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I'm sure we'll organise something after it's out. It's up to 12 players per race which should be adequate. This is likely to be more simmy then Codemasters' other titles but it's going to be pretty scalable (optional traction control, anti-lock breaks, racing line, flashbacks etc.) Should be easy enough to pick up anyway. If you're desperate to play this with a wheel the PS3 is probably best because decent PS3-compatible wheels are generally more common and cheaper. There's a couple of good choices on the Xbox but finding one that you're not going to have to pay through the nose for is like discovering the lost city of Atlanta.

Another good video, Hockienheim in the wet with the AI cranked up. The behavior of the opposition cars seems to be fantastically realistic, skittering about all over the place in the tricky conditions and battling at every possible turn. Also, driving in the spray of another car looks suitably insane.

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Fantastic gameplay video here on (going by the brand of wheel) what is either the PC or PS3 version of the game. It gives a pretty good demonstration of how the race can evolve even over a short distance, especially if you get too aggressive and just end up shredding your tires. Also, there are now reviews popping up online all over the shop, most operating in the 8 & 9 range. My personal favorite thus far being Edge Magazine's online posting, which gave it an 8/10.

Round 2 Unsure of how to prepare for your next match? It doesn't hurt to take a peep at your opponent's last lineup. Chelski FC 3 – 0 AFC ReZ’s Rabies The Rabies found the limits of their powers today after facing a three goal drubbing at the hands of League 1 vets Chelski FC. The Rabies to their credit never settled back attacking and counter attacking again again to create good chances despite never holding the best of the possession. Ultimately they were simply overwhelmed by vastly superior opposition. Bramme scored a superb freekick straight into the net almost immediately with Alfie Hook scoring a superb header right on the stroke of half time. The Rabies never seemed to loose hope but simply had no answer and could only watch helplessly as Cortino made it 3 with another superb arching header over the goal keeper eight minutes from time. Emo Baldes 2 – 0 The Sixty-Fourthers Serious questions will be asked of the 64ers managements faith in it’s young players after placing the young up-and-coming Amange Bashur at the head of a 4-5-1 formation. With both sides demonstrating superb midfield and defensive line-ups and systems it came down to who had the stronger attacking force and the Emo Blades won through. First Shannonbridge scored a strong a header from a corner, then Piechink slipped a superb long range shot straight through the legs of the visitors defence. With only the young Bashur up front to play into space the 64ers failed to make the best of their chances and will now need to re-evaluate their estimation of when to send their young guns out alone after a poor result. Recall United 3 – 1 Cubic County It was another harrowing day for Cubic County as Recall United seemed to go from strength to strength in front of swelling numbers adulated home fans. It was a fairly lopsided game for neutral observers as all four goals came within the first half hour of play only for the goalfest to stop completely in the second half. Things were looking up for the Cubes as Vihko threaded through a great pass from Maupas to open the balance sheet. Their optimism was swiftly crushed in just another fifteen minutes as Gers, Streep and then Whiteside split the honours with one confident strike after another. Cubic counter attacked in the second half but were unable to find their early momentum, and ended another long day without any points to shoe for their effort. Bayern Bru 6 – 1 Bayern Fish It was billed as the Battle of Bayern at the Orange County stadium, but the first ever derby clash between Bayern Bru and Bayern Fish proved to be much more a one sided massacre. The Fish never really made it into game as their squad was run roughshod by a much more experienced side. It was six of the best from Bru stretched out over the full course of the match, most notably from Romeo Kit taking a superb hat trick, scoring the first two and then the final match of the game. Bayern Fish scored a single consolation goal thanks to Andrevi’s pluck but this was a serious lesson in humility for the still young side. Most Important Result – Chelski FC 3 – 0 AFC ReZ’s Rabies put Chelski FC ahead of the rest of the pack. Turned on Style – Recall United continues to punch above their weight. Player of the Day - Romeo Kit does most of the work in a dominating victory.

Honestly, I'd be fine with James Allen coming back, I always thought he was fairly decent. While we're all here, here's the footage of the Hispania mechanic getting brained half to death at Monza (he's apparently still recovering in hospital) if you're feeling a tad morbid. Click the link and brace yourself, there's something particularly unpleasant about it. http://jalopnik.com/5638648/heres-one-scary-reason-being-on-a-pit-crew-can-be-hazardous-to-your-health

Drat, a had couple of my less skilled players in there but a 2-0 defeat was baaad.

