An unfortunate event

Here's something that I'm glad didn't happen online... I'm holding 17th (from a start of 21st) at Indy. Turn 4, white flag in aight, and Elliot Sadler coming up close behind. My right front is wearing out, and I'm losing a fair amount of speed in the corners to the car behind... it's all I can do to make up the difference in the straights, and the water temperature is already at the point where the idiot light is just beginning to flicker. Anyway, the car goes a little wide out of Turn 4, enough to let Elliot get his nose alongside. Trying to wring every last ounce out of the car, I roll on the throttle. The nose is sliding away, but I think I've got the measure of it. Then... that right front slips out of the groove, the car drives itself for the briefest of moments, and down into the AI driver's flank I go. He escapes, minus some rubber, but my car is send into a spin. Narrlowly escaping the wall, I put in the clutch, then release it to try and get the car facing in the right direction again, but that front end is having none of it. The nose grazes the wall and digs in. Right, I think, there's some aero problems and I'm going to languish in about 25th now, but all I need to do is reverse the car off the wall, grab a forward gear and get going again. It all seems to be working, until another car makes the same mistake I did, exits the corner wide and doesn't have any control to go anywhere except into the back of me. Smash, crunch, a double roll-over and most of the back of the field annihilated thanks to worn tyres. Not to mention my hopes of that 17th at Indy (OK, it's not quite first place but it was impressing the crew chief...) evaporating just four and a half turns from the chequered flag. *Sigh*... life playing NASCAR, I guess. (This might be a *little* OT, but I had to tell someone and most people in my block aren't much more interested in racing sims than the odd blast of Midtown Madness or suchlike) -- Regards, Matt

you should write for a magazine, that was very entertaining the way you descirbed that!!! "Matt Kimber" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:aas82m$5oo$[email hidden]... > Here's something that I'm glad didn't happen online... > > I'm holding 17th (from a start of 21st) at Indy. Turn 4, white flag inaight, > and Elliot Sadler coming up close behind. My right front is wearing out,and > I'm losing a fair amount of speed in the corners to the car behind... it'sall > I can do to make up the difference in the straights, and the watertemperature > is already at the point where the idiot light is just beginning toflicker. > > Anyway, the car goes a little wide out of Turn 4, enough to let Elliot gethis > nose alongside. Trying to wring every last ounce out of the car, I rollon > the throttle. The nose is sliding away, but I think I've got the measureof > it. Then... that right front slips out of the groove, the car drivesitself

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> for the briefest of moments, and down into the AI driver's flank I go. > > He escapes, minus some rubber, but my car is send into a spin. Narrlowly > escaping the wall, I put in the clutch, then release it to try and get the > car facing in the right direction again, but that front end is having none > of it. The nose grazes the wall and digs in. > > Right, I think, there's some aero problems and I'm going to languish in > about 25th now, but all I need to do is reverse the car off the wall, grab > a forward gear and get going again. It all seems to be working, until

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> car makes the same mistake I did, exits the corner wide and doesn't have > any control to go anywhere except into the back of me. > > Smash, crunch, a double roll-over and most of the back of the field > annihilated thanks to worn tyres. Not to mention my hopes of that 17th > at Indy (OK, it's not quite first place but it was impressing the crew > chief...) evaporating just four and a half turns from the chequered flag. > > *Sigh*... life playing NASCAR, I guess. > > (This might be a *little* OT, but I had to tell someone and most people > in my block aren't much more interested in racing sims than the odd blast

of > Midtown Madness or suchlike) > > -- > Regards, > Matt

>you should write for a magazine, that was very entertaining the way you >descirbed that!!! Yes, it was! Todd Wasson --- Performance Simulations Drag Racing and Top Speed Prediction Software http://PerformanceSimulations.Com My little car sim screenshots: http://performancesimulations.com/scnshot4.htm

Tell it all, brother! That's what we're here for. Great description, even if I don't race NASCAR. I definitely feel for you, and enjoyed your re-telling. Jim Matt Kimber wrote:

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> Here's something that I'm glad didn't happen online... > > I'm holding 17th (from a start of 21st) at Indy. Turn 4, white flag in aight, > and Elliot Sadler coming up close behind. My right front is wearing out, and > I'm losing a fair amount of speed in the corners to the car behind... it's all > I can do to make up the difference in the straights, and the water temperature > is already at the point where the idiot light is just beginning to flicker. > > Anyway, the car goes a little wide out of Turn 4, enough to let Elliot get his > nose alongside. Trying to wring every last ounce out of the car, I roll on > the throttle. The nose is sliding away, but I think I've got the measure of > it. Then... that right front slips out of the groove, the car drives itself > for the briefest of moments, and down into the AI driver's flank I go. > > He escapes, minus some rubber, but my car is send into a spin. Narrlowly > escaping the wall, I put in the clutch, then release it to try and get the > car facing in the right direction again, but that front end is having none > of it. The nose grazes the wall and digs in. > > Right, I think, there's some aero problems and I'm going to languish in > about 25th now, but all I need to do is reverse the car off the wall, grab > a forward gear and get going again. It all seems to be working, until another > car makes the same mistake I did, exits the corner wide and doesn't have > any control to go anywhere except into the back of me. > > Smash, crunch, a double roll-over and most of the back of the field > annihilated thanks to worn tyres. Not to mention my hopes of that 17th > at Indy (OK, it's not quite first place but it was impressing the crew > chief...) evaporating just four and a half turns from the chequered flag. > > *Sigh*... life playing NASCAR, I guess. > > (This might be a *little* OT, but I had to tell someone and most people > in my block aren't much more interested in racing sims than the odd blast of > Midtown Madness or suchlike) > > -- > Regards, > Matt