Well, here's hoping Kunos allow free-join some time soon.  Can't believe they thought only having a few minute window to get into a server was a good idea... who knows come Saturday all our worries might be gone

The replay file..

Besides all jerkyness (Mainly caused by Marty's haxx) I noticed that it's possible to do the race with all the pretty stuff turned right down. Then before you load the replay go into the game settings and turn all the sliders and pretty stuff up to max and the replay will load with all those settings. Good for me as I'm running a Pentium 486.

A 468! That would run my shareware copy of Jill of the Jungle so good.

It's good reading everyone's account of their race as obviously you don't see get to see what happens when it isn't around you.

First race I had a bad start and got swamped off the line but saw Darren up ahead being held up so eventually made my way up to him.  I was fairly close behind Darren coming into T1 and accidentally gave him a tap as I misjudged our relative pace through that corner and by the time I braked it wasn't quite enough to completely avoid him - so apologies to Darren.  Then again we continued our battle with me behind and coming out of Stowe into the sharp left-hander I had a slight run on and put it up the inside but probably didn't have my nose far enough up beside Darren as we ended up going for the same piece of tarmac and collided.  I waited for Darren to re-pass before resuming our battle and then after a few laps got a good run out of Stowe and managed to get him on the inside of the next corner.  After that I just managed to hold him off until the end, although Darren was clearly faster overall.

So a poor first race from me.  One thing I'm finding with a single screen and decent FOV is that it's difficult to know where people are around you.  Even with mirrors there are some large blind spots.

The second race was a little smoother.  I looked behind me at the start and noticed Darren's wheels were pointing toward the outside of the track and tried to tell him to straighten his wheel.  Anyway, we had a good but brief tussel and Darren ended up passing me around the outside of Stowe and into the left hander - without me bumping him this time!   So a great pass from Darren.  I also had a good little battle with Rolz who drove very well and I only ended up getting by a few laps from the end.  I decided to go with the hard tyres for the second race which probably wasn't a good idea as they took 4 or 5 laps to heat up and didn't have the grip of the mediums which may have lasted the distance.

Anyway, a fun couple of races for me and thanks for the evening.  Congratulations to Marty who had a clean streak this round getting maximum points and well done to the other podium finishers.  Good to see Ysu/Bird bagging the highest place for the Grp A's in the first race and Darren taking the honours in the second.

think of ur fuel levels everyone...   

My little car will be over-flowing after the last race!

I still maintain that Achilles Heels Racing was the subject of a sinister sabotage attempt from a rival team which resulted in a loss of fuel in the final race for both drivers.  Perhaps the old "sugar-in-the-fuel-tank-while-they-are-distracted-by-Bird-doing-doughnuts-in-the-pits" trick eventually blocked the injectors.
Achilles Heels will not let this outrage be swept under the rug, and if I happen to get a red-shell pick-up you others better watch out!

I use coasting a fair bit if using the brakes would shift the balance of the car too much.  Braking slightly is quicker but I find that coasting can be more consistent.  Eg would be the corner coming onto hanger straight at Silverstone Int.  I normally brake slightly early and then coast for a tenth of a second to get the car turned in without sliding before getting the power down.

And I had to find out where  it came from:

"Guybrush got his name because that in DPaint you saved pictures in files with the last name "brush". Like "filename.brush" At the time they started Monkey Island they didn't have a name for the hero so they just named him "guy" so the file ended up with the name "guy.brush" After a while Ron Gilbert decided that it should be his name.

"Threepwood" was decided by a company contest.
Guybrush's last name "Threepwood" was in a 1965 book with a character called Galahad Threepwood. "

Galahad at Blandings (The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood) by PG Wodhouse

Well, I was under the impression that it was a name derived from the god of excellence and ultimate satisfaction dispensation.  Are you now telling me that I am going to have to change my name to Larry Laffer?

Looks good Wally, I'll have to give it a try.

Seeing as you must understand the programming side of it all, would it be possible to have the "Delta" time app set against your all-time personal best and not just the session personal best?

Hey Marty how did you turn the car's rev. mirrors off but keep the virtual mirror?  This is exactly what I want to do as I can only see half of the cars mirrors in the FOV I use.

To the topic, I get a fairly dramatic reduction in frames when joining a server, but all is fine when hot-lapping or vs AI.