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My friends and I always wrap quotes around "RX-8" when speaking of the Grand Am car.
 
superbike81
No that wasn't rookie split, that was 2nd split of the C-Pro class. That's why it's hilarious.
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Wow, that's sad! Sucks that they couldn't agree on leaving a 50+ second gap between the 2 classes!
 
Yeah, I was back in split ten and we were smart enough to hold up for a while, saved us quite a bit of headache. The pole sitter had to keep complaining to the 2nd place guy though who for some reason couldn't understand that we were going slow on the pace lap for a reason. I guess he wanted to get right up on the Caddy's rear bumpers. LOL
 
superbike81
The pole sitter had to keep complaining to the 2nd place guy though who for some reason couldn't understand that we were going slow on the pace lap for a reason. I guess he wanted to get right up on the Caddy's rear bumpers. LOL
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Oh man I hate stupid crap like that! Why is it that some guys can never get into their head the very simple concept of FOLLOW THE LEADER!!
 
Now that is just sad! Pretty bad when the top guys still have some issues, guess can't take the rookie out of people's heads. We had something like that happen in turn 4 going into the boot.
 
Wilbur
Now that is just sad! Pretty bad when the top guys still have some issues, guess can't take the rookie out of people's heads. We had something like that happen in turn 4 going into the boot.
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Lol! The worst part is that the driver who started it all managed to get away probably with no damage at all!

Wow! Just realized that was Mark who that deuche took out! Not cool!
 
DP's in 3rd split did hang back a little bit. I was on one of the last rows of Cadillacs and they caught us and were beginning to pass at Turn 5.
 
That would have been better. My race was 95% just running laps and trying to make life easy for the near-constant train of DPs. Almost no interaction with other Cadillacs.
 
I had pretty close racing for about 1/2 the race, I was within a 1-2 seconds of someone (in front or behind) for at least 1/2 of the race. I had very little REALLY close racing, but I prefer it that way.
 
The car ahead of me varied from 4-6 seconds ahead most of the time. Just when I felt I was making time and might be able to catch him, I'd get some DP's behind me that I'd rather let by than keep pushing.
 
Eric.
DP's in 3rd split did hang back a little bit. I was on one of the last rows of Cadillacs and they caught us and were beginning to pass at Turn 5.
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You were in the same split as me. I was just minding my own business when the DP in front of me slammed on the brakes for no reason in the fastest corner. I took evasive action... directly into a wall.
 
Looks like luck was on my side last night in Street Stock, no idea how I missed those cars at all:
 
Nice job keeping that car out of the wall dude, awesome stuff 👍

Decided I'm never racing the Street Stocks again, 9/10 races there's a massive wreck I get caught up in; gets tiresome after a while. Forfeited for the first time ever today after some guy cut me off into the inside wall on lap 1, just can't be bothered with it.
 
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swiftwilly
Yea, problem is there is moron drivers in every rank - its a false statement to say only morons drive in Rookie Class.
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I hear you on that.

Mixed fortunes in my Proto and GT challenge race this week. Lost .57 SR thanks to 2 bonehead HPD drivers running into the back of me on the exit of corners. But, I did pick up the win, so I can't complain too much.

In total I've lost .77 SR today... not a good day.
 
Kamuifanboy
I hear you on that.

Mixed fortunes in my Proto and GT challenge race this week. Lost .57 SR thanks to 2 bonehead HPD drivers running into the back of me on the exit of corners. But, I did pick up the win, so I can't complain too much.

In total I've lost .77 SR today... not a good day.
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I feel you man! Been there so many times! iRacing really needs to come up with a more strict requirement to drive the HPD, it may seem like such an easy car to drive but in reality once the mixed class factor comes into play it is far from it! It takes a lot to drive that car properly! And no not crashing is not everything, I've had so many races spoiled because a "safe" HPD driver just sat there to afraid to make the move, just as many as I have ruined by the guy who goes for a move on the worst possible spot! It takes a lot of skill, patience and over all things common sense to drive that far properly. A combination that's not very common.
 
