RASCAR: CTS-Coca Cola

Ok folks, I just did a few minutes practice with the truck. It was a mind-numbing experience! Leave the pit, mash the gas, and go around the track topped out at 182mph. The draft is HUGE here with these trucks. There is a 14mph difference! So in this weekends race, if you lose the draft, you ARE toast :) Frankly, the trucks at this track with the Expert setup is a zero-challange. You'll see what I mean :) -Larry

Larry spoke: It was a mind-numbing experience! Leave the pit, mash the gas, and go around the track topped out at 182mph. The draft is HUGE here with these trucks. There is a 14mph difference! So in this weekends race, if you lose the draft, you ARE toast :) Frankly, the trucks at this track with the Expert setup is a zero-challange. You'll see what I mean :) -Larry ----------------------- I just did a race against the AI. What a bore. I think I'll need to have a big keg of beer setup for this race. Why don't we up the wear level to 3x? it might be more interesting. Are we running yellows also? That could induce terminal boredom. Gee, almost lke the real thing, hehe ;-) -- Richard "ZZ" Busch

You know, that isn't a bad idea. Forcing more pitting might bring some interest in to it. Mitch ? -Larry "ZZ" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:kfVub.2431$[email hidden]...

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> Larry spoke: > It was a mind-numbing experience! > > Leave the pit, mash the gas, and go around the track topped out at 182mph. > > The draft is HUGE here with these trucks. There is a 14mph difference! > > So in this weekends race, if you lose the draft, you ARE toast :) > > Frankly, the trucks at this track with the Expert setup is a

zero-challange.

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> You'll see what I mean :) > > -Larry > ----------------------- > I just did a race against the AI. What a bore. I think I'll need to have a > big keg of beer setup for this race. Why don't we up the wear level to 3x? > it might be more interesting. Are we running yellows also? That could > induce terminal boredom. > Gee, almost lke the real thing, hehe ;-) > > > -- > Richard "ZZ" Busch > >

We cant just start using special rules on certain tracks. The season is about to begin and at least for the Trucks it will be 1X wear. Trust me most will get lots of pits in during a 50% race. Trans Am may be 2X but we'll let you know for sure in a couple weeks. For some reason I don't think it's going to be nearly as boring as you seem to think. As on any plate track if you lose the draft the fun factor drops like an anchor, but overall this should be a two wide romp with lots of passing. Our main goal should be to avoid "the big one". We'll see :-) Mitch "Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:pu4vb.31719$HD3.14493@lakeread06...

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> You know, that isn't a bad idea. Forcing more pitting might bring some > interest in to it. > > Mitch ? > > -Larry > > "ZZ" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:kfVub.2431$[email hidden]... > > Larry spoke: > > It was a mind-numbing experience! > > > > Leave the pit, mash the gas, and go around the track topped out at

182mph.

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> > > > The draft is HUGE here with these trucks. There is a 14mph difference! > > > > So in this weekends race, if you lose the draft, you ARE toast :) > > > > Frankly, the trucks at this track with the Expert setup is a > zero-challange. > > You'll see what I mean :) > > > > -Larry > > ----------------------- > > I just did a race against the AI. What a bore. I think I'll need to have

a > > big keg of beer setup for this race. Why don't we up the wear level to3x?

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> > it might be more interesting. Are we running yellows also? That could > > induce terminal boredom. > > Gee, almost lke the real thing, hehe ;-) > > > > > > -- > > Richard "ZZ" Busch > > > > > >

> As on any plate track if you lose the draft the fun factor drops > like an anchor, Don't worry, if you lose the draft you'll pick up me and Eldred... ;)

I havn't ran the trucks at this track yet but coulda predicted it. Actually the trucks at places like Texas and Atlanta are pretty boring as well... like running restrictor plate races at non-plate tracks. On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 20:59:24 -0500, "Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>Ok folks, I just did a few minutes practice with the truck. > >It was a mind-numbing experience! > >Leave the pit, mash the gas, and go around the track topped out at 182mph. > >The draft is HUGE here with these trucks. There is a 14mph difference! > >So in this weekends race, if you lose the draft, you ARE toast :) > >Frankly, the trucks at this track with the Expert setup is a zero-challange. >You'll see what I mean :) > >-Larry >

Yeah, but at least Texas and Atlanta aren't quite like riding a tricycle on the Bonneville Salt Flats :) -Larry "Brian Oster" <bgoster@swbell**nosmap**.com> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I havn't ran the trucks at this track yet but coulda predicted it. > Actually the trucks at places like Texas and Atlanta are pretty boring > as well... like running restrictor plate races at non-plate tracks. >

"Larry" wrote... > Yeah, but at least Texas and Atlanta aren't quite like riding > a tricycle on the Bonneville Salt Flats :) You do realise Thrust SSC is technically a tricycle, I hope? <g> Jan. =---

Hehe :) -Larry "Jan Verschueren" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:cSFvb.36214$[email hidden]...

