Posts by Badbeatbill

I have a suggestion for series registration.
Add an option to declare if you intend to run a series full-time, or just a few races.

It would add some tools to help split, or perhaps avoid having to split the group.
I suppose registering should be a registration to aim to run an entire season. However there are often a few that only run the odd race, but do help split the group. If they register for an entire season.

Björn wants to race Formula Vee with us at Donington. Seems he can launch a server.

Weird bugs by iracing...

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<Car Class> NASCAR Cup Series Next Gen Class Cars

• Reworked aerodynamic damage penalties to provide greater downforce loss and a reduced drag penalty. Also, if your engine or wheels sustain heavy enough damage, it may be beyond your pit crews’ skills to repair - you’re toast!
• Garage tooltips have been updated to explain that rear end gear ratios have limited selections at many tracks.
• Fixed an issue where hood flaps were not deforming correctly when open or damaged.
• Fixed a driver animation hiccup.

Full patch notes: https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/712…s-2024-12-09-03

As for the "Also, if your engine or wheels sustain heavy enough damage, it may be beyond your pit crews’ skills to repair - you’re toast!"

Broken toe link, equals end of race now. I wonder if that will get any tweaks.

I don't mind it, so long as I'm not the one car in the incident that gets sent into a wall... Since those contacts destroy a car much faster than car on car contact. Easy to predict more drama over incidents (league or officials).

Congrats Jonas and Carsten.

Fun season, anything is possible when bad results set you back like they did this season. That has some appeal.
Besides that part, Carsten putting up 8 top 5 results to close of the season is pretty strong.

I did not do well on the first stint of the race, 12th it is.

Zero incidents for all drivers for the entire race. Don't see that very often.

Tight tight tight, but happy enough after I could make up some ground again on final stint.
This car still has many mysteries for me.

Hindsight tells me to regret to give up clean air to Kevin. Only to get stuck behind him.
But it did atleast help save fuel.

And I'm sure Jakub feels the same way about me, as I do with Kevin :).

I only had, like, 10 minutes of practice. So happy to finish 7th. And it was fun roasting my tires to better track position early on.

Two races for the price of one. And I got a lot of use out of an otherwise much ignored clutch pedal.

I pitted just before the long green run, with the plan to fuelsave.
I did not have enough draft for that to work out perfectly. Had to do a lot of saving while on my own. Needed a few more around me to do that.
One of the drivers helping me out spun himself into the pitwall soon after I had gotten behind them.
I feel I could have stayed ahead of the leaders if only a few more would be around me for longer. But that is how those gambles go. No regrets :).

The one caution with 2 to go ruined a nice slow evening for officials. Not sure what the idea was there Jakub, poor Matt was always going to be there.

It all went downhill after that. Obviously had to pit for fuel.
Should have refuelled for a full 2nd race, not just 2 GWC's.
So two pitstops for fuel in race 2, and I got stuck in the middle of two incidents when Kelvin tried to knocked down the T1 outside wall.

@Toni, I just gave up on passing you after you put me into the outside wall on T1 exit (not a compliment).

Quote from Marvin B.

It is quite obvious that you are out to defend your teammate here.

Why does Maik move to the inside down the frontstraight only to move back outside right before the turn instead of running a predictable line, then?

It is impossible for me to anticipate what the hell he is doing there and in particular that he is going to run 106 mph in a spot where he ran 116-119 mph during the laps before.

Indeed, a teammate. But once two comments in a row start framing someone in a way I feel is not justified I might respond. I don't think that is a character flaw (tho I could use a cooldown period at times before responding or not).
The forum only works for those that read it and/or participate.
I could do that for someone else as well. I would just have to triggered enough by it.

You are pushing while overtaking two lapped cars and Maik has slightly awkward timing on the move (and has had his car damaged thanks to Rafael).
Why should he move back high? To not end up being a chicane together with Fernando in T1/T2. I would have regretted moving low on start/finish, seeing Fernando stay high, and probably done the same at not much different speeds.
If Maik had stayed low, you would have been forced to go high in T1, to go meet Fernando going just as 'fast' in T2 on the outside.

Frustating, yes!, you have my sympathy on that. But it does not look impossible to anticipate to me. And I am honestly trying to be as unbiased as I can. Racecraft can be defined in different ways. Reading situations in hindsight is way too easy, so you can dislike my Captain Hindsight view as you wish.

No hard feelings in general, other than I feel it is an uncalled for statement.

I just took the gamble on extra pitstop. Probably could have finish 8th without that.
But atleast I got to do some overtaking.

The B car is not really my strongest. And today the setup also annoyed me a lot. Feels like I must have grinded of 10 centimetres off the bottom of the car, with it bottoming out that much.

Quote from Marvin B.