Finally ordered my computer and bought a 3 months subscription to iRacing. Can't race yet though as I don't get my computer before the end of the week starting now.. Can't wait!!

I'm one of those that go into practice alone for as long as it takes to understand the car before I go out and try it side by side with others. Hope I wont ruin someones race.

Oh and I wont be using the HPD at first :scared:
 
Practice is all you need to do. Most bad hpd'ers don't practice to find right places to pass
 
Jav
I feel you man! Been there so many times! iRacing really needs to come up with a more strict requirement to drive the HPD, it may seem like such an easy car to drive but in reality once the mixed class factor comes into play it is far from it! It takes a lot to drive that car properly! And no not crashing is not everything, I've had so many races spoiled because a "safe" HPD driver just sat there to afraid to make the move, just as many as I have ruined by the guy who goes for a move on the worst possible spot! It takes a lot of skill, patience and over all things common sense to drive that far properly. A combination that's not very common.
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Yep. The stupid thing is, I ran a whole season of HPD without wrecking into any GT drivers. It really is not that hard. It's all in the timing for passing the GT cars. You have to time it correctly.
 
Kamuifanboy
Yep. The stupid thing is, I ran a whole season of HPD without wrecking into any GT drivers. It really is not that hard. It's all in the timing for passing the GT cars. You have to time it correctly.
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100% Agreed! I've ran the HPD as many here have done too with no problem whatsoever. But there's too many people out there that jump in the HPD with minimal to no practice just because the car is easy to drive and those are the ones that end up taking the GT cars out or ruining their race.
 
I've said it on the iRacing forums, and I'll say it here, the ONLY way you will ever get all of the faster drivers in multi-class racing to not make terrible dangerous passing maneuvers is to have live race marshals who put REAL penalties on people (suspended for a race, start from the pits next race, etc, etc) who break the rules.

I've been in LeMans style rFactor leagues where we had way more cars on track than your average iRacing Proto/GT race and more classes. We ran it just like real life, had two live race marshals, and handed out penalties live. It was awesome and the cleanest racing I've ever been involved in.

This is why I think iRacing will never have a good public Proto/GT series, because as long as people can just jump in and drive and make stupid passing maneuvers without fear of penalty, they will continue doing just that. Losing a little iR and SR aren't really punishments that have any effect anyways.

LeMans racing needs to be left to private leagues so it can actually be controlled.
 
I can agree with that, but only time Iracing gets live anything is with pro events. So unless the guys you race with in a league, chances are you will have issues.

The funny thing is, I had 25 incidents in the race (some were mine, some where all the stupid wrecks we had), I still gained a lot of points. Granted I am a rookie, but I sat half first hour in the pits, and left with 30 mins to go.
 
Kamuifanboy
Yep. The stupid thing is, I ran a whole season of HPD without wrecking into any GT drivers. It really is not that hard. It's all in the timing for passing the GT cars. You have to time it correctly.
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Kamui, its the same for every car though. In the Skip, I focus really hard not to hit anyone, going into corners I check where they brake and make sure I adjust accordingly. I am sure your doing the same thing, but for some reason in each race I meet someone who just gets it all wrong and doesn't care. Its not just GT drivers.

Theres issues at every level in every series - I have said before that I really think iRacing needs to put all development of cars and tracks off just for one single season, sit down and think of a good SR/incident system or re do the whole A to D class system. I fear most of their man hours is put into marketing/car/track development and not much in anything else. I mean theres only Nim who checks all protests - surely thats one hell boring job...
 
People are a problem.

Whatever magical system is in place, there will be some moron somewhere who will screw it up. Happens everywhere, including real life racing. Sucks hard when it happens to you, but at least you don't have to drag your broken car home and look at it every day for weeks afterwards.
 

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