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Week 4
Apr 5, 2022 1:46:06 GMT
Post by tomlory on Apr 5, 2022 1:46:06 GMT
Abstaining from GT3 but considering Porsche Cup, the possibilities for me this week are:
Advanced Mazda MX-5 @ Spa Michelin Pilot Challenge @ Summit Point Porsche Cup @ Summit Point
Until I received a contradictory PM this morning, I believed that Ray eSports Mazda MX-5 was at Road America on Tuesday evening. I pre-ran the session yesterday so unless I got the date wrong, WTF?
edit 2022-04-05 06:32 UTC:
Ray eSports Mazda MX-5 is Tue Apr 12 not tomorrow, confirmed.
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Week 4
Apr 5, 2022 6:34:44 GMT
Post by tomlory on Apr 5, 2022 6:34:44 GMT
Base content RR most interesting are Global Fanatec @ Lime Rock and Formula Vee @ Oran Park.
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Week 4
Apr 8, 2022 1:17:39 GMT
Post by tomlory on Apr 8, 2022 1:17:39 GMT
2022 Season 2, Race 20, Fanatec Global Challenge (Cadillac CTS-VR) @ Lime Rock chicane
The week is almost over so I did a fair number of laps and entered a Fanatec Global Challenge race as it felt like the safest roadrace car and track combo that is available to me this week and got seeded #11 in the top split with 11 Cadillacs on the grid. The car is easy to drive, the chicane is so slow that it should deter any thoughts at passing especially when the draft and pass is 15 seconds up track and it's a 28 lap race so plenty of opportunities for clean passes.
My #1 goal was 0X, secondary was to finish P5 or better (top half of the field).
I qualified 5th, got away with the leaders and was following P4 closely but carefully only for the 7th qualifier to attempt a pass at the chicane, door bash me onto the curbing to spin to the back of the field. Got going again but the same driver wandered back onto the track with his car apparently barely driveable and I spent too much of my attention on avoiding him and lost it into the k-wall outside the last corner with my similarly ill handling car (obviously my fault but contributed to).
My patience has been exhausted, the rudimentary SR and iR systems do nothing but add injury to injury and don't have it in me to work back to an A4.99 so I'm over it. I'd been holding onto SR as being something that I had some control over versus luck required with the iR.
Moving forward, I am considering chronicling my journey that has had as a sensible starting point a perfect A4.99 before every weekend this season and illustrate the decline when zero Safety Rating maintenance is involved.
That or not even waste my time when it won't make a difference and confine all of my racing to a league to avoid all of the aggravation and the big iRacing events to theoretically avoid much of it.
I will continue to strive for perfect races but spending hours after each ruined race recovering SR is a chore.
Q5 / R10 / 9X / -0.36 / -56 = (A4.45 x 1501)
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Post by mikec1 on Apr 8, 2022 2:54:06 GMT
Glad you're looking at it from a more casual view Tom. Frustration comes easily enough from real life. No need to simulate frustration also.
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Week 4
Apr 8, 2022 14:47:12 GMT
Post by K Juliot on Apr 8, 2022 14:47:12 GMT
What Mike said. A system not weighted to penalize the aggressor or person at fault more all to obtain some made up number that really means nothing. This can lead to a frustrating experience.
I'm at a different place with iRacing, I'm not heavily invested in it and I don't really care that much about the numbers. I've had some great races and a lot of sucky races., I just expect it to go bad and when it turns out fun makes me come back for more.
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Week 4
Apr 9, 2022 7:21:46 GMT
Post by tomlory on Apr 9, 2022 7:21:46 GMT
I can't help but laugh. I make it 20+ minutes into an Advanced Mazda race with some close and clean racing and it ends with a blown engine not crumpled sheetmetal.
Cost me a probable decent finish and 0X (I got off the track as soon I knew that the engine let go and picked up 1X) and a chunk of iR but it feels like progress.
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Week 4
Apr 11, 2022 16:39:24 GMT
Post by K Juliot on Apr 11, 2022 16:39:24 GMT
My usual end of the week races on Saturday and Sunday night were fun. This week 4 the base NASCAR truck and Indy car were both at Daytona and timed so that you finished on or the other race and had 7 minutes to enter the opposite race, so Indy, truck, Indy, truck and so on every half hour.
On Saturday night justPat, Mike and I were on, there was the usual carnage in the races, like Tom said last night when you enter it's like pulling the handle on a slot machine and not sure what the outcome is going to be. The last Indy car race Mike and I entered he Qualyed 12th and I was 8th. I got a good break in the opening laps got in the top 5 but of course action took place that I avoided gifting me 2nd on the leaders tail. Mike avoided a huge crash at the beginning that was behind him and towards the end of the race as I was battling with 1st all of sudden another car was on my tail, it was Mike. Him and I diced for the rest of the race swapping spots and lots of side by side. Last lap last corner Mike on my outside I dipped a wheel below the yellow line and lost the car sliding through the grass to still finish 3rd and Mike super close to the leader for 2nd.
Epic racing Mike.
Sunday night same thing, Tom joined a little later. More carnage races of course but the last two for the night a Indy and then a truck race I finished in 1st place getting some luck as others had misfortune and I was able to make some passes to stick.
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Week 4
Apr 12, 2022 1:14:05 GMT
Post by mikec1 on Apr 12, 2022 1:14:05 GMT
Ditto KJ. Awesome race that one on Saturday night. My heart almost exploded out of my chest from the adrenalin of that race. Sadly, Sunday night was pretty much back to the same old of getting wrecked by someone else. It was worth it though.
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