TXT Racing Series Summer 2012 - 9th race!

(race of 8/4/12)

9th race out of 10... Yes, time is flying. Summer gets closer to the end, and so does our first series.
And today one of the newest tracks at 2RAW, Track 15, was the one that welcomed our very well-known racers, who's already established themselves at 2RAW and just keep on bringing the everlasting spirit of competition here.
When I got at the track 15, there weren't too many people yet, only Cameron Geordie was practicing and Grosmanteau DeCuir was taught by the wise wall (he claimed so, though me and Millennium Sands couldn't catch a single vibe from it). Also we even had 2 catwomen (Pomponia LeMort - another racer and tudy Araw - 2RAW builder).
The sim was running pretty smooth, everything was ready for the last but one race.
Millennium Sands decided that once her win is guaranteed, it's time to rest on her laurels - why straining herself? Other racers were showing a more competitive spirit, proving that points are nothing for the one who was just born to compete. We even had Biggs Braham dropped by, but he didn't practice here enough, so he decided not to cause extra damage. Well, you're always welcome back at 2RAW, Biggs!
The brand-new track has revealed some of the talents as soon as the qualifying began. Or was it more practice that Sharon Densmith, who always had the 3nd position on the grid, got onto the 2nd one yesterday? In general, all the racers are showing an impressive improvement through the series - yesterday the gap between the pole position (that obviously was taken by Grosmanteau DeCuir) and the last, 7th place was 5.681 - pretty good for a road course, isn't it?
I had a talk with DeCuir a couple of days before the race, and he said that even the pole can mess it up due to the special nature of the track - however he managed to pull ahead at the start with Brave Ashbourne a bit behind him, while others got into the fight for the 3rd place - after a while, DeMort and Geordie were left behind (Geordie had hard times at the track in general, seems like due to the traffic), the battle continued between Densmith, Vervain and Clawtooth, and I'd like to move to them for a while.
Densmith quickly expanded her lead, and Clawtooth was going on 4th - but at the 4th lap Clawtooth happened to hit the wall too badly and dropped at the 6th place, behind LeMort. Vervain obtained 4th position and it was guaranteed that he remain there - the gap between him and LeMort with Clawtooth was big enough.
However, those who follows R.I.R. race events, shouldn't be surprised if I tell that Clawtooth quickly started catching up with Vervain, because obviously his driving skill is higher than LeMort's, so it wasn't a problem for him to overpass her. But Vervain was showing some really good driving skills that were helping him doing fast laps and not letting Clawtooth get closer.
Meanwhile, at the first places... While Sharon was going 3rd pretty stable (all the competition was behind her), Ashbourne seemed to be very intended to overtake DeCuir's lead - and his yesterday's performance, I should say, was quite at the same level with DeCuir's. Even more - in the middle of the race DeCuir turned to late and... stuck at the wall. I won't lie, I held my breath watching Ashbourne getting closer to him, he almost overpassed him, but DeCuir arleady was free... just to hit another wall at the next turn. Ashbourne took the lead. Not for long though - the gap wasn't big enough to hold DeCuir on the 2nd position too long.
During the second half, lapped racers (4 of them were lapped) diffused all over the track being just a traffic for others. Nevertheless, they kept on competing with those racers who were passing them. Vervain lost his 4th position at the 16th lap to Clawtooth, LeMort and Geordie already were a few laps down towards others. So, the second half of the race was pretty straight.

Personally, I'm happy to see that racers of 2RAW - even the beginners, no, especially beginners - are really eager to be the best not just at 2RAW, where winning is pretty easy even for below average racers, but maybe even go further - I bet those competitors have a really bright future ahead, of course if they don't give up racing. I absolutely hope they won't.
Thank you very much everyone, and 2RAW is waiting for you next week - it will be Track 8!

