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[boombla]

That right there is why I refuse to drive in fixed setup series. Go to GT Challenge, its much, much better. People even practice before joining a race, lol.

 

[Mac K]

What a knob.. To bad Jav.. I always thought that series was really clean to run in, or is this just a rare exception?

 

[fatkrakr]

What a knob.. To bad Jav.. I always thought that series was really clean to run in, or is this just a rare exception?

Im begining to think its a pretty common problem for this series. Ive been racing it since the start of the season and must say its been pretty bad. Its like the HPD guys think they have the right to the prefered line. Not all of them, but enough that Ive had a problem in every race. Im pretty close to giving up on the series.

 

[SKIDMARX]

Javs Racing comment with the videos of slow LMP's

I was thinking of running this series for a long time in the GT1 class, but after a few good videos and reviews about it and some bad videos and reviews about it it seemed like the LMP racers were too impatient or too inexperienced and caused too many avoidable accidents. Therefor I decided to buy the Dallara IndyCar and run that as my second series along side the Grand Am.

 

[Mac K]

iRacing isn't having any Black Friday deals on tracks and cars are they?

 

[Eric.]

With half off memberships, I don't know if they could afford any more.


Jav, that sucks. I've actually been impressed with how few incidents occur in Grand Am. I'm fairly new to being the guy in the fast class and I do my best to not run over any Mustangs. Our Rolex league should be really fun. I think I need to make a thread for recruiting since nobody since has responded.

 

[Adam41]

How come the past 3 races before my last I gained 0.15, 0.15 and 0.17 SR with 0 incidents but my last race I gained 0.57 with 0 incidents, and started and finished 1st in all 4? :S

 

[Jav]

That right there is why I refuse to drive in fixed setup series. Go to GT Challenge, its much, much better. People even practice before joining a race, lol.

What a knob.. To bad Jav.. I always thought that series was really clean to run in, or is this just a rare exception?

Im begining to think its a pretty common problem for this series. Ive been racing it since the start of the season and must say its been pretty bad. Its like the HPD guys think they have the right to the prefered line. Not all of them, but enough that Ive had a problem in every race. Im pretty close to giving up on the series.

Suprisingly it's been very very clean this season so far except for this race I haven't had an issue with anyone. This race however was a fairly low SOF and with no splits the bottom guys got in the race with the faster guys. All the top drivers on that split where driving GT cars, the highestrated LMP hadthe number 5 I believe. And that's the problem, the first guy has an iRating of 850 and the other one has a 1780 iRating. The second one wasn't terribly low but he clearly has no buisiness driving let alone racing the HPD. People just need to accept it, if not on pace simply do not race, if you still want to race do not get involved in someone elses fight!

Jav, that sucks. I've actually been impressed with how few incidents occur in Grand Am. I'm fairly new to being the guy in the fast class and I do my best to not run over any Mustangs. Our Rolex league should be really fun. I think I need to make a thread for recruiting since nobody since has responded.

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The Grand Am series is very good regarding this situations, partly because the Riley simply outclasses the Mustang in every aspect and most of it comes from the Riley being fairly difficult to drive so these guys with no practice just stay away from it.

How come the past 3 races before my last I gained 0.15, 0.15 and 0.17 SR with 0 incidents but my last race I gained 0.57 with 0 incidents, and started and finished 1st in all 4? :S

SR keeps on counting and rolls over to the next race, so keep the good driving up and you'll be on A license before you know it!

 

[ErikAndre71]

How come the past 3 races before my last I gained 0.15, 0.15 and 0.17 SR with 0 incidents but my last race I gained 0.57 with 0 incidents, and started and finished 1st in all 4? :S

Every time you pass a full number like 2.00 or 3.00 you get 0.40 bonus points to your SR...

 

[magic_town]

How come the past 3 races before my last I gained 0.15, 0.15 and 0.17 SR with 0 incidents but my last race I gained 0.57 with 0 incidents, and started and finished 1st in all 4? :S

When you pass a whole number, like 3.00 or 4.00 you get a .5 bonus to stop you going up and down levels too much. Same if you drop below the whole number I beleive

Edit: tree'd and .4 not .5

 

[boombla]

And finisihing postion (or starting position) has no effect on safety rating boost or loss.

 

[Adam41]

Thanks for the replies. I thought it didn't boombla but couldn't think of anything else that would change it so much.

 

[Roush_fan_99]

I have a Trading paints issue, I have it set to delete old files that are deleted from TP, when it gets to the Impala B, this appears

then TP pauses until I click continue, it just started this, I have tried re-downloading it w/ no success, Anyone else have this problem?

 

[ITCC_Andrew]

Is there a generally accepted amount of room, that should be given, upon passing/being passed?


I really disrespect *insert Indian name* for giving me no room, pushing me onto curbing, and then still not giving me enough room to stay on track. Should you not leave at least a car width and a half, between you and the outside of the track, upon passing, in case that driver's still on the outside? 🤬 idiot Indian driver... I was going to win, or get second, but he had to ruin both of our races... 👎 👎 👎 👎

 

[gogatrs]

Maybe "ungentlemanly" but I would!my call something like that worthy of some sort of penalty.
I would have backed out and given him the space. Pass him later.

This is my inner karter speaking though. Any race longer than 30 minutes I'd call it a REALLY dick move instead of ungentlemanly.

 

[Jav]

Is there a generally accepted amount of room, that should be given, upon passing/being passed?


