Race Talk

[Gnomie]

Nice work Doorz!

I'm curious about the Jetta.. I think it could offer very good racing indeed, just as in real life.

So who's gonna buy it?

[Doorman]

Nice work Doorz!

I'm curious about the Jetta.. I think it could offer very good racing indeed, just as in real life.

So who's gonna buy it?

Me.

[The Moose]

So who's gonna buy it?

 No, no and no.  I cant get excited about a FWD saloon unfortunately.
Indy cars and Aussie V8's would certainly re-awaken my interest though :g:

 
 Grat's on making Pro  btw:)

[vobler]

So who's gonna buy it?

Me to. I hope it will be something like the FXO in LFS.

[The Moose]

I hope it will be something like the FXO in LFS.

 That's what i think it will be like.... which is exactly the reason i wont buy it.

 I think I'm allergic to FWD :lmfao:

[obsolum]

No, no and no.  I cant get excited about a FWD saloon unfortunately.

A diesel FWD saloon, even

[Gnomie]

Gotta agree with you; I've always been a RWD fan. That said, after all it's the quality of racing which is the most important. So if the Jetta turns out to be hugely popular and provides high-quality, close racing, I might consider it.

At the moment I'm really really eagerly awaiting the Corvette and Ford GT. Those could be just magnificent I think.

BTW I got an e-mail from Shannon Whitmore today:

Good Morning!
 
First let me congratulate you on your Pro-License promotion!  You may be asking why am I getting this email?
 
The answer is, you've been promoted to an iRacing Pro-License and are eligible to compete in the inaugural iRacing Pro-Series (iPS); but your member account is currently cancelled.   In order to compete, you must have an active account with iRacing.
 
The Pro-Series will begin on 0:00 GMT 4 August 09.  We have added additional race times in addition to what is reflected in the Pro-Series Document that is attached.
 
While each of your accounts are inactive (cancelled), you will hold the license from Today, until 31 August 09.  If your account remains inactive (cancelled), we will remove your Pro License and promote iRacers to fill your position in the Pro-Series.   Our goal is to have a complete roster of 250 active drivers competing in the Pro-Series and for the top 50 positions available for the iDWC.
 
Thank you!
 
Regards,

Shannon Whitmore
 

Makes sense to me. I wouldn't like preventing other drivers from gaining a spot.

[vobler]

Even though I haven't posted anything in the news thread about the new build, I'm sure most of you know about it and of the new Lotus 79 F1 car.

It is a beast and the first few laps I tried it was with the baseline setup and that was awful. Later I got a few other setups that I tried, and finally it was fun to drive. Tonight Volker Hackman posted a Silverstone set for it and it is awesome!

I urge everybody to try that set and have a go. I'm not sure I ever can race that car but I sure will practice with it. I did several 1.33 laps at Silverstone Historic but the fast guys do 1.27's so still much to do.

Go get it!

[Doorman]

Even though I haven't posted anything in the news thread about the new build, I'm sure most of you know about it and of the new Lotus 79 F1 car.

It is a beast and the first few laps I tried it was with the baseline setup and that was awful. Later I got a few other setups that I tried, and finally it was fun to drive. Tonight Volker Hackman posted a Silverstone set for it and it is awesome!

I urge everybody to try that set and have a go. I'm not sure I ever can race that car but I sure will practice with it. I did several 1.33 laps at Silverstone Historic but the fast guys do 1.27's so still much to do.

Go get it!

Got it. At the moment I've filed it under 'meh' but who knows? I've never been a downforce lover and ground effect is even more scary. :sad:

Like the brake pedal adjustment in the new build.

[vobler]

Got it. At the moment I've filed it under 'meh' but who knows? I've never been a downforce lover and ground effect is even more scary. :sad:

I never liked winged cars either. Where I'm going to "file it" is yet to be decided, but here is what Dave from Autralia writes on the iRacing forum. I think it was a good post so I copy it here:

I've been racing sims since the early 90's starting with Indycar racing... my first love...

