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Well I got 4th without even knowing i was anywhere near a podium in the Grand Touring Cup. Which I'd known, I'd have tried a bit harder. But as it was just a fun series for me I'm happy with that.
Failed to meet the min of 8 races for GT3 so didnt bother racing this week and only completed 6 events. No idea what week I missed as I counted I had 8 tracks with Suzuka. But once I realised start of last, I thought sod it.
What we all racing next year ? Wanted to do Advanced MX5 but don't have enough of the tracks. Same for GT3 (Its become a north american Z4 series by the looks of teh schedule) I own mainly european tracks so thats me out on that. May drive the tracks I do have for fun.
So may have to look at going back to something like the Radical and I'd like to do teh Lotus 79 but not sure if I have the time to get fast in that car.
Failed to meet the min of 8 races for GT3 so didnt bother racing this week and only completed 6 events. No idea what week I missed as I counted I had 8 tracks with Suzuka. But once I realised start of last, I thought sod it.
What we all racing next year ? Wanted to do Advanced MX5 but don't have enough of the tracks. Same for GT3 (Its become a north american Z4 series by the looks of teh schedule) I own mainly european tracks so thats me out on that. May drive the tracks I do have for fun.
So may have to look at going back to something like the Radical and I'd like to do teh Lotus 79 but not sure if I have the time to get fast in that car.
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New build today are you excited yet.
Im hoping for NTM on my Lotus 79 and cant wait for a blast around Donington.
Im hoping for NTM on my Lotus 79 and cant wait for a blast around Donington.
Cant imagine i'd do the Advanced MX5, but where the hell is it?? Cos ive seen people in here talking about it, ive seen the forums talking about it, and the calendar too... but its not there in the series list. Dont think ive ever looked at the drop-down list for it, but why cant i see it in with all the other series?? Is there a requirement which goes beyond licenses, like completing a full MX5 season... cos i dont see it.
As for the American GT3 series, yeah it is very American this year, although to be fair it did seem like this season was quite heavy on European tracks.
Season 2:
EU: Silverstone, Zolder, Zandvoort, Brands. (4)
US/NA: COTA, Mosport, Watkins Glen (2+1)
ROTW: Suzuka, Okayama, Bathurst, Sao Paulo, Philip Island (5)
Season 3:
EU: Donington, Spa, Oulton (3)
US/NA: Sebring, Laguna Seca, Road America, Watkins Glen, VIR, Mid Ohio, Montreal (6+1)
ROTW: Twin Ring Motegi, Bathurst (2)
What doesnt help is the order. The North American tracks arent spread, they're very much clumped: Wk1 & 2, Wk4, 5, 6 & 7 & Wk10.
Im all for cost-cutting in travel expenses, but spending 6 of the first 7 weeks in North America really isnt need for a virtual series free to do whatever the heck it likes with the schedule.
Europe is 3 of the last 5 races too.
I dont think it helps that iRacing has an incredible bias and disregard to non-US content. I'd guess 60-75% of road courses are North American (even excl oval in-field tracks). We have every single NASCAR track in the game (Sprint Cup & Nationwide, probably Truck too). We have all their tin-pot venues in there, Lime Rock, Summit Point, VIR and their pokey ovals too.
Meanwhile we dont even have tracks like Monza (planned), Imola, Hungaroring, Hockenheim, Nurburgring, Le Mans (Full or just Bugatti), Mangy-Cours, Paul Rickard, Catalunia, Jerez, Estoril, Istanbul etc etc.
Meanwhile we have COTA almost as soon as its in the F1 calendar, Montreal and understandably Indy.
If its within US Territory their knickers drop instantly. Otherwise, theres very little interest.
