Remember when they changed the legendary Hockenheim track with its long straights and draft battles, shortcutted it to look like any other Race track. Now its Spa's turn:

The very fast left Pouhon, Fagnes combination Stavelot and the great very fast Blanchimont are out.


Spa today:




Spa in the future:



http://www.motorsport-total.co ... ps_gekuerzt_08083107.html

http://f1-club.be/nieuws/verslag.php?id=2099

1st (Drivers who most likely can deliver Championships)

Alonso
Hamilton
Massa
Heidfeld
Bourdais

2nd

Kimi
Trulli
Webber
Kovalainen
Vettel

3rd
Glock
Kubica
Button
Rosberg
Barrichello

4th
Sutil
Piquet
Coulthard
Nakajima

Last edited by George Kuyumji, Sun 31 Aug 2008, 13:41.

Yeah impressive lap Dave. That is the 2nd fastest lap of the week, more then half a second faster then AJ Allmendinger

This is Greger Huttus Setup.

Use the Gas to stabilise the car under braking.

Spanks that Video reminded me of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srkiYbwnXWY

Gotta love that accent

Napalm where did you dig that thread out? There's a perfectly fine iRacing Thread here. Could someone lock this one. No more PMs, iRacing is released

It is a boring track. Kubica and Sutil also had the guts to speak out and say they were underwhelmed because of the huge run off areas and because its not really a street circuit. It would have been awesome if they would have let the cars run threw the streets of Valencia, aiming the car to the walls like they do in Monco, Detroit, Long Beach... but in Valencia they put curbs way infront of all walls, that is so dull. Imagine they would move all the barriers in Monaco 1 meter back and put curbs were the walls have been, all the excitement and quarakter of the track would be gone. In Valencia, they just done that.

If they would have let the cars close to the wall and the road follow the scenery it would have been exciting.

But they decided to put curbs 1 to 3 meters infront of every wall, and instead of making the track following the scenery they painted white lines randomly over what seems to be parking lots. Add to that the restriction of using all the width of the track by adding useless curbs very early at the exit of the turns and 2nd gear left / right combinations. What were they thinking, how the hell should that be exciting?

This Track will never be a Monte Carlo, Long Beach, Detroit, or a Montreal.

I also stay in 4th at the uphill and westbank, I just slightly tab the brake before the turn to make the front wheels turn in but stay on the throttle all the time

A lap at Bristol

http://uploaded.to/?id=yebxzu

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

EDIT: Just finished 2nd with 0 incidents 8 seconds behind a Class C driver, but I nearly spun at one point and dropped to 5th. Big suprise afterwards, because my safety rating went up from 3.99 to 4.47!

Your not confusing safety rating with iRating? They are completely seperate. iRating shows your performance/speed skills, safety rating is to show your car control.
You get promoted to faster cars with a good safety rating and a minimum of participation, the iRating doesnt affect your license / class level

You could have 20 incidents in one race and still win iRatings, iRating and safety rating dont affect each other.

Which car in iRacing feels most like it could be LFS? For me its the Legends car on a Road Course. Feels close to LFS driving feeling wise, also the Formula Mazda feels closer to LFS then any other Sims.

Quote from titanLS :

Did I read somewhere that it's not two wheels off that'll give you points, it's putting the centerline of the car off? Seems to me I can drop two wheels ever so slightly in spots without getting points.

There was endless discussion and tweaking in the beta phase. First the limit was 4 wheels off, people cutted corners, then it was 2 wheels off, people complained alot, then they changed it to centerpoint of the car is the edge.
At the beginning it might piss you off but after a while you will see 2 or 3 incident points per race are not that big of a deal and the Safety Rating will climb if you dont collect alot more incident points.

Quote from jasonmatthews :

They could do with highlighting the name when someone in your friends list is on the server. I have added a load of you but can't remember all your names

That would be nice and might be easy to add. Suggest it in the iRacing Feedback Forum too, devs will read it there and might include it in the next updates.

Last edited by George Kuyumji, Sat 16 Aug 2008, 01:05.

From the member site

Quote :

General Launch Date Announced!

After pledging to launch the iRacing.com service to the general public before the end of the summer, we're pleased to be able to add a specific date and time to our promise. As of 12:00 pm EST (18:00 GMT) August 26, 2008, iRacing.com will be available to racers everywhere who want to take advantage of simulation technology for training purposes, compete in the newest branch of motorsport - internet racing - and join our growing global community.

Because our public Web site (www.iRacing.com) is the only way to subscribe to our service, we've added a countdown clock to the home page to highlight the moment when our storefront will open its doors.

