RASCAR: Pocono

Well, it took a few laps to get used to this new steering setup, I am running 57.2 on an average, fast lap so far was 56.60x. Turn three is very easy to misjudge and you better catch it fast or your going for a ride. Not too hard to stay out of the infield fence and bring it around. Hopefully these won't cause caution flags for us as you can get back on track easily without losing a lap if you do hit anything or too hard. Last race here I was shifting up to fourth going into three and ended up spinning when I accidentally double shifted into second and killed my motor. So this time I am only shifting down the main straight right at the start/finish line, then back to third in 1. I ran a little bit online but was still not comfortable with the steering setup to really judge it. I am pretty sure I am slow going into 1 and 2, 3 about right, but that is allowing a good exit speed and if I don't lose the position into the corner then I lead off into the next. Pretty confident here so far. knock on wood, fingers crossed, kissing rabbits foot and praying to Papy :-) -- McWhom -----------------------------------------------------------------

"mcwhom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Well, it took a few laps to get used to this new steering setup, I am > running 57.2 on an average, fast lap so far was 56.60x. Turn three isvery > easy to misjudge and you better catch it fast or your going for a ride.Not > too hard to stay out of the infield fence and bring it around. Hopefully > these won't cause caution flags for us as you can get back on track easily > without losing a lap if you do hit anything or too hard. > > Last race here I was shifting up to fourth going into three and ended up > spinning when I accidentally double shifted into second and killed mymotor. > So this time I am only shifting down the main straight right at the > start/finish line, then back to third in 1. I ran a little bit online but > was still not comfortable with the steering setup to really judge it. Iam > pretty sure I am slow going into 1 and 2, 3 about right, but that is > allowing a good exit speed and if I don't lose the position into thecorner

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> then I lead off into the next. Pretty confident here so far. knock on > wood, fingers crossed, kissing rabbits foot and praying to Papy :-) > > -- > McWhom > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > >

I'm running 55.6xx average, my best was 54.945. This is by myself. I ran a race with 25 cars, 95%. I can't drive in traffic, seems I can't contol the car around other cars. Need more practice I guess. The car seems harder to handle if I'm not running up to speed around traffic. bluestringer

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> Well, it took a few laps to get used to this new steering setup, I am > running 57.2 on an average, fast lap so far was 56.60x. Turn three is very > easy to misjudge and you better catch it fast or your going for a ride. Not > too hard to stay out of the infield fence and bring it around. Hopefully > these won't cause caution flags for us as you can get back on track easily > without losing a lap if you do hit anything or too hard. > > Last race here I was shifting up to fourth going into three and ended up > spinning when I accidentally double shifted into second and killed my motor. > So this time I am only shifting down the main straight right at the > start/finish line, then back to third in 1. I ran a little bit online but > was still not comfortable with the steering setup to really judge it. I am > pretty sure I am slow going into 1 and 2, 3 about right, but that is > allowing a good exit speed and if I don't lose the position into the corner > then I lead off into the next. Pretty confident here so far. knock on > wood, fingers crossed, kissing rabbits foot and praying to Papy :-) >

54.6 here... If I was not handicapped, I'm sure I could at least match my time at the previous pocono event of 54.2

> I'm running 55.6xx average, my best was 54.945. This is by myself. I ran a > race with 25 cars, 95%. I can't drive in traffic, seems I can't contol the > car around other cars. Need more practice I guess. The car seems harder to > handle if I'm not running up to speed around traffic. Yea, for some reason at this track i get really nervous around other cars

Well, it took a few laps to get used to this new steering setup, I am running 57.2 on an average, fast lap so far was 56.60x. Turn three is very easy to misjudge and you better catch it fast or your going for a ride. Not too hard to stay out of the infield fence and bring it around. Hopefully these won't cause caution flags for us as you can get back on track easily without losing a lap if you do hit anything or too hard. Last race here I was shifting up to fourth going into three and ended up spinning when I accidentally double shifted into second and killed my motor. So this time I am only shifting down the main straight right at the start/finish line, then back to third in 1. I ran a little bit online but was still not comfortable with the steering setup to really judge it. I am pretty sure I am slow going into 1 and 2, 3 about right, but that is allowing a good exit speed and if I don't lose the position into the corner then I lead off into the next. Pretty confident here so far. knock on wood, fingers crossed, kissing rabbits foot and praying to Papy :-) -- McWhom -----------------------------------------------------------------

So do I :) The first RASCAR race I ran here I was ass-ended like 10 times! -Larry "frederickson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ZuHTa.9729$[email hidden]... > > I'm running 55.6xx average, my best was 54.945. This is by myself. I rana > > race with 25 cars, 95%. I can't drive in traffic, seems I can't contolthe > > car around other cars. Need more practice I guess. The car seems harderto > > handle if I'm not running up to speed around traffic. > > Yea, for some reason at this track i get really nervous around other cars > >

In article <emWTa.2533$5b7.2313@lakeread01>, "Larry" <[email hidden]> writes: >So do I :) The first RASCAR race I ran here I was ass-ended like 10 times! That's what happens when you qualify so far up in the order. I don't have that problem... :-/ Eldred -- Help find missing child: Tatianna Ashley Chillcutt from Michigan(info on my homepage) Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

Sorry about the double post. Have been having problems seeing posts going through giganews. raised a little hell at comcast the other day and now I get double posts :-( Oh, well. Made things even worse by screwing my whole OS trying to make it setup a network....Don't ask. Anyway, spent all day today trying to format and reload XP. Yes, it was that bad, long story and a bad bios, but I can get it to run XP. Now I have a nice shiney (like) new hd and smoothing out the edges :-) I hope it will run NR2K3 faster! I raced Pocono online a couple of times and done some offline. You really can't be shy on the gas here in the exits of the corners. That is the only way I can find to take any speed through the corners. Kind of have to work with the loose condition and ride it too the walls. I will try and keep this under control Saturday during the race. There is a tendancy for loosing it in the exit of two for some reason. That does seem to be where you have to steer more with the gas. Anyway, got NG's back, time to go get some car files and get them moved in. Will try to run some laps tonite if anyone is still up or around.