racerfink wrote: In reply to friedgreencorrado: The same. When we were running a Spec Miata series on the Spec Miata Forum board, he was one of the guys running. Jim Daniels was another that was running.
Wow. Just, well..uh, WOW! Fantastic! Damn, I wish the racing games had been this good when I was young. I wonder if the (now, mostly retired) Pro guys from my generation play these things to "get their fix" these days..
So, are we running later tonight? Spec Miata? Australian V-8's? DTM's? All three and more at some point?
I'm waiting on my new Live Gold card to show up - I was too cheap to pay full price when WallyWorld had a 12 month card for $35 ship-to-store. Only Wally wouldn't match their online price though to the stack of cards they had in the store so I have to wait for it to show up - it's been 2 weeks now. How long does it take to ship a stupid credit-card-sized piece of plastic to the store?! Should be here today, I hope, in which case I'll be in tonight and will run (at the back of the pack) whatever anyone wants, so longs as I can actually get it set up in time.
Pigeon, you're going to have to fight me for last place. Spot number 8 is mine and I defend it with frequent off track excursions, wall incursions and gross general ineptitude.
Racerfink, I ran with your (miata?) buddies earlier this week, they're a fantastic group, good banter, good driving and lots of patience for my crappy (bourbon fueled) driving. They didn't even get mad when I punted someone at the start and caused an enormous fracas. Good sports, hope to run with them again.
So how about a spec miata series-built to racerfink spec - E class, PI=269
Week 1: Road Atlanta/Sebring Club
Week 2: Mazda Laguna Seca/New York - old circuit
Week 3: Catalunya National/Mugello Club
Week 4: Tsukuba/Suzuka East
week 5: Sunset Peninsula/Sebring Full
I am all for lower class spec racing, super competitive. Mainly because I make catastrophic errors or end up drifting the super fast cars.
Ill build a SM tonight
I know im a noob to this board and dont want to step on anyones toes, I have ran a few spec series of races on FM2 and FM3, some of the more competitive ones we ran were an AE86 Cup (220hp low A class), and Spec E30 (240hp B450).
Also got into preliminary testing on a Small Bore touring car series which had promise but never had a chance to really more than a few test races (1990 or newer, 1.8-2.0L, 299hp limit, car 2300lbs or higher, B500).
I have more specifics on all the series I set up/ran/tested but don't necessarily want to whore up this page with all the details.
I quickly hosted a document here with more info http://www.mediafire.com/?w1g7szdec3lnerr
Do we have a spec. I have a miata but it is DOGGG slow and really not setup to do anything well.
I'm guessing the spec is what was posted on page 29?
That's it. Notice the selection of shorter tracks...Definitely a momentum/pick a good line car. I played around with the damping and it settled down nicely. I got it down to a 1:43.3 at Road Atlanta. In the hands of better drivers it could probably be a 1:39 or better. That's not all that slower than the C class 914 I started last series with.
Hey, glad I finally found this thread. I'd be happy to get in on this action myself...what's funny is I indirectly know a few faces already.
failboat wrote: Also got into preliminary testing on a Small Bore touring car series which had promise but never had a chance to really more than a few test races (1990 or newer, 1.8-2.0L, 299hp limit, car 2300lbs or higher, B500). I have more specifics on all the series I set up/ran/tested but don't necessarily want to whore up this page with all the details.
I'm in the middle of something like that already with my Aussie friends.
http://ozfm.darkbb.com/wtcc-f48/world-touring-car-championship-rules-and-regulations-t973.htm
It's a great system with some really close racing. I'm actually just coming off a win in it, so it's natural I'd like it
Oh, and sorry for the double post.
I should be in this evening for 9pm. I'll be building my car at approximately 8:58. Watch out in the back of the pack.
jg
oh Jeez JG is going to be there!!! I had better make sure I don't get stuck at work until late again...
I should be on later tonight.
Do I have permission to appear tonight?
I'll send a friend request (gt = colonel tommy) - if you see me online, just join in. If there's a lot of folk, we can always open a second room. It's so much nicer racing with GRMers than the gamers. The driving is better, the talk is better - I rarely go for public lobbies any more - although I did have some good dicing with a french guy the other night.
Ok, thanks mate.
Spec Miata was AW-SUM. Bravo on the spec and on the excellent racing.
jg
JG Pasterjak wrote: Spec Miata was AW-SUM. Bravo on the spec and on the excellent racing. jg
x2. Nice, really nice car. Tonight was the first time I'd driven it (thanks for waiting while I went and found it on racerfink's storefront, everybody! I haven't figured out how to go directly to somebody's storefront yet, had to search a list of "spec miata" tunes..and thanks to fink for naming that tune something with "GRM" in it!), and I still was right around usually where I am (about 2sec slower a lap than the talented guys) from the beginning. In my case, the "learning curve" doesn't include the new spec at all, this time!
Anyone on for the late run?
I'll be around. Someone would need to invite me, though.
great racing last night. I saw oldtin started a room but it was already 11pm by me and I was 5 beers in so I called it a night.
didnt turn on my alarm, slept in and was a little tardy to work...haha
(i was retro hoonage)
I'm racing on an ancient crt screen upon which text is all but impossible to read, all night I thought your screen name was 'retro bondage'. 
you dont even want to know the nickname i use when I play Mario Kart Wii online....
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