Quote from Crommi :

Top250 is suprisingly easy, you don't need to be alien to get there. For an example I used to be a typical midpack runner on CTRA and on iRacing road side I'm currently ranked 132th and slowly climbing up.

Impressive job. I tried to find a rank somewhere, but I don't know where you got that figure from. Is it an iRating rank or something? How do you know you are 132th?

Another question. How are the season standings calculated? Because looking at Luke Mclean for example, he has the best stats in this seasons skip barber standings as far as I can tell but is only 50th?

iRacing is looking more and more appealing by the day.

Edit: LFS / iRacing are still missing a mad 12 cylinder hypercar. IIRC the most cylinders in any engine so far is 8.

Last edited by DaveWS, Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:06.

http://www.setupgrid.net/1/setup/hotlap/get/FO8@KY2r

Click this link for a hotlap setup. If you are only planning on sprint distances, then just add some pressure to the tyres and reduce camber a little.

I think it's all about respect TBH. LFS is a simulator based on real racing. Because of this, the drivers who are able to put in fast laptimes whilst driving the car in a sensible, realistic style which would work well IRL are respected by many people. At the same time, the guys who are able to put in times which are as fast as possible within the virtual environment of LFS are equally impressive. They just don't gain as much respect, from me at least, as I don't see it to be the nature of LFS, a *real* racing simulator. I cringe when watching some of the WR's uploaded to lfsworld.

Is Paul Casey playing? He has been on excellent form lately.

Complete muppet. If you listen he changes up into 3rd gear with the throttle wide open at probably 70 mph... The wheels were probably spinning at 140 mph, so disaster was inevitable.

http://www.thenational.ae/arti ... NATIONAL/528266148/-1/ART

Edit: Beaten with the link.

Edit 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etWeu9_N9bg (Great place to watch from)

Last edited by DaveWS, Thu, 9 Apr 2009 14:30.

What steering lock do you use? It looks almost like you are using a mouse to steer, or 40 degrees on a wheel (lerts anyone? ). Nice lap, but you would have a much better connection to the car with more steering lock IMO.

Thanks for the suggestions regarding my stuttering issue guys. FTR I currently have v-sync off (I hate steering lag more than anything else in a sim) at have had the fps capped to 85 fps, which is perfect for testing / qualifying sessions.

I'll have to try the sound thing after the Easter break when I get back to my rig.

Quote from spanks :

One thing about live for speed cars is that you have infinite ways to adjust your car and make the "perfect" setup.

Driving a car like the skippy with massive flaws that are just there by the nature of the car...it makes it a bit more fun to just master the character of the vehicle then to tweak the differential 23 times to get the perfect preload so the rear end doesn't fly around on you on entry, but you don't understeer because you've tweaked 100 other things.

That's a very good point actually, the setup I think is the main issue (especially not being able to change the open diff).

One more thing about iRacing, why is it that no matter how far under the limit you drive, the tyres ALWAYS produce a tyre scrub / squeal sound??

It's underpowered, geared too long, unstable under braking due to the open diff, oversteery on corner entry, understeery mid corner, oversteery on corner exit, and has horrible tyres which feel like they are made from plastic.

Edit: I'm getting some stuttering with iRacing during the races, partically at the corkscrew, which makes things interesting. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm getting framerates around 70 + normally, so it's not like my PC is struggling to run it. I'm gessing it's lack of memory, and the HDD is having to muck about with the pagefile or something.

Edit 2: Regarding the Skippy, I like cars which are tricky to drive and rewarding, especially the LX6 in LFS, but the Skippy is really just a tub of crap.

Last edited by DaveWS, Sat, 4 Apr 2009 22:43.

How do I find out the fuel prediction?

P.S. Does anyone else find the Skippy to be a complete pile of shit to drive?

Quote from BenjiMC :

yeah, i heard that too, i dont think it was only the ferrari's though. would have to watch again.

I think that was just the poor signal in the onboard channel, the video speed was out of sync / speed at times.

Quote from BenjiMC :

legard is a cack commentator. the guy from the radio needs to be doing it, and anthony davidson. 3 in the commentary booth isn't too much imo, works on speed.

+1.

BTW, so much for the predicted field spread this year. In Q1 the fastest and slowest times are seperated by just 1.7 seconds, and in Q2 the top ten seperated by just half a second.

I'd say the best thing they could do would be to allow the continued use of owned content offline after your subscription to online racing ends. They could bring in a sensible condition for this, i.e. a minimum subscription initially of 6 months in order to keep access to the service for offline use if you stop paying. I can't see how they would lose money from this, as I can't see many continuing their subscription just to drive offline. It would attract more members though I'm sure, making many more of us consider it.

I'll be letting Zafar / Jack know our interest shortly. Some talents are too good to miss. :elefant:

They look like turning vanes to me, probably to help airflow around the front wheels.

19. Everyday I love you less & less - Kaiser Chiefs

Moi

Welcome dude!

Note to self, don't forget this week.

Epic timing there.

Count me in again please.

I'm just wondering the deal with the adjustable front wings.. Are the allowed / able to adjust the front wing several times in a lap? I mean, if they could reduce the angle on the long straights to get some extra speed that would be a massive advantage despite the extra work it would mean for the driver.

So this is why Mclaren are behind everyone else with development. They have been spending all their time and money on advertising and making fake films. It's impressively done, but com'on. lol.

Quote from zeugnimod :

I want him back in F1.

+1. He may have been a complete nutcase, but that and his at times blistering speed made him my fav. F1 driver.