12 caution makes a pretty lousy *race* but, that dosn't mean that all the
*racing* have to suck...
I saw some really good racing last night and that was what I commented on.
Yes.. far to many cautions.... but ironicly I needed quite a few of them
last night :-)
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ed_
Even with the 12 cautions it was a very enjoyable race. Lots of good side by
side clean racing. I got into some great battles with serveral drivers.
bluestringer
Nice little demolition derby in the pits after the race Grub. :-)
bluestringer
Bitter and twisted ?
Overall Id say guys are showing more respect to fellow competitors. This is
what we need to reduce yellow laps plain and simple.
Mitch
cheers,
uwe
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> > Well, since I didn't save the replay either, I dont know who to
thank,
> > who to call to the carpet, or who to blame my mistakes on. I will say
this
> > though, thanks to all you nuts who used the grubbat dodge as a puntee. I
> > will never again post "damaged and off pace" because its like an open
> > season to pass/punt. The divebombing was terrible, even on the lapped
> cars,
> > the apparent blocking at the start of the race was just ***, and the
> > cars that were lapped down and racing for postion was just smelly.
Several
> > times it appeared to me the driver in front of me was breakchecking in
the
> > middle of a turn which required me to slam on the brakes.
> > I had a good run at the beginning and enjoyed the passing and
> > manuvering. That was fun and it required very good driving skills and a
> keen
> > situational awareness of the racing enviroment. (pardon me while i pat
the
> > grub on the back). All of this gentlemanship apparently ended after the
> > first caution. :(
> > As usual, all is well as I am fixing the grubat dodge and getting
> ready
> > for the next race. The best way to fix all of these things mentioned
above
> > is just to be faster, more consistant than the other guy and then I wont
> > have to worry about anything......except for divebombing.
> > grubby
> Nice little demolition derby in the pits after the race Grub. :-)
> bluestringer
This thing is basically two drag strips with a U-Turn at each end.
Grrrr..... :)
Anyway, this certainly wasn't my best performance ever. I punted two cars
in one race, and that's more cars than I've hit all year put together (of my
own fault, of course).
Sorry Bos and Bama.
Did anyone else feel like this setup resulted in 'weak' or 'soft' brakes ?
Sometimes I was flooring the brake pedal and it felt like I had anti-lock on
(I did not) or the pedals were mis-calibrated (they are not). Just didn't
seem to have the braking power I'm used to everywhere else.
Plus I was driving a brick. I pretty much avoided the first incident, but
then someone came through it at high speed and pile-drove me into the wall.
Not sure who it was, and it really doesn't matter. My car drove like 'the
truck' from that point on. I was still fast, but I had to stop at every
yellow and keep the tank completely full to keep weight at the rear to make
it liveable. The longer run near the end really hurt me in this regard.
Oh, well :)
Hey, it's New Hampshire. It's famous for being a tough track. I really
don't have any complaints about what went on, save one...
For heavens sake folks, CLOSE IT UP when the yellow comes out. I don't
remember who it was (and again, I don't care really), but during one yellow
there were two cars farting around nearly 1/2 lap away from the next closest
car, and they were making NO effort to catch up. I needed to get into the
pits, and I couldn't get there in time because of this.
Next Race!
-Larry
I spent most of the week nailing down precise braking points so I could run
consistent lap times without eating up the tires. I accomplished that, but
then had to deal with 17 other drivers with a different idea on where the
braking point is :)
On the start of the race, Neil broke way, way before I expected anyone would
and I was *** the binders 200 feet before my braking point was even
near. I just missed him. That was the one time during the race I think my
brakes locked up. From that point on, I couldn't do it if I tried. I'm
still confused about that, unless the damage I took on during the first
incident (which I had cleared but then got run into the wall) somehow
changed the braking characteristics of my car.
That, along with my soft brake pedal, got me into trouble a couple of times.
-Larry
> > Don D in KC, someone who didn't finish, and didn't even get the
> > courtesy of an apology.
> Sorry Don - I had no idea you were taken out aswell.
> I have no replay of the race so I dont know what happend or who got caught
> in it.
> If my actions caused your retirement... I'm very sorry.
> I screwed by misjudging Uwe's braking point and gave him what looked like
a
> "tap" in *my end*, I knew I'd made a fool of myself, but I had no idea
who
> got caught in it.
