RASCAR race - Dover

Sept 14, 4pm eastern Server - RASCAR 40%(160 laps) Pace speed - 45mph Pit speed limit - 35mph Yellows and DF restarts on Race back to the line No flaming - have fun. That is all. Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett GPLRank:+8.03 N2002 Rank:+20.124 Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

"EldredP" wrote... > <snip> Eh... Eldred... New Hampshire is the Cup track this week (as confirmed by yourself earlier this week). Dover's next week buddy... (looking forward to that one <g>). Jan. =---

>Dover's next week buddy... (looking forward to that one <g>). Dang Jan, Why'd you bring it up? <g> I can't get a hold on the <fast> setup at NH and would be a menace there. Probably won't make it home from work in time for NH anyway but I look forward to Dover as well. Dan

Dover? When did that happen? I've been practicing LOUDON all week! No problem. I'll race anywhere :) -Larry "EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Sept 14, 4pm eastern > Server - RASCAR > 40%(160 laps) > Pace speed - 45mph > Pit speed limit - 35mph > Yellows and DF restarts on > Race back to the line > No flaming - have fun. That is all. > > Eldred > -- > Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett > GPLRank:+8.03 > N2002 Rank:+20.124 > > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

"Bamadano" wrote... > > <snip> > Dang Jan, > Why'd you bring it up? <g> <snip> Stupidity. Jan. ;-)) =---

>Eh... Eldred... New Hampshire is the Cup track this week (as confirmed by >yourself earlier this week). Yeah, my bad. Don't know why I had Dover on my mind. So, we'll do New Hampshire NEXT week...<blush> Results up soon. Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett GPLRank:+8.03 N2002 Rank:+20.124 Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

Congrats to T_White! Results are up: http://www.umich.edu/~epickett/rascar.html You only have a few hours to download. The system will be shut down sometime after 9pm eastern, and will likely be off until 8am Monday. Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett GPLRank:+8.03 N2002 Rank:+20.124 Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

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> Congrats to T_White! > Results are up: http://www.umich.edu/~epickett/rascar.html > > You only have a few hours to download. The system will be shut down > sometime after 9pm eastern, and will likely be off until 8am Monday. > > Eldred

Eldred, again my humble apoligies for holding you up. The way I see this kind of thing is that when I dont see the car behind me make a move to the inside I just reckon he is unable to make a pass. My bad I guess.. The thing I dont understand is how people are able to keep up such a great pace on worn tires. I didnt pit for 90 laps, but I think from 40 laps on I lost one second per lap. Theres still much to learn for me... cheers, Jurjen

> The thing I dont understand is how people are able to keep up such a > great pace on worn tires. I didnt pit for 90 laps, but I think from 40 > laps on I lost one second per lap. Theres still much to learn for me... I was having trouble with tire wear too. Since no one seems to be talkin much ill try to start. I pushed hard at the beginning and after the second yellow started picking my way up to 2nd or 3rd, i pitted around lap 25 during a yellow, and joined in 10th, then worked my way back up, passing low, passing high, feeling like a superstar. Then my tires went sour, I was over a second slower than before, and one by one everyone flew past me. I then started doing like Eldred and pitting as late as possible, picking up fresh tires any chance i could. On the 2nd to last yellow, there was like 50 or 60 laps left, and i decided to take it real easy. I hovered around in 13th did until there was about 20 laps left, and my plan worked pretty well, cuz when i decided to start driving hard again, i got back up to fifth before the last caution. If it had gone green those last 5 laps I might have picked up another spot or two. Great race.

Sounds like a great race! Eldred, could you add me to the invite list on the server? John has my car file and put me on the roster, but I don't think I made it on the invite list since the server wouldn't let me log on. Thanks. Name: Thomas McKibben Sierra ID: tmack2070 Car #150 "EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Congrats to T_White! > Results are up: http://www.umich.edu/~epickett/rascar.html > > You only have a few hours to download. The system will be shut downsometime

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> after 9pm eastern, and will likely be off until 8am Monday. > > Eldred > -- > Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett > GPLRank:+8.03 > N2002 Rank:+20.124 > > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

In article <[email hidden]>, Jle <[email hidden]> writes: >Eldred, again my humble apoligies for holding you up. >The way I see this kind of thing is that when I dont see the car behind >me make a move to the inside I just reckon he is unable to make a pass. >My bad I guess.. I was faster, but I couldn't get a good enough run to do anything but a dive-bomb move. That's not my style, because it risks a wreck taking out both cars. If it had been for position, I wouldn't have had a problem with it at all. You're entitled to defend your position, like Bernoldi and Coulthard at Monaco. My only issue with it was because you were 2 laps down, and I feel you should have given way. Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett GPLRank:+8.03 N2002 Rank:+20.124 Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

In article <WbRg9.8453$[email hidden]>, "tmack115" <[email hidden]> writes:

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>Sounds like a great race! Eldred, could you add me to the invite list on the >server? John has my car file and put me on the roster, but I don't think I >made it on the invite list since the server wouldn't let me log on. Thanks. > >Name: Thomas McKibben >Sierra ID: tmack2070 >Car #150

Done. Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett GPLRank:+8.03 N2002 Rank:+20.124 Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

On lap 36 I was coming off turn 2 and people were passing me wholesale (I guess tires were the differenence). Anyway, I came off turn 2 and was being passed on the left and thought I might hit the guy that was passing, so I jigged it right a little, and as a result took out Mitch who was making a run a run on the outside of me. Apologies to Mitch who evidently lost his motor as a result. That one was entriely my fault. -- ========================================================= Redneck Techno-Biker & "programming deity" http://www.paddedwall.org/john DeMONS/1 for Nascar Racing 3 & Nascar Legends http://www.paddedwall.org/demons DeMONS/2 for Nascar Racing 4 and 2002 Season (in development) http://www.paddedwall.org/demons2 RASCAR Roster http://www.paddedwall.org/rascar Barbarian Diecast Collector (490+ cars and counting) http://www.paddedwall.org/diecast If you want to send me email, go to the first URL shown above & click "Send Me Mail" in the contents frame. =========================================================

I wouldnt call that one your fault JS (no I'm not being arguementative hehe). Thanks for the apology though! I had an opportunity to back off and prevent that incident but I didnt. I knew as I went high that things were gonna be rough as I believe we were 3 wide on the exit of T2 (not good at all hehe). I could clearly see what was happening, and you couldnt really know I was there so it's just as much my fault as yours :-). I went into the race telling myself to just be patient, I obviously didnt listen :-) Congrats again Tim! Mitch "John Simmons" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> On lap 36 I was coming off turn 2 and people were passing me wholesale > (I guess tires were the differenence). Anyway, I came off turn 2 and > was being passed on the left and thought I might hit the guy that was > passing, so I jigged it right a little, and as a result took out Mitch > who was making a run a run on the outside of me. > > Apologies to Mitch who evidently lost his motor as a result. That one > was entriely my fault. > > -- > ========================================================= > Redneck Techno-Biker & "programming deity" > http://www.paddedwall.org/john > DeMONS/1 for Nascar Racing 3 & Nascar Legends > http://www.paddedwall.org/demons > DeMONS/2 for Nascar Racing 4 and 2002 Season (in development) > http://www.paddedwall.org/demons2 > RASCAR Roster > http://www.paddedwall.org/rascar > Barbarian Diecast Collector (490+ cars and counting) > http://www.paddedwall.org/diecast > > If you want to send me email, go to the first URL shown > above & click "Send Me Mail" in the contents frame. > =========================================================

I had all kinds of problems this week. First, I had the connection from hell (so I'm told). Though my connection through my Cable Modem and out through my provider was perfect, and my quality indicator never moved out of the green, I was told I was warping so I left the race. The only thing I can figure is I got unlucky and got routed through a nasty router on the Internet somewhere. The car was EVIL during the race. I don't understand that either. Even with fresh tires, during the race I had a serious lack of bite on the front-end, and it kept washing out on me. This situation did not exist during practice, qual or warmup. Weird... I had no damage and had not hit anything. This is why I was pitting for tires every yellow, hoping it was a bad series of tires :) I guess I was headed towards another 5th place or so finish. Oh, well. There's always next week :) -Larry "frederickson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:dZQg9.124212$[email hidden]...

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> > The thing I dont understand is how people are able to keep up such a > > great pace on worn tires. I didnt pit for 90 laps, but I think from 40 > > laps on I lost one second per lap. Theres still much to learn for me... > > I was having trouble with tire wear too. Since no one seems to be talkin > much ill try to start. > > I pushed hard at the beginning and after the second yellow started picking > my way up to 2nd or 3rd, i pitted around lap 25 during a yellow, and

joined > in 10th, then worked my way back up, passing low, passing high, feelinglike > a superstar. Then my tires went sour, I was over a second slower than > before, and one by one everyone flew past me. I then started doing like > Eldred and pitting as late as possible, picking up fresh tires any chancei > could. On the 2nd to last yellow, there was like 50 or 60 laps left, and i > decided to take it real easy. I hovered around in 13th did until there was > about 20 laps left, and my plan worked pretty well, cuz when i decided to > start driving hard again, i got back up to fifth before the last caution.If > it had gone green those last 5 laps I might have picked up another spot or > two. Great race. > > >