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Today I'm going to buy the new keyboard, beware Duplode!

On the other hand, my University semester ended today...

By the way, Audi's handling is so sugar-coated you often do not even realize you lost 20mph on certain corners, only to ask "where the skid I lost 2 seconds?!" by the end of the lap.

Damn, it's sad to see a competition, and more, a fellow r?cer to go away in such dark circumstances...

Anyway, for the moment let's resume Gazpacho, which I don't want to call final track  ...  Just re-stating: today and tomorrow are quiet days, so don't forget to lock the zip file and post the password on Saturday. By the way, do you think we need to choose someone to validate the replays?

(Of course, I'll post a lap soon - but I can't seem to find the file anywhere...)

One thing occured to me about the logscale coeffcients: if the participation rate is less than 12^-1,5 (1/41,6), then the coefficient goes below zero... If a couple contests happen to reopen, then we could see negative ratings  !

Well done Duplode, congrats.
I hope you spent a lot of time to do this result and so forgot to race USL track in order to let me win our duel.

Jaja... Indeed I was unable to race on Sunday, and actually I believed I wouldn't get a shot on Satudrday too. When I got the chance to race somewhere, I didn't try Havana that hard for it would require some longish research on new tricks, and soon moved back to Abandon. Anyway, obviously more time for me in USL wouldn't be worth a dime on this occasion... congratulations! (and thanks as well  )

  I'm speechless...not expecting such a spetacular loss 

Not that it matters anymore (Krys' flying lap put it all into perspective - waiting for the replays!), but I would find it hard to locate any time difference between both paths. Even if one gets to cut the loop at ~160mph without losing speed (any replay?) I would say the straight way would be still around 3 secs longer, and that's roughly what one could recover by being at top speed where the tracks rejoin. Is my analysis correct?

Since this is eerily quiet - perhaps because most mortals will take a long time to get anywhere close to the leading trio - , I will be annoying and point your attention to a potentailly scary mistyping on the scoreboard.. 

What a contrast between Audi and Countach! Too bad I, in all likelihood, won't be able to race Dubai seriously untill near the end of the week...

Cool race in  a cool track and neat result for me... congratulations to the podiumers and this time in special to Krys, with his eleventh hour salvage of 3rd place  .

This is absolutely wonderful!!!   I indeed hesitate - quite literally - on the final corners, for I already wasted a couple potential 1:16:XX there and it was way too late to risk another - such are the choices we're subject in NoRH... Anyway, I'm particularly proud of sector 3 - for me, it was the toughest stretch of the lap. Congratulations to Mark, and to Krys and Chluk too, for for another thrilling race!

Reply to website news: CTG, I don't think there should be Online Help here (and for the rest of USL) beyond those tips. The gaps are large mainly because most people either hate or are not used to the car, and the ones who have less trouble with it are getting great times faster. Car differences are, after all, part of what makes each of those matches so peculiar (as most drivers are expected to have deep trouble for at least one race)... in other words, give us more three days 

In the end, Gr?mio is a pretty mediocre team (*); even after the 2nd leg of semifinals one could tell they would win nothing... not that it makes Boca's victory smaller anyway.

(*) Oh wait, gr?mio actually beat my team on the Round of 16...er...time to switch topics? *blushes*

You mean weirdest, don't you ? Good luck then, because even with DOSBox racing under Vista (which is not perfect) I already easily overtook CTG's 1'08 time. And I'll probably improve again in the week-end with pure DOS racing on my daughter's computer (am I kidding or not ? ).

, indeed...

And back to the Countach, I feel "anti-power gear car" is the perfect designation...

Plzen: Well, I managed to lose by only a moderate gap, so I'm satisfied... Grats to Mark, and to all other winners!

Nightmare car...

Don't think I ever had a serious Countach race since I was a lil'kid. Surely the weridest (original) car in game...

Overall it seems quite close to my own prediction : I'll be in the top 3... Starting from the bottom of the scoreboard !

Ditto for me - this is a league... someone must act in the relegation battles  .

* CTG is out of the race.

Sad... But I agree this track must be undriveable with an unreliable keyboard.

Probably I will only update my time much later, when I get to redrive the whole lap. Whatever happens, I'm already pleased with my lap, at least on "artistical" terms. Powergear driving sometimes does not feel much like racing; instead it seems one got thrown into a very hard Tony Hawk's Pro Skater level. Which is great anyway  .