I'm just not interested in LFS anymore even if it is cheaper and rFactor's crap. So regarding the sims, and ignoring the money side of it, iRacing just has a more complete package imho.
It doesnt have the same independently organized league atmosphere that LFS has but that's not very important to me.
Sure, there's plenty of flaws. But the flaws within LFS and rFactor are much more glaring than iRacing atm and iRacing is currently the only sim that is moving forward. Maybe not necessarily in the direction that some may want...but it's atleast moving. Which is more than I can say for LFS and rF.
rFactor 2 with it's dynamic weather feature might actually turn out to be pretty good and I'd gladly drop my iRacing subscription if rFactor 2 turns out to have a more complete package or if LFS ever gets out of this deadlock it's in right now. But atm.
Out of LFS, rFactor, and iRacing. I would much prefer to stay in iRacing if I have the money to pay for it and i do atm
It doesnt have the same independently organized league atmosphere that LFS has but that's not very important to me.
Sure, there's plenty of flaws. But the flaws within LFS and rFactor are much more glaring than iRacing atm and iRacing is currently the only sim that is moving forward. Maybe not necessarily in the direction that some may want...but it's atleast moving. Which is more than I can say for LFS and rF.
rFactor 2 with it's dynamic weather feature might actually turn out to be pretty good and I'd gladly drop my iRacing subscription if rFactor 2 turns out to have a more complete package or if LFS ever gets out of this deadlock it's in right now. But atm.
Out of LFS, rFactor, and iRacing. I would much prefer to stay in iRacing if I have the money to pay for it and i do atm
I dont know, I sorta disagree that the excitement isnt there. Trying your absolute best to bring your SR up in races adds a lot of stress to me especially when I'm in a pack or racing hard for the lead.
What makes it worse is that I'm not exactly the most consistent guy either so throughout the race I've gripped my wheel harder than I ever did in LFS or rFactor. Plus the higher ups like class Cs and onward has some very compelling competition.
I just got my Class B road course license in iRacing so I'm fairly pleased. I'm starting to see some flaws within the game itself but for now I'm still very very happy.
After all I only bought iRacing about 3 weeks ago.
But I'm starting to see the argument of "It's not worth all that money" as something very valid. Especially if you have to keep paying for each new content added and a lot of the physics is still a problem. The V8 Supercar and Phillip Island has already got me very invested in iRacing so I might keep renewing my subscription after my $5 month is up. I guess I can only hope that iRacing will start getting better rather than turning stagnent
After all I only bought iRacing about 3 weeks ago.
But I'm starting to see the argument of "It's not worth all that money" as something very valid. Especially if you have to keep paying for each new content added and a lot of the physics is still a problem. The V8 Supercar and Phillip Island has already got me very invested in iRacing so I might keep renewing my subscription after my $5 month is up. I guess I can only hope that iRacing will start getting better rather than turning stagnent
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IDK I had some very very good close racing in the solstice without experiencing any unreasonable collisions.
Going into T1 at Lime rock park I went there 3 wide and none of us came out of it with a collision (granted someone spun out from going to fast and too low but that was from the kerbs more than a collision)
Going into T1 at Lime rock park I went there 3 wide and none of us came out of it with a collision (granted someone spun out from going to fast and too low but that was from the kerbs more than a collision)
Just got iRacing 2 days ago. I have to say...the SR is retarded...
I worked to get from 2.5 to 2.7 then a wrecker comes in the session...literally takes out EVERYONE and even drives backwards. Dropped me down to 2.3
I hate how you get penalized for things that aren't your fault....I hope the higher ups are better...
But so far...I'M LOVING IRACING. I canceled my Xbox live account just so I can replace it with iR. I'm also noticing a lot of LFS names in the random ticker
I worked to get from 2.5 to 2.7 then a wrecker comes in the session...literally takes out EVERYONE and even drives backwards. Dropped me down to 2.3
I hate how you get penalized for things that aren't your fault....I hope the higher ups are better...
But so far...I'M LOVING IRACING. I canceled my Xbox live account just so I can replace it with iR. I'm also noticing a lot of LFS names in the random ticker
Wait wait wait......
USF1:
Scott Speed
Ashley Force
Test Driver:
Will Power
Both indy races and it appears that the user will broadcast the full season: http://www.youtube.com/user/sphaera666
The USF1 that could have been:
USF1:
Will Power
Scott Speed
omg...that sounds like a saturday cartoon LOL
I've always liked the "centralized" atmosphere of LFS leagues. It's always made it easier to organize and keep track of leagues. I would love to see a site where LFS leagues would be organized
Terry Labonte is a Sebring winner.