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> "Larry" wrote... > > Yeah, but at least Texas and Atlanta aren't quite like riding > > a tricycle on the Bonneville Salt Flats :) > > You do realise Thrust SSC is technically a tricycle, I hope? <g> > > Jan. > =--- > >

Are there Any opening's in the Rascar league?

Yes. I dont have the URL handy but post a message on our rasesimcentral forum including your sierra ID and carfile.. Show up Saturday at 3est for our practice race then 4est for the main event. Mitch "SPEED" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:W9Qvb.5531$[email hidden]... > Are there Any opening's in the Rascar league? > >

http://www.schuerkamp.de/zope/rascar "Mitch_A" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:tTVvb.1259$[email hidden]...

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> Yes. > > I dont have the URL handy but post a message on our rasesimcentral forum > including your sierra ID and carfile.. Show up Saturday at 3est for our > practice race then 4est for the main event. > > Mitch > > > "SPEED" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:W9Qvb.5531$[email hidden]... > > Are there Any opening's in the Rascar league? > > > > > >

In article <bppdaq$d4i$[email hidden]>, "Tim Paullin" <[email hidden]> writes:

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>http://www.schuerkamp.de/zope/rascar > > > > >"Mitch_A" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:tTVvb.1259$[email hidden]... >> Yes. >> >> I dont have the URL handy but post a message on our rasesimcentral forum >> including your sierra ID and carfile.. Show up Saturday at 3est for our >> practice race then 4est for the main event.

Ok - dumb question. Are the CTS and T/A both available from PWF? I'll have to admit that I ignored most of those 'mods' discussions... Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Member Screamers Racing League IICC League GPLRank -2.4 MoGPL rank +302.38 ChallengeRank +54.48 MoC +743.77 Hist. +82.82 MoH in progress N2k3 rank:in progress Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

In article <sqbvb.1359$[email hidden]>, "Art McEwen" <[email hidden]> writes: >> As on any plate track if you lose the draft the fun factor drops >> like an anchor, > >Don't worry, if you lose the draft you'll pick up me and Eldred... ;) > Hehe... Don't let Art fool you guys - he's far from slow...as I found out a couple years ago. Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Member Screamers Racing League IICC League GPLRank -2.4 MoGPL rank +302.38 ChallengeRank +54.48 MoC +743.77 Hist. +82.82 MoH in progress N2k3 rank:in progress Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

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> >Don't worry, if you lose the draft you'll pick up me and Eldred... ;) > > > > Hehe... > Don't let Art fool you guys - he's far from slow...as I found out a couple > years ago. >

This from the guy with the negative rank ;) Actually I was plesently surprised in the warm up race, I was battling for the lead at one point. It was quickly back to reality in the real event though where I was battling to keep the draft in sight.

Yup, grab em from http://www.onlineracin.com/pwf/ Unless youve upgd that (IIRC) 900MHz Athlon? Get the Low res versions. If you havent upgd, it's time :) Mitch "EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > Ok - dumb question. Are the CTS and T/A both available from PWF? I'llhave to

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> admit that I ignored most of those 'mods' discussions... > > Eldred > -- > Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett > Member > Screamers Racing League > IICC League > GPLRank -2.4 MoGPL rank +302.38 > ChallengeRank +54.48 MoC +743.77 > Hist. +82.82 MoH in progress > N2k3 rank:in progress > > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

>Yup, grab em from http://www.onlineracin.com/pwf/ Unless youve upgd that >(IIRC) 900MHz Athlon? Get the Low res versions. If you havent upgd, it's >time :) It's a 1.2G, but maybe I should get the lo-res anyway... Thanks. Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Member Screamers Racing League IICC League GPLRank -2.4 MoGPL rank +302.38 ChallengeRank +54.48 MoC +743.77 Hist. +82.82 MoH in progress N2k3 rank:in progress Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

I have a P4 2.5Ghz and a Ti4400 and _I_ might even download the low-res version :) Frame rates caused us a lot of problems we don't normally have last week. I haven't had time to test the next track yet, but if it's anywhere near as bad I'm going for the lite version. Until our race last week, I never had a frame rate problem at any track anywhere with any number of cars or options turned on. -Larry "Mitch_A" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:fjOwb.54060$[email hidden]...

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> Yup, grab em from http://www.onlineracin.com/pwf/ Unless youve upgd that > (IIRC) 900MHz Athlon? Get the Low res versions. If you havent upgd, it's > time :) > > Mitch > > > "EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > > Ok - dumb question. Are the CTS and T/A both available from PWF? I'll > have to > > admit that I ignored most of those 'mods' discussions... > > > > Eldred > > -- > > Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett > > Member > > Screamers Racing League > > IICC League > > GPLRank -2.4 MoGPL rank +302.38 > > ChallengeRank +54.48 MoC +743.77 > > Hist. +82.82 MoH in progress > > N2k3 rank:in progress > > > > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply. > >