I'm now a proud member of the S2 Licensed Racers club.

Welcome to the club (club?)

Welcome!

Now, say your 'other' life goodbye.

Welcome to LFS. And yes, you will become addicted, and if you try to stop, you will go through withdrawl. (I know this firsthand, I can't play LFS on my laptop in college it really sucks.) But again, welcome, I'm sure you'll have fun

Thankyou for your warm welcome. It is very much appreciated. Hopefully one day i can race some of you without erm..... sliding into you

Quote from 96 GTS :

Welcome to LFS. And yes, you will become addicted, and if you try to stop, you will go through withdrawl. (I know this firsthand, I can't play LFS on my laptop in college it really sucks.) But again, welcome, I'm sure you'll have fun

lol i know the withdrawl stuff... i stopped playing LFS for almost 4 weeks, because i had other things to do... when i played it after that i felt like a newbie again!

Quote from DanTheDon :

Thankyou for your warm welcome. It is very much appreciated. Hopefully one day i can race some of you without erm..... sliding into you

as long as you arent doing it on purpose...
a tip from me... the UF1's give the most fun out of racing (for me anyway) although they are so slow, but it makes the races alot closer! also if you do end up hitting the back of someone or accidently nudging them you have a better chance of causing no damage!if you want something slightly quicker the UFGTR/XFGTR is always good fun aswell as long as you can control your throttle well enough to stop the understeer!

hmmmm. Thankyou for your input.

Do you own that car that is in your avatar?

Are you that robot that is in your avatar?

Are you that gu... ehh... nevermind

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Are you that robot that is in your avatar?

Isn't that Marvin from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? As a sidenote, doesn't Marvin have red eyes? I'm pretty sure that's what it says in the book...

Erm no i do not own that car Wish i did. It's the brand new Ford Focus ST (SVT for USA...i think) Oh yeah and im only 15 years old so a quick answer would be no...

Will get you a picture of what i do drive though Stay tuned...

Quote from 96 GTS :

As a sidenote, doesn't Marvin have red eyes? I'm pretty sure that's what it says in the book...

Do not ever compare any film to the original book, if you plan to enjoy it

Quote from DanTheDon :

Will get you a picture of what i do drive though Stay tuned...

A car at 15 years old? Or are you going to post a picture of your push-bike?

Quote from thisnameistaken :

I've never understood this "slower cars making the races closer" business, especially when applied to the FWDs. A mistake in one of the slower FWDs can usually be recovered so easily that there is barely any lost time, so the faster guys can drive close to the limit with confidence and pull away from the slower guys easier. I did a bunch of UF1 races a couple of weeks back and they weren't noticably closer than any other race I've ever had.



That is a bonus, I agree

Well, things happen slower so there are far fewer mistakes made (car-to-car contact as well as general cornering mistakes) in the slower cars in the first place (for one thing). Also cars that brake and accelerate less quickly will experience less of the concertina effect- the gaps between cars exiting a corner will remain smaller/closer, compared with a fast car like the FO8 in which the gap (distance) between the cars will be constantly opening and closing by a large amount.
It's partly an illusion, the time differences may not be any smaller, but the distances between cars usually is, and because people make fewer mistakes and have fewer accidents with each other, I've found that it's far more common for 4 or more cars to be racing "closely" for a whole race in the slower cars than in the very fast cars.

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Do not ever compare any film to the original book, if you plan to enjoy it

That's why I never saw the film, I enjoyed the books far too much, and from what I've heard, the film is absolutely awful.

My father owns the car, i drive it at the weekend

Still hunting for picture though...

Closest i can find to my car:



Mine has:

Doors
Dark surround on the headlights
Silver
erm...

2.0i Litre 170Bhp Engine
ABS
Traction
etc..
etc..

Doors and traction eh? Gone are the times when doors and grip were option accessories...

Quote from DanTheDon :

2.0i Litre 170Bhp Engine
ABS
Traction
etc..
etc..

2003 Ford Focus ST170

One carbrand to rule 'em all!

Mine is on 04 plate.

Tristan:

Had to pay for the keys and door handles. Shocking isn't it.

Edit: Oops just realised i put "Doors" instead of 5 Doors. Lol

Quote from 96 GTS :

That's why I never saw the film, I enjoyed the books far too much, and from what I've heard, the film is absolutely awful.

To get this thread OT:

I actually thought it was quite well cast. And the first half olf the film was quite good actually, at least if you know the book. But on the second half, where it should follow the books plot straightly, it takes one or two sharp bends... from then it looses the entertainment factor of recognising the things from the book and comparing them with your own imagination, which leaves a quite boring experience...

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To get this thread OT:

I actually thought it was quite well cast.

All apart from Mos Def. Whose idea was that? I mean I like Mos Def, I like his music, he seems like a very cool guy, but... no.