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I'm looking to recruit some more members of Team Shark to race in UKGTR championship races. Team Shark is a bit thin on the ground for GTR, so looking for drivers who can compete regularly in championship events.

We have a wonderful selection of cars painted in Team colours for new drivers to use, our own website (http://www.teamshark.org.uk/) and forums (http://www.teamshark.org.uk/forums/) where we can discuss tactics (ha ha) and swap setup tips etc.

If you're currently part of another team you could consider moving to Team Shark to even things out a bit  :P or add a bit of added spice to proceedings. We're all a friendly bunch of fish at Team Shark, where we also have our own NASCAR arm of the team run by Nick Phillips. Or perhaps you are part of a very small team and would like to join forces with a bigger well renown team like Team Shark.

If you're interested in switching to Team Shark and can regularly drive in UKGTR championship races please PM me to discuss. Maybe some of the old guard regulars would like a change and drive for the historic Team Shark, whatever your situation, Team Shark is a great team to race for.

To wet your appetite here are some shots of the team car's you could be driving...
(http://www.teamshark.org.uk/images/stories/Downloads/ts_lambo__small.jpg) (http://www.teamshark.org.uk/images/stories/Downloads/ts_f550__small.jpg) (http://www.teamshark.org.uk/images/stories/Downloads/ts_saleen__small.jpg)
(http://www.teamshark.org.uk/images/stories/Downloads/ts_lister__small.jpg) (http://www.teamshark.org.uk/images/stories/Downloads/ts_gt3rs__small.jpg) (http://www.teamshark.org.uk/images/stories/Downloads/ts_f360__small.jpg)
(http://www.teamshark.org.uk/images/stories/Downloads/ts_morgan__small.jpg) (http://www.teamshark.org.uk/images/stories/Downloads/ts_mosler__small.jpg)

And we have the first bite (bum bum). I'd like to welcome Whitham69 to the fishy fold!

Good to have you on over board. May the fins be with you.

(Sorry bad pun night)

I'm sure he'll have a whale of a time. ???  ;D

Does this mean you don't want Viper Whitham69?

He does want Viper, unfortunately it's one of the very few cars I haven't done yet!  :(

It'll have to go in the next skin pack rather than this one (assuming there is another). I'll certainly paint one now and hopefully if there is another version of the skin pack it can go in then.  :)

 :D

U should go into advertising Shark m8 ;). Seeing ur start post ;).

;D

T

i like to keep the skin please. I could be a red tail black shark
 http://images.google.co.uk/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=red+tail+black+shark&btnG=Search (http://images.google.co.uk/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=red+tail+black+shark&btnG=Search)

Was the skin ok Rich. i found it real hard to do I never used photoshop before. the tech advise on RSC was crap it told you what to do but not how to do it. I got no experience of how a PC works what files do what. i even had to look up how to create a new folder to put it in. It was working but the file was a mess. I couldn't work out how to change the rest of the number to Ukxxx. If i renamed them manually it never worked and i couldnt get them in to geditor to rename them. I did give it a go like you said and learnt alot of new stuff. i tryed to my best for you and wouldn't blame you for rejecting it.

And we have a second catch of the day!

A swishy swim wim to Maverick who joins the mighty Sharks!  ;D

It is also with regret that Luis Branco leaves Team Shark for pastures new. I wish him all the best with his new team and the his adventures in SimRacingPortugal and bSkilledLeague.

Great skins Shark team.Maybe its time you go over the border with your team have a look here:http://www.sim-challenge.com/,i saw 139.xx in pre-qual at Estoril in a Morgan.
They race on monday and wednesday (so no UKGTR interference) i signed up as Dutch Turtles.
Can you be a member of the shark team and race in another team as well?

Jan

As long as you learn something new each time that's all that matters. I've edited it and looks ok now.. all that's needed for car to appear in GTR is to have the needed files named UK499 at start replacing the 155 in your case. Then in .car file where it says number it must be UK499 also. Then all the DDS files must start UK499. To do this there is extract option in Locutus GEditor, once extracted you can rename to UK499 and then delete the 155 DDS files in .GTR files and import the UK499 ones. It's only matter of renaming and reshuffling mostly. If you look at any of UKGTR cars, they all start UK###.. that's the key to it, and the name is given in .car file from 'Number'. The remaining part of all names is the exact same as the model your editing, only the first part UK### is changed.

Btw, i'd use paintshop pro 8 instead of photoshop.. it's much more intuitive to use when it comes to painting.

As long as you are committed to both teams and they don't race in the same leagues.