They are there sometimes.
I know most of them do the 24h of Daytona and that's it and sometime times you'll see them in Sebring races as well
Cant wait for IndyCar today...but to those who missed the last race:
http://www.youtube.com/user/sphaera666
http://www.youtube.com/user/sphaera666
They can have headlights tho. The IROC cars had headlights and raced in the dark/rain.
Dont really see a problem with either headlights or wings All that would do is make the stock cars look a little more GT. But I dont see anything wrong with that as well
Dont really see a problem with either headlights or wings
All that would do is make the stock cars look a little more GT. But I dont see anything wrong with that as wellYeah...he wasnt horrible like Ricardo Rosset Alex Yoong or Yuji Ide. But he was horribly mediocre.
I dont think he's a bad driver, but he's probably not fit for F1. Maybe closed wheel touring car/GT/Stock cars would be more his cup of tea.
Still...a points score is a points score tho...
He made some headlines when he was in A1GP. But beyond that his open wheel career has pretty much sucked after F1. I'm surprised he didnt jump into IndyCar or V8s as rumors had him.
Sato had the right idea...but it looks like Karthikeyan wanted to try something else. I dont think he's tried Endurance GT racing yet but oh well. The NASCAR guys does ALMS too so he might be there as well.
Also the first indian to score points will still turn a few heads....even if it is more on technicality than actual skill
Is the stream available on demand?
Narain Karthikeyan to NASCAR
There has been millions of rumors spreading about regarding Narain moving from Open wheel to either Touring Car (V8 Supercar) or stock car (ARCA/NASCAR)
It has just been confirmed that Karthikeyan will drive at Martinsville this weekend in NASCAR
http://www.nascar.com/2010/new ... r.nascar.debut/index.html
It has just been confirmed that Karthikeyan will drive at Martinsville this weekend in NASCAR
http://www.nascar.com/2010/new ... r.nascar.debut/index.html
Updated
(lizardfolk's only doing oval races)
yeh forgot about that. But I think ARCA races with a 41 size grid. So I'm fine with either one.
Can you imagine if today's field would be 43 cars?
*waits for LFS grid to expand to 43 cars*
EDIT: Some incidents have been brought up to light. Again I was very very aggressive in the race but didnt cause anything except two incidents.
Incident 1: Sorry Niko and Sean, just got loose. I didnt barrel into you as Sean suggested over vent. If I did the three of us wouldn't have made it out of there pointing straight. Although it was fantastic driving by Niko and Sean to come out of my mistake relatively unscathed.
Incident 2: (The first big one) A lot of people didnt realize that the wind conditions made T3 very different. Thanks to Havoc, I came into this race expecting to be able to take T3 full throttle and I did. The result worked wonders. Went from 20th to 7th in the beginning green flag laps. Was able to catch large drafting packs easily just by flooring it in T3. Because of this, I expected to be able to go low and make it through as well. Unfortunately this wasnt the case as I quickly drifted up after hitting the T3 kink. I did my best to save it and I didnt spin or turn into the outside wall. But I ran out of space when Elliot started coming down out of his T3 run.
He didnt do anything wrong, any fault for that incident is on me. I out drove myself and should probably have avoided trying a Sato maneuver with so many cars around me. Had Elliot been further up in T3 I would have been fine. It was just a clip but that clip was enough to send my semi swerving car around. The field piled in after that. But no one retired and we continued fine.
Incident 3: (My retirement) I had watched the replay and this incident was in no way my fault at all. The restart was good. Was passing cars left and right again as well as utilizing the new T3 conditions to just blow by a few slow cars. Got up to a pack with Bean0 and Firebee. Bean0 lost it going high in T3 and came down right into me. I didn't touch Bean0. He just lost it on his own in front of me which sent me sliding (again) in T3 and on to my retirement.
Overall my race was basically 30 laps. Out of all of the incidents that happened I had only caused 2 at the very beginning. I1 was just a mistake. I2 was just me over driving and after that I told myself that I would never try that again (and I didnt). Who would have thought that I wouldn't better my K250 finish of 25th as a DNF (which was also not my fault)
EDIT: Some incidents have been brought up to light. Again I was very very aggressive in the race but didnt cause anything except two incidents.
Incident 1: Sorry Niko and Sean, just got loose. I didnt barrel into you as Sean suggested over vent. If I did the three of us wouldn't have made it out of there pointing straight. Although it was fantastic driving by Niko and Sean to come out of my mistake relatively unscathed.
