I ruined myself by driving the mazda and radical

The only cars that are fun to drive now are ones I can't race

Quote from RossUK :

Erk, just found out there are no pit stops today... blew a tire about 8 laps in while 1st and thought that my tyre would be replaced at the pits, but no, so I ended wasting a good lap and coming nearly last

Need to be more careful on the brakes I guess.

anddddddd thats why there are resets. (sorry, just using you as an example :P)

I think people are being a little short sighted on the topic of resets. Do you want to be taken out in an inevitable incident and not be able to finish the race?

Say you come around a blind corner into a 3 car pileup with no yellow and you break everything and get 16 incident points or whatever on the first lap and you can't reset to gain your SR points back?

Or you blow a tire and go to the pits and remember there are no pit stops...gg to your safety rating, or you reset and finish and not take as big of a hit.

I think resets are a bit of a band-aide at the moment, but a much needed one.

Quote from Jertje :

Tried Silverstone Int yet btw? I'm trying to get some benchmarks to go by

sadly I don't have silverstone

I have quite a bit of the content now, but am still missing a lot of the additional tracks.

It takes the low resolution analog signal from the pedals and ups it to high resolution digital through USB and goes around the Logitec drivers.

You gain about 4x the sensitivity and a smoother more linear pedal (what the people on the forums say), and it will hold your calibration forever.

Ever notice when you start up iracing sometimes your brake pedal goes to 100% when you barely touch it? This thing fixes that. Some people get it during races too...I'd be upset about that lol.

Quote from Jeroen :

Daniel I think you're an iraceophobe or something :P

but I love it so much

I think the races are just a tad long for me however, and its really pretty exhausting to run 30 minutes under that much concentration. I've raced karts and I drag race, and a 30 minute race in iRacing is right up there in the amount of concentration required...although drag racing crams 30 minutes worth of concentration into 11 seconds lol.

Also I'm pretty obsessed with my lap times...I don't think of myself as a hotlapper, but I think I might be one without really knowing it :/ I just love trying to squeeze every last inch out of the track...and usually when I sit down to drive I just practice for a bit.

the mazda is pretty damn rewarding

I just ran a 1:21.6 after feeling like there was no way to go any quicker than 22.x...obviously the guys in the 20's are just cheating.

Really though, I'm pretty happy where that puts me in relation to the qualifying times...but more important is I still have yet to actually race any more to raise my license level

iracing hurts my checkbook

just ordered one of these gizmos today...the guys on the forum absolutely love it.

http://leobodnar.com/products/DFPG25conn/

I've wanted a new pedal set for ages, but I'll never afford a $400+ pedal set...and this thing will up the resolution of the g25 pedals from 256 to 1000...so thats quite awesome.

People say they're gaining tons of consistency, later braking in the heavy braking zones, and some people are picking up good chunks of time...and no random loss of calibration anymore

I think I've decided the skippy just isn't for me

Its completely unintuitive and I don't find it fun, satisfying, or conducive to good racing on the limit (in the sim...)

I think the mazda is really the open wheel experience I want, and the skippy is something very different than I thought it'd be. Watching on board videos of the skippy shows a very different car. Watching on boards of the mazda you get the same feeling as in the sim.

I don't doubt its realism...I just don't find it fun :P

I guess at some point I'll stop messing around and actually race the solstice :P For now I can't get out of the mazda for more than a couple laps.

the mazda is a BEAST

seriously its like...wow I'm loving it

Just pounded my way around Infineon long for about 30-40 minutes and worked up a nice sweat...

Could only piece together a 1:30.0, but I had many screw ups and have been much faster through almost every segment lol.

for comparison huttu went 1:26.9

I would have been in the lower 2/3 of the field qualifying wise, but whatever. I can easily peel away a second at least. (not like I race enough to get my licence up anyways...)

nothing like getting a brand new track and car for $9.50 well...I guess getting them for free is better, but hey I'm the one that signed up

Odd first impression with the mazda. For the most part it drives just like I expected, but I tested it with the default setup which has probably double the DF that the aliens are running.

Also, it has lighter FFB feel than the other cars. Its somewhere in between the solstice and say the radical or skippy.

I guess the FFB is really the only odd part...other than that the thing never runs out of power and is a blast to drive. I just did like 5 sloppy laps around Laguna...grabbing a setup and heading back in

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helllllll yeah!


Time to grab me the mazda and VIR

He was out at Laguna Seca earlier this year with his son.

Sad to hear he passed.

RIP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR62amIPkc4

new radical vid, this time around infineon long

its a blast to mess around in...I think it'd be a bit frustrating to try to race seriously though lol.

imo it doesn't really matter where you're finishing in these races, its more about the experience you have while racing in them.

If you have an epic battle for 6th -4th, I'm down with that, even if you do get lapped 20 laps in.

The field will be determined by your irating, and if you expect to be able to win every time, then your irating is too low. Its gonna rise with each uncontested win until you're put mid pack somewhere, and depending on the field it draws from you'll either be more towards the front or more towards the back.

I WANT MY BONUS $15 ALREADY

can't decide if I'm getting the mazda or VIR

I could just wait on the mazda for later when I could actually race it though...

VIR is the skippy race in 2 weeks :O

easiest answer is to just get both I guess :P I've heard only mediocre feedback about the mazda, but I still really want to drive an open wheeler with some downforce.

