Tonight's RAS race - appologies, etc....

Don't wanna be kicked outta RASCAR... I saved the replay and here's what I saw of incidents I was involved in: 1 - I was staying very high, 3 wide, 2 inside touched and collected me. 2 - Spin on turn exit (my rear is bent up) - no-one else involved, no yellow. 3 - 1st lap of restart - I'm on inside line as not on lead lap - leaving room above, I guess #3's spotter thinks he's clear (I find spotter's slow at Bristol) as he takes standard line, we touch - big one ensues. 4 - Didn't see Ed trying to lap me - watching replay I don't know how I missed him in my mirrors, I really don't. Complete balls up on my account, but I don't think it cost him anything - just me, and I deserved it ;) Ed? 5 - Yellow flag came out, close pack, I clipped the wall coming out of four (doesn't everyone do this from time to time?) got rear ended and there was mayhem. After 5 "moments" and 2 where I hold my hand up as the responsible party in incidents that actually affected anyone, I got out of everyone's way and quit. Just as well, I s'pose because my connection died right after I saved the replay... And just so you know - no-one's as pissed off about my performance tonight as I am... with my commitments, I only get to race here and Papy open, and Papy open is more about luck than racing... Mark (#69 MrkyMrk) Probably gonna stay away from Bristol for a while...

Sounds like a bad day at the office, Mark. Don't worry, your next race will be better.

"Mark Davison" wrote... > Don't wanna be kicked outta RASCAR... > > <snip> The game makes a monkey out of all of us at one time or another. Just keep trying your best. Jan. =---

Thanks for the words, guys. I guess I was just letting myself get too wound up and that affected my concentration. I also was taking it too seriously as I was pissed off for ages afterwards... Feeling a bit better now :) Right now for me, it's about being there, not winning. I'm just interested in keeping my nose clean and seeing what happens. I'm not experienced enough online to go for the win, and thats what disappointed me yesterday - I didn't keep my nose clean. It's not like I'm wet behind the ears here. Sure, I don't post much - I'm more of a lurker, but I've been around RAS on and off since N2... Mark Reading, UK "Jan Verschueren" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> "Mark Davison" wrote... > > Don't wanna be kicked outta RASCAR... > > > > <snip> > > The game makes a monkey out of all of us at one time or another. Just keep > trying your best. > > Jan. > =--- > >

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>And just so you know - no-one's as pissed off about my performance tonight >as I am... with my commitments, I only get to race here and Papy open, and >Papy open is more about luck than racing... > >Mark (#69 MrkyMrk) > >Probably gonna stay away from Bristol for a while...

I'd say don't worry about it. At our first Bristol race, I went high to let the leaders by as I got lapped. I rubbed against the wall, and the wall-riding penalty kicked in. It slowed me down probably about 40 mph. The next car behind had NO chance to react to my slow car on the straight, and plowed into me. After that, I quit the race. Hmph - tried to stay OUT of the way, and caused a major accident doing it... :( Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett A friend of mine is involved in a fund-raiser walk-a-thon for research to cure breast cancer. If you can, please go to my homepage and see how to make a donation. Thank you. Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

On Sun, 19 May 2002 08:28:09 +0000 (UTC), Mark Davison <[email hidden]> wrote: > enough online to go for the win, and thats what disappointed me yesterday - > I didn't keep my nose clean. It's not like I'm wet behind the ears here. Hey Mark, calm down. Even Mr. Wintrip / Waltrip whatever his name is tells us in the driving lessons that it is nigh impossible to finish a race at Bristol without a dented car. I referred to Bristol as the "Rocket Arena of Motorsports" in another post, and maybe I would have caused mayhem if I hadn't been too stupid to do the time zone conversion. See you on the track, uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp //////////////////////////// http://www.schuerkamp.de/ Herford, Germany \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ (52.0N/8.5E) PGP Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

Btw Eldred, You server crashed again this weekend too... :-( So we had to grab the ras open server again... We have to get to the bottom of these problems. What software are you running on it.... and how is it setup?? -- ed_

In article <rHyG8.3441$[email hidden]>, "Ed Solheim" <edwins[ REMOVE ]@[ THIS ].no> writes: >Btw Eldred, >You server crashed again this weekend too... :-( So we had to grab the ras >open server again... What?!? <string of expletives deleted...> Did it even run the FIRST race? I haven't checked the replay directory yet. >We have to get to the bottom of these problems. >What software are you running on it.... and how is it setup??It's running the DeMONS2 launcher on a win2k system. Maybe I need to reload DeMONS? Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett A friend of mine is involved in a fund-raiser walk-a-thon for research to cure breast cancer. If you can, please go to my homepage and see how to make a donation. Thank you. Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

