Friday Night Fun (and other stuff too)

Brill as always Daniel and again some more congrats to Si

aye good stuff. my front bumper took an early battering hen i shunted lou under braking into turn1, my bad! the rest, well

I admit I was a little clumsy in the evos mainly cause I hated them but every place I gained unfairly I did give back

Edit: before anyone jumps to conclusions there was no intent in any of my accidents

Awesome photos dan you ought to do like a magazine thread/post on the seasons would make a great read and eye candy with photos.

blah blah blah... photos.

Thought I'd just give a few of my beasties a quick shake down prior to tomorrow.





If the Soarer is a bit too loud and bright, how about my boring beige Volvo ahem400bhpahem




I quickly built up a Skyline, and gave it a horrid paint job.

Did nobody take a pic last night at benchmark?

ochilbaz wrote:Did nobody take a pic last night at benchmark?

I was meant to, but didn't get round to it. I'll be sure to include the bit where you rammed me and stole all my drift points and thus gifting Si the win.

Si told me to do it I feel soooo guilty and ashamed

Some images from what I have dubbed as Sunday Night Silliness. Haven't got round to doing the NASCAR lobbie though.


A hillclimb hoo-hah featuring little Pug's.


Close racing between Si, Gaz and Gaz.


My Clarion replica.






Drift time. Driftoooo whey, driftoo driftooooo whey wheeeyyy.


Si's car looks like an accident in a paint factory.


Mark, casually getting on with things, whilst cars are at all kinds of angles slightly further behind.


I couldn't not include a shot of Gaz's Cornish Rattler.

Got bored so I did a bit of photo feature. Introducing my "Barn Find" '68 Plymouth Barracuda, complete with dust, dirt and faded stripe.

Nice one Dan, hopefully will be a few photo opportunities tomorrow night if people take part in the movie cars cruise.

Photo Drop!


PNUK goes cruising.



Mike sits in his Chevy Nova... waiting. Before...


... BOOM!


BASH!  Mark, your brakes won't work when you're in the air. 


Even after all that, Mike's Nova was still able to drift.  Note also the (girder like) bumper is still fully attached, even after that huge impact.


Mike strikes again.


This isn't a great photo, I know put we are all in it.


TORA TCC Last Round at Suzuka, Lobby B, race 1.

Donkey leads through turn one and two.


Newt and myself chasing the main field up the hill.


The front four.


Myself and Newt side by side.


Meado and Tubbi duke it out at the hairpin.


Lacamester approaching the hairpin.


BG Wumba flying alone


The United Colours of XPLR.


Tubbi chasing Meado.

A sign of things to come maybe?


Mid-pack chaos.


Door to door combat.


Super close slipstream racing.


p.s. Sorry Baz for posting more trivial images and videos.

that bg wumba megane shot is brilliant daniel. real stand out shot.

Si_ wrote:that bg wumba megane shot is brilliant daniel. real stand out shot.

Thanks Si.  Can't take as much credit as the others though.  When watching the replay the camera was in a very similar position, I just lowered and added a jaunty angle, then played about with the sliders till I got it presentable.  Was debating whether to make it B&W but I think the hint of colour helps it. 

Photos from round three of the Clip Cup, coming up... or below, if that suits you.


Exiting turn one and diving into turn two.


It's me! Leading through the fast esses for the first time. (or should that be S's? Meh.)


Mark's closing in on Scott. Duurrr nuh duuurrrr nuh.


Is it a bird, is it a plane? Well sort of. It's Cobra's Boeing powered Clio. No wonder it's soooo fast in a straight line.


"If you ain't Dutch, you ain't much", according to Lars' boot lid.


Unless I'm very much mistaken, all nine of us are in this shot, which is good considering it was about half race distance.


Si seemed to be doing a valiant job of fending off Mark and Scott, until a trip to the sticky grass sealed his fate. I thought I'd better not immortalise that moment with a photo, so this is from earlier.


The close action was a race long theme. Here are Lars and Cobra side by side on what I think was lap 10 or 11.


Meanwhile out front, with a very pristine looking car... was me!  Yay.

Sports car images will/should/could follow when/if I get chance/can be bothered/not enjoying the good weather. (It's too nice to be cooped up on an x-box or under a laptop.)

Great Pictures Dan! Somebody finally noticed my "If you ain't Dutch, you ain't much"  

Brill as always ty Dan.

nice pics fella really appreciate you doing these captions for us man makes great viewing

Cobra wanted Sports Cars photos, so Sports Car photos is what he's getting.  

These were taken from the sprint race.  (Disclaimer:  Strong use of sarcasm and a good dose of   went into this post.  No offense intended)


Scott leads us all (pretty much) safely through the first two corners.

Now comes our man of the moment!


Turn 4.  Queue Mr. Cobra, already facing backwards having already taken out Lars, and about to take out Si.


Watch out everyone!  The King of the Doggers is on our tails.


How's Cobra getting on?  Oh look.  A track violation.  Tut tut.


Gaz sporting some damage, leads Cobra, Si and Lars through turn 2 (Note how Cobra is now in front of Si and Lars having used his illegal boost button on the straight. Tut tut)


I'm not sure if Mark is actually trying to keep up, or trying to keep a safe distance from our dogging friend.