> Again - I'm sorry.
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> ed_
> http://www.racesimcentral.net/
> -----------------------------------------------
> $10 says Petter Solberg wins the 2003 WRC
> > > Anyway... con'grats to Neil for winning and to everybody else for
> > > finishing.
> > > Oh - sorry Uwe - I really didnt mean to***up on that re-start...
> > > I wasn't expecting you to slow that early - although I should seen it
> > > coming. I got a good start and Don got a poor one so I went low to get
> > > by him.. I hope we can get some rules to avoid things like that in the
> > > future... nontheless... *my bad*.
It was the slowing down part coming to the corner that was a problem for
myself and others :)
Larry
> > Despite the yellows i had a great race. I especially enjoyed passing
> > bluestringer on the outside, running 2 laps side by side. Great racing
> > bluestringer :-)
> > My apologies to Jerry Sterner for the punt in T3, *and* for me foolishly
> > going 3 wide on the backstretch causing me to hit you in the side :(
> Even with the 12 cautions it was a very enjoyable race. Lots of good side
by
> side clean racing. I got into some great battles with serveral drivers.
> bluestringer
Grub owed me a whack anyway :)
Larry
> > Well, since I didn't save the replay either, I dont know who to
thank,
> > who to call to the carpet, or who to blame my mistakes on. I will say
this
> > though, thanks to all you nuts who used the grubbat dodge as a puntee. I
> > will never again post "damaged and off pace" because its like an open
> > season to pass/punt. The divebombing was terrible, even on the lapped
> cars,
> > the apparent blocking at the start of the race was just ***, and the
> > cars that were lapped down and racing for postion was just smelly.
Several
> > times it appeared to me the driver in front of me was breakchecking in
the
> > middle of a turn which required me to slam on the brakes.
> > I had a good run at the beginning and enjoyed the passing and
> > manuvering. That was fun and it required very good driving skills and a
> keen
> > situational awareness of the racing enviroment. (pardon me while i pat
the
> > grub on the back). All of this gentlemanship apparently ended after the
> > first caution. :(
> > As usual, all is well as I am fixing the grubat dodge and getting
> ready
> > for the next race. The best way to fix all of these things mentioned
above
> > is just to be faster, more consistant than the other guy and then I wont
> > have to worry about anything......except for divebombing.
> > grubby
> Nice little demolition derby in the pits after the race Grub. :-)
> bluestringer
The "problem" - the way I see it (biased ofcourse...) - is that he first
*started* to race and then suddenly - stopped.
Anyway - I'll take the blame. Once again - sorry, Don.
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ed_
For the truth to be known, while we were banging around in the pits, the
game ended before I could save a replay of the game. Otherwise, I would be
posting some of the 'other' divers faults.
:)
Probally a good thing that we were clowning around.
later
grub
> Grub owed me a whack anyway :)
> Larry
> > > Well, since I didn't save the replay either, I dont know who to
> thank,
> > > who to call to the carpet, or who to blame my mistakes on. I will say
> this
> > > though, thanks to all you nuts who used the grubbat dodge as a puntee.
I
> > > will never again post "damaged and off pace" because its like an open
> > > season to pass/punt. The divebombing was terrible, even on the lapped
> > cars,
> > > the apparent blocking at the start of the race was just ***, and
the
> > > cars that were lapped down and racing for postion was just smelly.
> Several
> > > times it appeared to me the driver in front of me was breakchecking in
> the
> > > middle of a turn which required me to slam on the brakes.
> > > I had a good run at the beginning and enjoyed the passing and
> > > manuvering. That was fun and it required very good driving skills and
a
> > keen
> > > situational awareness of the racing enviroment. (pardon me while i pat
> the
> > > grub on the back). All of this gentlemanship apparently ended after
the
> > > first caution. :(
> > > As usual, all is well as I am fixing the grubat dodge and getting
> > ready
> > > for the next race. The best way to fix all of these things mentioned
> above
> > > is just to be faster, more consistant than the other guy and then I
wont
> > > have to worry about anything......except for divebombing.
> > > grubby
> > Nice little demolition derby in the pits after the race Grub. :-)
> > bluestringer
The server replay have been posted.... take a look at it.
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ed_
grub
