What's your favourite racing moment from the 2021 GT2 Challenge? Drop your most memorable ones in the comments with :

Round Number :
Lap/MPR Timestamp :
Driver(s) involved :
Type (optional) : Battle, crash, rescue etc.

It can be a feature of yourself, someone else, or a funny moment! And they might just end up on the Season montage reel. Good luck, and happy searching!

Last edited by MicroSpecV, Wed 7 Apr 2021, 01:38.

Skin for #88 Pixle Air Attack Racing for Round 0a Aston Enduro

If unable to download, https://imgur.com/a/Nqi5C88

Skinname XRR_pixleenduro

Quote from MicroSpecV :

teamName: Pixle Air Attack Racing
teamManager: {microspecv, Sean Lee}
teamViceManagers:
- {laoz, Simas Tautkevičius}
drivers:
- {microspecv, Sean Lee, Singapore}
- {laoz, Simas Tautkevičius, Lithuania}
- {Alireza d1, Alireza Ebrahimian, Iran}
- {rkoots, Reno Kööts, Estonia}
car: XRR
number: 88

ADD driver {rkoots, Reno Kööts, Estonia}

Quote from MicroSpecV :

teamName: Pixle Air Attack Racing
teamManager: {microspecv, Sean Lee}
teamViceManagers:
- {laoz, Simas Tautkevičius}

drivers:
- {microspecv, Sean Lee, Singapore}
- {laoz, Simas Tautkevičius, Lithuania}
- {Alireza d1, Alireza Ebrahimian, Iran}
car: XRR
number: 88

ADD driver {Alireza d1, Alireza Ebrahimian, Iran}

teamName: Pixle Air Attack Racing
teamManager: {microspecv, Sean Lee}
teamViceManagers:
- {laoz, Simas Tautkevičius}
drivers:
- {microspecv, Sean Lee, Singapore}
- {laoz, Simas Tautkevičius, Lithuania}
- {Alireza d1, Alireza Ebrahimian, Iran}
- {rkoots, Reno Kööts, Estonia}
car: XRR
number: 88

Last edited by MicroSpecV, Sat 3 Apr 2021, 08:27.

1.2 Skin Changes
The following Pixle Air Attack Racing cars will have a skin change : 57, 88

Skins are attached below, numbered respectively
If attachments not downloadable, the image files can be found here
Car 57 Simas Tautkevičius
https://imgur.com/a/kbkTStF ,Skin name: XRR_GintasPIXLE

Car 88 Sean Lee
https://imgur.com/a/Et9p098 ,Skin name: XRR_NovaPIXLEv2

yes/88/microspecv

Quote from MicroSpecV :

no/88/microspecv

yes/88/microspecv

updated (thx)

no/88/microspecv

Quote from KevinRacer :

Yes, but have you seen the astra (also the manual says it's similar to an astra)

Eh, yeah. That seems more on point actually

FXR GT looks like the fictional Mitsubishi EVO GT3 though...

Last edited by MicroSpecV, Sat 13 Feb 2021, 13:56.

no/88/microspecv

Quote from Pathseeker :

Tyre size wise, that can work even for some kind of racing series too, like with gt2 or gt3 restrictions(would need testing with more narrow tyres), it would be slower series because of less grip and less cornering speeds. Or those changes make car not really drivable at all for racing?

Britcar comes to mind, or those separate events that smaller leagues hold as support races

Quote from TFalke55 :

• FX - FXO Turbo & FXO GTR - Honda - Civic
  
• FZ - FZ 50 & FZ 50 GTR - Porsche - 911
  
• RB - RB4 GT - Toyota - Celic
  
• LX - LX4 & LX6 - Caterham - GT
  
• UF - UF 1000 & UF GTR - Mini - Mini
  
• XF - XF GTI & XF GTR - Citroen - ??
  
• XR - XR GT, XR GT Turbo, XR GTR & Formula XR - Mitsubishi - Starion
  
• ?? (unbranded) - Formula V8 - Dallara - Dallara V8
  

If I'm not mistaken

Quote from Botswanan Salama :

Nice! Like watching slot machines

Quote from Botswanan Salama :

I'm working on Round 2 animation and it will have a bunch of new features and improvements.