Quote from titanLS :

So, am I correct in saying that one's iRating doesn't reset to 1600 when you switch cars/series'? Is it just as easy when you start the skippy or do they place you where you should be in the new car?

your irating stays with you

I went from rookie solstice to being with the fastest drivers in either series...I quickly took care of that after 3 horrid races though. Over time your irating will average out to be just right though. Just put in the practice with the new cars and you'll be fine.

Quote from titanLS :

Before they put that chicane in I saw, from like 20 feet away, one of the old Nissan GTP cars (#83 I think) flip over and slide down the back straight on it's roof... in flames. Driver just brushed himself off and walked away. Quite a sight for a nine-year-old!

I feel like that's gonna happen to me every time I approach it D:

just had my first win in the skippy.

They were nice enough to put me on pole with my fresh 59.29 qualifying time...The guy behind me was qualified at 59.3, but had no intention of running that quick.

I pulled away for a huge lead most of the race. With 13 to go, I was pushing for a new PB cuz I was bored, and hung it out a bit too far on exit of the downhill. I get it locked down, sliding backwards. Ease off the brakes just enough, pop it into 2nd, give it a tiny bit of steering input and floor the accelerator...and pull back onto the track from the pit entrance at about 45 mph

3 laps later, after I've eased up and started cruising...I find myself backwards again...this time in the middle of the downhill :/ The slower I try to go the more I seem to crash...doesn't help that the skippy is very unforgiving when you try to cruise. Its either flat out or nothing it seems.

2nd place never got within 8 seconds or so though, so its all good...just would have liked to finish with 0 incidents like I was before lap 13 :P

ran a 58.80...finding it difficult to push much past there. Not really sure where someone picked up 7 tenths..

Quote from titanLS :

Little hairy over the uphill! I'm so tempted just to jump into the Radical but I really want to put some time into the Skippy next season...

you're tellin me...its quite the commitment going through there at that speed. I've had loads of crashes getting light pointed in the wrong direction :P

I believe thats the reasoning behind the chicane at the top of the hill.

That vid reminded me of the old Jackie Stewart ride-alongs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... Mjo80&feature=related

http://blip.tv/file/1209235/

just havin some fun, felt like recording it

I did 6 laps in a row and was physically and mentally tired o_o

I can't imagine going 30+ laps in that thing without screwing up.

I'm gettin the hang of it pretty quickly

I was decently quick within my first couple laps, 59.50...

trying to get some speed up tonight, and am going through cars like they're cheap or something

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/2433/aieeeeeeun4.jpg

my fav of the night so far...came up sideways pointed at the guard rail...crested the hill and half the car came off the ground D:

Did a 59.0, and for sure have been on mid 58's pace, just hard to get a lap strung together...if I don't screw up the uphill I'm sideways through west bend :P

I'd make a vid but it breaks the game when you go over that fence

Driving the skippy around here already feels like warp speed...I can't WAIT for the daytona prototype omggggg.

Last edited by spanks, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 22:53.

Quote from PLAYLIFE :

Me too, me too

me first :O

Quote from Crommi :

You sure picked an easy track to start your Skippy career

jesus christ I feel like I just got blind sided by a semi truck

I thought I knew LRP pretty well..no problem pickin it up you know

whenever I thought it was goin pretty good I'd be in the wall somewhere.

I started with a snap spin in the opposite direction into the wall comin out of the last turn. I'm 100% positive I didn't countersteer too much(if at all when I got turned), and I was flat on the floor...it was just like goin fine and then I was turned 45 degrees in the wrong direction.

Then I proceeded to crash twice coming out of the uphill trying to take it easy.

I mean I practiced for a week with the skippy at Infineon, so I have an idea how to drive the car...but man those bumps send you wherever they feel like! Whoever thought the skippy didn't need a clutch pack should be shot.

I know a huge part of it is the setup...but I went to see what the track was for this week and I was like ZOMG RACE IN 10 MIN...so I used a set I downloaded and it has way too much rear bar (lol max).

I need to get some good races together or I'll be back in the rookies. I've raced twice since week 13, and pretty much just hotlapped and stuff on the side...ever since I bought in for a year I fell out of the routine or something.

I've done 3.5 laps around LRP with multiple crashed and no qualifying

time to race :heyjoe67_

first race in skippy ever btw :3 this is gonna go awesome (don't worry I won't hit anyone)

Quote from titanLS :

Do you think left foot braking is the key to your speed? You're on the throttle so early in T1, and it looks like you use the brakes just a little on every corner?

for sure, its definitely the key

The thing just doesn't like to turn, but a little trail braking seems to get it to rotate right around.

The biggest thing I found was to try to get most of your turning done at entry, and then just use the momentum and gas to keep you turning. Have to be careful not to get into too big of a slide though as you'll lose all your momentum.

Turn 1 exit is pretty key to being able to go through turn 2 like I did. I basically got the car to turn by turning in on the brakes, and then slid the rest of the way through the corner. A worse exit from turn 1 and I don't really have the speed at the right point to get through the corner like that. Turn 2 is definitely the trickiest turn on the track imo.

btw, I can't run at that speed for more than about 5 laps...I crash large lol. Even that lap was pretty sloppy.

Last edited by spanks, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 17:26.

Quote from jasonmatthews :

Guys, I am trying to put the useful info I am picking up from you guys in one place. Please can you let me know if you have anything you know of that could go there, thanks

http://www.sonicrealmsracing.c ... um/index.php?topic=1276.0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO-imphkjiw

top 10 qualifying time in the avd. solstice around LRP

Quote from george_tsiros :

... get raped?

yes

fornicated by a reciprocating piston