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Just got my second win in the Skippy (3rd or 4th overall). It was in the second of three splits in the 3:45 GMT race on Spa. I started third, got a really good start and was side by side with the leader going into corner one. He didn't see me there and actually hit me, but somehow my car only got some side dents and was still fully functional. I came out of the mess in second about 0.5 seconds behind first. I stayed right on his tail for 2 or 3 laps and he then got a little sideways on Pouhon and I was able to get by him. I stayed about 1 second in front of him for another lap or 2 then he made a mistake and dropped back to 6-7 seconds back. He then gained a little, but made another error and got passed. By this time second was over 10 seconds back and I only had 2 laps left. I took it easy and let off the throttle through Eau Rouge and Blanchimont to avoid any problems. (The last 2 races I've spun at Blanchimont and kissed the wall so I was really nervous through there). I finished with an 11 second lead. I gained 90+ iRating, lots of SR and got 87 championship points. My best result by far this season and my second best result ever in the Skippy.
 
Maxitsu
IRacing should change the blue flag rules.
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Honestly I think the rules work perfect, but I think somehow iRacing should raise the awereness about racing rules. Because it seem to me those who ignore the blue flag see it pop up and wonder what does that mean???

You and me and those who followed racing for a while know exactly what it means and the pointless thing it is not to let them go. Defending position also makes you slower on track and when defending against someone who isn't a position is in other words just an act of stupidity.

I even let cars a lap down or more pass me, driving infront of someone who is clearly faster and are behind you because of a pit stop repair is also from my point of view pointless. If they somehow manage to unlap me enough times to make it for position I wouldn't let them go that easy of course, but if they have regain on me after a repair I probably be a sitting duck anyway. (then you need to be more than alien fast)

But if it where a blueflag stop and go or drive through penalty he would have been penalized witch he would not have been in real life because in real life real people will understand the situation. Computers have become insanely smart over the last couple of years, but they lack common sense. :scared:
I had a nice and clean three-way battle for 1st position when a lapped car started to defend his position 4 laps before the end i lost my lead and 2nd place. I could charge back to second but again the lapped car starts to defend again. On charlottes raceway passing on the outside is impossible on the oval part.
So i couldn't overtake safely.

I started to lose my temper. I always am a clean driver but for the first time i did go aggressive on purpose. I did drive on the tarmac on the inside of the oval(off track) and i just pushed him away out his lane at the next banked corner. I know its dirty and you can judge me for that but i am proud i did that.
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I would have done the same thing probably, and if he was smart he would have let you go and tried stay behind you to copy you're line and he would maybe even outrace the guys he raced.

But then again, when you race in the InRacingNews thing, you should be aware of the fact that you can get into this by just raise your SR by 0.5 after joining the service. No need to understand racing and flags to do that..
 
In oval races, there are no blue flags in iRacing. I never noticed any. Maybe because in real world oval racing there is a different culture. It is necessary to stay in the lead lap. So there might be no blue flag in reality as well.

It's totally different to road racing.

I made a similar experience yesterday: A pack of 4 (me in 4th) was batteling. A lapped car left the pits and cut me off from the first three. Then starting attacking them. After a mistake of him, I could pass and close the gap to the leaders. Unnecessary behaviour by this guy.
 
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But then again, when you race in the InRacingNews thing, you should be aware of the fact that you can get into this by just raise your SR by 0.5 after joining the service. No need to understand racing and flags to do that..
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Ah well, every league has there D/C/B licenced rookies. I kinda like the news-league, the competition is stronger then last season. Sometimes there can be a not so big grid or not so many fast drivers. But I start to know some drivers That i trust 100%. I can drive the whole race side by side whitout contact. Those racers keep me in this league. I really have fun in most races though. Some are so happy when they drive against me, becaus of the clean side by side action. Its really nice to hear.
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At the front its usually very clean. Of course sometimes everything seems to go wrong when the rookies gone crazy. I have to let the anger out. But usually the next race its all forgotten.

I hoping on sort of F1-rule. If the blue flag is shown you have a limited time to move. like 5 corners or something. If not drive-through.

Or atleast instead of you "might" let the car go through, you "have" to move.
 
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I love the inRacing News Challenge, everyone is clean for the most part and quick. Only problem is Chris Hughson dominates every race he enters 99% of the time.. :p
 
Mac K
I love the inRacing News Challenge, everyone is clean for the most part and quick. Only problem is Chris Hughson dominates every race he enters 99% of the time.. :p
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I don't care realy, He is a alien, but a clean one. I know a fast guy that isn't clean if he lose some places.
The only thing is he boost the championship points whit his 8000 irating. If you are second it counts for a win.
 
