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Apparently the B and C NASCAR open series are now half length races that will follow the real life schedule in one long, yearly season. The races will still run every two hours. Fixed series are unchanged. [source]
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Feb 11, 2015 04:50
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Huh. Still holding their status as the ultimate SR grind.
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Feb 11, 2015 08:11
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Ooph VIR is still kicking my rear end. I feel like Oak Tree is the only corner that I don't gently caress up on a regular basis. Hopefully now that I've got my qual lap in, I can find some consistency, because right now I am dreading the idea of a race distance.
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Feb 11, 2015 22:55
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I got my triple screens working. 
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Feb 12, 2015 04:49
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Harveygod posted:I got my triple screens working. One of us One of us One of us My monitor mounts should be arriving tomorrow so I can put my screens at the right height. My temporary setup has the side screens on tv trays, and my center monitor has to be boosted up with a Pete Townsend hardcover in order for all three to line up right now.
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Feb 12, 2015 05:34
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Monitors mounts are for suckers - my center screen is tall enough, my left screen is sitting on a copy of Robin McKinley's Sunshine and my right screen is on John Beardsley's Gardens of Revelation. Spend less on your rig and more on content, slacker.  e: Through an unrepeatable sequence of events, I just won a Late Model @ Bristol race by 3 laps. There'll be better wins than that, but probably none by a bigger margin. The key to my success? If everyone is going to wreck, wreck early and wreck gently. That way you have time to run them down before they wreck.
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Feb 12, 2015 05:51
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...but I want to read my Pete Townsend book  The mounts will let my keyboard sit flat instead of half laying on my center monitor stand, should make my whole rig more stable especially once I Velcro the monitor edges together, and will get those stupid tv trays out of the way. Besides, I still can't drive fast with plenty of the content I already have :v
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Feb 12, 2015 06:20
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GT2 wheel repaired. While taking it apart, GODDAMN does Fanatec use too many parts. Now I don't have to worry about my wheel suddenly going straight out of nowhere while in the middle of a turn. Now to try my hand at the Star Mazdas on Road America and I'm running 2:08's consistently, but I can't seem to get more top end speed without losing the ability to corner. Suggestions? Or are there any guides for the Star Mazda? So many options... Well great, anyone get the problem where you go to join a session, and the loader comes up, but nothing happens and it stops responding? In the past I've had to re-install but there's gotta be an easier way to deal with it. Ringo Star Get fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Feb 12, 2015 |
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Feb 12, 2015 15:09
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcULOGC4Jqg I felt like crashing after practicing a bit and then this happened. I had to unplug my wheel and it kept going until iRacing eventually crashed. 
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Feb 12, 2015 21:13
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Torabi posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcULOGC4Jqg DW12 crashes are the best crashes because everytime it hits the ground, no momentum is removed so it crashes forever until it either hits another car/wall or the sim crashes
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Feb 12, 2015 21:19
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Torabi posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcULOGC4Jqg Think that's gonna need more then a Sawzall.
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Feb 12, 2015 21:21
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That's what happens when you put Flubber in the gas tank...
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Feb 12, 2015 21:22
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Open-wheel crashes in iRacing are the best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxBKDUNBsFo
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Feb 12, 2015 21:52
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Ah yes, you've discovered iRacing's accurate DW12 physics to simulate the unstoppable spinning vortex of death. See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVRQX_kabe8
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Feb 13, 2015 01:11
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L_Harrison posted:Ah yes, you've discovered iRacing's accurate DW12 physics to simulate the unstoppable spinning vortex of death. I've seen that happen in real life, its rare but does happen.
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Feb 13, 2015 16:30
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Was doing great in a skippy race. But then all of a sudden Mr. Bentai started watching me.. judging me. Needless to say I ended up with 11x. But my SR still went up so that's a victory.
