Brad,I actually thought you was at least in your mid-late 20s untill you said how old you are. You talk and race with a LOT of respect and I envy you for that at your age. You cum off as a mature adult that just wants to race and have fun. We ALL know this is a game, but like ALL GAMES you play to win not lose. There would be no since in playing if your just gonna screw around and waste your time. Most ppl practice the tracks before the league race comes up, that way they will have a feel or an edge to win. Some wait till 1.5 hours before the race to get a good feel also, specially if that's all they have time for. Most of the guys and girls that have raced this game have a feel of where the line is gonna be, IF they are a competitor, anyways, so after a cpl races in warmups they are ready to race! When I started DTR2 in '09 I ran the browser for sometimes 10 hours a day (JMAC), and got A LOT of help from McGee (MY MENTOR)!, KARL (DO!T5) and M!ck (D42), and the other DO!T guys that were always online in browser. Some of the guys like Buck (DO!T 7), Chris(D30), Bill (D4) didn't run the leagues and helped ANYONE that WANTED<
help!!!! Then that's when RB! pulled me aside and put me on Team GLH, that went bust and I ended up on VLR, WITHOUT EVER asking!!! Only team I EVER asked to be on was Team BLS. THEN the browser went down for a long time, so I ran ONLY leagues. The Browser came back up, but there were a lot of ppl in there that didn't want help and ran along the wall going 2-3 seconds slower and wrecking everyone. So I stuck to strictly league racing. Been there a cpl times lately and all you get is wrecked or win everything by 2laps. Either everyone is too tied up wrecking eachother and the leader when he comes by, or they just don't care about the real part of this game, the side by side racing for lap after lap. I ALWAYS try to point them to my setups, (That I have tweaked from the EVR_RP (Karl) 2009 setups), they are good stable setups for a wheel, or BUCKS KEYSETS for the keyboard drivers, or VLR_SHOCK's for the controller, so if they don't listen then I know they don't care and will only last long enough to get banned form DTR2. ALL I ask is to know your roll, practice the track before you get there. THERE IS NO REASON IN HELL ANYONE SHOULD CUM TO A LEAGUE RACE 5 MIN B4 START AND SAY... "What track"?......"What cars"....!!! I am guilty of this ONLY to ask for a later race then the one I am presently at. B4 I show up to a league race, I will run 50 laps offline with as many cars as possible to find the line or passing lanes, or if I don't have time to practice b4 the race, I will fall back about 20 car lengths and follow their line till i figure it out, if I can't figure it out I back outta the way for faster guys and taste defeat!!! They ppl I am referring to know who they are!!!! If your not here to win without wrecking everyone, GTF out, go play PAC-MAN!!! If you wreck in the middle of a race and there is no one behind you, ESC out, your NOT gonna win, there is NO REASON to stay on the track and wreck the leaders when they cum up on ya while your turning around!!! I understand if your running 3rd and spinout you wanna keep going, but make sure the path is clear first and hold your damn line!!!! There are only certain tracks you can run wide open on, and if your slower you prolly won't have a chance to divebomb someone unless your aiming for them!!!! The other tracks, you MUST let out and let the car grab to get fast, if you keep spinning the tires you aint goin nowhere, but if you let em get that hook, you will FLY outta the corners!!! K Rant over!!! and YES F1, I would be ALL for a closed league, we have at least 40 ppl registerd as "Active" drivers so I am guessing it would be a bad ass fun time!!!!