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by **Michael Sisso** » Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:35:59

You could call it rASCAR.

Heh.

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by **pdot..** » Sun, 18 Jun 2006 22:33:31

> > the USA. Get a bunch of like minded guys together on a good server

> You could call it rASCAR.

He said "like-minded"! :)

by **Sociu** » Mon, 19 Jun 2006 06:15:11

Il 16 Jun 2006 17:57:29 -0700, rb21 ha scritto:

This is a possibility, but do american megastores sell rFactor in boxes
then? Here we have to buy both of them (LFS and rF) online.

Regards

Socius

by **Dave Henri** » Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:22:32

Socius

Not that I have seen, rF is online only.

GTR and GTL have been Box only, as it RD3. Those seem to be the most
current sims over here.(am I forgetting any?)

dave henrie

by **J.D. Elli** » Tue, 20 Jun 2006 03:02:54

> GTR and GTL have been Box only, as it RD3. Those seem to be the most
> current sims over here.(am I forgetting any?)

FWIW, gogamer.com sells rF in a DVD case.

-jde

by **Dave Henri** » Tue, 20 Jun 2006 04:37:13

That is interesting. Are they burning their own copies? Heck, that
sounds like a new cottage industry.

dh

by **John DiFoo** » Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:02:32

>Hey all, I've just spent what should have been some quality simracing time,
>instead searching the web looking for tracks for rFactor.....I have less
>time these days to simrace, but do still enjoy it a lot, when I can get it
>to happen. I've been playing rFactor since the demo, and think it's very
>well done, until it comes to one aspect. I can rarely hop online and join an
>open race! I was just looking at the racelist, and found 28 races with at
>least one player present.....subtract the 15 passworded races, and I have a
>choice of 13 open races......until you subtract the tracks I don't have,
>which cuts it about in half ( I have about 20 tracks installed).....then
>there are the tracks I do have installed, say, Watkins Glen, which has 3
>layouts included, but when I tried to join a WG race this evening I was
>booted for a mismatch, I prolly don't have the correct version of the track.
>Then subtract the races for series that I don't have installed, ( I have 9

>I enjoyed the hell out of the rFactor demo, because it worked, you could
>choose from a variety of servers, get in a race, and race closely in fairly
>large fields, guaranteed, anytime you felt like firing it up.These days, rF
>is so fragmented that I can hardly find a race that I can join, much less a
>race that I WANT to join. I realize that leagues are an option, but I can't
>commit to that, especially in the summer months.
>Is anyone enjoying the kind of open racing that N2003 used to provide? Yes,
>some of it was horrible, but at least it was there.

></HissyFit>

>Ed

Well, we are IMNSHO at the end of a technological cycle in terms of
racing sims, one which began around 2003 or so (NR2003 and F1C
plus some others). I'm currently waiting for the next cycle to begin,
with stuff which will hopefully blow our collective socks off (even if
it is made by <ahem> iRacing).

by **Larr** » Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:26:12

Good idea.

-Larry

by **David G Fishe** » Wed, 21 Jun 2006 03:30:45

That's exactly what RACER is. http://raceralex.com/ I see Uwe has just
joined. I've posted the link already in his thread, and have posted it here
at ras a few other times in the recent past. :-)

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David G Fisher

> Good idea.

> -Larry

>> What you guys need is a Racing Club. Not a league per se....but a
>> club. Like the real world racing clubs that are forming at tracks
>> like Bedford in England and Miller Motorsports and VIR and Barber in
>> the USA. Get a bunch of like minded guys together on a good server
>> and set it up so that it has a core of maybe 10 tracks with some
>> others that the admins could rotate in. Then everyone in the club
>> gets the same emails with links to the same tracks. Not everyone has
>> to show up for official races...but casual practices and pickup races
>> could be arranged. Then EVERYONE in the group
>> always has the same tracks and cars.

>> dave henrie

by **pdot..** » Wed, 21 Jun 2006 04:04:20

> That's exactly what RACER is. http://raceralex.com/ I see Uwe has just
> joined. I've posted the link already in his thread, and have posted it here
> at ras a few other times in the recent past. :-)

I've applied on the RACER site, but never recieved a confirmation email.

by **David G Fishe** » Wed, 21 Jun 2006 04:39:09

>> That's exactly what RACER is. http://raceralex.com/ I see Uwe has just
>> joined. I've posted the link already in his thread, and have posted it
>> here
>> at ras a few other times in the recent past. :-)

> I've applied on the RACER site, but never recieved a confirmation email.

If you'd like, I can have the administrator contact you. E-mail address
above accurate?

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by **pdot..** » Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:00:41

Yes. It's accurate.

I thought that maybe my submission was never completed, so I tried to
re-apply, but it says my email address is already on file.

So, with this club, or whatever it is, are the servers PW'd? Are there
often people online in the evening?

Thanks,
Pat Dotson

> If you'd like, I can have the administrator contact you. E-mail address
> above accurate?

by **David G Fishe** » Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:31:57

Ok, I'll message the admin and I'm sure he'll quickly sort things out.

They usually have a few passworded servers running almost 24/7. Mod/tracks
are switched up by the admin, or we can change them to what we want. They
have extremely competitive monthly event races (about 50 drivers/many
familiar names), with heats and a main spread out over the weekend as well
as "second chance" type races for those that don't qualify for the main
during the heat races. Sponsors with prizes to the top finishers. There are
also weekly races on Tuesday and Friday nights which are much more casual
than the event races. Tracks and mods are available for download from the
site. Once you are signed up, just check the forum and you'll find all the
info.

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David G Fisher

> Yes. It's accurate.

> I thought that maybe my submission was never completed, so I tried to
> re-apply, but it says my email address is already on file.

> So, with this club, or whatever it is, are the servers PW'd? Are there
> often people online in the evening?

> Thanks,
> Pat Dotson

>> If you'd like, I can have the administrator contact you. E-mail address
>> above accurate?

by **David G Fishe** » Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:02:02

HK.com (Hudson Kerr) was the sponsor of this past weekend's event, and you
can read a recap of the weekend here:
http://hudsonkerr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=350

--
David G Fisher

> Ok, I'll message the admin and I'm sure he'll quickly sort things out.

> They usually have a few passworded servers running almost 24/7. Mod/tracks
> are switched up by the admin, or we can change them to what we want. They
> have extremely competitive monthly event races (about 50 drivers/many
> familiar names), with heats and a main spread out over the weekend as well
> as "second chance" type races for those that don't qualify for the main
> during the heat races. Sponsors with prizes to the top finishers. There
> are also weekly races on Tuesday and Friday nights which are much more
> casual than the event races. Tracks and mods are available for download
> from the site. Once you are signed up, just check the forum and you'll
> find all the info.

> --
> David G Fisher

>> Yes. It's accurate.

>> I thought that maybe my submission was never completed, so I tried to
>> re-apply, but it says my email address is already on file.

>> So, with this club, or whatever it is, are the servers PW'd? Are there
>> often people online in the evening?

>> Thanks,
>> Pat Dotson

>>> If you'd like, I can have the administrator contact you. E-mail address
>>> above accurate?

by **J.D. Elli** » Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:11:04

> That is interesting. Are they burning their own copies? Heck, that
> sounds like a new cottage industry.

ISI posted a PR announcing it in March.

-jde

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