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• Waiting for the FW31 Waiting for the FW31

  • From: Markus Schlabritz
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    Engine Sound from the Williams V10 BMW 2003

    Music by Wagner, Götterdämmerung

    I can't wait for the car

  • 2 weeks ago
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• Chris Walker2

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  • Since: 3 weeks ago

• Patrick Wilson

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  • Since: 4 weeks ago

• Homeless in 2010 Homeless in 2010

  • From: Ray Fournier
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    At the end of April I suddenly found myself homeless.   Put all my stuff into a storage unit and moved into my

    car.  Luckily I had a friend that let me put my phone line in at his place so I was able to stay in business.  At first it

    was a little tough trying to figure out where to sleep for the night.  It's not like the old days when you could just park at

    the beach and stay all night.  Nowdays they close the parks at dusk and make you move along so I had to find something else

    to do.  I started parking outside gas stations and repair shops after dark and leaving at daybreak to go to the beach

    I've been able to find a couple of abandoned pieces of property in the woods where I stay at night.  Talk about pitch black,

    it's as black as can be when it's cloudy out, which seems to be most of the time, lol.  With my black car I'm pretty well

    hidden in there in the mornings as I make myself some coffee and breakfast before I leave.  My old Crown Vic has a really

    large trunk.  I can put most of my camping stuff on the trunk shelf and still have a lot of space left for customers luggage.

     I've learned to keep myself pretty well organized to clean up and put things away as soon as I'm done.

    A couple times a week I stay at a campground in the middle of the island for $10 a night.  What a cold May and June we had, I

    didn't think summer was ever going to get here.  At least it's the one place where I feel like I can keep coming back to all

    day without having to constanly change locations after doing my calls.  They really only allow you to stay seven days a month

    but I can stretch it a couple extra days if I have to.  The one bad thing about it is the Navy runway directly in line one

    mile away.  Those jets really scream and look like they're almost touching the trees directly overhead.  They practice in the

    afternoons and sometimes just before midnite.  If someone calls me on the phone I have to wait for them to pass before I can

    hear what they're saying.  Around here they call it "the sound of freedom". 

    I spent a lot of time at the storage unit trying to organize my stuff.  Everything was packed into one storage unit so tight

    I didn't have room to do anything so I rented another small unit.  The two units still didn't leave me enough room to really

    spread things out so I ended up getting a garage sized unit.  That worked out pretty well because I could have my stuff

    spread out and just close the door and leave when I got a call instead of having to throw everything back inside when I had

    to work.  It's taken about three months but I finally got everything into a more organized jumble now, lol.

    I also spent a lot of time roaming around to different beaches and talking to a lot of different people.  Being that I was

    born and raised on the island here I felt a lot like a historian telling people about how things use to be and how much

    things have changed.  I didn't like to stay too long in one place and was driving around quite a bit from one end of the

    island to the other, about 40 miles one way.  It was costing me a lot more in fuel than I had been paying in rent.  It's a

    good thing my business picked up quite a bit but not enough to rent another place.  Without having rent anymore I was able to

    make enough for my insurance downpayment to stay in business and I was able to catch up on all my bills and paid off my

    former roommates to keep them out of my hair.  I thought I was going to struggle all summer to catch up on everything but I

    was able to do it in about a month.  I still have one old debt I owe a friend and was hoping to pay him in one lump payment

    but I guess I'll have to start making monthly payments to him for a few months.  Glad he hasn't hassled me about it but I

    still feel bad about it.

    It's been a great adventure being homeless and I've seen a lot of wonderful wildlife in action too.  There's sure a lot of

    eagles on the island now, along with deer and rabbits.  One night I came upon a great horned owl just standing in the middle

    of the road.  It was facing away from me and at first I thought it was a brown paper bag.  I stopped to check it out and when

    this big owl face turned around to look at me I decided to back away and leave it alone.  I still had to inch me car up to it

    until it finally flew away.  I thought maybe it was stunned from being hit by a car but it's feathers were in nice shape and

    that big white V on it's face sure looked neat.  Down at the dock one day there were some crows harrassing an eagle until it

    started flying away.  The crows chased it down the beach aways until it was pretty high in the sky.  Then the eagle made a

    dive bomb right down towards the pier in front of me.  I thought it was going to land on the railing and it was so cool when

    it spread out its wings and had these big old drumsticks outstretched.  It flew over the one pier and under the pier next to

    it to grabbed a pigeon from of the beach and took off again.  It was the most awesome thing I had ever seen.

