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[livemusic]

Hey, I consider having a clean race with it a victory already. 👍

 

[tissimo]

I have a setup for the mx5 that i think makes it fairly stable under breaking and helps a lot on turn 1 Daytona... I'll upload it if you want to give it a try

 

[redmalloc]

Do you know how to tune the car or have a good download? I use the baseline setups and get lose a lot of time on that long straight since my car would only go a max of ~160mph. I talked with a few pilots after the race and they adjust the gearing so they can go up to ~165mph.

Keep in mind it is on a brand new tire model, so old setups are useless. Go to the iRacing forum and into the Radical section. Each week someone will post a thread about the track and people share setups in it. I prefer the setups by Robert Hope and Tim G.

 

[swiftwilly]

Hey, I consider having a clean race with it a victory already. 👍

A clean race in the Skip pretty much will get you near top half victory considering all the disconnection and big accidents!

 

[RobJackson85]

good luck!

I was planning to start in the pits, but I found myself on the start grid at 19th out of 22 pilots...I thought, 'oh, since there are only 3 cars behind me the chance of a crash at T1 is almost zero so I can start on the grid!'


Other than that the Radical group and race was fantastic! The races are long so that makes it easier to stay in and stay the competition.

Do you know how to tune the car or have a good download? I use the baseline setups and get lose a lot of time on that long straight since my car would only go a max of ~160mph. I talked with a few pilots after the race and they adjust the gearing so they can go up to ~165mph.

Had my race today, started 20th out of 22. Some one was very slow of the line, got rear ended causing confusion behind, slowed down to miss the incident yet had a car land on me. Tried to limp to the pits but while driving off the racing line some one faster tapped my back quarter sending me into the barrier. No way could I drive back to the pits so a tow was needed. Followed by a 2 minute required repairs and 17 minutes of optional.

Tried to continue without the optional repairs but steering was way off so decided would be best to drop out and abandon. Not at a PC until tomorrow night now, but does this series run on a Monday? Or have I been unfortunate, left it until the last minute and missed my chance to score week 1 points!?

 

[redmalloc]

Tried to continue without the optional repairs but steering was way off so decided would be best to drop out and abandon. Not at a PC until tomorrow night now, but does this series run on a Monday? Or have I been unfortunate, left it until the last minute and missed my chance to score week 1 points!?

Sorry to hear your misfortune. Yes, no racing on Monday although you can still time trial. Don't forget you get 2 drop races as well, so you can still win the series

 

[SpecMiata-JSW]

I'm really bummed. I thought the Grand Touring race was every other night starting on Wednesday nights, so I could race two races tonight and essentially erase my horrible race from Friday night. I hopped on tonight and no races for that series.

I wish every series ran nightly, not sure why all series don't?

Rant over.

 

[swiftwilly]

Had my race today, started 20th out of 22. Some one was very slow of the line, got rear ended causing confusion behind, slowed down to miss the incident yet had a car land on me. Tried to limp to the pits but while driving off the racing line some one faster tapped my back quarter sending me into the barrier. No way could I drive back to the pits so a tow was needed. Followed by a 2 minute required repairs and 17 minutes of optional.

Why don't you use the tow truck option? In Rookie its free, in D class I think you can use it once.

Accidents happen but what really what peeves me off is:
1. People not remaining stationary, ALL my accidents have so far been people trying to get back on track as soon as possible or if they are stuck on the road, they try to do a U turn or something as soon as possible.

2. When people spin out they attempt to fix the issue by counter steering and its very very hard to predict the trajectory. They should lock the wheels and get out of the track.

 

[Nastradamus87]

Do any of you race the skippy? Add me if you do: Joshua Stretch

 

[Blaze_409]

Quick question. If you are racing and you get disconnected early on, do you lose iRating and SR or am I safe?

 

[superbike81]

What do you mean by early on? If you disconnect after the race starts, you lose iRating. You won't lose any SR unless you have any incident during your disconnect.

 

[Blaze_409]

What do you mean by early on? If you disconnect after the race starts, you lose iRating. You won't lose any SR unless you have any incident during your disconnect.

I got disconnected from the internet on lap 3 of the 20 lap Mazda race. That stinks that I lose iRating for that!

edit just checked I lost 73 iRating! Seriously what the hell! It took me 3 races to gain that much considering i race in lower strength fields as a class D.....

 

[superbike81]

Well, they have to have it that way. Otherwise people would take advantage of it and every time they had a bad race they would just disconnect their LAN cable to fake "connection problems"

 

[superbike81]

On another note, I want the 24hrs of LeMans experience in a game/sim. I want to have a team of 3 or 4 drivers and I want a real race engineer monitoring our telemetry and giving us orders. I want dynamic weather with a radar screen showing a weather forecast to the engineer. I want to have to be able to truly work on pit strategies and tire selection with my team. If iRacing could do this, I would absolutely not play any other sim, and I would pay a premium for this kind of service.

