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I thought I saw something fly over my head... I'm gullible enough when face to face- there is no hope when its in text form.

One question? how could you send me the book if you dont have my address?

They weren't enforced actually. If you could get your car to run 30 laps on a tankful you were allowed. :norty:
As we talk, I'm warming to the sprint race format.

I wasnt talking about the 1 hr races- I know full well i needed a pitstop or 2 for those and i was happy to stop for fuel and tyres- that is realistic.  I was just saying that i dont like them enforced in short races when they are not required. (I thought thats what XLR8 was talking about in post 1?)

The idea of going along with shorter but more frequent races sounds like a plan to me.  Running with real F Ford regs is actually more appealing to me than the longer races.  We could still run in full mode to keep the intensity levels high.  Not sure about reverse grids- I guess it could work?  I guess if we went along the bases of quali for first race- finishing positions of race one for race two and reverse grid for the final round.  Each race is approx 20 mins.

One thing I don’t want is enforced pitstops.  They are OK if it’s a longer race but for short races it removes the intensity for me (+ its not realistic).

This is like lisntening in on a conversation with Johnny 5

Damn- sorry then.

You dissapeared from my screen after the start so I kept to the left- over the pit lane bit and came onto the inside line and then my suspension collapsed (without seeming to hit anything) I braked and then pulled to the left on the gravel and then i got the Connection Lost message.

Sorry if I hit you- I really couldnt see any cars.

Did you get disconnected as well or did you just quit?

Not happy.:g:

what happened?  i got disco and my suspension collapsed like at aviano.  the rest seem to be running still.

Damn didnt realise you guys were racing last week.  I thought it was a week off for some reason- must have been XLR8 talking about being on holiday- I'm pretty fast on silverstone too:doh:

Well I'll definately be racing tomorrow- not been on the sims for a bit but i have done a couple of Autosolos in the meantime so hopefully real life will transfer over.  Not tried Laguna with NKP but I have a thing for that track- always loved it and done well in rFactor etc, so it should be interesting.

Lets just hope my 60k ping doesn't show up with me :crying:  As I say if its causing problems i'll leave no probs.  I'll have a little fiddle with all the cables etc to make sure its not a hardware fault etc.  did anyone get to the bottom of why it only shows 60k+ when im stationary in the pits?

Cheers Pete

Cheers for that buddy I’ll take a look later on.

Regarding working the replay- no I don’t know… yet.  I assume it is all laid out in the manual.  I’m not as computer illiterate as I come across, honest.....

I haven’t seen the replay (I don’t know how to record them…) however I fully accept that it was my fault hence why I apologised  I wasn’t actually trying to pass you into that corner.  As you say your different line caught me by surprise but I should have held back more.

Could someone please post the replay so I can see it for myself? (or is it too big??)
 I don’t want to contend it I’m just interested + it would be nice to see the rest of the race up to that point.

Well slightly scrappy first few laps but was going pretty well 2nd down to 5th then back up to 3rd and going strong with some nice battles.

came up on someone who had been off the track and seemed to be going a bit slow - went into the final chicane and then said car slowed way more than I was expecting I went around the outside in avoidance but there was no room and we touched which gave me 20 mins of damage :crying:  Sorry for hitting you whoever it was.

still dont fully know whats going on with the disco's.  I want to sort out whatever is giving the my high ping readings- i assume they must be wrong because i always have excelent connections with no lag/ warping and no probs in other games. Anyone have any Ideas?

Cheers

Pete

anyone else get disco'd? i did and i cant see the server anymore

let me know when the next race is taking place... i will be there

Concerning the session time setting, i think it's weird that with first two races nobody seems to have the problem with finishing to early.

Maybe the setting only has effect on "official" tracks because the first two races where at Montreal and Spa.... :g:

Actually the first race was at Aviano (several weeks ago) and we had a similar problem. It then went to last lake place then Montreal and then spa with no problems- you are right though.  It does seem that we have only had problems on official NetKar Pro tracks- This seems pretty blatant to me:  Three unofficial tracks had no problems and the two official tracks had the issue.

I know nothing about setting up servers so I’ll leave my investigation at that.

I will definitely carry on racing with you guys on Wednesdays though.  First off you all seem like a good bunch of fair and friendly guys.  Second when it works, the racing experience with NKP is excellent. Thirdly- the missus is out all Wednesday evening so conveniently I am shackle free.  I don’t get a lot of time for serious sim racing nowadays so I'll grasp any good opportunity to sharpen my driving skills in a competitive environment with both hands.

Doorman- I think I speak for us all when I say we appreciate all the time that you are dedicating to this- don’t loose faith with it just yet.

I too cant get on. i just cant display the server.  how irritating- i'd practiced this one as well:sad:

whats goin on with the server- race time and its not up- or am i missing something?

Never mind- cheers for organising it Doorman- at least i can get to watch the nature program thingy now.

its just funny that we go all the way through practice and quali with no problems- until the race starts.

see ya next week, or sooner

Pete