Introduce yourself thread [Part 2]

[FOG-Steve]

Hi All

My name is Steve Murphy and I am 50 years old and live in Woodbridge England with my beautiful wife and 12 year old daughter. I also have 2 sons aged 27 and 23 that have left the nest. I've been racing online for 4 or 5 years now, firstly with EA Outlaws and since their inception with TeamFOG. Sadly I've not improved much and find myself racing in the more "exciting" back or middle order. Most of the team I'm in are into rFactor, which is nice enough but I much prefer GT Legends, RACE 07 and GTR2 and have had a few events in GTL with the No Grip guys which has been great fun. Looking forward to following you guys round the track in these 3 games.

[Patrick van Driel]

Great to see another FOG member in here,welcome Steve

[Samu Palomäki]

Hi to all racers here in Racedepartment,

I'm Samu Palomäki and come from Finland. Been racing sims from December 2007 as i bought my new pc and stopped playing Forza 2. Been racing in RSC M3 cup and in some other leagues aswell. Some of you might now me allready, in good or bad way. But this Racedepartment is great thing to simracers around world and now community is growing every day. I expect great races with you guys. See you in track.

[Lee Clifford]

Hey Guys,Thanks for the membership!!Look forward to having some nice friendly races with you guys!!Im just a novice at the moment so please bit a little patient with my eratic driving style lol!!Hope to hear from you lads soon!!

Thx again
Lee Clifford also known as cliffie to my friends!!

[Mtommi Tam]

My name is MTOMMI, 32 age ,Please exhibitions ,
2006, I bought my first computer, I do not understand computers, bought the following:
Amd 2800 +
1.5gb ram
6600GT 256mb
The machine was not thought to play online game, only to the Internet,
There until the race the wtcc game, I only started the first online game, is only the first online racing game,
Inadvertently, know some friends, and entered the GetReal XCelsion Sim-Motoring Allience participate in the league,
We enjoy close battle and very clean race,
07 in the race before the sale, I use the computer to play this race07
Amd am2 5000 +
Ddr2 2gb 800mhz
8800 gts 640mb
Hdd raid 0
By race 07, x-motoring.com more will be upgraded to level the existence of a racing team, but also each team has its own team to spend,
and i made more some video on gametrailer and youtube
Gametrailers.com - RACE 07 X-WTCC R-1 RACE 1 PART 1 by MTOMMI
Now, I hope to take part in the world's leading both races, hoping to learn more skills and knowledge,
Finally, I am grateful to be a world-class racing website that members of hope in the future and we can both enjoy racing pleasure
Is the biggest headache is the time difference,
My English is limited, I use google page to the Chinese translation to English, there may be some culture is not correct,
But I hope that you understand, I do not know English can only achieve this level

[Douglas Lundberg]

Hi, I'm Douglas Lundberg and im 16 years old.
I have raced simracing for about 7 months and only 4 months online.
I race karts (category: KF2) on an international level and hopefully 2008 will be my last year in karts and then i will advance to cars.
A lot of the time that is left after karting and studying, then im playing rfactor, race07 or Gtr2.
Im very new to race07 and gtr2 (got it last friday) but i like both of the games a lot already.
Im swedish btw, and I have lived in Portugal from august 2005 till Januari this year

[Jose Cesar]

Hi all...!!! I'm Jose Cesar, a cocktail (eurasian), Portuguese nationality, borned and live permanently in Macau. I'm Interpreter-translator... have u guys ever watch the movie of Nicole Kidman named "The Interpreter"? Yeah... i do the same thing

Being playing sim races for 1 year+. Not a very fast driver but am enjoying with it a lot and a lot.


Used to play at GetReal, XCelsion Sim-Motoring Allience and Welcome to Team Racing Axis

PC:
BenQ 42"
4GB RAM
8800GTS graffic card
Gigabite X38-DS5 motherboard
E8400 Core2Duo Processor

Racing Gear: Full FREX .... yup!!!.. Now waiting for the new Frex SimWheel

[Lubo25]

Hi guys,

My name is Scott im 34 and I live in Scotland with my wife and 4yr old daughter.

I've been paying driving games/sims for a while, as far back as Indycar by Papyrus , I started online racing with GTR a few years ago and then moved to Race and then Race07.
I'm online most nights so I'll hopefully see you all out there!

