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I could be interested in another 24 hour race.

I still haven't decided what to do set up wise. Fanatec gear is all boxed up and I have put the shifter up for sale.

The Gran Turismo beta made up my mind as to needing a PS4 compatible wheel. As in I won't be needing one. I wasn't particularly impressed by the physics or FFB. Maybe it's the G29 compared to higher end hardware but as it stands I don't think I'm that bothered about it.
 
barmyllama said:
I could be interested in another 24 hour race.

I still haven't decided what to do set up wise. Fanatec gear is all boxed up and I have put the shifter up for sale.

The Gran Turismo beta made up my mind as to needing a PS4 compatible wheel. As in I won't be needing one. I wasn't particularly impressed by the physics or FFB. Maybe it's the G29 compared to higher end hardware but as it stands I don't think I'm that bothered about it.
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I don't think it's the G29, I've not heard very good things about it at all.
MarkeR said:
Right now here are 6 people in the race team Mike. Peregrine Racing is the name, not to sure how many are going to do Le Mans though.
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6 is a good number, I don't think you want to go into it with any less than 4. I think we had 6 last time.
 
Barmy, would be great to see you stick around iRacing, but completely understand if you feel you aren't getting value from money spent. As Mike said earlier, we're putting a team together for LeMans24H, it was fun with you last year, would be super to have you onboard again.

If you go ahead with the Fanatec sell ping me a pm, I may have a buyer (no promises, but would like first dibs). Cheers!
 
Thanks.

The long and the short of it is we need to buy the freehold to our house before we can remortgage. We need to do that because our house is technically my wife's alone. She was divorced and I moved in and we didn't do anything about for ten years.

And as I said earlier I have a few thousand pounds worth of stuff in my man cave, some of which is the Fanatec hardware. Which is nice and all that, but it doesn't make me faster.

My shifter has already gone. Everything else is boxed up ready. But I do think they will be the last items to go, if at all.
 
Just done a race in the grand touring cup, first time in the Solstice.

Had to drive it because I'm not buying any content with this second account. It was ok, the brakes are crap and the 4th gear ratio just kills the revs from third.

Standard of racing was worse than any rookie race I've done this time around. Some real idiots who can't keep it on the road, have no awareness and dive bomb and cut across with reckless (or should that be wreck-more) abandon.
 
MikeTheNative said:
6 is a good number, I don't think you want to go into it with any less than 4. I think we had 6 last time.
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We used to do 3 per car for 24 hour races and it was perfectly fine, though of course depends on a number of factors. Stints of 2-3 hours are perfectly fine in my experience.

If all are around the same timezone then planning for the graveyard stint is critical, but would normally be the guy that started the race in our strategies (went to sleep around 8pm and up again about 1am). We always planned for that guy to come in and do 1 stint to waken up, then a relief for someone else, then the guy who got up would go on to do another 3-4 hours while the other guys got some rest.

The hardest thing at Le Mans is keeping concentration on the straights. You'd be surprised the number of teams that have had to retire in the past due a driver getting confused which chicane they were coming up to and ploughing into the tyres at 200mph. That was on NASCAR 2003 - I haven't tried the iRacing Le Mans yet so I guess the escape roads are usable on that?

I actually did a 10 hour race at Watkins Glen once (NASCAR 2003 GTP mod), though our team was sufficiently flexible for me to be able to hand over for an hour or 2 if it became too much. So long as it's all planned well then it's perfectly doable - the hardest part was keeping the car stationary in the pits (a slope at the Glen) while I went to restock the energy drink! I wouldn't do it again though - it's a hard following couple of days, but I wanted to show I could do. Finished 1st in class too (and 4th overall in a Mazda for anyone familiar).
 
I think we just did 2 stints then change which would be about 1.5 hours which was fine. I do 60/75 and the occasional 90 minute race for proto GT each week so I know I can do long runs, I'm not sure I could handle 3 hours straight with the rift on though.
 
I've decided to keep my Fanatec set up. While the G29 I used for a month was ok, I just can't go backwards in terms of quality.

I'll also be renewing my iRacing sub with a 25% off voucher I've been sent. At least for 3 months anyway.
 
Apart from the month of rookies I did in April.

I've just done my first Skippy race since September last year and my first race in anything since we did the Le Mans 24hrs.

Finished 3rd. Should have been 5th or 6th, but three of the top four cars tangled on the last lap so I inherited some easy places.

I have to say that the month I did in rookies was good practice for avoiding carnage.
 
Perhaps I'ev just been lucky but all the proto GT races I've done so far this season have been reasonably clean. I even did a Blancpain Sprint race the other day and that was too!
 
I run the protogt as well but in the Aston

In 7 races I have 12 inc points and they all have been my own fault. Last race at Road Amercia I had 5 inc because I set my wing too low and kept on spinning lol. Although by the looks of it all the crazy people are in the Porsche cup.
 
I might turn some practice laps in the ProtoGT and see how I go and maybe race over the weekend.

My second Skippy race ended in a tangle. Watkins Glen tends to have the whole field within a second of each other in terms of pace. So it becomes a race of survival with all the field bunched up.
 
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