Was a good learning experience for me actually racing the FO8 competively. Learned a lot, got to know the car a bit better and actually my pace wasn't too bad either.
I sadly made 2 stupid mistakes which were 100% my own fault (lap 1 Eau Rouge and lap 21 getting back to the safetycar) which forced me to make 2 pitstops. Luckilly this caused that I had fresh tires and was able to push quite hard, while the others were strugling with the cold tires. Made up a lot of places after the safetycar. Had great fun overtaking & fighting with some of you guys, loved the grip which offered me to take the long way around a couple of times which really had me thrilled.
Also 2nd to last lap a lag spike caused me to spin out at the same place Robin spun, due to a tire. Could've been in a better position if I had made fully advantage out of my P3 in qually, but sadly wasn't able to. Thank you guys for organizing this test race.
Are more comming before the first race of the season? I'd surely like to participate in them for a bit more experience with this car. Aswell as some people can show their sportmanship, if they have any, a bit more. Resulting in less crashes (didn't see them myself, all I saw were due to a mistake made by the driver himself).
Hope some of you guys enjoyed it as much as I did, had a blast! Thanks guys!
Send a message to Logitech about your problem, maybe they propose you te send your wheel to their factory for investigation. And you'll get a new one for free, eventhough it's out of the warranty period. Their warranty on the G-series Wheels is a lifetime. So I suggest going to Logitech instead of the shop you bought the weel. You'll get ge info about what you'll have to do when you get in the process .
This is what happenened with my G25 when it died, Had to send it to switzerland (40 euros) got back a brand new G27 delivered at my house, for free, 4days after I sent them my broken wheel .
I want to thank Framaris for making a great set ones again. Sadly we got a bit of engine damage so we weren't able to keep up our pace. Also some badluck with pressing buttons on the keyboard which got us 2 DT's but still, the race was quite allright !
It was my first 12hour race and it felt really special. It's really a challenge to keep concentrated and in the mean while motivate your team mates. Unbelievable experience.
Thank you guys for the great racing, and I hope to see you in other leagues! And maybe next season in GTAL!
This was our first league as Genuine Racing and my first ever league in LFS. I really enjoyed it and you will see a lot more from me in other leagues in the future.
Big thanks to Fram & Alan for all the sets and solutions to difficult problems. We were able to accomplish allot with friendship and teamwork. There was no single person in this team who did everything himself. We all did everything together and it feels awesome to be a part of such a great group of all dedicated racers. What can I say more, it has been an amazing road, with ups and downs but we always kept our motivation high and enjoyed every single bit of it eventho it wasn't always as easy as it seemed.
Big thanks to all the guys who put an effort into making this league a succes!
Have a good one guys! Sleep well and see you racing online!
teamName: Genuine Racing
number:23
car: FZR
drivers:
Framaris, François Maris, France
Gener_Al (UK), Alan Stables, England
Drifters Only, Robbin Heijerman, the Netherlands
Bossforce, Mocanu Virgil, Romania
23 Genuine Racing;François Maris, Alan Stables, Robbin Heijerman, Mocanu Virgil
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Reason : Added driver
I must say in the CTRA days I was just as often on the bump & jump server as I was on the STD server. So I'd really like to see the Bump & Jump back with car rotations (XRG - XFG - XRT - RB4).
It was so amusing and a great distraction from real racing from time to time. Is there anyway that this can be realized in the future of this concept? It would make me and others really happy!
Hmm interesting concept. If the original .exe will be used I might be in for this one. If these valuable prices include Fanatec or logitech G25/G27 racing wheels I'd definately be in because a team member definately needs a wheel since his old one broke down...
If you were hitting the pole all the time during practice you weren't bothering to change your line so it's your own problem if you hit it all the time IMO. I've been watching after myself for not hitting the pole and the chicane still feels good without cutting it. I don't see any problem in having the pole to stay.
teamName: Genuine Racing
number: 23
car: FZR
drivers:
Framaris, François Maris, France
jbiturbo, João Miranda, Portugal
Ceskomasai, Bernard Leclercq, France
Gener_AL (UK), Alan Stables, England
Drifters Only, Robbin Heijerman, the Netherlands
A3rox, Julien Schein, Belgium
23 Genuine Racing;François Maris, João Miranda, Bernard Leclercq, Alan Stables, Robbin Heijerman, Julien Schein
Last edited by Drifters Only, .
Reason : added driver
Points are a motivation for some drivers. I really couldn't care less if there were points to be given after a race but I do know that some people have great value in getting those. Specially the less experienced, but more motivated drivers.
If there were to be a points system I'd like it to be used to earn a cirtain rank, for example whe way it's ( or used to be ) in the FOX junkies server. At a cirtain rank you would be given access to another server with faster, more powerfull cars. This wil also filter out the less experienced drivers and will make for more clean racing on that server.
I also see a down side to this, which is that because the more experienced drivers will be on that other server the prime server will be less occupied which in turn will cause less people to join the server...
I think we'd have to experiment with cirtain things and find out what the best will be in the long term!
I know hitting a pole in your qually lap makes the lap invalid. Is hitting a pole concidered full on hitting a pole, or is nudging the pole slightly concidered hitting the pole already?
Also, are there any concequences for ramming the apex pole in the boothy chicane repetively during the race?