New to NZ, Not LFS

[sly_guy]

Hey folks.... How's it going ???

OK, so I've been an avid LFS (and other sim) racer for a good few years now, and i'm a member of the DBP (http://www.drivenbypassion.net) team which is based in the UK.

I moved over to NZ (Auckland) about 3-4 months ago, and clearly I've been struggling to race with my team mates much due mostly to the time zone constraints... That and the fact that if I do manage to get online, i can very rarely find a server with a ping of less than 300ms, which, with LFS is just a bit too high for close racing.

So, I've started to google for NZ based LFS stuff, and ended up here! ...

Is it me, or does there seem to only be a very small presence in Sim Racing in NZ, Be it iRacing, rFactor or LFS, there hardly ever seem to be any NZ based folks around.

Do you guys have your own NZ based servers ?, if so, , am i welcome to come and race on them at some point...

[KWAK]

Hey Welcome!

Well if you look on LFS's own database there is actually alot of NZer's reg'd on LFS. We are slowly growing here.
Currently we meet most Wednesday nights for LFS racing. We are just recently trying rFACTOR, and most of us have a go at FPS's.

Yes we have I think 4 [LFSNZ] servers. Demo, S1 and S2 servers. We are a pretty cruisey bunch from all over NZ.

Anyways, welcome and hope to see ya on the tarmac or dirt soon.

[Steala]

Hey and welcome to LFSNZ!

You are more than welcome to join us! As Kwak (our event manager) says - we mainly race Wednesday nights after 7:30pm. See our schedules thread for events. We usually post there when we have something going. If not - well there's usually a freestyle event where we just come in and see whats going on!

On Wednesday we mainly race on: [LFSNZ]4.

See you there!

PS. We are doing rFactor tonight - I believe? Someone correct me!

[kumarakid]

Hey there sly,

Yup welcome to our humble abode. I think most of what you need to know has been said but thought I'd just remind you to grab yourself a copy of ventrillo if you havnt already so you can either listen in on our Wednesday nights banter or join in, your choice as we think it only fair to give eachother a full serving of stick whilst ingame hehe.

Note: Wednesday night will be LFS as usual and not rFactor as mentioned by Steala (our cultural advisor and immigration liason)

See you there dude!

PS I think you meant http://www.drivenbypassion.org/

[Swivel]

Hello. Welcome to our site. Yep heaps of servers. Not sure whats the go tonight, But maybe the new map on CA

[sly_guy]

PS I think you meant http://www.drivenbypassion.org/

Ooops.... Don't tell the guys in my team, i'll never hear the end of it !

I'll have to download and install Ventrillo, we always used to you TeamSpeak, but I guess it's the same bag.

Oh, and, thanks a bunch for the warm welcome !, i'm sure i'll be seeing you guys on track soon !

[4aged]

welcome also! hopefully see you tonight in rfactor, we have just started doing Truck racing and the NZ Stock car mods.

[sly_guy]

Might well get a chance to try this evening...

I've just had a look on Rfactor Central for those mods..

http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cf ... s%20Racing
Is this the correct Truck one ?

and how about this for the stock cars ?
http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cf ... 0Stockcars
For the life of me, I can't get the above.... ^^^^, the Rfactor Central link is screwed, and the KiwiDirt site no longer appears to have it as a download... does anyone have an alternate link ?

I know what an arse rFactor can be unless the mods, and versions are spot on

[Steala]

Hi Sly_guy - sending you a PM.

[sly_guy]

Cheers for that...

Downloading now !

What's the name of the rFactor server ?