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Car: Skip Barber Formula 2000
Track: Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca

Practice: 18:00 for 135 mins (approx)
Qualifying: 20:15 (15 mins)
Race: 20:30 (24 laps, approx 40 mins)

Start: standing
1 'fast tow' (reset) available for each driver (available by pressing SHIFT+R by default)

NOTE: All sessions protected by the main password, there is no seperate 'pre-event practice'

A couple of notes re. Blue Flags during qualifying and race where they differ from GTR2;

Blue Flags during qualifying - if you see a blue flag during qualifying it will be on your outlap and the driver approaching is on a hotlap. Please take this into account and act accordingly. The driver behind does not know you are on an outlap so no rash moves out of the way please :) Usual SRouk rules / guidelines should be applied.

Blue Flags during the race -  if you see a blue flag during the race it means the driver approaching is about to lap you. Please take this into account and act accordingly. It differs from GTR2 in that you will not be penalised for not allowing the lapping driver to pass within a certain period. The flag is informational only. Usual SRouk rules / guidelines should be applied.

Pit Boxes - there are 43 slots available at Laguna Seca.

My helpful timing guideline for this event is that if you're doing sub 1:40's then you are pretty quick!

Paul968 seems to be the quickest SRouk driver with a qually time of 1:39.2 and fastest race lap of 1:39.3

My fastest lap in a race is 1:41.5 if that helps the duffers (you know who you are!) benchmark themselves ;D

That was a lifetime ago!

Never driven the skip before but have done a handfull of laps and got down to consistent low 41's   , Is there any way of dialling out the lift off oversteer or is just a case of not fully lifting ??  Not that im too bothered about it as it is really satisfying when you get it right.

Great car/track combo.  ;)

The Skip always has oversteer on entry.

Most guys always have the brake and trottle applied on entry to corner.

I right foot brake, so I brake then before entry to the bend give the throttle a little jab and this puts the car back on it's forward foot.

Is anyone interested in a practice session tonight?

I'm still feeling rubbish, but I'd certainly like to try to join for a bit if a session happens.

I'll have a go at a praccy tonight, what time are you looking at? About 8pm or later is great for me.

We can have 4 hours, so if I started at 6.30 it would take us to 10.30 - can't see too many wanting to drive after that, but pipe up if you do.

I'd jump in for some laps. :)

I'll be there, thanks guys

OK, 6.30 - 10.30 it is.

I'll try and pop in for a few laps.  :)

I'll try and pop in but i should really put some practise in for sunday.

Server now up - normal pwd

I wanna use some forbidden words - lots of them. >:( Trying to log-in gave me an error and activating a "recover password" option gave me the message that they don't have any data of account with that e-mail. ??? And no, I didn't misspell it. >:(

Going shooting, for now BF2. iShit might follow. :hang:

What password have you used paul?  We have been using haddock for everything so far and I can't get in with that?  Bing new to this I don't know any others.

I've pm'ed you the pwd Stuart

Have you got another email address you might have used TT?

Some old data popped up, I logged in with old old old old (1st account) e-mail. Susan Boyle Flint is looking into it. :P Though she doesn't get it either, lol, she has the e-mail I was trying to use and have used on Tuesday, not the one I had to use today. :no:

i'd really like to race here tuesday but everytime i try and get any enthusiasm for this sim it spits it back at me with technical problems  :(

Ive no idea whats causing the fps to suddenly drop to a quarter of what its running at  ??? There were only about 8 of you on there last night and it was fine for about 10mins then plummeted from 80+ to 22fps :(
Ive run countless races online with 15 or so opponents no problem at all, yet now in only 2 hosted sessions ive tried to be in, its happened both times. During the last race it only occured after about half hour...so random.
Last night, when i alt tabbed, the cpu was only using 57%. I did notice when i finally quit it was showing 81% though. Any clues?
Even when i quit out and come back in, it stays at the low fps. I even tried dropping all gfx down to low class 3 but no difference.

I dont even know if the wheel problem is sorted yet either. I bought a powered usb hub to use with it, so am hoping that problem at least is fixed.

Laguna is a great track but ive got no confidence that at some point during the race the fps wont suddenly plummet.

You'll have to bring up the performance monitor (in Control Panel->Administrative Tools in XP) and have that running when the problem happens, then you be able to see if there's a sudden increase in paging or CPU use, and if the latter, what's eating it.

