Posts by Badbeatbill

Euro NASCAR V8GP is fun.
Downside, no oval iracing setups included.
Upside, you can run Martinsville with rain.

Sadly a niche car that one has to buy, but could support some fun oval races.

Got loose out of T4, killed my car (3min optionals).
Motivation to run this car is pretty low. My understanding of it is just going backwards

Killed my race on first stint. Horrible tire management.
But mostly killed it by speeding on pitroad for my first pitstop....

Atleast I didn't hit the barrels tho

Congrats Jonas, good win.

I used to enjoy road course more with these cars. But I lost pace since then. Probably part of why it feels like less fun right now.
Also won't help when I practice less. Tho I don't see myself gaining much from practice, outside of consistency.

Messed up my qualifying lap. That atleast made it a bit more fun to drive.
Finishing 7th is ok for me after starting 15th.

LF was at 27% after first stint, 47% after second.
I'm trying to be slow in carrousel (and not abusing it), but just not doing anything that is helping the LF it seems.

As for Yves , you hit the skateboard-rail curb, coming out of the 2nd to last corner.
That'll just pick up the rears and try to kill you.

One to forget.

I lost control after being moved up the track by the one that just drove thru Michael Krafzik (a caution before that).
No caution for my incident, but I was awarded with 6m50s optional repairs.

Spiraled out of control after that. Just a bit too slow getting out of the pits on repairs (-1 lap), and got black flag because the back of the field did not catch up before we went green.
Didn't actually do my stop-&-go right on first drivethru the pits (-3 laps).
No wavearound a caution later and just had to settle for cruising with the damaged goods.
Race was ruined anyways after the damage anyways.

One can really tell the oval refresh effect on the trackstate.
After the long green flag run, the rubber was laid down pretty wide in T1.
Where you can see how driving slow under caution cleaned it up on the bottom lane-and-a-half (2nd screenshots is 3 or 4 cautions later).

Strategy worked out for a nice 4th place. Could have worked out even better if we didn't have thát many cautions in the end...
On long green flag runs I feel I would have been top 8 to top 10 max.

Gutted for Jose, that was his win for sure.

Sorry Lukasz, and all those behind him on outside line with the restart on lap 61. Restarted in 3rd gear, not my smartest moment, but thankfully shifting back to 2nd quickly, but lost about 4 car lenghts there.

People need to brake for incidents, but I will say this setup was an example of one that kills you, if you turn your wheel right to avoid something. I also lost it avoiding a wreck coming out of T1, which only damaged my tires (that I used to the end). But it worked out still.

Boring for the most part. Can't do much to overtake.

I slightly moved up on David on final lap T3, sorry for that.

Was not expecting a top 5 out of it, but some random late race skirmishes worked out well for me to get up to 5th.

Congrats David!
I have not mastered this place yet, but 7th isn't that bad.

Roland, I hope that last restart was worth almost ending your season.
You first absolutely run me up the track in T2 to setup a pass.
And to top that, you try and clear yourself on my front bumper in T1 a lap later.
Big brain strats.

I was not feeling fast, but after Alex turned Kelvin into my path, on lap 23, I had to deal with 5 minutes of optional repairs.
Sadly couldn't get that fully fixed in the remaining caution. Still felt really slow even with only minimal damage remaining.
So 20th is the best I could do.

Good comment about the racing standard in voice chat, Alex. Tho I would have not spoken up after having damaged two cars earlier.
Since this wasn't even a yellow flag, you are going to come off easy from that incident however way you turn it...
Huge loophole in the yellowcard system sadly. Not making any fans with moves like that.

Guess that happens when you are further back in the field. So put myself in that spot. Even predicted that cars not holding a line on the low side would spell trouble. Just didn't get to dodge all of it.

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7.6.4. When displayed with an orange circle, fondly known as a “meatball”, this indicates your vehicle has suffered excessive
damage and it is unsafe to continue racing. The driver must return to the pits for required repairs before completing 3
laps or be disqualified.

I got mine on lap 184 out of 187. So I guess you get 3 laps after the lap that you get the flag, and/or they let you go if you reach the white flag.

This my second Phoenix race in a row that I finish with a meatball flag...
Happy to hold on to 5th.
Coming into this session I was not expecting to be able to make my tires last for a full tank. NIS on wednesday was rough for me.
In the end I didn't, but atleast I just about managed it correctly.

Sorry Jakub for lap 110. Did not mean to run into you.
Track wasn't made very wide by the car on my left side, but I should have braked a bit earlier.

Congrats Bruno.

Could not get the rears to help me out here.

Got lucky with the caution and the track position that gave me. The 6th place finish feels like a steal.

Also, new internet provider for Petr and Jakub? Or some other fix/change?

