Quote from thisnameistaken :

You're all soft, yes including you, Tristan - I think H-shifters are also too easy for F1 drivers, and if you think they're hard you just haven't done anything hard before. They should have to perform special moves with joysticks to change gear, a la Street Fighter 2. Dragon Punch for 2nd, Spinning Piledriver for 3rd, Fireball for 4th and so on. And different ones for downshifts.

And all radio communication should be in morse code. Just to make the sport artificially difficult.

I almost lost it there...

Quote from xaotik :

I propose the institution of the TSIG0 roll. Inspired from THAC0 - the "To Shift Into Gear 0" roll would basically be determined based on driver AGI and the gear's distance from neutral.

Alright... couldn't stop laughing at this point, especially after I saw the picture to go with it

I'll pop my Xbox 360 controller in and see what I can do Quicksilver

Edit: Well, it certainly works... but iRacing definitely doesn't have the variety of options that LFS has; you just calibrate and you're off. It automatically calculates your "wheel's" rotation range and you're off.

I guess it works... but I wouldn't bother with it myself. (nor would I in LFS, or any other racing sim)

Last edited by Jertje, Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:35.

Quote from PLAYLIFE :

yeah, where did everyone go!?!? You owned me ofcourse

Could I try your set btw?

Funny thing the radicals suspension is very tender. Someone nudged me from behind in Luffield an I spun. From that I had such suspension damage that I had to hold the wheel to right in order to go straight :/

It was me who nudged you there, when I was just poking you a bit that lap I noticed that I had a lot less understeer, and my acceleration point was a bit sooner than you there, my lack of attention did the rest. Pretty funny though; I've been t-boned at near full-speed with no effect on the controls, but that tiny nudge busted your suspension good then?

Set is attached, it's a bit twitchy every once in a while, especially coming out of Abbey and when braking hard, but it's all very manageable and the tire-wear seems alright for a 25 lap race. - I'm not actually sure if it's my butchered version or Alan's original, but it's a good basis either way and much better than the default set.

Quote from Crommi :

I looked at your stats and that's not fair, you almost made it into 1:47 range already in your first race
Must be the "one click too much" rear wing that's making me slow....

I'm using Alan Daly's set. Well, I butchered it a bit and randomly clicked some suspension setting to loosen it up a bit, it's worked out alright, but in the end when it comes to setups I'm just a monkey trying to understand the grand scheme of things. :>

Just came out of an amazing race though... actually only 8 drivers started and all of them quit by lap 5 or so, me and playlife remained and had some fun for a while I guess... but there's only so much fun you can have with 2 people on Silverstone ;p

I was having a very fun race at Silverstone until I had to leave to watch a movie - I'll go again the next time I can, it's such a blast

I had a boring, hot race :P
Finished 4th, but I think half of the drivers retired way before the race ended - I'll try practicing a bit for Silverstone, but with the current weather here it's too hot to be gripping a steering wheel longer than an hour

Any of you guys in the next Solstice vs Legends race? 13:00 gmt that is.
I have 20 minutes more to practice with the legends car before chaos starts, hoping to see some familiar faces

That should still get a nice big fat juicy ban tbh

Lerts you are either the best troll, or the weirdest person in the world.

I had the same problem when switching from the Solstice to the Skippy Daniel. The driving styles for both cars are almost polar opposites; it takes some getting used to, but on the limit the car will feel great just like the Solstice does.

What sort of laps are you guys running on Silverstone btw? I hardly know the track and didn't spend more than a couple of laps trying to get around, but I thought I was doing a 1.50 at the end with some setup; I think I overwrote the original baseline setup, and I don't know how to revert it? Ah well, the Radical seems to control a bit odd under power, but I'll look into all of that tomorrow.

Meh, I'm totally done with the Skippy and Infineon Cup right now. My last 3 races were dreadful, and I can't drive as fast as I did yesterday - and every lap that I don't I become more and more frustrated. I'm not sure if it's the car or the track, but I'm missing 1% performance on my laptimes (when compared by calculating my solstice times vs Luke Mclean)

It's not so much the fact that I don't improve that bothers me, it's just that there is something about the combo that I don't 'get', something inexplicable that just annoys the living hell out of me

Whatever that is, I've been pushing myself too much (8h of practice yesterday, anyone?) and being too hard on myself; my pace is fine. It's probably just my attitude and ego that won't accept the fact that I can't drive a 1.24 yet.

Time to focus a bit on the fun week, I drove the Radical a bit and it seems like a lot of fun; if a bit understeery on power. I wish I could do setups ;D

My left hand has broken down - I'm out for today :P

I also got most of the road stuff I was missing, however I spent more time trying to break into the damn 1.24's. I don't even care how I do it anymore, it's just personal now - if there are people who can almost drive a 1.23 then I should be able to break into the 1.24's, but it's just not happening so far.