So iRacing needs to implement:

1) Team racing (already in progress)
2) Driver Changes (coming soon)
3) Dynamic Weather (who knows?)
4) Team Engineer with telemetry/weather monitoring
5) Team Chat (can be done currently with TeamSpeak, but would like it to be built in)

Am I the only one crazy enough to want something like this? I surely can't be, can I? The race could include the HPD, the Riley, the new McClaren, and the Caddilac. I think that would be one of the greatest experiences available outside of doing it for real. Combine these features with what we already have in iRacing and it would be amazing.

I wonder if any of the iRacing development team is thinking the same thing?

 

[Blaze_409]

A 12 hour race at Spa with the HPD, GT1 Corvette, gt2 Ford GT, and GT3 Mclaren and weather plus driver swaps would be magical!

 

[sandboxgod]

Ya after you'll lose irating unless you quit 2 mins before race starts. So when you see it countdown and it is less than 2 mins til race start you cant bail.

If you get disconnected, you better reconnect

If you miss the grid, just click the 'missed start' button and launch from the pits (I know Blaze knows this part)

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Good advice on the Skippy! I shaved away a lot of seconds. Yeah I believe I've always lifted going into a corner but the Skippy works quite a bit differently. Now I can keep her quite stable. Just need to shave away some seconds if I want to race it and get a bit more consistent. Was still a whole 5s off pace at Okayama in it. I'd like to be at least within 3 seconds of the leaders

 

[superbike81]

Just did another MX5 rookie race to start working on getting my iRating back up into the 2000 range and it did not go well at all. Started from the pits as I usually do, was well on my way to a first place finish as I was lapping faster than everyone and catching up quick. Then lap 3 stupid guy loses on a corner exit, slams into the wall, and then accelerates all the way across the other side of the track and slams into the side of me. Took about 3 minutes of repairs and ended up finishing 6th. Even with that still had the best average lap time with a mostly broken (massively understeering) car.

Guy tries to argue with me after the race saying he's got 40 years of real life SCCA experience and I need to learn that stuff like that happens. Ummmmmm, no, it doesn't.

 

[swiftwilly]

---------Good advice on the Skippy! I shaved away a lot of seconds. Yeah I believe I've always lifted going into a corner but the Skippy works quite a bit differently. Now I can keep her quite stable. Just need to shave away some seconds if I want to race it and get a bit more consistent. Was still a whole 5s off pace at Okayama in it. I'd like to be at least within 3 seconds of the leaders

God, so your braking on the straights now and throttling through the turn right? I'll give it a go tonight.

 

[Imari]

Just did another MX5 rookie race to start working on getting my iRating back up into the 2000 range and it did not go well at all. Started from the pits as I usually do, was well on my way to a first place finish as I was lapping faster than everyone and catching up quick. Then lap 3 stupid guy loses on a corner exit, slams into the wall, and then accelerates all the way across the other side of the track and slams into the side of me. Took about 3 minutes of repairs and ended up finishing 6th. Even with that still had the best average lap time with a mostly broken (massively understeering) car.

Guy tries to argue with me after the race saying he's got 40 years of real life SCCA experience and I need to learn that stuff like that happens. Ummmmmm, no, it doesn't.

40 years of driving like that would have him being dead 40 times.

I've had a new method this week for dealing with people doing dumb stuff though. I don't mention anything after the race, I simply go and write them a very polite PM on how they might improve their technique. For example, first corner heroes get a short message saying that it's often more effective for final race position to hold position through the first corner, even if you see a gap. Edit message depending on situation.

Everyone except one so far has replied with thanks and an apology for the incident.

I think it's a good way to constructively help other people become better drivers. It only works in certain situations though.

P.S. I did have about 4 near misses with morons doing basically the same thing in the V8 race last night. How none of them took me out I'll never know, some must have been by millimetres. It's very botty-clenching watching people drive across the track.

 

[swiftwilly]

I got disconnected from the internet on lap 3 of the 20 lap Mazda race. That stinks that I lose iRating for that!

edit just checked I lost 73 iRating! Seriously what the hell! It took me 3 races to gain that much considering i race in lower strength fields as a class D.....

Blaze, I know your Class D already and looking to race in another series so can I ask why your trying to farm iRating or taking it so seriously?

From what I understand, iRating does represent your skill level so it determines what splits you will join when racing. If your trying to boost your iRating up in the Mazda Rookie series (your already D Class), and you later go onto C Class for example to race the Riley or something with an iRating of 3000 - 4000 you will be placed in the split accordingly and you will get smashed (unless you pick up the Riley super quick)....if you let the iRating just go its own way you will be put against people of your similar skill level.

This is how I understand iRating to be, maybe I am wrong.

 

[Eric.]

You're right, but iRating is only going to be accurate at putting you in a competitive split if you keep racing that series enough. Divisions come into play for this as well, but I don't recall what decides your division. iRating still picks your split but the points you gain are only compared to those in your division.

