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News posted in April 2012

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Apr 1

• Well, hello pipsqueaks!
  Yes, pipsqueaks, most of you, as only four racers were brave enough to unleash the Ferrari GTO on ZCT128. They are all brave real racers! The others? Well... pipsqueaks!
  Best amongst the brave was Duplode, second came fellow teammate Bonzai Joe - bringing ultimate fame to the mighty Cork.
  And on the third place... who is that??? Friker. Congratulations to your first poridum, RACER!
  This achievement has its value further raised due to the fact that Gutix, the king of powegear and carpets of magic only finished fourth - missing a small but important trick, and also that Friker collected +2 LTB. Worth a big round of applause!
  Now on to April, let's see what this talented Friker can achieve on his own design: Around an island, aka ZCT129.
  Don't let anyone fool you - fasten your seatbelt and race as hell! Car? Give it some thought...
• Zak McKracken
  update started, scoreboard final, unconfirmed
• Zak McKracken
  btw, am sitting on the balcony of our apartment with my laptop after a great lunch, sunshine, 20 degrees, light breeze, listening to Erasure - perfect site update environment
• Zak McKracken
  scoreboard confirmed, track available. Thanks to all participants of March!
• Zak McKracken
  sort of a test drive
• Friker
  hmm.. i knew about all things done better but i wasn't able to achieve them. (especially hit the slope road after the second loop) maybe after 4 years racing when everyone will be gone (with wives/on trips) i'll win something. congrats to Duplode
• Friker
  NoRH
• Friker
  RH
• Bonzai Joe
  Oh that sounds like a good update, Zak! What Erasure stuff were you listnening to? Congratulations to Duplode, and to Friker for reaching the podium and leveling with the top.
• Bonzai Joe
  I like how short this track looks. But all those bridge corners... RH-pain.... or power gear holiday? :-)
• Friker
  uh.. now i see - i forgot to add some block of flats so it's shorter than short. i don't know where you want to gain powergear, but if you do send me a replay pls i tried to do some easy NoRH friendly track so enjoy it. btw - could be the vertical cork omitted?
• Duplode
  As expected, it didn't take long at all Major congratulations, Friker! Oh, and awesome third circle corner, man; sharp as a knife!
• Duplode
  A small issue, Zak: LTB points for ZCT128 were added twice.
• Bonzai Joe
  When I made the PG comment, I thought the track went the other way :-D
• Bonzai Joe
  Extra bonus points for anyone who PG-skips the bridge corners.
• Friker
  hm? some session timeout?
• CTG
  My bet: Lancia madness.

Apr 5

• Overdrijf
  Was driving always this hard, or is it just because windows 7 forces me to use dosbox?

Apr 6

• Duplode
  Do you get any noticeable lag, Overdrijf? You might want to ensure you are running DOSBox with a sane number of cycles (say, 14000).
• Friker
  oh hello back! i personally don't like driving in dosbox..
• Overdrijf
  I found the cycles button, I just haven't found a fullscreen button that won't display the game in negative colors yet. Mostly though I was just looking for an excuse for what was a very quick test lap driven after a year of absence.

Apr 7

• Zak McKracken
  there you go...
• CTG
  Expect a new lap in two weeks.
• CTG
  It's hard to use manual gear with 1.5 hands.
• CTG
  DOSBox is not really useful under XP. Too bad, it's necessary if you have Windows 7... :-S

Apr 8

• Friker
  3:15am - you're gonna die!
• CTG
  11:11am - böff!

Apr 9

• Friker
  aah i've noticed it too late
• Friker
  still - you have nothing more?
• CTG
  Maybe tomorrow.
• Friker
  hm.. what is your estimation about winning time?
• Friker
  btw - Duplode & BJ - where are you?
• CTG
  Dunno, my estimations usually suck.
• CTG
  But the winner will pass the cork up/down without using the brakes.
• Friker
  hmm.. is that even possible? now i see how much i suck
• CTG
  I expected something like that...
• CTG
  Lemme see the time I lose in each sectors: beginning sucks (slow after the first corner), no sliding at the first ramp, bad cornering, unlucky fall trom cork up/down, driving too much on the grass after the loop-tunnel part, no sliding on the last ramp... 42.31 is not a big deal.
• Overdrijf
  My attempt at worst time.
• Friker
  yep, i have a good start but a bad elevated section ended with a very poor pass through that cork.. but ending is solid.. i think somewhere around 38 is possible.
• Overdrijf
  (the Indy one)
• Duplode
  The proverbial listfiller, just to decree the end of a ten days break.

Apr 11

• Bonzai Joe
  I'm right here. I'm trying not to race. An attempt which will possibly fail.

Apr 12

• Overdrijf
  Nothing to do with the current race, but I just noticed that in the track archive none of the pictures of tracks older than number 100 are showing. I also noticed it can be fixed by adding an extra zero before the number of the track. track=ZCT99 -> track=ZCT099

Apr 13

• CTG
  10 years... I should play tonight to celebrate it.
• Friker
  happy "birthday" CTG and just relax - don't race
• CTG
  I said race, but nothing about the track. Probably I'll dig up ZCT13.
• CTG
  Or I said play... Blind, tired, stupid CTG.

Apr 22

• Friker
  hm.. no new replays after weekend..
• Overdrijf
  That means people had a good weekend. And now back to racing all of you!

Apr 23

• Friker
  hm, i have just finished my last riding session before deadline.. my replay looks ugly and i am quite sad that this race is so inactive.
• Friker
  :O Aburaf's attacking.

Apr 24

• Duplode
  My shoulder is now good enough for driving a little bit for fun

Apr 26

• CTG
  My shoulder is now crappier than three weeks ago. Might be a worse injury... Expect no improvements from me.

Apr 27

• Gutix
  my shoulder is fine, but my neck is tense and is making some vertebral noises after driving this lap
• CTG
  hello gutix
• Gutix
  Hi CTG

Apr 28

• Friker
  hey hey hey, calm down aces! i am happy there is at least one good replay.
• Duplode
  Just a quick drive with the "right" car...

Apr 29

• Overdrijf
  Final replay sent, not a contender on this track.

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