In both videos its pretty clear that you overcorrected violently and the car followed.

Watch the steering wheel in the bottom left...it hides nothing.

I'm not trying to be rude because I've done it a lot myself.

Like Crommi says maybe instead of lashing out at the sim for you crashing take a closer look at your setup or your driving to keep it from happening again.

Like it was said in your thread, the car is well known to be aweful over 80% of curbs..just steer clear of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnBc5Ay6zDY&fmt=22

Another lotus vid...I want it nowwwwwww

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Yeah, the collision looked pretty appropriate to me.

It also looked entirely your fault

Thanks Nick.

They're bagged and in a closet for now..I had to stretch trash bags over them as they were just a few MM bigger than the opening was. I don't feel like digging them out to check.

Picked this up on Friday from the insurance auctions

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Its a little banged up
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42000 miles, 6 liter LS2 400 horse 400 ft lb and t56 six speed

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Will make 450-475 horse and will fly when its in the mazda

I think iracing is trying to give the same experience as drivers traveling to different tracks for different weekends. Practice starts late in the week and the races go on the weekend.

It actually gets really neat when you're in the higher license levels. In the rookie stuff you're just bouncing between laguna and limerock..but in the higher stuff you're at a different track every week. It really changes up the game.

There's no more FOX AT ASTON CLUB 24/7 etc

I just wish they'd start using more configurations of the tracks instead of the primary ones.

well, the r888's are the evolution of the RA-1's which are known for not heat cycling out. They grip relatively the same from new to chording. Pro race teams still change them out very frequently..but they also shave them to slicks before using.

Tires get pretty damn hot just from running them on the freeway for a few miles. Sure you can't hit the first onramp like a bat out of hell but by 2 offramps down you'll be able to do what you want.

Its not like you'll be able to be on the limit on the street anyways.

Most importantly they're cheaper than really good sports car tires and they last just as long if you don't abuse them...and you can drive to a track or an auto x and have r compound tires :P

Quote from Ssr_Nick :

Brilliant tires.. just horrible on the road!

Did you get the softer version?

Hmmm I've only seen one compound of the R888's

These are extremely sticky...I couldn't imagine them being any softer and still getting any miles out of them.

Don't tell me they're bad on the road they're going to be my street tires!

I think its all about where you live. I am in southern Cali in the middle of the desert. Its over 80 degrees most of the year and rains...infrequently. I'm putting them on something that'll only be on the road probably 3k a year and won't see rain unless something weird happens.

Sticky sticky tires :eclipseeh

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I haven't raced an official session in months but I use the service a lottt.

I have a lot of things to spend money on...but I don't think I can go without iracing

Looks like I'll be doing mine soon too even though I have until August as well.

At least this time when I have $85 of credits they won't be gone instantly lol.

Quote from titanLS :

The chicane at the end of the straight? I usually don't have problems there for some reason. I brake hard as the nose hits that first white line on the track (right after the big black sign), I hold them a little longer than I think I have to and then I dive across the first apex at full throttle. Tiny bit of trail braking at turn in. Getting out of there quick is fun because you can blast by people over the hill if they didn't get back on the gas early enough. Love this track...

It is a blast...and I'm overjoyed to see the spec racer at road atlanta for this weekend again.

I had hours of fun there in the open practice servers.

That is the chicane I'm talking about. I brake all over the place for that one. I keep pushing it as far out as I can and still make the first apex...and then I overshoot it and back up again. If I brake at the white line I always feel like I'm giving up time...but a "just past the white line" mark is difficult to hit consistently.

Arghhhh...I had a 1:17 lap in the making until the chicane...and then I screwed it all and ran another 18.3

I have lowered my optimal to a 17.5 though...I just wish I could run it

No fps drop at all. Its extremely simple to install and use.

At road atlanta you have to be careful because you can pick up like a half a second in your first split by racing out of pit lane lol. I had to erase my data for RA once this week.

Quote from titanLS :

Road Atlanta in the Mazda has to be one of the best combos yet!

1:18.1 puts me 12th in Qual. this week, 1st in Div 2. That's about as good as it gets for me...

Spanks what's your name on there?

