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Out of curiosity, how many hours do most of you have on PCars? I just hit 53 hours total, but I’ve got a feeling you guys have bunch of hours invested in it. Just curious.
It was the coldest snowstorm in over a 100 years. It doesn’t usually snow when it’s that cold.
Both legs were broken Colts, I’m a man of steel now, what good possibly go wrong. Knocking on wood!
Exactly 100 hours more. And that's with about a six month hiatus. From January to April of last year I was only able to play on weekends, and actually hardly at all because I'd been out of town all week and "the fam" wanted to spend time with me. Then in April my back went to complete shenanigans, so then I didn't play at all until I started racing with you guys again. So, I'm betting that there's some serious hours here if I have 153!Out of curiosity, how many hours do most of you have on PCars? I just hit 53 hours total, but I’ve got a feeling you guys have bunch of hours invested in it. Just curious.
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Out of curiosity, how many hours do most of you have on PCars? I just hit 53 hours total, but I’ve got a feeling you guys have bunch of hours invested in it. Just curious.
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@Aero: same here, it’s “freezing” in Austin. People are walking around in winter jackets and were looking at me like I was crazy for being in shorts and a t-shirt. They have no idea what cold is.
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It's cold by me right now too. 26 °C
Well, if I could wrap up tonight's racing from my perspective in one word: VICTIM!!! It seems anyone else's mistake somehow found me taking a beating. Well, that's racing folks. Still more fun than having to... well... do something other than racing with our buddies. I will admit, Steve and I had a very good race at the end of Race 3. Steve had the long straight gearing advantage and cleanly took advantage with a turn one pass. Not to mention, he had to close in for several laps, so well done Steve.
The Pass: (01:34:00) This one's worth a look, as if you pay attention, I ran a defensive line into turn 1. Steve still went with an aggressive, inside overtake. He and I both exhibited excellent racecraft in my opinion. I defended, but didn't swerve to wreck either of us. Steve held the inside without making contact, and knew he could gather the car up on exit. My hope was to get a run on him out of the exit - No dice. Some darn good racing there. Steve, you need to start streaming your races - I'd love to see that from your view!
Also had some fun racing with @GTLehman and @GUTTERBOY3007 in the final race. Just wish I wouldn't have been fighting my way from the back. Whaa-whaa-whaa...
Edit After Full YouTube Coverage Released:
If you guys remember me saying my car was handling different than in Qualifying, watch the first lap of my Race 1. It's crazy to see how much I was struggling with my car (01:45:00). The tires were locking up when I touched the brakes, the front was washing out, back end was kicking out, and the gearing was just off. And I'm pretty sure Mike had the race settings the same as qualifying too. Just odd, but believe me, I don't mind these oddities. In fact, I kind of like it compared to the obsessively boring predictability and repeat-ability of GTSpurt's races. But I still just like to point it out. Especially if it gives me a tiny bit of an excuse for a poor night's performance. This was a car I was pretty confident in, and it was biting me in an naughty way in that first race.
(Full race footage waiting on YouTube approval for now - as always).
Yep, we had some good door to door clean racing, some good clean passes on both our parts. That's what we get together for, is laps like that. Everything else is just waiting.14 days and change. Most driven cars are the BMW M1, Ferrari GTO and Lotus 49C. 12 days more than you - I need to get a life and go outside once in a while. And as much as the M1 is one of my very avorites, I couldn't dominate the night as I hoped to. Who puts a damn wall in the middle of a race track... the Italians, that's who! Fortunately I did have some great racing with you, Lakes and Bear, the three gentleman drivers of the Lobanero Lounge. That's the best part. I'm glad I was able to squeeze in when Shaun left. Good times guys.
It's all relative. When I get paged out at 3am and it's 63' I shiver. Not like I used to shiver in New Mexico, loading and flying freight, when it was 17' and freaking windy. Fortunately, I had my Wolverine 'Mammoths' (w/1400 grams of thinsulate) and a gumby suit (combined with a hoodie and long johns). Those things sure helped on the ramp and were essential when the heater went out at 12,000 feet. Then it was something like 0 degrees. Cessna makes some great airplanes, but the jackwad who put the janitrol heater over the front wheel well, and the reset switch in the wheelwell, was an idiot. Yup dressing like that was essential to not freeze to death in such a situation.
I grew up in Colorado, but I hate the cold now. Some people enjoy it, but tt is painful to me. Rich or poor, I will never again live where the temp drops below 50 degrees.
I like the vintage stuff. Its fun heel toeing and rowing the gears of the ol carb'd engines of the past. Congrates aero and camel on the class wins.Results
Mr. Baawesome here, (won't be saying that again for awhile). Another great night, well, for me anyways, not so sure about Slobban (aka DP)
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I hope you guys aren't getting too tired of the vintage stuff, as we have one more week of it to go to satisfy my yearnings of missing certain cars while I was gone. We will be going back to the three 30 min races with pit stops next week, with a little twist on the night, stay tuned!
Congrats to @The__Camel, this weeks "Mr. Awesome" for the Group A win
Congrats to @aerolite, this weeks "Mr. Baawesome" for the Group B win
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Out of curiosity, how many hours do most of you have on PCars? I just hit 53 hours total, but I’ve got a feeling you guys have bunch of hours invested in it. Just curious.
Thanks for letting me know how many hours (days in some cases) you guys have on PCars. I was just wondering how much practice and time people put in to get as fast as you guys are. Fixing my wheels deadzones helped, and before Monday nights race I set the FFB, degrees of rotation, flavor/gain/volume/tone/FX which helped because I could actually feel what the car was doing. Before, my settings were so far off my cars steering always felt numb and it was like I was driving on ice. If anyone has a T300 and wouldn’t mind sharing settings with me to try, I’d appreciate it. If I can fine tune it I think it will help, along with some quality practice sessions. I know I probably won’t be snagging the top spot on the podium any time soon, but consistently running mid-pack instead of last is my short term goal.
Wheel calibration: currently 900/215
FFB: Raw
Gain: 100
Volume: 55
Tone: 55
FX: 60
Menu Spring Strength: 0.15
Off to the mountains this weekend. So I'm thinking next weekend I'll hook it up.I forget which two calibrations you can change on the fly, but I mapped them to my button box. I adjust them per car. Makes a lot of difference in my opinion. After tires warm, I'll dial up or down depending on whether the steering is too heavy or I'm just not feeling the front tires slipping with understeer. If you watch my YouTube feeds closely enough you'll see me go to the HUD screen during qualifying and adjust them while watching the graph - to make sure I'm not doing anything crazy that'll cause clipping.
Oh, and @yogi bear , let me know when you get the T300 up and running. There's some awesome options you'll want to know about. You'z gunna' likes 'dat 300 bro!
Thanks for letting me know how many hours (days in some cases) you guys have on PCars. I was just wondering how much practice and time people put in to get as fast as you guys are. Fixing my wheels deadzones helped, and before Monday nights race I set the FFB, degrees of rotation, flavor/gain/volume/tone/FX which helped because I could actually feel what the car was doing. Before, my settings were so far off my cars steering always felt numb and it was like I was driving on ice. If anyone has a T300 and wouldn’t mind sharing settings with me to try, I’d appreciate it. If I can fine tune it I think it will help, along with some quality practice sessions. I know I probably won’t be snagging the top spot on the podium any time soon, but consistently running mid-pack instead of last is my short term goal.
Wheel calibration: currently 900/215
FFB: Raw
Gain: 100
Volume: 55
Tone: 55
FX: 60
Menu Spring Strength: 0.15
Have fun, and be safe. We don't need anyone else flying the Handicap Banner in their pit-stall.Off to the mountains this weekend. So I'm thinking next weekend I'll hook it up.
Have fun, and be safe. We don't need anyone else flying the Handicap Banner in their pit-stall.
(Alex - this is your joke! If any of us end up in hell over it, I'm blaming you! And I can continue to make jokes - because I'm actually considered disabled, and one of the guys in the "Special Olympics." Tread lightly, everyone else.) I still feel like I'm walking a fine line
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Well you know what you're doing the rest of the day!Practice? I haven’t turned pcars or spurt on in so longif you’re hoping I drive like a D1 you’re going to be disappointed
Practice? I haven’t turned pcars or spurt on in so longif you’re hoping I drive like a D1 you’re going to be disappointed
That's gotta be fake news. I blame Russian collusion .It was a humbling night, the Spurt guys did a much better job at driving in PCars than we did in Spurt. Glad Robbie decided to race with us!
The following is from @Rednose58
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Those stats are amazing @Rednose58! I like the one where it shows that we lost in the last round!![]()
I knew exactly what you guys were doing, and it was frustrating the **** out of me LOLThat last race was great. 6 of us surrounded you and trying to keep you under control. We had you down to 4th and I was even trying to challenge. But, you worked your way up again. Malevolent (@Sean Renon ) was way ahead and then he went wide in the Shumacher esses and lost his cushion. He kept asking what to do because he know he won't be able to keep you behind. Your fight with him slowed you down enough to keep @SAMHAIN85 in your neck and side by side with you with the rest of us in striking distance. That was one of the longest 20 minute races of my "career", but also one of the most thrilling. Imagine Sean's feelings.....
For the stats I took my Formula 1 fantasy spreadsheet and modified it a bit for last night. For the Data I took the Snail scoring sheets and adapted that for last night.
I knew exactly what you guys were doing, and it was frustrating the **** out of me LOL
But it was all good, clean, and legal racing! We did the same thing in the 2002 in PCARS