Good season everyone

Not sure who ordered 50km/h tailwind in that section, but it sure worked

And notice, how even in the most extreme situations, De Loor Motorsport's pro drivers manage a daring act of incredible teamwork when tyrioda slams into Nylander's rear end, causing him fly forward like a rocket.Spectacular indeed.

Woohoo - We love you Anton!!

Good race tonight, a shame about server problems again We seem to be completely and utterly jinxed.

But no need to apologize kamo, I didn't really see anything wrong in your driving
After the disco's I was about to start chasing Filur.Then I realized I lost time to him on every lap which took me a bit by surprise, and my only hope was that he messed up, but that didn't happen unfortunately. Gratz to the winners

First off, my apologies to Mr Robi for almost ruining his race.I'm glad to see you won despite of my braindead maneuver.

Speaking of my brain, I think I must have misplaced it somewhere, because I've rarely driven so badly, it really was quite astonishing.Starting with T1 on the first lap where I went off, I proceeded to go off track at least 3 times more I think.

And I have to admit, that despite having advocated to some degree in favor of wind in past leagues, this I believe is the first time I have tried it..and I really don't like it at all.It has the unfortunate effect of spreading out the field early on, because people make more mistakes in the first couple of laps while adjusting, and on top of that, any training you may have done is less beneficial that it would normally be .On a personal level, it makes me more uncomfortable about attempting passes in general.But that's just me

In my opinion, either the format we used in the last race, or Tristan's suggestion would both be fine.Personally I am not the least concerned about the length of the quali, what bothers me with the '2-cars on track' system, is how much time you spend not driving.
As Hyper, I'd much prefer a totally different type of qualification, but I respect the league organizers decision to use a 1-lap quali system - and I can see the appeal it has to some people.I normally need a few laps to get in a good rhythm, so it'll never be something I like, or excel in..but that's another story

I do have a request though, for the people that are in such a hurry to speed things up during quali and pre-race, that they - in frustration and impatience I suppose- resort to spamming messages, some in caps. I can only speak for myself, but this annoys me a great deal, and it is certainly not conducive to the mood on the server.More importantly though, you are putting unnecessary pressure and stress on the admin, in this case Anton, to get things underway.It's a bit unthoughtful and disrespectful to be honest, and while I do realize some of you may have other things to do elsewhere, it's not Anton's or vMax's obligation to speed up things just because of that.
Anton is still learning, and you can't honestly expect him to become an elite race admin overnight- although I'm sure things will go more smoothly as we progress.

I just want a nice, relaxed atmosphere on the server - it really shouldn't be so hard to achieve.

Lastly, it would be really nice if everyone would speak english

Thanks.

Quote from filur :

A lap or two after the second lag thing I went off in T1 with Tyrion right behind, expecting him to roar past i really felt like retiring but instead he followed my lead and joined me in the sandtrap. Thanks for that.

You're welcome

Not too much positive to say about my race.These 1 lap quali's are not my forte, and that became apparent once again tonight.
There was a massive pile-up at T1 on the first lap which I couldn't avoid, 3 cars had hit each other I think, and were now at a standstill right in the middle of the turn.I hit Horvath I think, and in the process he unluckily landed on the roof.That put me down 2nd to last I think, already far behind the class leaders.
So I tried to work my way up, should have passed filur when he messed up in T1 later, but instead I stupidly used the same brake points as he did, and followed him into the sand.
Later Anton accidentally hit me in the same turn ( bad turn for me tonight it seems), and I got some serious damage to the car unfortunately.So I limped back to the pits, and somehow managed retake a few places before the race was over.

I've tried biggie's set for South City Long, and it works fine on AS as well I think.I've managed a low 2.15 with it so far, although I'm sure some of the aliens can go alot faster.Plus it is super easy to drive, and compared to one of my own with which I have to fight with the rear end alot, it is better no doubt, at least for a race.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=247012#post247012

Could someone possibly upload the replay?

I think half points would be best personally..too many factors influenced the overall race result.

