Club ARCA - 25 May 2008

[Sascha Henken]

We are going mad again. Another "Day Of Thunder" takes place. After we run a successfull 100% Daytona race, the teams are now heading their equipment to the legendary Talladega Super Speedway. After the successful win of Mr. Gareth Hickling last sunday, will he have again the chance to win? Or will it maybe Mr. Roy Stevens, who was supposed to be the winner at Daytona, but unfortunately his car took a serious suspension problem, forcing him to retire!

Be prepared for this event as it will again another Day Of Thunder!

Server: RaceDept.com #1 or #2
Start time: 14:00 GMT
Tracks: Talladega

Server Settings
60 mins practice
10 mins qualies
10 mins warmup
100 lap races
Full Flag Rules in use!
Password: patience

Signups:

1. Sascha Henken
2. James Johnson
3. Roy Stevens
4. Robert Maytum
5. Mark A. Warmington
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[Gareth Hickling]

Im in!

[James Johnson]

my turn

[Simon Trendell]

Nuts, I thought this was going to be an evening thing. I'm at work till 18 GMT

[Roy Stevens]

[Robert Maytum]

Originally Posted by Sascha Henken

We are going mad again. Another "Day Of Thunder" takes place. After we run a successfull 100% Daytona race, the teams are now heading their equipment to the legendary Talladega Super Speedway. After the successful win of Mr. Gareth Hickling last sunday, will he have again the chance to win? Or will it maybe Mr. Roy Stevens, who was supposed to be the winner at Daytona, but unfortunately his car took a serious suspension problem, forcing him to retire!

I am in m8 , But i feel it must be my turn to win a race :jumping:

[Gareth Hickling]

The last race was excelent! 42 laps until we saw our first yellow, Intense stuff!

[Mark A Warmington]

I would have - but I think I will be watching the Grand Prix.

[Sascha Henken]

Originally Posted by Mark A Warmington

I would have - but I think I will be watching the Grand Prix.

Record the GP on tape for god sakes. Nothing´s more important than racing Dega Mark

just kidding mate... just kidding but it´s up to you of course!

[Mark A Warmington]

Originally Posted by Sascha Henken

Record the GP on tape for god sakes. Nothing´s more important than racing Dega Mark

just kidding mate... just kidding but it´s up to you of course!

You make a good argument - especially since the race will probably be boring.

Hmmm... I might make it to Dega after all.

[Sascha Henken]

I´ll put you on the list mate. You´re welcome whenever you want

[Gareth Hickling]

Unfortunatly I will have to miss this event as I will not be back home till around 7pm.

Sorry chaps.

[Sascha Henken]

That´s no problem Gareth. Take your time mate.

[Christopher Aponte]

this weekend i cannot commit myself to any racing....but dammit it's Talladega....need to bring back my wide ass ......don't know yet but i might join last min ;)

[Bram Hengeveld]

i wonder why this thread is not in the racing club ?

i might join as well tomorrow, need to reinstall Arca first!

[Sascha Henken]

Server is NOW open. Please guys feel free to join, see password in the first post!

[Christopher Aponte]

lol it was a fun event
even though only 5 show up....if was great drafting.....helping Rob & Mark with drafting to catch Sascha & Roy who was 4 seconds up front

[Mark A Warmington]

Had great fun... Apart from my occassional lag spike .

Stayed on the back of Rob as we caught up to and collected Christophe into a three car draft. Caught Sascha and Roy with some nice team work and then all got taken out in an attempt to pit

Christophe then showed no loyalty to his drafting partners [NASCAR driver in the making ] and took off with Sascha on the restart. Talk about cold. Leaving your friends behind because you found a cooler, faster friend.

Will have to do that again. Much prefer Dega to Tona.

[Christopher Aponte]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

well could not draft anymore because of aero damage ...so went off with Sascha

btw Sascha can it maybe be in public?....maybe we can attract more drivers possibly?
but i had fun.....
i saw Mark & Rob struggling so i dropped back just to help them

[Sascha Henken]

Yes and next time i´ll put this stuff again in the Racing Club. I just have chosen this way because of the regular RC password. I wanted to attract people on this way by spreading out a password NOT used by the RC so it could´ve been possible to have more people on board. Next time will be public again. But I doubt we will then can run a Full Flag Race. Many people do treat open servers as Pickup Race Servers only.

I really really hope that more European people will get this game as the majority are still americans, thus making it impossible to get a descent field together, be it closed or a public server.

[Mark A Warmington]

I'm trying to get some more of my BFR brethren to get the game...

[Sascha Henken]

Originally Posted by Mark A Warmington

I'm trying to get some more of my BFR brethren to get the game...

That would be really nice Mark

But honestly it´s the fault of The Sim Factory. I don´t understand why they are not making some commercial cooperations with big european based simgaming communities like RaceDepartment to increase sales and to get ARCA RE/MAX better known in Europe too.

If this game would´ve been a NASCAR game, I really think that we would´ve had more luck so far

[Bram Hengeveld]

+1 Sascha... I dont get it either. Maybe they just don't want this game to be popular outside the US!

[Sascha Henken]

Originally Posted by Bram Hengeveld

+1 Sascha... I dont get it either. Maybe they just don't want this game to be popular outside the US!

Wannabe patriots then maybe?

[Mark A Warmington]

Digital download seems like an obvious oversight as well. Can't understand it. I buy all of my Microsoft FlightSim software by DDL and I would never consider waiting for a boxed version to make it from the states.

Huge booboo. But then again - Microsoft do stupid things like that with the X360. Some of the most popular titles are only available in the US.:brancard: