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Another good race.

Started 15th and finished 6th, only 2 inc, should've been zero but I was pushing to keep ahead of the guy that ran into me last night.

Plus another 2 tenths off my fastest lap so far.

Watkins Glen is such a great track.
 
TT on road depends on the length of track, foe example I believe you need 8 clear laps on Laguna and 5 clean laps on Okayama.
 
barmyllama said:
Another good race.

Started 15th and finished 6th, only 2 inc, should've been zero but I was pushing to keep ahead of the guy that ran into me last night.

Plus another 2 tenths off my fastest lap so far.

Watkins Glen is such a great track.
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Nice mate, seems like you are shaving some time off your fastest lap every day :D

I watched Emptybox last night as he was at the same track, looked tough with hardly anywhere to overtake! :eek:

nutsnut said:
TT on road depends on the length of track, foe example I believe you need 8 clear laps on Laguna and 5 clean laps on Okayama.
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OK thanks mate
 
nutsnut said:
Hello Sasso :-)

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Cheers
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cuffylad said:
Nice mate, seems like you are shaving some time off your fastest lap every day :D

I watched Emptybox last night as he was at the same track, looked tough with hardly anywhere to overtake! :eek:
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Well I don't know if I'm faster because I'm faster or it's because of slipstream effect or lower fuel. Either way I'll take it.

As for over taking.

You can into the bus stop after getting a tow up the hill, but the other guy needs to be compliant in the move otherwise it ends in contact. If I'm being run down as I go up the hill I brake early and let them by. Especially if I can see they have catching me quickly, no point fighting for a position if the guy behind is a lot faster.

Turn 1 is probably the most sensible place to pass. There's a decent run off that doesn't count as being off track. So if you push the guy wide he has room to manoeuvre. There are a couple of other corners you can overtake on, but as is the case most of the time, the other driver plays a part in any overtaking move.

My big problem with a lot of iRacing drivers is they think they can overtake anywhere at anytime. They throw one up the inside, from miles back and hope it will stick. Most if the time they take you and themselves out. That's why consistency gains more places than overtaking. You just make up positions as other drivers take each other out or make mistakes.
 
barmyllama said:
My big problem with a lot of iRacing drivers is they think they can overtake anywhere at anytime. They throw one up the inside, from miles back and hope it will stick. Most if the time they take you and themselves out. That's why consistency gains more places than overtaking. You just make up positions as other drivers take each other out or make mistakes.
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I know mate, it winds me up. I was really hoping that if I got up in SR and license class then it would improve but by the sounds of it it doen't :confused:

I did a oval last night and Sasso watched me, was a total wreck fest! One driver was taking people out on the warm up lap!!!
 
Best way to get past other drivers is pressure. Most of them fold if you can chase them down and lap within a second or less of them.

I know I do.

Maybe not so much in the higher splits, not that I'm ever likely to find that out.

If you are being followed you can lure the guy behind off track by going slightly wider yourself. They can become fixated with your car and not actually watch where they are going.
 
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haha yeah cuffy, that ***** was all over the place :D as I said last night, I'm really glad I watched because I have more confidence to enter the oval now if there are others that bad.... I cant be that bad surely xD hahaha!

was a wreck fest though!

got a new PB in the charlotte oval of 36.296 in the practice, mostly thanks to drafting behind nuts I think xD cuffy almost stole the practice top spot from me coming in with 36.298 wasn't it?

overtaking/being overtaken scares me :p just don't have the spacial awareness with just the one monitor and hitting the side look buttons is horrid as lose all sight of where ya heading haha xD like turns 4-1 on charlotte.....if two wide I can;t tell how close the other dude is to me...so if I'm on the outside I'm likely to slide into the wall as don't want to turn too much and drive into the side of the guy :p

can't wait to do some oval tonight and might try the maxda cup road too if oval goes well ;) but i can see the road will just be a minus SR :p more time looking for easter eggs amongst the trees than on the track xD on the current mazda track I've discovered that if you go off track you don't hit trees and if you keep driving into the buses it dumps you back in the pits.... faster than trying to stop and reset xD haha!
 
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Yeah mate was a close one, dam you lol

My best in race is 36.188 but that was with a fair bit of drafting :D:D

It really is just a lottery in the rookie races tbh, but after watching you race you will be fine unless you get a race like I did last night but then it doesn't matter how good you are with people like that around :confused::confused:

When I was on one screen I just listened to the spotter tbh, put his talkativity (or what ever it is called lol) up to full and just play it safe for now :D
 
haha xD so close to stealing that top sport from me! I was rather impressed with my typing a reply while still driving the line with my mate on my behind xD

ay, I've got the spotter dude screaming away at me "STILL THERE....STILL THERE......" :p on his ultimate chattiness setting :)

only takes one or... a few to ruin everything :( but hopefully that won't be me tonight ;)
 
Sasso, when ever i read your post I hear your welsh accent in my mind, lol.

Will be on again tonight hitting some oval races, was good fun last night.
 
just did an entirely clean TT......but it gave me a loss of control at the end :\ I did run out of fuel on the second corner but I limped it round into the pits then ran out entirely... I slowed down and literally as I was about to come to a complete stop it gave me loss of control :( booo!!!

(edit: seems i'm now a CatD with no races haha xD )

gunna run a qualifying now ;)
 
Sasso said:
just did an entirely clean TT......but it gave me a loss of control at the end :\ I did run out of fuel on the second corner but I limped it round into the pits then ran out entirely... I slowed down and literally as I was about to come to a complete stop it gave me loss of control :( booo!!!

(edit: seems i'm now a CatD with no races haha xD )

gunna run a qualifying now ;)
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Nice mate, let us know how the race goes :D
 
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