The detail on the cars and drivers shown off here is breathtaking, including every tiny decal and helmet shake. Less then two weeks!

An unexpected new trailer!

Just added- Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness Ronald Jenkees - Derty I second this, maybe force folks out of their usual listening habits to find different stuff. I mean, Craig David, McFly and Missy Elliot? Really folks? REALLY?

This just popped up on my Youtube subscriptions feed, and strikes me as timely.

Round 1 It's a brand new season of Xpert 11 and anything can happen so stand by for ACTION! Cubic County 3 – 3 AFC ReZ’s Rabies It was a stirring start to the season as former Lower-League 1 Champions Cubic County took on the Rabies, still fresh from successful promotion after a strong runners up finish in League 2. Neither side wasted any time and both went on the offensive, Alm scoring first with a signature ranged shot for the Rabies with McGreal equalising shortly after with a confident header. The second half arrived with riot of thrills and spills, Maupas weaving through the Cubic defence to find the net only for Cubic’s Zellman to mirror the feat less then ten minutes later. This left everything square with twenty minutes to go and both sides tiring so when McGreal scored a lucky distant strike to pull the home side ahead that seemed the end of it only for Osmanovski to score a late header off a corner from Hallerstrom to leave the game 3-3. Bayern Fish 1 – 1 Chelski FC It was a slightly more cautious affair as the top performing rookies from last seasons ‘League 2 took on the former overall champions and recently renamed Essex Elites, now Chelski FC. Both goals came reasonably early in the first half and both off of excellent direct free-kicks, first from for Chelski and then from Hammarksjold for Fish. Neither side seemed to eager to break themselves so early in the season and played it cool albeit with a few bold attempts to leave the game drawn with an unlucky injury to Graflund of Fish the only other major incident. The Sixty-Fourthers 2 – 2 Recall United It was a solid and fairly clean match at the Gaggelion Megastad as last season’s runaway ‘League 2 winners Recall took on the mighty-fallen 64ers, still consolidating after being unceremoniously dumped from the top tier the season before last. It seemed at first Recall would not be stopped as Rex Holligdale burst through in just a few minutes to put them a head. However the 64ers soon regrouped and struck back before half time with a superb long range goal from Dilchad Osman. All things seemed equal in the second half with neither side finding an advantage until Brett Whiteside scored a superb freekick straight into the net. All seemed lost as the 64ers were held by Recall’s iron defence until veteran Latif al Rikabi punted a cross right onto the head of the youthful striker Bashur to equalise just before full time. Final score 2-2 with Recall United promising danger to established opponents. Emo Blades 4 – 1 Eights United The only definitive result of the opening round proved to be a complete slaughter as the visiting Eights United were smashed by Emo Blades in front of cheering home fans. For the whole first half the Eights had no reply as the Blades struck again and again, piling home no fewer then three goals before the whistle from Dent, Agirre and Shannonbridge respectively. Things got even more heated in the second half as the Eights found some piece of themselves and made a gallant fight back, Yusri scoring a confident close range shot early after the whistle and could have had another were it not for a badly missed penalty by Gresdhal. A pair of red cards as tensions flared were dispensed before Piechinik scrabbled through to finish the game 4 – 1 to the home side. Most Important Result - Emo Blades 4 – 1 Eights United, the only decisive result gives Emo Blades a head start. Turned on Style – Recall United refuse to rest on their laurels. Player of the Day – Hubert Zellman leading from the midfield to keep AFC ReZ’s Rabies in contention.

That was raw brilliance from beginning to end, a thriller both as a race and in terms of the championship. Silly and disappointing from Hamilton after a great win in Belgium, don't know where the Red Bulls fell away to and an epic, epic, epic battle between Alonso, Button and Massa. To borrow the words of Murry Walker "This is classic, bish-bang Ferrari-on-Mclaren racing." Awesome all the way. Best season in generations.

Frasier is basically the ideal of everything I wish to be. My absolute favourite episode is the one where Frasier gets "outed" after being seen in a gay bar and finds himself the object of the affections of a top opera socialite, played with brilliant panache and flirty enthusiasm by a Patrick Stewart who is clearly having tons of fun. Brilliance from beginning to end.

Gentlemen, I originally picked the number 3 which I see from list hands Recall the grand prise. Bravo!

Coolness, I think you and I should get married. It won't be one of those gay/traditional marriages that everyone talks about. It will be a marriage of convenience. Convenience and trusted property rights. You are lonely bears, I are a lonely gaggles, apparently doomed to wander without someone to honk at (as robo-geese are wanton). So let us marry, have mindless sexual affairs with others and then retreat into each other's arms where sanctuary will be found in bonded law. Of the rest of you I ask, would you wish for anything more? Tally-ho Silver! *Gallops off into the mist*

Two films that I love are City of God and Carandiru. Both Brazillian movies with a similar vibe, though I don't believe they share many cast or creative team members. Carandiru is about life in a Brazillian favela prison, focusing on an incredibly diverse and involving cast of characters in a highly pressurised world. From hardcore gangsters to petty crooks to hardcore gangsters who also happen to be transsexuals. It's just sublime. You come out of it feeling like you've lived several lives all at once. If you liked City of God (and if you didn't, I'm legally required to murder you) Carandiru is definitly worth hunting down. If you've not seen City of God, life itself is probably a far worse punishment then anything anyone can inflict upon you.

What you're looking at is the future Retro. The engines that F1 will be running in 2013 - small capacity and turbo charged with a full suite of electric energy recovery and management systems (integrated into the engine itself, not a separate system) - is what every new performance car will be running out with by 2020, and F1 is the spearhead for that technology. Car manufacturers such as Volkswagen and Hyundai are believed to be interested in investing in teams specifically for the purpose of marketing the new, road-relevant technologies. They're also planning to start lowering the limit, year after year, on the amount of fuel and number of engines allowed, forcing engineers to find ways of producing more and more efficient & durable engines. The goal is to have each F1 car using half the weight of fuel to complete a GP. The parameters have changed, from the pursuit of raw speed to finding the common ground of speed & efficiency but I believe this will create more innovation in F1, and a modern F1 pioneering all the latest developments and technologies relevant to today's challenges. If you haven't read them already Andrew Benson has made a couple of excellent blog posts on it earlier in the year: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2010/04/what_f1s_future_means_for_the.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2010/06/f1s_carboncutting_pledge_a_pos.html?page=13

I believe he said 8 laps, which would make sense as I understand that's about the length the "Grand Prix" online mode will be (a Q3 session followed by an 8 lap race with at least one pit stop, damage, track evolution & tyre wear turned on). You will be able to host your own custom games privately or publicly with whatever sessions you wish, presumably including the full real-life race distance. Personally I think the basic Q3 + 8 laps will be enough for me.

I'm ready whenever everyone else is. I'm also open to anyone who wants a friendly.

Sigur Ros. Murry Walker. Webcomics. The first 2 seasons of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Coolness Bears. House MD. Diana Rigg of Emma Peel/The Avengers fame, circa 1965: *droooooooooooool*

Here's what I suggest - Each GP weekend we follow the calendar with our own parallel championships, a PS3 and an Xbox. 20 lap races on each circuit with realistic weather settings, or whatever setting most accurately resembles the actual weather faced. Points awarded as per the real F1 system. At the end of the year the winners of each championship go head-to-head via a Time Trail challenge on a randomly selected circuit. Winner takes all (ie. nothing.)

Chocolate & scotch. Together. Forever. No matter how long. From now until the end of time. Charlie Brooker. Jogging through the woods. CuteOverload.com This: Take a note - If I ever get a pair of pet rabbits, be sure I call them Chocolate and Scotch.

I very much enjoyed it. It's a typical piece of high-flying anime-style Japanese nonsense involving big robots, slow mo and a cover mechanic. It's precisely the sort of thing I'm the market for. That and rocket knees.

This one looks like it could be pretty decent. The Indian GP circuit too looks pretty awesome, slightly Monza-esque. Hopefully Tilke & co. are starting to get the hang of it.