I've had a bit of an update from 5 years back when I posted my god awful PC spec

ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe Board
Core 2 Duo E6600 OC to 2.7Ghz
4Gb DDR2 RAM
XFX Radeon HD5770 1Gb

Monitor: LG 22" Wide (1680x1050)

Wheel(s): Logitech G25 & MS X360 Pad for when I'm too lazy to set the wheel up

Running Win7 Home Premium x64.

Fairly cheap system but plays pretty much anything I want at 1680x1050 with AA at very playable framerates.

All housed within an Antec P183

Quote from robt :

Think thats pretty much right. just need to have a few safety items (and most likely a quick briefing) then IIRC brands hatch is about £100 for an afternoon of running.

Yeah that's right, a quick 15-20min brief explaining the rules and then drive time for the afternoon.

I know it must suck in comparison having so much training but i guess there must be a good reason for it. you do get the occasional idiot who decides they want to race everyone and ignore all the flags for whatever reason that may be. If you break the rules over here they are very quick to chuck you out especially if you are endangering other drivers.

Quote from StableX :

I did a track day at Brands a couple of times. Totally agree with you... nothing like the real thing Try Donnington or Cadwell... they are both great too

duely noted I was thinking Snetterton as its fairly close by (less than 1hr) but it does have 2 massive straights where i will get my a55 handed to me though i am planning to sell that Focus and go for the 2.0 and do some more serious work to it to get some more straightline speed.

I personally didn't bother with insurance which may sound stupid (and it most defintely is) but i reassured myself nothing would happen and nothing did (thankfully).

I did laugh heartily as a 944 locked up into druids and beached the poor thing.

Last edited by gizmo2k5, Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:23.

Can't wait to get involved with this league need to do some league racing with the new G25

Quote from Minimaxman :

Good stuff, glad you enjoyed it. Those Focii do well on track, we took ours on a day at Castle Combe a while back and managed to keep pace with some pretty quick stuff. We did completely strip it though, from the front two seats backwards there was nothing, not even carpet Brands probably suits the car even better, the power defecit not being quite so much of an issue as it would be at other faster tracks, except perhaps on the way up to Druids!

Yeah that's why we decided brands was best, not so much straight line speed but it will corner. While my brother was driving (who has raced a lot before) was able to keep up and often be held up by a BMW 5 series with a 2.5 6 cylinder :P I did manage to overtake a couple of MX-5's and Mini Coopers.

Fastest cars on the day include a Vauxhall Corsa with a 2.0 Calibra engine, Fiesta ST150, Civic Type-R and an original Mini with some kind of bike engine fitted to it. All of which down the start finish straight absolutely tore past me!

when i say rented i don't mean Hertz rent a car lol! some will have facilities where you can rent a track car for the day - i think it will be a bit expensive (you can rent Ferrari's for a few thousand i think :P)

Oh dear :P Any idea whats causing it to get that hot?

It revs really hard will edit lol.

If you want to i couldn't recomend it enough mate even if its in a rented/borrowed car.

It cost me about £100 +£10 for additional driver. we were on track from 3pm to about 6-7pm. obviously taking 5-10 min breaks every 20 mins to let everything cool and check fluids.

I have been on this forum a while and enjoyed playing LFS for quite some time. Of course i needed to take my own car out to a race track and see how it stacks up to LFS

My comparison is LFS prepared me well but nothing comes close to the real deal - as realistic as LFS is or any other sim for that matter, actually being there is like nothing else and i really really want to go again

I know it isn't an incredibly fast car - probably as fast as an XFG but it's a 1999 ford focus 1.8 16v with eibach lowering springs and a pipercross panel filter. had it dyno'd kinda recently and it is putting out 122bhp @5500rpm and 122ft/lb@4500rpm

Last edited by gizmo2k5, Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:46.

Quote from SparkyDave :

I commend you on your clean racing however its a little ironic that your joining the "more realistic" gang and racing with a rumblepad hehe

I don't need to join any club or gang, we lost some really great features (some only very small) and realistic seems to be what the masses (most/some of whom have never really driven anything resembling a "racecar".

SD.

I've been around brands hatch in my Focus does that count

Getting a G25 soon so i will be all over the place for a few laps until i get it all sorted not to mention burning the clutch out.

Isn't £100 off enough

If you try to make an account it will show you what countries we do post to. Any on that list are free postage. We don't post to all of Europe but most countries we will.

Just had a very quick word and they don't know why the retail price changed but it will go back up to £199.99, the voucher code should still work and make it £99.99 - i think that's as low as we are willing to give it away for!

Strange, i will ask about this now and let you guys know. We might well have sold all stock and the offer is expiring.

Well answered

We also have a call centre in Belfast.

Not to mention more offices in England

Just bought one for myself as an upgrade from my old Momo FF.

I work at Play and we only have about 200 in stock and whichever comes first - Monday or 200 sold the price will be back to normal...

Yeah as above, it's awesome. I've had plenty of good races on there!

I second that! the chicane is deadly to say the least.

Haha! I want to make friends not enemies . I'll try and get some more people in next sessions :P

I'll add some FX to those pics as they do look like their straight from the game (which they more or less are).

EDIT: Updated Novak's Pic for now!

Last edited by gizmo2k5, Sun, 7 Sep 2008 16:45.

Here's one of me just driving the XFR

Hey all gota little creative after FP1 for R4

Has FP times been announced yet? can't see them on the forum

Skin included also in attachments

Last edited by gizmo2k5, Fri, 5 Sep 2008 18:03.

Well if the password doesnt match someone has changed it? i.e another one of your friends?

But yeah agreed it should be 1 license per racer not 1 license between 3.

so, who's making it to FP this weekend? I most definitely will be. due to my stupidity i missed the whole last round when i was available!

It does have 3 PCI slots though. There are prolly a few on ebay and if you go for a high end one will probably prove much better than integrated intel nonsense.

I seem to have no problems running the FOX on cold tyres so im gonna use R2's and maybe even lower psi to stop me from ruining them best i have managed so far is a 1:51 so time to study the WR lap :P