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I don't even play skyrim and I still got that, lol, that's a first for hearing that on this forum for me
(sorry for being off topic)
Here AGAIN, you have proven that you just have no idea again...
1. Anyone who has raced at Road Atlanta will know that 1x on this track is very easy to get, especially if your pushing fast times. On that track, its actually quite easy to do 2x PER lap (of even 3x per lap if you count the last corner) if you cut corners here and there and not getting a slow down penalty, it actually works to benefit you. (I almost won a race by getting a 1x in a corner and increasing my exit speed).
2. You weren't there, how would you know?
3. Turn 1, I got a 4x from a guy coming off the grass and going into my side. Turn 2 I got another 4x from a rear end. Massively aggro drivers in a very tight space, had like 4 people going into a turn together. Insane from top drivers. I had to pit to fix my car and I was well behind
4. Trying to catch back up I did purposely get a few 1x to cut some corners (tactical) as I don't want to go past D Class anyway. Racing in the Skip, D Class gives you an advantage with free tow. I have no current intention to race in any other series.
5. In the higher SOF, I managed to get to 4th actually from a full lap down (I am car #14 remember). However, not learning from experience, I pushed too hard and I spun out. A stayed still of course, a few cars drove past however I knew a hit was coming up since I was parked on top of a hill after turn 1 (quite hard to see and to slow down coming into it) and someone hit me for another 4x, big contact or something.
Why do you keep bugging me about time trails? YOU DONT READ MY POSTS. I told you, because of work/life I can only do time trails as I can do them anytime as opposed to racing at certain times A and B. my god.....do you talk to people without listening to? Also, I am currently no.1 and I got a good feeling of winning the time trail championships. You haven't won any championship in iracing so you don't know how it feels to be in contention of it and to keep the others behind you.
edit: final final thought: let's try to keep this friendly, my intentions were to help you, there were no hidden agendas even though you feel I was trying to attack you with my comments about your efforts in Time Trials. Simple fact is I used it as a possible explanation as to why you were having difficulties in your racing endeavors. You chose to take it as a personal attack and then misguidedly attack my iRacing skills which yielded the response you see above.
Well, it's too bad you feel that way, stop thinking of yourself as a victim being bullied and get over your own huge ego and accept that someone might actually be trying to help you.
I won't ignore your posts, I will continue to respond, because I don't yet feel you are a lost cause. You can choose to ignore them and not respond in kind if you like, doesn't matter to me either way. I'll still continue to try to give you friendly advice regardless if you take it that way or not.
Once again, your point falls flat on its face. I may be in division 6 for tt's but I am overall 38th out of ALL SKIP racers in the time trails. Given that I have only raced 7, some raced 8, some raced 6, who is going to argue, so I am 38th right now. That is pretty dam good given that this is the Skip and that I have been racing for about 2 months or so. Given your tt rating of 800ish, you'd be in div 10? Who cares if you race multiple cars - it just means your bad in every car, your irating and tt rating are both lower than me and the Skip is the most difficult car there is right now or AT LEAST top 3 etc. Go argue somewhere else. If I am bad, your worse. End of story.
I can tell you that all your replies have come across me as if you were looking down on me. Regardless of whether that was your intentions.
To be honest superbike, lets go beyond friendly, please stop replying or referring to my posts and I will do the same to yours. Just pretend you and I don't exist in each others worlds and that'll make my day.
Lets see how much of a "man" you are and see if you reply to this given my above proposal. I won't be replying to your posts anymore.
Like how we give a cent on how much you love oval racing? 👎
You think its friendly, I think its offensive. But hey, as long as you think your helping thats all that matters right? Who cares about how others feel? (and you think I am the one with the ego). 👎
I even HAPPILY suggested that we stop speaking to each other which I am sure everyone else here agrees. And guess what? your ego is to big to stop "helping" me out. just wow superbike, wow....superfail buddy.
I'll keep to my word don't worry. For the sake of all other GTP posters here.
(Getting ready for another famous superbike egotistical posting about how great he is and how crap I am!)
Just wondering, except for these last few posts (which I was in defend/counter-attack mode), does anyone view the advice that I was offering to Swiftwilly as offensive in any way?
Had a decent day in the Riley running the Grand Am Premier series. First race I finished 10th in a 3500+ iRated race. Then in the evening finished 2nd in 2xxx something iRating. Currently 13th in points after 2 rounds, but a whopping 200+ behind the leader.
