I don't know what happened in the first turn, seemed like somebody divebombed me and Jonaitis and knocked us off track. Luckily both of us recovered quickly, though.
It has been an absolute pleasure to take part in the Tiger Express Motorsports Z30 Racing Festival.
Was great fun to try some managed and serious racing on some new layouts. Excellent administration by Yann and a big thanks to Phil for designing the new layouts.
Wasn't too sure on some of the combinations, but I always ended up being pleasantly surprised. Had great fun in every round, even though my results weren't fantastic. I already knew from the beginning, that I wouldn't have a chance to compete with the top part of the field. Considering that, I'm quite pleased with my overall result, even though round 4 obviously (Vettel style) didn't go as planned.
Once again, thanks to Yann for organizing this series of great races. If a new season starts, I'll definitely be here again.
And congratulations to Joe and the rest of the ineX members - impressive performance!
Great race once again! I agree with Phil, it was a quite intense combination, especially with this many cars on track. But oh man, I hate that chicane, just couldn't get it right... I must have hit the grass on like 80% of the laps. :geezer:
But good fun, will definetely be there next time.
Oh, that was you... I wondered where the hell you went. I didn't notice the text saying that you timed out, while I was struggling to keep the damn car on the road and not lose positions, lol.
Better luck next time, disconnections/timeouts sucks bigtime.
As it seems nobody has a clue how many of the signed up teams will be attending the races, I would suggest that you create a thread on the international forum, where people can sign up for each individual round. Just like they do in GTAL and all the other bigger leagues.
We are almost halfway through the league, and we haven't seen around 30% of the teams that has signed up. Most of them haven't even posted on the forum or ever been on your server. Maybe it's time to clean up the field a bit and find out who's really interested in participating and who's not.
And if Last Lap Motorsports are planning to participate, I think you should divide their drivers into atleast two cars. It makes no sense to have eight drivers in one car.
If it turns out that there's only maybe 12-14 cars left, you could consider using shorter tracks for the upcoming rounds. AS5R and KY3 aren't much fun with such few cars. And KY1 never made sense in the first place.
I agree about the tracker and the chatting during the race.
A tracker is a must have during an endurance race. I have to admit that I don't really understand how you can announce that a tracker will be available, when you clearly aren't able to set it up.
In the .docx document that was send out earlier today it was also made clear, that chatting during the race is not allowed, and that it will result in a DT penalty.
I wrote the document in order for non-czech participants to be able to understand the rules better. The small-english part of the KxR site lacks a lot of information and is very unclear, so I took the time to translate it and make it easier to understand.
However; there's still quite a few things missing. But since I'm not the one who calls the shots and I'm not a part of the administration, I didn't want to change or add anything other than a some parts that needed to be changed to make it understandable.
There must be (!!!) some clear and understandable rules for when the SC is deployed. Almost everyone was still in doubt when to pass and when not pass. Some cars passed lapped cars during SC, others didn't. There were also confusion when a crash occured under SC, nobody knew if the driver that crashed could reclaim his former position or if he just had to stay in his current position.
And as most of you already know... A better server is needed. Waaaay too many accidents due to lag. Cars kept dissapearing and out of nowhere - they reappeared right in front of you.
Overall it was a rather dissapointing experience. I also hoped for a bigger grid, hopefully there will be more drivers in the next round.
And one last thing before this posts is tl;dr... When putting together a series of races that welcomes foreign teams and drivers. You simply have to do the main part of the event in english. It really doesn't work out when all the non-czech's don't understand 90% of what's going on.
To make this a better cup, you need to do the following;
- Make sure to have all (!) the information written in proper english - from the beginning.
- Create a proper set of rules. The ones you already have is ok - but there are still a lot missing, which ends up confusing everyone.
- Before promising that there will be a tracker, please make sure that you have one available and be sure to know how to set it up.
- Use a server that can handle the amount of estimated drivers. Just imagine what it would have been like if there had been 20+ cars on the server.
- Don't have the commentator on the stream acting as the push- or safety-car driver. It was hella boring on the stream, while the SC was on track (and that was a lot).
- Be more strict about the rules; ie. there were drivers that didn't use their real names - that should be penalized. People were also speeding under SC even the SC itself were going up to 170 km/h.
- Use the TV Director on the stream. I'm sure the czech commentators did a great job - but it would be a lot more versatile if you had some english speaking commentators.
Don't take this critisiscm the wrong way. It's great that people take the time to do this kind of events. But there's still a long way to go. I'm sure it will be better next time though.