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The VMRL V8 Supercar series is back

Get ready!
The VMRL V8 Supercar series, we all been waiting for is starting this weekend.
First race is

1/31 – 9pm EST- Catalunya, Spain – 2.89 miles – 25 laps
We have 44 racers in the line up, who is gonna be the champ?

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Ferrari develops most advanced driving simulator to dateby Jonathon Ramsey RSS feed on Dec 28th 2009 at 9:58AMIf Scuderia Ferrari drivers Alonso and Massa don't do well in qualifying next year, it won't be because they didn't have the best tools with which to practice. Ferrari has built a driving simulator that could well be the Ferrari of driving simulators. It took two years to build, is 18-feet high, takes up two stories and received assistance from Moog, a control systems maker primarly known for its work wit the U.S. military's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.The sim rests a base that, by itself, weighs two hundred tons, and on top of that are a platform and actuators that support the aluminum and composite driving structure. The driver watches his progress on five displays good for more than 180 degrees of viewing, and hears his progress through a 3,500-watt Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound system. It has ten microprocessors and 60GB of RAM, and produces 5GB of data per day.Oh, and it puts out 130 kW of power. Some perspective: the average American home is said to use 25 kW of power a day. Ferrari will hope it helps power at least one of its drivers to the crown.[Source: Ferrari]

via Ferrari develops most advanced driving simulator to date — Autoblog.

One of my favorit cars in Forza 3, it very fun to drive and has a fantastic sound.

The Fiat 131, additionally called “Mirafiori”, is a small/medium family car produced by the Italian car manufacturer Fiat from 1974 to 1984. 1,513,800 units total were produced in Italy.
The Fiat 131 Abarth was a very successful rally car, winning the World Rally Championship three times: in 1977, 1978, and in 1980 with Markku Alen, Timo Salonen and Walter Röhrl at the wheel.

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I put a quick post up at FM.net to see if a tuning garage would be interested in sponsoring our series, and I’m happy to announce Tango Tuners has come on board. They are officially sponsoring the SPEC series, as well as providing prizes for the V8 Supercars series and the Bismark Open Championship as well.

You can check out Tango Tuner's cars at their website or by visiting their catalog in the Tuning Market Place forum on Forzamotorsport.net.

Here's what we'll be offering:

Championship Prizes

1st Place – 5 Tango Tuners cars of your choice.

2nd Place – 3 Tango Tuners cars of your choice.

3rd Place – 2 Tango Tuners cars of your choice.

Plus, a win in any one of our series will also get you 1 Tango Tuners car of your choice.

Stayed tuned because there are more sponsorship details to come.

Of course, nobody will believe it’s actually him, but it’s actually him. I jumped into a Team Deathmatch session and on the list of players is DANE COOK, and I immediately thought “Great, not only am I going to have to play against some loser, I have to play against some loser that has identity issues and wants everyone to think he’s Dane Cook.” But when he started talking his voice sounded a lot like Dane Cook’s voice. At least as far as I could remember.

I imagine Dane Cook probably looked something like this and was screaming things while playing Call of Duty.

The last time I heard Dane Cook’s voice for any extended amount of time was about 8 years ago when I watch his performance on “Comedy Central Presents;” the one where he’s wearing the black tank-top that he is constantly tugging at in fits of rage while screaming something like “F@*K MY BACK!” I thought he was actually pretty funny back then, but I can only take so much scrumor (screaming/humor……no? I thought about combining rage and humor, but that just becomes “rumor” and then people would be really confused).

Once people in the lobby started to figure out it was actually him, he got a barrage of Jessica Simpson sex questions (brought to us by the obviously high “Tha Savage Goat;” as well as threats like “if you don’t start talking and prove it’s you I’m going to become a Carlos Mencia fan.” Which is an empty threat, we all know there are no Carlos Mencia fans.

For most of the night Dane was unresponsive, but there was this funny exchange:

Player: “It’s weird to be playing COD with Dane Cook”

Dane Cook: “Why is it weird?”

Player: “Because you’re famous”

Dane Cook: “F*ck famous! I’m a gamer”

And then there was this after losing a match:

Dane Cook: “If you guys would shut the f*ck up and get off my d*ck and start playing maybe we could win a match”

BTDubs, I was on the team that beat him. Did I enjoy shooting Dane Cook? Yes.

I’ll buy that he’s a gamer, he’s leveled up to 26 which takes a decent amount of time. But if he just wants to be a gamer, why use “DANE COOK” as his gamertag? My gamertag isn’t “AAREN COBB.” I’m sure there isn’t a plan to market himself through XBOX Live, but to me it just seems like a weird choice.

The best quote of the night belonged to my wife. She walked in my office to give me a “WTF?” kind of look, and I pointed out I was playing Call of Duty with Dane Cook. She said “Tell Dane Cook you’re getting divorced.”

Resident Elvis found this and posted at SRHD. I had to put it up, looks pretty cool.

We’ve often wondered if the countless hours we’ve spent playing racing games on the xBox and PlayStation have given us any advanced capabilities on an actual track. We’re obviously not the only ones. Mustang’s “Unleashed” campaigned pitted four life-long gamers head to head in a game of Need for Speed SHIFT, followed by some seat time in the 2010 Ford Mustang at the Fast Lane Driving School, and the results were… predictable.

Four participants each angled for the best time on the virtual track driving a Mustang, followed by two laps around the real life version of the circuit behind the wheel of the original pony car. The goal is to take the best lap from both the virtual and real world, combine them and come up with a winner. As you can guess, the gamers fared quite a bit better with a controller in their hands than a steering wheel, but you can see for yourself if the best racing gamer was also the reality track star by check out the video after the jump.

[Source: YouTube]

via ‘10 Unleashed pits four Need For Speed players against their virtual lap times — Autoblog.