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Feb 13, 2015 21:55
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Torabi posted:Was doing great in a skippy race. But then all of a sudden Mr. Bentai started watching me.. judging me. Needless to say I ended up with 11x. But my SR still went up so that's a victory. ghost chief strikes again
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Feb 13, 2015 22:02
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Torabi posted:But then all of a sudden Mr. Bentai started watching me.. judging me. Goon spectatorship is a good way to ensure failure. Also, Road Atlanta in Grand Touring (Mustang/Jetta/Slowstice) is really loving fun, even though I can't manage a lap below a 1:36 in the Mustang and the fast guys are qualifying in the 1:34s. Hell, my optimal is still a high 1:35. There's clearly a much faster way through turn 5 than I can manage 99% of the time, that's where anyone running similar-or-better lap times really seems to drop me.
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Feb 13, 2015 22:02
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IOwnCalculus posted:Goon...is a good way to ensure failure.
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Feb 13, 2015 23:12
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It is not a great feeling to have literally everyone that's qualified better than you be on the grid. It is also not a great feeling to get tagged and spun before you even get to T1  It was pretty sweet rebounding to finish where I started though  Looking at the lap times, the whole thing probably only cost me one spot, considering I lost about 1 second a lap to the wing damage I got. And now I can say that I've done a race at VIR wooooo
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Feb 14, 2015 00:01
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IOwnCalculus posted:Goon spectatorship is a good way to ensure failure. Can anyone spectate any official race? Do we have to own content to spectate? IOwnCalculus posted:Also, Road Atlanta in Grand Touring (Mustang/Jetta/Slowstice) is really loving fun, even though I can't manage a lap below a 1:36 in the Mustang and the fast guys are qualifying in the 1:34s. Hell, my optimal is still a high 1:35. There's clearly a much faster way through turn 5 than I can manage 99% of the time, that's where anyone running similar-or-better lap times really seems to drop me. Grand Touring is really great. Some of the tracks are timed in such a way that you catch Jettas near the end. Leveling the field somewhat.
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Feb 14, 2015 01:00
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Ziploc posted:Can anyone spectate any official race? Do we have to own content to spectate? You still need to own the content, which is loving stupid if you ask me. If they would let you download the content and then spectate I'm sure they would get a lot more people buying content. I would personally love to watch some of the higher end road races and see what it is like.
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Feb 14, 2015 01:09
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Apparently I am hilarious to spectate  I'm going to open a Youtube channel called "mc fruit stripe never, ever shuts the hell up" MC Fruit Stripe fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Feb 14, 2015 |
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Feb 14, 2015 02:17
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Ziploc posted:Can anyone spectate any official race? Do we have to own content to spectate? You need to own the track and at least one of the cars. You don't have to own all of the cars anymore (there was once a time when you did).
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Feb 14, 2015 02:42
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Ziploc posted:Can anyone spectate any official race? Do we have to own content to spectate? I love Grand Touring cup but the Solstice is starting to bore me now (especially on longer tracks; Montreal dragged on forever) and the last time I tried doing the Mustang I hated it.
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Feb 14, 2015 04:33
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Torabi posted:You still need to own the content, which is loving stupid if you ask me. If they would let you download the content and then spectate I'm sure they would get a lot more people buying content. I would personally love to watch some of the higher end road races and see what it is like. If you haven't, check out Empty Box's youtube channel, you can find lots of combos there. He has a lot of GT3 content this season.
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Feb 14, 2015 08:34
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I'd love to do the RUF season since I've been working with the Star Mazda. It's gotten ridiculously complicated, to the point where other people are complaining about it and moving on.
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Feb 14, 2015 23:58
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Just finished my first ever race. Got 4th place and avoided every crash. Then someone rammed into me full speed after checkered. I think I did ok.
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Feb 15, 2015 01:25
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Ringo Star Get posted:I'd love to do the RUF season since I've been working with the Star Mazda. It's gotten ridiculously complicated, to the point where other people are complaining about it and moving on. Hell I don't even like the 10 minutes of warmup for WSCS. Warmup? Yeah that's called "I practiced before I joined", let's do this.
