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Post by tomlory on Nov 22, 2021 21:30:05 GMT
Advanced Mazda MX-5: Hockenheimring (25 minutes)
BMW 12.0 Challenge: Summit Point Raceway (12 minutes)
Global Mazda MX-5 Fanatec Cup: Oran Park Raceway - South (15 laps)
IMSA Hagerty iRacing Series: Red Bull Ring (45 minutes)
IMSA Pilot Challenge: Hungaroring (30 minutes)
Global Fanatec Challenge: Oran Park Raceway - Grand Prix (25 minutes)
GT3 Fanatec Challenge Fixed: Canadian Tire Motorsports Park (20 minutes)
GT Sprint VRS Series: Red Bull Ring (40 minutes)
Porsche Cup: Hockenheimring (16 laps)
SCCA Spec Racer Ford: [Legacy] Daytona International Speedway - 2008 - Moto (13 laps)
Sim Lab Production Car Challenge: [Legacy] Silverstone Circuit - 2008 - Grand Prix (25 minutes)
Supercars Series: Donington Park Racing Circuit - National (39 laps)
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Post by tomlory on Nov 22, 2021 22:39:42 GMT
I have Advanced Mazda, BMW 12.0, ISMA Pilot Challenge, Global Fanatec, Porsche Cup and SCCA Spec Racer.
I have to do BMW 12.0.
Spec Racer Ford and Advanced Mazda seems like they'd be the most fun, Cadillac CTS-V could surprise.
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Post by tomlory on Nov 23, 2021 10:21:41 GMT
I did a quick preview of the above except for IMSA.
Everybody has Spec Racer Ford and the Cadillac CTS-V. Both are fun and challenging in their own ways. I think that as a group we'd have more fun with the Spec Racer, Oran Park is pretty tough with the Caddy.
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Post by K Juliot on Nov 23, 2021 15:16:38 GMT
I agree on the Spec Racer Ford, the one race I've been in it was pretty good.
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Post by tomlory on Nov 28, 2021 11:53:25 GMT
Well, I with Hutton and Coffey tried the Spec Racer Ford wheel to wheel and it didn't go so well, I doubt that we completed more than two consecutive laps.
I binged iRacing Saturday night well into Sunday so you may not see me Sunday night.
I'm definitely quitting while I'm ahead as far as road races but I could see doing something on one of the other licenses. Bewilderingly, both paved and dirt oval might be cleaner racing than what we're cursed with on the road course side.
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Post by tomlory on Nov 29, 2021 8:06:23 GMT
I did the best I could this week to treat iRacing more like investing and less like gambling; sad either way but it is what is and paid off with raising my numbers to 4.99 and 1694.
I avoided Hockenheimring due to others misfortunes with both Porsche Cup and Advanced Mazda. It seems that too many who are unable to adjust for draft and for following another car into a braking zone and a hairpin at the end of a long straight was too much for the feeble minds and/or fragile egos involved.
I avoided Cadilllacs @ Oran Park because the T1 / T2 complex is a much more difficult braking zone than Hockenheimring as is most of the track with a 460 horsepower GT car.
I avoided the GT4 cars @ Hungaroring because I struggle with the track limits there even when lapping alone and I didn’t trust myself to keep the incident count down, never mind my basic mistrust of the other drivers. Had a good time lapping with Coffey and Hutton, though, reminder that I like the BMW quite a lot better with an open setup.
Spec Ford Racer is not a series that I do regularly but it seemed like it would be fun @ Daytona but T1 is high risk there, too, at least when other cars are involved.
I was careful to get in a full split for BMW 12.0. Finishing in the top half of the field is easier with 20 cars than it is with 10.
I did a number of Time Trials.
I did one Street Stock (paved oval) race which reminded me that unlike iRacing roadracing, the cars ahead seem to be a greater risk than the cars behind. I violated the track entrance during qualifying so I didn’t post a time, started P14 and finished P6. A car spun in front of me early in the race, otherwise I might have had a podium or better.
Week 11 Race 1: BMW 12.0 @ Summit Point Grand Prix (BMW M4 GT4 fixed setup)
I don’t remember much. Put a wheel off in qualifying on my second lap so further back than I was capable of. Later than the first few laps, I let one car pass uncontested because I didn’t trust him. I can’t remember whether I subsequently passed him when he decorated the countryside with his BMW M4. This car and track combo wasn’t much fun.
Q7 / R5 / 0X / +0.07 / +40 (B / 4.82 / 1628) CLEAN RACE
Week 11 Race 2: Radical Racing Challenge @ Okayama (Radical SR8 fixed setup)
Qualified okay despite a wheel off on my second lap, took advantage of the standing start, survived T1 and the first couple of laps on cold tires that caught out quite a few cars with the high power, lightweight Radical. I let one car pass uncontested, standard trust issue but I got him back later as my pace improved and he pressured himself into a power-on spin. I got balked early in the race avoiding a bobble by a car ahead, might have been able to contest P2 without so many laps alone without a draft. PB’ed during the race without a draft. Faster than I would like for wheel to wheel racing but it’s a fun car and not too hard to drive at least at my pace. Time Trials had raised my SR to 4.90 ahead of this race and the max is 4.99 so I probably earned more than 0.09 SR. The Radical race was fun in the sense that I wasn't thinking about anything else and the car is pretty enjoyable by sounds, feel and driveability. Wheel to wheel racing didn't happen and would have been tough except for maybe draft and pass on the back straight but there was some satisfaction from gaining positions through avoiding mistakes.
Q7 / R5/ 0X / +0.09 / +66 (B / 4.99 / 1694) CLEAN RACE
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