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Yeah good luck Ben, I'm confident that the dMr is in good hands! :flirty:

Yeah well done Bob, thanks for the effort!

Akvavit is the only true spirit of Christmas

But not sure how easy it would be to get hold of over there...

Haha, yeah that stuff is good. But it doesn't seem to catch on too well with the non-Scandinavians. :lmfao:

I'm sure you've seen it, but I lolled anyway. Thought it might strike a chord with you lot!

Well with the fast track system in place you'd be Pro within no time at all, so that shouldn't be a problem any more. But yeah, it seems nobody really likes to drive the DP! Volker, for instance, stays away from the pro series just because he can't stand the car!

BTW I took a look at the laptimes for the Star Mazda around Silverstone, and it seems to perform very similar to the F2000. Have you tried the Star Mazda in iRacing? How does it compare in terms of feel? :g:

I think it's probably more likely that they'll use the Dallara in the Pro series than the Star Mazda, though. But I don't see them moving away from the DP any time soon!

Stuart, it would be pretty awesome to see how you'd fare against the "top guns" in iRacing. I know a lot of them run the Dallara too! You pretty much dominate everything in nKP, but maybe you'd find more competition in in iRacing..?

Yeah I think it's great news. That car definitely deserves to be run at the best tracks!!

Stu, the biggest change seems to be that the Skippy now uses seven tracks which are not included in the basic package. All the other road racing series use nearly all the nine tracks. Before, the Skippy series was a sort of gentle introduction, where you'd only have to buy a couple of tracks. Now, for new members who want to participate in all twelve weeks of a season it would make sense to get all the tracks at once. I can see why some would find that a bit daunting, even with the new reduced prices and stuff. :g:

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That's why I think iRacing would benefit from handing out the discounts at the end of the year.. so you'd pay the full price for all the content as you go, knowing that you'd get a 20% payback at the end of the year if you buy more than 6 items during the year)
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Well as you know they are on different schedules for different series but I understand your point. But isn't that the nature of any sim? Not all tracks is used in all series. But if you look in all series not many tracks are left unused.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/790534/TrackChart%202009S4.pdf
I would certanly not prefere to have less tracks just to be able to use them more often.

That's a nice chart, thanks. Looks like us roadies don't have much to complain about compared to the oval guys!

When all the announced road courses are released there will be 16 of them (not counting the ones included in the basic subscription). That's a pretty decent number actually, and the quality is (as we all know) way ahead of anything else out there.

About the iRacing hosted league idea Verner, I won't be up for that yet since I'll be moving soon.. but next summer I intend to rejoin iRacing! Then we'll see what happens.

This is just brill. Been a fan for a long time, and he still cracks me up.

Checked this morning - you took too much kerb. If you hit the red/white rumble strip nothing happens, but if you hit the green kerb, the rear slides around. :sad:

Ah, right.. :doh: Thanks for checking that out! I felt a very strong, sudden jolt through the wheel as it happened, which made me think I hit something. (Could be because of that plugin I'm using)

Anyway, moving on.

After a pretty long time away from LFS I figured it was about time for a guest appearance. The LX4 was always among my favourite cars. I had a lot of fun during the week with some very good racing on the server!

I surprised myself by setting several PBs during quali, which earned me second spot on the grid, behind Venca. I managed to stay on his tail for a few laps before he slowly but steadily pulled away. By then I'd developed a quite comfortable gap to the guys behind, so I was pretty much just driving on my own for the rest of the race.

On lap 22 I guess I must have just clipped some tires in turn 1... I was so sure I had room but apparently I didn't! :doh: Caught me by surprise, so I kinda lost my rhythm and made a few more mistakes.. but I managed to keep my position till the end!

All in all a very nice week's racing. Thanks all! :flirty:

PS: could someone send me the replay please? I'd like to figure out what happened to me on lap 22!


EDIT: oooh, I see you're doing the RAC next week! I guess I'll be there.

ORAN PARK IS COMING!! :dribble::dribble::dribble:

Oran Park is probably one of my top 5 race tracks. Great to have it preserved in iRacing!

Fingers crossed that they get the V8 Supercars out by the end of next summer! :flirty:

EDIT: beaten by 1 minute! :doh:

"Just before I hit the barrier and was launched into the next county I noticed that the car's grip and handling were vastly improved" :sideways:

:roflmao: :roflmao:

Yeah I know... these buggers are heavy! :sideways: I plan to deal with the worst of it using using a steel wire to support the arm. That way the arm can actually be quite weak, since the wire will support the weight and the beam will only be in compression.



But, like you say, the holders need to be very solid too.. I'm planning to use some heavy-duty door hinges, kind of like these:




I also have plans for how to allow the monitors to slide left/right as I change the angle between them from 0 to 45 degrees.. (otherwise there will be big gaps between them, which isn't nice..) but the details for this are only in my head ATM.