people say the UK test is hard!!! Attention to detail people! =)

From applying for my theory test to completing the practical it took me less than three weeks.

I haven't lived here that long but it's crazy, never seen anything like it ever.

Hey I am from Wisconsin =P Originally anyways =P

Cobra I take it your into Mopar? =P

It's been down for a good hour IIRC. I am going to have to get the boot procedure off Sam or Becky =)

Hmm maybe 106% is a bit strict, but I think having a condition like this (running within a certian % of a laptime) is good for keeping people in their proper licenses.

Like Becky said racing is more than just being able to race clean, there is also pace involved and the CTRA software reflects this. The rates might need tweaking though. Over the next week or so I will look at it and see if to me it would need changing, I think it's fairly accurate ATM though.

Sure I would love to race a slow person that knows all the rules of racing, but IMO these go hand in hand and one is increased by the other and one usually doesn't grow without the other one.

Quote from mrfell :

I live in a village about 8 miles away from Evesham and Pershore in Worcestershire and we are totally cut off because of flood water!!!
Thankfully we are not actually flooded just cut off.

My wife is currently stranded in Tewkesbury. There is no chance of her getting home today either due to the huge floods between there and home.

I know there are other drivers who live in this area and wondered how they were doing.

There is another village close by (about 4 miles) called Sedgeberrow and thet have had to be airlifted out of their homes by the Air Sea Rescue helicopters.

Nice way to start the summer............

Start of the summer? I must have missed it, I haven't seen one nice day yet!!

Your in evesham? I work in Enysham and live in Chipping Norton! =)

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

DrDNA, I asked Becky about that before we went live, and she said she looked it up on our (igloo living) government website, and said that we are 1 country with provinces and territorys, whereas the USA are States (of confustion) joined in a Union, sorta like the EU, but not really.

It is like the EU =P Just came about differently, how do you think the idea of the EU came along? =P Someone had to come up of a way to have Europe compete directly with the US =)

A State is run more like a Country would be run in the EU. Geographically each state is roughly the size of the UK so there is a big difference between state and County =)

Each state has their own set of laws and taxes and anything else you can think of is different =) Driver's licensing is one, car registration, road systems. They are all tied in, rather well, but each state maintains their own roads with little federal help.

Like I said each state in the big ole' US of A is run just like a country would be run in the EU and is entirely different than a county, which each state as around 100 or so depending on the state.

So you are saying that you crashed your car because the system made you?

Quote from Darkone55 :

This system is just bad man...

Today I went racing at FOX / As1r. I immidiatly started in front..? Appeared I had the fastest lap, yea, set in a previous life...

When you crash out in lap one, you can't rejoin. Resulting I have to go through the whole field.. Then I get spammed blue flag and stuff all over the place. I can't even see where I'm going!!

Then I drive the fastest time, so, yay, I think I'll start in front. No way, I got crashed out in the last lap, and my laptime didn't count. I'm saying "well, that's great, my laptime doesn't count because some **** crashed me out". And I get banned for saying ****. Maybe it's not polite, but this is just crazy.....

Swearing is not tolerated and IIRC it is in the agreement section when you first join in.

Saying the system is crap because some driver drove you off the road is being immature. All you had to do was report the incident and this person would have been penalized and you could carry on racing.

I am sure a ban from swearing won't last very long, keep the swearing under wraps and use the tools that are available on the system to prevent this type of driving and you will have a great time.

Wow 4 pages already, I feel so left out =P Entirely my fault =(

Quote from KeiichiRX7 :

And could someone explain to me this misconception that you cant race a stock car on a road course?

I would like to know too =) Take the body panels off and if it's a symetric chassis I could have sworn it looks like a GT spec car with a tube chassis =)

Nice Rover =) My car seems it would be relativly the same =)

That must have been an impressive accident. You can pick up a nice bit of steam before coming into T1.

I can't wait to feel the changes on a track. I remember when I ran the SRT-8 Charger at Road America. I will never forget that... Coming off the backstrait up thunder valley (I think) with a bridge on a crest of the hill with the apex literally 1-2 feet off the bridge =) Amazing feeling going over 90mph around there, car goes light and the world opens up in front of you as you slide to the outside of the track hoping that you put the right steering angle in before you crested the hill =)

I can't wait =)

Awesome pics =) great job =)

I was curious if anyone else is going to the TRAX event this year up at silverstone?

I will be going and I have booked a couple sessions on the GP course and a 0-60 test. This will be the first time my car will see track time and I am excited to see how this thing actually does =)

http://www.traxshows.co.uk/index.html

Quote from PMD9409 :

I'm sorry, but if a so called proper server is running cars with the highest amount of grip around an oval, then it is not a proper server.

Where you get that from? Formula cars run ovals all the time? Cmon people stop being so immature about all this.

FORMULA's RACE ON OVALS get over it go home and find something else to rant about.

Sure the cars physics are not perfect for oval racing but it's all LFS has at the moment, I don't see the big deal. You go back to your so called proper server and leave these guys to their proper server.

Quote from Becky Rose :

Yes but clearly Toyota did the race for a reason, they've entered it in a 24 hour race not to prove it was better than a bunch of shopping trollies, but to test the car in the conditions of a 24 hour race. Specifically, a 24 hour race so insignificant that they may have been hoping it would not get noticed...

My gut feeling is we'll see a hybrid Toyota at a real race in the not too distant future.

I can understand that, but allowing it to have it's result be official with these trollies takes away from these teams. I don't think it should have been done that way. By all means let them race, but don't let them be a part of the official standings until they are approved to race in that division. If there are other circumstances where another vehicle was allowed to post official results when they have not approved then I have nothing to stand on and will shut up =P

ROFL!!!! Nice one =)

Hehe yeah I thought it was funny myself they said it was the only GT car to be put into the field, IMO they shouldn't have even been able to post a result until the car has been approved.

They are, but not that much slower, the chassis themselves wouldn't need any altering, any changes would more than likely be in the engine.

Me too, Dodge just cannot justify pouring that amount of money into their racing program though, which is a shame =(