In addition to the countdown timer, we've added a Testimonial page to the public site, on which you'll find comments about iRacing from a variety of professional racers and other prominent figures in motorsport. We'll be adding to this collection of quotes frequently. And there are some other improvements to the members' and public sites that will follow along shortly.

This is an exciting time for all of us at iRacing.com. While development will, of course, continue unabated, August 26 will mark the culmination of years of hard work and the realization of our collective vision for this sport. We're thrilled to share this moment with all of you, our former alpha and beta testers and our pre-launch members, who have helped us reach this momentous occasion. This is only the beginning ...

Reminder! Please remember the August 29th Annual Subscription Bonus Program. All members with one-year subscriptions in place as of midnight GMT on that date will receive an additional $15 iRacing credit (on top of the $60 iRacing credit that you normally receive with the purchase of an annual subscription). For full information on this Bonus Program, please see the related post in the iRacing.com Announcements section of the member forums.

Quote from Jertje :

I think Road America and Silverstone are currently the most demanding tracks for a lot of machines. I personally don't notice any performance dips anywhere, so I guess I'm lucky

most demanding tracks for a lot of machines? True, but Long Beach is still in the pipeline

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byYr06PN2f4

Last edited by George Kuyumji, Sun 10 Aug 2008, 21:50.

Quote from JJ72 :

Stupidity on my part, I assumed that it's hardcore no mercy land and retired.

My feeling the shutter is a bit sound card related, sometimes i get shutters like this in games with lots of effects, it's an onboard card and maybe it ran out of juice. all i remembered was a green car catching up underbraking.

Maybe there are programs running in the Windows background causing stutters in the game. You can use enditall2 to close them before Racing. It could help.

http://www.docsdownloads.com/Tier1/enditall.htm

There was a discussion in the iR Forums about how the developers interact with the community and implement/change things the members ask for, and one of the iR devs Grant Reeve seems to be a LFS Fan...

"Don't forget the LFS guys - if there was ever a sim written purely for the community then that is it. Who else would ever bother implementing an autocross mode? (I'm an autocrosser - huge kudos from me for that)."

Quote from Nick A :

I'm not really enjoying the Legends car. It is a thrill to drive in some respects because it's pretty twitchy but I don't seem to be able to find a rhythm in it. I don't think I'll be driving it again, especially because I find the Solstice feels very realistic which gets me really immersed in the game. I think if I was American and understood what the Legends is about I would enjoy it more, but as it is I can relate to the Solstice so much better.

I love the Legends car on Road Tracks, I think they race them in the UK too. It is very light and twitchy to drive, from the onboard cameras you see drivers having there hands full. I try to brake with a little bit of throttle, then turn in alot, almost throw it into the corner, then let it settle a bit, keep a smooth line into the corner, steer the car out of the corner with the throttle, sometimes four wheel drift out of it like this guy

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MvIosHMhhGs

Quote from Crommi :

40 cars + no rating penalty = http://www.vimeo.com/1414564

So, I think we can all agree that Safety Ratings are a good thing?

Please file a Report. That guy needs to be banned

Quote from evilpimp :

dawesdust_12
No longer welcome

=/ I'm just wondering, does iRacing feel a bit like nKpro? Because from the video's, the skip barber looks kind of like nKpro's Formula 1600 in terms of handling.

I think so, the skip barber reminds one of netkarPro, the Legends car has a taste of LFS feeling

That was a nice read spanks, how was your first Race on an Oval?

Quote from evilpimp :

xD I'm still hesitating between getting a month and try it first or getting 3 months or 6 months and buy a skip barber with the cash they give u lol.

If you buy more things at once you get a discount so you may want to wait, Sebring should be released soon and "hopefully" Long Beach after that.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

So we take to the streets and whine in their forums, not ours.

Indeed, it is good to post complaints and improvement suggestions in the iRacing members Feedback forum aswell, the devs do post over there and are open for constructive criticism.

By the way the edge for the cutting corner rule is when you have more then half of the car off the track or off the curb. And you can clear the "slow down" penalty by slowing down for a second or two after a minute later aswell, if you cutted in the corkscrew you don't need to lift off immediately after the corner.

Quote from Jonesy_ :

Anyone has any idea of the following:

When I don't continue my subscription after this initial month, does my account get deleted or does it remain stored and the ratings and such stay as they are if I choose to re subscribe at another time?

If you stop your subscription, all your stats, cars and tracks will remain until you come back.

Quote from Jonesy_ :

58.186 was made by greger huttu on the skip barber's seasons first week, but I belive that wasn't with the latest build, but should give somekind of a guideline.

And get your msn on too f00!

There has been 2 physics updates this month, the times are not comparable.