Sorry for the next to no notice — I completely forgot to front page this until just now.

If you’re near the Nürburgring in Germany and aren’t doing anything this Sunday, you’re welcome to join some of our forum members for some laps around the Nürburgring. About 17 of them will be there. Look for the guys with FinalGear stickers in their windows and hit them up on Twitter (hashtag #ringmeet) or our forums.

Quiky and McLightning95 have been hard at work shipping out everyone’s T-shirts:

You will receive an e-mail when your shirts ship (they should all be in the mail by the end of the week). People in the US are already starting to receive theirs (note that a signature may be required to avoid douchebags claiming they never got their shirts), but it’ll take longer for those of you outside of the US due to customs and so forth.

If you haven’t received an e-mail by August 15th (that’s next Monday), you can post in this forum thread. If you haven’t already received one as of now, be patient as e-mails are still going out.

Thanks everyone for supporting FinalGear!

You only have until the end of Monday, July 19th to order your FinalGear.com shirts. If you were planning on buying some, please do so soon!

The design contest and voting has finally come to a close and the winners decided. The seven designs, decided on using the voting results as well as our personal favorites, are now available for pre-order on our store. Orders are open until July 19th at which point we’ll get the shirts printed up. We’ll begin shipping on August 9th.

Questions? Comments? Post in this thread or e-mail us.

Here are the designs that we’re selling (note some of these shirts are available in multiple colors):

Scandinavian Flick

Oh Cock

Just Add Dinosaurs

We may move the FinalGear logo onto the back instead.

Some Say

Don’t Charge, Supercharge

6 Litre Twin Turbo

Doppelkupplungsgetriebe

German for Porsche’s PDK dual clutch transmission.

You have until this Monday (July 5th) to vote for your favorite shirt designs. The top few (we’re not sure how many yet) will be printed up and offered for sale. You will need to have a forum account to vote, but signing up is really quick and easy!

Yes, we’re aware that our download links are currently down. Sorry for the trouble — they’ll be back as soon as possible.

UPDATE: I’m told the site is back up, but you’ll need to wait for your DNS to update.

That’s right boys and girls, we’re going 24 Hours of Lemons racing once again! Today and tomorrow, Quiky (who runs this site with me), PunisherBass, and a few others will be in Summit Point, West Virginia for Capitol Offense 2010. They’ll be racing a supercharged Pontiac Grand Prix:

PunisherBass and perhaps Quiky will be tweeting updates, which I’ve embedded here for easy viewing (it will automatically refresh):

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Wish them luck!

We’re holding another T-Shirt design content, this time for the purpose of designing this year’s shirts. If you’re interested, check out this thread for details!

The FinalGear.com LeMons race team is in need of drivers for the 24 Hours Of LeMons event dubbed Capitol Offense in June. If you’re interested in joining the team you can find details of the build here and details on driver applications here.

Are you in need of a place to co-locate your server or are in need of a leased dedicated server? Do you want to help support FinalGear? Then read on.

A few months ago, we moved the servers that run FinalGear.com into our own server rack with dedicated bandwidth. We have some space and bandwidth left over though, so we are looking to resell that extra stuff in order to recoup some of our monthly bill. We are in a top-quality datacenter called Netriplex in Asheville, North Carolina which comes with all of the standard SLA things like 99.95% power and network availability guarantee and so forth.

If this interests you, please see this thread on our forums which contains all of the specifics. And remember, you are directly helping out FinalGear if you decide to host with us, so thank you!

EDIT: Please note that the recent downtime only affected the servers that run FinalGear.com. Other servers in our rack were not affected.