to me it destroys the balance. i only do it in other cars where weight matters more. cheesing the tires is way more important if you want to squeeze that .1 out of your lap. but anyways the hotlap has to be nailed like in every case :). all the cheesing is useless when you cant nail a Q lap
Well I'm quite good at nailing the wall, not necessarily the lap. Will have to work on that.
Now I've just got to find out what kind of cheese my tyres like grated over them
Oh... So fuel burning is a thing, I always figured waiting until the last minute to top the quali timesheets was nothing more than cool kid etiquette.
Duly noted 
Three words to sum up tonight.
Better Than Expected.
Probably benefited overall from the first caution around L105 but was looking forward to seeing how pit strategy would have worked out on the long runs.
A couple of cars let me go later on in the runs when I got the run on them (Maik, Gabby and Markus I think). Thank you, every time I try to find my push to talk during green flag I end up hitting my Pitting In text chat hotkey instead so I've given up on that.
Also sorry for pushing you up the track Roland, my left side tyres didn't make it to the white line and it was all understeer from there.
Qualy DQ'd for speeding in pit lane and not noticing it because iRacing screwed up my UI somehow.
Got nailed in the wreck at the end of the first run trying to be patient as the tyres came in. Race effectively over. Jake got damaged enough to kill his speed on the restart wreck a few laps later. Points are points so we chatted shit on Discord whilst the laps ticked down.
I now remember a similar thing happened to me in qualy a little while ago for a Pcup session at Spa maybe.
Practice session, cut corner. Slow down audio triggered, UI slowdown black box triggered, UI black flag in top left triggered. Serve penalty and it goes away.
Qualy session, cut corner. No messages, maybe a UI black flag that I didn't notice? Penalty issued.
Race session, cut corner. Back to all the slowdown messages.
I assume there'll be a fix out there, maybe a checkbox in the new UI settings for qualifying notifications mode but I haven't bothered to look around in there yet.
Definitely wasn't big picture racing by myself tonight but after spending over 100 laps driving a damaged car I knew how valuable clean air was to me so putting a move on Daniel was definitely worth it.
Reviewing the move I don't think I done anything particular other than force the issue.
I was forced to the bottom of the track with an empty lane open to the 3rd car at the wall, my left side tyres tracked the bottom seam and continued to track the white lines of the entry to turn three, my car travelled in a straight line until contact was made.
There was no intention from myself for contact going into turn three but I'm not going to back out of a justified and legitimate move because someone drives me to the apron.
It's a shame and hopefully it doesn't evolve into anything bigger because I enjoy racing with you Daniel.
What I don't appreciate is being berrated by someone not inolved in the wreck and then pushed and bumped around the next 3 caution laps. Now that does get my goat.
Darlington is a hard track to drive while trying to subtract numbers from 147...
Good race!
Wow those new marbles work...
As soon as I loaded the right front it snapped siiiiiiidewaaaaaays!
May have to increase some graphic settings so I have an insight to where they are next race 😬
Double post but I have a question.
During pit cycles my spotter was calling out "next car is pitting" or "car ahead is pitting" or something like that and every time the car in front or the car in front of the car in front ended up coming to pit road.
Is it coincidence that a car way ahead of me has hit pit road and that is where the call is coming from or is there a new command in iracing that can be hotkeyed to trigger the spotter message for other drivers?
Really struggled to get a handle on the balance of this setup. Spent the entire race trying to find rotation while bleeding brake pressure late entry.
...and then I got behind Carsten and found I was doing it all wrong. Charge the corner with no natural rotation in the chassis and let the tyres do the turning at mid to late centre of the corner.
Not my kind of driving style but it worked!
Fun racing all night and a frustrating yet enjoyable race. Congrats Jeroen, you were fast and patient all night.
Apologies to Sowinski (sorry i dont know your forum name).
Coming out of the hairpin I was going to go high to pass but then it looked like maybe you were choosing the high lane so I began to turn down to pass you on the bottom and i think at that point you may have been struggling for rear traction, because of the unexpected closing speed due to me getting pretty good drive off the gap to your back bumper narrowed up a lot quicker than expected.
