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I was me. But no big deal from my stand point. I had to brake. I was at my brake marker. Couldn't brake late on an inside line on cold tires. Thought you'd have moved a little wider to have a better entry. All contact did was put me at the back where I'd likely end up anyway! Raced a few laps at the back against Txus till he dropped way back. Then chased you for a few but over-drove the car and fell back. Waited for Txus just to have someone to play with. Then he pitted which made me think pit stops were required! :oops: At some point I was fiddling with the pitstop setup and went off in T1. At that point all the fun was gone so I ejected.
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R1 - after a lap or two in second, I made a mistake coming out of the T3 left and DC got through. I spent several laps right up his backside but started to overheat as a result and dropped back a bit to save the engine. Tyres then started to overheat so couldn’t make up ground. Ended up removing rad tape for R2 and taking some air out of the left tyres to try and reduce pressure later in the race - seemed to work.
R2 - made my way through the pack over the course of several laps but Stig was well away having started further up the grid. Cruicky was gaining in 3rd and I just didn’t feel I had the car under me to make a concerted defence so didn’t try too hard to hold him back. I think I overshot at T1 at some point and DC and Giorgio came through. Giorgio eventually lost it in the esses. Can’t recall what happened to DC but I guess he ran wide somewhere too. Lonelyish race to the end - enlivened only by Stig running wide at T1 (but keeping a 4 sec gap to me until the finish) and Txus exiting the pits in front of me - I’m guessing he changed some tyres as I could only pretty much match his pace and it was some time before he needed to worry about blue flags!
Oh well. On to Rnd 6 (Willow Springs) - should be fun! I have my excuses ready - should be installing new pedals later today  :eek:
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(Might be worth pointing out that several drivers have only used two car types so far - still three rounds to meet the minimum of three different vehicles, but don’t leave it until Mystery Track #2  )
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I had very good races, good fun and good points for le league. Maybe the confidence with the Playmouth is growing or the freshly well known track (for the other league.. If irc it was the very first race) helped but I had very good feeling with the car.
Nice battles here and there ended very well with no problems and I made e my races.
What is a shame is to see peoples having still a lot of different problems with rF2: connection, freezing and other stuff... On the first run on the server I had a strange change of the Fov, it was at minimum I think, I could only see a small zoomed portion of my view, I put it back at my used value and than was ok, but strange (!!). It may have depend from the last update.. I'll never know..
To next one guys!
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first race i made a total cockup of the start and got rear ended , chased after Myles who went wide after a couple of laps and then spent the rest of the race fending him off .
second race i made a decent start but got what i thought was a slight hit at turn 2 , but it altered the handling of the car which now swopped between under and oversteer as it wanted , spent the rest of the race making stupid mistakes when my brain wouldnt connect to my legs .
Understeer - is when you hit the wall with the front of the car
Oversteer - is when you hit the wall with the back of the car
Horsepower - is how fast you hit the wall
Torque - is how far you move the wall when you hit it
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Mr Fox (Myles7), post: 32098, member: 579 Wrote:R1 - after a lap or two in second, I made a mistake coming out of the T3 left and DC got through. I spent several laps right up his backside but started to overheat as a result and dropped back a bit to save the engine. Tyres then started to overheat so couldn’t make up ground. Ended up removing rad tape for R2 and taking some air out of the left tyres to try and reduce pressure later in the race - seemed to work.
R2 - made my way through the pack over the course of several laps but Stig was well away having started further up the grid. Cruicky was gaining in 3rd and I just didn’t feel I had the car under me to make a concerted defence so didn’t try too hard to hold him back. I think I overshot at T1 at some point and DC and Giorgio came through. Giorgio eventually lost it in the esses. Can’t recall what happened to DC but I guess he ran wide somewhere too. Lonelyish race to the end - enlivened only by Stig running wide at T1 (but keeping a 4 sec gap to me until the finish) and Txus exiting the pits in front of me - I’m guessing he changed some tyres as I could only pretty much match his pace and it was some time before he needed to worry about blue flags!
Oh well. On to Rnd 6 (Willow Springs) - should be fun! I have my excuses ready - should be installing new pedals later today :eek: Which pedals Myles
Understeer - is when you hit the wall with the front of the car
Oversteer - is when you hit the wall with the back of the car
Horsepower - is how fast you hit the wall
Torque - is how far you move the wall when you hit it
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deecee52, post: 32102, member: 19 Wrote:Which pedals Myles Super Shinies ™
Heusinkveld Ultimate Plus
I wasn‘t originally planning to upgrade my pedals but the clutch and throttle potentiometers have been drifting of late and although I’ve replaced them once before, they‘re not great and you can only get them with the correct actuation ranges etc. from Thrustmaster.