How much memory have you got? 1GB? More?

I know Gary Tall had a performance problem which was cured by getting rid of his paging file - no virtual memory, only physical.

That's what I wondering - it could be as simple as reducing the replay memory override. But I wanted Mark to figure out what was wrong on the basis of hard data, rather than guesswork - I see too much 'optimization' done on the basis of guesswork in my job, and it usually makes matters worse rather than better. :-\

2gb RAM DG.  Hard disk is regularly de-fragmented using Diskeeper. Gfx card is 9800 GTX. Should be able to cope with IR easy enough. As mentioned had plenty of races online in the past with IR and no probs.

One possible difference with hosted races is that we run very long sessions compared to normal races. Is it possible that this somehow increases the use of memory? I have 2Gb as well, and I tried turning off the paging file at one stage and it complain on occasions about not having enough memory.

Which is why I'm wondering about replay memory override. The ISI-based sims log replay data to disk and then compress it as you leave the session; iRacing holds it all in memory and only writes it out if you save it.

On the other hand, the replay buffer is lost if you leave a sesison and rejoin, which I think Mark does, and the problems starts again within a few minutes of that rejoin.

But I think it might be worth setting replay memory override to something very small to see if it helps.

Sounds plausible, although as you say you'd expect the replay to be related to the time connected, not the session length. Anything simple has got to be worth a try.

It would be useful I guess to run a test. I tried it in the normal sessions but they don't last very long before you cannot rejoin. How about if I launch a practice session now and people can then join and report their virtual memory use?

no once its happened it stays at that low fps without regaining. So even if i quit out and rejoin its instantly at 22fps. Odd.

where is the replay memory override setting? Worth a try.

in core.ini in your iRacing folder under my documents.

It's in an .INI file somewhere near the replays and setups.

If the FPS stays low over a leave-rejoin then it's unlikely to be iRacing itself - you need to get the performance monitor up when you experience the problem to see what's happening. If something's eating all the memory you need to be able to see what's causing all the paging (the symptoms are very much those of memory thrashing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrash_%28computer_science%29)).

okay mine says this :-

CacheSize=4194304

what should i make it?

any other gfx settings that i should zonk down? Got shadows off. Though when i tried reducing all gfx it had no effect on the frames the other night.

when i alt tab out and check 'performance' my 2gb ram is split under 'physical memory' as : available=80242, system cache= 957252 approx. cpu usage only 42%.

Under gfx settings in game i have 'Utilizable texture memory'= 400mb what should that be for a 9800gtx card ?

Dave was referring to this:

replayMemoryOverride=0                     ; Kbytes of replay memory to use

set it to something low but not 0

I've set up a hosted practice session to help test this.

by low do you mean something like 2048kb or ?

not sure really? Suck it and see I think


Off out now, but the server is up to test with.

You could start with 10 - you won't get more than a couple of seconds of replay but it's a good testing point.

Managed to get some praccy in today, I was doing 1:41's of varying quality in race trim which I'll be happy if I can match on Tuesday!

Mark, did you try the server?

I got on server ok, my connection really is lovely! :)

Even got gaming mode :)

Not quite sure what that does, something to do with interleaving what ever that is?

sorry Paul, no didnt get a chance as went out for the day. Will have to try tomorrow eve if there is a praccy server running.

Got a few laps in today and am running consistent low 1.40's with a best of 1.40.062,  its amazing how quick the car feels once youve sussed out the car and can keep the momentum up. :)

I dunno how you guys are doing it, I am having a nightmare with this car  ???

It handles the exact opposite of how I want to drive, the result of which is that I'm having to concentrate so hard on just driving the car, that I feel I can't safely race it. :(

MONDAY PRACTICE - 7PM
If anyone is interested, i'm going to put a server up for anyone to practice on.

Is it best to have a password on, or shall I just leave it off?

See you there towards the back end of the session. Password yes, the normal praccy one. :)

Put a password on, but use the normal practice one.

Cant make tomorow in the middle of decorating the dinning room .  Not too bad though, Rubbing down the skirtings gives me as big a rush as sliding the skip through the left hander after the corkscrew....yeah right !!

Cya Tuesday.

