Oschersleben B-Course was the location, with 100% rain, and 18 Mini Coopers controlled by players. My good old home-server was averaging 50% CPU load and maybe half a gig of memory. Aside from an occasional rage quit, everyone stayed in, an on track (or the grass, or a wall). The overall experience seemed smooth, and acceptable for league racing. I would like to get some feedback from others though. I may push it a little more, and see if we can get 24 players on the grid. I’m very pleased with 18 though. That means our Mini Cooper Rain Season will have at least 18 slots available, so keep an eye open for the sign up thread on the forum!

As you can see, SHU looks completely different. The portal is now based on WordPress instead of Drupal. The forum has been reorganized, and has a much nicer skin.

Overall things have improved, but we’re not done yet. I can say that I won’t be needing to take the site down again for the foreseeable future. There are however quite a few things to tweak which I will be doing in the weeks to come. My hope is to get a proper connection with the forum, but those bridges are never easy to cross.

If you would like to contribute by writing to our blog, or even just post comments, simply PM or email me via the forum. I will create an account for you that will use the same name as your forum login. This should keep things ready for when forum accounts can be linked to WP accounts.

While I will happily take suggestions, I hope that what we have now is easy to use, and pleasant to look at. If it furthers our goal of having fun, then I will consider it a success.

- SUR6E

SHU is also putting together a Formula BMW season that will be followed up with an F3000 season running the same tracks. The idea is to get everyone familiar with the tracks by running the more controllable FBMW’s first.

After that it should be easier to get used to the Formula 3000 open wheelers. Especially the newer drivers will appreciate this. Also, we allow the use of driving aids. Discuss the details of this season on the forum here.

If you’re interested in driving Minis in heavy rain on small tracks, join us for the upcoming Race 07 Mini Rain Season.

We are putting together a list of tracks that are all around 3km or less. Driving aids will be allowed. Headlights on, wipers on full speed, join the discussion and express your interest in this forum thread.