As to Giorgio’s FOV issue…. …although I’m still getting used to my new VR headset, I was plagued all last night by the feeling that my straight-ahead view was slightly off the axis of the car (I.e. angled towards the left). Resetting the VR position (for which I’ve always had an in-game button) never dispelled that feeling. It might just be the new VR but I don’t recall it with earlier builds (there was a large Hotfix yesterday too…)
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Mr Fox (Myles7), post: 32103, member: 579 Wrote:Super Shinies ™
Heusinkveld Ultimate Plus
I wasn‘t originally planning to upgrade my pedals but the clutch and throttle potentiometers have been drifting of late and although I’ve replaced them once before, they‘re not great and you can only get them with the correct actuation ranges etc. from Thrustmaster.
As to Giorgio’s FOV issue…. …although I’m still getting used to my new VR headset, I was plagued all last night by the feeling that my straight-ahead view was slightly off the axis of the car (I.e. angled towards the left). Resetting the VR position (for which I’ve always had an in-game button) never dispelled that feeling. It might just be the new VR but I don’t recall it with earlier builds (there was a large Hotfix yesterday too…) VERY nice , who left you the inheritance Warren Buffet 
Understeer - is when you hit the wall with the front of the car
Oversteer - is when you hit the wall with the back of the car
Horsepower - is how fast you hit the wall
Torque - is how far you move the wall when you hit it
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Mr Fox (Myles7), post: 32103, member: 579 Wrote:Heusinkveld Ultimate Plus Wow! Googled it. Yes, very nice!
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Ricknau, post: 32097, member: 230 Wrote:I was me. But no big deal from my stand point. I had to brake. I was at my brake marker. Couldn't brake late on an inside line on cold tires. Thought you'd have moved a little wider to have a better entry. All contact did was put me at the back where I'd likely end up anyway! Raced a few laps at the back against Txus till he dropped way back. Then chased you for a few but over-drove the car and fell back. Waited for Txus just to have someone to play with. Then he pitted which made me think pit stops were required! :oops: At some point I was fiddling with the pitstop setup and went off in T1. At that point all the fun was gone so I ejected. Well I am sorry I hate when I screw someone elses race
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Just like Giorgio, racing here already in the Sunday League, I was up to speed in little time at this track. I felt in the groove.
I hope I not getting Tims and Ed's Pc problems. My game crashed Race 1. Lucky for me it was 10 seconds after finishing the race, me on my cool down lap. There were 3 error messages in Windows event Viewer related to NVidia. Hope that was just a one off crash. Good job Myles was doing the reverse grids not me, as my Log file that has the finish order was not saved when PC crashed.
Mr Fox (Myles7), post: 32098, member: 579 Wrote:Should be installing new pedals later today :eek: Just when I thought I was winning the war, the enemy brings out the big guns
The Stig was fast this race.
Ed Pond where are you?
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Saved a couple of hundred quid by finding someone needing to sell a three month old two-pedal set and baseplate due to a house move - bought the clutch pedal new. Still very expensive but hopefully the last set of pedals I’ll need!
I’ve modified my rig to mount them - but there’s so much adjustment (and so little room to get in there!) that it’ll take me a while! Looks like I might have some flexing issues - brake force is similar (possibly less) than my old setup but that was highly triangulated and braced and the Heusinkveld brackets probably work better with an extruded rig rather than one of Jonathan’s CNC plywood jobbies!
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bullwinkle, post: 32106, member: 333 Wrote:Well I am sorry I hate when I screw someone elses race Just a racing incident in my view. Glad you were able to carry on.
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Cor blimey! Quite a physically tough evening!
R1 - made a poor start as I’ve not practiced starts with my new pedals (which are rather spiffing, by the way!). Can’t remember much about the race other than getting out of shape on T2 with DeeCee behind me and he, himself, got out of shape and ran wide (I think) when he tried to avoid me. After that, I was a fairly constant 5 secs to Seb, Cruicky and Ed and couldn’t make any impression. Seb ran wide twice on the final lap (I seem to remember him doing similar at Riverside?) but managed to survive to leave me 4th.
R2 - a much better start from towards the back of the pack. A polite but busy first few laps with half a dozen of us in close proximity? Jonathan managed to really hold Cruicky back (with Ed and myself completing a +very+ tight sub-pack but DeeCee was untroubled and getting away at the front. I guess DeeCee was punishing his tyres again though as the four of us got closer and closer. Jonathan eventually overheated his tyres too and Ed, DJC and I made it through and started mixing it with DeeCee. DJC appeared to struggle to find a way past, Ed and DJC swapped and returned places at one point, Ed overcooked it, fell behind me but eventually recovered and took the place back. We all battled and managed to get past DeeCee.
Phew! I was hot, drained (and strangely for me, hungry!) by the end (finished 3rd) - and I’ve not even fitted a new room-heating GPU to my new rig yet!
The night race worked quite well for me - I did lose a couple of fps around the twisties at the top of the hill, but otherwise it seemed a good night venue.
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R1 Joined late as I have family home for holiday. Had done enough practice laps to get comfortable in the Camaro. (My 3rd chasssis for season.) Ran a few laps in the warmup which I thought was the qualy. Seeing daylight I thought "hmmm... I thought this was supposed to be a night race!" Got dropped on the back of the grid and saw nighttime. Thought "OK... there's the dark!" Then at about 2 secs to green I got teleported into my garage! Whaa?! DQ! I suppose because I hadn't turned my headlights on. Arrrgh! Oh well.