Ooh, looking forward to that

Quote from Botswanan Salama :

Oh, you mean p8. When p9 car passes p8, there is an additional animation for that transition and there needs to be enough room on the left side of the p8 car for that to happen smoothly. Also keeping p8 stationary and moving other cars gives a nice impression that other cars are going faster when they slowly move further right on the graph. I tested several things and this one looked the best.

Yes, I could see. Great animation
Any plans on doing one for Round 2? Would be interesting to see the front runners tussling and the shuffling of position during the pit stops and Safety Car period.
And of course if there's one for myself climbing from P38, because honestly I've forgotten my progress in the race

Quote from CSF :

I don't know why you are making this worse for yourself.

Eh, actually, I don't know either. I think I typed that during work lunch when I was pissed about my own work lol

Probably its just me still finding out the difference between "way too aggressive" and "aggressive enough". To me if my own manoeuvre was controlled enough to me its a natural thing for me to defend my stance on something (being #asian and ridiculously stubborn in everything doesn't help) and I guess the dive I did being controlled enough was probably my focal point in the offence.

But yeah. It means a lot to change a particular style - I think I solved my defence shenanigans that I was told off for, but now I'll have to fix the way I attack I guess.
I'll refrain from commenting, don't think it's helping the situation. Still maintain it's not fully my fault but I should stop sending dives since people seem to sacrifice themselves to done-deal passes lol

In essense, I would have made the corner and be able to hug the apex and still not run into him if I wasn't door shut as if I could have just disappeared. I wasn't locking the fronts or overspeeding, and made the beginning of the corner at basically the same speed as Adam, and at the same steering angle. Only difference and I guess fighting point (from a neutral steward pov) is that I was on the slide pretty badly right at the point of apex...

Which of course I defend with the fact that I had to continue hard braking all the way till contact (when I should have been letting off and feathering at the change to 2nd gear to prevent axle tramp/rear lock) because I wasn't left any room by the apex point, and in the braking zone he was tightening from his slow early move across the track.

It's not a barge pass as I didn't intend to go for a gap and use the car ahead as a chalk block, and it wasn't an out of control move as I wasn't entering too hot, or unable to stop. And at the point of no return where I had only >1 car width to the apex before contact, I was slowed sufficiently and was past the rear axle and at the B pillar - resultant of my controlled dive.

Last edited by MicroSpecV, Tue 26 Jan 2021, 03:59.

Quote from KaiqueBRA :

It's a divebomb, no?

https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1962482#post1962482 discussion here mate but you did move in the zone pretty badly..

Quote from kart-36 :

Lee, I’m sorry but both your moves are huge dives, you brought that on yourself sadly with a very very bold move with barely any overlap.

Ps: the one against brown you’re coming into the corner locked up too!

I guess yeah, but I'm locked up 3/4 in only because I realise he's going shallow and moving across where my car should (or would) have been at. Sure, I could have not locked up and broke straighter but I would have clobbered him earlier then.

Similad with Piropo, isn't the prohibition of "moving under braking" what a overtaking driver needs to trust and to believe in for him to make a passing maneuver? Divebomb or not, the attacker shouldn't need to worry about a car suddenly squeezing or cutting across the track.

The importanr bit is, basically, if I'm aren't allowed to move under braking (and I was copped for it heavily), then shouldn't I be safe in the knowledge that others wouldn't as well, and that my controlled dives wouldn't be met with movement in the braking zone? Doesn't this one rule then indirectly dictate and enable me to dive, be it safely and controlled, without the need for avoiding action? This is the issue I want to see attended to.

Phrasing this isn't the best, I can't find more describing words lol

Last edited by MicroSpecV, Mon 25 Jan 2021, 22:23.

Quote from k_badam :

Session : Race; Server: Main
Lap AND MPR timecode of incident: 1:34:05 Lap 56
Car(s) involved: 16, 88
Location of Incident: Entry of T2, end of oval
Brief Description of Incident:
Not much to say about this, Shawn Lee attempted a dive from 4~ car lengths behind and collided with the left rear of my car, sending me back multiple positions. I took a normal racing line, broke at my normal, relatively late spot and he rammed right into the side of me. It's almost as if he aimed for me, Shawn seemed to brake at the correct point but pointed his car right into the side of mine. He wasn't alongside at the turn in point, he was miles behind me meaning he had no entitlement to the corner. In my opinion it wasn't an overtaking attempt, it was a ram, something straight out of a police training DVD.

