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Scott McIntyre

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:11 pm

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Maybe a single 1-hour race each night with a hard start time? Have an optional 30 minute practice session beforehand? That would cut down on race-time-creep.

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Steve Phillips

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:09 pm

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Craig Martin wrote:

I'll tell you what's making it harder for me to do these, some other people can chime in, but for me, the races - and therefore the nights - are getting longer and longer. Tough sell to the boss.

I think we all need to make a road trip to NB and perform a little intervention for your sake.

Kinda like one of those "Welcome to the Wiserhood commercials" We'll all wear our best tweed and turtle necks while sipping on fine Whiskey, and give you a gentle golf clap while you let the "boss" know you'll be playing some online video games with your adult friends :lol:

I'm up for whatever, although I do prefer fast and racy vs slow and street like.

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Trevor Gray

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 9:32 pm

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im down for tomorrow night. i have loads of moolah now that the autogrinder and gt5 merlin are doing all the hard work for me. so im good to go with the lemans cars. allthough i would like to buy a few more and see what they are like.

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Jason Smith

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 10:07 pm

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We've always done typically 90mins per night. When we have longer races we normally have less races per night. When we have more races they are normally shorter "sprint" type races.

We've always typically started around 8:15 and have normally finished before 9:30pm.

We've only started letting the start time fall back to 8:30ish on the hopes that more are joining because of the low numbers, and even then we finish before 10pm.

If we need to move the start time to 7pm or 7:30 so that we can get a solid 90mins of gaming I'm ok with that (but I thought we moved it from 7 to 8 so that most people could have dinner, put the kids to bed, get settled and join in). We lost our player from Germany because of the 8pm start time, it was just too late for him (+5hrs).

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Scott Harrod

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 10:20 pm

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8pm start time works best for me. Kid to bed thing.

We should start the Lemans race after the Easter weekend. I say this because my "boss" made plans for us Thursday night, forgetting that I had racing. On that note, I won't be there This Thursday.

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Jason Smith

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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 8:14 am

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Ok so what's on the docket for tonight....

-Shuffle Races
-Performance Point Races
-Spec Races (old Spec M3, Elise, NSX, Miata, etc)

I'm open to suggestions.... and I agree with Steve, I'd like something fast.

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Trevor Gray

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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:54 am

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touring car ???

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Jason Smith

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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:04 am

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Trevor Gray wrote:

touring car ???

What touring cars are in the new car dealership?

I'm leaning towards our old Spec M3s...... or 500~600pp with Racing Hard tires.

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Trevor Gray

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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:29 am

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5-600 pp sounds like fun

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Steve Phillips

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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 5:46 pm

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I don't know about you guys but I've been having psn issues for the past day or so.

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Jason Smith

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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 7:08 pm

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Steve Phillips wrote:

I don't know about you guys but I've been having psn issues for the past day or so.

I wasn't until I got home today.... 80710A06
At first I thought the reboot of my router and modem fixed it because I was able to watch Netflix, however just tried to sign into the PSN and got the above error code.

http://us.playstation.com/support/answe ... ?a_id=2185

Sony wrote:

We’re aware certain functions of PlayStation Network are down. It may be a full day or two before we’re able to get the service completely back up and running. Please stay tuned to this space for more details, and we’ll update you again as soon as we can.

Maybe no gaming tonight

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Craig Martin

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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 7:27 pm

I thought I'd been signed in, but I guess I'm not. Apparantly the servers went down for maintenance.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/225943/p ... r_two.html

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Trevor Gray

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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 1:31 pm

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anyone game for tonite if the psn is back up and running?

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Steve Phillips

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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 3:02 pm

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Not tonight for me. Playoff game to watch.

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Jason Smith

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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 3:06 pm

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Trevor Gray wrote:

anyone game for tonite if the psn is back up and running?

It doesn't look good for the PSN tonight.

