Racing Simulators

log1K · 31 Mar 2011 at 09:45

Not usually mate, but it can depending on how you've driven the car throughout the race. Probably slipped a gear without realising it.

SKILL · 31 Mar 2011 at 11:18

It's an odd one, it's not exactly 'random', but there does appear to be a 'good or bad' engine factor, eg a 'good' engine you can overrev massively and it just keeps on going, and a bad engine can pop the first time you overrev.

I could be mistaken but that's how it appears, I've done skippy races before where I've been overreving massively into a corner on every lap of the race and it's fine, and then others were I mistime the downshift (too early) and pop the engine instantly.

The last one is really quite rare though, as in once or twice in god knows how many races...

disco Stu · 31 Mar 2011 at 11:23

What kind of revs kill the engine - never had it happen yet.

log1K · 31 Mar 2011 at 11:29

When you're bouncing it off the limiter in the first 3 gears constantly.

Knock it down 3 gears and if you can catch the gearbox lock that's likely to pop a block. However as mentioned by others, it's quite rare.

disco Stu · 31 Mar 2011 at 11:39

ooooohhhhh, I like a challenge

ScarySquirrel · 31 Mar 2011 at 11:52

I wish I had saved the replay now.

SKILL · 31 Mar 2011 at 13:15

Bouncing off the limiter (in terms of just revving) takes a hell of a long time to kill the engine, the way to kill it quickly is to gain some speed, clutch in, down 3-4 gears, clutch out and it'll probably pop as you aim for about 30,000 rpm

Bigsy · 31 Mar 2011 at 19:27

How often does the MPR thing get refreshed?

I did my first live session since I renewed about 30mins ago, just a TT to ease me in, I did the required laps but the MPR thing still hasn't counted down on the required TT for promotion.

Lyon85 · 31 Mar 2011 at 20:03

Bigsy said:
How often does the MPR thing get refreshed?

I did my first live session since I renewed about 30mins ago, just a TT to ease me in, I did the required laps but the MPR thing still hasn't counted down on the required TT for promotion.

Did you leave the session before it closed? If so it should be pretty much straight away after it finishes.

Bigsy · 31 Mar 2011 at 20:07

I did, but I put in over 8 whole laps.. do you have to sit in game the entire TT time?

My ttrating and safety rating were updated, session here: http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=3307187&custid=21559

Bigsy · 31 Mar 2011 at 20:11

Oh carp, just looked at the laps and noticed I had a x1 incident on lap 6 of 11. I assume you need 8 incident free laps in a row? Damn didn't even realise I had done that must have been the tiniest of off, I was taking it quite easy.

disco Stu · 31 Mar 2011 at 20:30

limerock hates me

Lyon85 · 31 Mar 2011 at 20:40

Bigsy said:
Oh carp, just looked at the laps and noticed I had a x1 incident on lap 6 of 11. I assume you need 8 incident free laps in a row? Damn didn't even realise I had done that must have been the tiniest of off, I was taking it quite easy.

You don't have to sit in the session as long as you don't forfeit (you can close the sim), but if you left and came here to post straight away then the session would have still been active, therefore not updated.

Yeah you need 8 inc free laps to set a TT time, I'm not sure if you need to do that for it to count your MPR or not, but if it hasn't updated then we can assume you do.

Bigsy · 31 Mar 2011 at 21:01

Hmm, sorry for being a noob, this stuff is the same as when I last play the game but I have just done another session and my MPR hasn't change yet my ttRating has.

This is the session: http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=3307511&custid=21559

Nothing wrong with it from what I can see? Confused...

EDIT: Ok now its changed.... so a bit of lag after the session has ended it seems... Ignore me, move along

SKILL · 31 Mar 2011 at 21:07

It can take some time to update, It used to be about an hour or so but that was to see the stats page, not sure on MPR thingy,

That should definitely count though, right class car and a 'complete' session

Note that with TT's and Qualifying sessions you can safely 'Withdraw' (it doesn't change to Forfeit except during races) without losing anything

disco Stu · 31 Mar 2011 at 21:59

Are all the races now going to be +1 hour all summer until the clocks go back?

muttclugg · 31 Mar 2011 at 23:35

Just had my first race at LRP. Started from 9th and finished in 5th. I was 2laps off from the top

. Lots of work to do and my SR? is now 2.24 from 2.44. I thought it was meant to go the other way?

ScarySquirrel · 1 Apr 2011 at 00:46

Do spins and stuff in the 5 minute warm up before a race go against your SR?

SKILL · 1 Apr 2011 at 06:03

disco Stu said:
Are all the races now going to be +1 hour all summer until the clocks go back?

Yep, basically the race times are static in GMT terms, obviously our clocks aren't so static

muttclugg said:
Just had my first race at LRP. Started from 9th and finished in 5th. I was 2laps off from the top . Lots of work to do and my SR? is now 2.24 from 2.44. I thought it was meant to go the other way?

SR is purely how clean you are, guessing you had a spin or two in that? spin/go off track less and you gain SR and places, simples

ScarySquirrel said:
Do spins and stuff in the 5 minute warm up before a race go against your SR?

Aye, but they only count for 0.35x or 0.5x (can never remember, essentially it's similar to TT/Qual sessions), they also don't appear in the incidents list so it can be a bit confusing at time.

They also count after you've crossed the line, if they're before the last person finishes they should be full-fat incidents, otherwise they're like TT/Qual/Warmup incidents.

ScarySquirrel · 1 Apr 2011 at 08:44

Cool, thanks for clarifying.