You may remember racer Tim Schrick who along with Sabine Schmitz and another guy hosts Germany’s D-Motor TV show. D-Motor’s hosts competed against Top Gear last year.

Recently Tim prepared an Aston Martin V8 Vantage for the 2009 24 Hours Nürburgring endurance race. The German DMAX television channel aired a 6 part documentary on his adventure, however it was only broadcast in German. Thanks to the hard work of some of our forum members though, it is now available with English subtitles. If you’d like to watch this great little documentary, you can find a torrent right here.

Team Schrick originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Tue, 30 June 2009 at 06:45 GMT.

µTorrent Now Available For Mac originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Thu, 27 November 2008 at 01:29 GMT.

µTorrent Users: Make Sure You’re Running 1.8 originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Wed, 13 August 2008 at 13:59 GMT.

Take the season 4 pack for example — there are currently 76 seeders and 715 peers. However, at least 348 people have completed the torrent. That means nearly 275 people have downloaded it and then not returned the favor by seeding for a while. Even if it’s a slow upload, every bit helps.

So if you’re one of those hit and runners, please be nice the community and continue uploading for a few days rather than being a dick. Thanks.

Getting Slow Season Pack Download Speeds? originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Mon, 11 August 2008 at 00:12 GMT.

So again, if you use µTorrent, please make sure you’re running the latest version!

UPDATE: I almost forgot — this exploit applies to the BitTorrent branded client too as it’s just µTorrent with a different name.

UPDATE #2: If you’d like to read more on this, TorrentFreak has a good article.

UPDATE #3 (1/21): µTorrent v1.6.1 is immune and safe to use. All other versions besides 1.7.6 and the latest 1.8.x alpha are unsafe (that includes 1.6.0).

Use µTorrent? Upgrade To The Latest Version originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 18 January 2008 at 06:52 GMT.

Not much I can do about that, but I can link you to the torrent for the latest Top Gear episode on isoHunt.com.

UPDATE 11/21: Mininova seems to be back up and running as usual.

Mininova Is Having Issues originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Tue, 20 November 2007 at 03:13 GMT.

The former rally driving champion Colin McRae was killed and his five year-old son feared dead in a helicopter crash yesterday (it’s Sunday now in the UK. -Viper) afternoon. The aircraft came down in Jerviswood, Lanarkshire, half a mile from the family’s home and burst into flames just after 4pm.

Jean-Eric Freudiger, McRae’s agent, said the 39-year-old driver had been piloting the helicopter himself. Also on board were believed to be his son Johnny, another adult – said by locals to be a school friend of McRae – and another child. McRae’s wife Alison and their daughter Hollie, 9, were not on board, friends said.

More details at the Times Online and discussion on our forums.

Rest in peace, mate.

UPDATE: The Telegraph has a good article / obit. Worth checking out.

Rest In Peace, Colin McRae originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sun, 16 September 2007 at 00:30 GMT.

uTorrent v1.6 Released originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sat, 1 July 2006 at 00:12 GMT.

Our primary tracker is hosted on a home connection and due to the sheer number of users downloading Top Gear and such, it’s maxxed out the connection’s upload. Before a week or two ago, this had never been a problem. We will keep using this tracker, but we may end up switching to using a different tracker as our primary.

Our backup tracker appears to be down and has been like this for a day or two. Modern BitTorrent clients would normally switch to using this tracker if the main one was down/unavailable, but this one is down as well, so…

Update 6/3 1:30AM: The backup tracker is now back online. It just required a reboot. :)

Until one or both are up/available again, please use a modern BitTorrent client like uTorrent or Azureus. Both have a feature called DHT that will allow you to use torrents even when it’s tracker(s) are unavailable.

Apologies for these issues and hopefully they will be resolved soon. :)

Tracker Issues originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 2 June 2006 at 23:41 GMT.

And if you require any help, please use this thread in our forum.

Stuck Behind A Traffic Shaper At School? originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Thu, 13 April 2006 at 18:31 GMT.

For the official word on the tracker, check out this thread in the forums.

Tracker Update originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sun, 2 April 2006 at 04:39 GMT.

µTorrent v1.5 Released originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Thu, 16 March 2006 at 19:22 GMT.

http://www.finalgear.com/feed/torrents/rss2/

Attention µTorrent Users originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Thu, 29 December 2005 at 18:18 GMT.

Interested? More details can be found here.

Need Hosting? originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Thu, 22 December 2005 at 22:27 GMT.