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Razor1373
S3 licensed
Most of the drives that participates to that kind of events are s2/s3 users, don't look at the few (probably im the only one Big grin) who doesn't have S2. Since few months i was thinking about buying S2 finally, but i didn't had time to drive, now i don't have it either but i want to show myself at such events and work on my skill, because demo is demo, one car, one track, and everyone can practice it to reach perfectionSmile What im trying to say is that if you will organise S2 race, there's 70% chance that i will buy S2 to join it Smile

And about your ideas, i don't know if it wouldn't be better to pick different track and come back to FE6Y Black RC later, so ppl wouldn't get bored with it (im not talking about myselfSmile ), also another demo race would be good to have more drivers, but they can give up early on, and again, licensed drivers may think it will be boring and don't participate. Anyway it's up to you, i will join no matter what combo you will choose, if i will have time, and will be as hyped as during both previous races Smile

Cheers Anici<3
Razor1373
S3 licensed
Any news about next race ?Smile
Razor1373
S3 licensed
Quote from johneysvk :
@razor, that has me a bit worried that they might go pretty quick, i'm not exactly gentle when shifting ahem Big grin looking at the layout, are the two buttons on top of the center hub easily reached when turning? (for looking left/right), the lack of buttons wouldn't be that much of an issue given that i expertly modified (taped a cut up gamepad to it) my saitek which has 4 buttons Big grin i'll try to find a pic.

As someone else said, paddles arent great, but they are doing their job just fine. Also don't be worried, one of my paddle starter to do some double clicks after like 4 years of usage, and im not gentle too. Even if they will start double clicking, you can replace them with buttons same as in pc mouse. I have somewhere 2 of them, got them from my friend but you can find it on some online shops (they aren't related to dfgt, just regular cheap buttons). The price was like 50 groszy which is 0.5PLN which is like 12 euro cents for one Smile. And the most comfortable buttons to click while turning are, heh funny, the paddles Big grin and shifter also, for me at least, but since i use both of them to something else, i've mapped circle for looking right and left Button on the cross, for looking left. That looking left isn't Perfect, because sometimes during battle while cornering it's easy to press up or down Button togrther with left, and it wont work i that case. But i think you can find a better Button for it. I think that if someone is using shifter for gears, then paddles are best for looking left/right
Razor1373
S3 licensed
I have DFGT and in lfs i was always using shifter instead of "paddles", for me it's much more comfortable. Beside that my paddles are dead, since i was raping them hard while playing F1 from codemaster Big grin. I can repair them, have new buttons already, they are cheap, just few cents. They're same buttons like in your mouse for right/left button.
Huge advantage for DFGT is that it has a lot of buttons, and most of them are really comfortable to use while driving. I had up to 7 or 8 binded msgs set on it, which i could use while driving easly + gears on shifter + handrake on "x" + ignition, restart race, return to pit, horn, cluch on up arrow (left side of wheel), change camera, f9 menu (tyres), and probably few more which i don't remember. All of them binded to wheel and easy to press while driving. I think it beats most of other wheels possibilities while comes to buttons, and how easy they are to find/press while driving. And i forgot to mention that it's rare situation that you have to change gear in the middle of a corner, and even if that happens, then for me it's not a big deal to drive using one hand for 1 or 2 secs. It even gives extra satisfaction and reality feelingSmile

Some time ago i was searching for new wheel and i was confused, because g25 for me don't have enough buttons, and g27 have only h-shifter or paddles, not sequential shifter which i want to use. And i still don't know what to do sice my DFGT is slowly dyingBig grin (that wheel is like 6 years with me already, and i bought used one Smile ) But you can be sure DFGT is great wheel, and it gives you a lot of possibilities to configure in the way you like, with all that buttons it has. Paddles are small, and it may look like they're hard to use, but it isn't that bad. Ofc big paddles are better, but the ones that DFGT have are also good. And driving with shifter isn't hard too, it's just matter of getting used to it.

