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[spooble]

I think I'll give Bathurst a go in the Proto/GT series this week. I took the HPD out for some practice laps last night and love how it feels on the track. The problem is, I'm SLOW in it. Granted, I rarely run the HPD, but after lapping for 30 minutes and putting down some laps that felt fast, I go look at lap times and I'm still a good 4 seconds off pace!

Frustration.

So I dropped down to the Vette where I feel a little more "at home" and got to around 2 seconds off pace. For as little time as I have to practice, I'll take that.

But to throw a wrinkle in the plan, I notice a lot of people running the Ford GT now. Seems like it's quite nice with the latest tire model. I'm very tempted to purchase it.

 

[AnAL0G]

Even some frustrated (I assume) folks that deliberately took out others once they had spun and lost hope on victory. So even in iRacing with all their emphasis on safety rating and clean racing you find these type of jerks.
Luckily these are only exceptions.

I was 3rd place in a race recently where the 2nd place car spun out late on. He deliberately tried to come back on the track in a way that would take me out. He actually did hit me, but thankfully I got a 0x.

 

[Jav]

I think I'll give Bathurst a go in the Proto/GT series this week. I took the HPD out for some practice laps last night and love how it feels on the track. The problem is, I'm SLOW in it. Granted, I rarely run the HPD, but after lapping for 30 minutes and putting down some laps that felt fast, I go look at lap times and I'm still a good 4 seconds off pace!

Frustration.

So I dropped down to the Vette where I feel a little more "at home" and got to around 2 seconds off pace. For as little time as I have to practice, I'll take that.

But to throw a wrinkle in the plan, I notice a lot of people running the Ford GT now. Seems like it's quite nice with the latest tire model. I'm very tempted to purchase it.

You won't regret that purchhase! The Ford GT is easily the beat car in the service right now!

 

[Fryto]

I was 3rd place in a race recently where the 2nd place car spun out late on. He deliberately tried to come back on the track in a way that would take me out. He actually did hit me, but thankfully I got a 0x.

This wasn't an MX5-Cup race on Okayama by any chance? The guy I'm talking about spun out in the middle of the last turn.

 

[AnAL0G]

This wasn't an MX5-Cup race on Okayama by any chance? The guy I'm talking about spun out in the middle of the last turn.

Yep, but not the last turn.

 

[cnd01]

I think I'll give Bathurst a go in the Proto/GT series this week. I took the HPD out for some practice laps last night and love how it feels on the track. The problem is, I'm SLOW in it. Granted, I rarely run the HPD, but after lapping for 30 minutes and putting down some laps that felt fast, I go look at lap times and I'm still a good 4 seconds off pace!

Frustration.

So I dropped down to the Vette where I feel a little more "at home" and got to around 2 seconds off pace. For as little time as I have to practice, I'll take that.

But to throw a wrinkle in the plan, I notice a lot of people running the Ford GT now. Seems like it's quite nice with the latest tire model. I'm very tempted to purchase it.

I'm afraid to race multiclass at Bathurst. With the "robust" driving of the hpd guys, I have a feeling it will be certain doom for the Ford Gt and Corvette

 

[BRP17]

I'm running the Vette this year. But unless I get my times down another 3 seconds and can keep it on the track for 30 laps, I'm probably going to run the FGT for this round. I can usually depend on half of the HPD's crashing out.
Just have to be careful until those overly aggressive crappy drivers do so.

 

[zslane]

I only have a D class road license, but if I ever get to B class I've decided I will start with the FGT even though I am dying to drive the HPD. There are just too many (really good) reasons to stay out of the HPD until mastering mixed class racing in the GT cars first.

 

[smuffyatfcp]

Bought the GT and Bathurst and what a fun combo this is. There's a few eager HPD's (from what I've seen in practice) but with time I'll get accustomed to avoiding those

 

[Kamuifanboy]

The Proto & GT Series at Bathurst is a joke. There hasn't been many official races all week. I finally get in one and figure out why. This track is just not designed for multi class racing...

 

[fatkrakr]

The Proto & GT Series at Bathurst is a joke. There hasn't been many official races all week. I finally get in one and figure out why. This track is just not designed for multi class racing...

I stopped racing the GTcars as soon as they put the HPDs in with them. Sucks because the vette was my favorite car in the service. Not worth the headaches

 

[AnAL0G]

I stopped racing the GTcars as soon as they put the HPDs in with them. Sucks because the vette was my favorite car in the service. Not worth the headaches

I've seen a lot of videos where it worked out, but those were A-License drivers. I can imagine it'd cause some frustrations at the lower license levels.

 

[BRP17]

It really does not matter if they are A license.
All you have to do is TT's to obtain that.
I think it would be better if IRacing made what car you could drive determined by IRating.
There are a couple of guys I race with in the Proto/Gt and Radical that have ratings below 800.
A few I've seen in the 400 range. I have them in my studied list, and if they are entered in a race I stay away.
9 times out of 10, they crash early in the race and take several with them.