I did not notice a single 'Smetana blink' during this race. Or did I just not drive close when it did happen?
I can imagin it would be very welcome for you two, to no longer have that happen.

Tactical mistake taking 4 tires on the green flag pitstop. Tho in the end, this did give good grip on the final laps.
Some close racing in the end, but pretty boring before that.
Surprising to find myself in the top 5 in the points again. And very strong start of the season Jonas!

Just to repeat a personal wish;
I would love to run Atlanta, Daytona and Talladega with 50-60% fuel tank restriction. Even when Nascar does not do that.

Funniest surprise pole position by Sven. Congrats!

So many cautions.. Happy with my 5th place finish.

I was not that good on 1 hotlap, but managed to hold on and claw back at times.
The slidejobs pulled off were impressive, and I got to do a few of my own.
Not sure how some could run the speed into and on the outside of T1-2 and not kill the RF much faster. Tho eventually it seems like it took a toll on those that overdid it.

Made contact with Alexis on one pitstop. Actually turning him into the pitwall. But you really turned so late and stopped it right on my path into the box. Don't feel like I could have easily anticipated that. My damage was not that bad and could be fixed same stop, but track position lost.

I killed my car running on the seam. Got loose in T4 and manage to save it in a way that only made be hit the outside wall.
Looks like the seams got a lot of people loose in a nasty way.

Too bad, I was liking running the top when it was 'open', and top 5 would have maybe been possible.
Couldn't make the bottom work, but likely because I wasn't keeping track of the seams well enough.

Quote from Marvin B.

Strictly speaking it was open setup everywhere, but Volker had posted all of his setups publicly and free of charge. Since they were by far the best, everyone ran them and maybe moved the weight distribution forward a bit if one found the car too loose.

I ran lots of league races against Volker and he dominated like nobody did since then. Andreas Wilke won a race here and there on merit and someone else beat him maybe once or twice in a 36-race season, but that was it. The main risk was the high number of cautions due to N2003's netcode and the fact that any car contact sent the front / outside car spinning into the wall.

I do remember the VH setups, indeed.
I suppose it's not that extreme at this point in time, haha.

Quote from Smokey

So wie's jetzt geregelt ist läuft's doch prima. Die Meisterschaftsentscheidungen sind meistens sehr knapp, wenn auch immer die selben Protagonisten diese ausfechten. Mit dem überbewerteten Sieg würde das höchstwahrscheinlich anders aussehen, und die Gruppe der Meisterschaftskandidaten nochmal geschmälert (siehe A vorige Saison mit dem ollen Holländer, der nix gewinnt aber dennoch bis zuletzt Chancen hatte ).

Hey, that guy won at Phoenix .

That points fight was only interesting because big fields can create some chaos, that I was slightly better at surviving that season.
And what I feel Nascar should be about (not stages btw, realism aside). But you won't stop dominance from being boring, can only be jealous.
When all races end up being mostly green atleast 80% of the wins (if not more) go to Jakub or Carsten. And lately mostly to Jakub.
As you could see towards the end of that season (Jakub finishing 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1). I suppose stage cautions could help, but I feel dominant drivers will still end up winning the most points in those situation. If not even more points.
You can't really stop that kind of dominance with different rules. For me the only fix is big enough fields with some random moments, or sit down and learn to enjoy not having a lot of chance at winning. It does make the occasional win feel good.
I often wonder if winning 5 in a row feels as good (I wouldn't know how that feels ).

Outside of that only few people actually run all races. For different valid reasons. Running all races is a must to have chance (atleast since I have been here).
Personally I would like some drop races (perhaps excluding the last 3 to 4 races of a season, to not have confusing/annoying points situations at the end). But that would only help the dominating drivers even more, so they can polish off the bad results. It might keep some more people interested/able to be in that race.

I'm going to race limited races this season. To see if I miss it, or like having my sunday evening to not be commited to this.
I know I should not complain being able to run top 5 at times. But still bugs me too much that the gap to the winning standard feels incredibly large in a lot of circumstances.

One really would not expect this kind of dominance in a fixed setup league, but here we are.
I know from way back in the day what results looked like when guys like Volker or Greger Huttu were running races. Not that I raced against them, but remembering other results back in the day. Tho I am not sure how much of that was fixed setup racing. The overall picture is that same as what we have now.

Fun race.
It felt like me and Jeroen had it just about under control with 11 to go, but then a caution came out.
I was pushing Jeroen in the middle lane, and Manu was behind us being 1 lap down.
Sadly, after that Manu was gone. Tried our best to make that work, but pro blocking moves cost Jeroen heavily on the final restart.

On lap 78 I made contact with Petr. Thankfully no damage for me.
That looked like someone mirror driving so hard, that they ended up nearly punting Daniel while moving right.