    In July I ran into an old acquaintance that I knew when I was driving taxi on the island in 2003.  At that time he was at the

    office and had his first attack that sent him to the hospital.  He says I saved his life because the last thing he remembered

    before he hit the ground was me saying that we better call 911.  The next thing he knew he was waking up in the aid car. 

    This year he was in the hopital three times within the couple months before he caught up with me at the ferry dock.  He

    flagged me down and asked me to go have a cup of coffee with him.  He said he wasn't feeling very well and wanted me to

    follow him home to make sure he made it.  When he found out I was homeless he asked if I could stay with him and help him out

    for the month. 

    He has bad emphasima and could hardly walk ten steps without getting out of breath.  His place was a disaster area so the

    first thing I had to do was clean up his kitchen and I started making his meals for him.  It took all month but we finally

    got the rest of his place more organized too.  Each week I kept telling him he seemed to be slowly getting better and he was

    glad for the encouragement.  He says he doesn't think he would have made it through the month if I hadn't come along to help.

     He had resigned himself to being near death and had accepted that.  I've taken him to a few medical appointments and he's

    gotten well enough that he gets out and about on his own again.  He is still on oxygen all the time and has some bad moments

    where he doesn't want me to leave until he gets his breath.  I could only live at his place for a few weeks and now I'm back

    to living in the woods again but I was able to stay with him during the worst of it.  The retirement place he's at complained

    that I had been living there too long so now I leave at night and come back during the day, so technically I'm not living

    here.  After this month he hopes to be well enough to manage everything on his own again and he'll probably sell me his truck

    and camper for cheap and I can get on with my own life again.

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• George's car George's car

  • From: Jesse Fahrenkrog
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    iRacing paints coming soon...

  • 4 weeks ago
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• A render I did of my ARCA car A render I did of my ARCA car

  • From: Jesse Fahrenkrog
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    iRacing paints coming soon...

  • 4 weeks ago
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• A Small Introduction A Small Introduction

  • From: Liam Hatchell
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    I've not been iRacing long, couple of months at least - but I've been signed up since late 2008.

    It's only recently I've been taking to the track more often in what is widely regarded as the most advanced simulator for four-wheeled vehicles to date.

     

    My online racing career spans right to the present from September 12th 2008. Before that, I was a teenager racing Gran Turismo and ToCA on a gamepad. My wheel wasn't great; I had a Madcatz Xbox 360 wheel that turned a riveting 270 degrees lock-to-lock. Not pleasant! Needless to say, after half a year of incredibly frequent racing (maybe 4 times a week in a professional league for rFactor), it was time to upgrade. It was then that I bought my Logitech G25.

     

    I do admit, I wasn't keen on iRacing way back then. I didn't like the way races were run, I didn't like the physics (yes...) and I didn't like the safety rating system. I'd raced rFactor so many times, I just couldn't finish a race here.

     

    Another year passes and I begin to grow bored of rFactor's poor and wrongly-praised tyre physics. I wasn't getting much satisfaction from winning races left, right and centre (well not quite, but I had a string of podium finishes of over twenty with no DNF's, but that became boring too). And so, in April/May 2010 I rejoined iRacing to be greeted with a whole host of super-quick guys and found myself learning a whole new learning curve. The car felt perfect, like I would drive any other car. It was predictable, controllable...I just wasn't 'quick' in the status I'd presumed to be in rFactor. I loved it. I loved learning it all again. I loved battling in the middle of the pack, keeping out of trouble and seeing my safety rating go up. If I'd had a poor race, spinning off or hitting another car or a wall, I'd see that safety rating drop and it would annoy me, and therefore I would go at it even harder than before to build it back up.

     

    Now, all I need to say is that defending a position and winning a race in iRacing means much more to me than it did in rFactor, or any other sim. I get the adrenaline, I get the desire to push and I get the desire to defend my position and gain more positions no matter what it takes.