 

[spooble]

It really does not matter if they are A license.
All you have to do is TT's to obtain that.
I think it would be better if IRacing made what car you could drive determined by IRating.
There are a couple of guys I race with in the Proto/Gt and Radical that have ratings below 800.
A few I've seen in the 400 range. I have them in my studied list, and if they are entered in a race I stay away.
9 times out of 10, they crash early in the race and take several with them.

That's genius!
Maybe iRacing should add a 3rd category to the friends list. "Warning" or something. Have it highlight them in red and put a little red exclamation mark on a session if any of your Warning people are entered.

 

[Kamuifanboy]

I've seen a lot of videos where it worked out, but those were A-License drivers. I can imagine it'd cause some frustrations at the lower license levels.

The license is irrelevant. I usually look at the iRating.

There are a couple of guys I race with in the Proto/Gt and Radical that have ratings below 800.
A few I've seen in the 400 range.

This sounds horrible but, even if I tried, I don't think my iRating could get that low...

 

[Matty]

I personally don't like the idea of judging from iRating. I consider myself a safe driver but have a relatively low iRating from just grinding out to get to the higher series, and since then I have found it hard to join races that happen to go official.

As soon as I start being able to join races my iRating will rocket though as my pace has improved an awful lot in the F1 car. Hit a 1:13.8 in it around Interlagos earlier.

 

[BRP17]

I'm not a very fast driver, but I consider my self safe.
My rating has never been below 900.
Just my opinion, but if you constantly below 600 you should think about another game.

 

[Infinital-NG]

There was someone in the Painting Forum @ Iracing, who had some zebra striped caution car paints for people that were bad drivers.

Will see if I can find the thread.

 

[cnd01]

I've seen some 500 iratings before. Makes me wonder how they can get that low. My road irating is not great but pretty respectable at 2250. My oval irating is at 1750, but the street stock idiots are to blame for that.

 

[AnAL0G]

There was someone in the Painting Forum @ Iracing, who had some zebra striped caution car paints for people that were bad drivers.

Will see if I can find the thread.

Seems easy enough at first, but then you have to consider that you'd get their account ID#, then paint each and every car a certain color to identify them in all possible races. Might be a hassle in the end.

 

[zslane]

I've seen some 500 iratings before. Makes me wonder how they can get that low.

I'd wager that many of those with really low IR simply quit races in which they wreck early, guaranteeing a bottom split finish and continuous iRating decline.

 

[spooble]

Seems easy enough at first, but then you have to consider that you'd get their account ID#, then paint each and every car a certain color to identify them in all possible races. Might be a hassle in the end.

You would have to get each "idiot's" account number, but the paint could just be a 2048x2048 square of yellow and black stripes (or whatever says "KEEP AWAY" to you) that you save as the id number and copy into each car folder. No need to actually follow contours or what-not.

 

[Coxis]

Anyone else having issues loading the member site? I'm ready for my Friday night leisure drive. I'm about to go German FPS kid on their butts if the service is down.

 

[zslane]

It's working for me.

 

[nostuner03]

I won my first race since I last played a few months ago. It feels good.

 

[AnAL0G]

Anyone else having issues loading the member site? I'm ready for my Friday night leisure drive. I'm about to go German FPS kid on their butts if the service is down.

Yep, just did a speed test and despite 33mb down I just got booted from my race, and had issues during testing and warmup as well.

 

[carfetish]

A litte tease from Eric Hudec (referring to the Skippy in iR and the competition):

To be fair, lap times have very little to do with quantifying handling accuracy. There are too many variables involved to compare real life lap times, which alone can vary by seconds a lap depending on the day, and what lap times are achievable in a simulation. We at iRacing try to get close to realistic lap times but that is not even close to our main focus. That being said, I think our Skippy is very good. Wait until next season!

 

[Jav]

Hmmm... Looks like they changed their minds about the M3 GT-E...

http://www.virtualr.net/iracing-com-bmw-z4-gte-coming

Shame, I really wanted to see both the M3 GT-E and Z-4 GT-3 but as long as we get it soon(S1 2014) I'm happy!

 

[polarbear345]

Hmmm... Looks like they changed their minds about the M3 GT-E...

http://www.virtualr.net/iracing-com-bmw-z4-gte-coming

Shame, I really wanted to see both the M3 GT-E and Z-4 GT-3 but as long as we get it soon(S1 2014) I'm happy!

Maybe they will release both the GTE and GT3 cars as a bundle, like the RUF. Probably not, but it would probably get people to try new series.

 

[Jav]

Maybe they will release both the GTE and GT3 cars as a bundle, like the RUF. Probably not, but it would probably get people to try new series.

As much as I would love that to be truth, the GT-3 and GT-E cars are different enough for iRacing's standards to need to scan the GT-3 car separately and there's none of those cars States side...