In his protest on me, Shawn seems to be forgetting the natural line of the corner, he claims I moved across on him and blocked him, but on most of my laps I take an incredibly similar line. It is a corner where multiple lines are totally valid both tighter and wider, in comparing my line to cars in front Shawn is trying to find an excuse where there simply isn't one, and he knows it.

In my view a dive from 4 car lengths back is a pitiful attempt at an overtake, you can't expect someone to just hand a place over because you've launched your car at them. Shawn knew that his move was going to be dangerous, he's been pulled up multiple times in the past for similar moves, and yet he continues to make them. The fact that he hasn't learned that these moves are unacceptable baffles me.

Ye hi i moved it here, less formal lol

I dont think i turned right and pointed into you, more to the issue that you came down so early on that I had to keep going shallower at the end to not collect you - yes it waw a dive, but I did a handful of them in the past 55 laps and always, always pulled up in time and if I recall, on two instances even was able to go side by side into t3 with the driver I was fighting against. That's why I was kinda miffed that the contact happened, because I was darn sure I got it stopped more than good enough, but had to brake harder at the end and turn in and mount the kerb as you chose to clip the first apex as if i was not going to be there. Yes, you broke late, but that was not late to me. I was braking close to 80 the entire race and closer to 70 on previous dives and made the apex just fine with no sliding or lockups.

The normal racing line is a mid to late apex clipling the eric kerb, the 2nd one. Your line basically meant if you continued with it, you'd be going straight, then making a second turn movement to meet eric kerb. Certainly thats not normal line..

Quote from MicroSpecV :

Race, Main Server
Lap 56, MPR 1:34:00.24
Car(s) involved : 16 A.Brown, 88 S.Lee
Location of Incident : Turn 2 end of oval

I've re-watch and rethought about this, typing this part 2 after 2 hours of sleep, guess its better than blabbering at 5am, here's my next-day thoughts

I'd have to say it is partially my fault as well, dives and late braking stuff come with lots of risk so I hold a lot of responsibility there. The axle lockup right at the crucial turn in point probably did not help my case for sure. But then again, I had been doing such moves since lap 1, charging from the back. Think I did the same kind of move on a couple of guys like Homela, Jarod, Spiky, and each time I pulled the car up fine and made the corner with no contact.

Perhaps my car's braking ability this race empowered me to make those moves, however in context and balance, I doubt the faint move in the braking zone by Adam was necessary. I was coming in whether he liked it or not, and pinching me tight on the apex was just detrimental either way at that point... plus, if you take me out of the equation and play the clip and imagine his car's position on the T2 double apex, he'd basically have to steer away from the 2nd apex - that was how shallow he ran himself.

I get that late braking maneuvers aren't really liked, and the responsibility falls heavily on the attacker, but I keep rewatching the video and see myself arriving controlled unlike with Piropo's block & contact situation. (I didn't make the move with intent to barge either, not like I wanted to punt Adam lol.) Then I continue and put myself in Adam's spot, and think how on earth the reactive block and shallow apex would be beneficial in that scenario. Yeah..

I'm sorry for the move I guess, if we go by the book that everything falls on the attacking driver, but surely if so, there has to be a clearer rule between aggressive movement under braking, faint reactive movement under braking and closing off the apex of an attacker knowingly to cause contact. Because if not then I could have ran away from most of my penalties in TBOC (e.g Joni, me. Kyoto infield double left where I got cut off and spun the both of us)

Last edited by MicroSpecV, Mon 25 Jan 2021, 01:47.

Race, Main Server
Lap 16, MPR 26:55.00
Car(s) involved : 18 K.Piropo, 88 S.Lee
Location of Incident : Turn 2 end of oval
Brief Description of Incident : (Aggressive moving under braking ,Car 18)

Self explanatory