FXRs at Blackwood rev

Romus · November 08, 2007, 11:04:05 PM

Pretty good race from me, I was racing at my level, perhaps a bit too careful, but this time finishing the race was most important. I had some nice but short battles with Altrezia and Vobler.

btw. I have send stats to Doorman, hopefully he reads his e-mail and puts them to the right place.

Aquilifer · November 08, 2007, 11:50:40 PM

My set didn't work in the beginning with large fuel load and cold tyres. I started 3rd, but dropped soon down to 6th. I managed to climb to 4th place and started to battle with John Rees.

I pitted around lap 30. Pit apes changed my tyres, so Rees who had pitted earlier got ahead of me again. Now with less fuel I managed to challenge Rees better. Some nice racing. Rees braked in some places quite early so I hit his rear end once when I wasn't prepared to brake just yet... sorry for that mate.

Then Rees had a puncture so managed to climb to 3rd place. Deetz was maybe 5-6 secs ahead of me and I tryed to push some good lap times.

But then it happened. I was just on the back straight, when the stupid optical mouse got again one of those 'fits' and decided to make a 90 degree turn into the wall and then flip upside down. Man I was angry...only 10 mins left and I was quite comfortably on the 3rd place. :ranting2:

vobler · November 09, 2007, 08:04:52 AM

My race went well. Not as planned but good enough.

I was doing a fairly good lap in qualy, but that only gave me a 12 start pos.
I got off the line slowly (previous restart in mind) and several of the "slower" racers passed me. Then i picked them one by one until I was on abt. 8'th or 9. It looked like I was gaining on Romus for sometime. Then a huge mistake and I almost flipped after the straight. And as JAS put it on Ventrilo I did a emergency pit stop. But this was before I had planned to, so I was franticly trying to order more fuel as I speeded into the pits. That resulted in a Drive through as usual.The rest of the race I did at a slower pace because i did not change my tires. Romus was at that point pulling away at a fast rate. So i finished as the only car 2 laps behind.
A good race nevertheless.

Doorman · November 09, 2007, 01:31:57 PM

Quote from: romus;212676btw. I have send stats to Doorman, hopefully he reads his e-mail and puts them to the right place.

Nothing yet. :sad: Where did you send them?

Iron · November 09, 2007, 02:57:06 PM

Yesterday afternoon I didn't feel like doing the long race, I was a bit tired. But then I wrote my LFS history in that topic which put me into the mood.

I used a hotlap set from inferno as usual, just put more pressure in the tyres, which were R2s, all four.

The qualification was awesome, I mean the result, just 0.01 faster than Mr. Deetz. And it's not the first time the difference is so tiny, it makes it exciting.

I was very lucky about that red flag, just before it was shown I made a mistake after the S at the first split and put my car on the grass/sand a bit.

At the second start I was more careful, Deetz soon passed Aquilifer but I'd already made a comfortable gap by then, and kept it, Deetz couldn't come any closer, and eventually he started to drop behind.

From there the only things I had to concentrate on was to lap people and not to do any mistakes, which were enough things to do. The pressure only released me at the last 4/5 part of the race when I saw that everyone was well behind me. Since I hadn't done any pre-race tyre lasting tests, I had to decide it mid-race to change or not. The pads on the front tyres became pretty thin, I didn't want to risk it, and since I had so much of a lead, I changed the fronts, and after a quick mental arithmetic I put in an additional 5% fuel which became very important, since I had around 2% left after the race.

Congrats to everyone who finished the race, especially Trinidex, it must have been hard, at least I remember it was for me when I was a newbie myself. I also remember how hard was it to watch for blue flags and let people pass cleanly, but I can't help giving an advice: don't brake to let the other pass, just lift the gas a bit at most, unless the faster driver is already beside you, or you are on a long straight. Braking at unexpected places can result in an accident.

Edit: Watching the replay it seems I remembered wrong, sorry, you did very well.

Doorman · November 09, 2007, 05:33:32 PM

Thanks to Romus here are the stats from Thursday
http://lfs.deadmen.co.uk/skins/Stats/fxr_bl_race.html

http://lfs.deadmen.co.uk/skins/Stats/fxr_bll_race2.html

Romus · November 09, 2007, 05:40:55 PM

Quote from: Doorman;212723Thanks to Romus here are the stats from Thursday
http://lfs.deadmen.co.uk/skins/Stats/fxr_bl_race.html

http://lfs.deadmen.co.uk/skins/Stats/fxr_bll_race2.html

I just learned that by using graph.exe you can make the stats more readable, like you have had it before. Doorman: new version is in the same place.

Doorman · November 09, 2007, 07:02:27 PM

Quote from: romus;212725I just learned that by using graph.exe you can make the stats more readable, like you have had it before. Doorman: new version is in the same place.

You're giving me a new career here.

Stats is Oldie's domain. I'm happy to do what I've done but other than that, I'll leave it to him.

Romus · November 11, 2007, 10:04:28 PM

I've put too many hours on making a movie from our last 1h race, so I'm fed up with it and uploading it to youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Romus74

It's a pain to record clips from the replay as you cannot go back, have to start from the beginning if you miss something. I tried twice to get the Altrezias accident, but missed it and just got too bored to try again.

But the race was great and I hope you can see what kind of a battle others were having. I was especially interested of Stoneys, Haddocks and Altrezias race because for quite a many laps I was near to them, I could see them in the long straight.

Doorman · November 11, 2007, 11:12:52 PM

Damn me! That was exciting. I reckon you do a terrific job. :thumbsup2:

Aquilifer · November 11, 2007, 11:58:46 PM

That was absolutely great again Romus :thumbsup2:

You even showed my 'great' moments...rear ending Rees and getting 'distracted'

I think it was great. Don't try too complicated things when you have to show 1h race. It's not so easy to watch the replay 1001 times.

Altrezia · November 12, 2007, 08:09:56 AM

That was great!! I feel honoured to feature in the first bit so much - I actually look quite clean!! LOL!

Cheers Romus - top work. Looking forward to the next one!

Romus · November 12, 2007, 09:34:46 AM

Quote from: Altrezia;212886That was great!! I feel honoured to feature in the first bit so much - I actually look quite clean!! LOL!

Cheers Romus - top work. Looking forward to the next one!

Thanks, nice to get feedback. The next one might never come though. I've just done these two movies to get some idea how movies can be done, and I think I've got the picture now, so I might not have motivation to continue. If it was easier to record from LFS then possibly I could do it after every race, but now it's too much work.

Aquilifer · November 12, 2007, 02:57:53 PM

Quote from: romus;212892The next one might never come though. I've just done these two movies to get some idea how movies can be done, and I think I've got the picture now, so I might not have motivation to continue. If it was easier to record from LFS then possibly I could do it after every race, but now it's too much work.

Damn. :sad:

Oh come on, sure you can make more of them. Doorman promises to send lunch coupons for them :norty:

Iron · November 12, 2007, 06:26:43 PM

Aquilifer, I can feel him, it must be boring to fast forward through a one hour race just to miss it or if you simply want to re-record because you don't like the first result. Not to mention that if you don't have very good hardware, you can't speed it up more than 8x, occassionally 16x else it comes to a halt, at least on my system (1.8ghz core 2 duo, 7600gt, though I doubt the video card counts in this case, it requires raw computing power I think). It takes precious hours from your freetime, don't be so clamorous.

Anyway, this one is very nice, again, Romus.