Speaking or crashes, not sure if you guys watch JetlinerX but I found this quite entertaining lol
Still not sure what I am going to race this season, would imagine its GT3 and a bit of MX5 for road. I am also going to try and improve my Oval rating as I do enjoy listening to the over excited America's when there is a wreck
Still not sure what I am going to race this season, would imagine its GT3 and a bit of MX5 for road. I am also going to try and improve my Oval rating as I do enjoy listening to the over excited America's when there is a wreck
Thats terrible.
Almost as terrible as 'some people say setups dont matter, but it sure can help' after claiming to have gained 7, or 6 seconds from a teammates setup. No. Just no.
Looks like his biggest issue is he's in with a dumb split, and the comment above makes it seem justified too.
Almost as terrible as 'some people say setups dont matter, but it sure can help' after claiming to have gained 7, or 6 seconds from a teammates setup. No. Just no.
Looks like his biggest issue is he's in with a dumb split, and the comment above makes it seem justified too.
Z4 feels like its lost a load of grip on the rear. It gets loose under braking and theres a few 4th gear corners you'd normally be flat through where the rear started to feel light and close to falling off.
Thats with a few laps around Suzuka, same weather conditions.
Cant tell whether the raw pace has be dialled back a bit, for balancing, not yet anyway.
Thats with a few laps around Suzuka, same weather conditions.
Cant tell whether the raw pace has be dialled back a bit, for balancing, not yet anyway.
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I'd say the Z4 has lost some grip at the rear as well.
Donington looks good, but they must have scanned it a while back because some of the track side objects have gone on the real track now and have been for a long time.
Bought a triple monitor bundle from OcUK a few weeks back. When I went to collect it turns out the triple screen stand was out of stock. It finally arrived yesterday, it was a pain to set up, but I'm happy with the results.
Donington looks good, but they must have scanned it a while back because some of the track side objects have gone on the real track now and have been for a long time.
Bought a triple monitor bundle from OcUK a few weeks back. When I went to collect it turns out the triple screen stand was out of stock. It finally arrived yesterday, it was a pain to set up, but I'm happy with the results.
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I think it's the thrustmaster one.
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Yup
Thrustmaster TH8 RS.
It's a great product, but changing from sequential to manual is a pain. So much so that I'm considering getting a second one, but I think it would be cheaper to buy the Fanatec shifter and sell my TH8.
Do you change it per car you are using, like if the car is manual irl you set up the shifter for manual or do you just use what you feel is best?
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I only use it for playing off line in cars that have manual gear box.
I'm not good enough to use it online, even playing offline I use auto blip.
I'm not good enough to use it online, even playing offline I use auto blip.
Nice setup that Llama.
I won one of those TH8RS sticks in a pCARS comp, but asked them to keep hold of it along with the racing joypad which was part of the prize, as i wasnt bothered about it (G27 one is fine, and i rarely use that) and i was hoping to finish something and put it up as a comp, they agreed to hold onto it and send it to whoever won the 2nd comp. I got in touch with them about 9mo later, cant find it.
meh.
Started skinning last night, been wanting to for a while now, but needed to focus on learning tracks and practising.
I won one of those TH8RS sticks in a pCARS comp, but asked them to keep hold of it along with the racing joypad which was part of the prize, as i wasnt bothered about it (G27 one is fine, and i rarely use that) and i was hoping to finish something and put it up as a comp, they agreed to hold onto it and send it to whoever won the 2nd comp. I got in touch with them about 9mo later, cant find it.
meh.
Started skinning last night, been wanting to for a while now, but needed to focus on learning tracks and practising.
Your not looking hard enough for the MX5 Series. Its there on the forums and the schedule. It wont be there on the drop down till week 13 as finished, new series never are.
As for being a bit biased last season for the Euro's well GT3 as a massive following in Europe It should be biased towards us, and we got 4 Euro tracks was it last and they have what 6-7 This. It doesn't help the guy running the GT3 series is a bit of a erm pardon my french **********************
Who is American and as a bit of a chip on his shoulder. He reported one of the RUF guys the other week for one of the most trival things I've ever seen. It wouldnt be so bad but the guy he reported is Tamas one of the chaps who does some fantastic work for the community. The chap almost got banned because of the idiot. He's a noob in a Z4 who thinks he Mario Andretti.
