Posts by Fitcho

That combo was not fun to drive but incredibly fun to race! There were some awesome battles in the midfield pretty much all race. Dirty air was way more prominent than I expected in 3 and 4, really had to think about lane choice and getting clean air on the nose, very fun when I could judge it right and get a big run. Not so fun when I got it wrong and thought I was gonna plow into the wall 😅

P17 -> P9. Very happy with that. Thought I’d thrown away a top 10 near the end but the overtime gave me another chance

Definitely a bit rusty 😅 Not sure where my quali pace came from, pulled 3 tenths out my ass then never saw that speed again.

Also f the T2 wall. Hit it early on and got wheel damage, losing 2/3 tenths a lap for 50 odd laps, 20% FR left and one and a half minutes of repairs. 5 laps gone 😭

Won’t be able to make the next few Wednesday night races. Will hopefully be back soon

Can we avoid all the gimmicks? It’s bad enough watching stage racing and playoffs, I don’t want to participate in them as well 😂

I enjoy a good long run and the strategy around it (even if I’m bad at it 😂) and with our race lengths any form of stage break would really kill that. Hopefully iRacing never implement it so we don’t have a decision to make.

I might be in the minority here but I don’t really care about the championship standings at all. I know outside of super speedways I’ve got almost no chance of winning and that I won’t be able to make every race each season. So it just doesn’t matter that much. I’m just here to enjoy the racing

That was a really fun race! I'd never driven Chicagoland until I joined the practice so didn't know what to expect. Really fun racing, felt both the first and second lanes worked really well making for some great battles. I enjoyed the long green flag run, got the tyre management right in the middle stint and made up some spots, but overcooked it in the last stint. Lost 5 places in the last 5 laps lol, 7th to 12th, my front right ended up on 24% 💀. Would've loved a top 10 given where I was running most of the race, but still improved from quali and had some great racing!

Quote from Feempy

I was pushing Lachlan and for some reason we had to move high. I followed him, so I wouldn't be offset while pushing him, but ran into you. Kinda frustrated why we had to move so far up the track, but the contact you and I had is probably on me....

Apologies about that, I didn't mean to move quite so much, I was adjusting fuel for the next stop so was looking down at my black box. I thought I left enough space, but these cars weren't pushing well and I put you in a difficult spot by not holding a straight wheel

Quote from TobiasMarpert

GG! Mein PC hat sich gerade neu gestartet...

Fuhr heute so oder so eher wie eine rollende Schikane.

Sorry to Lachlan! I feel like the caution was my bad. I think I braked earlier than the laps before.

Fröhliche Weihnachten an alle und alles Gute für 2026! Freue mich schon auf die neue Saison!

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No worries mate, yeah I think you did brake a bit earlier than the previous lap but I probably didn't help the situation as I was trying to send it in deep up high to get to your outside. Unfortunate that it triggered a caution, didn't think it was usually that quick with someone only having a big slide/half spin. Ah well, very realistic trigger happy NASCAR caution that one 😂

Anyway I'm glad to see the back of Phoenix after these last 2 weeks. Absolutely despise turns 3 and 4. Awful corner.

Fun first full season in the books and looking forward to next year!

That was a really weird one. In practice I was absolutely hating this combo, but as I got into the rhythm of the race I started to really enjoy it. Normally I have decent one lap pace but struggle to keep the tyres under me as the stints progress but today was opposite. Didn't feel fast at all over one lap, but as we got further and further into the stints I got more competitive. Was quite a nice change

Also that battle in the last stint was great fun Maik Steinicke !

Quote from Marius

Lachlan, every Replay is available on the Homepage shortly after each race.

Virtual Oval -> Replays

And just ask the stewards via PN for more insight.

Thanks for pointing that out, I wasn't aware that the full replays were available to download. In that case I think just a small change to the automated penalty email would be really useful, pointing out that full replays are available, where to find them and that the stewards are happy to discuss penalties in more detail and how to contact them. These things aren't always obvious to new members!

I think another way we could improve the quality of racing is to improve the communication of penalties. I recently recieved a penalty for an incident in the Dover Class B race. I was a bit surprised by this as in the moment I didn't think I had done anything wrong. The penalty only quoted the rule which I had broke, with no further explanation or replay available for me to review. This made it very difficult for me to understand what I had done, and gave me no opportunity to learn from my mistakes and improve going forward, leaving me bound to repeat the same mistakes again.

I think providing a slightly more detailed explanation of the infringement as well as providing the replay file so the penalised driver can review would help drivers to understand their mistakes, and provide the opportunity to learn from them and improve going forwards. There has been plenty of times over the years where I have been involved in incidents and thought I was completely innocent, only to watch the replay back later and realise that it was 100% my fault. Our 'in the moment' interpretation of our actions can be very misleading with extreme bias towards ourselves, and watching it back afterwards often gives a much clearer and fairer view on the incident.

Now this obviously assumes that people are open to critisism and willing to learn from their mistakes, but I would like to think people seeking out leagues to compete in are looking for clean and fair racing, and wanting to improve their own race craft.

I appreciate this would significantly increase the workload on the stewards, so I think a good compromise would be to offer replay files and more detailed explanation of penalties on request (clearly stating that in the automated penalties email for each race), and make it a required step before appealing penalties.

I think this would clearly provide the opportunity for drivers to review, understand and learn from their mistakes if they wish while not over burdening stewards for more clear cut incidents. I think adapting the penalty system to put more focus on driver education as detailed above would help improve the quality of racing on track. As with my previous comment, I think the focus shouldn't be on excluding people, but rather helping them to improve.

Quote from Marvin B.

Was ist denn mit dir plötzlich los? Ich dachte, wir könnten vernünftig miteinander reden. Warum kackst du mich dann so an?

• Es geht es um den Zeitpunkt der Anmeldung und nicht darum, jemanden mit Startverbot zu belegen, wenn er plötzlich bei A 3.4 ist, aber hier schon fährt.
• Ich habe keine Kombination mit einem Mindest-iRating vorgeschlagen. Das iRating wäre viel eher geeignet, wenn es darum ginge, "nur noch gegen Eliten zu fahren". Im Gegensatz dazu lässt sich sogar ein SR von A 4.99 erreichen, wenn man langsam, aber sicher fährt.
• Auch sind die A 3.5 nur ein Wert, den ich mir gerade mal aus den Fingern gesaugt habe ohne Anspruch, dass genau das die richtige Grenze wäre. Aber einfach nur "C" für den Truck zu verlangen finde ich zu wenig.

I don't think setting a requirement like A 3.5 would help that much, and just exclude and put off a lot of people from joining. Yeah my safety rating is pretty low right now (A <2.0) and I could get it higher by running around slowly at the back, but what do I gain from that? I don't learn any real racecraft, how to overtake and defend etc. The only skill I'd really gain would be wreck avoidance (but even then, when avoiding wrecks in officials I usually just get driven through from behind anyway). In my short time in this league I haven't been as clean as I'd like, I've definitely wrecked a few people through my own mistakes and misjudgement. But they're all opportunities to learn and improve. Sometimes you have to make these mistakes to work out what you're doing wrong. I think the league should be welcoming to new drivers wanting to improve, and a rule like that would send the wrong message

Went a lap down for entering a closed pitlane... Thankfully a late caution got me back on the lead lap with 10 to go. From there I was able to move forwards from 17th up to 7th, where I'd been running all race, and thankfully stayed ahead of all the late race wrecks. Really fun race apart from the pitlane shenanigans

Two weeks in a row stupid errors have ruined my race. Unfortunately I took two others with me this time. Sorry about that

Wont be able to make Pocono this week, got tickets to the footy

I wasn't expecting qualifying to be one shot

Fun battle PetrSmetana, shame about the lapped traffic, was enjoying it. Think I just about had the pace to hold you off, thankfully its not easy to pass here and I wasn't going to give up as easily as the first stint

Pace was stronger than I expected which was nice! Had no clue what the strategy was so decided to split it into 3 equal stints, ended up with a 2-4 lap undercut that gained me 3 or 4 places on track. They just caught back up to me towards the end of that stint but I was saved by the caution. That last stint was looking really really tight for me on fuel, don't think I was quite saving enough, but again, saved by the caution. Really enjoyed the battling in those last few restarts once no management was required to the end, thought I had 4th pretty safe with a good gap behind, but another caution cost me. Got shuffled back on the last restart, but some late race chaos brought me back into the top 5. Had some great battles with Markus, Tobias and Maik, good race guys

That was a really fun race. My pace wasn't looking too good in practice, but managed to find a tenth in qualifying to line up 13th. I had a good start and was quickly up to 11th, from there I kept moving forward, up to 6th by the end of the first stint. I've been guilty of being too passive with strategy before, often running longer and falling out of the race, so I gambled on the undercut. I cycled forward to net 2nd, but couldn't hold off the fresher tyres behind slowing falling back to 6th, but very much still in the fight. Unfortunately the late cautions didn't work out for me, slipping back on each restart to 9th, which I then threw away in a dumb move for 8th, crossing the line 10th. All in all, very happy, had some fun battles with Marvin, Frank, David and Markus, good race guys

Should've repaired the damage... :/ Tried playing the long game with the tyres, got some nose damage in the middle of the race, chose not to repair it. Bye bye front downforce, hello overheating

Ahh what could've been. Running well inside the top 10 in the opening stint, but contact coming to pit road really unravelled my race. Had 4 seconds of damage which I really should've ignored but chose to fix it. Lost 8 places, and thats only counting the cars on pit road that lap, probably lost more with people pitting a lap earlier too. I had some good battles and worked my way forward, but had already lost contact with the lead pack, and with the draft here there was no coming back from that without yellows. Then things got worse with 25 to go. Ended up three wide with two lapped cars, big door to door contact resulted in wheel damage. Happy to nurse it home in 14th after all that, but what could've been if I just ignored the minor damage :/

Not sure who caused those late cautions, but thank you! Wasn't sure I was making it to the end on fuel otherwise