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Hi SpikeyMarcoD

The specs on Reverb G2 do look pretty blooming good.
Supposedly a much bigger sweet spot, so you can move your eyes a little without moving your head.

What do the cars at distance look like, for me that was the most dissapointing thing about the rift, enough resolution for things up close to look good, but things at distance were terrible.

Not sure about server restart, I havn't heard anything.

Deetz.

Well, last round at Kyalami brought our best Sprint Cup result of 13th.
Even though we'd done all our practice focussed on wet running, as that looked to be the most likely race conditions. Of course the Quallifying / Race were run in the dry. Doh.

After my moaning about other drivers and not giving an inch etc, well that was basically me on lap1, and I ended up crunched in the middle of a three car sandwitch, where we all ended up pinballalling about, and spinning. I think the blame was equally shared among the three of us, and the stewards rules as a racing incident, but I guess I was the person who saw most clearly, in advance that it might not end well and didn't back out, and neither dis the others.
The incident caused about .6 sec a lap pace drop, ~.3 car damage and ~.3 a massive flat spot. This meant It was practically impossible to overtake anyone. I cought a Merc, which was costing me another .5 to .7 a lap all bottled up. Still, an early pit and repairs, and my brother was putting in nice fast consistent laps, which meant he chased and closed down a 12 sec gap to grab 13th place on the 2nd last lap.

Maybe a top 10 was on the cards if I'd kept my nose clean, but all said and and done, I thoroughly enjoyed the race, great fun. :thumbsup:

Rob, your's looked like a decent race, the wet qualliying may have done you a favour. Easily quick enough to hold position, but not quite enough pace to pass. You were holding your own in that pack, I guess you were swearing when that BMW squeezed by early in your session. But i have to ask. "What happened on that last lap"?, the coverage swapped away from you in 7th, and when it returned you'd dropped a place. A place that it looked like you were going to comfortably hold on to!

Didn't effect your overall standings any, and 5th place overall is pretty blooming respectable. You may be dissapointed, but I say very well done anyway. :clap:

For anyone still reading, It's official. (well for us).

Having no real practice, having terrible quallifying pace, and diabilcally poor race pace but having a clean race, is much much better than having ok qualifying pace, excellent race pace, but being smashed into in the race.

Results in our Sprint cup Championship have been: 31st, 21st and 21st, when having practice, and been quick, but being ramed into.
Result from being really slow, but having a clean race: 16th.

Says a bit about driving stanards as well thougth. I guess it's just so competative, that no one is willing to give an inch, or back off even slightly in caution. (Well, to be fair, there are some who will and do, but they seem to be a minority.

So, best result so far. :racing:

Onwards and hopefully upwards.

Absoulutely, many many thanks to Seany for the Excellent job he's been doing, must be like hearding cats keeping even us few in order.

I belive we said the New year to look at for resumption of activities.

And a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all in these trying times, keep safe.

OOOO OMG that was close, well done avoiding that car.

Yes, I saw you were doing very nicely in the Sprint Cup, with the top split being broadcast, and was very pleased for you, I was grinning watching the Brands Hatch race.

We've been having a tough time of it in both the Enduro and Sprint Cup, we had to miss the 2nd round of the Enduro, as I was having some issue with the nerves in my leg / foot. Isn't Diabetes great (not.)

The Sprint Cup, I've been enjoying, but we have poor qualifying one lap pace, but generally excellent race pace. Tough overtaking after starting so far back. (We swapped to the new Evo Ferrari, which suits my driving style better than the Nissan did.) Incidents, stupid mistakes (Doh starting R2 Misano on Wet tyres on a greasy but dry and drying track), getting hit in 2 of the three races so far, oops hitting others and penalties etc. have stopped anything like a good result, best finsh have been a couple of 21st position. Fun but frustrating.

Good luck for the rest of the Sprint Cup.:racing:


And a Merry Christmas to everone.:thumbsupsmileyanim:

Deetz

Just as we are going into recess, I re-enabled ptracker as a test, and it's back working again. No changes made.
Wierd.

Doh, not really important, but last stint, 144.3 - 1:44.7. Brain fade.

