30-04-2018, 04:43 PM
No freezes for me during the races thanks to Gorka’s Steam plugin find. Gooooood stuff.
Qualied 12-ish. Which is fine because I prefer chasing vs being chased.
My teamie and I fought our way up through the ranks pretty quickly and had some GREAT battles with Tobias and a few of other drivers. Best battling I’ve been a part of for quite some time.
My apologies to Kris for not giving you quite enough space in the pit box. It looked like I was far enough over. Fortunately I wasn’t fixing damage so the wait was minimal.
On the final lap, I was about 2 seconds behind Dan and was gaining a little bit of time on him. I was pushing HARD to try to catch up. Praying for a mistake. Then Dan’s glitch/teleport/freeze happened and shot my car into the air, destroying it in the process. Dropped me from 6th or 7th to 11th. It looks friggin’ hilarious in the replay!
Oh, well. I haven’t been the victim of a technical glitch for a few seasons, so I just chalked it up to it being “my turn”. It didn’t take away from the fact that this was the funnest I’ve had racing in quite a while.
Race 2? UGH. Started toward the back and employed my new tactic of slowing to a complete stop during race start chaos rather than try to sneak through the carnage. Good choice because there was absolutely no hole through the mess ahead of me. Bad choice because I got rear ended and slammed into the wall. Got my damaged car on course, then was taken out again on turn 3.
I drove angry and barely in control for the next 10 laps hoping to either salvage some points or die in a fiery crash. Came into the pits, and Kris’ car was sitting in the pit box, where it had been for the last 6(?) laps, I believe (just checked. Only 2 laps. Non-issue). I sat there trying to figure out how to deal with this for a good 20 seconds, then he escaped out and I was finally able to pit. Ended up getting lapped even though I was running pretty consistent 1:27/28s.
Daniel carried the team this weekend with 2 great finishes. Way to go teamie!
I think that we really need to address the carnage at the start of the races. I think the problem is part aggression, part carelessness, part luck and part awareness limitations that plague sim racing. Maybe we need to try rolling starts if it hasn’t been tried already? I know that’s less realistic, but I’ll take that over spending 2 weeks preparing for a race only to be taken out before I even reach the starting line.
Regardless, I still had a very fun race day. Can’t wait for Belgium!
Qualied 12-ish. Which is fine because I prefer chasing vs being chased.
My teamie and I fought our way up through the ranks pretty quickly and had some GREAT battles with Tobias and a few of other drivers. Best battling I’ve been a part of for quite some time.
My apologies to Kris for not giving you quite enough space in the pit box. It looked like I was far enough over. Fortunately I wasn’t fixing damage so the wait was minimal.
On the final lap, I was about 2 seconds behind Dan and was gaining a little bit of time on him. I was pushing HARD to try to catch up. Praying for a mistake. Then Dan’s glitch/teleport/freeze happened and shot my car into the air, destroying it in the process. Dropped me from 6th or 7th to 11th. It looks friggin’ hilarious in the replay!
Oh, well. I haven’t been the victim of a technical glitch for a few seasons, so I just chalked it up to it being “my turn”. It didn’t take away from the fact that this was the funnest I’ve had racing in quite a while.
Race 2? UGH. Started toward the back and employed my new tactic of slowing to a complete stop during race start chaos rather than try to sneak through the carnage. Good choice because there was absolutely no hole through the mess ahead of me. Bad choice because I got rear ended and slammed into the wall. Got my damaged car on course, then was taken out again on turn 3.
I drove angry and barely in control for the next 10 laps hoping to either salvage some points or die in a fiery crash. Came into the pits, and Kris’ car was sitting in the pit box, where it had been for the last 6(?) laps, I believe (just checked. Only 2 laps. Non-issue). I sat there trying to figure out how to deal with this for a good 20 seconds, then he escaped out and I was finally able to pit. Ended up getting lapped even though I was running pretty consistent 1:27/28s.
Daniel carried the team this weekend with 2 great finishes. Way to go teamie!
I think that we really need to address the carnage at the start of the races. I think the problem is part aggression, part carelessness, part luck and part awareness limitations that plague sim racing. Maybe we need to try rolling starts if it hasn’t been tried already? I know that’s less realistic, but I’ll take that over spending 2 weeks preparing for a race only to be taken out before I even reach the starting line.
Regardless, I still had a very fun race day. Can’t wait for Belgium!
When in doubt, pass out.