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Feb 15, 2015 02:08
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I just wore myself out trying to keep up with the point leader at VIR. Running 26 qualifying pace laps there has my hands literally shaking now. drat that was fun. He still beat me by a second 
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Feb 15, 2015 17:56
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Yup, there's always that one guy
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Feb 15, 2015 18:18
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Bumming Your Scene posted:Yup, there's always that one guy There was a guy in one of my bottom split Skippy races with a 800ish iRating that ran high 1:21s to low 1:22s in warmup on Summit Point. He would have easily won the race if he hadn't have been totally knocked out by some idiot. I found it weird his iRating was so low.
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Feb 15, 2015 19:06
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Him being knocked out is why his irating is so low. You can be as fast as you want but you need accident avoidance spills in bottom splits.
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Feb 15, 2015 19:33
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There are more than a few guys that intentionally tank their iRating so they can win division championships too.
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Feb 15, 2015 19:53
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league practice up for gooncar actual race same time as always hope ya'll show up even though it's not a free track :V
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Feb 15, 2015 21:05
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Lord Crapulus posted:There are more than a few guys that intentionally tank their iRating so they can win division championships too. There's one champion, everyone else is not, harumph.
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Feb 15, 2015 23:48
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Yeah I'm always a little surprised when I see people's bios and they're like "division 3 Midwest champion", I'm like, soooo you finished 175th overall then?  In relevant news, I ran two races today in the Skippy @ Summit Point. The first was the usual letdown where I was avoiding a dude sliding around on T1 and got plowed into from the back. Then I had to limp it all the way around to the pits then I had a good race from then on out, but still only finished 11th. On the second race, I won!  My second Road win!Okay, okay, so the SOF was only 667 and there was a dude in that race with an irating in the 300s, but gently caress you I ran it completely clean and while I was a touch slower than P2, once I capitalized on his mistake, he kept trying to get too aggressive to catch me and made more mistakes. If anyone is interested I've been feeling compelled to write a Shitters Journal about what it's like to learn racing in an almost vacuum. I honestly think I've learned a lot over the last few months. EDIT: There was this B-Class dude in the race that you could tell thought that he should have just been handed the race. He braked way too deeply on most corners, locking them up constantly and tried to dive-bomb everyone he saw, though he didn't have the chops to make it stick. I watched him in the replay and it was kind of pathetic. Overwined fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Feb 16, 2015 |
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Feb 16, 2015 01:14
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What's going on this week? 2015 Season 1, Week 10 It's Daytona 500 Week!  All of the big stock cars (C/B/A) are at Daytona. It's also week one of the NASCAR iRacing Series. Come do another 200 laps to follow up the 24 hours! No bus stop required! The usual suspects
Upcoming Events Daytona 500 Open times - Wednesday 9pm EST, Friday 9pm EST, Sunday 10am EST Fixed times - Thursday 9pm EST, Saturday 5am EST, Saturday noon EST, Sunday 9pm EST Road Warrior Five weeks until Sebring 12 hour in HPDs and GT3 cars
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Feb 16, 2015 01:32
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I'm unreasonably excited about the 500. I'm going to give the open series a shot this year. I've spent a couple of hours this week building a plate setup. I should probably run some A open races early this week as a dry run. Anyone else running the 500? I'll definitely share my setup if people help me practice with it a bit. No promises on its quality since I am new to this whole oval setup and telemetry thing.
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Feb 16, 2015 01:39
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I got my 8th race done this season with the Spec Racer Ford, so I get my 4 bucks for participation and I never have to drive the thing again if I don't want to I'll be in B road next season so I can race GT3, and that will probably be my main ride other than Skippy. I have almost every road course except Motegi, maybe one more and the upcoming Monza so I might be almost done throwing money at this game unless I want to get into ovals 
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