rec.autos.simulators

I use the straights to check the live interval. For the turns, I
concentrate on spinning the car artfully.

My guess is that we should have passed the pace-car right away instead of
waiting for the final lap. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that during
the final yellow lap you're not allowed to pass the pace-car anymore.

Oh well, always things to learn.:)

Apart from this I had a fine race, enjoyed racing you guys again.

Cheers, jurjen

Joe

I know. I saw the "nice" that you typed. Something we all had to learn...watch
the replay before hollering. We can always *** here later :) Now if this
would spread to Papy.....RIGHT !!!!!
Dan

Turn it off. It's way out of your line of sight, checking that has got to be
slowing you down. Besides what extra information to you get from it? You
don't need a number to tell you someone's getting closer in the mirror.

I can see the use for getting used to leaving a proper gap when pacing or,
as you suggested, make sure you hold your relative position when it's hard
to see the other competitors due to lateral separation, but that's about it.
You can spot Tim carving up the field a mile away on some tracks. ;-))

I don't think I have enough to spare either (3). Hmmm, gotta fix this... I'm
"stretched" too much hunting around for all these damned keys. With gloves
on to boot!

Jan.
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I cant imagine not having the F2 screen up as I race.

Mitch

Oh and my spotter calls out lap times too.

:)

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Tim White
www.intracmotorsports.com

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Tim White
www.intracmotorsports.com

Are you saying that it's possible to be lined up in front of the leader,
both in the same lap?

You can tell where you are better, or worse, on the track than someone else. (Early on, I could see where Brian and Mitch would gain
in one turn, and loose it in the other).  If you just set it at S/F track position you won't know where your losing or gaining on
the track, especially when there is braking involved.
You can tell who in front of you and behind you are the ones you are racing with, versus someone comming up on you who may be a lap+
down, so don't sweat it if they are aggressive and want to get by, let em go.
You can tell if your gaining on someone, or they are gaining on you, so change your line, pick it up, etc.

Saturday, Ginger was running me down on that last run.  I knew I wasn't driving any different so I was hoping he was cooking his
tires, which it turned out he was.  But I didn't know that for sure, and since G wasn't around me all day; coming from the back, I
had no way of knowing.  So while I was fairly confident I knew what I was doing, I wasn't confident that I was any better than him.
The F2 screen allowed me to measure my effort, with how many laps left, and how much I had to push my car to not let him whiff a
draft.  If we caught a late caution, I wanted to make sure I had at least as good a tire wear left as he, hopefully better.  The
only way I could do this is using the F2 screen to only work my car as hard as I needed to.

I've heard of a lot of people not liking all the activity the F2 screen gives you.  With some hardware it even has an extra hit on
your frame rate.  But the spotter isn't doing what real life crew chiefs do for you which is calling out someone elses lap times,
telling you if someone is gaining, or if your the fastest out there, etc.  The F2 screen is the sims answer to that.

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Tim White
www.intracmotorsports.com

In real life, what can happen is your on the lead lap, the caution comes out and for whatever reason you elect not to pit.  The pace
car always picks up the leader. But then you all come around and every one from the leader back pits except for you (For whatever
reason your crew chief tells you to stay out).  But you (and maybe the pace car) don't manage to cross the S/F on the track before
the leaders pass it on pit row.  They come out but they are still scored as the leader but now they are behind you.

Another way is your down a lap, the caution comes out. When the leaders pit you pass them and now your back on the lead lap but when
the second lap comes around and the lapped cars can now pit you stay out.  Your still on the lead leap now because of them pitting
but your in front of them.  You can't pass the pace car after the track is under full caution so your on the lead lap, stuck between
the pace car and the leaders.

The WC rule about double file restarts is all cars on the lead lap stay on the outside, all cars down one or more laps go inside.
Although the pace car always picks up the leader, double file restarts have nothing to do with what position the leader is in.

There are a lot of other instances where this can happen these are just the most common.

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Tim White
www.intracmotorsports.com

Is it me or is it nearly impossible to pit when the guy just in front of
your stall is in his pit.  I pulled in a little hot but had almost no
turning radius and had to squirm into my stall losing a bunch of spots at
the wrong time (32 to go).  I did make sure that the Low speed turning
radius thingy was checked.

Mitch

Brian

Actually, this all ways bugged me about N2002 and on at least one
occasion when racing off-line I was pleasantly surprised to see that
N2003 had me line up on the outside when I was on the tail-end of the
lead lap.

Brian Oster