Introduce yourself thread [Part 2]

[Gareth Hickling]

Welcome to race department everybody!
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See you on track sometime soon!

[Daniel Pettit]

Dr Duck / Daniel Pettit (depending on the nature of the league)

Been driving racing sims since Ferrari Formula 1 on the Amiga, started online racing with Mr Hicklings Toca 3 Series a few years ago

Moved onto NetKar Pro and still remain heavily involved in the GPC today.

I've also run in a coupleof LFS series as well as the first RPM RACE 06 championship and the TRM sunday thunder leagues.

Just about to start running in the HCC3 league running GTR2

... like to mix it up and try as much as i can

[Lee Clifford]

Hi lads!!My name as you can see is Lee Clifford but most of my friends just call me cliffie (amongst other things lol)!!I live in Chingford East London with my girlfiend Debbie and my mad siamese cat Frankie!!I am a complete new comer to racing sims on the pc and i must say its the best thing since sliced bread!!Just the thing i was looking for in terms of playing games on the pc!!My old racing partner on the xbox (Roy Stevens) first told me about all the good fun he was having with you guys burning round the track so i couldnt wait to join race department to join in the fun!!

Thanks to Roy for recommending Race Department have no regrets there!!

Hope to meet with you lads soon!!

cliffie

[Gareth Hickling]

Welcome chap,
Nice chat on TS the other day and welcome to race department :bike:

[zak]

Hi all.
My name is Andy James, age of 33, im an ex WTCC race driver. (5 years past) - and now part of Fusion Motor sports, where we do some cooperate CWTCC races now, - I spent most of my spare time driving. GTR2 (when I get free time)

I only play GTR2, happy to play any mod and tag along with whatever people are playing. - Im interested in good leagues on a weekly basis. so I hope I have come to the right place.

Thanks

Andy

[Attila Domján]

hey Andy, why you do not take Race 07, for WTCC races it is unbeatable, i love that game! (and many more here in this community )
would love to have races agianst another real life driver, luckily we start to have here more and more!

welcome and have fun: Atti

[zak]

well I do like race a lot. but for some reason this PC has problems with steam. - and I guess to fix it I need to reformat. and thats a whole different topic for me lol!

EDIT: Actually. strangely just tried it. and for some odd reason it now works perfectly ok!... I not touched it since. (when it came out the thing would not load at all..) now it does. so no idea what happened. but im not complaining.

So. where is the entry list to the WTCC race threads?
I will need to create my own livery and team though. can I do that?

[Gary Lennon]

Originally Posted by zak

So. where is the entry list to the WTCC race threads?
I will need to create my own livery and team though. can I do that?

Hi Andy

I think you are too late to submit a custom skin now so you will have to join the RD Single Drivers team and go for single driver glory along with me and many others,RD is supplying a very nice skin for us all anyway,get yourself signed up at GPCOS here gpcos.racedepartment.com
And more general info on the biggest WTCC online tournament on the planet can be found here World Touring Car Championship - forum.racedepartment.com

Good Luck & Have Fun

[Nick Johnston]

Hey guys, I'm Nick from the US! Currently live in Los Angeles, and im currently pursuing a professional career in motorsports

[Oliver Wickens]

Hey, im ollie.
17 years of age, from the UK where i currently race (go)-karts. Very competitive and love to be agianst the best which i think race-department can and will offer . I only play Race 07 at the moment at 'Syncro Racing' community but looking into getting rFactor soon aswell.

cya around.

[Tracey Bagstad]

Hi my name is Tracey Bagstad. Father of Brett Bagstad. I am 40 years old and i raced at my local short track for years but then it out priced me so i am moving to something a little cheaper. I hope to have fun racing all of you on the track.

[fordman]

A Good evening to one and all. Here is my little post about myself and others around me.

Well my name is Shaun Clarke, and live in the heart of Norfolk in England. Yes we have broadband down here, and we all don't drive tractors or grow peas. I am 32yrs old, and am currently working towards IT Manager for EMGMotorgroup.

I have 6 ( not all mine I must add ) children who I love dearly. I am into Football ( Come on you Spurs ) and love spending time with Family. I have a Wii ( who doesn't? ) and enjoy playing Mario Kart online.