If there are plans of a cross-league finale, surely we could just add the points we withdraw now, or supposing an equal amount of teams from both leagues would participate, it would not matter.I'm just speculating though..but I think there was talk of that at some point?

Anyway, I vote for half points

Pretty strange race, also considering the abrubt end to it all.There was quite a bit of crashing and some unfortunate events, but I think that has to be expected on such a difficult track.And it did seem as if there was some problems with lag in general..but, next time we'll hopefully be better adjusted.

Great driving tristan with your lack of practice in mind, had you not been involved in that incident, I also believe you would have held on to your lead.And you might have cought me again I think had we raced to the end.I was driving rather badly tbh.

But no hard feelings towards the server host, was just bad luck as far as Im concerned, so no worries there

Tyrioda will once again grace the racing plebs with his divine presence

Yea, good fun and many spectacular crashes from yours truly..how many pitstops did I make..? I don't remember

Tyrion will attend this grand event

Sorry to go off-topic, but how about using UTC now that Scawen has made it standard time in LFS? Might prevent the usual confusion

I think you're right Tweaker.If I remember correctly, when I was part of the editor team there were 3 chief editors (who were in charge of the general lfs-news).If 2 of them at least are busy with RL stuff it's going to have an effect on updates of course.

The race reports themselves are not interesting or relevant enough for the broad majority I think, so what you need is a steady stream of news on top of the race reports, league news, people joining teams and such.It worked quite well in the past, and I'm sure it could again.And I can't imagine it would be very hard finding additional people that would like to help out if Veccie and Vykos can't find the time for it atm

Say there was enough interest to warrant another tuesday/euro division; would you then split that into another seperate championship, or divide points in some other fashion? ( A & B grids determined by quali, with less points awarded in grid B i.e.)

I have an interested team, but we want to be absolutely sure that there are no plans to distribute points between divisions by comparing overall times.

Ok, thanks

It would seem I need to work on my sales pitch.How very odd...

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Yey, well done by the danish chicken

If anything, Lance's doped up domination made the race more boring that it ought to have been.And with the recent scandal in mind, it's becoming very hard to take the sport seriously - the lies and the deception saturate everything.Still, I had hoped the only danish rider might do well, but the rabobank manager had other plans unfortunately.

Not enough goals, boring matches, too many southern european two-faced drama queens.Bad decisions from ref's affecting the outcome of matches (as usual) - they do have a tough job though, when players start attending diving school at very early ages.
I guess the people who are to blame for the honourless approach to soccer, are the coaches that teach young players that it's ok to cheat to win.And if FIFA wasn't run by a bunch of corrupt old men mainly concerned with filling their pockets with cash, they might see it as their job to do something serious about fair-play.

Hm, yea trailer doesn't look that great tbh.Colin Farrell is too much of a pretty boy to play a hardboiled undercover cop, and Jamie foxx..I don't know.And Linkin Park..nonono.

I also like Michael Mann's style alot, but I wonder if he can pull it off this time.In Heat he had some actors of a totally different caliber imo, and together with a good (albeit somewhat used plot perhaps) made that movie a small masterpiece.Tom Cruise was surprisingly good in Collateral, liked that one alot as well.Here's hoping he can do it again...but ditch that nasty linkin park song

Hm, ok.I don't claim to [edit:I'll rephrase that] know exactly who saw what, as some others here. But my view is that the ref saw nothing.The linesman saw nothing.The linesman came under heavy pressure from the italian players, because they knew the ref hadn't seen a thing as he was watching the play in the other end of the pitch when it happened.He might even have seen the incident on the stadium big-screen after the play stopped.

But neither him or the ref are allowed to make a decision based on either of those factors if none of them witnessed the incident as it unfolded.

Last edited by Tyrion, Sun, 9 Jul 2006 23:02.

Totally braindead action by Zidane of course, but the ref shouldnt change his decision based on what Buffon tells the linesman, or what some reserve ref has seen on a monitor.

Good 1st half by the Italians, but France deserves credit for their play in the rest of the match.

All in all a disappointing WC, good up until the 1/8-finals, but then it sort of died because of defensively minded coaches.