I really disrespect *insert Indian name* for giving me no room, pushing me onto curbing, and then still not giving me enough room to stay on track. Should you not leave at least a car width and a half, between you and the outside of the track, upon passing, in case that driver's still on the outside? 🤬 idiot Indian driver... I was going to win, or get second, but he had to ruin both of our races... 👎 👎 👎 👎

I would have backed out and given him the space. Pass him later.

Exactly what you should've done, ussually when someone is that agressive he will wreck out later or make a mistake wich will open the door for you to leave him behind.

 

[Roush_fan_99]

Now I can't log in to iracing, it says the member filter is unavailable, was there a scheduled maintenance or something?

edit: nevermind

 

[Imari]

Is there a generally accepted amount of room, that should be given, upon passing/being passed?

People *should* leave you room to stay on the track. If everyone drove the way they *should*, we wouldn't need safety systems or stewards.

Gotta learn to identify the morons early and figure out ways to deal with them that mean you stay safe. If that means just giving the place up, sometimes you have to do it knowing that in the long run they'll lose more races to being aggressive.

 

[Mac K]

Might I throw in that patience is key.. Especially on iRacing.

 

[Roush_fan_99]

If you know someone and their abilities particularly well, you can be a little more aggressive, but most of the time, when I'm just in official races I will let the person pass just before entry to a corner, I'll typically brake earlier than normal on the straight, so that as we go through the corner we aren't fighting for position. If the person overtakes me mid corner, I give lot's of room, typically giving 1.5 to 2 car widths between us. If I really absolutely have to overtake the person in the corner, I make sure my front tire is just behind theirs, many people say nose to your door, let them go, but it never happens like that in iracing

 

[Wilbur]

If you know someone and their abilities particularly well, you can be a little more aggressive, but most of the time, when I'm just in official races I will let the person pass just before entry to a corner, I'll typically brake earlier than normal on the straight, so that as we go through the corner we aren't fighting for position. If the person overtakes me mid corner, I give lot's of room, typically giving 1.5 to 2 car widths between us. If I really absolutely have to overtake the person in the corner, I make sure my front tire is just behind theirs, many people say nose to your door, let them go, but it never happens like that in iracing

This reminds me alot of what I had happen today. Coming into turn 3 at The Rock I was maybe half a groove up off the yellow and the guy behind me saw an opening mid corner and tagged me which spun me into the wall. He said I need to pick a line but I wasn't all over the place nor was he so much faster. I really wish some guys would learn to be patient, this all happened on lap 12 of 90 after few laps with another spin. The thing is I got a little ticked off but ended up running as a little off the leaders pace with messed up truck. All of them got into a wreck in turn one after racing hard which made me laugh (the guy who wrecked me left right after that) and I went from 20th to finishing 9th just by staying with it.

 

[Maxitsu]

Does anybody love to drive on the rumble strips at the exit of corner 8 and 9 at Zolder.

I love the circuit, specially the 2nd chicanes and the corners after it.

When you guys watch the replay on zolder. The track is very sunny and colorfull. But when you watch on Blimp its almost dark?

 

[Roush_fan_99]

Yes Zolder is pretty fun, so far I have found (for the mustang at least) that I can take more curb on the first corner of both chicanes than the second corner, and on the second chicane, If I late apex I can take some of the latter half of the second corner to set me up for the next corner.
Also if I put a little less caster and camber in the right side (about a degree less for the mustang) than the left side, I get around the off camber T1 better as well as all the right turns, which it's mostly made up of right turns.

As for the blimp, I believe it's because you are not looking at an angle with the sun in it since the sun is low and a lot of the track is covered by trees.

And of course I run the rumble strips.... Who doesn't

 

[Mac K]

I'm at a 3.51 SR C license right now, will I be promoted to a B license tomorrow? Or does that only apply to rookies?

 

[Roush_fan_99]

Rookies only

 

[MadRR]

Yeah after rookie to get promoted with 3.00 SR you have to wait until the end of the season or get to 4.00 and fast track. We have it good now. A friend of mine has been up there since iracing started and back then you could only move up one license a season. Back then it took a year to get to class A.

 

[Mac K]

Really? I could swear when I went from D to C it occurred on the "promotion day". It doesn't really matter, I'm in no rush, was just curious. Thanks guys.

 

[pilmat]

Really? I could swear when I went from D to C it occurred on the "promotion day". It doesn't really matter, I'm in no rush, was just curious. Thanks guys.

I was just wondering the same thing

Thanks for the answers!

 

[Kevin01SH]

Really? I could swear when I went from D to C it occurred on the "promotion day". It doesn't really matter, I'm in no rush, was just curious. Thanks guys.

He said at the end of a season, we're currently in the middle of one. Last month season 3 ended on the 22nd, i was promoted to C too. There are rookie promotions every month, but D class and above only get promoted at the end of a full season, or a 4.00.

Im currently at 3.59, the Grand Am series gives you a big push with 50min of clean racing.

 

[Wilbur]

I will be glad this week is over I think even though I love racing at Rockingham even with the guys who make mistakes. Yet it seems like I have run into some of the dumbest talkative people in last few races who won't keep the mic clear so people can actually use it. My last race had 2 guys arguing with a lap down car about moving over when he moved as soon as he could for 1-2-3 (I was in 3rd) but because they kept telling him to go high or low. I get his point he told them it's your job to pass me not me move even if most people do try to get out of the way, 4-5 both said they would punt him if he wouldn't move which seems just childish. I really should have expected it when 5th place guy was the leader and wrecked himself under caution by downshifting.

Speaking on downshifting under caution, I know I'm not the only one who usually leave it in 3rd or 4th but rarely do I down shift to 2nd or lower unless I'm in the pits or coming to the green.