Last night's racing

FatBob · July 04, 2007, 11:12:48 AM

Thanks guys - dont think i'll be troublin your times for a bit yet tho:D

ohh yeah and getting out the way when some maniac appears in your mirror going twice as fast as you is blind panic rather than an particular skill :roflmao:

was fun tho and its a quality game

BigFatCat · July 04, 2007, 12:25:49 PM

Quote from: FatBob;196508ohh yeah and getting out the way when some maniac appears in your mirror going twice as fast as you is blind panic rather than an particular skill

It's a bit fraught when going across the bridge, with nice soft armco either side:ohmy:, I saw you ahead and prayed you'd leave enough room for a "Dive and Stamp" into the left hander:crazy:

A quality debut certainly:clap::worship:

Gone_Away · July 27, 2007, 11:36:54 AM

Sorry about dropping last night chaps.. I was really getting into it too.

Thanks for the setup and tip on the traction control (did make a big difference!)

After I left I found this server that was racing lx4's on blackwood. Was really fun. 3 lap sprints.

See yous next Thursday.

NF

delanvital · October 25, 2007, 11:31:58 PM

Yikes, what a race

No wonder I couldn't hit a thing in CS afterwards, my head was broken :blink:

Aquilifer · October 25, 2007, 11:56:59 PM

Nice to see you too racing delanvital.

When we were racing, I thought 'delanvital'...hmmm...where have I seen/heard him...name sounds familiar...lol :doh:

Yeah, it was indeed a good race. After the first lap it started to go well and racing was good. The tricky car kept at least me concentrated all the time.

sulky_uk · October 26, 2007, 12:35:57 AM

i went for a low fuel load and it payed off until lap 7 when a pub hit me, then my fuel plans went to pooh.

v good race thou had a ball, all we have to do now is convince ron to have a go at the williams :woot2:

Romus · November 28, 2007, 12:16:04 PM

Hmm.. I did two races last night. I started well, drove under 1:37 in laps 2-4 (previous lap time record 1:36:90) and I could keep my position in close racing, that has been difficult for me this far. I was driving better than ever and it just started feeling unnatural.

My arms were getting stiff and eyes locked on the track in front of the car. It cannot be me driving this well I thought.. :blink:

Then it was old me again. I hope it gets better after I get more experience of the close racing.

If you think that I was not clean in close racing then I would like to get some feedback of it.

Doorman · November 28, 2007, 12:30:43 PM

Quote from: romus;214245If you think that I was not clean in close racing then I would like to get some feedback of it.

You were clean enough but that shirt you were wearing was awful! It had to have been a present, get rid of it! :norty:

Lameduck · December 07, 2007, 11:06:09 AM

Who is Jiska, what is he?
Appears from nowhere, races the wheels of all bar Aquilifer and a quick check on LFS reveals that this was his 3rd race ever. 1 in a UF1 (which he won), 1 when he joined mid-race at dMr (promptly did two 1.10 laps), and then the biggie. Obviously a re-reg.
I had a good start, went through the melee untouched at T1 and popped out 3rd. I managed to keep that place until lap 10 when Ben stole it off me and 4 laps on I managed to touch his OSR and spun him. :doh: Being the gentleman I am I waited for him and Aquilifer came sweeping by the two of us. :sad: Car was misfiring and I decided to pit early. Thats the last I saw of anybody. Saw Oldie in the distance a few times and then passed Doors (he was in the pits) and the last two laps were at a relative crawl in order to get over the line (0.3% fuel). Very enjoyable, but give me TarMcAdam any day!

Romus · December 07, 2007, 11:57:02 AM

Jiska might have been my ghost, but I doubt that a bit. I was expecting this race to be exciting, but my engine crashed at warm up before the qualification.

The whole story goes like this: My new graphics card has given some artifacts and I wanted to return it to the shop. So at 22:00 I decided to replace it with my old card that also had caused some problems sometimes, but not so much as the new one. Well, at 22:20, 40 minutes before the race start, I got to LFS just to notice that graphics was all just garbage. Re-installation of the drivers did not help. At 22:40 I started putting back the new card, now sweating already, thinking that this must work now.. But the whole PC refused to start anymore. at 22:55 I saw that the crappy Intel Core2Duo cooler had loosened from the motherboard. In panic I tried to put it back, but remembering how nasty I had to be last time to make it sit tight I decided to give up. But I wanted my revenge, so I took the cooler and twisted its legs a bit so that it would not seduce anybody ever to try using it again. With a crushing angst I went to bed, but could not shake a picture of you all happily jumping over the bumbs and sliding through the bends.

I hope you had a good race. If not, do not tell it to me, since then my suffering would have no purpose!

Doorman · December 07, 2007, 12:17:52 PM

Despite my protestations about rallyx (which I haven't changed my mind about) I had fun. I ended up my usual 3 seconds off the pace, but hey!

I managed to NOT cock up the starting procedure this time so the pills must be taking effect.

