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Oh, there was an issue? Had a few issues with my One X running it. First the upgrade didn't get started for ages. Then it got to 24% and the dash just disappeared. Restarted the console and it didn't boot, so took the power supply out, put it back in and then eventually it booted up, completed the installation and... I got the 'Game took too long to start' error repeatedly. Turned my console off, left it 15 minutes, went back and it was fine after that.

By my reckoning, if they keep shifting through spring, summer, autumn and winter sequentially then on Chrismas Day we'll be in... summer

So a friend of mine is Level 11 and at the Winter stage of the introductory season cycle. I am level 69 and part of the full tour. It allowed me to join his convoy, changed my season to winter to match where he was at and off we went. Had a bit of a preview of that the next week will be like . @ScouserInExile I believe the season swap-over happens about 3.30pm in the UK each Thursday, so looks like you're going to get all your time in the snow like you wanted! EDIT: Public service announcement for everyone - if you have not got it yet, grab the 205 T16 FE from the Forzathon shop while you still can. It's amazing.

Our usual tendency is to trade players who look pretty average on our team, only for them to go on to be great elsewhere. Example: T.J. Ward. I reckon we'll keep hold of Baker. The guy really wants to be there. He knows if he brings a championship to Cleveland then he'll be a bigger hero than LeBron. The Cavs winning the NBA Championship was big for Cleveland - the Browns winning a Super Bowl would be huge.

I think we had a 'rolling start' after the previous season had been an utter apocalypse into turn one. Seemed to work out okay! We occasionally did that if there'd been a lot of disconnects after the first few laps or there had been utter chaos on lap one I may join one day. Lack of time means it won't be too soon (plus I tend to get the odd late working day on short-notice now and again), but would be cool.

Ah, the Z4 GT3 - I utterly loathed that car on Project Cars, but loved it on Assetto Corsa. Looks like Mexos is doing well , I seem to recall he was somewhat of a Monza specialist. We had some epic fights there in F1 cars, although he always had terrible luck. One season he ran out of fuel after the Parabolica on the last lap and I snuck past to win, the next season he was leading a pretty titanic duel between us when he disco'd and left me to pick up a somewhat hollow win. (Edit - I found the video of that race, looks like Mexos and me circulated pretty much in tandem between 1 - 2 seconds apart for most of the race whilst he was there)

You seem to have suffered from a case of the Ferraris

Yup! Probably the most infamous shitbox in F1’s history and it’s being immortalised in metal!

Yes! Believe it or not, Spark are releasing a 1/43rd model of that car to commemorate it. I doubt I will ever begin to comprehend how on earth he managed it, either.

That's true, actually! On-the-spot quiz for everyone - which vastly underrated driver was his team mate for the majority of 1990? What lead to said driver moving to another team?

Oh yes, Langes Interesting useless fact of the day: his nickname was 'Panda'. An actual panda would probably have done a better job than him. There's a superbly awkward moment on the 1990 season review tape where all the drivers are in the pen at Phoenix waiting to be interviewed, and he wanders towards the camera expectantly... only for the interviewer to actually want to interview someone far more relevant who had been standing behind him Here he is in 'action'.

So I did the first two episodes of Drift Club today. As I was told, it's not as resoundingly awful as I had feared and I did manage to three-star both. However... I might be experiencing a case of 'growing old', but fuck ME they are wrist/finger killers on the pad. Slewing down the road like a badger drunk on cider by flicking the car left and right continually is knackering! Think I am going to have to do these in little chunks otherwise I am going to get a massive case of RSI.

Yeah, I've been avoiding the drift events too. I know at some point I'll try a few and probably not like them at all, but for now I am mainly concentrating on rally and road-racing stuff

Yes. Very, very strange...

Stars gave the Jets a bit of a spanking! Good to see. We'll inevitably flatter to deceive, but I may as well enjoy the good moments when they happen!