The grid:

Pole Position. Grosmanteau DeCuir 31.140
P 2. Sharon Densmith, 31.323, -0.183
P 3. Brave Ashbourne, 32.086, -0.945
P 4. Eagle Clawtooth, 33.517, -2.376
P 5. PhiloSophical Vervain, 34.927, -3.786
P 6. cameron Geordie, 36.003, -4.862
P 7. Excess Lemmon, 36.822, -5.681



Final Results:
1st. Grosmanteau DeCuir, 30 laps. Total Time : 960.821
2nd. Brave Ashbourne, -10.166 seconds.
3rd. Sharon Densmith, -1 laps.
4th. Eagle Clawtooth, -2 laps.
5th. PhiloSophical Vervain, -3 laps.
6th. Excess Lemmon, -5 laps.
7th. cameron Geordie, -6 laps.

Fastest race lap: Brave Ashbourne, 30.941

TXT Racing Series Summer 2012 - 9th race - the points

9th race of the series - 8/4/12:
Grosmanteau DeCuir - 50
Brave Ashbourne - 45
Sharon Densmith - 40
Eagle Clawtooth - 36
PhiloSophical Vervain - 32
Ρσмρσηία ﾚεΜσгţ (Excess Lemmon) - 28
Cameron Geordie - 25



Total series points (up to the present day,  8/4/12):
Millennium Sands - 328
Grosmanteau DeCuir - 250 Ρσмρσηία ﾚεΜσгţ (Excess Lemmon) - 233
Brave Ashbourne - 225
Sharon Densmith - 188
Eagle Clawtooth - 148
PhiloSophical Vervain - 132Cameron Geordie - 127
flea Fang - 81
Dalton Aiten - 45
Durron Sockington - 40
Rosie Varnish - 40
Stoney Maloney (Hagbard Hyx) - 32
acrazymanルナ (aCrazyMan Aries) - 28
Foreman Farshore - 22
bradock Randt - 16

The article about the race will be a bit later. It was a great race, even on such a tough track.Congratulations winners and great job everyone!

R.I.R. Build Your Own Car @ Martinsville Speedway

R.I.R. website
Martinsville Speedway in-world

Unlike the race that took place 2 hours before this one (but let's give non-pros a break - they have a long and exciting way ahead!), Build Your Own always provides some good competition at each race! And of course, some eye-candy by creative people, like Saphyre Cyberstar, who's cars are always so beautiful you don't want to cam out of them! Today it wasn't an exception.
And the cars (well, that's more racers) compete just as awesome as they look!
Competition begins with the practice. Saphyre Cyberstar and Eagle Clawtooth were the definite leaders of it, with their under-13-seconds results.
Eagle also was leading during the qualifying session... but ZZ Bottom, who was qualifying last, got on the track, did 3 laps, and got the pole position on the 4th lap with 12.845!
Garth Moonites, already the hero of today's Challenge Cars race, even though he got 5th place - his qualifying round wasn't as great as the practice was, but this didn't prevent him from taking the lead. ZZ got into an accident at the track at the 3rd lap being already on the last position.
At first, it was a very tough battle, so I myself applaud Moonites' self-possession and how he managed to spare his position. What happened after makes me respect him as a racer even more.
Racers behind him stayed stayed in the battle together, however Clawtooth passed Densmith and Frostbite at the right moment to pull ahead and catch up with Moonites... but not overtake the lead himself. Moonites has firmed on the 1st position and wasn't going to give it up to Clawtooth. Even when Clawtooth was gaineng the lead at one turn, Moonites regained it at the next one.
That lasted till the halfway... when they were side by side, but Clawtooth was just a little bit ahead. Just 0.158 seconds. Moonites apparently was a bit distracted, and it costed him his place - he began getting behind Clawtooth, the gap was growing with each lap and stopped at 2.5 seconds. Behind Moonites was Densmith, who keeps on showing an amazing improvement with every race she participates in.
Meanwhile, a couple of racers got already lapped and, diffused among other racers, were quite an obstacle for them. Catching up became harder, so, even though some of them continued changing positions, soon stopped it due to the difficulty of it. So, till the end of the end of the race, no major changes have occured.

Great race it was, and hope it stays this way! Compete hard, racers, like you just did!