 :lol:

ps, just did my 1st public iR for a couple of weeks, after zero practice & jumping straight out of tonight's GTR2 race too... it was in the Skippy back at Lowes. Despite missing the 1st lap (whoops ::)), I actually enjoyed the drive a bit more then I remembered during our race there :-\. So looking forward to Tuesday all the more now 8)

Noticed Dan Minton was there too, always nice to see a familiar face lapping me ;D

After having a go with iRacing over the w/end, I have to say I'm hooked!  I'd really like to join this race, but I'm not quite clear whether I can yet, I've done 4 races and a couple of time trials but I'm still a Rookie with a SR of 3.46 - do I need to get this above 4.0 and then buy the Skippy?

Legzy, for some reason I couldn't find your name on iRacing to add you as a friend?

Cheers, Ross.

You can drive anything in hosted races. Licence does not come into it.

Doh!  Okay, thanks.  I'll get practicing tonight then!

Cheers, Ross.

Hosted races have nothing to do with SR Ross. As long as you buy the car you can join in. Though it does mean you cant run the car in official races until you get to a class D but you can run it in a test session 'offline' so to speak.

>:(
Having asked them a month ago to change my name, they've still not done it ::) (I'll ask again)

Currently I'm still the very official "Mr C W Laker" ;D

i cant seem to join the pracy server..it says 'staging' instead of join  ???

It should only say 'staging' for a few seconds, then change to 'join'.

it didnt ever change, so i quit out and rejoined the hosted then was fine.

Just had my usual problem, been running for half hour plus at 80fps then mystically it suddenly dropped to 26fps.  >:(
Once gone it stays fooked, even when i quit out and rejoin. Completely lost for why. It doesnt recover.  ???

I had to restart my pc to get the fps back upto 80+. That points to me like some weird paging file problem or somefink otherwise the fps would go back to normal as soon as i quit the game and went back in. Its only regaining its composure after a restart   :-\ ...unlike me who is getting rather irate with this sim.  :P

Also just found out the powered usb hub didnt fix the steering problem. THought it had worked as did all manner of hard steering input this eve but then glitch and its super sensitive again.  :(

Finally got in 40s after a good few laps :)

I reckon early 1:40s

Just done a 1:40.932

Watched Luke McLean do a 1:38.31

I see that quite a lot... press "F5" to refresh the page & it's normally good :)

Me too, it sometimes takes a couple refreshes to get there.

Mark, it has to be worth a try turning off the paging file. What have you got to lose?

Sort by memory usage in the task manager - something must be eating all the memory and causing it to swap. As Paul says, the obvious test is to turn off the paging file. Vista and Windows 7 have a much better set of diagnostic tools as standard than XP, which doesn't appear to have anything as standard which will say which process is causing a lot of paging activity.

Can't make tonight, have fun gents  :)

After practice last night, I'm a bit concerned that I may be a liability to be honest.  Managed a 1m42s, but realistically I'll be doing 43/44s at best I think....assuming I can keep it on the black stuff for more than 2 or 3 corners at a time.

If I do join in, I'll do my best to stay out of people's way!

Cheers, Ross.

Hey Ross,
Don't worry buddy as long as you are consistent then no one will mind!
I've only done a 1.43 so far... need more practice but will be there whatever!

M.

Ross, there's no problem being slow as long as you are consistent. Try to avoid jumping out of the way, holding a consistent line will help faster cars pass you with less risk.

Sorry if I'm teaching you to suck eggs :)

I'll do my best - at least at Laguna Seca when you go off you tend to disappear into the dust so will probably only screw my own race up anyhow.

Cheers, Ross.

Oops! Apologies, I miscalculated the number of laps for the race :wetfish:

I've ammended it to 24 (was 20). The initial post has been corrected.

At my laptimes, I make it 7 laps !  ;D

I've just noticed how far off the pace I am here according to old times.

With a million and one things to do today. I'm not going to have much if any practice by the looks of it.

If I do get up to speed a little I will join.

I'm nightshift tonight so if I manage to finish I will need to run as soon as I finish. It's nothing rude just not a lot of time to travel a fair distance.

I might have a go in this one if theres room, finally starting to get the hang of this car (i think). 

Been doing a bit of praccy today and doing consistant low 1.40's  and my best was a 1.39.6

Race nerves will probably get the  better of me though and i'll get nowhere near those times in race.

