various hassles of online racing, and one of the german NFS sites has set up
an excellent alternative.
This site http://www.racesimcentral.net/
maintains a NFS5 records tournament that is very cool. What distinguishes it
from the Worlds Records site http://www.racesimcentral.net/~eel/nfswr/index.html
is that they maintain player statistics and you get points for being in the
top ten times for each track and era. So you don't need THE best time to
enter, just a good one.
They have pages so you can see your standing in the given era, or your
overall ranking, similar to the EAracing rankings, but much less arbitrary
and fairer in the scoring method.
The pages are in german, but they understand english and I've sent in some
results myself. You just send them a zipfile with a screenshot of the time
and a replay (forward runs only btw, not backwards) and a textfile saying
what era, car, driver, time, etc you used (I use the textfile from the World
Records submission page so I can submit to both websites) and the different
pages are pretty self-explanatory. So give it a shot and have fun!
rms