The grid:

Pole Position. foneco Zuzu  12.845
P 2. Eagle Clawtooth,  12.896, -0.051
P 3. Sharon Densmith,  13.358, -0.513
P 4. MidnightRambler Frostbite,  13.377, -0.532
P 5. Garth Moonites,  13.467, -0.622
P 6. Saphyre Cyberstar,  13.609, -0.764
P 7. ⓢ ⓦ ⓔ ⓔ ⓣ (SweetTooth Firehawk),  14.159, -1.314


Final Results:
1st. Eagle Clawtooth, 60 laps. Total Time : 814.381
2nd. Garth Moonites, -3.494 seconds.
3rd. Sharon Densmith, -4.533 seconds.
4th. MidnightRambler Frostbite, -11.386 seconds.
5th. Saphyre Cyberstar, -1 laps.
6th. foneco Zuzu, -1 laps.
7th. ⓢ ⓦ ⓔ ⓔ ⓣ (SweetTooth Firehawk), -3 laps.

Fastest race lap: Saphyre Cyberstar, 12.736

R.I.R. Challenge Cars @ Martinsville Speedway

Today's Challenge Cars race was to reveal some of the talents that couldn't be revealed during the regular race - simply because of the champs, those who has proved their titles already. This race was for non-pro racers. Who, nevertheless, have made a very decent perfomance, even despite the lack of battles.
We even had one newcomer, Mitsuni 'Sexy' Wolfie - it's always great to see more people to get involved into racing, and even if they don't win, this doesn't matter - they took a first step, what requires some courage, more courage is needed to keep on racing. Welcome aboard, Mitsuni!
I got there right before the beginning of the qualifying round. At first BanningBairde had the lead position, then Sweet overtook it - but Moonites, who qualified last, made a 15.862 seconds lap and that was the best result. So the pole went to him.
The race itself was even quite dynamic.

Garth, experienced enough to do a headstart, soon got competed by Shishi, but BanningBairde got between them - and after a few laps, MidnightRambler Frostbite caught up with them all, and Shishi now had to battle with him. Soon the pack has dispersed, and the race turned into "don't get lapped by Moonites" game... everyone but Garth himself lost though.
It was not a bad race, and I mean it - great start for all of you, non-pros, and congratulations winners, of course! - but all of us expect more competition in the future. Keep on practicing, racers, and good luck to you all in your career!







The grid:

Pole Position. #1 Garth Moonites  15.862
P 2. #32 ⓢ ⓦ ⓔ ⓔ ⓣ (SweetTooth Firehawk),  16.113, -0.251
P 3. #5 BanningBairde,  16.379, -0.516
P 4. #17 MidnightRambler Frostbite,  16.445, -0.582
P 5. #00 shishi90,  17.070, -1.207
P 6. #32 Mitsuni 'Sexy' Wolfie (simy1133),  20.891, -5.029


Final Results
1st. Garth Moonites, 55 laps. Total Time : 890.919
2nd. BanningBairde, -1 laps.
3rd. MidnightRambler Frostbite, -2 laps.
4th. ⓢ ⓦ ⓔ ⓔ ⓣ (SweetTooth Firehawk), -3 laps.
5th. shishi90, -3 laps.
6th. Mitsuni 'Sexy' Wolfie (simy1133), -41 laps.

Fastest race lap: BanningBairde, 15.473

Racers Island - Pro Stock Car/Drift - Summer 2012 - odds and ends

Both seasons have brought some thrilling races, full of battles and moments. Both seasons made us holding our breath at times, surprising both participants and specatators with racers strategies and how it turned out. And today, both seasons are over.
This post is just a seasons trivia, to reveal other achievements racers have got through the season. Due to I've joined them only in the middle of ones and had to skip 1 or 2 races, in this analysis I'm using not only the data I've got, but also the information provided by Racers Island blogs: Racers Island Pro-Stock Car Series Results and Racers Island Drift Results.

