Posts by Badbeatbill

Well, that was as close as I could cut it. That is a very welcome win.
Couldn't do it on pace, so had to try something else.

Put on fresh tires on lap 94 (after old set only did 12 laps). And started watching my fuel.
I could make it easily on fuel, but I got a meatball on lap 185 out of 187. One lap earlier and would probably not have been able to finish with that. Could not have cut it any closer than that. Also with Kevin and Jakub just about catching up thx to the meatball.

I feel we lose strategy choices by adding more sets of tires.
How strategy surrounding number of tiresets works out also has to do with field size. As in possible loss in track position and/number of cautions, which is often influenced by number of drivers entered.
I won't be upset with any change either way, just my two cents.

On somewhat unrelated note, I miss the smaller fuel tanks on the Talladega/Daytona races (once upon a time...). Not realistic, but would spice up the races there.

Not my best race. Would have been fine on long run, but was shuffled back for various reasons.

Lots of connection issues going around. We had the "Smetana blinks", where Daniel ended up for 80% within Jakub at one point.
Andreas Schneider also blinking a lot. That really doesn't work well on a track like this, with the bumping.

I just tried to do my best to be near the front and out of trouble.
Could have maybe gone for a few more spots, and sometimes just being patient on the low line also worked out.
Thru other's misfortune, this turned out to be a huge points day with my 9th place finish.
Good job by Rising Star to dominate near the end.

Kinda bummed with the bad luck all that happened to teammates.

I lost the car twice. Aero is really bad... but both times my own fault.
Thankfully managed to save the car and last cautions helped me out a lot.

Restarted 21th on lap 137 but could move up to 12th thru chaos and because of having fresh tires.
Than near the end had to stay out with no more tires.
Very lucky to have Jakub only finish 7th and to finish 8th myself, which somehow puts me in the lead of the championship.

Last thing I was expecting having lost the car twice. And I was not really enjoying the drive here. Typical NASCAR, I guess. Never give up.

Damage limitation. After NIS I was a little bit surprised tires lasted for 33 laps.
But they did, that somewhat...

I almost held Carsten behind me, but I fell for a fake (I think) move into the chicane. I spun it and gave up 5th.
But won't complain about that.

Well done Jonas, nobody came close.

I feel like I was better at road courses with this car a time ago. Not sure what is causing it, just not really feeling the grip on the front tires. And braking is not working out, either due to MC settings/bias but likely due to driver needing to get better at that.

Just be sure to setup your privacy options with something you are comfortable with.

Could rename this to the Ultimate Body Pain 150.
Good luck to all.

I think you would need to use the "protest/caveat/other concern" option to ask for that.

I must say Charlotte wasn't that fun to drive in NIS... and I tend to enjoy the road races with Nascar...

Happy to survive, and big points gains with the bad races for most of the other top 5-10 drivers.

Some shocking stuff on the caution side. Either by the cause, or lack of slowing down properly.

I was very lucky to only have minor damage after getting rear ended while slowing down.
Petr, I enjoy the racing a lot more lately, but the blocking is pretty rough. You nearly killed yourself moving down on me in the middle of T2.
Very happy with a top 5, didn't have the pace for that without the chaos. But also got a bunch of easy positions because of pitroad penalties.

Congrats Manuel, another win!

Fun race, very happy with my 2nd place finish.
Thanks Michael for checking up when I nearly lost it out of T2. That was scary.

Again very happy to be able to bring some pace to the race. Lots of close racing, and a lot of green flag racing.

Fun race. I gave away 2nd place on the final restart, not a fan of that part.
But very encouraging to actually have long and short run pace to challenge the front spots.

I got 0x'd into T1 by Alexis early in the race.
I'm glad I was able to roll out of the brakes to avoid that being a bigger incident.

Congrats Carsten! Driving all the way thru the field and just controlling (I assume).

Quote from Yves

Ob ich mal noch ein Rennen erleben werde, wo man bei Ausrufen der YF nicht in Slowmotion die Lücken schließt? Beim Wavearround genau dasselbe. Worauf wartet ihr immer?????? Es gibt unter Pacing keine Black Flags... aber hohen Blutdruck wenn ich sowas immer vor sehe!

I feel leader coasting towards safetycar caused most of that. If the leader only catches the pacecar in T3, that's not ideal or totally fair imo. That happens in part due to the safetycar taking off too early, but a leader just coasting will also catch it very late at times.

Tho the impact always feels much worse than it is, for me personally the gentleman driving thing to do would be to carry some pace to catching a pacecar, if the track is clear.

First caution gave me 6 minutes of optionals.
By some miracle (just a lot of cautions), I recovered mostly from that.
Damage made left front wear a lot, on the first yellow after a longer run the left front was at 2%... So well timed caution.

Sadly on second to last lap I got tagged running the high line and lost a possible 8th place finish and ended up 13th.
Still better than 34th tho.

Very sad it did not stay green. I was heading for a 5th place finish.

Disgusted to see how Nickolay just cleared out Jose, early in the race.
You were never going to make T2 without hitting the wall (and Jose before that).
And on final restart you just jump in front on me going into T1.
Causing me to check up (and get run over shortly after).

Sadly I did not take tires on the pitstop right after the long green run.
That might have kept me out of trouble.
In general good race, and I can consider myself lucky to still finish 11th.
More Czech team wins. Will there be a Mclaren like team fight for the championship this year?

Some of the cautions where still very much not needed.
Tho for some other situations iRacing just did not feel like throwing one.

Not a great setup to race with.
Always fun to have green flag pitstops, and we had two. I got close to speeding on those, but it worked out.

Well done by Petr, Jakub and David. Strong team top 3.

Can Robert not be removed from the enrolled drivers now? Since that opens up a spot for someone else.

That was interesting.
This setup was not the best fixed setup. Whenever you have to put the wheel to the right, you are very likely to lose the car.
That happened to a lot of people during this race. I was somewhat ready for that thanks to NIS, and thankfully I did not have to make big changes of direction.

I'm surprised by the strategy that some used, and I guess some gambles did not pay off. That comes with the big field, and more cautions.

I lost a bunch of spots due to bad restarts. I need to work on that.
Happy with 8th position finish. There wasn't much more in it for me.

What a race. Lots of wild moments and lucky escapes.

In the end I was caught off guard by the 3 wide Jonas put on there.
But still finished 5th. Congrats Petr, well done, for not having teammates near the end.

Just looked at the result, and I am the only driver in our entire field with a 0x. Here for SR.

Happy to win another one, and glad to see an alternative strategy work out yet again.
Maik showed how older tires could still be pretty good, earlier in the race. So I took the gamble to stay on my old tires.

Congrats to Jakub for the championship. Very fast ánd good at avoiding big hits in the points.

I hope we can find a way to start with a big field.