What?!? <string of expletives deleted...> Did it even run the FIRST race? I haven't checked the replay directory yet. It's running the DeMONS2 launcher on a win2k system. Maybe I need to reload DeMONS? Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett A friend of mine is involved in a fund-raiser walk-a-thon for research to cure *** cancer. If you can, please go to my homepage and see how to make a donation. Thank you. Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

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> I'd say don't worry about it. At our first Bristol race, I went high to let > the leaders by as I got lapped. I rubbed against the wall, and the wall-riding > penalty kicked in. It slowed me down probably about 40 mph. The next car > behind had NO chance to react to my slow car on the straight, and plowed into > me. After that, I quit the race. Hmph - tried to stay OUT of the way, and > caused a major accident doing it... :( > > Eldred

I think I need more alternative line practise. I find it pretty difficult to stay high without a: wallriding or b: slowing to a dangerous pace. Bristol was a bit of a baptism of fire, though. Well, actually it was my second RASCAR event, but Chicago was so yellow ridden I didn't have a chance to cause trouble ;-) Mark Reading, UK

"Mark Davison" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<ac6i6v$as9$[email hidden]>...

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> Don't wanna be kicked outta RASCAR... > > I saved the replay and here's what I saw of incidents I was involved in: > > 1 - I was staying very high, 3 wide, 2 inside touched and collected me. > > 2 - Spin on turn exit (my rear is bent up) - no-one else involved, no > yellow. > > 3 - 1st lap of restart - I'm on inside line as not on lead lap - leaving > room above, I guess #3's spotter thinks he's clear (I find spotter's slow at > Bristol) as he takes standard line, we touch - big one ensues. > > 4 - Didn't see Ed trying to lap me - watching replay I don't know how I > missed him in my mirrors, I really don't. Complete balls up on my account, > but I don't think it cost him anything - just me, and I deserved it ;) Ed? > > 5 - Yellow flag came out, close pack, I clipped the wall coming out of four > (doesn't everyone do this from time to time?) got rear ended and there was > mayhem. > > After 5 "moments" and 2 where I hold my hand up as the responsible party in > incidents that actually affected anyone, I got out of everyone's way and > quit. Just as well, I s'pose because my connection died right after I saved > the replay... > > And just so you know - no-one's as pissed off about my performance tonight > as I am... with my commitments, I only get to race here and Papy open, and > Papy open is more about luck than racing... > > Mark (#69 MrkyMrk) > > Probably gonna stay away from Bristol for a while...

I wouldn't worry about it AT ALL if I were you. At least you can admit when you made a mistake..........most don't. :-) David G Fisher

"EldredP" said: > > What?!? <string of expletives deleted...> > Did it even run the FIRST race? I haven't checked the replay directoryyet. The first race was okey.... and I even stayed on the server for the transistion.. wilch looked all normal until aftert the "racewin" screen ("newspaper") was displayed.... After i hit enter - it just kicked me back to the chat room... Can you verify that it has saved the replay and exported the results? (and that these are okey!) I'll have a look into the DEMONS software to see what it's all about... (never used it :-) May I suggest that until this problem have been resolved - one of us (I'm willing to do it) get a boss password to your server and that it's simply serut and running as a dedicated server - when you leave from work on Friday afternoon... That way we can simply log-on the serve in N2002 and setup/start it from there.. -- ed_ (btw, have you downloaded the replay yet?)

In article <ciaH8.4415$[email hidden]>, "Ed Solheim" <edwins[ REMOVE ]@[ THIS ].no> writes:

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>"EldredP" said: >> >> What?!? <string of expletives deleted...> >> Did it even run the FIRST race? I haven't checked the replay directory >yet. > >The first race was okey.... and I even stayed on the server for the >transistion.. wilch looked all normal until aftert the "racewin" screen >("newspaper") was displayed.... After i hit enter - it just kicked me >back to the chat room... > >Can you verify that it has saved the replay and exported the results? (and >that these are okey!) >

Yes, it did.

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>May I suggest that until this problem have been resolved - one of us (I'm >willing to do it) get a boss password to your server and that it's simply >serut and running as a dedicated server - when you leave from work on Friday >afternoon... > >That way we can simply log-on the serve in N2002 and setup/start it from >there..

If I won't be around, I can do that. If I'm around when it stops(as has happened before) I can log into it remotely and re-start it. I *think* that the times I've run into problems was when I set it up on a previous day. As far as I know, the times where I've set it up earlier that saturday, it's worked fine. Strange... > >-- >ed_ >(btw, have you downloaded the replay yet?) No, I haven't. Now I need to find the info for the location. Early senility, man... :( Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett A friend of mine is involved in a fund-raiser walk-a-thon for research to cure breast cancer. If you can, please go to my homepage and see how to make a donation. Thank you. Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.