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Week 4
Oct 4, 2021 16:50:14 GMT
Post by tomlory on Oct 4, 2021 16:50:14 GMT
Advanced Mazda MX-5: Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari (25 minutes) BMW 12.0 Challenge: Hungaroring (12 minutes) IMSA Hagerty iRacing Series: Virginia International Raceway (45 minutes) IMSA Pilot Challenge: Virginia International Raceway (30 minutes) Global Fanatec Challenge: Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps (35 minutes) GT3 Fanatec Challenge Fixed - Road America (20 minutes) GT Sprint VRS Series - Road America (40 minutes) Porsche Cup: Chicago Street Circuit (20 laps) SCCA Spec Racer Ford - Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya (19 laps) Sim Lab Production Car Challenge: Mount Panorama Circuit (25 minutes) Supercars Series - Hungaroring (26 laps)
NASCAR Pickup Cup is at Daytona
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Week 4
Oct 4, 2021 16:55:34 GMT
Post by tomlory on Oct 4, 2021 16:55:34 GMT
Looks like BMW 12.0 (M4 GT4), Global Fanatec (Cadillac CTS-V) amd Sim Lab (Mustang FR500S) for me this week.
If I can get in on the free Test Drive early Tuesday morning, I might buy a GT3 or GTE car and get some races in to advance to an A license.
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Week 4
Oct 9, 2021 19:36:55 GMT
Post by tomlory on Oct 9, 2021 19:36:55 GMT
I hope that I've learned this time.
Cadillac CTS-V (Fanatec Global Challenge) @ Spa, 35 minute race.
Again jumped into a race without enough preparation, looped out from touching the grass with the left rear tire under braking, stopped on track before nosing it into the barrier @ T1 only to get T-boned by the car that was 2 seconds back before the mistake. Slow spin that started at the braking point at one of the slowest corners anywhere; pretty easy to anticipate for the chasing car. Other guy quit immediately, I did two laps (missed the pit entrance) with a flat tire, 7 incident points and what I thought was second to last place.
Got lucky with a small iRating loss as there were more cars behind me than I had thought and small loss on SR.
Not doing that again.
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Week 4
Oct 12, 2021 1:36:34 GMT
Post by tomlory on Oct 12, 2021 1:36:34 GMT
This week brought me a fix for my Logitech G27 (https://efnetsimracing.freeforums.net/thread/285/iracing-logitech-g27-wheel-settings)and decent performances.
I minimally met my plans with one race each with the Cadillac CTS-V (as above), BMW M4 GT4 and Ford Mustang FR500S plus a gamble with a Global Spec MX-5 Miata race.
I was all alone on pace with the BMW so it was lonely 3rd place with one wheel off ruining a perfectly clean score card at Hungaroring.
I jumped into a Rookie Miata race finding that I liked the full Summit Point layout and had decent pace. Qualified 6th and missed a lap 1 incident that moved me to P3 or P4 but then I either braked too late for the situation with two cars close ahead, because draft or brake fade but I was going to plow into the car ahead well before my scheduled turn-in so I swerved to the inside and dove for the apex, unfortunately going door to door with the car ahead and pushing him off the track. Then I guilted myself into distraction and mistakes to finish 8th with I think 7 incident points. Thankfully, I escaped with minor SR and iR losses.
The premier race for me was Sim Labs @ Bathhurst. Much improved G27 helped me place the car so I was somewhat confident steering and braking but numb understeer and slow developing yaw feedback are still holding me back.
The qualifying session annoyingly ended when I was two corners from the finish and up 1.5 seconds on my first flier. I can't remember if the track took that long to load or if I needed a comfort break. Checking the results, my probable time might have put me on the front row but I started P3. I am growing to hate the rolling starts. I've learned to mimic the polesitter but that doesn't keep cars further back from effectively cheating and jumping the start by hanging back and getting a run of momentum before the green that is faster than whomever is on pole. Well, that's pretty much what happened with the car in P4 so I just let him go sensing a "win it in the first corner" mindset. Sure enough, he got into the P2 car @ T2. Deservedly, only he spun (I think) so that put me in 3rd but far out of drafting range of P2. P1 and P2 were within a second of each other all race that I noticed, probably having a good race but their lap times certainly helped by drafting on the two long straights. It didn't take long for me to build a comfortable gap to P4 and I was chipping away at the gap to P2 until I touched the grass under braking for tight left portion of The Chase and slid across pavement and grass to the outside of the track pick up a 2 second penalty once I was back on the racing surface and pointed in the right direction. Finished 3rd of 7 with 5 incident points (-0.01 and +9). Disappointed that I might have possibly been able to go with the leaders if not for slowed by the Lap 1 incident.
22:30 or 23:30 Sunday might be the best time for me, late enough to clear more mainstrean Sunday stuff but early enough for a work night. I did the 22:30 race this week.
Ended the week @ B / 3.90 / 1623
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