Perfect laps suddenly turn out to be 1.26es and horribly poorly driven laps are proper 1.25's. I know it's just me being paranoid, but it feels as if the game doesn't time fairly; I've done laps where I literally knew for sure that it was driven to the best of my ability, with a combination of all my skill and feel, and then it's just crushing to see that it's actually a high 1.25, when during a race I've driven a 1.25.2 when I had a terrible exit to the hairpin, and wasn't even trying to drive fast.

It's not just me overdriving too, I've tried taking it easy; it just makes me slower - it's witchcraft and is going to drive me absolutely nuts.

End of rant, normal service is resumed

Edit: just saw Huttu's 1.24.0xx, he just slides the car around everywhere, whereas I'm neat all the way through except the two snake-corners in the mid-section. I guess I'm just misjudging what the fastest way to drive is?

Last edited by Jertje, Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:22.

I really wouldn't worry about that too much, it sounds like a race-incident, and apparantly some people think that they can file protests for that. That system is only meant to pick out intentional wreckers, and they don't exist in iRacing as far as I know. At least I'd sure as hell not pay a monthly fee to drive backwards through traffic for shits and giggles

Hahaha, just had a very unfortunate race in a 2956 strength field - Alien city.

Started 7th, ended 7th and spent most of my time just hotlapping relentlessly - it paid off! I dropped my time from 25.5 to 25.4 to 25.2 in the race. I did have some spectacular near-crashes though, but the only driver behind me had jumped the start and he was a lap down due to the penalty, so I decided to just focus on face-ripping white-knuckle laps. Amusing to realise that the top 3 were driving almost a second per lap quicker though, and without breaking a sweat!

I don't have the radical yet, nor those tracks. Might look into it this weekend

Go for it woman! don't be left behind!

Quote from Crommi :

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Hmm, well first of all check if you have enough space on the drive you're recording to - although I suppose you did that already

Other than that, try to untick "No cursor" and try recording without sound and see if the same thing happens. I'm not really sure what else could cause those problems.

Also: thanks for the advice on the lap guys
In all honesty I'm not too fond of the first set of hilly corners - I had a lot of problems there at the start.

As a little bit of extra information: I use Huttu's set from redline, I think it's actually for Infineon full, but it seems to work. Tire pressures are quite low indeed, but I left them there, as well as everything else. I made the rear a bit softer when I started racing there, but now it's all back to full - it helps loads in the faster turns, but makes the car hard to control in the turns where I'm having problems.

Thanks again though, I'll see what I can manage when the service is back up.

Quote from Crommi :

Yea, it's only the web interface which is down. I just finished a race that started on 15:00 GMT

Anyways, I'm having some problems with Fraps. Everytime I start recording it crashes iRacing, I've tried uninstalling and changing settings with no success. I really wanted to save my first 1.25 lap around Infineon Cup, it was just awesome to finally break that barrier and even on replay I saw couple spots where I lost few tenths.

What are your system specs, and the settings for fraps?
Does it also do this for other applications?

To steal the main idea though, here's a lap I recorded during my practice after the website-shutdown:

http://blip.tv/file/1110397/

It's a mid 1.25, and my first lap under 1.25.7 (I did about 10 of those in one session, infuriatingly enough) however I don't know where I'm losing more than a second. I know that I messed up the hairpin slightly, and that some of my lines were not very smooth, but apart from that I'm not sure how some people can be driving 1.24.1 etc, can anyway tell me where I'm losing the most time? - I might just be missing something.

Raaaaage

I was nudging time off my pb constantly, this'll break my flow :>

Edit: if I go into offline practice now, the system won't kick me out, or?

Edit2: I win the game, I'm still in practice :P

Last edited by Jertje, Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:05.

Wow, that's actually true - you should get to 3.00 or higher fast man, there's only a couple of days left before the promotions are handed out - it's a long wait after that before the next promotions!

It would be a shame to be left behind in the rookie leagues with your pace

Quote from Linsen :

I'm in for a full year. And I agree, it's not a bargain, but it's a lot of fun and it doesn't hurt me to shell out 13$/month. I mean, I'm paying 10 times as much for the two daily newspapers I've subscribed to.

Same for me

I had a very uneventful first race in the skippy :\
I figure I'll need a lot of practice to be competitive for my current iRating, since I couldn't do much in this field of 24xx rating - I qualified 9th with 1.26 flat, and ended up on 8th position after a 0 incident race. It's very rare for people to crash out, so I have to work on my pace to keep up!

If anyone has access to a current-physics replay of a low 1.25 or even a 1.24, I'd appreciate it!, I find it hard to improve on certain bends.

Quote from Crommi :

Infineon is definately lots of fun, I've been driving almost non-stop. Too bad my results seem to rotate between top3 and last

Btw, just went past 1k laps milestone on road courses

1k laps? damn, nice job

It just looked to me as if something that 'fat' and high should never stick around bends like it did, almost as if it was defying physics. Great time!