Gaa, well. That didn't go to plan.
4 hour endurance race at Barcelona, 2 drivers, me and my brother, in the Nissan,
I didn't think I was going to get a decent lap in qually, 6 min to go and last. So many cars on track very difficult to get a clean one, then thankfully I found some space, and a 1:43.4 lap netted me ...24th place. Thats about as quick as I can go, so happy enough.

Race start stint one, made a clean start, had to thread my way through an accident ahead, so was was running in 18th place. A gaggle of cars ahead, and someone holding the group up slightly.
But I was experiencing a major isse, I was running an app, race sync, and this was hammering my PC, frame rate was 35, 45 fps, and super stuttery. So although I was holding my own, I didn't really want to attack, as I never knew when it would glitch.
Didn't matter though, as I was punted off a few laps later out of the back hairpin. Then after recovering, was punted again by a porche out of the last turn. Plum last I was counting down the time untill my stint was over, and I could close the app causing my issue. But at the pitstop the driver swap didn't happen, so we lost a few seconds untill I realised I was still in the hot seat.
Round again, back into the pits, as I wasn't doing another hour with stutter vision.
We'd upped tyre pressures a little, as the track was cooling, my brother ran a reasonably clean stint, pace ok but not fantastic, track further cooling and we were stuggling to keep tyre pressure / temps, so up pressures again for my second stint.
I think I manage a lap before a slight run wide nets me a tack limit violation.... and a drive through as my brother already collected some, and we had been on our last warning. Sigh.
I still was struggling with tyre pressures / temps, the car being very taily, untill about half way through my stint, when the pressures / temps came up, and I managed to get into a good rhythm, lapping fairly quickly  / consistently in the low 1:45's untill my stop.
Track still loosing more temporature, so we upped the pressures again for the last stint.
Bingo, tyres now bang in the correct range and my brother was flying, nice consistent 1:44.7 - 1:45.1 laps, and with 20 minutes to go he started tp make up some places, often lapping 3 sec a lap quicker than our rivals. from  38th to 37th, to 36th, and finially we finished in 35th.

Some minor reward for sticking it out.
Other than the first stint I'd enjoyed the racing, pitty it hadn't gone so well.

:racing::racing::racing:
On to the next round.


Rob I hope you had a better day.

Good Luck for tomorrow Rob.

I don't know if I should be scared or excited.

Hi Rob,

It was quite rediculus, 135 teams, so thats a minumum of 270 drivers, and the whole lot seperated, fastest qualifiers to the very slowest, by 1.57 Seconds.
Absolute madness. Me and my brother were in 70th I think with a day to go, which would have become 120th if I hadn't found a little pace near the end, so we made split 2 as well.

Monsterously close.
Now I've just got to manage driving the Nissan, which suits my brothers driving style a bit more than mine. So I guess we'll be head to head again. (thought judging by your times, you'll be nearer the sharp end than me and my brother.)

Only the two of us in a team, for the Enduro, so I'm not sure if we'll do the longer race.

As long as my blooming arthritus (playing up at the moment) doesn't stop us racing, I'll see you one track.

:racing:

Nice, low bottom end torque does mean it's quick ing the wet.

Man I can't believe how quick those first 70 places went for the new Sprint Cup season.

Did the Kyalami 90 min split 2, a catalog of errors and finished 6th. Could so easilt have been a podium, baaa

Blooming heck, and what I should have said first thing.

Congratuations, well done getting 3rd place.:yahoo:

Deetz

It's a small small world.

I'm very pleased to hear fellow dMr racers are still strutting their stuff online, enjoying the racing.
Reading your post, I was laughing :roflmao: my head off as you correctly guessed the names of those described other racers.

I'm teaming up with my brother for the upcoming Kyalami race, swearing at the Nissan we've chosen to race, as my pace gets worse rather then better in practice. :frusty:

I hope to see you ontrack soon.

:racing:

Round 5 Zanvoort Races 9 & 10.

Well, practice was different to usual, where my brother sets a lap time. I’m about a second off, and have to struggle to get within 0.3 of. This time it’s me ahead, and him struggling to catch up. I’m managing 1:35.1 best and regular 1:35.2 or .3 and he’s doing 1:36.1 laps.
Finally the day before the race, he’s matching my times. (Boo) The Aliens are of course in the low 1:34’s.