Maxitsu
I don't care realy, He is a alien, but a clean one. I know a fast guy that isn't clean if he lose some places.
The only thing is he boost the championship points whit his 8000 irating. If you are second it counts for a win.
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Of course he is, it's hard to be dirty when every car is a good 10 seconds behind you in every race :p
 
Mac K
Of course he is, it's hard to be dirty when every car is a good 10 seconds behind you in every race :p
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Well he has weak starts sometimes compared to me so sometimes i can go side by side. He does not defend dirty at all. When i see him fight whit other cars for position becaus he lost it on the start he never being dirty. Its something i like. There is a guy thats faster then me, but when he loses a place he is going agressive. And often divebombs people.
Sometimes he gains on it but sometimes he loses some places, had got more agressive. If he just keep his head calm he can easly win the race.

even they both are faster then most of the other guys i immediately see who's the greater driver. If Hughson isn't that clean he maybe didn't lead by 10 seconds every race.
 
Just keep at it Maxitsu and you'll be able to beat that Chris guy. I don't know him or anything so I'm not trying to taking anything away from the guy, but to be honest his times in that okayama race were not all that fast. Maybe he slacked off once he had a big gap. I've never raced in that series so I don't know if it's fixed setup or not, but I'm only a average racer maybe slightly above average at best and that's the times I run whenever I'll do a rookie race at okayama short with the fixed setup. I don't even race the miata really and I'm normally doing 1:01.6-1:01.9 for a fast lap and 1:02.4-1:02.6 for average lap time when I get a clean run. If I make a slight mistake or get caught up battling with someone it will be a little bit slower average lap. Even with those times I very rarely win normally around 3rd or so. There's a couple of guys that have been in those races with me that had much faster average times. By looking at his results that's really the only car he ever drives and on top of that he does 4-7 official races a day by going of his stats. I've noticed a lot of those guys with really high irating's do 5+ official races everyday. I guess these people don't have lives because I don't know anybody that does that many races in a day. Maybe once every now and then but these guys do this many races every single day. Hard to compete with guys like that anyway because they just have so many more hours of track time compared to you.
 
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For okayama short your lap times are good. I run around the same laptimes.

I will never beat Chris, Whit a Mazda MX5 i am one of the better drivers but i hve to squeeze like some oranges to follow the aliens. Maybe if i drive whit there setups i can beat them. But to be honest i often use the baseline setups. My tuning skills are not very good to beat the top drivers in any league.
Tracktime is everything. But i just like racing and i am into alot of championships so tracktime is an issue. However last weeks i have plenty of tracktime in the MX5. My first races are average a second slower each lap. Depending on track there are between 15 and 25 laps. this means i am now 15/25 seconds faster each race.
 
He's quick, no denying that but I wouldn't call you average Mad, not trying to kiss your ass but don't kid yourself.. The thing with Chris is that like you said he spends so much time on one series that he usually dominates it. I've lead one lap over him once, next time round he blew by me.. I'd be curious to see just how fast he is in another car.
 
Previous season i could win at charlotte's In a race whit Chris. Chris span becaus a lapped car, for the first time i could win but another driver pusched me way on the oval part. Chris won. Back then it could give me a massive IR boost whit 1000IR.

It happens to be i had a nice race whit me. The race was awesome whit alot of traffic and good drivers. Halfway through i foun Chris playing in the san (never had seen that before) then i had a 2 lap battle whit him side by side. Usually it is 2 corners :dopey: He past me after one lap but i took him again when he got stuck traffic. I squeezed my car bewteen his and the other and we got side by side in the next 5 corners. I won but at the straight he has a 7th gear :dunce:

It was fun the top 3 mx5's ended whitin 2 seconds and my fastest lap was 1:21.922. I didn't know that was possible.
 
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I haven't been playing much iRacing recently. I thought it was a good afternoon to get back into it. A little practise showed me that I was still on the pace, but I was quite worried that my racecraft would be a bit rusty (haven't raced against people seriously for about three months).

So I jumped in the rookie MX5 series at Lime Rock, nothing like relearning your racecraft by jumping in the deep end! I'm not suicidal though, so I elected to start from the pits.

And had a great race. In a ten man field I ended up in fourth, by simply knowing when other people were going to crash before they did. I ran consistently low 1.00.xx the whole race without a single incident, which is rare for me at Lime Rock. Picked up some SR and even a bit of iR, which was nice.

Honestly, when iRacing goes right it's such a marvellous feeling.
 
Imari
but I was quite worried that my racecraft would be a bit rusty (haven't raced against people seriously for about three months).
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I'm the same boat, I've practiced for a few hrs each week but no racing because I'm scared for my SR :lol:
That's a pretty good idea to get just enough mx-5 practice and just dive back in the rookie series
 
Anyone racing the Star Mazda this week , here's a tip. 6 gallons of fuel isn't enough ! I found out the hard way , with 5 to go I had to start rolling off the throttle to conserve fuel so I had no chance of chasing the guy in front of me. Last lap , I check fuel.....0.9 laps remaining ! It started coughing on the last long straight before the final corners. I only just made it across the line and lost one position. Still , started 15th and finished 5th , not a bad result considering :)
 