[Simon Bacon]

Hello, I'm Simon, 34, a paramedic in London - scouser in exile. Been sim racing for a few years, firstly (and still) GPL, right through GTR, GTR2 and GTL. Only been online in the past 6 months, mainly GTL, but 'rediscovered' Race 07 last week. Looking forward to some clean races and a good laugh (neither you seem to get often on-line.) Give us a wave when your lapping me

[redbarron84]

Hi everyone,
My name is Adam, 23 living in Wiltshire, UK. Originally from North Wales i've been a fan of motorsport all my life.

Not had a great deal of experience racing online, only about two months with RACE 07. Before that however the only bit of online racing i have done is with a game called 1nsane......not exactly sim racing but still good fun!

Anyway, I hope to learn a lot from racing with real, honest guys so hope to see you online soon!

Cheers

[Gunja]

Hi fellow vRacers
My name is Goran, 32 and living in Croatia.
Nickname Gunja comes as short for my last name Gunjevic and has nothing to do with illegal plants as some might assume.
Got that nick in kindergarten and it stuck with me ever since.
Been into virtual racing from as long as there were races to race.
I am a fan of everything that SimBin makes ever since their 2002 season FiaGT mod for F1C.
As most of you here, I only race online and I hope I'll have many good races with other members of RD.
See You out there

[Neil Gault]

hi guys, i hope to have a few good races with some of you, my in game nick is [FO]AFU and i race mostly @ Flatout Racing Club
but hope to see a few of you on the track soon

[Mike Cooper]

Hi everyone I'm Mike Cooper from Barnsley in the North of England UK.

I'm 60 years old and have been racing online now since the early days of GPL.
I've raced in UKGPLand am currently racing in GT Legends with UKGTL with Simracing.org.

They also run a Race 07 league.

My brother Tom and I formed our own team of Team Oldie Racing.

We very rarely run at the front of races but we don't find that overly important. What is important is that we enjoy ourselves.

I intend to race the ARCA sim. I'm a complete novice at this so I think the FD series will be a great starter.

I hope to see most of you on the track and look forward to some great racing

Mike "Oilseal" Cooper

[Bram Hengeveld]

Welcome guys!!

[Zbigniew Tomczak]

Hello,

My name is Zbigniew Tomczak, I`m 35 years old and live in Gdańsk, Poland. I`ve been racing for 2 years mainly in the leagues organised by simracing.pl portal. These competitions are without aids (even without auto-clutch) with forced cockpit view. I started in GTR/GTR2, GTL, rFactor ETCC leagues, and I focus only 2-hour races FIA GT (GT1) league this year. The beginning of the season was very exciting for me, because I managed to win the race on the Spa-Francorchamps circuit.
I also decided to try to start in the international WTCC league on the RaceDepartment portal this year.
Best regards for all of the simracing fans.

[robmason2]

Hey guys, im Rob.
Yeah im only 16 but dont worry ;)
Play Race07 and rFactor quite alot these days, only problem is those exams looming in the future
I like close, clean races, hence try to avoid thos public servers, never had a good race on them yet.
Look forward to racing with you all very soon.

[Keith Peppiatt]

Hi all,

I'm Keith aka skipy (check out skipys.co.uk - a new beginning for more info on where the nickname came from)

Been gaming online since the mid 90's. Started on tfc and have kept the battle type interest going with the battlefield series. On the motor racing side really stayed clear of online racing till toca3. spent about 137 hours (thanks xfire) racing with this and about 41 hours with race 07.

Love my motor racing, big f1 fan since mid 80's and follow btcc closely here in the UK (managed to get to knockhill and brands hatch last year - making plans for this year).

Away from the virtual worlds etc I work as an IT Systems Engineer - currently sitting as an Infrastructure Team Leader, so not just responsible for my work, but also a couple of other guys! hey ho!

Personal wise, I'm married (10 years just past on the 11th April) and I have two boys. Torsten who is 5 and Hayden approaching 2. They keep me busy and both love watching the races with me. Possible that Hayden is going to be the bigger petrol head though as he's the one that like to push me out of the way when racing online to try and drive where as Torsten just likes to watch Daddy win (which is not very often).

