& News About Upcoming Races
December 10, 1995
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Contents
Mistakes Made
Todays Races
Preliminary lap times
December 10 Race Report
Authors Point Standings
Upcoming Races
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My mistake
In the previous racing session Ferdinand T. came in second when
there were four drivers. This is enough to earn him one point
towards becoming expert. The last announcement was in error.
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Here is a repeat of the announcement about todays races:
December 10th, (Unlimited Division Races)
No. of races 2 novice and 2 expert each division
Tracks: Mosport and Suzuka
Laps: 80 each race
Software version: 0.64
Surface Type: 1
No practice, random starting order.
The drivers will be uploaded to ftp.ijs.com to a file called
driv1210.zip in 1-3 days. These will only be the new drivers
updated this session (ramdu, Carski, Lisa).
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Preliminary lap times
MOSPORT
Car Laps Avg MPG Damage Fuel
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Exp Ramdu 7 93.11 122
Nov Ralph 7 91.81 127
Exp Jas 7 88.94 126
Nov Sarah 7 87.75 122
Nov Lisa 7 87.37 125
Nov StukCar2 7 86.54 125
Nov Sneezy 7 85.25 3890 123
Nov Heath4 7 84.98 120
Nov phill 7 84.23 124
Exp Marvin 7 83.62 125
Nov Shocker 7 83.14 120
Nov Carski 7 81.99 122
SUZUKA
Car Laps Avg MPG Damage Fuel
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Nov Ralph 7 88.61 116
Exp Ramdu 7 88.42 107
Nov Lisa 7 85.91 114
Exp Jas 7 84.48 113
Nov StukCar2 7 83.49 114
Nov Sarah 7 83.36 109
Nov Shocker 7 82.55 108
Nov phill 7 81.42 110
Nov Heath4 7 81.31 105
Nov Carski 7 79.93 113
Exp Marvin 7 79.32 114
Nov Sneezy 0 dnf 30000+ 145
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Race Reports
The novices had the minimum 8 contestants so I didn't run
any experts with them.
The first race was suzuka.
9 cars for 80 laps. The track was suzuka.trk. The drivers were:
StukCar2, Sneezy, Heath4, Ralph01, Sarah, Carski, Shocker, Phill,
and Lisa.
The initial RVG seed was 28010.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
Sarah, Lisa, StukCar2, Phill, Carski, Ralph01, Heath4, Shocker,
and Sneezy.
1 Lisa avg spd 85.63 80 laps 23097 damage 52 fuel 10 pts accum
2 Ralph01 avg spd 84.9 80 laps 21121 damage 56 fuel 16 pts accum
3 Phill avg spd 81.11 76 laps 13254 damage 27 fuel 7 pts accum
4 Heath4 avg spd 80.85 76 laps 22152 damage 122 fuel 7 pts accum
5 Carski avg spd 79.81 72 laps 30745 damage 79 fuel 4 pts accum
6 Sarah avg spd 82.96 64 laps 30371 damage 79 fuel 2 pts accum
7 StukCar2 avg spd 83.21 37 laps 30251 damage 113 fuel 6 pts accum
8 Sneezy avg spd 79.96 12 laps 30134 damage 75 fuel 0 pts accum
9 Shocker avg spd 78.4 1 laps 30256 damage 143 fuel 0 pts accum
The race was fairly smooth with no weird crashes or anything.
StukCar2 crashed while trying to pass. Sarah slowly accumulated
damage although she did have one major collision with ralph. Carski
was in it to the very end and held on with 29000 damage for many laps.
Heath was very steady and is much improved over the older one you get at
the ftp site. Phil is still looking for his second win to bring him
to expert status. Lisa was very fast but is prone to crashing out
of the race (or so it seemed in some of the practice runs.)
Next was mosport.
9 cars for 80 laps. The track was mosport.trk. The drivers were:
StukCar2, Sneezy, Heath4, Ralph01, Sarah, Carski, Shocker, Phill,
and Lisa.
The initial RVG seed was 30584.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
Sneezy, Ralph01, Heath4, Shocker, Lisa, Sarah, Phill, StukCar2,
and Carski.
1 Ralph01 avg spd 87.29 80 laps 19555 damage 28 fuel 10 pts accum
2 Lisa avg spd 87.07 80 laps 29811 damage 27 fuel 6 pts accum
3 StukCar2 avg spd 86.2 79 laps 16594 damage 29 fuel 4 pts accum
4 Sneezy avg spd 85.22 78 laps 3354 damage 4 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Heath4 avg spd 84.44 77 laps 24393 damage 126 fuel 2 pts accum
6 Phill avg spd 84.02 77 laps 7321 damage 18 fuel 1 pts accum
7 Carski avg spd 81.91 75 laps 8442 damage 6 fuel 0 pts accum
8 Sarah avg spd 87.06 74 laps 36568 damage 10 fuel 0 pts accum
9 Shocker avg spd 82.67 44 laps 30507 damage 112 fuel 0 pts accum
Sarah and Lisa were battling it out until about lap 74. Sarah was
faster and could catch up little by litte. Lisa passed better
but was prone to accidents. That is, until lap 74. Heath went
in to fuel and Sarah ran smack dab into him. This took Sarah
out of the race. Lisa had the 29811 at the time (and for the
last 15 laps) and luckily survived a couple of brushes from
other cars.
Suzuka expert races.
8 cars for 80 laps. The track was suzuka.trk. The drivers were:
Jas, StukCar2, Ramdu, Heath4, Ralph01, Marvin, Phill, and Lisa.
The initial RVG seed was 30101.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
Jas, Heath4, Phill, Ralph01, StukCar2, Marvin, Ramdu, and Lisa.
1 Ralph01 avg spd 86.4 81 laps 15150 damage 55 fuel 10 pts accum
2 Jas avg spd 84.27 80 laps 8749 damage 38 fuel 6 pts accum
3 StukCar2 avg spd 83.27 79 laps 18104 damage 59 fuel 4 pts accum
4 Marvin avg spd 79.22 59 laps 30071 damage 150 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Heath4 avg spd 81.14 47 laps 30032 damage 0 fuel 2 pts accum
6 Phill avg spd 80.67 29 laps 31370 damage 134 fuel 1 pts accum
7 Lisa avg spd 85.86 19 laps 30146 damage 53 fuel 0 pts accum
8 Ramdu avg spd 81.07 1 laps 30015 damage 140 fuel 0 pts accum
Ramdu tried to barrel his way through the pack and it didn't work. Phil
committed some form of suicide at lap 29, must be a bug somewhere.
Marvin was sure and steady but went wide while refueling. The crash
was inconsequential as he didn't loose any positions. Stukcar and
Jas behaved as they presumably should and were in no danger during
the race.
8 cars for 80 laps. The track was mosport.trk. The drivers were:
Jas, StukCar2, Ramdu, Heath4, Ralph01, Marvin, Phill, and Lisa.
The initial RVG seed was 877.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
Heath4, Ralph01, Jas, Lisa, Phill, Ramdu, StukCar2, and Marvin.
1 Ralph01 avg spd 90.47 81 laps 13004 damage 37 fuel 10 pts accum
2 Jas avg spd 88.45 80 laps 20926 damage 31 fuel 6 pts accum
3 Lisa avg spd 87.24 78 laps 15088 damage 32 fuel 4 pts accum
4 Phill avg spd 83.97 75 laps 9918 damage 23 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Marvin avg spd 83.55 75 laps 8481 damage 41 fuel 2 pts accum
6 StukCar2 avg spd 86.24 75 laps 30355 damage 43 fuel 1 pts accum
7 Heath4 avg spd 84.44 41 laps 30043 damage 128 fuel 0 pts accum
8 Ramdu avg spd 91.8 23 laps 30165 damage 57 fuel 0 pts accum
Having better field position, Ramdu led the race for 23 laps while
nicking the wall here and there. One time too many. When a car is
as much faster than the field as was Ramdu's, you have to do ALOT of
passing (and if you hit someone from behind you take twice the damage
they do). Ramdu did good just making it that far. Stukcar hit the wall
while trying to pass on the inside. Phill again took the safe way out
and just had a sunday drive. Jas did very well on this track.
