Well, as those of you on Vent will have noticed, I am extremely angry about today. The driving was fine and I was actually enjoying myself, but as you can see from this graph, my PC was not. At the start of race 1 my fps dropped to 7. As the lights went green it recovered. But half way around the first lap, it dropped again and I lost all force feedback and became a danger so I had to spectate.

Race 2, I managed to hold my own and was 3rd for quite some time. Then I began to get nervous and spun. Just after that, my PC decided it wanted to be useless piece of crap and die again. I came into the U-turn with no force feedback and ploughed into the gravel. There was much shouting over Ventrilo.

So, basically, what have I learned?

1) I suck at driving
2) My PC sucks at coping with me sucking at driving
3) I need a new PC
4) Oops

my race ended a tad early too , i clipped a barrier on the oval bit and it sent me into the wall at over 200kph .
not a great week for me .

Wow, and i was wondering, where you disappeared, Michael. That sucks indeed.

My races were very good, didn't expected so good results.
In sprint i had few contacts due to my lags, but still finished 8th.
Long was very challenging. In short, i tried to make it on podium, but 3id wall was too much for me. Fourth place=huge success.

Well, i got a couple of PB's during qually that i was pleased about, i was the slowest of the guys in the 55's, resulting in a 10th place start for the sprint race.

The sprint race was over for me however at T1-T2 when afaik a lot of the field had a weird lag problem. This resulted in i think a 3id car spinning and i was the unfortunate soul that t-boned him, last place for me, but then managed claw a couple of places back. Me and Dan had a coming together during the race, we found ourselfs partaking in a little automobile ballet (sorry, tandem drifting ) coming out of the final turn back onto the oval section, and we touched and spun out.

The feature race was fairly uneventful for me, i was just hotlapping for the majority of the race, but keeping a careful eye on S.Custers, who was lap by lap, eating away at the lead i had over him. In the end though i finished 7th i think, with S.Custers less than a second behind me

Looking forward to the final round

Well, what a mixed night for me .

Quali went great, got a PB which also grabbed me a suspect pole position.

Race 1 was a bit different. Starting on pole is pretty daunting with the whole fiesld after you. Unfortunately, I didn't rise to the challenge. T1 was pretty unlucky for me, just when I was about to turn in, I totally lost all ffb + steering input. I had no choice but to cut across the gravel bashing ctrl+c repeatedly ^^. I tihnk this landed me down in 9th or 10th. I got very angry. Clawed it up to 7th, slowly catching Custers (1 more lap maybe ).

Race 2 was pretty much perfect. Starting at the end seems to suit me a bit more. I took a bit of a gamble at T1, braking much later than everyone, making my way past around 5 or 6 drivers. Midway through lap 1, I was in 3rd position and by the end of the lap I had passed Passingham, making me in 2nd position. A few laps later, I started to reduce Kid's lead. Once passed, we opened up a huge gap back to 3rd position. Laps went by, my lead got smaller and smaller. Slowly, Dave and Hugo moved up the field to sit 3rd & 4th respectivly. I was praying that Dave would make a slip up, and apparently, he did! With 4 laps remaining, he was right up my pipe. I tried to hold my nerve, keep the RAC steady and plough on to victory. With 1 lap left, Dave was .8 behind me and getting high from my fumes. And by the final sector, h was .2 . I hoped for a good exit onto the oval, or else I woulda been left for soup. Thankfully, I had enough of a gap so that Dave couldnt get into my stream. And I claimed my first big event win!

Thanks for great races! See you at next round

I have a bit of a correction to make: I was playing LFS and my FPS dropped again... I just discovered a book covering up the heat sink of my laptop. The book is incredibly hot and my fan is going crazy. I think that is why my laptop started to break. So, sorry laptop; it was my own stupidity, not your crappiness.

I have to say, that is user error at it's best...

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I have a bit of a correction to make: I was playing LFS and my FPS dropped again... I just discovered a book covering up the heat sink of my laptop. The book is incredibly hot and my fan is going crazy. I think that is why my laptop started to break. So, sorry laptop; it was my own stupidity, not your crappiness.

Meh, don't worry about it too much, you will be mocked accordingly next time you're on vent

Well.....where to begin.....

Qually went as normal, couple of places off the bottom.

Both races went as every other race went, start ok, clip someone, come off worse, give place back, get hit giving place back, drop to back, try to make up places, rinse, repeat.

What a really strange race.

Quali: i was 1 second off my original pace . just couldnt get the lines right after practice.

Race 1: Well being in 14-15th wasnt so bad, was just a case of trying to keep up with the fz50's, Drafting on the oval was great fun. and i cant remember if it was in the 1st race or in the 2nd but I got past dan into the sweeping left hander around turn 4... and repeated this step 3 more times to make up more places

Race 2: Gah being near the back with the fast lot is very hard. They come through like i was standing still and the mad rush for T1 wasnt good. Overall i was knocked back to last around lap 3 wasnt till 2 more laps that i caught up abit. That race wasnt too bad but I did like it that much.

Bring on South Town. This is going to be mad

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yeah...that really sucked

LOL, sorry mate :lovies3d: