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Just a quick shout for anyone fancying trying out the new Indy 500, there's a public game filling up now with a lot of open slots including two team slots with me.

Vector's logo has been stolen. If anybody else is having a go we can always decide between em later. Good race there, I didn't think my setup would come off that well but 3rd put me top of the table so I'll take it! If only my public games were going that well.....

Somebody let me in to this >_>

Into the EWB game? I think Dan asked as well and we couldn't be able to invite anyone in once the private game started. But we might get another one up once this is finished sometime next week, though we'll see when it draws near.

A logo would be good too: has to be a jpeg 200x60.

A minor suggestion and you could probably convert it from a gif, but how about perhaps the EWB logo at the top left of the board and adding an 'R' onto it? You could even crop it since it's only slightly larger than what's required.

That was my thinking as well. Unfortunately I have no graphical skill whatsoever sooooooooooooooooooo somebody else Size has to be exact sadly or the BATracer site won't accept it.

Only need a couple more of you to accept your clan invites to make it active!

I actually thought the clan was already active, since I notice our clan ranked 2nd in the public game me and Zaz are competing in. How many more do you need?

Speaking of the public game, part of me finds it kinda...ironic (if that's the word I'm looking for) that me crashing during the the Spa GP last night made some influence on the race, making some contribution to help my teammate, who started at 20th, climb up and get his first win in that public game. In which case, I ain't complaining.

We just need one more member. So if anybody's signed up but hasn't been given an invite please say so. A logo would be good too: has to be a jpeg 200x60.

Only need a couple more of you to accept your clan invites to make it active!

To think I wasn't gonna have another instance of me retiring right on the first lap, this time with me causing it. At least Slogger wasn't badly affected by it.

Not a bad race at Monza, especially the last quarter of it, with both Zaz and Trips being neck and neck with other right to the very end.

Yep that was a good one, I didn't realise how close we were until after that pitstop, I had only seen the massive gap between the top 3 and the rest of the pack. Kudos to Zaz for a good race.

yeah, all that's inside is an installation file. Double click 1p3Nov2005Install.exe and it'll install.

Wasn't there also a half-assed version of PW2 eventually released? Or is that what ended up being 1.3?

An "80%" (Number varies depending on who you talk to) complete version was leaked by a beta tester/reviewer, but by this point the coding was so convoluted that the game was bloated and generally unplayable, and it was ditched.

AJ later went and fixed up some problems with 1.2e and released it as 1.3.

I had the 2.0 as a kid, can't remember too much about it.

Actually, flicking through 1.3 now, maybe I've got that wrong, because it's a lot more complicated than 1.2e. Anyone with a better memory than me clear this up?

1.3 is an enhanced and recoded version of 1.2e, allowing for more promotions and so forth, it also generates new workers as the game progresses. I'm not sure what the installation problem Huntsman has been having stems from, its usually just a case of a corrupted download.

FINALLY, Finally I pull off a win! Another good race, some appalling setup results across the board as well.

I like it better when Slogger forgets to play. All the rest of you need to join EWB Racing!

I'll ask here since the PS3 kiddies can go fuck themselves.We chucked a laod of Saints Row 2 t-shirts out this week, because we totally forgot to give them out when we sold the game, and we can't make money off them because of some law or something, so they're being chucked. Me and a guy at work took a bunch though, so I have a couple of Freckle Bitches t-shirts (size L) to give away to any UK member willing to give up their postal address to a stranger.

I'll take one, Dragsy doesn't seem the serial killer type

Woo, pole position for the first time this season! Now to get a win out of it.

* Notices Slogger next to him on the grid, then sees Trips right behind him. Remembers being responsible for retiring both men in the last race. *

...Aw, hell.

Haha *swerve*

Given how many laps of testing / warmup I seem to get screwed out of every race I don't hold up much hope of maintaining any sort of pace in this. Same story in my BTCC game (Alfa Romeo in Production Class) and my other F1 Season (Toro Rosso, replacement driver).

I'm so glad Vector didn't finish on the podium after that.

God dammit, I lost way too many testing laps to make much of that race.

Slogger's not singing anymore

Oh and DAMN YOU BYRNE, that podium was mine.

Hmmmm, my times actually got slower as I went on. If I remember right, the hard slicks are longer lasting but take longer to warm up right?

I haven't played this since the last EWB season, time for a change from Red Bull methinks. BMW Sauber~!

EDIT: Where's the option to get your mechanic's suggested setup gone?

Anyone know where "Redeem Code" has been moved to on the new dashboard? Trying to get the Maps and Lancer for Gears 2 with no success

Ticketmaster

So it seems they're finally coming to Aberdeen! Tickets at a tenner and a venue 10 minutes from my flat = WIN.

Day of the Dead 2008 was one of the worst zombie films I have ever seen! I would rank Zombie Strippers as better than that. A vegetarian zombie is bad enough never mind being a crap movie.

Ving Rhames character is meant to be the brother of his character in Dawn supposedly.

Second the love for Outpost, Tyres from Spaced is in it I'm sure. What ever happened to the Dog Soldiers: Fresh Meat that was meant to be being made?

Good question, I wonder if there's anything on imdb about it - Dog Soldiers was excellent. I've no idea how they're planning to make the sequel to Outpost but I do know I want to see it.

Any love for Outpost? I picked up the DVD a couple weeks ago and I love it. No stars in the cast but it all comes together as an ensemble. Ray Stevenson (Rome) and Richard Brake (Doom / Batman Begins) would probably be the two most recognisable actors in it. Overall a very slickly done UK action horror, quite reminiscent of Dog Soldiers.

Dolph Lundgren, B-Movie awesomeness at every turn.

Here's footage of the Fallout 3 demo Bethesda is showing of at PAX. It's split into 5 parts. The demo consists of you walking out of the Vault for the first time and the Megaton quest game journalist covered last year.

I dont care, that looks fucking awesome. But come on, Megaton? What ever happedn to Redding, NCR and all those others? Nonetheless the game still looks great.

Junktown and The Hub is where its at.

Jackpot! Panic Mechanics, if anyone knows of somewhere to get DVDs of or download episodes please give me a shout.

I don't think it was related to Scrapheap challenge as it wasn't a salvage show per se. The only other thing I remember is that it was followed by some show that sort of crossed Gladiators with Paintballing.

On an unrelated note, has anyone seen the show Wheeler Dealers? This is the link to the DVD set I just ordered. Basically they find and buy a run down car and across two episodes restore it within their budget and sell it on for a profit.

I'm looking for TV show from a few years ago, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was called - I think it was on Channel 4. It only lasted one series and the premise was:

Two Teams (Contestant / Contestant / Show Mechanic)

Each team gets given an identical car and then have to turn it into another "type" of car.

At the start of each episode a briefcase worth £500 extra for the team's budget is hidden in a car and the team have to find it before it's crushed by a tank.

The one episode I remember involved turning Transit Vans into Rally Cars. Any ideas?