My second race in the MX5 (after there was big pile up my first) since before the summer went really well yesterday. Quali'd 2nd with a 1:01.1, times were pretty close all the way back, but the guy on pole had a 1:00.6! That's 3 tenths faster than my optimal lol. Surprisingly, I kept the gap within about 1 second for the first 10 laps or so. Then he pulled a way a bit, I pulled him back in etc. The gap got up to about 2.2 seconds, and in the last 5 or 6 laps I reeled him in and reduced the gap to 0.4 seconds by the last lap. I made a dummy move in to one of the hairpins but he didn't bite. Even though I started 2nd and finished 2nd the amount of satisfaction keeping it on the road and chasing down people or trying to pull away from people is immense. He also seemed to run 2 wheels on the gravel on the last corner most laps, which didn't seem to slow him down much :s A few times he went 3/4 wheels off and I wouldn't catch him by much. He ended up with 16 incidents compared to my 2. :)

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Ok i am done at summit point short in the iracing news cup. Nobody can drive clean there. It seems like there landed a spaceship whit zombies using touchscreens. I ended my last race whit (-0.96) SR this is a record :scared:

It was such clean championship untill this week... Its strange.
 
Maxitsu
Ok i am done at summit point short in the iracing news cup. Nobody can drive clean there. It seems like there landed a spaceship whit zombies using touchscreens. I ended my last race whit (-0.96) SR this is a record :scared:

It was such clean championship untill this week... Its strange.
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That's weird, I had a race there yesterday in the Solstice just for a bit of fun and had a perfectly clean race. I wasn't trying to finish in a high position because I was just trying to boost my SR. I started in about 12th in total and ended up finishing in 5th in total (3rd in class). I must say there were a few crashes but barely any looked like they were caused by 'stupid' moves.

Anyway I boosted my SR by +0.55 :)
 
Maxitsu
Ok i am done at summit point short in the iracing news cup. Nobody can drive clean there. It seems like there landed a spaceship whit zombies using touchscreens. I ended my last race whit (-0.96) SR this is a record :scared:

It was such clean championship untill this week... Its strange.
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Nice analogy :lol: The two races I've had there this week in the Solstice have been really clean, except when I was almost taken out in the first turn, but other than that (knock on wood) it's been fine for me. Infact my SR is up to 3.44 now, I've been on a streak of clean racing lately.
 
Maxitsu
Ok i am done at summit point short in the iracing news cup. Nobody can drive clean there. It seems like there landed a spaceship whit zombies using touchscreens. I ended my last race whit (-0.96) SR this is a record :scared:

It was such clean championship untill this week... Its strange.
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Whenever a series visits a basic content track theres usually more incidents involved.
 
Had a bad race at Watkins Glen in the Mustang. Never have I been dive bombed and crowded so many times in one race..
 
plate88
Whenever a series visits a basic content track theres usually more incidents involved.
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Well yeah maybe, but the whole league runs on a basic content tracks. So thats not it. Thats why i started this league at the beginning. Now i did know the good & bad drivers, there way of driving. Had alot of clean good races. There were some exceptions, but you can expect it. Its like there is an invasion of new drivers. I don't like it. I hope its just the track.


If it go's into splits, i am at the higher split. then everybody is even more agressive. If you want to overtake someone they are waving 4times from left to right. If you ask them why they did they say "i was 2nd, it was a high split and the last lap, but normally i don't do it, but we had good battle" Sure we had i passed him at the last corner of the race but it could end bad for both of us. Looks cool on replay though.

Ah well, moving on. I will get back from 2.00 to 4.00 SR in no time, i only need one or 2 weeks. While those inglorius bastards have trouble to stay at 2.00. :D
 
Did my first race since august, Grand Am in the mustang. I didn't qualify because I wanted to start last, and I did. the third place guy (4 mustangs, I'm last) ran anywhere between 1.5 and 3 seconds ahead of me, and with about 10 mins remaining I was right on his bumper and got spun by a DP (nothing either one of us could do, I ran my line and he was the head of a pack and got pushed up into me) and I spun around 6 times across the back stretch between T2 and T3 and lost 12 seconds, I made up 4.5 seconds and finished last 7.5 seconds behind him. Either way I lost .09 SR and 55 iR, but I had fun and learned quite a bit about where I can pick up time safely.
 
I really need to work on getting the mustang since so many people tend to like it.

My last race at Rockingham was fixed truck race which I love the setup and the track once I finally figured out how to be fast there and beat people in the corners. I started in 19th which was going to be hard to get upfront I was thinking so patience would have to work there. It didn't take me long to get by a few guys off the start who were slower into 1-2 or had some issues with it and I rode behind 15th I think for 5 laps as he was tough to try to get under without wrecking either. It didn't take long before there was a wreck few guys pitted which I was up to I think 10th after lap 12 because of few guys taking tires. I passed 2 cars off the restart but ended up having a caution come out few laps later. Now this was where knowing how the tires fall off paid off, I went in to get 2 tires only with no fuel which gained me about 3 spots give or take. The rest of the race was pretty uneventful even with caution and getting passed to finish in 3rd.

It was a good race for the top few guys but there were a couple guys who just really don't understand the whole passing lap cars or being patient which showed in their conversation.
 
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