addicitive little kart game - Mini League

[Cougar]

		Driver	Time	FL	GAP	PTS
1		Koper	56.146	27.657	0.000
2		Cougar	57.212	26.957	1.066
3		Whitesedan	60.844	29.989	4.698
4		Mattt	xxx	31.255	xxx

This is RACE TEN

Quite a slow start to Race Ten. Come on guys!

[Tathrim]

heh, it is a slow start.

[Monstersuzuki]

Hiya.

I am Tinysuzuki, I know this is probably an odd place for a 1st post on this forum (should have introduced myself in marshalls or asked about 1979 F1 but hey!)

I see I have the fastest race time! I am quite surprised at that!

Cheers.

[Cougar]

Talk like that will just bring out the big boys with their slicks and V8s!! (not me!!) Welcome to the races. Hope we see you more often.

[Cougar]

		Driver	Time	FL	GAP	PTS
1		Cougar	52.414	25.524	0.000
2		TJR	52.847	25.391	0.433
3		TinySusuki	54.947	26.357	2.533
4		TIMELORD	56.079	26.424	3.665
5		Koper	56.146	27.657	3.732
6		Whitesedan	56.479	27.557	4.065
7		Mattt	64.710	30.289	12.296
8		Tathrim	65.543	32.222	13.129

This is RACE TEN

OK so yes thats better!! Atleast the top 8 is now filled up. susuki? Which flag can I use for you? Cheers

[Monstersuzuki]

Wales if ya got it

If not then GB

[Cougar]

		Driver	Time	FL	GAP	PTS
1		Whitesedan	52.148	25.324	0.000
2		Cougar	52.414	25.524	0.266
3		TJR	52.847	25.391	0.699
4		Wannab-aracer	52.914	25.857	0.766
5		TinySusuki	53.047	25.491	0.899
6		TIMELORD	54.547	26.290	2.399
7		Koper	56.146	27.657	3.998
8		DPRacing	63.543	31.655	11.395
9		Mattt	64.710	30.289	12.562
10		Tathrim	65.543	32.222	13.395
11		Thebullet	107.327	38.619	55.179

This is RACE TEN

[Cougar]

		Driver	Time	FL	GAP	PTS
1		Whitesedan	51.581	24.691	0.000
2		Cougar	51.614	24.558	0.033
3		TJR	52.847	25.391	1.266
4		Wannab-aracer	52.914	25.857	1.333
5		TinySusuki	53.047	25.491	1.466
6		TIMELORD	54.380	26.190	2.799
7		Koper	56.146	27.323	4.565
8		DPRacing	56.746	27.223	5.165
9		Rich_D	58.512	28.390	6.931
10		Raceredd	61.644	29.656	10.063	NA
11		Mattt	64.710	30.289	13.129
12		Tathrim	65.543	32.222	13.962
13		Thebullet	107.327	38.619	55.746

This is RACE TEN

[mattt]

i improved by 5 seconds by using a normal keyboard rather than a laptop keyboard

[Cougar]

Sheesh! I was 3rd! Now I am 5th!! ouch! I should be able to update scores around 7pm.. 1hr from now!

[Cougar]

An its OVER. Well Season One anyways..

		Driver	Time	FL	GAP	PTS
1		Koper	49.982	24.058		11
2		TJR	51.115	24.424	1.133	8
3		Whitesedan	51.581	24.691	1.599	6
4		Thebullet	51.581	24.291	1.599	5
5		Cougar	51.614	24.524	1.632	4
6		Wannab-aracer	51.914	25.157	1.932	3
7		TinySusuki	52.747	25.491	2.765	2
8		TIMELORD	53.647	25.824	3.665	1
9		DPRacing	56.746	27.223	6.764
10		Rich_D	58.512	28.390	8.530
11		Mattt	59.978	28.823	9.996
12		Raceredd	61.644	29.656	11.662	NA
13		Tathrim	65.543	32.222	15.561

This was RACE TEN

Stay tuned for final Championships Update.

[TIMELORD]

Hooray!!! I managed to cling onto eighth place! It feels great to be back in the points again (it means a lot down my end of the grid!).

[Cougar]

Championship Standings at the End of Season One

		DRIVER	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	TOT
1		Koper	DNF	11	11	8	11	13	8	10	8	11	91
2		Thebullet	1	8	8	DNF	4	10	11	4	6	5	57
3		TJR	3	6	5	10	8	4	5	5		8	54
4		Whitesedan	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	5	6	4	4	11	6	36
5		Cougar	8	2	6	3		5	2	1	4	4	35
6		#24 (Gerben)	11	4	4	6	6		DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	31
7		Wannab-aracer	DNF	DNF	1	DNF	3	3	6	8	5	3	29
8		Jonbryant	6	3		5	2		1	6	2	DNF	25
9		DPRacing	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	2	3	2	3		10
10		TIMELORD			3	2	1	1				1	8
11		Austinspace75	2	5		DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	7
12		Chatters11	5			DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	5
13		Rich_D	4	DNF		DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF		1		5
14		Mattt		1	2	1		DNF			DNF		4
15		Bdwoody	DNF	DNF		4		DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	4
16		TinySusuki	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	2	2

And that is that folks! Season One Champion = KOPER! He pretty much ran away with it! I honestly do not know where he finds the pace!

Season Two will start soon.. Anyone have any clever ideas or are we happy with how it is??