Nice time I ran like an 18.3

I was running 3 tenths quick after that lap...carried my momentum through T1, hit T2 better than ever..got through the esses and I was right on someone's ass going into the left hander.

I barely brake to 3rd, pitch it in and nail the gas...I'm just hanging on watching as the guy in front of my spins out. I barely clip their LF with mine and allllll that time is gone. Never put that good of a lap together again.

Name is Daniel McC.

woohoo

I'm currently 21st quick around Road Atlanta in the mazda. My optimal lap would put me solid in the top 10.

I'm not sure who to give credit to, but Ian Lake and Darren Marsh seem to be very proactive at running an Australian league. They all get together and run a specific series at a set time when its really only Aussies running. Now you have your own server farm to run at like 30 ping. I can't wait for a west coast server, I'm 120 ping to the US server! Something in Washington would feed the BC and the west coast of the US extremely well.

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Since iRacing.com’s Sydney-based server farm was activated this week, there’s been a steady stream of comments about the new service in the forum. Although the response has been generally positive, a number of members have questioned how the new server farm is being integrated into our existing system of parsing run-groups.

Here’s how the new system works:

Users can see their connection quality (latency and packet loss) to our race server farms by hovering their cursor over the PING widget, near the calendar and the MPR indicator. It could take as much as a minute after logging into the site before the connection data is collected. We now have two server farms: US-MA, located in the US state of Massachusetts (near Boston), and AU-Syd, located in Sydney, Australia. If no server farms are listed, the user probably needs to configure their antivirus/firewall software to allow the iRacingService program to access the Internet.

So which server farm will a customer race on? It depends.

Each Qualify/Time Trial/Race session is broken up into run-groups, where the size of each run-group is limited to (at most) the number of drivers allowed by the series. Each Open Practice session is its own run-group.

Each run-group is hosted by a single race server located on a particular server farm. The iRacingSim for all drivers in a run-group communicates directly with the race server that is hosting that group. Drivers only see, and are only competing against, drivers in their same run-group.

For Open Practice sessions, race servers are made available on each server farm, with each server hosting one run-group. A driver may join any session that is still allowing connections. Note that the Ping time from the driver's computer to each open practice server is listed. (Ping time is the amount of time it takes for information to travel round-trip from your computer to the race server and back. Measured in milliseconds, the lower the ping time the better. Also, test sessions are not affected by Ping time.)

For all other types of sessions, the user registers for the session, but the system forms the run-groups. As the system is forming the run-groups for the session, it first assigns each user to the server farm to which they have the best connection. Then, within each server farm, the system forms run-groups using factors such as iRating and mutual friends.

For Race sessions, there is the additional consideration that a minimum number of drivers are required for the session to be considered official. It is possible that too few drivers have been assigned to a particular server farm to form an official run-group, but there are enough drivers registered for the session in total to form an official run-group. In this case, the system will exclude the server farm that has the worst average connection for the registrants, assign each user to their best (remaining) server farm, and try again.

Adding the Australian server is part of our ongoing effort to provide the highest quality service to the greatest number of people at all times. Given all the possible permutations of series, tracks, cars, number of participants and their geographical location, under some circumstances a member not located in Australia or New Zealand may experience a high Ping time as a result of racing on the AU-Syd server farm. That will only be the case if the majority of the racers in that particular run-group are from Australia and New Zealand. Bear in mind that, absent our new AuSyd server farm, those Australians and New Zealanders would have been racing on the US-MA server farm and, therefore, experiencing a similarly high Ping time. Not only would their racing experience have been diminished, so would that of their US-based competitors. Put another way, in a race with ten people, it’s better to have nine people with a low Ping time competing against one driver with a high Ping time, than to have one person with a low Ping time racing against nine people with high Ping times. Either way, the driver with the “variant” Ping time would have an imperfect experience, but with the new system nine people will have a good experience -- and the tenth will have a safer experience than he would have previously.

If you have any additional questions, please post them here on the forum and we will do our best to answer them.

ehhhh, took down the flame bait

Last edited by spanks, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 04:11.

Quote from AtomAnt :

Even 19:00 a month maybe 9:95.....i paid 48 CND . once. That's less than 1.2 a year.

and you were saying?

156 U.S. dollars = 174.48591 Canadian dollars


???

