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[Special Event] 2018 iRacing Le Mans 24h
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Brainling
Hardcore
Sorry to the LMP1 team, my phone rebooted for an update this morning and canceled the timer I had set to wake me up for the end of the race! I'm watching it on my stream video now though, looks like we held position and finished fifth.
I would apologize for the VR hiccup that caused us to be in 5th in the first place but there wasn't much I could do. It went in to "low tracking mode" about halfway through the second stint of my quad. Everyone else was asleep so I had to keep driving. Unfortunately in
"low tracking mode" it loses the focal point as well so things render in the foreground without any sort of focal depth, so I was driving with the steering wheel and hands completely in my face with no depth blur. I was losing about two seconds a lap because my depth perception was so messed up I couldn't hit my marks correctly. The best way I can describe is imagine if the world had no real depth but instead looked like it was made of construction paper pieces just placed in front of each other with your eye not adjusting naturally to the depth. I drove quite a few laps that way.
Then with about 5 laps to go in the stint it just blacked out on me as I was going through the Porsche curves, with the car fully loaded for the Michelin wall. I slammed on the brakes and heard it hit the wall but it must have hit it just flush. I was able to get us towed and off the track before someone else went flying through there and hit us. By the time I reset my VR and reconnected the car was repaired and aside from a slight steering wheel tilt to the left it drove fine without any real loss of top speed.
Overall another amazing LeMans. Everyone drove really well. That car requires a ton of concentration and smart driving and I thought all of us did really well.
e: Oh I will apologize for one thing. When I got back in after The Great VR Panic, I screwed up and sped in the pits and got us a stop and hold 15s on top of everything else. It didn't hurt our position, we were already 5th, but it did hurt our ability to fight back to fourth. At least I remembered to uncheck my fuel and tires before I served it so it was just a stop and hold not a full pit stop.
I would apologize for the VR hiccup that caused us to be in 5th in the first place but there wasn't much I could do. It went in to "low tracking mode" about halfway through the second stint of my quad. Everyone else was asleep so I had to keep driving. Unfortunately in
"low tracking mode" it loses the focal point as well so things render in the foreground without any sort of focal depth, so I was driving with the steering wheel and hands completely in my face with no depth blur. I was losing about two seconds a lap because my depth perception was so messed up I couldn't hit my marks correctly. The best way I can describe is imagine if the world had no real depth but instead looked like it was made of construction paper pieces just placed in front of each other with your eye not adjusting naturally to the depth. I drove quite a few laps that way.
Then with about 5 laps to go in the stint it just blacked out on me as I was going through the Porsche curves, with the car fully loaded for the Michelin wall. I slammed on the brakes and heard it hit the wall but it must have hit it just flush. I was able to get us towed and off the track before someone else went flying through there and hit us. By the time I reset my VR and reconnected the car was repaired and aside from a slight steering wheel tilt to the left it drove fine without any real loss of top speed.
Overall another amazing LeMans. Everyone drove really well. That car requires a ton of concentration and smart driving and I thought all of us did really well.
e: Oh I will apologize for one thing. When I got back in after The Great VR Panic, I screwed up and sped in the pits and got us a stop and hold 15s on top of everything else. It didn't hurt our position, we were already 5th, but it did hurt our ability to fight back to fourth. At least I remembered to uncheck my fuel and tires before I served it so it was just a stop and hold not a full pit stop.
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Maverick
Casual
Hey Matt,
here is a suggestion for the next time you have some problem with VR: just pit, fix your VR and continue. It was a bit unfortunate nobody was around when were driving alone.
That's probably a lesson for the next time.
Most cars can't be fixed as good as the LMP1s can so it often is game over when you have such a crash.
I don't use VR and personally I don't believe VR is any good for simracing. Basically everybody who is using VR is running into trouble from time to time and often in a race, where things need to work perfectly.
A Daytona 24h race I did with some other team got screwed because the person using VR ran into trouble with it.
And just in general, with all the problems iRacing has and somebody tells me he is using VR, it just scares me to death.
I heard the immersion must be great but from all the Pros who were using VR, as far as I know they all back to either single or tripple screen. Even if I would get it for free, I would not trade VR against a single screen setup.
Maybe in 3-4 years VR is good to use but right now alone the resolution itself completely turns me off.
