By the way:

A video containing some highlights of the 2009 iCON Touring Car Championship can be found here:

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1204389#post1204389

After some trouble I finally managed to finalize this small video showing some of the well known and less known highlights of the iCON Touring Car Championship 2009.

Download the video here:

http://n.ethz.ch/~dnovak/download/iTCC2009-muxed.zip

Alternatively there's a streaming version which you can find here (it likes to stall the CPU a bit for unknown reasons. The quality should be the same but it only has 30 FPS instead of 60):

http://n.ethz.ch/~dnovak/download/itcc.html

It was actually a pretty interesting race, considering only 2 FO8's were on track. Sorry for that bump Bambo and too bad you touched the grass at the end. It might've been a very exciting finish at the end. Next time I should deactivate the power-saving mechanism on my monitor. No idea why it suddenly went to a hibernating state

77
Hypothraxer
NDRC

Congratulations to all the winners! Although one winner is missing: The organizers!

I was wondering if you have to apply to this bump drafting - when someone came from behind he always chose the other car to bump leaving me in the dust, making me think that I forgot to pay my dues?

I'd like to thank Joe, Darren, Tom and all the others who were organizing this. I already knew that you guys are great but now a lot more people know, how amazing iCON racing is!

The qualifying was surprisingly good - the rest was pretty much the same old 'get sent to the back of the field' like in all rounds. But I can at least claim to have finished all races of the iTCC!

This round was a little more fun than the rally event in season 2 thanks to the safety car It's also a nice proof that you can overtake in rally cross without contact (I have no idea how we managed that Yann ).

It's a shame though that only so few bothered to show up.

77
Hypothraxer
NDRC
XFG

Quote from Joe_Keaveney :

Actually, if you look in the iTCC rulebook, David, you can't.

Yeah - for some reason I thought it is allowed to overtake once the green flag is up. I have no idea where I got that from but it's obviously my fault.

P.S.: We're derailing this thread

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsmanship



That and I was fairly certain that you can overtake before the finish-line. My mistake and hence the protest.

iTCC Protest

Your Name: David Novak

Your LFS Username: Hypothraxer

Protest Against: (LFS Username) Hypothraxer

Type of Protest - Unfair Overtake or whatever): Overtaking before the finish-line under green flag.

Description - Your opinion of what happened): I overtook L. De Jong at Race 2 before the finish-line at the end of the safety-car period.

Which Event / Session: (Quali or Race 1/2/3): Race 2

Attached Evidence - Attach your pictures, or other evidence: 5:13 into the replay of Race 2.

Honesty is hard to come by and much appreciated. Nevertheless, the crime was committed and Novak receives a warning

Last edited by Joe_Keaveney, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 22:10.

I think that was the best iTCC event I had so far. There were lots of great battles even in the back.
Sadly there was a lag incident with Gonçalves (I think) and me which sent us both spinning around. Sorry for that!

And for some reason I didn't manage to get good times after the shootout - even though I was using the same setup throughout the whole event.

@Jack: Good driving!

Car Number: 77
Driver's LFS UserName: Hypothraxer
Class (LFSBC or NDRC): NDRC

We clearly need more iCON cars!

Something completely different:

Does anyone have a nice setup to share? :b I don't want to crawl again with super-low speed

Quote from Rudy van Buren :

14-3 here, but 3 more rear wing has quite a big diference

My guess is that there was a lot more wrong than just the downforce. If you want to have a laugh - try it. I've attached it (1:39.19 being the best).

It's also possible that my driving was just awful - who knows

The penalty on the XFR was probably too high. As can be seen, there was almost no advantage in the top-speed department

Quote from Rikje :

how much downforce were you running then?

I remember it to be 14/6. However grip wasn't really good with that one to be honest.

The combo didn't work for me. I was under the impression that everyone else was doing about 3 - 5 km/h more on the straights than I did. The best part was, when I was at the edge of one's slipstream and he then just pulled away.

So either my setup was really awful or I was racing with more intake-restriction than anyone else - I'm in favor of the first one.

The qualification was surprisingly good (my first pole in a million years). The race was rather bad. Apparently the fuel caused the car to become really sluggish which pretty much only allow mid to low 34's. And at the end the tires seemed to be a bit squishy (even though they never went over 85°).

Too bad there weren't many people there - it might've been fun. Generally - with a little more tweaking it could be an interesting league on its own.

Hey Tim

Try this one. It's possible to do mid 1:33's with 17 kg ballast. You might want to adjust tire pressure and brake balance (I'd reduce the braking power and the balance to the back to not heat up the tires too much in the hairpin). Good luck

Quote from CSF :

I know the set I am running can go into the mid 32s... but can I get there?

Send it to me and I'll test it for you!

I'm running high 33's with ballast in a XFR. Probably wrong car but I'm not really faster in the UFR either most probably due to my horrible setup. Any setups?