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Points for Day - Unlimited Division
Driver Race 1 Race 2 Total Seasons Seasons Total
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Expert
Ramdu 2 2 4 2 10
Jas 10 10 20 10 18
Marvin 4 4 8 3 13
Phill 3 6 9 5 5
StukCar2 6 3 9 5 5
Novice
Lisa 10 10 20 10 10
Phill 6 2 8 6 0 (no longer in division)
Heath4 4 3 7 3.5 6.5
Carski 3 1 4 1.5 4.5
Sarah 2 2 1
StukCar2 1 6 7 3.5 0 (no longer in division)
Sneezy 4 4 1.5 9.5
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Expert Division History - Unlimited Division
Finishes
Car Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 11/12 11/26 12/10 Driver Country
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Marvin 13 1 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 3 Nicole Greiber Germany
Ramdu 10 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 8 2 Randy Saint (U.S.A)
Jas 18 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 10 Jurgen Sang Germany
Phill 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 Mike Carty USA
StukCar2 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 Ferd TrauttmansdorffCanada
Novice Division History - Unlimited Division
Finishes
Car Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 11/12 11/26 12/10 Driver Country
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Sneezy 9.5 0 0 2 0 1 0 4 4 1.5 Larry Ludwick USA
Carski 4.5 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 0 1.5 Robert Skupinkski USA
Sarah 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 Daniel Ash USA
Shocker 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 Henning Lkaskala Germany
Lisa 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 Henning Lkaskala Germany
Heath4 6.5 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 3.5 Patrick Tierney Canada
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This is the point standings for the Unlimited Division.
Expert Class Point standings
Expert Division
Nicole Greiber 13 pts (Germany) Sticky
Randy Saint 10 pts (U.S.A) Ramdu
Jurgen Sang 10 pts (Germany) Jas
Mike Carty 5 pts (U.S.A.) Phill
Ferd Trauttmansdorff 5 pts (Germany) StukCar2
Novice Division
Larry Ludwick 9.5 pts (U.S.A.) Sneezy
Robert Skupinski 4.5 pts (U.S.A.) Carski
Henning Klaskala 2 pts (Germany) Shocker
Henning Klaskala* 10 pts (Germany) Lisa
Daniel Ash 1 pts (U.S.A.) Sarah
Patrick Tierney 3.5 pts (Canada) Heath4
(* means has 1 win towards advancement to expert)
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Upcoming RARS Race Meets
December 24th, (Stocker Division Races)
No. of races 2 novice and 2 expert each division
Tracks: Fiorano and Adelaide
Laps: 40 each race
Software version: 0.64
Surface Type: 1
no practice, random starting order.
January 7th, (Unlimited Division Races)
No. of races 2 novice and 2 expert each division
Tracks: Fiorano and Adelaide
Laps: 80 each race
Software version: 0.64
Surface Type: 1
no practice, random starting order.
TENTATIVE RACING SCHEDULE (all races track surface 1)
January 21th, Fiorano and Adelaide Stocker Division Races, 40 laps
February 4th, Fiorano and Adelaide Unlimited Division Races, 80 laps
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Comments from Ralph
Please note we are changing to different tracks from now on. These
are shorter tracks so that I don't sit around for hours watching the
races. Fiorano will be tough for all stocker clones. Adelaide is a
pretty vanilla track with lots of room for optimization. Keep in
mind fuel usage. Some cars only had to refuel twice on suzuka
while others had to refuel 3 times.
Good luck and see you in two weeks.