I think you learned a lot from this race and it will be better next time, besides I guess don't worry so much about it. We finished 5th in a highly competitive split (2nd split overall). That is a great achievement in itself.
here is a suggestion for the next time you have some problem with VR: just pit, fix your VR and continue. It was a bit unfortunate nobody was around when were driving alone.
That's probably a lesson for the next time.
Most cars can't be fixed as good as the LMP1s can so it often is game over when you have such a crash.
I don't use VR and personally I don't believe VR is any good for simracing. Basically everybody who is using VR is running into trouble from time to time and often in a race, where things need to work perfectly.
A Daytona 24h race I did with some other team got screwed because the person using VR ran into trouble with it.
And just in general, with all the problems iRacing has and somebody tells me he is using VR, it just scares me to death.
I heard the immersion must be great but from all the Pros who were using VR, as far as I know they all back to either single or tripple screen. Even if I would get it for free, I would not trade VR against a single screen setup.
Maybe in 3-4 years VR is good to use but right now alone the resolution itself completely turns me off.
I think you learned a lot from this race and it will be better next time, besides I guess don't worry so much about it. We finished 5th in a highly competitive split (2nd split overall). That is a great achievement in itself.
Brainling
Hardcore
I've driven endurance events for over a year with VR and this is the first time it's ever failed me. It's really no different than someones wheel going out, their internet going down or the power going out. It's our version of the car breaking down or getting a puncture. My plan was to reset and fix it my next pit stop, I didn't expect it to black screen and reset, it's never done that to me before.
For me it's basically drive in VR or don't drive at all. It's an indispensable tool for my enjoyment of sim racing.
For me it's basically drive in VR or don't drive at all. It's an indispensable tool for my enjoyment of sim racing.
SavreticD
Core
You dont need to apologize for anything.You were alone,it happened and that is it. Same as a disconnect or any other hardware issues
We took a risk to drive alone,I was driving alone also and something could happen to me too so don't worry.Im happy we finished the race in this rocket, + on P5 even better
We took a risk to drive alone,I was driving alone also and something could happen to me too so don't worry.Im happy we finished the race in this rocket, + on P5 even better
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Tony
Casual
Coincidentally enough that seemed to have happened to a few people yesterday. Talk of the town is that the latest firmware update might be a problem. I was fortunate and I didn't encounter any VR related issues.
Jes_971
Hardcore
Great job by everyone! Adversity is a big part of endurance racing. Sometimes it can be hard seeing the way forward but its the strength in comradery of those we surround ourselves with that light the way. As always I look forward to future endeavors on the endurance front with you all.
SavreticD
Core
@Brainling did you save replay maybe in all that mess?
Slider
Hardcore
EDIT: Ah, I was connected. Here is it.
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Noodleguitar
Admin
@Brainling I think Denis had a similar issue in the first Le Mans 24h we did. I believe his graphics card died while driving and we also had a few repairs. Nothing much we can do about these things and it wouldn't be fair if we could avoid them because other teams always have these hardware issues as well.
I'm happy the car stayed perfectly drivable through the race. The 3 degrees offset in the steering wheel was hardly noticeable.
I was a little more nervous for the start than other races because of this car. I had never driven against other LMPs, and during the pace lap Christian had to explain to me how to avoid using all of the boost before the finish. Luckily we were in a sensible split so everything went fine. This car is really fun to drive in a multi-class/endurance setting and I'm still amazed at the speed it can do through the Porsche Curves.
Good job to all the teams, including those that faced issues but despite them soldiered on to the end.
I'm happy the car stayed perfectly drivable through the race. The 3 degrees offset in the steering wheel was hardly noticeable.
I was a little more nervous for the start than other races because of this car. I had never driven against other LMPs, and during the pace lap Christian had to explain to me how to avoid using all of the boost before the finish. Luckily we were in a sensible split so everything went fine. This car is really fun to drive in a multi-class/endurance setting and I'm still amazed at the speed it can do through the Porsche Curves.
Good job to all the teams, including those that faced issues but despite them soldiered on to the end.
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Noodleguitar
Admin
The only reason I didn't vote to get rid of you then was because at that point you weren't faster than me yetIt was 1st race for B2O ya, to high overclock and the screen froze but sound kept going ,not fun
Oh and I also fall a sleep for my last stint,good they didn't kick me after
SavreticD
Core
Ahaha good oneThe only reason I didn't vote to get rid of you then was because at that point you weren't faster than me yet
SavreticD
Core
So, anyone has replay from my 4 middle stints? @Brainling
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