When Tamas and Juan on his joystick school him it makes me smile. Anyway enough of that it doesn't really matter but yer it doesn't help a yank heads up the series. Us Euro's need to be more vocal and we need to push I-racing more for Euro scans, we should all buy Donny 6 times over to make it the best selling Iracing track to date, that may make them do more Euro scans.
I'm a fan of Mosport, Montreol, I even like Road America and Road Atlanta. But like you say there are 100 better tracks outside NA that I-racing should be scanning but they don't as they think the game is soley for the NA audience, us euros are just a bonus income for them. I'd love to know how many Europeans actually play the game and how much money they make from us compared to the NA road racers.
COTA being scanned right away is a joke. Its not even that good a track. I haven't purchased it and wont be purchasing it. Not because I'm anti American. But because I'd rather have tracks like Donnigton which if I wasn't skint would be a day one purchase for me and not because its English and I'm English but because of the history behind the track, the fact its hosted x amount of series over the years and as many memorable Motorsport moments.
Senna in the rain for one
One of the greatest peaces of Motorsport history.COTA as what exactly. A elevated T1 and a few boring F1 races there. Woopy do.
I honestly believe us euros should push them more to scan some of the worlds best pieces of tarmac and not all these crappy little yanky tracks that no one really cares about but the yanks.
We haven't heard any news on the BTCC car really of late, whats happening with Croft, Thruxton, Mallery Park and Snertton and hurry the hell up with Monza. Again its not one of my favorite tracks but its a huge part of Motorsport history and holds x amount of races series there every single year. Imo it should priority over COTA.
I really hope AC hurrys up and gets its game together and has a strong multiplayer. So it gives I-racing some real competition. I think they could catch I-racing with there pants down and steal a lot of there players. I know quite a few top I-racers who have already jumped ship and some who have only come back because AC is missing the competition elements at the moment. If they nail that I can see a lot of Euros leaving I-racing as its obvious they class us as second rate. But Its the best sim out there at the moment. So we have to suck it up and deal with it for now.
PS I'm not having a go at you I fully agree.
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No excuses now with all that High end gear I want to see you really improve this season.
One screen, an half broken g25 with a throttle that sticks at 90% and has to be slammed hard to get the full 100% out of it. £1.99 casters to stop me sliding all over the place when I hit the brakes. I would love to get tripples, a nice shiney new T500 and 3 matching screens. I can only imagine how much better I would actually be.
Yes I am jealous lol.
BTW if you sell the TH8, Ill take it off you as thats another thing. My Shifter double down shifts or decides not to up shift unless I hit gear up 3-4 time. The double downshift is the one as it's locked my rear axel quite a few times making me feel like Senna as I catch a huge tail slap.
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It's week 13... there are no official series.
Thats not the case, they have been focussing on increasing the european/rest of the world content for some time now... to the point where some americans were moaning they were being ignored.
Its nothing to do with that and everything to do with the fact they have an official deal with NASCAR. To get F1 tracks they have to go through some ridiculously long and extremely expensive process... I read a post from one of the debs who said Monza has cost them a small fortune to license and scan, Interlagos was very expensive as well as they couldn't scan it in person and had to get the laser scan data from a third party. Signing F1 tracks is extremely expensive and time consuming and unless you're going to pull a few million $ out of your back pocket to help then this isn't going to change anytime soon.
You need to remember they are an american company and its always going to cost less and be far easier to strike deals with people in your own country, especially when you have NASCAR as an official partner.
To get a partnership with FIA would basically send them bankrupt, plus Gran Turismo has just signed a deal with them.
Calling VIR a tin pot venus is ridiculous as well, its a truly amazing track... infinitely better and more technical than the F1 tracks you listed