Started Sim racing about 6 yrs ago in the early development of LFS way way before S1 was released. Had loads of fun over at that camp, learning to make Movies ( various ones online on youtube ) and having a ball. Used to drive for what was the top LFS team Boomerang Rapido, before going alone to create my own with fellow LFS driver EMD. Triple7Racing was born in 2004, and still going strong. I left as I didn't have the time to dirve competivatly online, and was also going through divorce, so was never in front of computer. I help create CRC ( Clean Racers Club ) for LFS. Like here, it was a secure place to have a good clean race, with people donating servers to help out for the people that joined. With S1 release, the need for this stopped, until S2demo came out, then we started is again. With S2 came the possibility of ESL. ESL was hugh in Germany, but I wanted the UK to benefit as well, so we have a successful 3yrs of running leagues with ESL. I organised prizes donated by Logitech etc etc for the winners.

Found GTR and GTR2, but never really got on with them, as I am more of a grass roots sim racer, love touring cars, wtcc, cars like that. Found Race 06, and it killed my PC, major dissapointed. Race 07, and it ran no problems, so here I am.

Fordman - Nickname, where did it come from? Well my dad used to be mechanic for BTCC Mondeo in the early days, then I started working for EMG Ford as it was then, and also loved the Ford Mondeo ST220, so thought Fordman was a good enough name for me.

Anyway, enough of the speal, and thank you to anybody that actually got this far in reading

See you on the Grey Stuff

Fordie

[Aloko]

Hi all,

Coming from the rF scene with my league :
Gentlemen Racers

We race almost only rF and we are testers for F3 Euro 2007, GP2 2006 (soon to come), PCC Carrera Cup France and Endurance series by Enduracers.
due to lack of time I race a little less this last year but we have regular champ' organised with either sprint or Endurance series on private mods . it's for members only, except a F3 Euro champ' which is open to anyone (We do not tolerate idiots).

I pre ordered ARCA and had to wait almost 7 weeks to get it.
Im now running this game almost everyday and I've apllied for a driving license for this game only.

Im living between africa and France with either a 256 or a 20 MB bandwith lol
Main goal for me is to have nice races and to avoid non respectful drivers. Im having "fun" when a race ends with no wreck, even if I raced alone for 2 hours. Im not having fun by doing silly things on a server.

I hope to race with some of you soon ...

Aloko.

[Attila Domján]

Big warm welcome to all new members!

[Pompey]

hi all. I'm Darren, i'm 42 years old..Was born and bred in Portsmouth in U.K for 38 of those years but now live in Barrow-in-furness..Drive in [AnE]Race league with great bunch of guys (apart from UK fireman who keeps mostly winning..only joking UK if u read this)..Got little girl who is 3 and a missus and a dog and five cats..Been into racing games ever since they first started to appear on game consoles and since the free weekend of Race 07 i aint looked back, cant get any better..but haven't tried GTR2 yet but hoping to get it soon just to see if its better..well thats about all i can think of for the mo but hope to see all on race servers

[Simon James]

hi guys
im simon im 39 i live in the uk in a little town in kenilworth im a big fan of motorsports but my passion is motorcycles i use to race them 10 years ago and won 6 uk chamionships so i hope i can do it to cars to i have GTR2,GL Legends,RFACTOR,but i dont play them as much as WTCC so i hope to see u on the track
see u soon simon

[Jani Kuhno]

Hello all.

I'm Jani and I'm 18 years old from Finland (live in Tampere for those who know where that city is). Currently I'm a high school student. Apart from playing GTR2 and Race07 I also like all kinds of RPG's like Neverwinter Nights 2 and Baldur's Gate 1 and 2. I'm also looking forward to the new MMORPG Age of Conan that is due to release in three weeks. I also listen to music and some bands that I like are Led Zeppelin, Megadeth and a finnish band called Kotiteollisuus (don't think anyone expect the finns in these forums have heard of them).

I think my first racing sim was Grand Prix 2 (Grand Prix 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) but I was 6 years old at the time that was released so mainly in the game I just crashed around with the car . Although later I started to actually complete laps in the game and even win races.
Next racing sim I tried was the Grand Prix 3 but didn't really like that one and basicly thats where my sim racing stopped for a long time.
In 2006 I finally bought GTR2 after my friend had told me how awesome it was. At first I didn't really play it (World of Warcraft I damn you...) but around May of 2007 I thought to myself that I had to atleast complete a race in simulation mode on that game. I took my dusty old Microsoft Sidewinder Forcefeedback Wheel and well... the whole summer I just basicly played and played GTR2.
In October I immediately bought Race 07 when it was released but I only started to really play it in January 2008 because I was so hooked on playing GTR2. Eventually I also bought GT Legends but didn't really like that as much as GTR2 or Race 07.

