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@electrolite – Damn, I’m awful as well, if you’d have raced… I might have someone to trundle around at the back with! :P

SPOnG: Are there any changes to the multiplayer set up?

Stephen Hood: We’re not planning to add much to the multiplayer aspect at all with F1 2012. We’re already up to 16 players. What we’re thinking about is how to make the experience better with more people.

We’ve noticed that everybody’s connection varies across difference territories; one player will have an amazingly fast and clean connection, while another will have a poor one. That’s effecting the experience, but we can’t have much influence over that, but that’s unfortunately the world that we live in and I don’t see it changing any time soon.

So, we’re trying to improve our network code so that we can account for these inconsistencies in connection quality. This will provide a better experience as I think most developers, and we’ve been guilty of this in the past as well, feel under pressure to add stuff to every aspect of the game, when you can just polish aspects of it instead.

So, rather than just saying ‘we’re kind of happy with that, let’s add a bunch of new stuff to encourage more people to buy our game’. In this instance we need to polish the current experience to make it better.

Good news, I hope it works.

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@electrolite has already confirmed he can’t race, so can I ask @Asanator to stand in please?

Guys, we have a race this Sunday (Dan Wheldon Tribute Race from Silverstone), can you please let me know if you can make it? Same time as normal thanks :)

I’ll be there.

Quali: 1st

I was pleased to see a wet quali, and I went out immediately, to do as many laps as I could. I think I ended up doing three laps, and when I came in, I was third I believe, about 1.2 seconds off of pole. I waited about a minute or so, before heading back out (apparently on fresh wets, which I didn’t select -_-). I think I ended up only doing one more lap, but I saw that I was purple in the first sector, and then again in the second. Overall, I’m not very good in qualifying, so it was a massive surprise to get pole by 3 tenths, especially since I wouldn’t say I’m very good at Silverstone.

Race: 5th

For some reason, despite getting a decent start, I didn’t have very good pace in the race. Usually it’s the other way around, in that I’m better in the race than quali, but not today. By lap three, I think I was down to third, and then a couple of laps later, Moss shot down the inside of turn six (Where Webber passed Alonso), he went quite deep, and I was trying to still make the corner and give room, but had I given any more room, I would have had to drive off the track. In my opinion, it was a bit of a risky move, but I’m sure Moss would have a different opinion.

Since I was saving fuel, I couldn’t really keep up. I was only a couple of tenths off the pace, which was enough to stay just in touch with the guys in front, and enough to not be troubled by anyone behind. I felt the tyres losing grip, and so I pitted on lap 11. I actually thought that the rule was that everyone needed to pit at least once, but clearly this wasn’t the case -_-
I was fast with the new tyres, but after a lap or two with the new tyres, I was only 6th, and then came trouble. I spun out of turn 4 (I have no idea how), and lost about 10 seconds. It shook my confidence in the car, and it wasn’t until lap 18 that I finally regained my previous form, but it was too little too late. I cut the gap to Bradley significantly, and because of his penalty, I finished 5th.

Little bit of a disappointing race. I think 4th would have been easy for me, had I not pitted, but I guess that’s the price I pay for not knowing the rules.

Oh yeah I forgot to say that at the end I slowed down and coasted to the line.. If I didnt do that I would have finished ahead of Bradley as he had a 10 second penalty.. LOL Fairly stupid xD

Quali – was on pole for most of quali and just sat there as I didn’t know whether u get a fresh set of wets for the race! Wish I could have seen jamies lap!! Good one mate!

Race, got of the line a little slow but had a great battle with jamie, he was glitching fowards and backwards on track so it was difficult to know where he was! I tried a couple of moves but it seemed too dangerous – so I saved all my kers for a pass down the back straight! On my screen he moved to cover which I thought unfair – but I made it work somehow!
From there I was putting in fastest laps while running standard fuel and had to drop to lean for the remainder.
Moss started mounting a resurgence putting in some fastest laps – a couple of tenths up on the laps I was doing – he got within 1 – 1.5 seconds and it got me worried!
Unfortunately for him he got a puncture which let me off the hook!

Cheers @shaneb12345678910 :P

I am very sorry to everyone I have not updated the Wiki in a while, I have been quite busy (what with an 18th birthday), I will try and get it done this weekend :)