Me being the passing car there is probably a little more that i could have done to avoid the contact but that analysis requires hindsight. Apologies that it brought your race to an early end.
oh fuck no.
for everyone elses (and my own) safety i might give this one a miss.
probably run a few laps in practice to see how bad i am but don't be surprised if the event is 1 driver short
Some really fun racing for myself at the end there in the little gaggle of cars from 6th to 10th or so.
Greatly appreciate the patience and respect shown by Yves towards us with a huge tyre advantage.
Now that the penalties are out I would like to apologise to Carsten Theile.
I was trying to build energy for our line to get momentum down the back stretch.
I felt the incident itself as far as where to apportion blame was touch and go but being the car trying to build momentum I will take this penalty on the chin and in future be more decisive on who I chose to give aggressive pushes to in tight spaces where one needs to be able to control their speed effectively and quickly for the good of the lane.
See you all Wednesday.
I don’t know what the hell I just witnessed for the last ~110 laps but I never want to experience it ever again.
I guess the guys forgot to fit the restrictor plate to my truck.
@Jake Forster: With an ingame PN to me you must have made a mistake. I had not used ingame chat, or what you wrote me there.
indeed, was meant to go to another car with a 1 in it's number 
Apologies to the #111. I’m still getting used to these new car bodies, I had no idea my right front was at your bumper, for me visually it looked like I was at your quarter panel already which is why I made no attempt to create distance between us. It wasn’t until I checked the replay that I noticed I had no overlap on you at all and instead was driving into your bumper.
Lesson learned, more racecraft practice required with these new cars to learn their “size”.
As for the comment from another driver after events, sorry you had such frustrations about being slow that you had to vent them over an incident you had no involvement in. I don’t live on this game like yourself, I turn up to race once a week, twice if I’m lucky. Therefore I’m learning on the fly and mistakes will probably be made. Good to see you again 
I'm back to my terrrrrrrrrrible internet but I will see what I can do!
wow, what a race. was strong from the beginning and had a good feeling over the distance. Great fights with Alex Hoche and Michael brock
thank for that. Jake really had big luck as the caution came just in time for him, anyway he deserved the win. i am happy with my best result for years on P2
the negative highlight was #108 Pablo who made so much failures , caused cautions, spun and resulted with TWENTYSIX Incidents, all earned himself...Made, you REALLY should use the practice server and if you cant drive 10laps alone without an error, please do NOT START!
Thanks Stev & Michael.
Although I'd have said I wasn't lucky on the caution and I should have stuck to my plan of running the tank dry because I'd have had at least 2 laps on the field if that was the case 
Instead I ended up having to restart the last green flag run on maybe 10 lap older tyres than Michael who was putting a lot of pressure on me for that first 30-40 laps after the green waved for the final time.
Super fun race tonight, thanks again guys!
Oops I lost my give a shit.
Try to form clean runs on people, use the unoccupied space on the track but what does that matter when all you need to do is open up the steering or gas it up to put the car you’re racing in the wall.
Pretty common occurrence here for drivers to push up the track as soon as a car gets a run on the outside which is no good racing to me. If you don’t want the car behind to use the space to your outside, roll off the brake a touch and slide in front of their nose, not when their door is at your quarter panel
Congratulations Marvin B. on the win, I only managed to come up with one run off of two that I might have been able to do something with but got to your bumper too late down the straight to pull out and carry the run into turn three so thought better of sailing it in on you 😁
A disastrous race averted with the luck of a well timed caution. During practice my steering wheel cable started playing silly buggers. It would connect and disconnect taking away (most importantly) my gear shifters. On the initial green I managed to grab third gear but going down into one it disconnected and couldn’t get fourth, managed to give the alert to Aaron who lead the path for others to pass me safely before I managed to get fourth gear, then promptly pulled the cable from the pc so the disconnections and reconnections didn’t make my sim freeze every time the connection was broke.
Started at the back second run as not to clog up the field if I couldn’t get going on the restart. Third restart I lucked out with the jumbled field, rolled down pit road to roll off the restart 3rd on the bottom row so I had space to pull to the apron in case shit hit the fan, turns out I’d have started on the bottom regardless of being second or third 🤷♂️
Good fun racing to the checkered, burnt off the tyres a little too much trying to make something work on Marvin who drove a really nice last stint keeping me at bay when I’d have my 5 lap spurts of energy forming an attack.