Hey Shark, why don't you just get Dave to write a script that automatically allocates drivers to Team Shark when they join the forums, that way you wouldn't have to bother with all this bothersome recruitment lark  ;D ;)

Would never dream of it.  :o ;D ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

*goes off to PM Dave*

I thought that was the in the terms and agreements when you registered

Whit,

What happened to RD Racing in TPG?  You....you abandoned your own team to drive for some faceless multi-national entity....what are they paying you, you sell out...you're so...so...

American.

LOL! w00z! :)

T

They wont sue me if i hit then while racing ;D

Team Shark has now released Pedro and John 'Smoothy' Page from their contracts.

Recent financial figures from the team showed the team's profits had taken a slump. This was mainly due to the increase in wages of new signings of Ruskus, Zacari, Whitham and Maverick this year, as well as some expensive car repairs :-\

This streamlining will reduce the team's hefty wage bill and release funds to spend on new cars. It is expected the team's new signings will help Team Shark to get that elusive team championship title that has so far eluded the team in any of the big GTR categories. Prize money from team wins is a big part of the team's income and the higher the position the more the team can push forward exciting car developments like the purchase of GTR2 cars and team skinned GTL cars.

It does indeed feel good to have a couple of Team Champ trophies! :P :P :P

:angel:

T

Rub some more salt into it, Tyf  ;D

 :angel:

TT

Have you not been stripped of your titles yet for illegal drug use?  :angel: :P ;)

Lol, I had to check it though, could remember Jon winning a champ. And u of course being the Champ of the champs! ;) But I had forgotten 1 Team Champ. So turned out we got 4 Trophies, woohoo!

And as people may have noticed yesterday, we got a new 'ALIEN' called PY :P. This :alien: is from a different planet than most others though :laugh:! Seems he's taken the VERY heavy gravity from his planet to earth!

:jumpjoy:

T

P.S. If u ever read this Stoney, just kidding m8! :P
P.P.S. Nope Shark m8, I'm clean, it's actually all those foreigners coming to the Netherlands for drug abuse that should be 'stripped' :o ??? >:(  :D

And that's the really scary thing about you Tyf.....  ;)

Lol Pops, there must be something 'unusual' in the tap water at Tyf's house then!

 :jumpjoy:

 ;)

LOL! Bunch of EGGS! :o ;) ;D

I do drink a lot of tapwater though, maybe I should look into that... Uuh, or let some1 else look into it... I'm a carpenter's son, not a plumber's! :D :D :D (Gives a whole new meaning to [ZiP]Tyf = :angel: doesn't it ;) ;D :P)

8)

T

Team Shark's new company car...
(http://www.dstorm.co.jp/products/lw7/markets/print/images/shark_car.jpg)

When do I get mine  8) Looks well smart  :D

 :o :o :o :-X :-\ :-* :-* :-* :'( :'( :notworthy:

TT

Imagine seeing that in your mirror.  :o

To many wheels for my liking   ;)

Read about Team Shark's recruitment of Jon Moore as well as the sad demise of Ze Penguin Brotherhood and much more, here....
http://www.teamshark.org.uk/

Damn those pesky Sharks are quick to pounce  ;)

what was the joke with that pic...any1?????

Hi simon as Penguins are defunct and I am a crap painter I would be glad to join up if you would have  me.I know I am not the quickest but intend to do gt's and useually get a finish so should be a few points for me and your team. cheers gerald

Shark, Shark, please hire him, then I might only be the second slowest Shark! :laugh: :angel:

Cue Gerald beating me at every round... :D

Hire me then, at least you'd be guaranteed to be ahead  ;D

What happened to ZiP anyway? I notice TyF is a 'guest'

He huffed and he puffed and the house fell down.

Team Shark is quite big now, although it does need quite a few drivers to service it's activities across many racing games.
Who should I fire in order to fund your place in the team?  :hang: :lol:

ZiP just stopped racing for a while now. Still playing BF2 together though ;D So the clan is still very much alive ;) Just in fps form only.

P'ah Jon?....how could you ? In the name of all things Holy....join those Shark buggers ??? ;) ;D :stupid:

Didnt think they could fit (yet) 'another' car into their garage ::)

 I've heard of one-make race series but not 'One-Team Series'  ;D :surrender: :whistling:

See you on the battlefield track matey....s'pose Shark needs all the help he can get to grab our (3 times) NGT Endurance championship cup off of us  :P :fencing:

We leave that honour to bestow on our considerably bigger rivals, those buzzing hornets, 28CD. :clown:

Your'e having a laugh sharky, we only have 4 or 5 active drivers.

ROFL. You got the axe out quick mate!

Resigned x9 - October 06, 2006, 12:38:06...
https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&teams=null

Yeah its been coming for a while mate.  Emailed all the inactive drivers last week, no reply so no point being in the team if you arn't driving.