 

[Jav]

On another note, I want the 24hrs of LeMans experience in a game/sim. I want to have a team of 3 or 4 drivers and I want a real race engineer monitoring our telemetry and giving us orders. I want dynamic weather with a radar screen showing a weather forecast to the engineer. I want to have to be able to truly work on pit strategies and tire selection with my team. If iRacing could do this, I would absolutely not play any other sim, and I would pay a premium for this kind of service.

So iRacing needs to implement:

1) Team racing (already in progress)
2) Driver Changes (coming soon)
3) Dynamic Weather (who knows?)
4) Team Engineer with telemetry/weather monitoring
5) Team Chat (can be done currently with TeamSpeak, but would like it to be built in)

Am I the only one crazy enough to want something like this? I surely can't be, can I? The race could include the HPD, the Riley, the new McClaren, and the Caddilac. I think that would be one of the greatest experiences available outside of doing it for real. Combine these features with what we already have in iRacing and it would be amazing.

I wonder if any of the iRacing development team is thinking the same thing?

It's been said before by the staff that this in fact is the direction they are heading. They are working on day/night transitions and dynamic weather, not a rain switch like GT5 has but true weather pattern simulation. The team chat is already available as the spotter function, driver changes are supossed to be available too, the team engineer function could easily be implemented so your wishes are not too far away from what we'll see on the near future!

 

[livemusic]

You're right, but iRating is only going to be accurate at putting you in a competitive split if you keep racing that series enough. Divisions come into play for this as well, but I don't recall what decides your division. iRating still picks your split but the points you gain are only compared to those in your division.

I believe your iRating decides your division too. But you'll only switch divisions at the start of a new season.

 

[swiftwilly]

I fixed up my setup for the Skip and spin way less now but my times are just really poor...on okayama I am doing 1.49 However looking at the average lap times in tonights split looks like that sort of speed would of got me top 5, I guess other people aren't so great at the Skip either. I am going to try and go slower and minimise the incidents and see how I go.

So funny looking at the average incidents in the skip races haha, in Mazda Cup days anyone with incident 2+ sucked and in in the Skip anyone under 10 must be doing pretty good haha...

 

[Patrocles]

You're right, but iRating is only going to be accurate at putting you in a competitive split if you keep racing that series enough. Divisions come into play for this as well, but I don't recall what decides your division. iRating still picks your split but the points you gain are only compared to those in your division.

I believe your iRating decides your division too. But you'll only switch divisions at the start of a new season.

Did anyone else see that iRacing thread about 2 weeks back on that guy purposely causing his iR to drop at the end of each season? At the end of the seasons he 'games' the system by connecting and then disconnecting from races to drop his iR and get into a lower division where he can dominant the other riders. Shameful and silly imho
👎

 

[RobJackson85]

Did anyone else see that iRacing thread about 2 weeks back on that guy purposely causing his iR to drop at the end of each season? At the end of the seasons he 'games' the system by connecting and then disconnecting from races to drop his iR and get into a lower division where he can dominant the other riders. Shameful and silly imho
👎

He's only cheating himself. Pretty pointless if you ask me. I'd rather keep advancing to keep a constant challenge. No fun in winning by miles, infant, it's no fun when your anew seconds behind or in front of other cars. So much better when there is only a second in it either way.

 

[Patrocles]

I fixed up my setup for the Skip and spin way less now but my times are just really poor...on okayama I am doing 1.49 However looking at the average lap times in tonights split looks like that sort of speed would of got me top 5, I guess other people aren't so great at the Skip either. I am going to try and go slower and minimise the incidents and see how I go.

So funny looking at the average incidents in the skip races haha, in Mazda Cup days anyone with incident 2+ sucked and in in the Skip anyone under 10 must be doing pretty good haha...

You are new to the Skippy so give it time to learn the car. When I started learning the Skip last season I was crashing so much that I lost like 600 iR over a week or two (I will have to post the graph of my iRating over time! not pretty! LOL). After I was able to handle the Skip I finally started getting my iR back up!

1:49 is a good pace. I am only able to average around 1:49 at Okayama and that gets me into the top5 in a middle split.

 

[livemusic]

Did anyone else see that iRacing thread about 2 weeks back on that guy purposely causing his iR to drop at the end of each season? At the end of the seasons he 'games' the system by connecting and then disconnecting from races to drop his iR and get into a lower division where he can dominant the other riders. Shameful and silly imho
👎

Lol, that's lame.

I prefer having a good fight for 5th place than winning in a weak grid. The racing experience is much better IMO.

For those of you trying to improve your times on the Skippy, another tip that might help is to change gears a bit under 6.000 RPM. The only gear in which I go over that is 4th. Also, try to be as gentle as possible on the brakes, otherwise your tires will heat up pretty quickly and the car will be even more slippery.

 

[S30Zenzow]

I'm willing to get the Skippy, seeing what you guys have been saying about it. But from what I've seen I have to have a D licence to race it, right?

 

[Jake]

I wish my spotter would tell me I only have 2 gallons of fuel on board before the 24 lap race starts...