Race 9 qualifying
A good first stint sees me in fourth with a 1:35.7 but I’m sure there is more to come. Second stint, and I go 2^nd with a 1:35.301, a smidge behind pole on a 1:35.289, it’s so close, the top 5 are all 1:35.3 laps, and the top 7 below 1:35.5 My brother has managed a 1:35.367 in 4^th.

Race 9
I make a good start, a little cautious into turn 1, the Ferrari on pole runs deep, and we run side by side into the following chicane where he sneaks back ahead, the Ferrari ahead is then very cautious into the braking zones on the remainder of the lap, and this catches me out braking for the final chicane, he brakes very early, and I over brake and take evasive action to avoid hitting him, and run wide into the chicane, over the kerbs, this allows a Merc to slip past, and I’m down to third, bugger, head down. I’m still cursing at myself I make another mistake on the next lap, hitting an inside kerb pushing me wide onto the grass on the outside of an infield right hander. Another two cars slip by. Damn, damn, calm down..

The car ahead is brother in his bright Yellow Porsche, and behind is a Lexus.
Basically I run behind my brother for the rest of the race, never more than a second behind, and usually somewhere between 0.3 and 0.6 behind. I have a couple of half attempts to pass into turn 1 on the brakes, but am never given a proper opportunity to get past. We half drop the Lexus behind, 1.5 to 2 seconds, but when the leading Ferrari starts making mistakes, drops to third ahead of my brother, and starts holding us up. The Lexus closes in again, making the odd half attempt to get past me, but I only really feel pressured on the last lap, where the Ferrari has made another mistake and backed us all up again, and the Lexus gives his all trying to get by. He doesn’t manage it and we all hold station to the flag.

Still, I’m happy, A) being properly competitive, and B) finishing 5^th.


Race 10 Qualifying

The Track is warmer and faster than for the 1^st race, and after my first stint I’m in third with a 1:35.1, pole is currently a 1:34.9
Second stint, and near the end I put in a PB, a 1:34.926 just grabbing the lead (2^nd is a 1:34.932) and am praying no one improves, when I hear my brother yelp with joy...bugger, he’s done a 1:34.836 for pole. Still no one else improves, and it’s the brothers on the front row.

Race 10
The lights go green, my brother looks to be slightly out of position, alongside rather than ahead on the run down to turn 1. Conscious of not out braking myself into the gravel trap at turn 1 I’m a little early on the brakes, but come out of them a little as I head into the turn, it looks like I could be slightly ahead, I’m just trying to make a clean run round the outside and perhaps grab the lead into the following chicane, when bang, I’m hit on the side and round I go, facing backwards in the gravel on the outside of turn 1.
 My brothers cursing up a storm, ranting about the Lamborghini behind dive bombing him into turn 1, using his car as brake etc. I’m last and fuming.
Driving angry, I gain two places in the first lap as others trip over themselves.
Then having to take avoiding action as cars in front swerve about jockeying for position, and I’m in the grass again, and loose the positions I’d gained to be last again.
The next lap the car ahead thumps the Aston ahead of him, and the two are off track, and I’m past. I close up behind another Aston over the remainder of the lap, and start putting lots of pressure on him, trying to force an error, so I can pass.
I succeed, and he’s off into the grass on the first chicane exit, but although I run high and wide into the following hairpin as he carriers out of control back onto the track, he collects me, smashing me into the barrier, and spinning me round.
I recover and head off, only for an almighty crunch as my suspension collapses or something, and I’m spat into the barrier again, from where I retire.

Still muttering to myself, I start perusing the replay to see what happened. It’s only a few minutes later when I think, ‘I should have tried to crawl back to the pit’s, points for finishing rather than a DNF, those points could have been important’.
Well, it’s too late now.

As the final standing are totted up, I’ve finished 10^th overall in split two, and my brother is 4^th.
If (and it is a big if) I’d managed to get the car back to the pits and finished last, the extra points would have made me 5^th.

Still, what ifs and buts don’t count, so 10^th it is.

So ends my Sim Grid Sprint Race Pro event. It’s been…..an interesting challenge, I can’t say it’s really been fun, though it had it’s moments… Plenty of up’s and down’s.

Deetz.

Round 4 Brands Hatch, Races 7 & 8 (in the Wet.)

Brands is a track I know pretty well. So I hoped but didn’t expect to do better than in previous rounds.

