Fabulous, we just need two Minardis filling now. You know you want one, whoever's reading this.

I've just taken a Minardi and there is an open slot for a teammate in the Minardi which is crap. Let's have fun.

I have won a race in a Minardi!!! Or was it an Osella? One of the powerful Italian non-Ferrari teams at least.

And I've just gone and joined another public game in F1 2005, and am wondering why... it does kind of lock you into an eventually infinitely extending month or so's committment, doesn't it? Not that that fact isn't obvious enough on the surface or anything, but I'm definitely beginning to see why people want to get shot of their addictions to this thing, lol. I really need someone to forcibly stop me from joining any more games... I mean, holding my hand down to stop me using the keyboard and everything.

Join us...come with us...join us!


Braaaaaaaaaaains!

Just a reminder

There is an Atlasholics clan if anyone is wanting to join or is wanting to leave any other wussy green clans that drink black beer

Just say you want to join and we will get an invite to you.

I take that personally!

I joined the 'Atlasholics' clan on BATracer, but er, I don't understand why? Do we compete against other clans on BATracer etc?

Fair enough, off the fence I come. I'd be interested... I assume you don't know my (Batracer) name?

You in the Benneton in the 97 game?
GL? Same first name as me ;)

I'm in the leading Williams, the first to sign up.

omg that is a williams
initials GL?

They are indeed.

I'll get the clan boss to send you an invite

There are competitions where clans compete against one another yes. Also joining a particular clan gives you a few more interaction features with other members of the clan, including a forum and updates on what games your fellow clan members have joined/finished.

Some clans have rivalries between them like BATracer Elite v Stupidracers but that was war won.

I originally joined the Batracer Elite, but to be honest it was full of cherry picking no personality types.... Atlasholics (or Team Ireland ;) ) are much better in that respect....

Dude, didn't you see me cherrypicking the Tyrrell?

You might not have known them as well as I did. I knew quite a few of them before the whole clan thing was set up and there was very few cardboard cut outs.

If you lot are cardboard cutouts, then you're certainly giving us a vicious paper cut in the private '97 game at the moment. We're boxed in. You've got us contained. We're "moving out" of contention. We're stood there, quivering, in our box...ers. Time for your rivals to think outside of the box and to also overcome the Pandora's Box of that Arrows. But I fear that we're no longer in the frame and that you've simply beaten us fair and square.

Sorry.

I'm just reporting back to say that we've got a Champcar Championship v2.0 game open right now, with no password (#38395). This isn't my game, I'm just doing someone a favour, so no criticism of my overdoing it with the creating of private games, please.

I'm just as surprised as you are with how well I'm going. The 1997 Prost was far more probamatic when I drove that and in theory the Arrows is worse.

I still expect quite a few mechanical problems for the rest of the season though.

The combination of that points gap and your inexplicably unArrowsesquely reliable Arrows makes life just as difficult for us chasing you, though...

If I were you, I would only go as fast as I feel comfortable. Otherwise if you go blindly upping your pace, your season may go the other way quite dramatically with few points and down the championship ranking.

Yeah, well given the points difference either way, it looks like defending second place is likely to become my season-long priority in any case. For that, read score steady points to rob you of the Teams' title while you're not looking.

Shall we have a private game? The release should coincide nicely with the end of our current 2008 F1 game.

Coincidentally I've posted the same idea for next private in Clan Chat.

I'd second that.

It is traditional to have an Atlas game upon release of a new carset, particularly F1.

I have an Indy500 finishing soon so I'm well keen to play.....are we taking dibs on cars yet?
Calling the fastest car might be a mad gamble though!

F1 2008 has now finished. That was jolly painful!

That it was. Well done to Panzani

Thank you Gilles4Ever!

As soon as 2009 is released we all are in, I guess!

First time around, if I'm involved, I may well just go for 'the usual' and nab a McLaren, presuming everybody else aren't clambering over me to get in one first, '97 Lola style...

cheeky!

i may have to tab up something equally undriveable!

Might give the next one a miss. I'm proving too powerful.

Oh you actually taking part? We didn't even notice you were in the same game ;)

Well, I have to keep up the illusion of fair play. See what I did with Montreal there.

You lost me? 3 stop from pole in Montreal - seems a logical strategy to me (at least in 2008 carset its logical)

So there's an '09 BATracer option available soon? They don't hang about do they?!!

It usually appears within a couple of weeks of the first race to capitalise on a resurgence in F1 interest....

This has been on the front page since last Monday.

I was joking. I lost that race (after winning the previous 4) because of a bad stop.

Oh you poor thing, you must be devestated.

Yep, that screaming German kid from youtube has nothing on me.

I've got an extra Toro Rosso for the next 30 mins if anyone is interested, 2009 game. Password is 'atlas'. Come learn the new carset with me.

it's gone already....

Yeah, they are flying off the shelves and the password only lasts 30 minutes.

Private games will be ready in a couple of days, can't wait.

I'm beginning to detect the possible reason why the Batracer homepage isn't loading for me right now... Bloomin' bunch of mercenaries, you never see them around day-to-day and then there's just a stampede just because of a spangly new carset. I bet these are the same people who queue overnight outside a Japanese HMV at 4am just so they can be first to own a virtually pre-production PlayStation 5 that's riddled with faults and doesn't work back home anyway. Just my analogy if, indeed, the 2009 F1 carset has just been released. Bitter? Me?

Players will need to be registered and logged in before they can enter the private game. When logged in, clicking the following URL will take you to the join game page:

http://batracer.com/-cj?&D&38731

Alternatively, you can select "private games" from the menu and enter the number "38731" into the box. The game password is "AtlasF1". Take care not to accidentally join a public game by mistake.

2009 F1

Hoorah! I'll be applying my trade as part of BMW Sauber this season!

Uh oh. My prophecy hasn't come as close to becoming true as I thought. People aren't touching the MP4-2-No with a wooden bargepole, and what's worse, I've just seen an image of the supposed F1 2009 Car Comparison page on the Batracer Forum...

12 players, 7 teams and no one has touched the Ferrari