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Ah yes, I have heard about AC, one of my friends have it, but I don't really know anything about it. It's good that you guys are still racing out there, keeping DMR alive, I have very fond memories racing with you all.

To be honest, sim racing just doesn't float my boat at the moment, but I'm not saying I will never be back, who knows. I play Team Fortress 2 nowadays (for quite a few years now) pretty much exclusively, spicing it up with some other games just here and there.

I wish you all the best, keep rocking, and driving.

Yeah, I don't know how soon and how often, but I'll be back.

What's up with you guys? Do you still play LFS? I guess not much, not seeing too much activity in the forum. Do you play other racing sims?

Hey Seany!

Thanks for the kind words, I always feel welcomed here.

I think my sim experience definitely helped, but of course as this was my first real life driving close to the limit  (or rather, trying to drive closer and closer to the limit, because I don't think I managed to get very close in that some 26 laps I did ; I always had to do way more laps than that in the sim to really get in the groove on a particular track/car combo), I started out very cautiously. I didn't even get any noise from the tires for the first number of laps. Then I noticed that I can give it some more lock, and it can turn more. It's weird how you have a preconception of how much you can turn the wheel. Or it maybe just plain inexperience. And I'm pretty sure there are many more seconds left in the lap even after the end of the day.

What was really surprising for me, is that how much traction I had at the racetrack. This camaro is of course rwd, on 245 wide tires (yes, normal road tires), with 275HP. On public roads it means that even a good amount of gas (but not full) in 2nd or even 3rd gear will have the rear move at least a bit, even when driving in a straight line, not cornering. When you are cornering, it's even more pronounced of course. Granted, the surface of our public roads are not really high quality I'm afraid.
But on the racetrack, I couldn't get the rear move, not even when flooring the gas pedal in 2nd gear during a hard corner. I was baffled. I hardly experienced any oversteer on the track, just a tiny bit here and there. Okay, sure, maybe I was not close enough to the limit of the traction on the race track. But this difference was very surprising, which I think comes from the difference of the surface, the quality of the asphalt.
As for understeer, I definitely felt that the car turned more under braking, when I lifted my foot off the brake, it became a bit more understeery. That's when the gas pedal would have come in handy, but as I said, I didn't really managed to get the car into oversteer.

When I DID experience the rear move, was under hard braking for T1. It's a bit tricky, for me anyway, because you don't brake in a straight line, or at least it curves a bit first, then you can brake, or something like that. And the track surface is tricky there too, because there's a change in the angle of the surface there. Anyway, when that happened first, I got really scared for moment. You get to the braking point for T1 at about 140km/h, it doesn't sound much, but it is, when the car's rear end starts to move. But then I got used to it, and maybe it did it even less later, because I learned how to brake there. All in all, the car was well behaving, it did nothing I couldn't correct, no spins, no leaving the track, nothing. Of course, again, I probably didn't even get close to the car's limit in those first 26 laps of my life on a real race track.

Another surprise, this time good surprise, was that I didn't feel any loss of braking force during the 3-4 lap stints I did. They always say how a road car's brake system is not up to the task of driving on a race track, that they heat up after a few corners, and become useless. I didn't feel any of it, even though the brake system is all stock (as everything else on the car), as far as I know.

It's been a while since I was last around here (or LFS at all), but I though you guys wouldn't mind if I shared my excitement with you. I've been to my first track day in my life last Sunday, with my recently bought '93 Camaro Z28 (5.7L V8 baby :flirty:). It was a really fun and great experience. It was on a little track here in Hungary, not really fast, plenty of turns.

Here are some pictures and two videos if anyone wants to check it out:

External camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khiHzXNIs4Q
Onboard camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_CzSNackcY
A few pictures: https://picasaweb.google.com/118123252484037445252/6282417241511526273

Hello guys!

