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29, Axel Falck, MonkeyHead, CoRe Racing

04/MonkeyHead/Axel Falck/Finland/CoRe Racing

Your Name: Axel Falck
Your LFS Licence: MonkeyHead
Team Name: CoRe Racing
Driver Number: 29
Car Selection: FZR
Nation: Finland

I have to say one more reason why these programs hurt league racing so much is that the best drivers I have seen there are often able to reach quite close to optimum laptimes of their setup after only about 50 laps of practice and that's why racing is more like setup making competition sometimes and that's what makes it interesting.

I don't understand what does that have to do with ego if people want to have own private setups. It's part of racing, even i don't want to be able to get my opponents setups but now when there is a chance, of course I use it because they do the same towards me, and this has happened already. It would be cool if setup making remains as part of racing so I really hope you will find a better solution to this problem.

Quote from bishtop :

setup is only a fraction of the overall performance of the racer.I see it all the time on on the demo servers when someone does a good time and then people start asking for the setup and they still drive as bad/same as previously

It does on the odd occassions help the driver if they were previously using a setup that setup totally wrong

Well you are right in that but only if we are talking about hotlap setups. But those tenths you can find by using faster setup (in hotlapping) are also important sometimes, specially in demo. I believe the current bl1+fbm WR would be quite hard to beat with bawbag's ex WR setup for example. On s2 tracks the margins are typically bigger because the setups aren't that close to perfect yet of course.

Last edited by MonkeyHead, Thu, 26 Jun 2014 21:38.

Quote from Forbin :

Do you not think everyone will tend towards the same, optimal strategies over time anyway? Even without having the same setup, teams tend to watch what the winning teams do and attempt to emulate them.

Yeah of course that happens but there are also often many good strategies that may work as well but why would anyone try to do major changes to their (stolen) setup and strategy if they already have one that is proven to work well. Some years ago I found often different strategies and it was also easy to notice that top teams had significantly different setups in every race, nowadays everybody are doing the same thing and it's just a bit boring.

Quote :

Evidence? Even if they did gain an advantage...

Evidence: Try to drive oval with minimum wings and then try again with maximum wings, are you still able to drive same laptimes?

So yeah, setups can be important and there are many reasons why it hurts league racing that much. Some of them were mentioned above already but also it becomes more interesting when there are more drivers/teams with different setups and different strategies but nowadays it's often so that everyone just steals the best available setup and maybe does some small changes to make the setup fit theirself and everybody got the same strategies.

By the way, making setup stealing impossible would be cool fix for the next patch if it doesn't take too much effort.

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Session of Incident (Official Sessions for Round 5: Qualifying 1, Qualifying 2, Race): Race
Lap AND MPR timecode of incident (or session time or UTC Time of Day): GT2 Start, Lap 1
Car(s) involved: 54, 77
Location of Incident (Track Map Here): SC1 last turn
Brief Description of Incident: 54 pushes 77 out of the track. This made 77 loose many positions and a lot of time and almost caused a huge crash.

Last edited by MonkeyHead, Sun, 9 Feb 2014 15:51.

Welcome!

R.i.p

I believe there would be still quite okay competition and participation if the GTR races would be just single events instead of series, at least the team races. And I don't know are multiclass events possible anymore in future :/

Your Name: Axel Falck
Your LFS Username: MonkeyHead
Team Name: CoRe Racing
Driver Number: 33
Car Selection: XRR
Nation: Finland

Welcome!

Quote from MonkeyHead :

teamName: CoRe Racing
attending: Yes
class: GT2
car: XRR
number: 77
drivers:
- {FL4SH-, Toni Lähteenmäki, Finland}
- {MonkeyHead, Axel Falck, Finland}
- {Yuusei, Joe Letteriello, USA}

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29, MonkeyHead

Name: Axel Falck
LFSW-Name: MonkeyHead
Team Name: CoRe Racing
Number: 29
Nation: Finland

teamName: CoRe Racing
attending: Yes
class: GT2
car: XRR
number: 77
drivers:
- {FL4SH-, Toni Lähteenmäki, Finland}
- {MonkeyHead, Axel Falck, Finland}
- {Yuusei, Joe Letteriello, USA}

Last edited by MonkeyHead, Sat, 23 Nov 2013 13:43.

password pls

Last edited by MonkeyHead, Sun, 17 Nov 2013 18:54. Reason : I don't have it :(

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