R2 Was placed at P1 on the grid. This should not be and I didn't want to fight the inevitable so I slowed on the back "straight" to let a bunch of cars pass. Then fell into a race with Seb. He was definitely faster and got by me when I bobbled somewhere. Then we flip-flopped positions several times as we exchanged bobbles. He bobbled last which gave me enough gap to bring it home at P6.
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Oh yeah, sorry for last minute quizzing about fuel load. In the few last-minute laps I did offline my fuel consumption was showing 1.4 gal per lap. Didn't check when running online. The tank won't hold a race load at 1.4gal/lap. Scratched my head a bit and hence the quiz. Ends up my offline fuel rate was still set for Indy practice condition of double fuel rate.  So I ran this race with about 10 extra gallons of fuel.
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Despite the final positions it was a very nice tournout for me. I decided to choose the Javelin because I had a very solid race on the sunday's round and also for the slug points aswell.
At the qually I figured out to have a similar peace with J Cook and I was quite surprised about
R1 was a pleasure with JC: we exchanged posotions more than one time and never went on risky situations. I won the battle for the penultimate position with great fun.
For R2 all I was aspexting was the same fun I had on R1, and so it was. Again me and John battling for the last place switching positions without any touch with nice overtakes. I was ahed of him untill the second half of the race when there came not one but two mistake on the same lap for me and I stupidlly lost the nice battle.
Thank you John Cook for the beautiful race in that beautiful atmosphere of the dark.
Good idea to go by night, something different from the other race we made at Willow.
Cya soon gents.
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Qualifying: Best I could do was second to djc's pole.
Race 1: Got a great start and got past djc and spent the race under intense pressure from him but managed to defend position.
Race 2: Started at the back and gradually made up positions until there was a pack of 4 of us at the front: Deecee, djc, Myles and myself. We had some excellent close fair racing and a lot of position changes. At one point I fell back to fourth thinking that was it but then perhaps people were struggling with tyres. The last two laps were very exciting and into the last lap I just managed to get past djc into turn 1. So glad my game didn't crash this time and we had some superb racing.
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Small turnout last night - we knew about Giorgio (and did Ed say he’d have to skip one?) Not sure what happened to Jonathan…
But what an intense evening for me at least! I’ve been struggling with pace relative to Cruicky, Ed and DeeCee in the second half of the season. I guess I’m on the back foot for setups on tracks the Feature league has already run.
Anyway, that’s not an excuse - just an explanation (or maybe I can blame the inverse-square law of recent rig investment to performsnce:p)
I think for the entirety of both races, I had DeeCee swarming over by back bumper and clearly faster - but on a track that can be defended fairly easily. I was lucky enough that when I did make mistakes, DeeCee was unable to capitalise - but it was a close run thing.
R2 was particularly tough (obvs!) - I don’t race with the car-condition display on (particularly for these cars) but I did glance at it towards the end of the race and my front-left was destroyed. I think I’d finally managed to actually wear one out rather than just overheat it - the last X laps must have been frustrating for DeeCee as I had to slow so much but took a lead out of Jonathan’s book and parked it on the apex…
Phew!
There might be a short delay to the Mystery Track being loaded for Round 8 (later today or possibly Friday) as I reconsider and revalidate my original choice - I want it to be a suitable challenge and not a frustrating procession (unless I’m leading )
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Argh!
R1 was good for me - I could tell [USER=10]@DJCruicky[/USER] was worried about fuel and could tell the point where he realised he was ok and out the foot down again…!
R2 started well - gradually made my way up the grid and appeared to have a lap extra of fuel than most people. Stopped in my pit box and nothing happened - the fuel setting just flickered. Eventually it started to fill but I’d lost all my advantage by then. I was hampered for the rest of the race by a problem with my MFD - it would only show the pit menu and if I changed it to something like the positions display, it changed straight back. Very distracting….
I think I worked it out after the race when my text box kept filling with white space! I’ve got a second keyboard on the floor by my rig (temporary while I finalise my rig) and it looks as if my VR cable was pressing the space bar! Doh!
Good fun though - hope you enjoyed the final race venue and the series.
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Many thanks to Myles for organising the series.
They wouldn't be my personal choice of cars however they did provide some entertaining racing and I am happy to race anything with you lot. A great idea to align the sunday league with the midweek and to add in the "mystery" tracks was a brilliant idea taking everyone out their comfort zone.
What I really noticed was spending 6 months out the country (and not in my rig at all) had a huge impact on my personal performance and consistency but even so I was happy to come along and make up the numbers....the more the merrier and all that.
I'm more than happy to go back to the Wed night 6 lap fun races or do another 15/30min league.
Again thanks to myles, the admin team and SR4L
In the words of John Landis......"see you next wednesday"
JR
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