Its bold because I copy/pasted from google

I have until August 3rd myself. I am still blown away by the sim. It always is moving forward. Every track released seems to be just a little nicer than what we already have. I never thought they would put out a track higher quality than watkins...and then Road Atlanta comes and the quality is even higher. They seem to be getting better in every area as time goes on.

A huge +1 to the staff listening to us. Even if it isn't acknowledged on the forum, it still makes it on a to do list somewhere. I made a suggestion one time about the cars becoming blurry at an angle even with the highest AA and AF settings...and in the last patch they release higher quality car textures. I'm not taking full credit for it..but I sure feel like they listened to my suggestion!

It really irks me on the iracing forum when people discredit the work they've done so far. There are some people that only want specific things..and if they aren't delivered then they discredit all the work that has been done. Partly I can understand, but otoh if they're so worried about where their money is going then they should just shut up and be racing 24/7 to get the most for their money. Wouldn't want to waste any of the precious time now would they :P

I'm truly caught hook line and sinker. I think I will be around for a long time. I do not like quite a few things about the service, and there are some things I really want to be developped further...but I won't start bitching until a lack of progress is shown. So far there have been big steps taken every 12 weeks.

The only thing I'm not looking forward to is that $156 in a couple months

Last edited by spanks, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 04:05.

It was like $208 for me..all oval stuff

I'm 100% road, gimme 25% off!

I must say its getting pretty frustrating to hop on the sim at night here on the west coast and see 0-10 people at most in any series.

The most really for the prototype and radical is like 2-4 people.

I just want some cars out there during open practice..it makes it much more enjoyable.

We could possibly be getting the corvette in 10 days!

The original PR release said it would be released in conjunction with the race on June 13th.

There hasn't been any word yet...

speculate speculate speculate!

http://www.iracing.com/newsEvents/article.php?id=89

Last edited by spanks, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 23:31.

yeah, I moved

I'm like 10 minutes from the fontana kart track, but they don't do arrive and drive. Its a really neat looking track though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay0hsYtec8U

Its really a fast track..bumpy though

When my uncle comes down I think he'll bring his kart. I'll have to kick him out for a few laps

Kramer is definitely an awesome corner. Its named Kramer after the guy from Seinfeld because you never make the same entrance twice

It was really popular to early apex Kramer in the national course when I was racing. It frequently would put you in the dirt if you tried to carry too much speed...and it would always kill a sprocket because you go off before the rumbles on the outside because on the early apex...

From looking at the corner it makes sense to late apex it, but if I remember correctly it is wayyy off camber on the entrance, and it gets more flat the closer you are to the inside of the corner.

I think what makes kramer so fun is how much speed you're carrying out of memo. The clutch locks before memo and you really start screaming on the way out...the kart wants to float wide out of memo but you have to pinch it to get to the turnin. It can get really hairy going 2 wide out of laguna...I only did that a couple times and it never really went well.

I really want to go karting now

Great stuff man

I raced karts at sears point from when they opened the track until like 2006 when I got my license. They're expensive ****ers..

I never won a race..didn't have that kind of money, but I was still quick and very clean/consistent. It never did make sense to have factory teams with new chassis, engines, tires, and sometimes drivers every race. All this for a plastic trophy and SOMETIMES a gift certificate . My crowning achievement is coming 5th overall in points in the tag class my first and only year racing it.

My favorite was definitely the reverse sprint...its HELL on your body though. I always found it to be the most demanding of all the tracks.

Flying into the tick tac toe backwards after that huge straightaway...launching off the curbs and hoping you land pointing the right direction heading towards a backwards T1..way fun

Quote from Dajmin :

Sweet. I love that shape of RX-7 and I'd take one in a second. Don't know if I could run it often at about 18mpg though

Can't believe you'd put a Chevy block in a Jap frame though. Tsk

You said it yourself, 18mpg freeway is pretty rough

The LSx rx7's frequently get 30 mpg freeway and city mpg is all about your driving style

Its going to be a long project, but it'll be loads of fun.

Original '94 Chaste White 70k miles Black/Tan Interior Touring Package.

Comes with a nice gaping engine bay waiting for an LS2

I've been looking for the perfect car for about a year or more...finally got one.

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