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It's not the tracks at all I don't like to drive every day since a week the same . Past was really fun, you got every day new cars / tracks

Porsche it's not my favorite car for Nos
 
Did around 10 race Bs this week. My race this morning was my first DR gain this week. Competition was tough for me. I was clean, stayed on course, no penalties, just was too cautious and slow compared to others.

Saw Sven J on pole in my race. 20 seconds faster QT than me starting in 7th. I'm happy I finished the race before time ran out. :lol:
 
I did some testing this morning with the cars I expect to be used for next weeks races. I sure hope race A is the Shelby 350, because it's pretty fun to drive at Big Willow. I expect this to be the car.

For race C, our two newest N200 cars are the Integra and Dino Ferrari. The Ferrari was pretty fun to drive around Suzuka. It has enough over-steer to keep you on your toes, because it will drift, at times. Drifting might not be a good idea in this race, though. The tires are Comfort Soft and the tire wear is x10!

The Integra is a steaming pile of garbage for road course racing. :yuck: The power-on under-steer is so unappealing. That's why I never use TTs or Meganes in the Gr.4 races.

The Dino was also 4 seconds faster.

*My opinion, only. Not meant to offend any Integra lovers.
 
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Got up, put in some laundry, then hopped right into a race at the Nord. Now that I'm getting to know the track, and the car, I'm having fun...other than the constant hits from behind at the start. I raced twice, and got knocked into the wall in the first half dozen turns both times. The bad part is I end up starting with SR down flags every time, the good part is once I get to the first fast section, I'm in the clear and can get down to bussiness. Both races started top 5 ( 2nd & 4th? ) both I lost a couple of spots due to being used as a brake, but got them back by the end of the first fast section. First race I just chased the leader till the end. Finished back 6 seconds, but the gap was from 3 to 12 seconds at points. Got within 3.8 going into the long straight, buy he gained about .3 by the end (better drive...a bit) then another 1.5 or so on the last few corners. I need to figure those out so I'm faster and not so on the edge. Happy for the P2 finish.
Second race I was dicing with P3 early, pressured him and he went wide, so I snuck by. He was less than 2 seconds back for the second half. Couldn't catch P1, but the gap was pretty steady at 2-3 seconds. Went up to 4.5 late, but he blew the drive onto the long straight. I didn't see it, but I caught him at the top of the hill and he had a penalty. Passed him for the lead before the kink, but was so far inside I went wide and got into the grass coming out. From there it was semi controlled chaos as I tried to slow down, and keep all that weight in the back from coming around. Didn't quite do it, and went wide and hit the wall into T -2. P2 and P3 got by, but I took 2nd due to the penalty of the guy that had the lead for most of the race.
Total for 2 races, SR up 7, DR up 1100. I've painted my car now. (Purple with a yellow stripe and accents:D) so maybe I can pull out a win or two before I climb back to SR-S and end up mid pack again!
 
12:10 race. Competition, an A/S driver with 4 sec faster qualy time starts on pole. He pulls it off, finishes in 8:05.2. I got bumped by an American in T minus three, already putting me behind, and SR Down, clean streak reset. I finish in 8:07 flat after almost reeling him in. +140 DR.

Starting 3rd now, behind a faster B/S driver. The races are getting more real. Crap, I push just a little too hard in the wrong place, tiny bit of kerb, position lost. I finish 4th, -210 DR. So harsh.
 
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Oh Yeah! Last nights experience has paid off already this morning, another 5 seconds shaved off. I’m coming for you Mr @Sven Jurgens !! Probably not this week though lol. :)
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This was the highlight of my night of racing last night and I believe my only legit overtake where the other car had all 4 wheels on the track, even though I did not lol. :D

 
Hmm, I don't think I can reach A+ this time on the Nord. There are just not enough (or any) A/S and A+/S drivers to race. At this rate it will take another 30 races lol. It should be better in the evening, yet it's still only a couple A/S and the rest so low there are no points beyond finishing second. Plus it will all be over with a single disconnect.

