iRacing Mazda Cup @ Lime Rock Park

[little P]

It's amazing the rush you get from this game, it's like nothing I've experienced before. I'm actually hyped up with pre-race jitters, nerves so amped up that the only thing that ever came close was scrims with Reddit and Shot Docs in competitive BF.

I finally broke into the 1:00's tonight as well with a whopping 1:00:915 and I know there's still a few more tenths left on the track if I hit all the Apex's right (which I can't do) in a single lap.

I got a 1:00.565 in a race, I was in a trance like state as Shilka has said and it just happened naturally, I do remember thinking at the time that it must of been a good one as it felt fast. I'm wondering if the track can be done under the minute mark, it must be possible? I'm not sure how to check lap records?

EDIT: I've found it, look under Stats > World records (duh).

I'll warn you now though not to look, those times are scary Something to aim for though

 

[Shilka]

Yeah, plenty of videos on youtube of people driving 59 and even 58's on the track.
That's not a goal I'm setting though, actually for the time being my only goal should be consistency, when I look at the after practice stats I see plenty of people that have a 1:00.2 fastest lap and are faster then me, but if you check all their laps you'll see they had invalid laps and resets well over half the time, so driving the way they do won't help them in a race, faster laptime or not.

As they say, you can't finish a race first without first finishing the race.

 

[little P]

As they say, you can't finish a race first without first finishing the race.

Love this quote, I do tend to average mid to high :01's if I'm pushing and if I have the gap to play with towards the end when the tyres are falling off I'll slow right down to mid to high :02's. Although sometimes that catches me out, slowing down sometimes causes me more problems than going faster and I end up with some serious oversteer and then panic

 

[Shilka]

Just had the craziest practice session, was having players on ranging from red bar to blue bar, and the result was like having to steer through accidents every lap. I must say I'm pretty good at not being caught up in them, and even still push out 1:03's having to dodge cars several times in a round. I just love how people go off track as soon as you are on their bumper...

Note: I'm the one with the wheels still on the ground
Just missed the guy by an inch...

 

[little P]

Did you notice I was in there with you? I was following you around to check out your lines etc. I've saved the replay because you got caught up in some terrible situations due to other drivers lol

This is a great screenshot btw :lol:

 

[Shilka]

Well, my lines must have been horrible as this was one of my worse sessions, and I actually was going for overtaking and being overtaken to practice XD
Never noticed you either lol, trying to ignore people behind me untill they are actually overtaking me in order to not be distracted.
There was quite some mayhem going on wasn't there? There certainly were quite some potential disasters to evade... Good fun again though

 

[little P]

Yeah, but like you say good practice for running close to people without risking your safety rating

 

[little P]

Quick few screenies from our session



Shilka doesn't even realise I'm behind him :/



You can be my wingman any time



No, you can be mine



Poor Shilka has nowhere to go here lol



Wheeeeeels up!

 

[Shilka]

Nice screens buddy!
And nice paintjob @ myself!

That was one hectic practice lol, plus it being hectic here at home too, and yeah, I never noticed you, or at least, it being you, lol.

What's the screenshot button from the replay btw, cause I just took a screen capure...

 

[Shilka]

Well, last time trial went better again, average 1:02.5 with only 4 incident points, much better. Also set a new personal best in practice at 1:01.0

Practice is starting to pay off a bit. BTW that was huge fun yesterday Duke! Great racing evening!

 

[little P]

What's the screenshot button from the replay btw, cause I just took a screen capure...

It's Ctrl + Shift + PrntScrn although for me it stretches the image and doesn't look right, let me know how you get on with it. I just hit prntscrn to get these.

If you press Ctrl + F12 it gives you the ability to move around whilst paused to get some interesting angles, and if you hit Ctrl + Z it gives you mouse control and you can get some great shots

 

[little P]

Well, last time trial went better again, average 1:02.5 with only 4 incident points, much better. Also set a new personal best in practice at 1:01.0

Practice is starting to pay off a bit. BTW that was huge fun yesterday Duke! Great racing evening!

Well done mate, are you all on tonight? I'll be on from 8pm my time until late

 

[Shilka]

I'll be on this evening yeah, Duke prob too.
Should be fun!

 

[Shilka]

K, I'm on now, be early!
I'll be in our TS

 

[little P]

There with bells on d00d

 

[Engnr]

perhaps give me some pointers?

Yea, don't wreck.

 

[little P]

Man I'm gutted, we were having a laugh there and we had the first powercut we've had in years! The flooding and weather is really kicking the shit out of poor 'ol blighty. I was not happy :icon_frown:

It's just come back on and I hopped straight back on but you had all gone.. We should do that again soon, hope you feel better soon d00k you sounded really unwell, it's no wonder you weren't 100%, you did good just showing up!

 

[Kenadian]

Man I'm gutted, we were having a laugh there and we had the first powercut we've had in years! The flooding and weather is really kicking the shit out of poor 'ol blighty. I was not happy :icon_frown:

It's just come back on and I hopped straight back on but you had all gone.. We should do that again soon, hope you feel better soon d00k you sounded really unwell, it's no wonder you weren't 100%, you did good just showing up!

Maybe this will cheer you up:

http://fragtard.net/forum/showthread.php/1794-iRacing-Practice-with-n00bs-If-it-s-purple-it-s-probably-broken?p=13543#post13543

 

[Shilka]

Just did 2 timetrials...

The first one absolutely sucked, I spun out a few times, hit a wall twice, and barely managed to string 8 laps together; SR+0

So I did a second one...

Not sure why, but this went much better; Best lap of 1:01.4, average of 1:01.9 and 0 incident points, SR +0.12. Kinda was amazed at it, although half anhour of TT sure feels like it takes 3 times as long... still sweating, lol.

 

[little P]

Nice Shilka, you really should get in a race, you are more than ready...

I just had a great race, my best one yet (in terms of heart racing). Started 5th, worked my way up cleanly to 2nd and the leader and I stayed within a second of each other for the whole race, both pushing hard and neither of us making any major mistakes... Man that was good. Then after the race I saw he was an A-Class racer, the highest I've raced against so far, it was great and after the chequered flag he complimented me on a good clean race, 0 incident points again. Good times