PS. If you will decide to buy it, it has like one well known issue. The pedals, they're good until they'll break Big grin And they usually break pretty fast, but you will find a lot of tutorials, on how to deal with it, on the web. Also suprisingly my pedals have over 6 years (maybe 6.5y or maybe 7.5y, dunno), and they work. Sure they have some glitter and other issues, and it's getting worse and worse, but im still able to race normally, and im not even noticing that something is wrong, sometimes cleaning the inside of them helpsSmile.

Cheers, Anici<3 Smile
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Razor1373
S3 licensed
Hello Smile
Yeah everyone want to have free license, mee too, not very much events on S1Smile But if some promising demo player will write here, better pick him. Yes i know you said random, but maybe you will change your mind. Or you could count every demo player that will write here as two applies, just to make it more possible for a demo player to win license, i think they need it more, but that doesn't mean i don't want to take part in that giveaway! Smile

cheers, Anici<3 Smile
Razor1373
S3 licensed
Nice done lucaf, on both, the event and description above Smile I would be grateful if you could upload replay of this race, or send me it on email. I was so mad at myself that i messed up in such stupid way, just like a rookie, that i wasn't in mood to watch the race anymore. I think that i just didn't do enough practice, it was for sure not more than 25 laps overal, and like only 4 laps using setup which i was starting on to race. I didn't felt confident at all, and i always need a lot of practice before i will feel good in particular combo. But beside my problems with concentration, congrats to MTDX-UM21, he was in different league, the fact that he was doing such laptimes without pitstop, i really don't know how it is possible, for me it was like one fast (and perfect) lap, which would be about 3:05.5x and tyres are dead with teperature up to 120d deg Big grin. One more time, really good job lucaf, keep it up! Looking forward for another race! Smile

EDIT: thank you for uploading replay Smile I hope that next race will be finally more fortunate for me Big grin
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Razor1373
S3 licensed
Yello mate! Smile
Yes, it is most possibly ending fuel. it is often happening on last corners of last lap, or when someone is doing one extra lap after the race, and have low fuel. It is caused by missynchronized data between player and server. Server 'thinks' that the player have 0 fuel, while actully he/she have about 0,3% (maybe less). So server is sending info to other players that fuel of, let's say 'driver A', is 0 so also his engine can't be turned on, while he actually have tiny amount of fuel left, and is still able to drive.

I don't know the right amounts but let's say that server is refreshing data once per 0.5s. Let's say last refresh was like now, next in 0.5s. The last sent data was that Driver A have 1% fuel, full throttle, 3rd gear and 120km/h (+ a lot of different data), so other players got that data and their PC is calculating how driver A will accelerate (+ much more stuffs) during the time until next refresh. After 0.5s, PC calculated that Driver A speed will be 123km/h, but the next refresh said his speed is 122.5km/h, because he lifted throttle for a bit during that 0.5s. Now other drivers pc will have to compensate that difference, and they will see lilttle "blip" on that car, which we see all the time because of such small corrections.

And now lets say Driver A have 0.1% fuel, full throttle, 3rd gear and 120km/h. But server sent data to others that Driver A have 0% fuel instead of 0.1%, and now their PCs calculated that after 0.5s driver A speed will be 116km/h because even though he had full throttle, he can't accelerate, because he has no fuel. But again, next data that server got from driver A is that his speed is 123km/h, because he actually had 0.1% fuel, so he was able to accelerate. And now there's 7km/h difference and also difference in driven distance during that 0.5s which generates big "jump" of the Driver A car, on screens of other drivers. And it pretty much looks like speed hack, because car of driver A will be jumping like that every 0.5s (but only if he is on throttle), when the server sends new data.

And that's why it looks like that, and may look like cheat, but if you will look closely to that jumping car, it will not get any advantage, or higher speed than others. Just will be "jumping", reducing speed between server refreshes, just to jump few meters ahead and gain speed ON next refresh. I know i didn't described that good, and it might be hard to understand what i mean, but i can't do it better, also all the numbers i used are only examples, it's probably different in reality.

