I can't run a team, I'd do better being a member of one

Quote from Takumi_lfs :

Nitwon is a great racer believe me. Well, if he's the Nitwon from Nitra/Nitro. I raced him a while ago, long while ago.

To be honest I beated him on BL1 with XRR and he used FZR

Anyway, goodluck. I hope that you can find a team were you fit.

NiTRa, it was NiTRa ^_^

Quote from anttt69 :

We should rename the thread "Very Ignorant Driver looking for a team"

indeed...

well i'm so sorry for starting this thread =/

it seemed like a good idea at the time but now it's just attracting negative attention

Off-topic arguing stops here.

Seriously

Anyway, thanks for the responses I've got in PM's and such, I'm going to try to arrange some try-outs or something now, and/or I'll enter a league to better prove my worth. To those who've sent me private messages: if I haven't replied, it's not because I'm not interested, it's because I forget to reply and/or don't know what to say.

like i said already, i don't get nervous and i'm good at racing clean/not crashing

i'm a fast learner, i'll prove it in a tryout if you want

Quote from th84 :

I would carry on either way... screw them!

That's the kind of racing attitude that gets you penalties.

Quote from zeugnimod :

I don't think "giving the position back" is the "right" answer to that question. It only says "gain a position through contact with another driver". It doesn't state that it's your fault. If someone hits me and I pass him because of that I certainly won't give him the position back.

Well yeah, obviously, I meant if it were my fault. If it was their own fault I'd carry on. :P

Quote from mkinnov8 :

Question: If you gain a position through contact with another, what is your first move after taking the position?

Oh I realize what you mean by this one now. I would either give the position back, no matter how many I lose, if they're still racing right behind me, I'd wait for an opportune moment to let them pass, rather than losing both of us more positions by letting him pass in a bad place; or if they were unable to continue because of it, I'd respectfully forfeit the race. I feel bad if I race knowing I've ruined it for someone else.

I did this with Gil07 [previous post] when I knocked him out of the race because I didn't see him on my inside, I heard him there, so I should have looked really.

Last edited by Nitwon, Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:48.

Quote from mkinnov8 :

Im sorry but at the moment it looks like you a looking for a team rather than looking for a drive in a particular team.

I don't follow, what do you mean? I am looking for a team, yes. I haven't found any particular team yet. The reason I made this post is because the kind of team I'm looking for is a small one, which may not have a website or forum or anything.

Quote from SilverArrows77 :

Hey Nitwon, feel free to come have a run in oneGP (links in my signature) and you may find yourself being picked up by a team, Currently looking for more entries in the series, so is a easy way to get to know some teams. Is a race on Saturday at FE Black (with BF1). Aside from that, good luck!

Thanks for the offer, but I'm busy Saturday, and it seems that this league has already started.

Okay fine, Experienced Racer, without the "very". :P

My name is Nitwon, well, to you it is anyways. I've played Live for Speed for at least a year now, and loved every second of it.

My racing style
I am great at avoiding crashes. I don't know how I do it, but I can enter a mess of spinning/flying cars at turn 1 and come out the other side untouched, every time. I can only remember getting caught up in a turn 1 pileup once, and that was because the whole track was blocked up tight with cars, the race was restarted.

On the occasion that I do make an error or get bumped, I'm very good at recovering. I remember doing a test with me and some friends, driving an RAC (probably the most unstable car in LFS) up to a certain speed on a straight, and then swerve, causing the back end to flail around, and then recover safely. One of them ended up behind the crash barrier on his roof, the other wrecked the car against the barrier, and i recovered no trouble.

I race consistently. This shows especially in endurance races. I remember a GTR endurance race I took part in, after the first couple of laps, I was in 5th, but I drove consistently without any mistakes or undue wear on the tyres. I finished the race in 2nd because the cars in front had destroyed their tyres and/or crashed.

I'm a good teacher. I've taught a fair few drivers in my time, and I've seen great improvement in them. I enjoy teaching others how to race, it just gives me a buzz.

The kind of team I'm looking for is a fairly small one, I don't like big teams, they lose the personal touch. I'd rather be in a small team in which everyone knows each other. I also don't mind if the team isn't as good as others, as long as there are at least one or two racers at or above my level.

Take a look at the attached screenshot to see my best times around Blackwood GP. Most of them I could improve on now, they were made a while ago.

Also feel free to check my racer stats page on LFS world.

I'd be more than happy to do a trial with anyone, there's no such thing as a waste of my time when it comes to LFS.

P.S. Please don't advertise leagues to me, I know where the leagues section is and I'm already taking part in organised races to get myself seen.

Last edited by Nitwon, Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:26.

I like it, could have been a little longer and included more scenes though

Cheers, I downloaded LFS again and extracted it to a new folder, and copied that file over, and my tyre logos are back!

Thanks

When I select Avon or Bridgestone as the tyre brand, I simply get a plain black tyre.

I think it may be because of accidentally replacing some data folders, if that's the case, which data folder are tyre brands stored in so i can replace that one with the correct files?

I don't really want to reinstall LFS because of the setups, settings, and skin settings that will take ages to put right again.

Well, I was reluctant to put sponsors on my skin, but I did, and liked it, so i added some more, and then some more! I hope you don't mind me advertising a real website on the rear quarter panel.

Also, I was gonna put the number in green, but it didn't really stand out, so I put it in white.

My teammate Fang (DieKolkrabe) will be using the same skin but with his number on it.

Can I just clarify, when you say 3 laps for qualifying, do you mean:
- Speed up lap (out of pits)
- Timed lap
- Slow down lap (into pits)

...or do you mean:
- Speed up lap (out of pits)
- Timed lap
- Timed lap
- Timed lap
- Slow down lap (into pits)

I like to be perfectly clear on these things

So let me summarize what I think we have to put on skins:

• Car number must be clearly visable, and kinda big-ish
  
• It must have sponsers on it?
  

21 / Kevin Lane / [NiTRa] Nitwon / NiTRa

Last edited by Nitwon, Wed, 28 May 2008 22:12. Reason : 27 was taken, so i'm now 21

I'd live at Blackwood GP (postal code BL1), I love it so. I will sleep in pit garage number 11 in my FZR, forever behind the wheel, wearing my helmet, poised ready to drive, ready to own any noob that shall pass.

I will live and race there till the day I am wrecked and immobile, when my soul shall leave my beloved FZR to join the spectators in the sky.

Then, come a new dawn, there shall spawn a new driver by the name of Nitwon, who shall sleep behind the wheel of his FZR in pit garage number 11, ready to own and noob that shall pass...

...and so the great circle of life is complete.

Last edited by Nitwon, Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:43. Reason : Tidying up the grammar

Quote from Btoryo :

ok let me retake it with the skin

edit: here you go. i wasn't claiming it as my work, i just uploaded because people asked for youtube link.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ojwdWm0WMvA

thanks

yes it was, i haven't edited it at all :P

i said "Class: TBO" numnuts :P

Last edited by Nitwon, Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:15.

Banger races on FE6 will be starting right now on [NiTRa] Team Server

Class: TBO

Rules:

- Ramming or any kind of contact is completely allowed.

- Do not drive the wrong way or try to gain unauthorised access to areas which are blocked off.


Races start now and end tomorrow evening (GMT)

Just for fun, see you there!