Re: Season 3 - Starts 30/07/12

[HWKII]

I don't know why the Advanced Legends oval series suddenly opened up for me, but I ran one at Oxford to see what it was like (before the incoming track change to somewhere else). FUN is what it was like. Other than the one time I spun out on my own I ran incident-free.

Yeah, I drove the John Deer around Oxford in practice for a bit, I think my best lap was in the ... 17s? My favorite thing about the track is that it's like driving around a crater. If you run too wide, you just fly off the edge of the caldera and end up out in the grass no where near the track. Or way up in the fence. Definitely looking forward to doing some real racing there, but don't have a handle on the Rumrunner to be anything like safe...

[clacksman]

I don't know why the Advanced Legends oval series suddenly opened up for me, but I ran one at Oxford to see what it was like (before the incoming track change to somewhere else). FUN is what it was like. Other than the one time I spun out on my own I ran incident-free.

Yeah, I drove the John Deer around Oxford in practice for a bit, I think my best lap was in the ... 17s? My favorite thing about the track is that it's like driving around a crater. If you run too wide, you just fly off the edge of the caldera and end up out in the grass no where near the track. Or way up in the fence. Definitely looking forward to doing some real racing there, but don't have a handle on the Rumrunner to be anything like safe...

Yeah the streetstock is weirdo to drive. I liked the Legend, didn't do anything to the baseline setup but it works pretty well.

Also boo the grand touring cup race I was going to do just switched to Brads Hatch. Good thing I got enough TTs in earlier today at Laguna to be into C license, not sure what I can run on this weeks tracks other than Mazdas on SlimeRock.

[RackAttack]

I don't know why the Advanced Legends oval series suddenly opened up for me

It opened up because your safety rating went above 3.0. It's a Rookie (3.0) event, meaning you have to have a 3.0 safety rating in Rookie to participate.

From D class and up, almost all of the events require <previous class license 4.0>. So for example when you get your road racing to Class C 4.0 or higher, there are many Class B series that become available, even though you're still class C.

[clacksman]

I don't know why the Advanced Legends oval series suddenly opened up for me

It opened up because your safety rating went above 3.0. It's a Rookie (3.0) event, meaning you have to have a 3.0 safety rating in Rookie to participate.

From D class and up, almost all of the events require . So for example when you get your road racing to Class C 4.0 or higher, there are many Class B series that become available, even though you're still class C.

My oval SR was 3.4x since before noon today, took it long enough to add the series to my eligible list.

Mmmm, Caddies at Mid-Ohio ... that'll work.

[Forgetful]

You should be able to run the Caddy, the Mazda Cup and the inRacing News Challenge at Charlotte Road course.

[Forgetful]

Also... week 6... Legends at Lime Rock.

[clacksman]

You should be able to run the Caddy, the Mazda Cup and the inRacing News Challenge at Charlotte Road course.

Yup.

[Forgetful]

My week will consist of Mustangs at DRC (GA) and Mosport (MC). A little Brad's Hatch will be in store as well. Tonight I TT and Q.

[clacksman]

Caddies at Mid-O is reaaaaaaaaaallllllllyyy good.
dat grip change on and off the patches
dat steering weight change over the crests
dem vee ate powerslides
awwwwwwwwwwwww yyeaaaaahhh

And then I did the solstice/MX5 at Charlotte road. I knew the road course existed, and I even knew it had surprising elevation change (I was one of the 8 people who watched the ALMS race from there some years back), but hot damn that's just redonkulous to drive. Also the Solstice seems to have a bunch of top speed over the MX5.

[SpecMiata-JSW]

I was at that race! Just one of many benefits of going to college in Charlotte. One thing I clearly remember about that race was watching the Panoz drivers manually down shifting into turn 1.

The good old days when race car drivers shifted with a stick rather than bits on the steering wheel.

[clacksman]

I was at that race!

Noice

Just one of many benefits of going to college in Charlotte.

Please list the rest of them.

One thing I clearly remember about that race was watching the Panoz drivers manually down shifting into turn 1.

Let's see here, lever vs. paddle shifting

Lever pros:
Funner to watch drivers operate it

Paddle pros:
Costs several hundred thousand dollars more
Infinitessimally faster

[group44]

Caddies at Mid-O is reaaaaaaaaaallllllllyyy good.
dat grip change on and off the patches
dat steering weight change over the crests
dem vee ate powerslides
awwwwwwwwwwwww yyeaaaaahhh

Good gravy, you're killing me clacks.

[SpecMiata-JSW]

Grats on your win HWK!!

