NORH-R4/2007 ? ?SMART?

[Mark L. Rivers]

Be "Smart"!

It's time to present the new dazzling challenge living it inside your Melange!    You know the car, it doesn?t need presentation: speed, grip, steering. In a word: smart. You know what kind of driver SDR needs: fast, able, imaginative. In a word: smart. You don?t know this track. But don?t you imagine how could it be? Yes: ?Smart?!     Enjoy with the 2nd track entirely dedicated to NORH drivers!    Start is behind the corner: 1st May at 00:00:01!

[Mark L. Rivers]

Track is available! Gentlemen, start your engines! 

[Krys TOFF]

This track has typical "Mark-ish" elements and has a good rythm. Car is well apropriated for the track. Well done, I enjoyed a lot to do noRH race on this one. Be sure I'll race it again.

[Mark L. Rivers]

This track has typical "Mark-ish" elements and has a good rythm. Car is well apropriated for the track. Well done, I enjoyed a lot to do noRH race on this one. Be sure I'll race it again.

I'm very happy to know your comments. When I designe a NORH track, I always try to make it thinking to the emotions that an engaged driver can feel driving is car as fast as he can. 

[Duplode]

Indeed a very neat track, Mark. By the time I get satisfied with a NORH replay on it my keyboard will have been already punched to death, but oh well...

[Mark L. Rivers]

Indeed a very neat track, Mark.

Thanks Duplode 

By the time I get satisfied with a NORH replay on it my keyboard will have been already punched to death, but oh well...

Head, heart, ability, firm nerves and... patience! 

[Mark L. Rivers]

A "Smart" duel: I and Krys soon on the track researching the right strategy!  For the moment I get 1 bonus point resulting 2" faster than Krys (0,5 bonuspoints), but maybe leading time is too much fast to be easily lowered at next checkpoint...     So Krys will have more possibilities to get a whole bonus point next Sunday!    Anyway, we sure are waiting Chulk: what kind of time will he reach at his outset...? 

[Duplode]

I would like to send a video on this before Sunday's checkpoint (at last I found time to setup DOSBox!). If my motherboard does not bust up till then (real possibility...), there's a fair chance of me getting a decent (for last place, that is!) lap.

[Krys TOFF]

If my motherboard does not bust up till then (real possibility...)

Damn. I keep fingers crossed hoping it won't happen to you.

[Mark L. Rivers]

I would like to send a video on this before Sunday's checkpoint (at last I found time to setup DOSBox!). If my motherboard does not bust up till then (real possibility...), there's a fair chance of me getting a decent (for last place, that is!) lap.

Wonderful news!!! 
I hope you succeed to make your lap that it will be anyway a great lap! 

[Chulk]

Head, heart, ability, firm nerves and... patience! 

I find that quite familiar D?j? vu?

[Mark L. Rivers]

Head, heart, ability, firm nerves and... patience! 

I find that quite familiar D?j? vu?

Maybe for you... but maybe not for a new possible player of NORH races like Duplode... 

[Duplode]

If my motherboard does not bust up till then (real possibility...)

Damn. I keep fingers crossed hoping it won't happen to you.

Sooner or later, it will... It stops about a dozen times during boot/XP loading, then runs for some 3-6 hours before freezing/rebooting or going to a blue screen (I've seen about a dozen diferent ones too), and then remaining very unstable till the next day. At least I can borrow another PC at home, so my situation is not that awful if I get to backup in time and get used to a daltonic monitor (Stunts looks rather sad with gray grass, I tell you).

[Chulk]

Stunts looks rather sad with gray grass, I tell you.

I know the feeling. I had that same problem with my old PC (grass & water where confusing!)

[Mark L. Rivers]

2nd Checkpoint

Chulk irrupts on the track with a very fast time, but not enough to catch a whole bonus point: I succeed to stay ahead him lowering over 1"50 my previous time!     Great outset by Chulk who stops the chronometer at 1'03"80. Predicting a strong time by Chulk and to avoid he could catch too much bonus points, I had lowered yet my time twice: before 1'03"55 and then 1'02"90.    Good time for me, enough to defeat the Chulk's attack, but not enough to conquer other bonus points: in fact for only 0"35 I didn't succed to lower my time over 3%, and so I must be content only to limit the score of Chulk.      And now it's beginning a new week of race. It's appeare impossible for me I could conquer other bonus points.  :-\But sure this is possible for the others, leader permitting, sure...!