I'm glad that Heikki finally got his pole and you could definately tell that he was excited about it.

Edit: Deggis, think we should nickname him to "Bob" so it's easier to remember for those foreigners?

Last edited by Crommi, Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:36.

When you have dad as a manager, I imagine it could be difficult to fire him. :slap:

Quote from Jertje :

Hmmm, I've got a question.

Under my career it now says I am in division 1 of the solstice summer c series, uhhh does this mean that I'm in the same boat as the top 25 racers for my second race? a bit too soon if that's the case

The whole series system is a bit confusing still...

Solstice Summer season 12 weeks long and it's split into three 4 week series called A, B and C.

Well, I wouldn't go into stereotypics but it's just the effect of having oval racers trying out road racing and vice versa. Road races consider this as an successor to GPL and oval guys see it as step forward from NR2003.

I think the reason for some of backmarker problems is that the racing code seems to be different in ovals. On road races you're expected to let faster guy pass but in ovals I've been instructed to just hold my line, faster guy should be able to make the pass if he is truly faster than you. To me this just seem taking an extra risk where lapper needs to take extra risk for nothing and I usually run wide to let the guy take inside line.

Got my thumbs up for Heikki.

Quote from Linsen :

On a different note: I had my first race at Laguna Seca last night and found out that the steady 60fps I got in offline practice (with vsync on) were absolutely no indication for the fps during the race. I got terrible jumps from 60 down to 30 all the time (due to triple buffering, I suppose). That really made my race a little more challenging than necessary.

I assume that's kind of stuttering effect you get in certain corners, I had that in Silverstone which was completely unplayable (I could barely make it out of the pits).

Here's what I did:
-Find a spot where the stuttering/slow-down is worst.
-Set graphics to minimum with the adjustment slider.
-Start increasing settings one at the time to figure out which option is causing these problems.
-Have patience, you need to restart sim after each change.
-Do not touch FPS limit or v-sync settings just yet (explanation below)

PS. I did this for Silverstone and unless there's some hidden variables tied to graphics slider which are not accessible through UI, only thing that I had to change was setting FPS limit to 51 with no v-sync or triple-buffering. Rest of the settings are the same as ever, max details with no interior shadows.

The way I see it, they got good solid base to build on. It still lacks features here and there but those shouldn't be too hard to add down by the road.

Quote from Gil07 :

First race starting now... let's see

Okay, let's place bets. Is it road or oval race?
Road = 15x incidents, finish in 10th
Oval = 8x incidents, finish 8th

Last edited by Crommi, Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:00. Reason : Added smiley to let you know I'm just kidding with you :)

Just for heads up, regarding first licence advancement:

Quote :

2.4.3.Sessions must be completed in series that match the driver’s current highest license level in order to complete the minimum participation requirement for promotion to the next license level. Participation in lower-license-level sessions will not count.

-Are the Advanced Solstace and Advanced Coupe higher class than the Rookie versions, or are we ok to just have our minimum races in the Rookie cars?

Quote :

You need to complete the minimum requirements for the Advanced Solstice car to move up to a Class D license.

Nim Cross Jr

In short: You need to run minimum of two races or four time-trials in Advanved series to be eligible for next license. This applies to both road and oval.

Difference between Rookie and Advanced solstice is that Rookie version is fixed setup. I'm not 100% sure about suspension but Advanced does feel sharper and seems to have much sharper turn-in even with untouched setup.

Edit: Oh lol, I cannot even read anymore...

Last edited by Crommi, Thu, 3 Jul 2008 00:26.

Races start at even hours and you can only sign-up 30mins in advance. Most people don't join until very last minute so they can run solo practise, time-trial or qualify before the start. +-100 signups is not uncommon during evening.

It's definately for everyone. If you love racing in private leagues or short 3-10lap races whenever you want, I would say that you won't like iRacing. Neither does it have anykind of cruising, drifting or car-park action for just messing around when you're not up for serious racing.

Also the whole "serious" atmosphere might be offputting for some.

Driving feel was quite easy to get used to coming from LFS/GTR2 backround and I'm already getting solid top-3 finishes.

Last edited by Crommi, Wed, 2 Jul 2008 22:10.

Another day, another accident for our good boy Lewis.
This time he's been trashing his kayak and turned up in Reebok sponsorship event posing with bruised lip.

I'm impatiently waiting for next week... I've never liked Laguna Seca and now I already hate that god damn track

Peeps who are still missing out, go check your mailbox.

Check your mailbox if you have signed up for iRacing.com mailing list, new wave of invites were sent out today it seems.

Quote from danowat :

Gone quite quiet hasn't he.........hmm.........I am sure if he hated it he would be most vocal

Looked up his profile and he hasn't even touched it yet

Last edited by Crommi, Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:41.

I don't really understand why people have to defend their decision of subscribing to iRacing. For me it's definately worth the money and it even managed to make me fall in love with ovals.

You could make same comparison saying that G25 is overpriced when DFP has almost the same features. It's just about how much are you willing to interest in your hobby.

Looks like small Peugeot.

Exact reason why I gave up with rFactor was that first I'd need to crawl through all the junk to find a mod that sounds interesting, then download it and discover that it feels like driving a flying saucer. Then spend rest of my sanity in browsing through intertubes to find some info on how to actually make it feel good. If I manage to make it through all that notepad nightmare, I could finally fire up rFactor and start searching for online session to race other people, only to find out that nobody else likes that mod or is using wrong version.

After few laps I realise how boring it is to drive alone and go cry in corner for all that time wasted.

Quote from Mazz4200 :

Still not convinced about teh Oi-vals though, just think you guys havn't been getting enough sleep recently.

You..have..no..idea.....25mins until next race... :hypnotize

Quote from StableX :

I've never been an oval fan, though my experience is predominantly from LFS only. The Legend Advanced a real hoot and great fun on the shorter tracks. GIven the choice of the skippy or the late model to try next, I really can't choose as driving oval has been loads of fun in iRacing!

Same here, I've been one of those "Oval is for those who get lost easily"-guys before but I'm actually having far more fun racing Legends than Solstice. Considering I've never done any oval racing before, I'm doing pretty good aswell, just had my second win and I'm slowly learning how much strategy there actually is in so simple looking tracks.

Current South Boston PB: 18.096
Oval SR 4.96

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Can someone post a screenshot of the Solstice interior, i'm curious how it looks compared to LFS cockpits

There you go, dynamic interior shadows really add to immersion if your computer can handle them. Shots taken at 1280x960 resolution.

Quote from OldBloke :

My understanding is that the intial round of invites has now closed and that you need to register on the iRacing website to have a chance of being in the next round.

Quote :

The first wave was mainly the people the beta testers invited. The second (coming within days) will be a more general list and will include people from the mailing list. The invitations come from iRacing.

-Tim Wheatley

Quote: http://forum.racesimcentral.com/showthread.php?t=323043

Last edited by Crommi, Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:27. Reason : Found answer from RSC

Avatars are overrated, especially ones with hot ladies.... makes me distracted and forget what I was supposed to say.