Maik Albrecht Es ist wirklich respektlos, wie du dich in jedes Rennen ohne jegliches Training stürzt, dort dann herumgurkst und anderen das Rennen zerstörst. Du ziehst vor T1 von ganz innen nach außen, ohne dass das nötig gewesen wäre. Zum Zeitpunkt meines Treffers warst du 10 mph langsamer als in den Runden davor. Durch den Schaden war ich den Rest des Rennens über chancenlos.

I don't understand that comment. Lapped cars go high, as stated by the rules. And Maik holds the same speed as Fernando on the high line, as to not spin while moving high right near the leaders.
Slightly awkward timing, but uncalled to call it respectless if you ask me.

Quote from JakubSmetana

Maik Steinicke We had some issues tonight, which we never had before. I have no idea why. I saw some blinking mainly under cautions and then for some period it was all good again for quite a long time. But you are right that with one restart near the end after S/F line, that was the worst. Apology for that.

Do you have any experience with this?

The Smetana duo-blink is not new. It was a bit more that usual today.
I do hope you guys can get that sorted out.

A few yellows too many? Race officials have my sympathy for this one. This felt like Martinsville racing.

I got hit in the right front wheel twice.
Once on lap 3, 30 seconds optional, but still minor dmg.
Again on lap 59 for a meatball. It was a 30 seconds meatball, and plenty of cautions to repair the car after that.
I was just lucky that I had my incidents early in the race.

Somehow finished 5th after all the dust has settled.
The trackconditions / setup combo was pretty lethal today. It could just wobble if you did T2 wrong, and throw all the weight on the right rear wheel.
Had some interesting racing still. I did not dare use 3rd gear a lot, for fear of wheelspin. That also helped me on the longer run, protecting the rear tires. Well, longer run.... the one slightly longer run.

Grats José on another dominating win.
Interesting to see Carsten lead the championoship (well done), without winning a single race (a little out of character).
One would have needed 30.2 points on average to be in front of that. Top 7 (correction 7th place finish) all season would get more or less the same amount of points.

For a close points championship, we still have the team points.

Pole position, fastest lap, 2nd place finish.
Pretty good day.

Very messy race, so I was happy to have track position.
I did not have a response for the medium-long run pace tho. Long run, we shall never find out I guess.
Good win.

Horrible combo to drive, combined with the league rules (personal opinion).

I need to get better at setting up an overtake here, but I am pretty frustrated about how the defending is done given the rules.
I feel I'm way too nice, and because of that end up on the wrong side of 'oopsie netcode' moments.
Want to complain more about the racing I saw, but that is not going to change anything. I'm better off skipping this race next time.
Short track racing, but not the kind I enjoy.

I spun it after recovering from a netcode hit, in the next corner (chased Sven Limburger into braking too late...).
My yellowcard by rule logic, just to add insult to injury. I wish that netcode would have just full turned me.
Some of you earned some "O, I'll race you hard next time I see you" sticker for next races .

Sorry Kelvin for turning you on the very bad restart lap 207. I am not sure why we went for T1 that slowly, since there was nothing in our way anymore and no caution out yet. But I had just slightly bumped you before.

An actual green flag run!
I am happy, but feel I left some on the table last stint.
Overfueled and/or overdrove it a bit. But very happy to have driven to (almost) the front.

Finishing 3rd is a great result. Jose has been superfast all week on the Martinsville races, so I expected something like this

Public service announcement (after Bristol):
With this many cars we need people to catch up and don't leave gaps while behind the pacecar.
To not have the pacecar lap the back of the field even before we are pitting.

On a sidenote, wallriding in practice is something I do not appreciate personally. Why ruin the times in practice with doing things that are not allowed in the first place?

Well, after 9 times on the front row in 2nd place, I finally get a pole position on an oval!
I was not expecting that. But car felt more connected than with NIS, which helped for the pushing.

Fun race, tho a bunch of cautions to mix it up.

To get 4th feels like a win. Jose did a great job winning this one. Looking like a fun fight up ahead.
Kevin Adam , your car was taking up the space of almost 2 cars for a very long time (and was even in the fence from time to time). That sadly ended in contact with Bruno. I gained a lot of spots due to some green flag chaos.
But also had some fun fights, running either high, low or middle.
Good fun!

Good win!

That did not last long for me. I could not avoid car in front that got loose in T4.

Also, no words for the wreck that took out Jose and Jakub. Can the league please ask drivers with dangerous driving cars, many laps down, to just park it at some point? This is beyond embarrassing to watch happen and it is not the first time.

Very eventful race, but in the end pretty fun.

Gambled for it to go green early on, burning up a set of tires.
Got involved in one wreck with damage, and seen a lot happen really up close.

I shall take an 11th. Pretty sure I had slighty better long run pace. But it wasn't that kind of race.
It was pretty tricky to pick the right lane to move forward.

I see many incident where people run up too close to the rear left/right of a car.
When do we learn to not make sidedrafting a 25 to 50% chance of wrecking?...

Jakub, good win and points day.