Back then graphics were so clunky that it was hard to see a corner coming, 640 by 480 resolution on a 14" monitor was the interface to my racing experience... Steering, braking and turning was done with a cheap joystick and consistancy was only a dream, but even so I was hooked... It fed that wannabe racing driver that lived inside my soul.
Of course I could never feel really connected driving this way but I still enjoyed it more than anything else that I had tried

A few years passed and GPL is released and OMG I'd found racing nirvana.. Now the proud owner of a steering wheel and pedals, a member of UKGPL league and I'm actually racing real people, it was the best there was and it was hard to imagine what the future could hold, but as great as this was (and it was beyond great back then) I always felt that my Ferrari 312 wouldn't actually slide and drift the way it did in real life, I always felt that as great as GPL was that there was something not quite right with the way the car interacted with the road surface... I never felt really connected.. either to the car or to the road

As time passed and technology leaped forward I was presented with more and more racing simulators to choose from with even great physics models, higher resolution graphics, fantastic car models and a huge choice of racing genres but strangely I became more particular, even though at one time low resolution 4 bit graphics was the best, now I wanted more... I knew the potential was out there and with todays incredible processors that if only someone would push the envelope that we would probably see something really special, we just needed someone to go out and do it...

Many years pass and suddenly I have iRacing... expensive as hell but potentially the best that there is and may ever be if the creators are to be believed that there will be a constant and never ending progression......

I've enjoyed my iRacing experience so far... and as much as I have felt that currently there is nothing better I've still never really felt 100% connected to a car, I've still felt that there is something slightly missing.. surely real racing cars cannot be this difficult when touching curbs.. surely a throttle/brake balancing act isn't the way my heros rotate their cars through turns the way we have to do here... The closest I have felt to real road connection and the least amount of throttle brake balancing act I have felt within iRacing was the Riley Prototype...

UNTIL!!!... The Lotus 79 around Watkins Glen....

Finally!! A car that actually feels like it is connected, feels like a real racing car, makes me feel like a real racing driver...

I've been messing with this combo nearly all day today and even though I'm not the fastest, not by a long way, 1.35's if I'm lucky.. It is without doubt THE greatest racing sim experience of my life..

Never have I felt so much like a racing driver, Never have I felt so connected to a car or to a track... Never have I felt so confidant, so excited and yet so scared in a simulated racing car..Never have I felt the urge to just drive and drive and then drive some more....

Eric and iRacing I salute you, you have actually managed that which I never felt was possible, you have transported me from my racing rig in my house and plonked me into the cockpit of a fire breathing animal and let me feel what it may actually be like to race a real racing car and for that I'm eternally grateful.

Regards
Dave the wannabee

[The Moose]

I love winged single seaters.  There's something about iRacings winged SS cars that i just don't get on with though, they feel very odd to me.  

I guess I'm just so used to the FTarget in nKPro (absolute perfection when it comes to SS cars, imo) that nothing else can compare.   Frankly I'm disappointed with the Lotus.  The lack of transmission doesn't help, but its also incredibly easy to drive.  I just got the feeling it would be a little more unforgiving, but no....just keep your foot planted and it will stick.  

At least you can actually take curbs in it, unlike the twitchfest that is the Mazda, so that's positive.

 I'll probably buy it when they introduce transmission modelling though

[Gnomie]

I just learnt that the Lotus had manual transmission in real life.. it must have taken some serious footwork to drive this thing for real. Quite a different matter than flatshifting + left foot braking, as surely 99,9% of all iRacers will be using.

Besides, "reviews" based on just one day of racing must be taken with a pinch of salt. (or maybe two)

[vobler]

Congrats to Ron and Stuart for their C licenses. :yahoo:

[Doorman]

Congrats to Ron and Stuart for their C licenses. :yahoo:

And my mum said I'd never amount to much. Ha!

[Katsushika Matsumoto]

Congrats to Ron and Stuart for their C licenses. :yahoo:

:yahoo: I also promoted to a D license... (with a respectable irating of 2180)
I'm tempted to buy the mazda or the skip...