Incident 2: (The first big one) A lot of people didnt realize that the wind conditions made T3 very different. Thanks to Havoc, I came into this race expecting to be able to take T3 full throttle and I did. The result worked wonders. Went from 20th to 7th in the beginning green flag laps. Was able to catch large drafting packs easily just by flooring it in T3. Because of this, I expected to be able to go low and make it through as well. Unfortunately this wasnt the case as I quickly drifted up after hitting the T3 kink. I did my best to save it and I didnt spin or turn into the outside wall. But I ran out of space when Elliot started coming down out of his T3 run.
He didnt do anything wrong, any fault for that incident is on me. I out drove myself and should probably have avoided trying a Sato maneuver with so many cars around me. Had Elliot been further up in T3 I would have been fine. It was just a clip but that clip was enough to send my semi swerving car around. The field piled in after that. But no one retired and we continued fine.
Incident 3: (My retirement) I had watched the replay and this incident was in no way my fault at all. The restart was good. Was passing cars left and right again as well as utilizing the new T3 conditions to just blow by a few slow cars. Got up to a pack with Bean0 and Firebee. Bean0 lost it going high in T3 and came down right into me. I didn't touch Bean0. He just lost it on his own in front of me which sent me sliding (again) in T3 and on to my retirement.
Overall my race was basically 30 laps. Out of all of the incidents that happened I had only caused 2 at the very beginning. I1 was just a mistake. I2 was just me over driving and after that I told myself that I would never try that again (and I didnt). Who would have thought that I wouldn't better my K250 finish of 25th as a DNF (which was also not my fault)
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Just a confirmation 10:00 AM PST is 1:00 Eastern right?
What I meant by that was the way the wind was set up it was possible to just floor it through T3 (which a lot of ppl didnt realize early in the race). It's how I was able to keep catching the draft packs throughout the first 30 laps and go from 20th up to 7th. So because of that, I thought I was able to do the same thing going low and I basically just floored it and expected the be able to make the turn. The problem was my tires were already too hot and the T3 kink just basically shot me up the track. Yeh, being around ovals for so long I probably should have known better than to do a Sato move. But I just decided anyways as I wanted to be up as high as possible as early as possible. The incident wasnt a race breaker for me. In fact that pile up actually help me get into a better position strategy wise (had there been not as many cautions).
The second incident is what threw me out, and I will stand by my statement that the second caution wasnt my fault
Elliot didnt do anything wrong, if he was a bit higher it would have been fine. But he wasnt and it was my fault for out driving myself in T3.
I've already accepted that the accident was my fault. Wasnt saying it was because of the wind or because of anything else so there's no need to get defensive about my statement
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I have to apologize for the rash driving that caused the first big pile up. Went deep in T3 and did my best to stay away from Southerton but he came down a bit and I almost made it but the tap sent me around. Dont know how the rest of the field piled in as i cranked it down to the inside, but it was my fault and I am sorry
But the second incident was I think Baker getting loose and just collecting me. I didnt hit him and did my best to avoid it but didnt work out. Was in the perfect scenario tho...pitted lap 30, full fuel and fresh tires..would have made it all the way if it went green from then on.
The Kyoto 500 has got to be better...
But the second incident was I think Baker getting loose and just collecting me. I didnt hit him and did my best to avoid it but didnt work out. Was in the perfect scenario tho...pitted lap 30, full fuel and fresh tires..would have made it all the way if it went green from then on.
The Kyoto 500 has got to be better...
+1
I would like to apologize for that big one. That was completely my fault just got too hot in T3 with the wind. Tried to stay off the #102 but a small clip send me around.
Pitted at lap 30. Changed tires, filled up with fuel and was good to go all the way. Then T3 again, but a concept car got loose and collected me and threw me off...
Had a car that really worked for me too this year
I think oval indy races are great. However...indy has been going to some soulless cookie cutter ovals in recent years. But a lot of indy's greatest memories were on ovals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnGDduhmBhk
I say...keep the same number of ovals. Swap out some of the boring ovals and bring in some of the better ones (California, Michigan, and Kansas would be nice, definitely keep chicagoland) but slashing them isn't a good idea imho. Surfers would be fantastic tho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnGDduhmBhk
I say...keep the same number of ovals. Swap out some of the boring ovals and bring in some of the better ones (California, Michigan, and Kansas would be nice, definitely keep chicagoland) but slashing them isn't a good idea imho. Surfers would be fantastic tho
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