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On this fine winter's eve I learned that sitting for 11 minutes of optional repairs will still not make your car drivable.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:On this fine winter's eve I learned that sitting for 11 minutes of optional repairs will still not make your car drivable. Best one is the stockcar thing where they can't clear your radiator so you just drive around for 20 laps until it blows.
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Nov 14, 2014 05:55
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What unit do they measure distance with in the F3 view? Is it seconds?
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Nov 16, 2014 17:30
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Yep, they use seconds.
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Nov 16, 2014 18:29
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It's in race units.
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Nov 16, 2014 19:15
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Cojawfee posted:It's in race units. I blew a twelve unit lead the other day.
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Nov 17, 2014 00:32
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LordPants posted:I blew a twelve unit lead the other day. whats the conversion ratio of oval race units to road race units these days?
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Nov 17, 2014 01:17
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OhsH posted:whats the conversion ratio of oval race units to road race units these days? It was at lime rock, so that's pretty much the same thing right? It must have been the greatest moment in that guy's life, something like the six guys in front of him all fell off the track. At least I finished 2nd so I still ground out irating and safety rating. I think that's the hardest thing transitioning from Ovals to road courses - just hitting your spots lap after lap when there is no pressure. I've found on ovals there isn't enough time to go "gee... what a big lead..." and let your concentration lapse.
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Nov 17, 2014 12:50
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ManicJason posted:Recording to an SDD is a great way to burn money. They don't take repeated writing at all. They do now. Good modern SSDs can take enough write cycles that you can write to them non stop for years without burning them out. Even cheap ones will outlast every other component in a system when faced with a normal usage pattern. You could write a 70gig vid cap to one every day and you'll eventually upgrade to a bigger faster one well before it wears out. Get an SSD, and then you'll kick yourself for not getting one sooner. Edit: To better quantify this: The Samsung 840, a low end drive whose most notable trait is that it uses flash with unusually low write cycle ratings, will eat around 300TB of writes before it starts throwing errors. That's over 10 years of daily 70GB caps. And that's just about the shortest lifetime drive you can buy. Theris fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Nov 17, 2014 |
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Nov 17, 2014 16:17
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What do you guys think of Road America and the skip barber course. Was thinking of getting road america at least, seems like a nice track and it will be retained for at least three seasons.
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Nov 17, 2014 18:43
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Early in my now extensive two month iRacing career I wanted to know which tracks saw the most use and wanted to buy the best value for the series I run. Now, the only barometer I use for purchases is personal interest. Virginia International Raceway is hardly used, but it's amazing so I want that. Circuit of the Americas is heavily used, but who gives a crap. That's all it comes down to for me. I think personally, I'm more interested in "classic" tracks. Some sort of 70s heyday thing. How can you not love Zolder or Zandvoort? If you want to stick with Skip Barber, yes Road America will be a good value in that series. Also, since I kept track of the dates, I'll just say that... 9/10 - Joined. 9/27 - D license, road. 10/21 - C license, road. 11/2 - B license, road. 11/17 - A license, road. Not bad for a little less than ten weeks. MC Fruit Stripe fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Nov 17, 2014 |
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Nov 17, 2014 18:50
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I have to say doing that Star Mazda open practice at Spa with goons on Saturday night was fun, especially pubbies (both goons and non-goons alike  ) not knowing "Stairs?"We'll have to coordinate some stuff at Brand Snatch tonight, that's a fun track?
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Nov 17, 2014 20:26
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Theris posted:Get an SSD, and then you'll kick yourself for not getting one sooner. KingShibby posted:especially pubbies (both goons and non-goons alike Ohsh and I ran a race after that went... poorly. We missed being in the same split by something like 25 iRating or else we could have had a decent video. Instead we got a video of me sitting in the pits, getting ten minutes of repairs done while asking, "What's going on in your race? What happened? What was that?" Not exactly riveting commentary.
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Nov 17, 2014 20:47
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ManicJason posted:but it seemed to be a huge consensus in the fraps/dxtory forums.
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ManicJason posted:I have SSDs, just not enough free space on them to be recording hundreds of gigs of video. I'm hoping a 7200 RPM drive will do the job. I'd rather not buy yet another SSD just for recording, but it's interesting to hear that SSDs are better at taking writes now. I was surprised to read that they were so bad at taking repeated writes, but it seemed to be a huge consensus in the fraps/dxtory forums. Maybe it's a misconception at this point. If you saw something a while ago and haven't seen anything about it recently from a reliable source, it's probably not true anymore.
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KingShibby posted:I can't believe a goon with more seniority than me has never heard of Stairs? We were all on Mumble and messing with you. edit: Thanks for the SSD SH/SC link. I hadn't thought to look there. That info looks way more credible than whatever I read before. ManicJason fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Nov 17, 2014 |
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Nov 17, 2014 22:02
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I thought you said bears.
