Any news about the Intel Racing Tour? [Archive]

csimpok

23rd April 2006, 21:24

The first event was yesterday on the 22nd, if I'm not mistaken. Have there been any press releases or reports in the german lfs sites?

I am interested too. For example which track is used? Is it possible to use own set or just predefined one? How many laps do you have? The fastest 1 lap counts?

Vykos69

24th April 2006, 06:42

I am putting some news together about the event, but first the downbringer for all non austrian, suisse and german citiziens: You are not allowed to win something there. This is done by intel germany, and they want the prizes to be given to the german speaking people (which is from a business point of view quite good understandable).

Pics and news comin soon.

Shotglass

24th April 2006, 12:40

vykos will you be attending all tour stops or just a few of them ?

KiDCoDEa

24th April 2006, 12:52

Die Grossen Orgasmen Mit Ein Bmw M6

Ich Spreich Deutsch Gut!

Ich Bin Ein Berliner!

SamH

24th April 2006, 12:54

the downbringer for all non austrian, suisse and german citiziens: You are not allowed to win something there. This is done by intel germany, and they want the prizes to be given to the german speaking people (which is from a business point of view quite good understandable).
Totally understandable. How long do I have, to learn German? Anyone rent me an apartment in Hamburg? :D

News and info will be gratefully received, Vykos. So many of us are astounded at what's turned up in LFS, and it's natural for us to beg the eternal questions.. who, how what, where, when.

Looking forward to any news and info on the WHOLE scenario, not just the theme park, but how LFS came to slot into it. :)

Shotglass

24th April 2006, 12:57

Die Grossen Orgasmen Mit Ein Bmw M6

Ich Spreich Deutsch Gut!

Ich Bin Ein Berliner!

now hes finally blown a gasket :pillepall

AndroidXP

24th April 2006, 13:25

Die Grossen Orgasmen Mit Ein Bmw M6

Ich Spreich Deutsch Gut!

Ich Bin Ein Berliner!
The great orgasms with a bmw m6

I spaek german good

I am a donut

:D

Linsen

24th April 2006, 14:09

I am a donut:D

That's only true for just about any german speaking area except Berlin. There this would translate back to: "Ich bin ein Pfannkuchen" :D

J.B.

24th April 2006, 14:14

Die Grossen Orgasmen Mit Ein Bmw M6

Ich Spreich Deutsch Gut!

Ich Bin Ein Berliner!

:rofl:

Shotglass

24th April 2006, 14:26

i thought berliner are krapfen and not donuts ?

Frankmd

24th April 2006, 14:30

Berliner from Holland

http://www.damco.nl/data/5_PRODUCTEN/images/berliner_bol.jpg

KiDCoDEa

24th April 2006, 14:51

here we call them bolas de berlim (berlin balls).

[EDIT by Scawen : Sorry, had to remove the picture, before we get a load of "reported post" emails due to the size and the use of IMG tags]

Linsen

24th April 2006, 15:05

i thought berliner are krapfen and not donuts ?
Technically, I think you're right, but afaik, there is no english term for "Krapfen" besides donut. Except for "cruller", maybe, but I've never heard anybody using that term and apparently it describes a certain type of "Krapfen", not a "Berliner" or "Pfannkuchen".

btw: if anybody can point me to a topic that is more OT than this one, I'll give him all my LFS credits ;).

TagForce

24th April 2006, 15:06

Damn you guys... Now I'm hungry!

Let's hope Intel does this in other countries too, sometime soon.

Blackout

24th April 2006, 15:10

T
btw: if anybody can point me to a topic that is more OT than this one, I'll give him all my LFS credits ;).

Well the 2000+ post thread when we were waiting the patch was OT for ½ the time. And thank you for the credits we dont even have anymore ;)

AndroidXP

24th April 2006, 15:12

Yeah exactly, I couldn't find any other translation for Krapfen so I left it at that ;)

Vykos69

24th April 2006, 15:20

vykos will you be attending all tour stops or just a few of them ?
Definitely only a few.