Just wanted to say hello, after yesterday's night good racing. I'm very rarely online nowadays, but it's good to know that dMr is still out there every night, doing very good racing. I'm and always will be proud to be a member of this team! I'm on vacation this week, so maybe I'll be able to catch some racing. I hope all you guys are doing OK. Keep on racing!

Aron

Qualification was great, I was really happy that I could grab the pole in the last minutes by doing a PB. Everyone at the front had very close lap times, so I knew it's not gonna be easy, but I didn't expect what actually happened. I was all over the place, maybe it was the tyres (I used R1s all week, but decided to use R2s before the race, their tempreture seemed OK), or me being unable to concentrate, I don't know. After the 3rd trip onto the green stuff I had to give up. Perhaps I should blame it on that wings and slick are not my cup of tea, but the short races were promising. Oh well, **** happens eh? Congrats to all who finished.

Thanks mate!

Does anybody have the replay please?

This was the first 1 hour race in a long time I participated in. It was a really good combo, I liked it very much and I was looking forward to thursday evening. I qualified 4th, Gnomie dropped back a bit at the start, so I was 3rd, and to my greatest surprise, I was able to keep up with manny and Venca. I believe Venca must have had some issues because he was not as fast as he had been the previous nights. At some point he locked up badly at T1 so we both went past him with Manny. I managed to stay closely behind him, and after some time and a few tries I passed him. It was a great battle. Everything looked good, my tyres was ok, I did not lose speed, I was expecting to win this race, but teh internets thought otherwise. It was very disappointing, but oh well, the best you can do is saying "**** happens" and moving on.

I would appreciate if someone could post the replay.

I don't know if I like this combo or not. I did not really like it at first, I used the set which I had used in a previous FZ5 @ KY NAT combo, but this was way too understeery. Yesterday I downloaded a new setup which is much better, however the strange thing is that though it feels much better, my lap times didn't improve. *shrugs*

Welcome Gnomie!

Finally managed to participate in a long race again after a long time. Boy I'm glad I did, excellent combo.

I think I was lucky to do a pb in quali, so I could start in front of Sean and Dee, which was important because from the previous nights' races I knew they are on the same pace or even faster than me. But for this very same reason I also was very nervous knowing they will put much pressure on me.

After the start at the chicane I was side by side with n!Veiti, we collided and he spun. I wasn't sure if it was my mistake or not, so I went on. After the race I watched the replay and found that he hit the tyres which threw his car into mine. Bad luck.

Dee passed me after the incident, but I managed to repass him at the end of the lap. As they were fighting with each other, I slowly started to pull away. After that not much happened.

Grats to Moose and everyone!

PS: FZ5 at KY NAT, oooh, I like that as well!

Maybe you've noticed that I've not been active in the last few months. I hope to give you some insight soon in why that is and what I've been doing instead. But this combo had caught my attention, so I thought I would give it a shot.

I was satisfied with my qualification, so I hoped for a good race. But it all went down the toilet due to an incident which involved a suspicious green car becoming bigger and bigger in my rear view mirror very fast while braking for the first hairpin.

I thought, oh well, **** happens. I dropped a good few places back, so the chase began. I gained some places, almost cought Aquilifer towards the end, but then I made a mistake in the last chicane and hit the tyres in such a bad way that they made my car roll, ending my race as it stopped on its roof. That made me disappointed, but oh well, **** can even happen twice during one race.

Edit: oh, I can see you introduced a bad word filter. Oh well, I'll leave it this way now.

Edit2: Oh yeah, Delankster, I was actually fighting for the place, I was moving to the right because I wanted the inner line for the corner, I thought it was a genuine move, but I saw you moved to the grass, so I felt guilty and eased off.

We do. This week we are using the combo as seen. Take a week off if you'd rather not participate.

All right, all right, I didn't mean it. Happy racing! :byebye:

Is it an "You have to your enemy to defeat them" kind of thing or what?

Come on guys, there are proper cars and tracks in LFS, let's use them!