Tired of racing offline... Want to try multiplayer but where to start?

I just discovered this newsgroup and I now read it everyday. You guys rock and I have now discovered amazing WEB sites where I can download just about everything (mods, patches, addons, cars, tracks, sounds,etc...). I race against AI a fair bit (Nascar 2003, F1 2002, SPGT, TOCA Race Driver and the amazing GTR 2002 which I just installed a few days ago - my wife hasn`t seen me since...) but now that I have a great system, video card, etc. I want to start racing other people online. Is there a place where beginners can race each other? I don`t know or understand yet all the car setups so I rarely go in the "garage" and tweak my car. So I don`t want to race "pros" who, as a result of their skills and tweakings, would pass me and lap me constantly: what is the fun in that (unless your the guy doing the passing of course)?? I want to learn the car physics and setups but this will take a while and right now, I would prefer to race people that are about the same level as me. I tried online racing way back when MTM2 was actually fun to race but the people I was racing were so good that I could not imagine that they could do so well without cheating somehow (looking back, perhaps they were!). I think that is what put me off multiplayer mode until now. The more I am reading this group, the more I see how fun it would be to join these races. I don`t really care what I race (F1, GTR, etc...) so I just need to be pointed in the right direction to a place where I can join races and have some clean fun... Andre

"Andre G." <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<7dtDa.11453$[email hidden]>...

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> I just discovered this newsgroup and I now read it everyday. You guys rock > and I have now discovered amazing WEB sites where I can download just about > everything (mods, patches, addons, cars, tracks, sounds,etc...). I race > against AI a fair bit (Nascar 2003, F1 2002, SPGT, TOCA Race Driver and the > amazing GTR 2002 which I just installed a few days ago - my wife hasn`t seen > me since...) but now that I have a great system, video card, etc. I want to > start racing other people online.

Give us at V8 Thunder a try. UK based, we run an ASCAR league using N2003 with modded tracks to give cars more grip and less power to try and give them a more ASA feel. Fixed setups in the main Saturday event. We also run Winston Cup on Wednesdays with open setups. Hope This Helps :) Regards, Mark Davison http://www.v8thunder.com/ Replying to this email will be futile. Contact details are at the above site.

You can try Oscar at Online Racing. http://www.onlineracin.com/flashpoint/default.asp# They have a beginners league for both fixed and open setups. You have to pay to play. Wayne Templin "Andre G." <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:7dtDa.11453$[email hidden]... > I just discovered this newsgroup and I now read it everyday. You guysrock > and I have now discovered amazing WEB sites where I can download justabout > everything (mods, patches, addons, cars, tracks, sounds,etc...). I race > against AI a fair bit (Nascar 2003, F1 2002, SPGT, TOCA Race Driver andthe > amazing GTR 2002 which I just installed a few days ago - my wife hasn`tseen > me since...) but now that I have a great system, video card, etc. I wantto > start racing other people online. > > Is there a place where beginners can race each other? I don`t know or > understand yet all the car setups so I rarely go in the "garage" and tweak > my car. So I don`t want to race "pros" who, as a result of their skills > and tweakings, would pass me and lap me constantly: what is the fun inthat > (unless your the guy doing the passing of course)?? I want to learn thecar > physics and setups but this will take a while and right now, I wouldprefer > to race people that are about the same level as me. I tried onlineracing > way back when MTM2 was actually fun to race but the people I was racingwere > so good that I could not imagine that they could do so well withoutcheating > somehow (looking back, perhaps they were!). I think that is what put meoff

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> multiplayer mode until now. The more I am reading this group, the more I > see how fun it would be to join these races. I don`t really care what I > race (F1, GTR, etc...) so I just need to be pointed in the right direction > to a place where I can join races and have some clean fun... > > Andre > >