Well I think thats all.

Cya in the race tracks,
Jani

[bblocker68]

Originally Posted by Nick Johnston

Hey guys, I'm Nick from the US! Currently live in Los Angeles, and im currently pursuing a professional career in motorsports

Hey Nick! Good to see you're still racing. Looks like there will be 2 guys at least from LaLa Land

Hey guys. My name is Barry Blocker and yes, it is in fact my real name. Imagine all of the remarks I get the first time I visit a new server, lol. I'm 40 and have 3 children. I live in the Los Angeles area and ride skateboards with my kids when I'm not in the sim seat. I've been sim racing online since 2001 and love being a part of this great community. I founded theMNRL to provide a place for my work mates and I to race each other in the beginning. It blossomed and it is still going strong to this day. I race with them on Wednesday nights.


I'm a Champcar guys at heart, so I was happy when I got involved in making Champcar/CART mods for F12001-rFactor. They are my passion, but it's fun to take a break and drive Touring cars.

I was in the FD series at RSC and found everyone back here from the RPM site. Great to see everything is going so well.

Nice being here and I hope to see you on the track soon.

[tamas sipos]

hi,

my name is Tamás Sipos. i am 25 years old and live in Hungary with my girlfriend. my job is to keep mid-range unix (aix) systems alive and to maintain the tight security standards.

i've been playing and loving race sims since i played the first time with f1gp. since than i have encountered countless 'racing' games, but the milestones of my career were f1gp2, cmr2, toca race driver, f1challenge, richard burns rally, gtr and race07.

after some online rounds with race07 (and lots of broken suspensions after the first corner ), i have started to search for a community which provides me fair and enjoyable races ..and i hope i have finally found it..

i have only a little experience in online racing, but i'm not a considering myself as a beginner. i know i have lot to learn, especially setting up the car properly. i'm working on the issue, but i have not much time to dig myself in. (my car in race07 is the bmw e90)

and about my pc: mainly i am a debian user, but this game make vindoz worth booting up.. btw, i have a rather low-end machine for this game, but with nearly minimum settings (and without the AI) it provides me smooth playing.

and finally.. i'm looking forward to meet you all on the grid

cheers

[Daniel Juncadella]

Hi
I am Daniel Juncadella
I am from Spain and i race in real life at the formula bmw euroseries.
I have race 07 since last year and i likely play online.
I am already a member of the racedept.com league.
And know i am joining FD Series.
I always like to play with Seat, it's too difficult the BMW but it looks faster.
Anyway i am still fast (at least it's what i think ;) )

See you all on track and HF

[Daniel Plaikner]

Hello,
my name is Daniel Plaikner and I'm from Italy. To be more precisiouse from South Tirol(Südtirol) wich is in North Italy and its a german region in italy. So my first language is German not Italian, then I speak Italian and English. This christmas I recieved a Logitech G25 and Race 07. Since that I'm racing online with my nick:Gizmo01. :drive:

I'm a big motorsport fan and as the best I like the formula 1. Since I'm abel to think I'm a big Ferrari fan :ferrari: ( go Kimi go :eheheh: )

regards

[Toni Talvitie]

hi all.

well, im old, meh atleast hangovers been gettin worse like past few years
anyhow, i dont like to talk about mself that lots, so we meet up on race tracks
and hmm...
well for gtr2 ive done mostly nap1.4 mod, drive rfactor also and been doing racing games since they were invented i think
anyhow, i look to just have fun on track, not taking it that serious and if i gots
car even lil broke on finishline, its a bad race, so i do give my respekts to pilots that
behave.

[Roman Liebich]

Hi guys,

My name is Roman Liebich, Im from Czech Republic, 25 years old, working as a project engineer and finishing my Master degree in Economics.

Im a newbie to online racing, but offline I race in GTR2 and RACE for about 1 year. (My first sim was F1GP2 many many years ago).

Motorsport is one of my many sport passions and I watch literally every racing event I come across in TV.

Im really looking forward to having some good racing time and meeting new friends with same hobby.

[Gareth Hickling]

Welcome new members! :jumping::alla::bike:

[Raino Priha]

Hi everybody. My name is Raino Priha. I'm 26 years old and from Finland. I've been sim racing for about 15 years (5 years online). I try to keep my racing as clean as possible, but a little bit of friendly paint swapping here and there is of course part of a normal race.

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