Shotglass

24th April 2006, 16:06

Definitely only a few.

hmmm will you be in nuernberg ? and will you dance for me if i play the song fromt the vykos dance movie ? :p

vladimir

24th April 2006, 16:10

kreppel!

krapfen!

berliner!

pfannkuchen!

i hope i could clear things up a bit. :thumb:

[ EDIT by Scawen : you didn't read my edit of Kid's post. Sorry but we are not allowed to leave IMG tags in posts. People complain about bandwidth usage, and it makes the page load slowly for slow connections. Please simply attach the images as attachments - so it shows some nice thumbnails. Or just paste a link to the image. ]

nikimere

24th April 2006, 16:17

whats the intel racing tour? :shrug:

colcob

24th April 2006, 16:24

Wow, I'm really glad I clicked on this thread for all the great in-depth information about the Intel Racing Tour... :)

Fordman

24th April 2006, 16:25

What about if I go live with Three Jump for a little while, then move to BBO, then move to Bismarck's for a while. Does that count :D

NotAnIllusion

24th April 2006, 16:38

Will there be any stream/video coverage of the IRT events (wanna see ppl racing for the prize..) ?

AndroidXP

24th April 2006, 16:50

Wow, I'm really glad I clicked on this thread for all the great in-depth information about the Intel Racing Tour... :)
You want a Krapfen?

bbman

24th April 2006, 17:35

Wow, I'm really glad I clicked on this thread for all the great in-depth information about the Intel Racing Tour... :)
You have to see it from that point of view: There's no owl in here (yet)... :D

deggis

24th April 2006, 22:31

I'm very angry if the devs keep it as a secret that how the BMW found out it's way to LFS. :)

Fordman

24th April 2006, 22:40

I'm very angry if the devs keep it as a secret that how the BMW found out it's way to LFS. :)

Can I ask Why? Why does it matter to us? its made it, its that simple, who cares how? There is many secrets in the world, and some of them, its on a "need to know basis" and I am afraid, you don't need to know :D

deggis

24th April 2006, 22:45

Can I ask Why? Why does it matter to us? its made it, its that simple, who cares how? There is many secrets in the world, and some of them, its on a "need to know basis" and I am afraid, you don't need to know :D
Because humans are curious. :D

BBO@BSR

24th April 2006, 22:47

What about if I go live with Three Jump for a little while, then move to BBO, then move to Bismarck's for a while. Does that count :D
:scratchch I don't think so.

cough... but your german passport is in progress m8 :smileypul

:D

csimpok

24th April 2006, 22:49

At Racing Challenge the prizes were sponsored by Fujitsu-Siemens Germany if I am right, and there was no limitation like this :shrug:

Fordman

24th April 2006, 22:54

:scratchch I don't think so.

cough... but your german passport is in progress m8 :smileypul

:D

German Passport? Thats my driving license so I understand now with EU COuntries :)

Its all game on here, just need to find somewhere to live ROFL

Hoellsen

25th April 2006, 06:33

deggis: http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=110089#post110089
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=110200#post110200

What more do you need to know?

deggis

25th April 2006, 06:56

More about the process how they found out LFS or something. Those posts doesn't answer that :)

inCogNito

25th April 2006, 07:00

kreppel!

krapfen!

berliner!

pfannkuchen!

i hope i could clear things up a bit. :thumb:

It's kräbbel and nothing else!! :smileypul :nod: :D

inCogNito

25th April 2006, 07:04

At Racing Challenge the prizes were sponsored by Fujitsu-Siemens Germany if I am right, and there was no limitation like this :shrug:

even if foreigners were allowed, i don't know it it's worth the risk to take the journey, unless you want to visit germany anyway.
But you got only one shot per event, the the modus is really stupid. You drive 3 laps with random start positions against 3 opponents and your overall time counts. So if you get knocked out in T1, it's over.

