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First time at Spa over the weekend. What an incredible circuit. Here's an onboard of pretty much the only vaguely clear lap I got! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYVl5jy-tsg&list=UU76myElfTt7Qt01ZW3Y-d3A And here's a heroic LaFerrari owner who also did his best to keep up in the wet on...

It's still the AMT, which means a single clutch automated manual. It's no worse than an actual manual, but it's certainly no DSG or full blown sequential. Thing is, it's got so much torque anyway, it doesn't make a huge difference, and since everything in GT4 get's 'Balance of Performance'...

A couple of laps from Oulton Park yesterday

I'm just amazed it panned out how it did.....and also gutted this type of thing doesn't happen to everyone! I've made so many good friends during my 5 years of racing, many of whom are also fantastic drivers. Genuinely, racing on the old Final Gear Live For Speed server that had a load of...

Hey everyone. It's been a while since I posted on here, but a brief note to say that I kind of made it! During the season I posted about here 3 years ago (Tracksports) I raced against a guy in my team who had been sponsored by a local company. He did considerably better than I did that season...

It's been like that almost every race this year! Definitely gets the adrenaline flowing, but generally, because we race each other all the time, we kind of know what everyone's likely to do. So some people, you'll be happy to go round the outside of (the ones you rarely make a mistake), and...

Taken me ages to get round to uploading the second race, but if you're interested, here it is.....for anyone who can't be bothered to watch 30mins of racing, last 5 or so are particularly entertaining. Also.....car shouldn't normally be that drifty....wrong choice of setup on my part!

New job and racing have somewhat killed anything outside normal social life, so I haven't really had much of a chance to read through the forums over the last year or so! Hopefully might be able to pop in a bit more often now though :P

That's Boxberg! Some kind of magazine shoot? The handling track there is fairly hilarious for full sized cars....

Video of our race on Saturday now uploaded for anyone interested: ETA: It's in the process of editing down to get rid of the two warm up laps. Whilst YouTube is sorting itself out, FF to 7min28

As I said....haven't looked on here for a good while so didn't realise anyone was going to be there. You missed a great race though. We had winner number 6 out of 10 races this season on the Sat! As for Leam....I work for a large engineering company that's nearby....

That was the Supersports race you watched. As you have said, my car is black. Well....it looks exactly like this now in fact! Looks like you lt had a great trip.... How did you lot manage camping with the rain on Sat evening though?!

Hey guys...Just seen this thread. Didn't realise there were a load of FG people there last weekend, but then I haven't checked in here for a while. Anyway....I'm number 11 in the Caterham Tracksports championship (not sure if you stayed to watch us), but thanks for coming along to watch at least...

An R500 has 500bhp PER TONNE. 500bhp in a Seven would be both mental and scary! The Duratec in a 500 is a fairly manic 263bhp. Still plenty, but puts it very much in a. Similar bracket to the X-Bow.

The Atom is a great car. Not quite as well developed as the Caterham, but it's definitely of the same sort of idea. You do tend to notice the fact the engine is right by the rear axel more (they really like to oversteer) whereas the Caterham tends more to mild mid corner understeer which can be...

Don't know if anyone runs them as track day rentals over your side of the world. Understandably they're quite popular over here, and it's well worth the money if you can find someone who'll rent you one for the day, but I strongly recommend giving one a whirl sometime :)

I haven't been on Final Gear for ages, but felt compelled to return for a bit! I've still got the Caterham, although it's now somewhat more developed. I ended up almost winning the championship in my first season with the car, but unfortunately fell foul of a race steward and got a rather...

Really interesting episode for me as they filmed the FF/Continental feature the week before I was up there with work (and the week before it hit -40deg C!). All the locals said the FF sounded incredible, even driving round town. The main reason for them being up there was because Ferrari were...

I'm interested to know why you believe that's a poorly designed bolt?! It's actually rather trick and what you would like to do generally (as an engineer) if someone allowed you to spend silly money designing a bespoke bolt.

Scarily, it's now 2 years since I finished Uni. I competed at FSUK and FSG 2007 and 2008. 2008 was our teams most successful year in it's 11 year history and it was probably the most fun I had in my 4 years involved in the team. Amazingly, very little went wrong at either comp....the only regret...