Si and Lars show how it can and should be done.  Q quick competitive racing yet leaving each other ample room.


Cobra check.  Oh dear.  What have we here.  Corner cutting... again. Tut tut.


Look out Alex... he's behind you!  Stay out of arms reach.


smh ...  


Lets not forget though, LimpBizkit who was pretty much untouchable in both races.  Well done Scott.

Is that good enough Mr C.Obra?  

Oh.  One more thing.  Starting in eighth place in the feature race, I demonstrate how you can go from hero to zero in 30 seconds.  And yep, yours truly, Mr. C.Obra features here as well.



If embedded video doesn't work, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l09qL6bnoZA

Baz the Basher video special.

Here are three short videos(in one playlist), demonstrating Basher Baz's dirty tactics from the other nights Cycled Production lobby.
(Now on my screen, when ever I embed a video, I can't see it... I'm not sure about everyone else. So I'll embed the videos, and give you the link.)

The first one is a case of "Spot the Baz".
The second and third ones are different views of the same incident, with Baz's view first.


>>> Video Link <<<

Nice footage and pictures Dan! I'm always looking forward to you posting in this topic

Can't be bothered trying to embed the video again so here the link, to what should hopefully the three video playlist. If it doesn't work this time... I give up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCEDjARb9us&list=PLI1S3uqqtRvH51y7g9G1l4_LNxUcDfuI-

Photos from Camino should follow in the week, though I can't promise, since I have double trouble for this week. My niece and nephew are here all week, so x-box time will be limited. A simple fix would be for you all to take just one photo each. Job done.  

So I managed to find a couple of hours whilst the nippers were out at a farm and produced these.

Camino Veijo Clio Cup


This is normally the point when I'd say it looks like a clean start... but then I saw Baz's line!!! What is that Baz?! You can't post about, corner cutting and then blatantly cut the second corner. What I will add though is, Paul. Your car looks brill.


And things got worse at turn 3 with four cars in the wall. I have to admit, myself and Cobra did get rather lucky in this one, and for once starting right on the back row actually had an advantage since we could react in time to avoid the four car pile up.


That of course resulted in a safety car, which bunched everyone up and when racing finally got underway again, it was Paul leading from Baz and Alex and so on and so forth.


I think it's safe to say Alex definitely does not use ABS. Needless to say the next image was Alex absolutely mullering Paul's door.


Once again me and Cobra managed to avoid the melee, so it was now Baz leading from Cobra, me and the rabble behind...


... which featured Gaz, Scott, Lars and Simon, all of whom were involved in the turn 3 incident.


After chasing Cobra for a few laps, he finally made a small mistake at the top of the hill allowing me to just nip through before the kink at the bottom. You can also see Scott has now passed Gaz...


... who was passed a lap later by Lars. Though I will add, that they were both pretty much side-by-side for almost a lap and a half until Gaz got too friendly with 'that' wall.


Once in clean air, it was clear Scott was doing some good times. You can also see I've managed to pick off Baz, who is also in the process of losing a position to Cobra. Which would be the final top three.


I'll finish with Alex, who after being in the wrong place at the wrong time, put in a sterling come back drive, for what I think was fifth place.

I have to add I really enjoyed this one, not for the obvious reason, but personally the sheer thrill of the circuit, and also having to fend off Cobra into turn 1 nearly every lap when he'd poke his nose inside, as well as the last few laps when he was reeling me back in again.

Sports Cars, Sprint Race
I haven't had chance, nor may get chance to do the feature race. I know it had more action thanks to the pit lane, but the gap between first to the back was closer in the sprint race, which makes better images.  


Streaming down the hill between turns one and two, and crests, kinks, and bumps seemed to have no affect on our skilled drivers, with everyone through safely.


Paul's getting his groove on. Wehey!


Personally speaking, one of best images I've done on Forza. Really happy with it.   For the record, the blurry colours in the foreground are Si and Cobra.


Alex, doing his best in the early stages to keep with Lars and Scott. (I do wonder about the damage simulator on this game. Unless Alex was hit by a flying car, why is only his lights damaged but not the lower bumper, especially considering most of the cars are wedge shaped)


The chosen line out of the first tight hairpin seemed to be the dirt. Cobra, myself, Si and Baz were all guilty. (Also, I dare not go back and look, but does Baz have the word "boobs!" on his roof?)


Scott is jumping. Lars is going into orbit.    


Once again I found myself having an on-track battle with Cobra, which are always interesting. Enjoyable and frustrating in equal measures, I know it will always be hard (just about) fair racing.


Not only did Lars repaint his Porsche, but he chose to repaint orange! How could I not take a photo of it. I also like the smallest amount of damage on the front bumper. How soft-a-contact that must have been? It just looks like a little dirt. Like it.


I was following Si hoping to get a photo of him and Baz close together, only for Si to hit the sticky paint. So I had to get a little arty instead.


But the eventual winner was Scott, from Lars and Alex... but not Gaz next. I managed to pass him too.  

All in all, another good race, and a great nights racing on the whole.