Racers Island Pro Stock Car Series
Winners of the series:
1st place - MIKU HATSUNE (DOLL KABUKI)
2nd place - VALO EMSBURY
3rd place - EDDIE MATHIESON

The biggest amount of pole positions:
Valo Emsbury - 5 out of 12

The biggest amount of fastest laps of the race:
David Wetherby - 4 out of 12

+2 (both pole position and fastest lap of the race during one round):
Round 6: David Wetherby - finished 2nd
Round 8: Valo Emsbury - finished 3rd
Round 12: Miku Hatsune (Doll Kabuki) - finished 1st

Leader of the pack (pole position + 1st place during one round):
Round 1: Miku Hatsune (Doll Kabuki)
Round 2: Eddie Mathieson
Round 9: Miku Hatsune (Doll Kabuki)
Round 12: Miku Hatsune (Doll Kabuki)

The fast and the furious (fastest lap of the race + 1st place during one round):
Round 12: Miku Hatsune (Doll Kabuki)

Biggest improvements (3+ positions):
Round 1: Valo Emsbury - 6th position on the grid, finished 2nd
Round 4: Miku Hatsune (Doll Kabuki) - 5th position on the grid, finished 1st
Round 6: Miku Hatsune (Doll Kabuki) - 4th position on the grid, finished 1st
               Andrea Von Brokenhymen - 9th position on the grid, finished 4th
Round 7: Miku Hatsune (Doll Kabuki) - 7th position on the grid, finished 1st
Round 8: Miku Hatsune (Doll Kabuki) - 4th position on the grid, finished 1st
Round 9: Mystic Upshaw (Audion) - 5th position on the grid, finished 2nd
Round 10: Miku Hatsune (Doll Kabuki) - 5th position on the grid, finished 2nd
Round 12: Eddie Mathieson - 6th position on the grid, finished 3rd

The closest win: 
Round 10 -
Miku Hatsune (Doll Kabuki) vs. Eddie Mathieson, battle for the 2nd place: Hatsune won with 0.154 gap;
Eddie Mathieson vs. Valo Emsbury, battle for the 3rd place: Mathieson won with 0.184 gap.



Racers Island Drift Series

Winners of the series:
1st place - BRAVE ASHBOURNE
2nd place - YURIKO NISHI
3rd place - MIKU HATSUNE (DOLL KABUKI)

The biggest amount of pole positions:
Yuriko Nishi - 5 out of 12

The biggest amount of fastest laps of the race:
Brave Ashbourne - 4 out of 12

+2 (both pole position and fastest lap of the race during one round):
Round 1: Brave Ashbourne - finished 1st
Round 2: Miku Hatsune (Doll Kabuki) - finished 2nd
Round 4: Yuriko Nishi - finished 3rd
Round 8: Zev Titanium - finished 5th

Leader of the pack (pole position + 1st place during one round):
Round 1: Brave Ashbourne
Round 6: Yuriko Nishi
Round 11: Yuriko Nishi

The fast and the furious (fastest lap of the race + 1st place during one round):
Round 1: Brave Ashbourne
Round 3: Brave Ashbourne
Round 9: Brave Ashbourne
Round 10: Brave Ashbourne

Biggest improvements (3+ positions):
Round 2: Eddie Mathieson - 8th position on the grid, finished 5th
Round 6: Zev Titanium - 7th position on the grid, finished 3rd
Round 11: Biggs Braham - 6th position on the grid, finished 3rd
Round 12: Miku Hatsune (Doll Kabuki) - 4th position on the grid, finished 1st

The closest win: 
Round 6 - Brave Ashbourne vs. Zev Titanium, battle for the 2nd place: Ashbourne won with a 0.646 gap

Racers Island - Drift Series - Round 12 @ Oasis Drift

Racers Island Raceway blog

Racers Island Drift Results blog

Racers Island in-world (+TPer to all tracks)