PS. If you see a car jumping like that AND gaining advantage, havig a lot higher speed than others, or making unrealistic times, and all that not only on last lap, but all the time, you probably see a cheater. Also you might notice that some players can accelerate on much higher revs than the car is able. like they're getting 15k rpms on xfg, and after that they didn't lost power, and can still drive fast, that's cheat too.
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Razor1373
S3 licensed
ymeshulin great race report, i have like same feelings as you. Also i've watched replay and i totally agree with you, i should leave you bit more space, sorry for that. The two spins i had was because of flat tyre ofc. When i choosed my strategy i knew it isn't right, and a lot less safe than one pit strategy. But i took the whole event as a good oportunity to have fun, didn't set myself to obligatory win. So, with lil bit of crazyness, i took the challange to drive 90 laps without a pit stop just to see what will happen and i almost did that Big grin.

And lucaf thanks one more time for that race. I felt bad for you when i saw you're one lap behind because of the orginising stuff you had to take care of. But still it was a huge pice of great work, and even tho you forgot about some things, you reacted fast, so others ppl race wasn't affected at all, sadly expect yours. But im sure next time you will have your chance to compete with others without troubles Smile
Razor1373
S3 licensed
The race was great, atmosphere was amazing, can't wait for next one Smile. Congrats on your win Sainted. That race learned me that i could do 90 laps without a pit stop, but using handbrake in T1 on first 40 laps doesn't help Smile. It was great experience, im glad i've found that post today ! Big grin

PS1. (Don't read if you're eating) I was more lucky that i thought, 5 min after race i had unexpected guest, her name is Diarrhea, i hope we will not meet again Wink. Yeah the emotions had to came out somewhere, but they could choose better way Smile

PS2. Sorry for PS1! D:
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Razor1373
S3 licensed
Hello, i have a problem. When im starting lfs i've got crash from LfsLazy "stats v2 file corrupt" or smth like that. I tried to delete that corrupted file and run lfs again, and i got "error1"(look below) then i've deleted hosts file too and another error popped up after starting lfs (Error2) .
I don't know if this is connected with my problem, but before that, i had issue with not working logitech profiler binds in lfs. After restarting lfs i couldn't use my driver settings because it was saying that it can't load file [driver_name]. Then i set up new driver profile in lfs with same name as old one, and binds were working again and everything, but lfslazy crashed. Yeah im pretty sure it is connected but i don't know how to fix that. And i don't want to lose my splits and stats in lfslazy. PLOX HALP Smile

Error1:

Error2:
Razor1373
S3 licensed
HelloSmile
I have few advices for you. Firstly, on that 1:34.17 lap you could do 29.9x sc1 but you have wrong line in chicane, try to cut the first corner of chicane little bit more (right side wheels have to be on the top of that green curb), imo best way to learn perfect line in that chicane is to watch WR replay from lfsworld.net.

First corner of sc2 looks fine (not very good, but you have right line there, so probably after some time it will be better). You are not using the whole kerb while entering SS corners, try to go more on the left there, also you are braking for too long there, and it causes understeering in entry, so try to brake not as long, or start braking little bit earlier, or if you will improve your entry line there, you will be able to brake less, just need to use that kerb on entrySmile.

In the second SS corner (last of sc2) remember to not cut the grass too much, because you will dirty your tires, and lose grip in first corner of sc3, actually on that 34.17 lap you didn't cut it too much, you had good line there, but im just saying it for futureSmile.

First corner of sc3 was good, maybe little bit too low speed, but braking point and line was almost perfect, so you don't need help there just practice Smile.

You lost a lot of time in last croner, again you was braking for too long, and little bit too much, try to start braking little bit earlier to that last corner, and let go brakes before turning in, or in the same time. And i will say it again, you was braking there too much, you can do that corner with pretty much more speed if you will have good line there (also in last corner very important is to start turning in right moment).

And generally, i've noticed that you are using heel&toe every time you downshift, basically heel&toe gives you better braking only in T1, i don't think that it is slowing you down in the rest of corners, but it may be easier for you to use it only while braking to T1Smile. I also saw that you didn't let go throtle fully while braking to first corner of sc3, it didn't cause big time lost, but obviously it is better to not do that Smile.