Starting second next. No more pushing, no mistakes. One A/S in front, one behind, the rest down to D/S. I'm already too high to gain any points from DR.D or DR.C. Ugh, the American behind me pulls an irresponsible move. He tries to overtake on the outside at Flugplatz, rams me at the apex while I'm already aiming to go half off the road trying to avoid him, he bounces off, 3 sec penalty for me. Upset about the penalty I mess up at the downhill section and slip to 4th. I make it back to 3rd, finishing with the 3 sec penalty. He agreed it was a bad move, oh well, live and learn. -55 DR -8 SR.

Starting 3rd this time, behind the A/S drive on pole who easily won the last 4 races and a new A+/S driver in second. Same A/S driver behind me, rest, oh nevermind, disconnected :banghead:

1:30 pm Starting 3rd, same A/S on pole still, another in front of me. An aggressive A+ is starting in 5th, I can expect to see him soon. I've seen him pushing bumper to bumper before. Ugh, the American behind me rams me 3 times in the first section. Third time hard enough for both of us to go off and the A+ gets a free pass. Then another car rams me off a bit later. I make it back to 4th then catch up to the A+ driver who is serving a penalty from bumping second off. I stick with him, then at the final section first and second clash. The A+ bullies through at wins the race with a red rating due to the first having a penalty from colliding with second. I finish third. +120 DR, +1 SR. Both drivers apologized after the race, I rather have a clean race sigh.

1:50 race. Pretty much the same line up, except a different A/S on pole. Hopefully the American has found his brake pedal for this race. It doesn't take long for the A+ to start pushing me. Unfortunately I pay too much attention to his car coming dangerously close each corner and go off. His strategy works, got to turn off the rearview mirror with these people. I decent to the back into pinball chaos, down to 11th. I manage to cleanly fight my way back to 6th. (Well, I did hit a penalty server on the fast section in the middle, right on the racing line. He deservedly got a new penalty. Blind corner, car moving at 1/3rd the speed on the line...) -400 DR, +1 SR.

2;10 race. Do I really want to continue racing on a Sunday afternoon. It's been straight up bumping and ramming for the past 2 hours. At the least I want my SR back at 99, 93 currently, +1 per race :/
 
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Good, starting 2nd next. A+ trouble maker is not there. In fact, I'm the only A/S in the room :/ No points to gain, massive losses possible, lot of D/S drivers in the room. Oh well, bumped off again at the end, this is getting depressing. At least I finished 3rd this time, only one position lost. Clean race bonus, -40 DR +3 SR (96) One more for 99 and then turn this crap off.

It's the same American behind me again, couple near misses until he goes off at Aremberg missing my bumper by less than an inch. It turns out that without the draft he falls back further and further. First is already gone though while making sure to stay out of the way of the bumper behind me. A boring race, gaps growing either way. 2nd place finish, +190 DR, back to 99 SR.

Ok, one more cause I'm hopelessly optimistic expecting a satisfying close contact free actual race on the Nordschleife should be possible. I have video evidence it has been possible in the past... Perhaps this track should be on for a month so people can learn where to brake :)

Ugh, can't get rid of this dude. Starting 3rd this time. Narrow miss special behind me again. He bumps me again at least 3 times, I get a neutral rating at the end all from him. He doesn't recall bumping me at all... He hangs on by draft and upsetting my lines and passes on the straight. I'm done with this. Can't have a clean race today.
 
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I got my Nordy time down another 7 tenths to 7:44.5, I don’t know how much more I can squeeze out without turning off traction control and there isn’t enough time left in the day to relearn the track without it. So 7:44.5 is where she’s gonna end the week. :)
 
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I've taken a full six seconds off my target laptime at Bathurst since Monday. Previous Gr.3 best was about 2:15. Target on Monday was under 2:10. I'm currently at 2:04.053. I know that's not fast in the grand scheme of things. But, it's great progress.

Going to try and hit 2:03.xxx when I get home.
 
Me stupid, tried another race as who knows how long it takes for the Nord to be back on. I get bump passed full force in T1, drop all the way back, no penalty for the A/S driver. I get rammed again by a dumb attempt to overtake in the wiggly section, dude bounces off the wall and spins me around. Started 3rd, rammed off to 13th, finished 8th.

PD please please bring back the severe penalties. Please, please. Driving at the top is worse than the backfield. Desperate dives all day long. Perhaps I should just join the qualify all week crowd... Can all the great people on here log on and fill up the room :cheers: Dirty drivers are ruining the game.

Yep next race, same guy, now bumps me off Aremberg, while I leave plenty of room for him to avoid me. He claims I was slow, just another A/Ss that can't compensate for slipstream braking and doesn't care who gets hit. I drop to 6th, cleanly make it back to second to finish behind him. How is that slow... Dirty wins, penalty system did nothing again while I got bumped into the gravel. I'm not sure what happened to first along the way, he was in the grass when I went by.

Oh well, driving through traffic does make the race more interesting. However I'm tempted to lower my SR so I don't have to race these A/Ss holes anymore.

Holy ****, now I have the bumper from this morning in 3rd behind me, then the punter from my last 2 races in 4th. PD why do you hate me. First is at least fast, and maybe 4th and 3rd will take out eachother. Here's to hoping.

Not quite, 4th pushes past 3rd and bumps me off at Aremberg again. He goes off as well as he gets punted by an Argentinian. He still gets the penalty for bumping me off, finally. I drop to 6th when 7th tries to spin me again like he did first race, again in the twisty bit. He fails this time. Original 4th overdrives, spins and takes me out with him, he gets another penalty, I drop to 8th. He's still ahead, I follow, he's out of control and gets two more shortcut penalties, by the straight he has 9.2 sec on the clock, he goes wide. I chase 4th down the straight and take his position. Original 3rd (dirty driver from this morning) finishes 3rd with 2 sec penalty. At least the punter is off to SR.A for now.


After having the pleasure of two contact free races, including a win, mr morning bumper is back. He was qualifying to start in front of me, good, then he can't bump me off right.... Wrong. He messes up, I go for a clean pass, he panics trying to block me, slides out of control and bumps me off :mad: His car is saved by bumping me off and he gets no penalty. Did he pay someone off at PD? Reported again, all day long, no effect.
 
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@Sven Jurgens , I feel your pain. I should have quit while I was ahead. Two races gridded 6th, finished 6th in both. Bumped back to 8th and 10th but made my way forward. Blue B in both. Third time at the Nord had me gridded 9th. Not a good place to be. Typical bumps in T -2 and -1 and T1. Used as a berm in T 6(?) Make the mistake (probably) of fighting to hold my position and get 3 seconds, then when I come over the crest into the fast right hand kink, the same guy brake checks me at the crest and I get 5 more seconds. The rest of the lap is a combo of getting hit, and messing up on dirty tires. Managed to pull it together at the end and salvage a few spots to finish 10th. For the first time ever (I think) I'm SR-D at 16 points. I don't want to get reset, so I think I'm done racing. Maybe I'll try to improve my times later...can't let @Pigems smoke me on ALL the tracks this week. When the new races are up, I might run from the back and try to pad my SR.
I wonder how many laps of the Nord I'll have to run to get into the mid 40's:confused:
 
Sven Jurgens
However I'm tempted to lower my SR so I don't have to race these A/Ss holes anymore
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Sounds rough. I only managed to get in about 15, or so B races this week. All of them were at SR A, B, or C. I abandoned race C for the week when I got down close to D rating, and just stuck to B. I didn't experience a lot of dirtiness in my races. Almost all of the SR downs I got in race B were within the first 30 seconds, when everyone is pretty bunched up.

After a short time, a good deal of those guys are no longer close enough to punt, even if they wanted to. I think I finished top 5 in all but one of them, and even won a couple. I assure you I was not trying to stay at a low level for padding my stats, or any reason. I really wanted to move up and race with you guys. I just wasn't able to get there. There were some pretty fast guys, but very few who are capable of pressuring you for the whole lap. In a weird way, you kinda have to be good to be dirty. I think maybe only 3 or 4 per race had aspirations of victory. Whereas, in your group there may be 10 or 12 in that category.

That's the difference that came to mind when I read the sentence of yours that I quoted.
 
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Oh, I just had an excellent race with clean drivers!!! Well it went a bit messy at Aremberg. The car ahead messed up the turn and was sliding a bit, panicked and started braking early. I was still far behind so was using my usual brake point. Unfortunately lag kicked in as well and it was impossible to see on what side his car was, it literally jumped in my way at the last moment. Unavoidable bump, penalty for me, I waited for him to recover after already depleting the penalty so we could resume racing. Great close race followed with a few drivers, I made a great pass, close finish and all. I did get bumped off in the final section, yet this driver waited for me, giving the position back. So much nicer to race with sportmanship.

Unfortunately the SR system doesn't care, -9 SR for me, right before PD locks in the numbers. All day long at 99 SR, now it shows 90 on my profile for day 416, always seems to happen doh.

Another great race. Unfortunately I bumped the same driver, this time at the corner before Karoussel. It was only slight, he stayed on the road and I waited to give him a bit of room ahead. This time 100% my fault, I'll avoid on the outside next time. The rest of the race went great. Even better Mr Bumpy from this morning starting on second, screwed up and screwed up again then rage quit. Karma! +3 SR and clean race bonus as you get the bonus when you bump people....
 
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Sounds rough. I only managed to get in about 15 or so B races this week. All of them were at SR A, B, or C. I abandoned race C for the week when I got down close to D rating, and just stuck to B. I didn't experience a lot of dirtiness in my races. Almost all of the SR downs I got in race B were within the first 30 seconds, when everyone is bunched up pretty up.

After a short time, a good deal of those guys are no longer close enough to punt, even if they wanted to. I think I finished top 5 in all but one of them, and even won a couple. I assure you I was not trying to stay at a low level for padding my stats, or any reason. I really wanted to move up and race with you guys. I just wasn't able to get there. There were some pretty fast guys, but very few who are capable of pressuring you for the whole lap. In a weird way, you kinda have to be good to be dirty. I think maybe only 3 or 4 per race had aspirations of victory. Whereas, in your group there may be 10 or 12 in that category.

That's the difference that came to mind when I read the sentence of yours that I quoted.
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Yes, that's my experience with the backfield. They'll try to run you off when you pass, yet they simply aren't fast enough to draft bump you off the track. Plus when they dive you can see it coming from far away. The downside is those SR Downs before you even get passed T1.

I got my wish. I knew this couldn't last. A room full of laggy Brazilians wanted to play pinball. It was going fine until the Brazillian in first screwed up, bunched everyone up then all the Brazilians behind started playing pinball. -19 SR.... Down to 74. A yellow flag in Brazil must mean go faster.

And SR.A gets me pole with 2 South Americans behind me :nervous: The good thing about 2 South Americans behind you is, they'll screw each other up first, before coming after first. Easy 3 star victory with 4.5 sec lead. The kicker, only 2 red ratings, as opposed to 80% red ratings in the SR.S room... SR 79, one more race as SR.A
 
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@Sven Jurgens

I feel your pain being stuck in high DR.A. Even a win nets you under 100 Dr most times. There is hardly ever a A+ to race with, and if there is they are typically aliens (no mistakes and blazing fast). Usually, finishing second or third will lose you some DR.

I clawed and scratched my way into A+ after being DRA from day 49 - 172. it was not easy and i was not having fun, it was too stress full. at one point it becomes the game of just trying not to lose Dr by winning. not fun in my books. so i started a new account after reaching A+ which was my goal to being with on day 1.

Its quite fun starting from 0 again. it will be interesting to see where i end up and how quickly i get settled into a DR category. oh, another reason i started a new account was that i lost all my cars. :( may as well at that point. i added you as a friend on that account today, see you on track soon!
 
@teebone Looking forward to race with you!

Another victory, only 2 stars this time as the Argentinian had a North American behind him this time. Thus he bumped me at least 3 times before we're through T1 after which he fell back. No further contacts, as I kept them well back. However neutral SR, still 79, still SR.A. Indeed this is not racing either. 2 Victories haven't yet recovered the DR lost from finishing 8th once.

Triple star victory next. There was a Mexican in third behind the Argentinian. Predictably they screed each other up and I had a clean getaway. 8;05.7 race time after a relaxed lap, over 15 seconds ahead. SR 84, back to SR.S.

Hmm, even easier in low SR.S. Another 15 sec lead. I even went wide paying too much attention to the tv, cost me the clean race bonus. +110 DR for that victory, SR 89.

One more pole until I get to actually race again. Or perhaps not, Brazil starting behind me with a Canadian behind him. SR Down incoming. Phew, Brazil gets kicked on loading, Canadian behind me. Safe (most of the time) Ooh, 8:05.148 finish time that might be a new record for me, I haven't really been tracking my finish times yet usually they are 8:06 and above. Triple star 'victory' if you can call it that, 18 seconds ahead. 4 red Bs in that room, more red As and S. SR 94 +160 DR.

Enough of hotlapping, back into the fire. Thus one Brazilian pinball race equals 5 easy victories. Such a deterrent to drive clean, great system PD. DR still hasn't quite recovered though.
 
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Pigems
I’ve got it down to 7:43.0 now, I want to race but now I’m wondering if I can get to sub 7:40 before the end of the night too lol.
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See you later perhaps, I'll take a break first before going back into the dirty SR.S rooms. It's bedtime story time etc. I'll probably be racing again in an hour or so. Don't forget to race, enough of hot lapping!
 
Sven Jurgens
See you later perhaps, I'll take a break first before going back into the dirty SR.S rooms. It's bedtime story time etc. I'll probably be racing again in an hour or so. Don't forget to race, enough of hot lapping!
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I just tried too, I clicked on it with 2 seconds left but didn’t have enough time to choose a car lol. I’ll be in the next one. :)
 
Rexracer702
How am I supposed to catch up if you keep going faster.:irked:
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Just keep workin at it, eventually you’ll know the track inside and out, there are just soo many corners to learn on this one lol. :)

Just did a race, Started 2nd but got bumped off by an American after the first little straight coming into the hard right. He apologized after but it still sucked, I was running good and he missed his brake point. I fell back to 8th after a rear ended a guy in a pile up and managed to get back to 4th but with a red A at the end. Oh well.

Edit: Pole on the next race with the same dirty American behind me again, yup, rammed me off again, at least he got a penalty this time while I fall back to 7th, got back to 5th but he won, at least he got a red B and I won’t see him the next race, Blue A for me, Grrrr.

Edit 2: pile again and Put myself off the road this time lol, guy behind bragging about a 47% win rate in his message before the race couldn’t catch me till I messsd up lol. Fell back to 5th I think but made it back to finish 2nd with a red A. Oh well.

That’s it for me this week, finished off the week at just over 29k DR so not to bad. DR A is just around the corner. :)
 
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@Pigems Dang now you're stuck in SR.A. I just did my first big boy race of the evening. Started third behind two A+ drivers. One messed up and fell behind. He carefully stayed out of the way before merging back in, that's class. He dropped to 4th, got back behind me not long after but didn't risk a pass. I kept the car steady for a clean 8:06 run. (from third) +300 DR, +5 SR. Back to 99.

Second place in top SR.S worth 3 times as much as a win in low SR.S!

Check out the stats of the bragger. His disconnect ratio is likely very high lol.

Second race, room is mostly Canadians, then USA, 1 Brazilian. I'm thinking this should be good, wrong again. Canadians are bipolar, either gentlemen on the track or complete scumbags. There happened to be two of the latter category in my race. I get punted in T1, shoved and almost spun around at Kallenhard, and bumped hard in between. I did not end up with a penalty, still -5 SR from getting rammed. One of the rammers got a blue S despite getting a penalty... I finished 4th climbing back up from 6th twice. -200 DR.
 
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