The highlight of my race was spinning in turn...two I guess, the long left hander before the backstretch tarmac, and had to sit there whilst watching Aquilifer come bearing down on me. ****ed him off mightily! Sorry mate. My philosophy on that kind of situation is to sit still until I know it's safe to move. Whatever I'd have done would have spelt trouble. :doh:

Doorman · December 07, 2007, 12:20:12 PM

Quote from: romus;215052Jiska might have been my ghost, but I doubt that a bit. I was expecting this race to be exciting, but my engine crashed at warm up before the qualification.

The whole story goes like this: My new graphics card has given some artifacts and I wanted to return it to the shop. So at 22:00 I decided to replace it with my old card that also had caused some problems sometimes, but not so much as the new one. Well, at 22:20, 40 minutes before the race start, I got to LFS just to notice that graphics was all just garbage. Re-installation of the drivers did not help. At 22:40 I started putting back the new card, now sweating already, thinking that this must work now.. But the whole PC refused to start anymore. at 22:55 I saw that the crappy Intel Core2Duo cooler had loosened from the motherboard. In panic I tried to put it back, but remembering how nasty I had to be last time to make it sit tight I decided to give up. But I wanted my revenge, so I took the cooler and twisted its legs a bit so that it would not seduce anybody ever to try using it again. With a crushing angst I went to bed, but could not shake a picture of you all happily jumping over the bumbs and sliding through the bends.

I hope you had a good race. If not, do not tell it to me, since then my suffering would have no purpose!

You certainly know how to treat a PC. Don't take any crap from them! :thumbsup2: We missed you.

Jamin · December 07, 2007, 02:44:25 PM

I arrived late and a bit stoned, I tested a few setups to see what they were like with a full fuel load but forgot to change back to my usual setup after being harrased by the missus, so did the race with gear ratios that didn't suit. It took a few laps to realise, I think I was about a second a lap slower than normal.

I had fun with Doorman and his very wide car early on then tussled with Bob for quite a few laps

Quote from: Lameduck;215043Ben stole it off me and 4 laps on I managed to touch his OSR and spun him. :doh: Being the gentleman I am I waited for him

Heh, I knew you were going to hit me as I needed to shut the door as I was slower in the corner than you and knew you would have taken me, I gave a tut over TS to psych you out a bit :boxing: but you shouldn't have waited, we all know each other and any contact is always genuinely an accident, so from now on, if I hit anyone off I'm carrying on at full speed and I expect the same off everyone else.

OldBloke went past whilst I was in a long pit stop and I set off to catch him, ten seconds between us and 25 mins to go, half a second a lap faster I thought I needed. Ten mins later with red hot tyres the gap was THIRTEEN!! :ranting2: Oldie, your a natural, that was a good third place you earned...you should do more rallycross :norty:

Congrats to Aquilifer on your win

Aquilifer · December 07, 2007, 02:53:24 PM

@Doorman

Don't worry about that one. I saw you spinned there and i thought I might be able to avoid you going past at left. I didn't try to brake so much because the stories of Titanic were in my mind (that they would have been able to avoid the iceberg if they had only tryed to steer left and not not brake/reverse). Of course grip is really bad on dirt compared to tarmac and it just slided straight to Doorman. I was bit unhappy because I thought others are just few secs behind me, which turned to be a false alarm.

That Jiska...It could have been him who slammed me out of track in T1. Another thing...having little lfsworld race/distance records doesn't give a proper idea how fast a person is. Many have driven lot of miles in demo or offline. For example I drove sometimes on the same demo servers with PartyboyU who has now c 16WRs. He was very very fast already then and I believe he was equally fast as soon as he bought S2.

I started a chase after I managed to collect myself from the T1 incident. Stoney and Jiska had a big lead I wan't able to get tehm before they pit. I had to make an early pit stop because of the T1 thing and it was wise also because I was behing everybody else. In the long term it proved to be a difficult thing. I would have needed a half way pit stop, because my right side suspension had gone bad (front right almost blown up). So I tryed to take few places more carefully and limit the jumps. I had pumpend more pressure and made few other tweaks to set so that i can make the whole race nicely w/o any tyre changes.

@Lameduck

Sorry. I didn't know it was that sort of thing. I just thought you had some sort of accident. I saw some room on the right and just blasted flat out.

@Romus
Sorry, you couldn't make it. We would have liked to see few more racers.

That's bad luck with your computer. I haven't heard/experienced CPU problems had caused artifacts in graphics. But I'm not an expert. I have usually asked the store the build up my PC so that I can get warranty for the build up quality too. It's cheap compared to the whole price of the system. And then the store can't blame me for fu***ing up the parts when building it. It's not that I couldn't do it myself, just getting guarantee everything works perfect.

Lameduck · December 07, 2007, 04:18:50 PM

Quote from: Aquilifer;215074@Lameduck

Sorry. I didn't know it was that sort of thing. I just thought you had some sort of accident. I saw some room on the right and just blasted flat out.

No need to be sorry, as o000o said "I shouldn't have waited", it was an accident so if I had been you, I would have whizzed past and to quote o000o again "Congrats to Aquilifer on your win "