And i think it would be it, i also recommend you to learn racing line from lfsworld.net replays (it don't have to be WR one, you can just look who did particular sector with best time, and learn line from him), but try to copy only racing line, perchance places where the fast guys are letting go the brakes, and what is their line before turning (while braking), where they start turning, don't try to copy their braking points because it will probably end bad for you Smile

I almost forgot, i saw your heel&toe in sc1 is pretty good, you can try to make your brakes little bit harder, my are 590nm and 73% braking balance, but i've notice that most fast guys if not every of them, prefer to have more braking balance on the front (usually 1% more than me), but it doesn't work for me, you can try both of them and decide which one is best for you Smile. But be warned, with that brakes im going on totally grip limit while braking to T1, if i screwed up heel&toe (which last time happened like 500 or more laps ago) i lock the front tyres, and go straight, and the same thing happens if i have dirty tyres, even the minimal value(?) of dirt only on front left tyre will cause front tires lock, and overshoot T1 or even crash if someone is near me. So with that brakes you have to be careful in last corner, to not get dirt on your wheels (dirt on right sided wheels isn't as bad, but left sided wheels have to be perfectly clear)

I hope that i helped and that you can understand my bad english, but if not, just pm me and i will reply to you in polishSmile. Also take into account that i watched only your 1:34.17 lap, and all that what i wrote refers to that perticular lap.

Cheers, Anici<3
Razor1373
S3 licensed
Hello I have just one question, what if S1 licensed driver will win? Will he get upgrade to S2, or he will have to choose demo driver who will get S2?
Razor1373
S3 licensed
GAVD999 ans Silverracer, Thank you guys!.
Now i must race!
Razor1373
S3 licensed
Hello mates I didn't play for some time (well about 5 months ), but now im racing again. I've improved my stats a little, and did new PB and HL in XFG, so i decide to update my post

Travelled distance: 18632 Ml
Fuel burnt: 5068 Ltr
Laps: 7497
Hosts joined: 1005
Races won: 516
Second: 216
Third: 100
Finished: 989
Qualifications: 86
Pole Positions: 39
Drags / Wins: 0 / 0

BL1
XFG 0:29.980 1:06.880 1:33.400 WR-diff +0:00.660 3110 laps 1.18% fuel 11 Jul 2013, 09:30
XRG 0:29.750 1:06.430 1:32.990 WR-diff +0:00.660 1845 laps 0.99% fuel 5 Jan 2013, 15:32
FBM 0:23.750 0:53.140 1:13.040 WR-diff +0:01.360 2361 laps 1.24% fuel 1 Oct 2011, 17:29

BL2
XFG 0:35.620 1:09.480 WR-diff +0:01.590 180 laps 0.91% fuel 30 Apr 2010, 16:51
XRG 1:59.250 2:34.990 WR-diff +1:26.820 1 lap 0.78% fuel 29 Apr 2010, 18:23

PS. My new XFG HL is 1.33.02

Greetings
Anici
Razor1373
S3 licensed
Hi i'm Razor1373, Anici in game. At the beginning I want to say that I don't know English very well, and sorry about it. I know that my stats aren't above the requirements, but its close. From 12th to 27th January i have winter holdays, so after this time my stats will reach the requirements (i hope) . Here are my stats

Travelled distance: 17065 Ml
Fuel burnt: 4645 Ltr
Laps: 6817
Hosts joined: 952
Races won: 435
Second: 190
Third: 88
Finished: 862
Qualifications: 85
Pole Positions: 38
Drags / Wins: 0 / 0

XFG 0:29.920 1:06.930 1:33.560 WR-diff +0:00.820 2654 laps 1.19% fuel 19 Aug 2012, 13:58
XRG 0:29.750 1:06.430 1:32.990 WR-diff +0:00.630 1621 laps 0.99% fuel 5 Jan 2013, 15:32
FBM 0:23.750 0:53.140 1:13.040 WR-diff +0:01.360 2361 laps 1.24% fuel 1 Oct 2011, 17:29
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