Beiträge von nielhekkens

Sorry, I don't have the replay. The one time I forgot to save the replay.🙈

I also loved the old Lime Rock Park. You could jump over the hill at T3.

iRacing asked on Twitter to share your oldest screenshots. While browsing I found some old NiS screenshots from 2013, with a familiar name... Feempy

Early NiS days were fun. The Saturday morning split was basically a league.

Does anyone else have old screenshots?

I cannot race tomorrow because of a BBQ.

Screwed up my first stint by over cooking the tires. It felt like I was steering with my rear wheels and had to pit early. I changed my driving in the second stint and that went much better.

Happy to finish second with 6 seconds behind the winner, because the gap was 25/30 seconds before my pitstop.

Good race all!

Does anyone have the replay for me? Thanks in advance!

It's such a joke how you can "defend" with these rules. Just disregard the car behind you and throw it in front of him, pinch him so bad, or slow down so much, the car low/behind needs to slam the brakes.

I just couldn’t get a feel and speed in practice. People were passing me on the outside.

I didn’t want to risk any potential yellow card at this track.

Zitat von Wanne

Sorry nielhekkens und Kelvin Mace ... loose loose loose

Tut mir leid dass ich Euch das Rennen versaut hab...

No worries. It happens.

Awesome battle Markus! Thanks!

A sad ending for a pretty good race. I was managing my temperatures for a final push to the finish, but my car said no and decided to blow up.

Sorry for the minor contact at the end Manuel (I believe it was you). You or the car in front suddenly slowed down and moved to the 3rd line. I couldn't do anything else but to dive to the middle.

Ugh... This race left an awful taste for me.

I was very surprised by the pole time, because I was nowhere near the top times in practice and my lap wasn't great either.

The first caution, I went low but still touched the 22 very lightly. Unfortunately, he went round and I couldn't get off him so he went round. I feel really bad about that one because I wasn't going for the pass. I was trying out different lines and I thought I chose the middle on the exit. But that was not enough.

Then I had a couple of great battles with Roland!

In the end, it was very chaotic. A couple of lead lap cars are battling. At the same time, Roland and I were fighting for the lucky dog position. Someone in front of me slowed down significantly and I touched him. I think it was the 12 in front of me. I braked and the 12 was able to save it. I was trying to keep control as well, but then I got hit.

On to Talladega.

A rollercoaster of a race for me. You really notice when you missed a couple of races. I didn't feel comfortable in the start and I just couldn't get into a rhythm. In the first stint I was searching what worked best for me. As a result, I scraped the wall a couple of times. I managed to fix my line in the second stint and finally found something that worked on the long run.

The caution came at the perfect moment for my strategy, as I divided the race in three equal parts. Got the damage fixed and was hopeful for a top 10 finish! Then I got sucked into the wall again in T1 and it all went downhill from there. The weird thing is, I wasn't even pushing it. I even lifted earlier (at least in my mind) than normal, but I have the idea it was aero wash. I'd have to double check, but I got in the wall whenever someone close behind me would dive to the inside of T1.

All in all: not the result I hoped but good to be back!

Very bummed to miss tonight’s race. Road courses are fun!

Zitat von Nadir RinderGang

gibts bei euch keine klimageräte oder ventilatoren?

Reminds me of this sketch. 😄

I won’t be there this Wednesday either, because I’ll be karting that evening.

No worries Marius. I totally understand your reaction. As I said before, it was a very awkward situation where multiple things were happening at the same time and it all came together. That’s oval racing as well.

That was an intense race. It's a very difficult track to race on. Especially with such a competitive field! If you go for a pass and fail, you get freight trained by the cars behind you. It also gives the cars behind you the opportunity to catch up and get into a downward spiral. I had that in the middle of the race. Luckily, I could save my tires better and return at the run's end.

Unfortunately, I got involved in the crash on lap 75. It was an unfortunate situation because Marius tried to avoid Frank, but at the same time I noticed Daniel coming to my left and I thought we were already past Frank. Oh well, it happens. At least I could repair the car and finish the race. Pocono is not on my list of favourite tracks.

Sorry Roland, for scaring you somewhere after the first pit stops. I was much slower than you anticipated. I still had the line and corner speed for old tires in my mind.

Not really, because the "plate" racing on the 1.5-mile ovals in previous years was due to the package of the old car. I think the next-gen car does not really have that obvious "plate racing" anymore.

The article describes they wanted to make Atlanta unique (it was already, but it was also falling apart). That's why they turned it into a mini superspeedway. Although it's pack racing, it's not exactly the same as Daytona and Talladega.

I recommend reading the article. It's very interesting how such a process works.

The track was made a bit smaller and more banking. It's like superspeedway racing, but then on a 1.5 mile oval.

The article was a good read. Quite long indeed, but awesome to read about the process. iRacing had a big influence in the design phase of the reconfiguration.