Posts by retsrofekaj

Yves at what point did you unshit yourself?

COT or Gen4 at Fontana or Old Texas(day to night) or Old Atlanta(day to night), long races.

That would be a blast from the past with the addition of newer iRacing features.

Or....

8 laps B car at Nordschleife

Or....

Anything at Zandvoort, such a fun track to tactically race and battle against people.

Whatever it is, if I'm able to be there I will race it

Congratulations on the championship Jakub! Didn't realise that was the final race. Good season guys

Not going to let the iRacing officials fuckery take away from what was some awesome racing tonight.

Fun to be a part of the racing and fun to watch from a couple cars back. That's what it's about.

Even tyre wear <-1% RR to RF difference on a loose as fuck setup(either 45%RF 46%RR or 55%RF 56%RR). What dreams are made of!

Fun green flag race with a sort of fun car once I figured out how to keep it turning through middle of entry. I like a car/track that requires a lot of patience and slow throttle input to drive.

I wasn't hopeful of keeping Marvin behind knowing for certain he had fresh rubber but not knowing what tyres Kelvin had I really would have liked to have kept him at bay for a Top 10. I tried for a few laps but it became apparent quite quickly that he had too much pace for me so p11 it was.

Initially the car fired off well on the restart but after 10 laps or so the heat cycled tyres started to show their weaknesses in a way I hadn't felt all race.

Maybe I got too involved in the restart and ran too quick of a pace for my tyre condition but I think there is more to it than that.

Good race and good win!

It's been a while since I've seen those kind of wrecks but then again it's been a while since I've raced Dover.

That was hard to watch, first Joni and then the Leaders. Tough breaks guys

Quote from Stephan#185

Eine Frage. Runde 114. Wir sind alle in die BOX. Iracing sagte mir das ich die Nummer 47 vorbeilassen soll. Deshalb bin ich vor der pitlane langsamer geworden, da ich keine BF riskieren wollte. Es sah erst so aus als ob die 47 überholen will, aber es dann doch nicht gemacht hat. Kann es sein das iracing manchmal bei solchen Aktionen falsche Meldungen zu den Fahrern raus gibt? Ich unterstelle ihm jetzt auf keinen fall eine böse Absicht!

Zum Rennen. Bis Runde 50 lief alles super, dann Ausgang T2 habe ich eine outside Meldung bekommen und habe nicht damit gerechnet und mich erschrocken, dadurch verlor ich das Auto und bin links in die mauer, 7 Minuten Schaden. Leider nur P24, wäre auf jedenfall mehr drin gewesen. Ich verbuche das mal als Anfängerfehler.

The iRacing instructions when it comes to passing cars and letting cars past under caution can be a bit confusing, that's why it's always good to keep track of where you should be in the pace line so you can kinda disregard the iracing instructions and sort yourself out into roughly the right position on track because quite often if you just wait for iRacing to command you to a position it ends up being really close to taking the green flag before you find yourself positioned correctly.

Quote from Gabriel

stepped over my own dick.

Auf meinen schlong geschteppen auch

What a miserable couple of weeks it's been.

I have lost all my qualifying speed on this return to iRacing and it's really kicking me in the nuts week in week out.

Still somewhat happy with my long run pace as with 5 minutes of damage on the car I was matching the leaders laptimes and passing cars on the one run we got to stretch our legs. That's about the only positive thing I can take away from tonight.

With such a crappy qualifying session my goal was to find my own space and have something to race with at the end but that idea was put to bed by about lap 6 because the only way to pass a car at Bristol is on the bottom apparently... Even when I'm driving about as slow as the pace car.

Took the car up the track to give space to whoever was underneath me while they had their moment, figured I'd be given the space back to get around Daniel while he was scraping the wall... I guess I figured wrong.

Felt reasonably good in practice and judging by my tyre wear during the race I was either going to be quite fast over the long run or really slow.

All stops my right sides were within 3% of each other which in the past has yielded good results for me.

Quote from Gabriel

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.

Quote from Doug Pickering

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.