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If we get enough people, you don't want to be stuck on gilligan's island
due to a poor qualifying attempt, so practice, practice, practice.

It's gonna be a long race (45 laps), so patience will be the watchword
for this race.

Are cautions going to be turned off?

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I'm sure the minute is implied... having said that, I wonder which shortcut
he used provided he's on the stock <fast> setup. <g>

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It will take not only "patience" to run 45 laps at Sears in N2K2...it will
take a great deal of prudence as well (unless damage is turned off).

You are looking at about 10 minutes behind the pace car for every yellow
flag (3 lap minimum).  So...with a rookie field you'll probably have no
choice but to turn off the yellow flags.  This will force everyone into
green-flag pit stops.......but at least you will complete the race distance.

The "fast" setup for Sears N2K2 is not a bad setup.....but it can not be
abused.  Your lap time (21:5ish) is a very good time with that setup (though
a group of online drivers I've seen run 17's pretty easily on their own
setups)....but I suspect you abused your tires to achieve it.  The "tire
window" at Sears is about 30 to 35 laps (although I've not completely
confirmed this in N2K2....which somebody should do).  If you abuse your
tires early in the run.....you'll be lucky to turn 35's for laps 25 through
35....if you don't blow a tire anyway.

Have fun you guys.....

Tom

I recently did a 50% race and can confirm 30 to 35 laps is correct. Though
you won't see the better side of 1m24s those last couple of laps, IMO. I ran
laps between 1m22.5s and 1m23.5s mostly, which doesn't seem to burn up the
*** too much.

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Those "numbers" sound spot on.  I think if you ran those kind of lap times
(with out any off-tracks) for the tire run you'd be right up in the
front....IMHO.

Back in April, I was talking with Ron Fellows during the two days several of
the cup teams were testing at Sears.  Ron has a lot of track time at Sears
and is probably one of the better GT style car, road racers around these
days.  He told me he thought he could run 3 to 4 seconds faster at
Sears......than they were running practice laps at.....IF.....he only had to
do it for two laps or so!  He said, "Sears is a track you can always go
faster......but the price you pay for the slightest mistake is always too
large = your day is over!"  That seems like good advice for all you r.a.s.
guys planning to run the RASCAR race on Saturday.....you know?  I know that
when ever I've had an online league race at Sears.....it has paid off to
spend at least 50% of my practice time running the car "out of the racing
line" at Sears......learning just how fast and in what gear I can run
certain parts of the track out of the line.  During a race at Sears.....you
will spend more than 50% of the laps.....out of the racing line....due to
traffic.  So...that "practice" always paid off big dividends.....you know?
Being the tortoise at this track....will definitely pay off.

Regards,

Tom

Hey, it's really nice that you've decided to race with us this time <bg,d&r>

Some even do 1:17's on the default <fast> :-)

Interesting info. But since the race will be ~45 laps, would it be a
tactically good decision to drive more than 22 - 23 laps on one set of
tires, unless the specific situation in the race required it for a brief
period (why race longer than necessary on worn tires)?

Achim

Though I suspect you really mean 1:21.583 :)

I practiced for an hour last night.  I started off at 1:30's.  When I was
done, I was running 1:36's.

Go figure...

-Larry

Are we allowed to use Traction Control ?

-Larry

-Larry

1:50
1:30
1:26
2:00
3:00
1 hour 3:50

The last lap was after I gave up trying to get round this course under
1:30 consistently and started trying to jump the gap between the
bridge in T1 and the tire barrier at the end of the front stretch
run-off area.  If you turn around at the top of the first hill run
back down the hill and hit the hill left of the first bridge you can
catch quite a bit of air and make it over the tire barrier.  The goal
is to jump the gap and not get stuck behind the walls and tire
barriers and be able to drive away down the front stretch.  I have
been looking for a dukes of hazard car to complete the effect.

BTW, unlike N4 if you get stuck in the sand, you might was well call
the tow truck.

Brian Oster

N2 Madness 2!

-Larry

Gerald