Driving wise I'm a smooth driver. If I'm fast enough to keep pace with you I'll maybe follow you for a while to see if I can identify a weakness on your lines. Probably best to describe myself as a Jenson Button. Clean, sometimes doesn't commit enough but gets the job done.

Any more you want to chat or know about just ask other wise this introduction will end up with more words than "War and Peace"!

Catch you online!

[Jacek Kozlowski]

Hello
My name is Jacek Kozlowski im 27years old and im from Poland.I m playing simracing (mostly great RACE07)just about 5months.I become tired of public servers(i think everybody knows why) so i registered at racedepartmet and join race club.i alsow sing up for GPCOS wtcc league as a single RD driver(seat)but i think i wont be able to get to the first 100drivers that why i choose RC alsow.I still need a lot of learning-driving,setups etc..Im using g25 with no forcefeedback the same as my idol Atti.
See You on track:automobile:

[Not_Lifting_off]

Hello, my names Lee, 40 yrs old from Coventry. Just getting back into racing after years of not a lot of gaming, last time i raced proper online was with the original TOCA2 about 99\2000, the last month i got trd3 gtr2 and race 07. Since i got Race07 nothing else gets a look in Still very slow, but improving slowly!
Anyway good luck and see you around.

[Jam]

hi my name is razak from uk and 21 yrs old. i play mostly ut2004 Tam but always loved racing. i enjoyed race 07 alot but i'm still slow so hoping to improve soon. i use logitech formular force ex wheel.

will see you on the track

[Marc Good]

Hello,
my name is Marc Good and I am 23 years old. I live in a small little village in the Swiss German speaking part of Switzerland. Currently I am studying computer science and will finally get a bachelors degree this summer (if everything works out as it should..).
Some time ago I bought the F1 game from EA because I wanted to give a formula 1 game a chance but it never really caught my full attention until I first installed the infamous GTR 2002 mod. At that time I was using my good old Momo steering wheel and instantly pre-ordered GTR as it was announced. Unfortunately after some great time with GTR the pedals started to refuse the work on a reliable basis and I only seldom drove my beloved GT cars around, GTL was a blast but without full throttle it's not the same. (yeah, I know there is a fix for this problem but after some time even that didn't help anymore)
Last year my girlfriend made me a nice little birthday present: I got a G25 and was hooked again! GTR2 and Race07 were my new toys and I took part in the BMW M3GTR and TC-65 leagues but was only able to compete in three races. I hope I can be more active in the RD WTCC and Gillet Vertigo leagues.

Best wishes,
Marc

ps: The nickname has nothing to do with Harry Potter! It stems originally from the dictionary of Burgess' A Clockwork Orange - have a look at it and you will know what I mean ;)

[Locheil]

Hi,
I'm Alan "Locheil" Cameron. To date I've spent most of my computer time on flightsims. fs2004, FSX, Lock-on etc & was looking for a new challenge, which I hope I will find in sim racing. I've been trying to get to grips with GTR2 & race07 for about 4 months now & I guess it's time to get down to the nitty gritty & get some real racing under my belt.
Looking forward to hearing from you guys & gals out there & seeing you on the tracks.

...Alan

[pitsy]

hi there,callum is my name but aka pitsy,love sim racing gtr2,wtcc,rfactor also love motor racing at my local track knockhill,did marshalling there and met lots of big names in btcc like plato matt neal,sheddon was at gts there on the 12/4 /08 fantastic see u guys soon cheers

[Mark Schuttenhelm]

Hello everybody,

I'm Mark Schuttenhelm and new at this community.. The past years very busy driving GTR and GTR2 and i think i can say pretty experienced at this game.... Now is the time to look

I'm here to find an other racegame thats worth my while and maybe compete at some races.

In the summer i compete with my racebike ('06 yamaha R6) on various tracks in holland and sometimes outside of holland .. Which i can recomend to everybody ;)

[Marcin Skrzypczak]

Hi my name is Marcin, I am from Poznan in Poland. As you see my english is weak, sorry for mistakes. I am 25 years old, single. My hobby is motorsport, love playing any racing game. In computer game since 1996 but with wheel (wingman formula force gp) since 2004, in multiplayer 2 weeks . Games played : all codemasters racing games, richard burns rally, easports F1 challenge, GTR2, TDU ..... C u on the track. :ambulance: