Mixed class endurance racing modification for rFactor by EnduRacers Modding Team.

Since my last post Sam and Henry have made great progress (via the sceneic route it has to be said!) down into Italy, across through Greece into Turkey, where they spent a few nights.
From there they continued into Georgia, and are now at Baku in Azerbaijan waiting for a ferry to take them across the Caspian to Turkmenbashi in Turkmenistan.
Perhaps not unsurprisingly Georgia and Azerbaijan have proved somewhat expensive to drive through as their stickered bright green Hyundai is an easy target for the cops, innocent or not!

Sadly they did not make it onto the ship at Baku as their names were missed off the Turkmeni invite list, so they must wait until the embassy in London opens this morning to see if this can be sorted.

Plan B is a ship to Kazakhstan for which they already have visas, but that would be a longer way around (and Google Maps isn't showing me much in the way of roads, hmmmm!)

We wait for news!

The few days in Istanbul were particularly arduous

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As many of you know, fragLANd regular Yoda is taking part in this year's Mongol Rally, a charity run where participants have to buy and drive a 10+ year old car of less than 1 litre capacity all the way from England to Ulaan Bator in Mongolia.

We have here a picture of Henry (Yoda) and his friend Sam's offensive green Hyundai as it makes its way around Goodwood prior to leaving for Dover on Saturday afternoon:

(Hmm I can't help but think other cars perhaps look a little better prepared for travel on the dirt roads that will make up most of the route!)

A couple of other pictures of Henry and Sam...though no indication of how long they will be wearing these outfits! ;)

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We will be following Yoda's progress over the following few weeks with updates here, though of course daily (where possible!) updates will be available directly from their blog here.

To donate to their causes, please visit here for more information. They need all the help you can offer!

Yoda is also using trackr! to track his route via GPS here, though sadly much of the route through France is missing (we think so that their visits to various vineyards along the route aren't logged)

A very cool mod for source has been released NeoTokyo. I've been playing it for a few days now, and loving it. Its quite brutal in some places. Sorta CSS meets BF2 (in cyberpunk).

From the GT era comes iconic racing, fast, noisey, unrestricted and very competitive.

With Le Man 2009 over and still no firm release for the Endurance Series mod their is something to cheer sim racing fans here.

Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed that it will offer consumers "special deals" on an upgrade to Windows 7 if they buy a Vista-equipped PC before the launch of the new operating system.

AMD demonstrated the world's first DirectX11 GPU today in front of a live audience, stating that AMD will be the first to release a graphics card with a 40nm DirectX11-friendly GPU.

AMD is fully committed to bringing DirectX11 to the market first, something they have stated in a press release, without an official release date. DirectX11 promises to bring smoother graphics, faster Windows 7 experience - meaning Windows 7 will run faster - higher quality games and better performance than anything previously released.

AMD and TSMC gave some demonstrations of the new processing power of the 40nm DirectX11 GPU, in a video with improved detail in character models through tessellation.

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Valve's excellent co-op zombie fest game is enjoying a 40% discount this weekend, bringing the price down to £16.19.

As the American LeMan Series gets well and truly underway EnduRacers Mod Team report that they have achieved 90% completion of their Endurance Series Mod for rFactor.

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