Practice had gone reasonably, when, with two days to go by brother tells me that it’s going to be two wet races. I’d been practising in the dry. So it’s back to the drawing board. Still after some practice, my pace seems decent. Well, against my brothers times anyway.

Race day.
Qualifying for race 7, and I manage a decent 1:29.5 and 7^th place. Cant grumble at that.
 I’ve set myself to be slightly conservative in the race. Being a touch cautious will be better than going off potentially loosing multiple position, and loosing 0.1/0.2 here and there is better than 0.6/0.7 running wide, presuming I don’t actually fall off.

My brother qualified 5^th, so he’s right in front of me on the grid. (LOL, ok, no mad braking into turn 1.)

Race start is fine, a lot of jockeying for position, but I hold station, but I’ve a Ferrari right up my chuff, very aggressively trying to get past, but I’m holding position. My brother made a place lap 1, but looses it again on lap 2, and now he’s directly ahead. I ease up behind, lapping a little quicker. (He’s trying to conserve tyres after a practice race showed his tyres go off after 20 minutes. (loosing up to 3 sec a lap.!!)

Lap 3 and my brother goes wide out of T3 (Graham Hill Bend)and has to be gentle on the throttle, both me and the Ferrari slip by. I spend the next few laps fending off the Ferrari behind. Lap 7, and it’s my turn to run a little wide on the exit of turn 3, and the Ferrari is up alongside and I have to give room on the inside of T4 (Surtees), he gets a bit out of shape on the brakes and gives me a little nudge, loosing momentum, so I get clear and retain the position. His loss of momentum allows my brother alongside and he tries to go round the outside on the following right hander (Hawthorns) at the end of the straight, but ends up having to concede on the corner exit. Still, it’s taken the pressure off, and means I can run the right lines to pick my pace up a little, opening the gap up to 1.5 then 2 seconds.
Lap 10 and the Lamborghini ahead makes a mistake and I’m up to 5^th. :-)

The next lap my brother tells me the Ferrari has spun, one less to worry about, and he’s up to 7^th.

I’m slowly pulling away from the Lamborghini behind, and run cleanly to the end, finishing 5^th. It’s almost 4^th place, as a Bentley ahead spins on the last lap, but I’m not quite close enough to capitalise, finishing right on his bumper.

Excellent race, I’m very happy with 5^th.
My brother does have some late tyre troubles, and ends up finishing 9^th.


Qualifying Race 8.
Another respectable lap, another 1:29.5 and this time it’s 8^th place…. Until two buggers, (one of them my brother) get good laps late on, so I end up in 10^th place.
My brother managed a 1:29.3 and 6^th place.

Race 8
Down to turn 1 I manage to get to the inside and am holding a tight line when there is a spinning car ahead. Thankfully although I hit it, it’s a gently hit which only sightly damages the car, and I get through without loosing multiple positions. So at the end of lap 1 I’m in 8^th, with my brother behind me. (he’d been tagged in T1) and there’s a bunch of 4 cars ahead all squabbling for position, headed by the Ferrari from the last race. As they settle down the group starts pulling away at about 0.3 sec a lap, but I’m no too bothered, I’ve mostly learned how to drive with the slight damage, and don’t want to risk trying to drive quicker. Behind me my brother lost a place to an Audi who he’s quicker than, (and who’s pace has been very erratic, lots of spins in qually etc.) and he’s annoyed. The gap behind is now 10 second gap, with no one closing in.
 The race now settles for a bit, a Lexus from ahead pit’s, so that’s 7^th place. Lap 10, and that Ferrari is now ahead, and I start closing in. My pace hasn’t changed, but those ahead have lost some pace I become last in a train of 4 cars.

Lap 15 and the Ferrari spins at turn 3, that’s 6^th place. Now I’m slowly dropping of the back of the cars ahead, but the gap behind is 11 seconds and growing, so I just concentrate on maintaining a reasonable pace, and that’s where I finish.

My brother hasn’t had such a good time, mistakes spins, dropping back, fighting his way back up through the grid, getting hit 2 or 3 times loosing position again etc. A lot of those he’s racing end up with penalty. With pushing his tyres do go off, a spin on last lap increases his misery, and he finishes 14^th.

Can’t bust my bubble though, a 5^th and a 6^th, I’m well happy.
What a difference from the previous round.