Gary, fwiw, you need to learn the sim better. A blue flag is never
waived in N2002. Your spotter will never say the car behind you is trying
to lap you. You should also have your F2 key on at all times, showing car
postions/lead lap or not. You could have been on the lead lap; it didn't
show that on my F2 screen, but I have seen that been wrong before, and
Bristol has some bugs.
Also, do you have your spotter on full, and if so, what did he say before
the restart? Only reason I'm asking is as I said, according to my info.,
you were a lapped car, that should have been starting on the inside row,
ahead of Dave, not with the lead lap cars.
Also fwiw, to save you possible trouble in the future, on the restart you
dove low to the left of the cars ahead of you, I assume to try to pass them.
If you had passed them before the line, you would have received a black flag
for passing on the left before the line; and "passing" only requires your
car's nose to be ahead of them, the pass doesn't need to be complete.
Re the control, good point, bet it is your conn. Just showed you almost
losing it out of the corners, which caused you to slow up as I was
accelerating.
Also, you're posting like I hit you on purpose. That is absolutely, flat
out, not true. We hit because of what I say directly above this line; your
car was swerving as I was exiting the turn. I had barely missed you before.
Thinking you were just trying to get your lap back, I had accepted that, but
once a lapped car loses contact with the leader, as you had, it needs to
back off.
And fwiw, I'd highly advise against retaliation against anyone.
I'm sorry we hit, but it wasn't on purpose, as you believe. I've never
had problems admitting when I***up.
Since you're new to Nascar sims, hopefully some of the above will help;
it's only meant as hints, not a lecture.
-John
> I know full well it was you #29, hence the Biffle reference. Where do
> you get this lap after lap stuff? 2 laps after a restart hardly
> qualifies as "lap after lap". FWIW, I saw no blue flag and the spotter
> never said anything to indicate the car behind was trying to lap me.
> I realize how important track position is at Bristol, so I can
> understand you're wanting to stay with the leaders. I think we need a
> replay, because I think I was on the lead lap at the time. I had the F1
> screen up at the time, so I'm not sure.
> As for your "out of control" comment, here is my explaination: I do not
> have the greatest of internet connections, this I know. I have raced on
> Eldred's servers before without any problems; however, there is always a
> first time. On other servers, I will get good pings but my online
> connection will still suck, and the other cars will jump around on the
> track in front of me. In other words...I'm warping. It's beyond my
> control. I think my qualifying time demonstrated I know my way around
> that track, so please don't tell me that was my fault. Let's blame it
> on Prodigy, OK?
> I am still pretty new to Nascar type racing, so I'm still learning the
> fine details of yellow flag re-starts and such. If I committed a
> horrible sin upon said first restart, please accept my apologies. I
> still don't think I did anything wrong, and I think the accident was
> entirely your fault for pushing too *** a restart. You happened to
> luck out and still win the race anyways, but keep in mind I COULD HAVE
> stayed on the track and taken you out for good. I consider myself a
> "gentleman racer" whatever that means nowadays. I didn't retaliate. Next
> time you may not be so lucky.
> Whatever,
> Gary
> > > > Yes, this was really sneaky of me to do the Bristol practice and
then
> > > > silently drop out ;-)
> > > > It's a pity John Simmons left before the race, every single
additional
> > car
> > > > would have been more than welcome with such an already small field.
> > > > Achim
> > > I would have stuck around, but somebody rammed me two laps after the
> > > first re-start. (Around lap 32) As I was pretty close to the car in
> > > front of me, I thought that was pretty boneheaded of the car who
rammed
> > > me. Since it was still so early in the race to be hard charging like
> > > that, I left the race after that incident.
> > > These races are still a blast for me, so I intend to show up again. I
> > > think I'll change my name to Biffle and go huntin' for a certain
> > > someone, just like the real racers do ;-) <--please notice the grin
> > > See ya' in a couple of weeks. I won't be there this coming weekend, so
> > > please, please, please....don't run Pocono or Phoenix!!! If you do, I
> > > won't ever show up at anymore races and you'll lose a backmarker, so
> > > there ;-)
> > > Gary
> > > > ...
> > > > > I said I wasn't tired because I thought you had run the Bristol
race
> > too
> > > > and
> > > > > I didn't want to seem wimpy. :-)
> > > > > You were flying around that track. 1:15's and 16's. I picked up
some
> > > > > pointers from you though.