So now we are a tiny little team of 6 drivers who actually race.  :P

Anyone fancy joining us, lol.

We're actually looking into the issue of team size too and there may well be some "organisational changes" happening at Team Shark soon. Watch this space.

With baited breath.  :P

Blimey that will be like disbanding the Scottish Regiments and forming one 'Super Battalion'  in terms of numbers involved  ;D  :laugh:

ROFL :D

Better start improving or I might be for the chop  :o  ;)

How old did you say you were Pete?  ;) :hang:

Am I to assume that simracing.org is run on the same lines as any credible sporting organisation in that any team may only have a single team representing it in any given league or division ?

For example I assume that Team Shark and Team Shark juniors will not be permitted to race in the same league/division. 
However if there are to be 2 divisions then Team Shark could race in Div 2 and Team Shark Juniors in Div 1 ?

LOL shark juniors???  ;D Haddocks?

Ya can't win!  :-\

I hadn't finished the admin yet which is why I hadn't announced it yet, so you've pre-empted me somewhat...

There simply aren't enough teams in SimRacing taking up the drivers that want to be part of a team. I've done the decent thing by reducing the team size and splitting Team Shark into 2 teams of 6 each to match the other teams in SimRacing. This is like Red Bull and Toro Rosso in F1, 2 teams competing against each other with a common ownership and common resources.

Each Team Shark team is under strict orders to not help the other team during races. We share a common website and forums and at the end of each season drivers maybe swapped between teams. They are indepedent in terms of scoring points and like all other teams willl compete against each other. Which means they can take points off each other and so on. This is to the detriment of Team Shark as a whole because either one of the teams has less drivers to now win championships with.

If new teams would like to take on drivers please do, but there is simply a lack of teams wanting to run to cover the number of drivers we have who want to be part of a team.

If your view is shared by many Greg, then I am very close to simply disbanding Team Shark altogether. I put in a lot of effort to run the team and facilities and I don't need this hassle if we are viewed as competing unfairly, this is a hobby, not a job! I don't want to be seen to be getting an unfair advantage and I feel this is a really sporting thing to do whilst giving many drivers the opportunity to be part of a team and share the resources that I and Team Shark can provide.

Hey Sharky bud I was only asking mate.  When we were a large team its actually something I had considered doing but decided against at the time due to several of the drivers lack of intrest.  We may actually follow the same route as yourselfs but it all depends what the guys want to do.

Sorry if I upset you mate.

Did Grimsby hold out for a win today ?

Team Minnow surely? ;)

I can totally see why that could be a bad thing in a big money corporate evilness real life type scenario Greg but here, in the very sporting atmosphere we've got, not a serious issue surely m8?

I've always wanted a limit on team numbers, for reasons we've been through loads of times before, and am pleased if you're planning to split into two groups Shark. I'd have preferred if a limit was in place right from the start, but seeing as it wasn't it would have been really difficult to force one so the point was a bit moot. Really good move guys, as long as it isn't forced on others and I'm sure it won't be :)

Ok, sorry if I sounded snappy.

I've been feeling there have been some genuine undertones inbetween the lines of friendly rivalry recently that maybe both the strong presence Team Shark has in the SimRacing.org.uk admin team and also my recruiting of slightly more drivers than other teams has made me consider what to do about it. I genuinely believe this is good for the team and building it to be even stronger in the future and for fair play within the league. Team Shark runs a NASCAR wing too that most people don't know about in here.

I have been considering for some time stepping down from my role as Events Director in SimRacing.org.uk to distance myself as a team boss from the running of the league in case that was seen as somehow unfair, which I can assure people it is not, but I can understand how it may look.

P.S. The team names are not finalised yet.


Thankfully yes. Very nervous for the last few minutes, but a much needed win for our slightly battered haddocks.

Did Shark sya stepping dowm...come race for us m8, no pressures of team management, no pressures of being a bloody good racer, free beer n chips every Friday night, and and the pleasure of listening to me get completly plastered most week-ends!

Pleasure, mmmmmm, not sure about that mate, lol.

As for any suspicions of unfair admin, tactics, etc, dont be daft mate, well not from me at any rate.

Undertones, classic band, tenage kicks etc.  On a sensible note, yes you are right, we all take it far to seriously sometimes and need to lighten up, me included.  Can we please return to just taking the piss out of each other and enjoy ramming into rival drivers without fear of anyone getting upset.

Agreed. :laugh:

Amen to that.  ;)

LOL

There's always the Kerbcrawlers team - tho I doubt we'd want any cast-offs from Team Shark!  :P ;D

Racing for Yorkshire do  ;) ;D