     

    I'm an iRacer. 

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• Todd Garren

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  • Since: 2 months ago

• iRacing Mustang FR500S iRacing Mustang FR500S

  • From: Markus Schlabritz
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    iRacing Mustang FR500S

  • 3 months ago
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• kdogs1 legend car kdogs1 legend car

  • From: Kenneth Mede
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  • 3 months ago
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• Indy 500 a hard dream Indy 500 a hard dream

  • From: Ludovic Lefevre
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    So it was hard in class c. Even if i choose daniel set because i felt more comfortable with it. There was many crash, and i was fourth by 25 laps. Unfortunately i made a mistake while pitting, and did not change my tires. I was hoping a yellow flag to save my tires and my race and it didn't happen. No, by hte way it happen and i did cause it and i am terribly sorry. I hope i didn't touch anything but my car started spinning, and i couldn't manage anything. My tires were totally out...

    My car wrecked there was no way to repaire it, even if i wait at least almost half an hour towing in vain...

    But it was a great time, not the best time i had. But that's race and all folks!!

     

    

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• Jim Gibson

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  • Since: 4 months ago

• Ford Falcon FG01 - Phillip Isl Ford Falcon FG01 - Phillip Island

  • From: Markus Schlabritz
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    Ford Falcon FG01 V8 Supercar @ Phillip Island
    Music: Queens Of The Stone Age

  • 5 months ago
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• iRacing-Sticker on my car :-) iRacing-Sticker on my car :-)

  • From: Maurice Richter
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  • 5 months ago
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• Cody Larson

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  • Since: 5 months ago

• iRacing Lotus79 Theme iRacing Lotus79 Theme

  • From: Markus Schlabritz
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  • 6 months ago
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• The Wheel and Lime Rock arrive The Wheel and Lime Rock arrive....

  • From: Robert Mahoney
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    Awesome the UPS man bring my wheel by in the afternoon and I get it all setup. Since the Solstice is moving to Lime Rock that evening I decide to test there while I am working on fine tuning my wheel to suit me. Setting up my G27 went pretty smooth. I had already been reading the forums and I had a good idea what everything needed to be set at. All in all i had my wheel pretty much in sync with me within about 20 mins. 

    I then decide to work on getting my speed up at Lime Rock. All I had been doing was puttering around the track to make sure I liked the wheel settings up to this point. I run a good number of laps and have what I feel is a nice smooth line that does decent time. So then I go check out the forums again to see what people are saying about a good time for Lime Rock. Yep what i thought was a good time was not all that good...go figure. I then found a few replays of people at the track to watch their line and watch their shift points. I figured out shift points was hurting my time a ton. So back to the track I go.

    Now did I mention that for a good time at Lime rock in this Solstice you apparently need to be good at drifting? That is what i feels like anyway lol. So a drifting we will go. That night I was able to get into 3 races. Finished toward the front in all of them and actually lead for for about 7 laps. I finished 2nd in that one. Now to do some more time trial and hopefully get out of this Solstice. I do not like this car at all. I have tested other cars on the same tracks as I have this one and the other ones just feel better even with base setups. 

     

    Till next time...zoom..zoom

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  • 6 months ago
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• Learning the Ropes Learning the Ropes

  • From: Robert Mahoney
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    So I started Iracing less then a week ago. I am currently living in SIN as far as the Iracing world goes. I am using a gamepad. Yes I know i will be exiled for saying so. I wanted to just check things out an decide. Well I played one day and ordered my wheel(should be here tomorrow). I have run in a few races. I just made sure to fall out of line ASAP and fall to the back and just ride around. I did not want to actually race anyone since I do not have great control of the car in my current setup. So tomorrow once I test a bit with the new wheel I can actually start racing guys if my car is up to speed. So wish me luck and I hope to see you on the track.

    More later.

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  • 6 months ago
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• Kyle Dargert

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  • Since: 7 months ago

• Indaycar Flip Indaycar Flip

  • From: Maurice Richter
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    This happened during a practice session. I just turned into T3 and my car flips over.

  • 8 months ago
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