Great contribution! Once the project is fully finished, I'll check it out and install it. I'll be keeping an eye on how it develops.
Thanks a lot for all the work you've put into it!
Posts by Carletto7777
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This is where it happened, and you're always the one who starts it. Then someone gives you a taste of your own medicine, and suddenly it's some kind of cosmic conspiracy against an entire nation.
No, no es amor, lo que tú sientes
Se llama obsesión, una ilusión
En tu pensamiento, que te hace hacer cosas
Así funciona el corazón
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I agree. Out of the 9 A races I drove this season, I think in 7 of them I've been involved in other drivers sh*t.... It's getting pretty frustrating and demotivating. And I'm not saying I don't make mistakes myself, but this is getting out of hand..
I know a couple of years ago the narative was that all the 100% green races we had were getting pretty boring. But TBH I'm longing to have those races back. Atleast then your finishing position was more in your own hands...
I totally agree!
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Some people really make their lack of grey matter shine
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Maybe I was acting more off anticipation and prediction because you'd previously ran the bottom in 3 and 4, I'll admit I didn't spend much time looking at the incident going into three but I know that in the moment in the seat I felt like you had began to set up an entry to run the bottom which is further reinforced by how early you got out of the gas.
At that point in the tyres my car didn't make speed by wrapping the bottom, my tyres had to have a fair more amount of laps on them for me to nail the apron seam with my left sides and get good drive off the corner. At the time we were racing my car would have most rotation and exit speed with the left sides just above what looked to be marbles or debris - about 1 to 2 foot above the apron, which still is a lot less room than you had to your outside if you want to use that argument, especially considering that you were in the no man's land of the middle groove - for me at least, the only person I saw make good speed all race on that line was Maik but he ran about half a car width higher on entry than you did to make it work.
I think it was hard racing but three spun out cars off my nose is unacceptable for myself so at this point I'm probably safe in saying that I was in too much of a rush during this race. Apologies to all, for the cautions not just the contact.
You have your point of view, and I have mine. In the end, the result can't be changed. What's done is done, so let's move on. But I think it's good to be able to discuss an incident and share our different opinions.
When I first joined this championship, the same thing happened to me as it did to many of you. I couldn't understand why I kept getting penalised after every incident, time and time again. Eventually, I learned the hard way that if you want to overtake someone, you need to be alongside them before entering the corner.
The championship rules may be better or worse, but they are the rules we have to follow. In the end, you adapt your driving style to save your tyres through the corners and, above all, try to get a better exit so you can get alongside the other driver and make a move.
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Apologies for that, going into turn three I think that was more of a mirror driving issue, I naturally carried more momentum into the corner because I was going to roll the top on you, you'd looked to have began setting yourself up to enter the bottom but when you saw me coming it looked like you opened up the wheel to defend against my move.
Turn 1 I saw you overdrive the centre on the middle line and tried to use my better centre speed to get a run on you, I think maybe you cut down a little aggressively for the speed difference at that moment but never the less, I could have probably cracked the throttle just a touch to clear our bumpers.
#44 was a bit of a battering ram tonight, sorry to Daniel for our initial contact. Despite that and dooring you during our battle around half way I had a lot of fun racing you.
David also, I really wanted to get that outside lane off you and I thought I had... until you were sideways across my nose.
I think I'll be taking a break....
Thanks for the apologies.
Coming out of the corner, I already intended to stay high because of the speed I saw you carrying out of the turn. I was going to defend my position. It wasn't that I changed my mind, nor did I position my car to go to the inside.
At Turn 1, I was fired up after the contact and I did overshoot the apex, yes. But you still could have avoided it, especially after the contact in the previous corner. And if you're going for that overtake after making contact with me in the previous turn, the least you can do is hold your line instead of leaving as much space on the inside as you did.
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I didn't even feel like racing because I don't like the track, but I made the effort anyway. After putting in 290 laps, I was running P2, and then someone decides to use me as a bumper car to push me off my line in one corner. And as if that wasn't enough, he finishes the job and takes me out in the very next turn.