I'm thinking about doing the Suzuka 1000km or the 4hrs Nürburgring tonight.
I'm hoping to do the 9hrs of Tsukuba on Saturday or Monday.

If anyone is interested in helping out please let me know.

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Jason Smith

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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 6:53 pm

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As of this post the PSN is still down.

Varga and I are doing the Suzuka 1000km tonight.
No live blogging sorry.

But anyone is welcome to come over and run it with us.
We're going to use the Red Bull X2010 so victory is assured

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Scott McIntyre

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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:11 pm

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Jason Smith wrote:

We're going to use the Red Bull X2010 so victory is assured

Oh, my forearms hurt just thinking about it.

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Jason Smith

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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:26 pm

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Scott McIntyre wrote:

Jason Smith wrote:

We're going to use the Red Bull X2010 so victory is assured

Oh, my forearms hurt just thinking about it.

The trick is to turn the FFB down to 1 (which is the lowest setting).
We have completed 137 of 172 laps, 3hrs 28mins on the clock right now.

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Jason Smith

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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:41 pm

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Oh yea did I mention we're 45 laps ahead.

(We're up against the SuperGT cars)

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Jason Smith

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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 11:17 pm

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1000kms
172 laps
4hrs 16mins 50seconds (No rain!)
AI was 55laps behind

My best lap 1:10.8
Varga's 1:12.2

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Trevor Gray

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Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 12:38 pm

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on for sunday night?

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Jason Smith

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Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 1:02 pm

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Trevor Gray wrote:

on for sunday night?

If the PSN is back up.

Looks like they are labeling it as another attack against the Sony Playstation Network....

Sony wrote:

An external intrusion on our system has affected our PlayStation Network

http://us.playstation.com/support/answe ... ?a_id=2185

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Scott Harrod

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Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:18 pm

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I won't be there Sunday night. I have to work. It's a 24hr duty watch on the ship. I have to do it about once every 20 days.

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Jason Smith

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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 12:09 am

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Scott Harrod wrote:

I won't be there Sunday night. I have to work. It's a 24hr duty watch on the ship. I have to do it about once every 20 days.

Doesn't look like the PSN will be online tomorrow night anyways.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/ ... -services/

I'm game for some 4hrs of Nürburgring @ my place tomorrow night.
... and I'm planning to do the 9hrs of Tsukuba on Monday for those that are interested.

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Aaron Gallagher

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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 2:22 pm

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Penny Arcade's got your explanation of the issue:
(warning, naughty words!)

http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/1261596481_3Fw2MnJ-L.jpg

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Scott McIntyre

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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 2:50 pm

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I've been using the downtime to finally get gold trophies in the license & special events. :lol:

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Jason Smith

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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:13 pm

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Aaron Gallagher wrote:

Penny Arcade's got your explanation of the issue:
(warning, naughty words!)

http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/1261596481_3Fw2MnJ-L.jpg

I fraking love Penny Arcade.... I've been reading them since their first comic, many eons ago.

Playstation.
It only does 80710A06!

Scott McIntyre wrote:

I've been using the downtime to finally get gold trophies in the license & special events. :lol:

Besides missing a few golds (Vettel, FGT Championship & a few licenses) I'm 99% done the offline game. The only two offline events I have left are the 9hrs of Tsukuba and 24hrs of Nürburgring.

I can't wait for the PSN to get back online.....
Latest update is there is still no ETA
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/25/psn-update/

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Scott Harrod

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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 6:20 pm

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Apparently they are rebuilding the entire network. crazy.

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Jason Smith

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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 8:21 am

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The good news:
The Playstation Network should be back online in a day or two

The bad news:
It maybe more than a week before all services are restored to the PSN.

The really bad news:
A hacker has stolen an unknown amount of personal account information, possibly even credit cards.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gad ... tml?hpt=T1

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Jason Smith

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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 10:48 am

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Day 8. Still no PSN. Unable to login and change passwords/cc info etc.

Varga and I did another 4hrs of Nürburgring last night.
Only have to run it 6 more times.

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