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10 years and still going
12:22 AM on Nov 09, 2007

Nov 7th, 1997 was my first ever online race with Nascar Racing 2 on the Total Entertainment Network. Yesterday I celebrated my 10 year anniversary in online motor sports by going to In-&-Out for a cheeseburger and fries :-)



Posted by Marc Stegger at 12:29 AM on Nov 09, 2007
 Comment #1

Congratulations Tim! I hope that you will stick around for another couple of decades.... :-)

Posted by Scott Michaels at 12:32 AM on Nov 09, 2007
 Comment #2

Grats Tim! I'm at nearly 9 years (I think about 5 of which have been online). I raced GPL offline for 3 years or so before I found an NR2003 league. I think shortly after that I found the dEEL endurance league and have been with enduros ever since... :-)

Posted by Tim McArthur at 12:40 AM on Nov 09, 2007
 Comment #3

Scott, I was sim-racing before you were born LOL

1989 baby! Those were the days... man I feel old(er)

Posted by Scott Michaels at 01:04 AM on Nov 09, 2007
 Comment #4

LOL. I guess if you count games like that I played GP2 pretty much as soon as it was released, but... well, I dont know why I didnt count it, I guess because I dont know when it came out :P

Posted by Joe DiPino at 01:16 AM on Nov 09, 2007
 Comment #5

Congrats, old man.

Posted by Janko Glavac at 01:35 AM on Nov 09, 2007
 Comment #6

Grats!

Beers on Tim!! :)

Posted by Mark Peeler at 01:57 AM on Nov 09, 2007
 Comment #7

Congrats Tim!

I'm still in my first year. hehe

-the rookie

Posted by Jeff Stibling at 02:15 AM on Nov 09, 2007
 Comment #8

Show Off :)

Posted by Bob Fay at 03:42 AM on Nov 09, 2007
 Comment #9

Heh, think about all the money you spent upgrading hardware over those 10 years... Pentium 90 was all the rage back then

Posted by Tim McArthur at 03:46 AM on Nov 09, 2007
 Comment #10

My first sim-PC was a 386-16mhz with 2 MB or memory. I remember I had to buy a $2500 PC (486-50mhz) to run IndyCar Racing 1 because it needed 4MB of RAM.

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