Thanks for such a wonderful evening, Jake.
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If there happens to be a vote for next year, I would vote for the schedule to be shared with the NIS calendar, with a few exceptions as has always been the case.
However, removing a track like Charlotte from the VO schedule is something I really don't like. Not to mention that we've had four high-speed tracks in a row at the start of the schedule, and towards the end of the season we'll have four, if not five, short tracks in a row.
This isn't a criticism of the organization, just a driver's opinion on the schedule!
Thank you, and best regards to everyone.
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I spent the entire last stint saving tires so I could attack at the end. I think it was the right decision — I could get better traction than both of my rivals, but that yellow flag really didn’t help me. It got me thinking so much about whether to change 2 or 4 tires that I ended up forgetting to put fuel in. Rookie mistake... I deserve to lose P1 like that
eine YF wurde gecalled (parken auf dem apron). bin gespannt...
In my last 40 races, I’ve had just one yellow flag, and it was literally for stopping on the apron at Bristol. I didn’t understand it back then, and I still don’t understand it now
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I ended up crashing into the wall all by myself; it's the first time in a long time that I've been unable to control the car. The jolt I felt was really strange...
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I hope you get well soon, Markus
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The email for tomorrow wasn't sent, right?
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Sorry guys, I most likely won't be able to make it today due to some family commitments.
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Great race, I love this track. I have one problem when we race during the day and the sun is in Turn 3: I lose all my reference points and my pace is terrible. It’s not that I use more tires because I can't hit the line properly, the problem is that I overheat them trying to get off the corner just as fast. That’s why I prefer racing at night, I don’t have that problem
With so many cautions, I thought there would be another one towards the end of the stint, so I used the entire tank, but it didn’t happen.
Congrats Erik on another win, with a strategy that only you could come up with!
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With all due respect, Markus Fluch, the first thing to do is follow the iRacing spotter, because that is what it is there for. It indicates what position everyone should be in, and besides, it is a 4-kilometre circuit, so there is more than enough time for everyone to get into position.
On the other hand, stopping in front of the pit-lane line should never, ever be allowed. In that situation, many drivers could have received a black flag or simply caused an accident. I almost lost control of my car myself, and I was praying that I wouldn’t get a black flag. I was in my correct position and doing exactly what the simulator was telling me to do. So why should I receive a penalty if another driver doesn’t do what the simulator tells them to do and decides to stop in front of the pit-lane line?
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As for the troubles on track positions during the safetycar, I can relate to it sucking that we cannot always catch up. But this is really hardly ever a huge issue.
Bigger issue is waiting far too long to sort out the order (should you want to pit). You simply cannot have an 'after you sir' shuffle with multiple cars right before the pit entrance. That will cost way more time that catching up a bit later, and ends up in black flags.
Had to skip on the pits because Gabriel Sanchez waited far too long to try and get the correct position.
This is either incompetence, or a strategy to pin black flags on others.Totally agree. On a 4 km circuit, there’s more than enough time to get into position without anyone getting a penalty. It wasn’t enough to just slow down before entering the pit lane; he completely stopped before the line as well. As long as he doesn’t get a penalty himself, I guess he doesn’t care if everyone else does
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It's a shame about that yellow flag at the end of the final stint, but that's NASCAR. I spent the whole stint saving tires to try and make a move on Roland in the last 3 or 4 laps, but unfortunately it wasn't meant to be. Thanks to only changing 2 tires, I was able to take the inside line and avoid all the chaos. A real shame for Roland and Carsten, they both deserved more today...
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I don't think it will matter much. We still run all the tracks from the second half of the season, only the order is a little different. So instead of having the summer tracks at the end of the season, we now have a few of them in the beginning. Either way you have to drive this track ;-).
I just wish iracing would keep up with the grip levels of the tracks. Atlanta is way too grippy now. A little less grip might string out the field a bit more so you can atleast make some moves.
I did see that. We’re going to race the same tracks, just in a different order, so that’s why I was asking. What happened this year that made you change it? It’s not a criticism or anything like that; I was just wondering because the change surprised me.