A beautiful green track, surrounded by beautiful palms, with a blue sky above it - this magnificent place has been chosen as a place to have the last event of the Drift Series. And the racers today have revealed the most hidden vibes of competition and brought them up to the track!
After dealing with/causing a couple of problems, I finally managed to get to the track, let it rez and just relax and watch the practice. The track was full, but racers got rooms, what allowed them to set some great lap times, such as Shaft Laval's 20.935, Miku Hatsune's 21.027 or Biggs Braham's 21.067, other racers didn't hang behind too. Then, of course, Brave Ashbourne showed up - and the best lap time of the practice (and actually of the whole event) went to him with his 20.858.
My attention was attracted by a furry racer I haven't seen here before but who was doing very decent laps - his name is Sinedd Landfall. After the race, I got to ask him a few questions, and turned out he's been brought at Racers Island by Laval, who also did his car's paintjob and showed him the basics of the racing. He's going to perform in the next season under another name though. Welcome aboard!
And we're moving to the qualifuing session where, suprisingly, Ashbourne successfully got the pole position, unlike the rest of the season, when usually it has been taken by Yuriko Nishi. That was not a very big, but a first surprise for me. Apparently, his new method of qualifying worked well - he happened to take the 2nd gate, and instead of starting right after the gate has been opened, he politely waited for Landfall (the racer he has been qualifying along with) to pass about half a lap and only then started. Getting himself a room worked out greatly, and Nishi got the 2nd position on the grid.
There were 9 racers - so 2 races in total.

And the grid for the race B has been formed by:

P 5. Biggs Braham,  21.334, -0.357
P 6. Shaft Laval,  21.377, -0.400
P 7. Sinedd Landfall,  21.870, -0.893
P 8. Nella Boccara,  22.624, -1.647
P 9. domilyon,  22.912, -1.935
At the first laps, there was a very spectacular battle for the 1st place between 4 racers - Domilyon slept at the start and lost a few vital seconds and any chance to catch up with the rest.
But the rest seemed to get a fever for the competition - even the new racer got onto the 1st position once (has been passed by Nella Boccara after a few turns. At first, they were continuously trading places: turn after turn, walls at every hairpin (I've counted at least 4 at the track, and there's one more turn that looks suspicious too) were touched by at least one racer of the pile at almost every lap.
That lasted 7 first laps (it's approximately 2,5 minutes), then Laval and Braham pulled ahead after a smart pass, and racers have spreaded out: Braham and Laval were in intensive fight for the 1st place, there seemed to be some action between Boccara and Landfall too - Landfall successfully took the advantage and pulled ahead when Boccara hit the wakk at another hairpin, and kept the leadership (3rd place I mean, the leadership over Boccara) till the end of the race, even catching up once with Braham and Laval who were going ahead of them.
Braham and Laval kept on competing hard, with Braham winning but Laval on his tail permanently. But, after the 18th level, Braham began making less and less mistakes, so Laval got left behind, losing time a bit, but constantly.
And that was the order they've finished in.
Ought to say, that was an amazing start for Landfall - even though he didn't make it to the Race A, 3rd place and a hard competition against Braham, Laval and Boccara is something I'm pointing out at with a great pleasure!
So, Braham got the 5th position on the grid (and also set a very close time to Ashbourne - 20.868 that became the fastest lap time of the racetime), and Laval - 6th. Race A promised to be tough - but it brought up some things I couldn't expect at all!

Let's see the grid first:

Pole Position. Brave Ashbourne  20.977
P 2. Yuriko Nishi,  21.138, -0.161
P 3. Eddie Mathieson,  21.247, -0.270
P 4. Miku Hatsune (Doll Kabuki),  21.334, -0.357
Race B P 1. Biggs Braham
Race B P 2. Shaft Laval
Nishi confessed after the race she started at the first gear - happens to every racer at least once in a lifetime, doesn't it? 