Running the Riley at Barber is madness. In a good way. I wasn't a fan of Barber, but its grown me. Very technical track with a good variety of corners. The Riley is very edgy there. At least when you're trying to keep up with the aliens. They were running very low wing and spoiler settings like Daytona. Also very soft springs and low front ride heights with radical shock settings. Basically with these settings the car don't like curbs, bottoms out alot, and with low downforce it makes it a handful at anything over 60mph. Did I mention that its fun? Lots of fun.
Sucks to hear some of you guys having a rough go in your races. Maybe watch your replays and see what you could have done differently to avoid that situation if anything could've been done. With my experience so far in iRacing, the ones who believe its everyone elses fault are almost always equally at fault. Sounds rude, but its really not. I personally enjoy the system and think it works just fine.
Just because there is a sporting code and rules for the car overtaking/car being overtaken does not mean everyone follows them. You have to be aware of the car behind you just as much as the ones in front. Its better to lose one position than be sitting in pits or quitting out. If you are truly faster, then you'll get back around them. Also playing defense, while its all fair and legal, usually ends in tears. I myself don't do the defensive driving mainly because you lose more time that way than just letting the following car pass.
I started iRacing last June and have enjoyed every minute of it. I've had my ups and downs, but mostly up. Last year in 6 months I won 17 of my 70 some races on road. So far this year, a big fat goose egg. Why do I bring this up you say? Because last year I was in lower iRated races(below 2000). Now I'm racing the Riley/C6.R and its alot tougher. Not to mention iRated races of around 3000 and up. Now I'm happy with top 5's and if there is a reasonable chance for a win I'll go for it. Very humbling when you start racing some of the aliens on iracing(I'm not an alien, above avg yes).
LOL, I was preparing for Laguna this week and I saw this.
He also had 19 incidents. I have never seen someone have 19 incidents in such a short race that could all be blamed on someone else, so he was having his own problems this race as well, not just a couple contacts due to other drivers.
Like I said, I think Swifty is spoiling himself with time trials. They are great for competition and great for learning optimal racing lines, but I think they can also give you the false sense of security that the optimal line will always be available. This is why open practices are such a valuable tool, you can go learn racecraft with others on the track without worrying about your SR and iR.
Just wondering, except for these last few posts (which I was in defend/counter-attack mode), does anyone view the advice that I was offering to Swiftwilly as offensive in any way? Serious question, I thought I was offering friendly, but straight to the point, advice but it's obvious he sees it differently.
Have I offended anyone else in my efforts to give advice on this game that I have enjoyed on/off for the past 4 years? I've never pretended to be an expert or to be the best at this game, but I have been around the block a few times, so I know some of the smaller intricacies that many of the newer people may not have figured out yet and I like to share with others.
All I'm trying to do is share the knowledge that I have obtained through my experiences in iRacing, as well as the collective experience of others that I have obtained through the iRacing forums. But if my posts are viewed as harsh or offensive by most people, I'll change my tone of course.
100% with you Superbike81 👍Just wondering, except for these last few posts (which I was in defend/counter-attack mode), does anyone view the advice that I was offering to Swiftwilly as offensive in any way? Serious question, I thought I was offering friendly, but straight to the point, advice but it's obvious he sees it differently.
Have I offended anyone else in my efforts to give advice on this game that I have enjoyed on/off for the past 4 years? I've never pretended to be an expert or to be the best at this game, but I have been around the block a few times, so I know some of the smaller intricacies that many of the newer people may not have figured out yet and I like to share with others.
All I'm trying to do is share the knowledge that I have obtained through my experiences in iRacing, as well as the collective experience of others that I have obtained through the iRacing forums. But if my posts are viewed as harsh or offensive by most people, I'll change my tone of course.
I disagree. If you have to go offtrack in order to be competitive you're doing it wrong.
During the South American week of the Intel GT Series I was amazed at how Hugo Luis would win every race he joined with laps a second faster than the second fastest driver and in all of them he had 0x incidents.
My thoughts on this schedule are that it would be fun but I hate SPA because of the 1x's, if they fixed that I would love that track.
Besides Spa is a wonderful track that sucks for iRacing because of all the 1x's. We don't need it. If someone doesn't care about SR they can gain an advantage on track by going off course. I think it's a unfair advantage to someone with a high SR.
I disagree. If you have to go offtrack in order to be competitive you're doing it wrong.
During the South American week of the Intel GT Series I was amazed at how Hugo Luis would win every race he joined with laps a second faster than the second fastest driver and in all of them he had 0x incidents.