[thebullet]

Ah well im glad to hold onto 2nd. Have been busy lately so havn't had much time managed to claw up the times today. Might try changing my keyboard to a normal one as i am on a laptop aswell. Well done Koper we all knew this was going to happen :P.

[TIMELORD]

Thanks for all your hard work over the course of the season, Cougar. It's been fun! Thanks too to tator2001uk for finding the game.

[jonbryant]

Gah. Recording my 1st DNF in the very last race. If only I hadn't been off testing how to drink beer in warmer climes

[tator2001uk]

no worries timelord

glad u all go tthe time to play it a lot more than me hahaha

[whitesedan]

That was great! Wish I had raced more than half the season!

Can't wait for the next one!

[koper]

I would like to thank you all guys. The competition has been really cool. Great job Cougar.

Originally Posted by Cougar

I honestly do not know where he finds the pace!

For me the fingertime's trackhead game is not only pure "driving", but also tactics - sometimes you had to delay your start to get the best position after 1st corner. Moreover it is analysing what's the best racing line - sometimes you had to cut corner badly loosing speed, but thanks to that you are in much better position for the next one, especially if after that one is a long straight. Usually you had to take a different line through the first few corners just after the start - because you are in a fight with competitors, but also, because you just don't carry as much speed as when you would enter the start/stop straight. Sometimes you have to turn gently, sometimes you have to turn heavily - it all depends what's better - what's next after the corner.

I was looking at times we all do. And realised that some of you can do fast one lap, but are struggling with repeating it in the same race. I also have feeling that some of you may loose too much time fighting for a position during first lap. I think the first lap in many cases was decisive.
For example in the last race my best lap wasn't set on my best race time. My best race time is combination of: 1st lap - 25.7 and 2nd - 24.2.
Anyway - I got this theory: If somebody beat my time that only means I can go faster. If I can't go faster using "my" lines, that means I need to find and try a different line. It usually works.

To sum up, I am happy that the competition is really strong and we are pretty close each other on every race.

Originally Posted by Cougar

Season Two will start soon.. Anyone have any clever ideas or are we happy with how it is??

It works very good in my opinion. Again - great job Cougar.
I think I had some ideas, but...have forgotten now.

Originally Posted by mattt

i improved by 5 seconds by using a normal keyboard rather than a laptop keyboard

I'm on laptop as well, but am happy with my keyboard.
However the keyboard in one laptop could be very different from keybord in another one. I got HP Compaq 6720s - this one was very cheap - built quality is poor comparing to pavillion series or toshiba's sattelites, but as I mentioned above I have no problem with my keyboard.

[koper]

ohhh...I would forget.

Creating a good track is not an easy job - I'm really bad with it.
So here I would like to thank everyone who created track/tracks (especially mattt as I remember all of his tracks were really, really good).

By the way, whitesedan - I rate your track (Raggedy Ann - last race) as one of my best. Number of laps. Number of opponents. Perfect for me. Thanks

[whitesedan]

Thanks for the kind words koper, I enjoyed that track quite a lot, and the competition is great, I like getting to work to see that my time has been beaten and gets me enthused to try harder and work on new lines.

For this season about to start, how about we each create a track based on tracks in our own countries and then we can have a round at each competitors track, not everyone has to do this but could make it more interesting.

What does everyone think?

[Monstersuzuki]

I think that is a brilliant Idea!!, Do I create a track for the 1st race then (llandow Kart Track might be apt)

[Cougar]

Yes anyone can create tracks... I'd like a pool of tracks I can choose from. So if you create a track and want it raced on during the season let me know. For fairness maybe name it with a "TT2" suffix and then that can mean that if in Season 2 if you do come across a track with that suffix you should not race on it until it is announced as an official track for the season?

I think most prefer shorter slightly twistier tracks to long straights and sharp corners... IMO a short racetime is better? The last track was pretty good as you did not have to be consistant over many laps. The way the start was made was excelent as the traffic played a big role. My small oval was pretty useless in terms of traffic getting in the way. Ideas and opinions welcome from everyone on how you would like the tracks made.

As for points scoring.. I think we keep the 10-8-6... system, but I want to add an extra point to each driver that is within 107% of the winning race time. The winner will not get this point though. So for example if the winning time is 100 seconds and the winner has the FL he gets 11pts as it is now... Then if position 5 is 106.99 seconds... 2nd to 5th will each get an added point (9-7-6-5)... In another race if position 9 is 106.99 seconds then instead of 0pts they will get 1pt. Make its a little more complicated.. But I'm happy to work it all out. Gives the guys down the bottom of the table something more to race for also.

Also how about a bonus of 10pts at the end of the season if you have NO DNF. Hopefully this will get more people to race. Even if you just do one lap on your holiday to get your name on the board!

Thats all I can think of now..

With that I think I'll start with the 1st track!!

SEASON 2 - RACE 1 (please note this race will run until SUNDAY the 28th at midday BST)

Edit: Sorry Suzuki.. had my post all typed up already! :P Will add your track to a list to be raced! Thanks.

[Monstersuzuki]

I will create Llandow with the suffix later on, tis okay cougar I created a 1st version then saw your track!.

Cheers

[wannab-aracer]

Well done Koper on your season 1 championship win.

Thanks again to Cougar for all the good work.

Here's to season 2 !

GENTLEMAN, PLEASE START YOUR ENGINES !