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The "Racing Into Tomorrow" league was established over 6 years ago by ScottyB, racing trucks and cup cars in the Nascar 2003 racing sim by Papyrus. In the RIT series, our main goal is to provide a clean racing environment and to expand our friendship base among members, since this is the key in retaining maximum participation on a weekly basis. Our drivers come from various backgrounds and skill levels, but our focus is being clean and competetive. We encourage sharing of setup advice and driving techniques to keep the competetion close and competetive within the league. With the use of user forums, irc chat in the sim, and voice communications, help with setups isn't hard to find. With the release of Arca Sim Racing, most of us will be in the same boat, since we will be seeing enhanced setup features, a better physics engine, and tracks we have not run before. With that in mind, it looks like we will all start on an even playing field. Are you up for the challenge? League racing will get underway on Sunday evenings once we get familiar with the new sim. Race times will be 8pm EST Sunday nights, and we will initially run a 10-race season once we are all familiar with the sim and we have a sizable field. Order your copy of Arca/Remax series racing simulation by SimFactory LLC today, and check back here for updates on league operations. You can contact us if you are interested in joining our open servers during recruitment races we plan to offer. Our application form is now online! Please only use this form if you are serious about your interest in our Sunday night league.
It all started with the first NASCAR game, (with the square wheels) and I have been hooked ever since. I had a flight yoke and rudder pedals that I converted to a steering wheel and pedals before there were wheels for a computer.
I often tried online racing with Hawaii and ten but it never filled the need for the real racing experience and with each new game that came, I always tried the online multiplayer but it always was the same. No yellows, tons of stupid drivers and nothing but wrecks. I found no enjoyment with the online experience.
In the mid '90s I had to move home with my parents after some major surgeries that took several months to recover from and my parents helped me through all of that. My father, {Bob} also had the game and we networked our computers and raced with each other against the AI cars in a season format following the Cup schedule.
My father ended up moving to Iowa, of all places, and the racing was never the same. A new game came out so like always I bought it and tried the multiplayer and like always... the online racing SUCKED.
My father and I started hosting races online just for the two of us as we were now states apart. It was cool, but quickly got boring with the two of us, so I had the idea of creating our own racing league online to have more guys to race with. I had no idea at the time that anything of the sort existed. I thought that I WAS the pioneer of the online racing league idea. LOL
My brothers, father and I had created a remote controlled racing track a couple years earlier that several people came to race RC trucks. It was AWESOME. I would do it again in a heart beat. This in itself is a whole other story, but it’s where the online racing league idea came from since my father was states away.
So I went into the sierra lobby and said to the public in the chat, "anyone interested in racing w/yellows instead of the open server crap" {something to that effect} and the first person who responded is still with us today. Chef John G the 404 car and a close friend to this day.
John has been the most consistent showing up each and every week for nearly 6 years straight. He brought in Rusty D who remains his sidekick and stays within his shadow as a good subordinate should.
Mitch, aka Backdraft, lowrider {aka @#$ @!$^} and offy came onboard within a couple weeks Nascar 59 came on board and brought The KING 43 George V along with him. These are the founding members who are all with us today with the exception of the #@$ $%&$ AKA Lowrider. We would get together every Thursday night and hold our little races in real racing format. .
We did things our way as we thought of racing to be...... No outside influences, no prior knowledge of how a racing league should be run, we did things OUR WAY...we were friends first and that is the way that we have always set as the #1 premise of this league. Race car drivers come and go... but the friendships made in this RIT Racing League last forever if you are willing to extend yourself and open yourself up......
Shortly there after, we started to keep track of points and continued to recruit drivers. Some of the key members who joined later are... Impala aka Jack and we are awaiting his return??, Bigfoot aka Randy, Jamn Jim, Smokin T aka Tony two times, Buzz aka Paul, Racer Rich aka Dickey Racer aka hairy palms, Smallblock aka Da Kid Jason who is also MIA, Gibby aka Mike who is at the moment MIA, TNT aka Trevor and there have been several new guys coming in who are also good friends and make the league what it is today
RIT Staff
Founder, President, CEO, Treasurer: ScottyB
Website Sponsor: Terry aka: Nascar59
Logo Designer Extraordinaire, Race Screenshots, Profile Graphics: Jeff Post
Car File Manager, Event Logos: ChefjohnG
Video Highlights: Jason Crouse
Ventrilo Voice Chat Server: Tony Bowling
Webmaster, League Communications, Points Manager: Randy aka: Bigfootbuilt