Great racing with you last night Rack, you and Darryl had great pace and I'm just lucky I got to hang on to my car long enough for 2nd. I didn't realize how tired I was until a few laps into that race; I haven't had that many stupid-self inflicted 1x's in a long time.

It's a bummer the race didn't split, I think we needed two more entrants. Traditionally the 9:15 race has always split and been a big points race. Look what happens when I make an announcement to try and get some interest.

Fun race last night and great racing!

What's a high SOF up there? Highest it's given me in the near-noob races has been about 2000.

Also : must ... stop ... spinning ... out ... exiting ... final ... turn ... at ... Jefferson reverse ...

Anywhere between 2800-3000. The winner of the 3092 SOF race earned 196 points. LOL!

[clacksman]

Anywhere between 2800-3000. The winner of the 3092 SOF race earned 196 points. LOL!

Yowzah. Above my snack bracket for the time being, the ol' irating has taken a minor hit at the new tracks.

[Forgetful]

Caddies at Mid-O is reaaaaaaaaaallllllllyyy good.
dat grip change on and off the patches
dat steering weight change over the crests
dem vee ate powerslides
awwwwwwwwwwwww yyeaaaaahhh

Tested that last night. Iz gud. Canadian Tire Motorsports Park was fun too.

[SpecMiata-JSW]

I was at that race!

Noice

Just one of many benefits of going to college in Charlotte.

Please list the rest of them.

One thing I clearly remember about that race was watching the Panoz drivers manually down shifting into turn 1.

Let's see here, lever vs. paddle shifting

Lever pros:
Funner to watch drivers operate it

Paddle pros:
Costs several hundred thousand dollars more
Infinitessimally faster

Whats even cooler is I had an internship at the then called "Charlotte Motor Speedway" now known as Lowes. I was working during the two day ALMS testing event, and I can't tell you how hard it is to concentrate when you can hear a BMW V12 LMR on the track. Audi was still using the R8R to compete, but during the test day they had a new all carbon R8 to test. Seeing that car in real life blew my AND my college friends mind. It was so beautiful, and little did we know that it would become the dominant beast that we all became so familiar with.

I also got a few tracks days on Charlotte and can tell you that it's a fun little Roval.

Other benefits of going to school in Charlotte.

• Chicks
  
• Mountains 90 minutes away (great for driving the day away)
  
• Beer
  
• Far away from home....but not too far!
  
• Being close to Road Atlanta (using this track to get college buddies who had no idea about racing VERY much into racing) We still meet at Petit every year.
  
• Beer
  
• Getting introduced to GT1 then enjoying GT2 my senior year. Funny thing was we used to play and dream of how cool it would be to link up and race without a split screen. We also used to wonder how good we were compared to other players, since we didn't have a benchmark.
  

College was awesome. That is all.

[clacksman]

Neat. It's not Lowe's anymore, the $ deal ended so it's once again Charlotte Motor Speedway. As has Infineon's deal with Sears Point, ending ... this month I think.

[SpecMiata-JSW]

Awesome. That's the way it should be!

[clacksman]

iRacing down for scheduled maintenance over the next couple hours or so. The site is currently showing a prompt for downloading updates.

inb4 release notes

[HWKII]

iRacing down for scheduled maintenance over the next couple hours or so. The site is currently showing a prompt for downloading updates.

inb4 release notes

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- NVIDIA returns as a sponsor of our rookie Mazda Cup Series which will be once again be called the NVIDIA Cup Series.

- The Mazda MX-5 Roadster has had it's 5 speed gearbox restored.

Serious. Bidness.

[clacksman]

Neat. Seems to be back up, just logged in and there's "required updates" on every series.

PS if there's a prize available for putting NVIDIA decnals on my mazda(s) then on they go ...

[HWKII]

Neat. Seems to be back up, just logged in and there's "required updates" on every series.

PS if there's a prize available for putting NVIDIA decnals on my mazda(s) then on they go ...

True facts. In many ways it surprises me that more companies don't do this...

[clacksman]

PS if there's a prize available for putting NVIDIA decnals on my mazda(s) then on they go ...

True facts. In many ways it surprises me that more companies don't do this...

There one for 'main performance pc' on now, run them as 'primary sponsor' in 10 official races during season 3 for random chance to win a $nice rig. Have already done so in 11 races.

Also the nvidia sponsorship update put a nvidia sticker on the rear license plate area of the mx5s.

[clacksman]

Engine failure from over-revving with a too-early downshift is modeled.

Ahem.

[SpecMiata-JSW]

Engine failure from over-revving with a too-early downshift is modeled.

Ahem.

Realistic sims are realistic.

These are things that I like and think are cool.

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