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Looks like we will be using the game-included rF3 formula car this year. If anyone is interested in participating in either the fun run/testing or the full league, contact me here and I can point you in the right direction for all of the details to get you up and running. doug http://www.motorfxuk.c...

Street shoe sizes and race shoe sizes are similar, though you buy a race shoe to fit snug while you are sitting in a car, without your weight on your feet. A street shoe will have a weight-compressed foot in it, where a race shoe will not. A tighter race shoe is suggested in my experience, even if i...

Hey all, I'm not sure how many of you are into online SIM racing, but every year, a collaboration between ApexSpeed.com and Trackpedia.com runs an online racing league over the winter months. Last year, we ran SRF spec racers and it was a ton of fun. Large range of skills and abilities, and everyone...

Getting ready to buy a harness. Monoposto rule requires a 6-point. Looking for opinions on Latch vs Camlock and Pull-up vs pull-down adjustment. Also.. on a 6-point, where do the 2 front straps attach to the car and how do they route around your legs. thanks! Camlock is better. Easier to undo and l...

Doug, When I need to drain my cell, I use a 12V electric fuel pump that I hook up to the fuel pick-up line and pump it into a "gas can". Just plug it into the old jumper battery and it pumps out in a few minutes. This was a perfect suggestion and worked flawlessly. I picked up a cheap, ge...

Any opinions on 1 piece versus 2-piece. Two-piece suits are for drag racers. Don't do it. The last thing you need is for the suit to split at your waist in a fire. Really no reason to use a 2-piece suit in ANY situation, as far as I'm concerned. Monoposto rules just say a Nomex Suit is required... ...

Occam's Razor , entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem, is the principle that "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity" and the conclusion, thereof, that the simplest explanation or strategy tends to be the best one. The shortest distance between two points is a straig...

Ok, so I just spent the last 4 hours of my life doing something that I thought would/could/should take less than a half hour to so. I am trying to drain the existing fuel from the cell of the car for the winter months that it will sit stagnant. I tried everything I could think of, and nothing worked...

Hal, did you buy Jim Ryder's operation?

At the same meeting it was agreed that some manifolds would be found illegal in the future, but that would be an acceptable cost in order to limit development. Since there was insufficient time to make the manifold rules restrictive enough to prevent further development in time for 2010, manifolds ...

My information came from TWO BoD members, and the Chairman of the Competition Review Board.

How much more will it take to convince that if you were legal in 2009, you will be legal in 2010, no matter what manifold you have?

Having discussed this with various CRB and BoD members, the universal response has been: "There has been some discussion on FV manifolds that will be cleared up in the next Fastrack. While the details aren't finalized at this point, I can say that any manifold that was compliant in 2009 will be...

I'm waiting for the 2010 CenDiv schedule before deciding whether to run the longbox or swap in the shortbox for the April 23rd Double Regional weekend. Whatever track follow the April event is what will determine what stays in the car. Then again, I don't really need to have the ultimate setup just ...

Wheels off the market, tires still available. $150 a set, pick up only. Western Chicago suburbs.

Ok, without pulling out a calculator and doing the math myself, what is the difference between a long box with short rear tires and a short box with standard height rear tires? Like, could a Road America-destined long box car shod with short rear tires perform adequately at Blackhawk Farms? How far ...

I have 2 complete sets of very clean silver wheels for sale—one with a set of mounted GY dogbone rains in very good condition and one with a set of hard to find GY intermediate wets with maybe one or two sessions left in them. I'd prefer to sell each set with the mounted tires, but if you just want ...

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The thing is, the FE guys do so on a regular basis with excellent results. Maybe not on the RunOffs weekends, but on every other National weekend they most certainly do. So do the FST guys, and many of the top CFs in the country are running R60s on MANY heat cycles, and competing for wins with regul...

BTW - my personal feeling is that the VROC is the best choice - if only Hoosier would make them and people would buy them... I tend to agree, the R60 or their R70 compound would be a nice start. Though I wonder how different the existing R55s are from the R60. Having spoken to Bruce Foss about a FV...

Thanks Dave, it's a beautiful car. Still can't believe that it was still available. One of the single cleanest used race cars I have ever seen. I can't wait for spring to get back to the track to get my comp license back up to speed.

FV has never been and never will be about raw speed. If you want that, go buy an Atlantic. I spent enough time in the SCCA, and have run a FC to know where the speed is at. I wouldn't have bought a race car with 60hp if I thought the class was about speed. That's not what I'm saying at all. But mak...

Having just bought a FV for the 2010 season, I speak only for myself when I say that the thought of new wheels and street treaded tires in what already is the slowest open wheeled class out there has ZERO appeal to me, and I'm sure many others. It's bad enough to be lumped in with faster F5s, but re...

The new Vintage Formula Vee is listed on NoGrip here . There is a more contemporary FV mod that was discussed earlier on this forum that is much harder to find for download. I have it and I put it up on our ApexSpeed rFactor server here . For what it's worth, the ApexSpeed/Trackpedia rFactor SIM rac...

Woa, for a minute there I thought I was on the FF forums on ApexSpeed. Spec tires vs. sticky tires, treaded tires vs. slicks, spec manifolds vs. Monster Mannies, Ginger vs. Mary Anne... someone wake me up in the spring and let me know where we stand so I can have my car ready to for Blackhawk in Apr...

Can someone explain the needs or differences in both exhaust collectors? Where would one work better than the other, and why?