Fetzo

25th April 2006, 07:08

don't forget, as well as living in a german speaking country, you also have to be the fastest with that bf1 :P.

it isn't THAT easy to win it :D.

bal00

25th April 2006, 10:12

even if foreigners were allowed, i don't know it it's worth the risk to take the journey, unless you want to visit germany anyway.
But you got only one shot per event, the the modus is really stupid. You drive 3 laps with random start positions against 3 opponents and your overall time counts. So if you get knocked out in T1, it's over.

Do they let you run your own sets? Any sort of practice/familiarization before the race?

inCogNito

25th April 2006, 10:47

no, and you have to drive with automatic transmission.

Shotglass

25th April 2006, 13:09

even if foreigners were allowed, i don't know it it's worth the risk to take the journey, unless you want to visit germany anyway.
But you got only one shot per event, the the modus is really stupid. You drive 3 laps with random start positions against 3 opponents and your overall time counts. So if you get knocked out in T1, it's over.

seems like the only way to get through the first rounds (until the field has thinned out a bit and there are only experienced lfsers left) is to take off slowly wait till the muppets took each other out in t1 and then switch to hotlapping mode

BBO@BSR

25th April 2006, 13:45

....take off slowly wait till the muppets took each other out in t1 and then switch to hotlapping mode

:ices_rofl this idea could be from me :D

MacEST

25th April 2006, 17:29

even if foreigners were allowed, i don't know it it's worth the risk to take the journey, unless you want to visit germany anyway.

Well, if it's possible to win a bmw m6 car with lfs, then I think us foreigners would surely take a 2nd or 3rd visit to the qualifying events if we would have bad luck in the first. I know I would. :) Sure it's going to cost a lot, but hey, if I could win the car - my life would change :)

Anyhow, it's sad to hear it's only for german speaking people, but I also understand the marketing question of it.. I'm happy for the 10 lucky german chaps that will race for the car, but at the same time feel a little envious and crap that we, foreigners, can't participate. As if the EPS competition is not enough for them arrr.. :)

Oh well, hopefully these competitions will find their way into a more international level too for the future.

Hoellsen

25th April 2006, 20:39

More about the process how they found out LFS or something. Those posts doesn't answer that

ESL has LFS. From then on it was only a logical step. How the ESL Pro Series adopted LFS a couple of years ago is another story for another night. ;)

csimpok

25th April 2006, 21:27

Well, if it's possible to win a bmw m6 car with lfs, then I think us foreigners would surely take a 2nd or 3rd visit to the qualifying events if we would have bad luck in the first. I know I would. :) Sure it's going to cost a lot, but hey, if I could win the car - my life would change :)

Anyhow, it's sad to hear it's only for german speaking people, but I also understand the marketing question of it.. I'm happy for the 10 lucky german chaps that will race for the car, but at the same time feel a little envious and crap that we, foreigners, can't participate. As if the EPS competition is not enough for them arrr.. :)

Oh well, hopefully these competitions will find their way into a more international level too for the future.

Hi Mac!

It's time to consider applying for German citizenship ;)
Not that I give more than 5% chance that I could win the car but it's frustrating not have the chance at least ... :)
And I am sure as soon as Hungary or Estonia reaches the population of 80 million and the same purchasing power as Germany we will be able to win an M6 :p

So good luck for N1lyn, Biggie and the other faster drivers ;)

bal00

25th April 2006, 22:37

no, and you have to drive with automatic transmission.

Oh boy. :(
Guess I'll check out the event(s) in Cologne anyway.

Vykos69

25th April 2006, 22:51

almost all infos together here: http://www.lfsnews.net ;)

bal00

25th April 2006, 23:08

Great post, Vykos. The wheels appear to be Logitech Formula Force EX.

lowgoods

25th April 2006, 23:36

Hmmm... when I was there, the warm-up time was a lot longer than 2-3 minutes and - äh - wasn't it a 6 lap race finally? Anyway, the period between two 4-racers sessions was 45 minutes, that's why I've actually quit before I got a cockpit place, subscription list was too long... :shrug: