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Likely last night of the week for me and I think I found groundfish' mates in the first few races, just bedlam. Last couple were much better and ended with an excellent mid pack fight. Not a bad week tbh, even if the Ctual racing was not great.
 
Going in with the main for one race. :nervous:

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I'm with A/S players all week. One race with the main:
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Found time for a couple of races late last night, so jumped into the M6 and had a bash at Race B.

I shouldn't have bothered.

First race I'd been Q14 and got up to P9 when my TV started going into sleep mode so I had to drop everything, grab the remote and get it to stay on, and in the process dropped to P16 and spun the car trying to recover. Finished 43s behind the leader, and lost over 1k DR in the process!

Second race I had a good start, again Q14 but up to P9 end of the first lap but got a 2s penalty for absolutely nothing at all before the final chicane. Watched it three times to work out why, but absolutely no idea - I was side by side with a Supra but I'm on the outside, he's got the inside line and we give each other space, he gets a little twitchy and there's some rubbing-is-racing going on, but neither of us really lose out at all, and I get smacked with a 2s penalty?? That put me back into P11 and I only managed to get back to P10 by the end of the race, another 300 DR down and SR down to 85...

I find the M6 very tricky to drive. It loses the rear end so easily under power, you have to be super careful on the throttle through both the chicanes and the hairpins or round you go.

But hey, at least I got to show off my new livery design...

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I'm determined to get some good races out of the M6. I'm basically trying to randomly pick one car for the week and stick to it for the dailies, and the M6 is this week's pick. I'm just hoping I can learn to get the throttle under control and improve those laps times and race finishes!
 
I found myself in another Race C with the character who triggered my reset. Similar behavior and I ended the race D/E. I have no words. I’m starting to wonder whether the problem might be me not him.

The positive is that I will take the time tomorrow to learn how to upload the replay so people can see what happened. It’s just so soul destroying.
 
MidnightRun85
But hey, at least I got to show off my new livery design...

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I'm determined to get some good races out of the M6. I'm basically trying to randomly pick one car for the week and stick to it for the dailies, and the M6 is this week's pick. I'm just hoping I can learn to get the throttle under control and improve those laps times and race finishes!
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Sweet livery.

I did 1 race in the M6. Having been in BMW for the last manu I have gotten quite comfortable in it.
I found it to be really good here. Turns nicely and has decent acceleration. During the race I only found it to only be squirrily out of 50R. But then I haven't had a car that hasn't done that. Good luck taming her.
 
D_Dragline
I found myself in another Race C with the character who triggered my reset. Similar behavior and I ended the race D/E. I have no words. I’m starting to wonder whether the problem might be me not him.

The positive is that I will take the time tomorrow to learn how to upload the replay so people can see what happened. It’s just so soul destroying.
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You can just put the replays on the server. Go to your library (in game) select the one you want and select share, give it some tags and Bobs your uncle, even I can do it.

I cleaned my main in C, there were bad races, but if your willing to sacrifice a position or 2 a clean race with a decent finish is possible. Also the great advantage to being slow is I can do 7 laps easily on the softs, those fast people have no chance of doing that.
 
Managed my first races of the week at Yamagiwa last night, all 3 in the Vantage, a lot of fun close racing there, in race 3 I finished 8th, only just over 5s back from the winner.

I seem to be comfortably making my way through the field in the races, but my qualifying is awful, I'm starting down at the back, with a time nearly a second slower than anyone else on those grids (mid/low B/S). I was thinking about it, and I tend to go straight for racing, only doing qualifying laps during the entry period, so I end up getting reasonable and consistent lap times which work out well for racing, but I can't get myself into a mindset for all-out, balls-out qualifying laps, anyone else in the same boat?
 
DanSHW
but I can't get myself into a mindset for all-out, balls-out qualifying laps, anyone else in the same boat?
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Usually about the same. I try and do a Q session at the beginning of the week and they if my times are poor by Thursday I usually run one again. Saying that I've been have good success from mid to back of field in race C so why bother improving my time. It just depends on race and how good you are, some you need to be near the front and others it isn't as important.
 
OJBrit
Sweet livery.

I did 1 race in the M6. Having been in BMW for the last manu I have gotten quite comfortable in it.
I found it to be really good here. Turns nicely and has decent acceleration. During the race I only found it to only be squirrily out of 50R. But then I haven't had a car that hasn't done that. Good luck taming her.
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Thank you kindly!

Excuse my ignorance, but which turn is 50R?
 
MidnightRun85
Thank you kindly!

Excuse my ignorance, but which turn is 50R?
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RacingGrandpa
The hairpin between the chicanes
Edit: the text on the tarmac approaching it is 50R, it's radius 50 meters. Like 130R at Suzuka is radius 130 meter.
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It's actually the last hairpin.
As RacingGrandpa said I am going off the yellow paint approaching the turns. (In lieu of actual names from PD)
I did erroniously call 35R, 135R on Monday. The hairpin between chicanes is 35R.
 
OJBrit
It's actually the last hairpin.
As RacingGrandpa said I am going off the yellow paint approaching the turns. (In lieu of actual names from PD)
I did erroniously call 35R, 135R on Monday. The hairpin between chicanes is 35R.
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Ah, yep okay then, 50R is the bugger that catches me out occasionally. 35R I find easier for some reason. The second chicane I find tricky - either oversteering or running wide if you get on the throttle too early - but it's such an important corner to get right because it sets you up for 50R and the home straight...
 
So do we think next week will be better or worse? I fancy something like Le Mans in GR2/GR1. A visit to the Seaside for B and something really silly like 1 lap of N24 in N100 cars. This weeks been OK, but the pens are getting me down. At least I fixed my main so it don't matter so much anymore
 
Norrin Radd
So do we think next week will be better or worse? I fancy something like Le Mans in GR2/GR1. A visit to the Seaside for B and something really silly like 1 lap of N24 in N100 cars. This weeks been OK, but the pens are getting me down. At least I fixed my main so it don't matter so much anymore
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I wouldn't mind a Sainte-Croix layout (the long one is great), it'd be fun to change it up a bit from the norm
 
Norrin Radd
Also the great advantage to being slow is I can do 7 laps easily on the softs, those fast people have no chance of doing that.
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I can barely manage 5, I'm shredding my tyres (even the mediums) more than usual and I'm not the best at it normally. I just seem to get enough pace out of wrecked tyres most of the time, this combo not so much, not sure why. :indiff:

There's a lot of people out of position too, qualifying times don't reflect race pace for a lot of drivers. I've seen people with times within a second of the no1 driver run seconds a lap slower than what they should be doing (one was particularly bad, they had a 1'35.5 Q time and yet were braking all over the place and didn't go faster than 1'40 for any lap, it clearly wasn't the driver that set the Q lap or something was very wrong) and others with lap times that look slow, even if they used the mediums to qualify, going quite well in the race, it's all very odd. :boggled:

Only come across one truly dirty driver recently so that's one plus but I think I just got lucky to avoid many other idiots.


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TonyTufast
I wouldn't mind a Sainte-Croix layout (the long one is great), it'd be fun to change it up a bit from the norm
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Please god no! Just had a league race at St Croix last night and it was a nightmare! Mind you, full damage was on and we had a full grid of fairly evenly matched drivers so there were some... moments... It's such a tricky track - loads of off-camber corners and blind braking zones.
 
MidnightRun85
Please god no! Just had a league race at St Croix last night and it was a nightmare! Mind you, full damage was on and we had a full grid of fairly evenly matched drivers so there were some... moments... It's such a tricky track - loads of off-camber corners and blind braking zones.
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On the other hand I had an absolutely brilliant league race at St. Croix last night. :cheers:
But yeah St. Croix does seem to take a decent amount of practice to properly learn
 
I ran race C 3 times last night. I’ve kept it on track and out of trouble this week, but not in these races. This story epitomizes the night.

We are having some unusually cold weather in south Texas right now and my little hairless dog has opinions about going outside for his business. I took him out twice before racing, but they were short trips. 3rd lap of the 3rd race and I’m going around Spoon in 5th place when out of the corner of my eye this dog squares up to take a dump on my floor. I react to stop him, but it’s too late. My braking point is long past when my eyes return to the screen and I’m sailing through the sand.

Pretty much my night; minding my own business when someone lays a turd on the track and I’m left with the mess.
 
ZiggyS80
I ran race C 3 times last night. I’ve kept it on track and out of trouble this week, but not in these races. This story epitomizes the night.

We are having some unusually cold weather in south Texas right now and my little hairless dog has opinions about going outside for his business. I took him out twice before racing, but they were short trips. 3rd lap of the 3rd race and I’m going around Spoon in 5th place when out of the corner of my eye this dog squares up to take a dump on my floor. I react to stop him, but it’s too late. My braking point is long past when my eyes return to the screen and I’m sailing through the sand.

Pretty much my night; minding my own business when someone lays a turd on the track and I’m left with the mess.
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I grew up on a small farm and the idea of a dog in the house still does my head in. Nothing but problems from my experience.

So we all complain about muppets but a shout out to the man in the grey supra in the video below (got to 6.30). Held the tight line into T1 without drifting out and pushing me wide then later in the lap raced very hard but very fair and eventually had to yield but did not turn in on me as many would have. Bravo sir.

 
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Good morning friends,

After all the discussion lately on alt accounts and going through the reset process recently I’ve come up with my plan for alt going forward...
The plan is AVOID excessive dr gains on alt. The reasoning for this is twofold...One, avoid getting too attached to the alt since it’s just for daily races, and two it’s to your benefit under this penalty system.
In other words if it’s going to be my alt vs your alt and I’m high B and you are A all penalties probably will be on you...hehehe Machiavellian isn’t it?
I’m almost done restoring my sr to 99, I just need a few dollars, er, SR more...
Enjoy!
 
BEBOP_Bill
Firsts post of a replay. Managed to get some racing in yesterday, only got around to trying race A. Got to race with some familiar faces (names?) Really close and fun racing, hoping to get more in before the week is out. :cheers:

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That little push after the first turn helped... Thanks, Cowboy. :sly:
I was trying to get away from the red car.

And, yes... I did dump the Argentinian on lap 4... on purpose... with precision...
He deserved it.
 
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