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Oh dear on finishing last :p. Oval racing is surprisingly difficult lol. I thought hmm turning left cant be too hard but it is.. Some people are 7mph faster than me in the corners. Id like to think it was my poor setup and not my ability to drive though :p
 
Yeah, done a fair bit and it's a nice challenge, like you say harder than you think :)

I used to be reasonably good in the Late Model and SK, did both a lot, made my own setups, fair few wins and top-15 overall Q pace. But that was a long long time ago it seems, today I barely tweaked a random setup I found which didn't really turn all that well and just lived with it :p

It is heavily setup based, but the ability to drive the track right is important, most of my setups were quite crazy loose so took a lot of concentration but the corner speed you could carry was way more than the safe setups :D
 
It's all changed now, I used to be brilliant at driving the ovals when it was all about controlling a slide all the way around. Now it's 95% setup, 5% dragging an understeering boat around the track. It's not as much fun anymore. Doesn't help that I can't make a good setup anymore, I can get one which drives exactly how I want but has no speed.
 
man i keep lapping a 1.17 flat at silverstone in the rads with my pb being 16.9xx, its doing me nut in abit as i know ive got more time..

really gutted im going to miss the race weekend as i normally hate silverstone but im enjoying it in the rads...
 
deko said:
It's all changed now, I used to be brilliant at driving the ovals when it was all about controlling a slide all the way around. Now it's 95% setup, 5% dragging an understeering boat around the track. It's not as much fun anymore. Doesn't help that I can't make a good setup anymore, I can get one which drives exactly how I want but has no speed.
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I think you're thinking of the NASCAR series, which are now on the NTM which changed the handling drastically, the SK is still on the old tyre model.

However on the subject of the higher end cars I prefer the new version, I always found with the old one that the sliding was unpredictable, at times it would just loop round (mostly the truck) with no easily discernable cause. At least now if I understeer/oversteer I know the cause and more to the point I can catch it 9 times out of 10, much better imo...

GraveYard said:
man i keep lapping a 1.17 flat at silverstone in the rads with my pb being 16.9xx, its doing me nut in abit as i know ive got more time..

really gutted im going to miss the race weekend as i normally hate silverstone but im enjoying it in the rads...
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I think it helps that it's the historic layout, gets rid of some of the mickey mouse bits, I've never been a huge fan of silverstone either but it seems nice.

Annoyingly I'm gonna miss next weeks, and you just know Brands GP is gonna be awesome :(
 
been a long time since I've had a proper race around brands hatch gp circuit, is a great track..

we did have a race in the btdc but was only the shorter circuit but that was a epic wheel to wheel race...
 
I nearly have my A license woo. To get it I need to buy a car and Im unsure on whether to get the HPD prototype car or the Williams F1 car. I think id be mega crap in the f1 for a while and better in the HPD. The prototype series probably is more fun I bet too.

Good choice?
 
I'd go for the HPD, more likely to find an official race and more likely to be able to drive on the pace, the F1 seems like it would take lots and lots of practice/setup fiddling, the HPD I can just download a setup and be somewhere around where I should :p
 
Andy Pandy said:
I nearly have my A license woo. To get it I need to buy a car and Im unsure on whether to get the HPD prototype car or the Williams F1 car. I think id be mega crap in the f1 for a while and better in the HPD. The prototype series probably is more fun I bet too.

Good choice?
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Got a half price years subscription ages ago and i just play occasionally when the HPD is at a track i own/like, like last week at Spa and this week at Laguna. Would recommend it any day, by far my favourite car, pretty easy to be competitive but very hard to master. Also multi class adds that extra element which makes the racing even better.
 
Racing with 2 other cars must be great, Ive never driven in a multi class series before. I just bought the HPD, Sebring and Super Speedway to go with it :). I am sorted for iracing for another 2 weeks before I have to buy more tracks yay lol.
 
multi-class is definitely interesting, there are times when the speed differential is huge and you have to be really careful, and there are others when the Corvette has slightly higher top speed than the HPD which makes it a pain to overtake them :p
 
I think I hate the HPD lol. It feels like a tank. I have to push the brake pedal nearly all the way every corner for it to stop. Pulling off is painfully slow until it hits 30ish mph. The steering seems slow. I have a lot to learn with this car it seems lol.
 
I'm starting to get the hang of the Okayama short course in the MX5 now. I've been doing so much LRP that I had got into the very smooth and gentle turn in habit. At the tight slow bends of Okayama it seems to work far better with a late entry hard on the brakes to slip the back end out and then on the power early. I've had a couple of podiums now but damn is it hard to pass there. Not much chance of a mistake and if the speed difference is small then a well covered line is impossible to counter.
 
yeah in the fixed HPD series i can get near the pace after a few laps only in practice mind, with the HPD i found you have to trust the car and just through it in into the corners, tho you are right carefull on the power on exit...

andy buy the radical and come race with us you will love it...
 
I would like to buy it but I think its best for me to focus on one series and see it through than to have many series on the go. It will keep me interested in the game for longer :).

I think the star mazda one ends at the end of April and then I will get the Radical or what ever you guys race in then :).
 
all series end at the same time dont they??? there all 12 weeks???

yeah i only race the radical properly, thats my main focus as im still a iracing noob really, i do have a dabble in other races but only now and then. i quite like the fixed indy car series good wheel to wheel racing and competitive...
 
Yeah they do (Im sure.. I hope) What I mean is I need to stay focused on completing things and then move on. If i bought every car and track, I would probably stop playing quite quickly :/. But if i do a whole series and nothing else at a time I will be on this for ages :).

Im really bad with buying games and getting bored. Trying my hardest not to with this one as it costs so much!
 
Andy Pandy said:
Yeah they do (Im sure.. I hope) What I mean is I need to stay focused on completing things and then move on. If i bought every car and track, I would probably stop playing quite quickly :/. But if i do a whole series and nothing else at a time I will be on this for ages :).

Im really bad with buying games and getting bored. Trying my hardest not to with this one as it costs so much!
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i have the same problem, but im loving this soooooooooooo much, tho i have bought loads of the road cars i pretty much all the road tracks but think the radical is the series for me on iracing, so ill be sticking to it...

tho i do have a goal off being competitive in the williams but im along way off that yet ive done abit of practicing but im way off the pace...
 
iracing is so much more enjoyable than Gtr2 and every other racing game I have played. I think the fact that the racers arent wreckers and crashes are accidents than crashes being intentional. The graphics are very good Id say too, no complaints :).

When does your membership expire? I have read that on St Patricks day they do a years membership for $75 or something more affordable :). I will sub for a year if they do :D
 
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