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Cojawfee posted:I thought you said bears. Do you have bears in your house? Get out quick!
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i had my in game voice down super quiet so i was probably just ramblingManicJason posted:We were all on Mumble and messing with you. mumble.goonrathi.com 64738 password: mellon we pretty much use it for practicing/races, all chilling and shooting the poo poo is still done mostly in the #racinggoons synirc channel.
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I've been having some router issues, which are now hopefully resolved. Until now, though, I've been dropped from quite a few races due to these issues, which results in a forfeit. Therefore, my iRating has plummeted like a sack of wet potatoes. I hopped into a Skippy race tonight at Road America in the second of two splits with only three practice laps and no qualifying - I know the track and I never went off in practice, so I'll just ride at the back of the pack to grind iRating. Race starts, and I'm 4th on the grid. The cars ahead botch the start, so I am in the lead at the first corner, thinking ohshitohshitohshit... I won the race by 32 seconds. ... I think I was in the wrong split.
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Nov 18, 2014 03:59
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CaseFace McGee posted:I won the race by 32 seconds. So, about half a straightaway?
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Nov 18, 2014 04:34
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Curbs at Brands Hatch be like * (or "kerbs", if you will)
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ManicJason posted:We were all on Mumble and messing with you.  I didn't even realize we had a Mumble channel after reading the OP 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C1jnx-57XM A new event for Gooncar races?
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Helicon One posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C1jnx-57XM You think Goons can actually make it to the Chase without crashing? 
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Helicon One posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C1jnx-57XM That would be a lot of fun with unlimited quick repairs, just turn off fast towing and that would be an amazing event!
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Are there any hot deals right now for returning players, like three months for the price of one or something?
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Nov 23, 2014 20:54
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They're doing 1 year for $49, but you have to already have an active sub, so just buy 1 month, then buy the year for $49
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Nov 23, 2014 20:55
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The rear end Stooge posted:Are there any hot deals right now for returning players, like three months for the price of one or something? I got a code a month or so ago where I could resub a year for $49. My account was inactive for a week only before I got it. So good timing I suppose. Maybe you got one too? Boar It fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Nov 23, 2014 |
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Nov 23, 2014 22:25
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If you're making a NEW account, I've still got a handful of 12- and 3-month codes. PM me if you want one.
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Had a hell of a time in the Mustang at Watkins last night. Actually went into turn 5 three wide (I made it two going low, another guy went high to make it 3) and came out the other side both intact and ahead.
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Helicon One posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C1jnx-57XM My favorite video of the Bathurst jump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-hqStPU8B0
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IOwnCalculus posted:Had a hell of a time in the Mustang at Watkins last night. Actually went into turn 5 three wide (I made it two going low, another guy went high to make it 3) and came out the other side both intact and ahead. Yeah it was a good race until that guy a lap down took you out. But to be fair you did kind of cut over on him...
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KingShibby posted:Yeah it was a good race until that guy a lap down took you out. But to be fair you did kind of cut over on him... Different race That first one I went clean flag-to-flag.I saw him, I just kept thinking "there's no way he's going to try up the inside of 2..." Nope. Got the spotter warning pretty much right as we made contact, and it was even light enough to be a 0x at first. Whole reason he was a lap down (and on fresher tires) is because he did the same thing to someone else coming into the last corner. I probably would've been fine if I'd stayed outside on 2 but I guarantee he would've forced the issue somewhere between there and 5. The guy has managed to be on iRacing for two years without ever moving past a low D license.
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IOwnCalculus posted:The guy has managed to be on iRacing for two years without ever moving past a low D license. lmao jesus gently caress
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I just got started in this with a used G27 setup. Ho boy is this fun. A lot of issues I'm having can probably be attributed to lovely seating. My chair does not have a full-size back and is not lockable, and my desk gets in the way of my knees when I heel-toe. That reminds me; how many of you actually go full-realism with controls? My best lap around Laguna right now is like a 1:47 in the Roadster and I see guys turning laps never missing shifts and I wonder if they're just using auto-shift.
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Beach Bum posted:I just got started in this with a used G27 setup. Ho boy is this fun. Practice more and you won't miss any shifts either I'm at maximum reals, and when I was still in rookies I would miss maybe one shift a race in the Miata which was usually right after I slowed for a wreck or something. I miss some now when I drive a standard transmission, but that's because I'm almost exclusively driving the Skippy (and still kinda sucking) and you don't need to use the clutch to shift it. Dogbox transmissions are fun, but it makes me sloppy.
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There's always a bit of frustration in driving synchromesh H shift transmissions in iRacing since you get no feedback. The good news is that very few cars in the service have H shifter synchro transmissions (Miata, Solstice, Spec Racer Ford, Mustang.) The dog box H shifters are much more forgiving. I very rarely miss shifts in the SRF in a race, but I usually miss a couple in practice when I jump back into it until I remind myself to take it easy.
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