Lap 8

Guess there's no doubt that Ashbourne successfully headstarted. Mathieson promptly shaked off the pile fo competitors and caught up with him - only to give up his place to Braham, who definitely has been in the zone today. Mathieson was left to lead the pile, then - to join the pile, then - to be left behind the pile, where a few mistakes costed him a chance to get even at the 5th place.
Meanwhile, Ashbourne was leading, but Braham kept on troubling him staying right behind him with 1 second and less gap. When it seemed that he's about to be left behind - he fixed the situation within the next lap. Others were more spreaded out with Miku Hatsune leading (3rd place).
Getting on Ashbourne's nerves seemed to work out - at the 16th lap Braham began to catch up, at the 18th lap he got to going side by side with him. One successful manoeuvre - and Braham leads the race! Ashbourne, of course, wasn't going to give up easily, but, according to what Braham said after the race, instead of passing a couple of turns accurately, he t-boned him, and not once, but twice. Ashbourne commented it that his car went left and didn't turn right for 2 seconds. Lags are so usual racers companions...
Back to the race. So, there the toughest battle of the race has been formed, between Braham and Ashbourne, at the 18th lap. They were so busy with that (me either - watching them, that was extremely exciting), that nobody noticed Hatsune, who caught up with them at the 21th lap and joined the battle. Nishi didn't waste her time too - she joined them at the next lap.
However, Ashobourne managed to get out of the battle, so there were 3 competitors involved: Hatsune, Nishi and Braham, in the following order. Braham lost it and dropped down at the 4th place, so Hatsune and Hishi got the opportunity to fight for the 2nd place, what they were doing with a rage I've seen once already - the drift race that took place a month ago, Round 8, also known as Canada's day. That was another time I've seen Nishi and Hatsune competing as hard as it was today!

Lap 29

Starting from the 26th lap, Hatsune began increasing the gap between her and Nishi... And then it happened. The greatest drifter of the Racers Island has lost his lead at the last but one lap - and not only to Hatsune, who was leading, but to Nishi at the 2nd position too! I'm not going to lie - this moment made me totally speechless. I just was looking at the local chat and hardly could believe my eyes.
The remaining lap couldn't change anyhing, so the racers finished in this order.

Like it happened at the last Stock Car race, I can say the last race of the season is a huge success. It seemed to be predictable, but who could guess it would turn out like this? I barely managed to take pictures - was afriad to miss a single moment of it.

Competitions are over!

As always, all stats are available in the Racers Island Drift Series blog - I bet you're interested what the exact  results are! The link is found in the head of this post.

And this is a conclusion of the summer Drift series. I would like to thank all the racers for the courage they perfectly expressed through the season, and of course for your competitive spirit that brought you together and made you best of the best friends off the track and the toughest competititors at the track. And, of course, congratulations to the winners of the series - Brave Ashbourne on the 1st place, Miku Hatsune (Doll Kabuki) on the 2nd and Yuriko Nishi on the 3rd!
Have a good rest before the next season, but, of course, don't let your driving skill get lost. See you at other racers, and... you all have something you can be proud of!

Deleting ALL scripts and not manually?

With the latest Firestorm update it became easy like it have never been! I'm a little late (only a month, what), but better late than never!

I don't know how many of my readers use Firestorm, but I suspect there's plenty of you. Have you updated your viewer, guys? If yes, I hope you haven't skipped reading the list of new features and haven't missed the very interesting feature for all us, lag enemies - "Added the ability to remove scripts from selection". Deleting scripts from all linked parts in one click \o/ !

How to do that? Right-click on the item, pick Edit. Then, without closing the Edit window, go to Build -> Scripts -> Remove Scripts From Selection. Conrifm that you know what you do - and wait a little. It might take from a few seconds to a few minutes, depends on how many scripts the object contains. When in the progress window "Done" message appears, close the window. There!

The important thing is you should have rights to modify the item. Otherwise, it won't let you delete scripts. And honestly, I'm not a clothes creator, and I doubt many of you are. That's why, when I find something for my look that is copy/modify (because I prefer to have a safety copy of the item I'm going to descript - no one knows when you need it), I write down the name of the creator, to remember that he/she sales the items I can attend sport events in and come back again. And, of course, descript the item. All clean and looks gorgeous - what else we can ask for?

This message goes not only to the racers of Second Life, but to every single resident who wants to be in shape - yes, that's what I call to be in shape in Second Life, to be descripted! Everyone can look perfect, but not everyone can handle the perfection. Descipt yourselves in any possible way, dear readers.

Have a good one!

Kay T. Burnett (KayT)