Yeah, those times are just rubbish Gazza - make sure you move over as I come flying past....  ::)  (not)

I will probably not be racing :(

I haven't kept it on track for more than 8 laps in a row so far, if I try to actually race someone I'm likely to take them off with me.  Not enjoying this car here at all.

Don't think I've ever kept any car on a track for 8 lap in a row :-\ ;)
Don't let me down Mike, I need someone to fall off race with at the back. I actually improved in company last night, you'll be the same I'm sure :)

It's worth pointing out that I have now painted my car and helmet so I am expecting to go much faster tonight...

OK guys, server is up!

Have fun, see you about 8.

I think we may have an issue.  I can't get in as its telling me I'm already registered for another session which I'm not.

I'm wondering If I'm still stuck in yesterdays practice session as the results for this have never appeared.  Can anyone who was in that session try and see if they have the same problem as me?

I was able to connect OK, PaulH and Brian are in there so it might be you Simmo  :-\

Dunno what to suggest, I've not come across this problem before. Maybe try stopping and restarting the iRacing service?

How do I do that?

Don't worry chaps I intend to be there. I might have snuck a 42 last night but 43-44 is more like my pace

Reboot. ;)

Done it and still no joy.  I have a grayed out Play button where the password usually is

And it says;

Registered Elsewhere - You are registered for a different session.
If you wish to join this session you must first withdraw
from the other session using the race panel.

???

Make sure you have the 'race' panel (*next to 'test') open and see if it thinks there's a session open there.

okay ive just removed the page file, see if that makes any blinking difference  :-\

1:41s for me here at best so hoping for a reasonable race but its all dependant on the system/sim not acting up.

I see a few are on 39's though  :(

Ok, I'm in, I'm an idiot!!  Still hadn't withdrawn from last night!!  Cheers everyone

Fingers crossed MJ.

Looks like there might be some issues with the iRacing servers tonight.

Fingers crossed they don't affect the race.

ive just been wading through the IR forums trying to find similar problems to mine but other than a lot of bellyaching about the new build hitting fps for a lot of folks, nada to help  :(

Could be usual suspects i suppose :-\...nvidia gfx drivers need updating..again ::)  Nv4 drivers updating ? G25 drivers...etc etc. It used to run great on my rig but havent been on it for a long while so perhaps it is something to do with the newer builds that have been released.

oh well, its in the hands of the gods for tonight. If it plays up i'll do some P&G praccy at Interlagos instead  :)

I'm really haddocked off. >:( >:( >:(

Was on the server, was fine all through practice. Got to qually & started getting fps issues at key points on the track (corkscrew for example)... took about 6 laps to register even a disappointing 1:42 because of it. No way I'd be able to race with it so restarted PC.

Started iR again & hosted races, put my password in & it staged.... clicked join & it tried but failed to connect to server. Tried again & again & again. Meanwhile I know from TS that you're all waiting on the grid... clicked retire, to go out & come back in... only our session has now disappeared from the server list.

Result, one hacked off driver after the effort I've put into practicing this combo  >:( >:( >:(.

Codding Halibut!

Never doing Laguna again!! Hateful track for me as I'm not good enough to drive it.So, so, so, so sorry to Paul Richards for hitting you. Was trying to see where you were in mirrors, cocked up the top of cork screw entry, once I was on gravel, nothing I could do. After that, there was no way I was going to be a hazard to anyone else, so quit out. I've changed my mind about the skippy, if it was a horse, it would be taken to a field, shot, and then turned to glue!

2 apologies from me.

First one to Simmo, I tried to give you room but my FL caught your RR and sent you round.  Sorry mate.  :-[

Secondly to Simon.  After the T1 incident with Simmo my steering was off to the left.  I lost the back end under braking and was a passenger from that point onwards.  Looking at the replay, it was a real bonehead move.  Really sorry. :-[

Had a nice few battles after rejoining in last place although I was surprised at the amount of people who gave up their place without a fight  ??? that said, I did have a great little tussle with Ross. ;)

Really annoyed at my standard of driving tonight.  I really can't stand Laguna, and it showed.  Again, apologies to anyone whose race I affected.

Laguna is a brilliant track, love it !!  8)

Had a great race despite propping up the bottom end of the field for the majority of the race. Had some good battles along the way and Ian Bassi and Martin Blunder seemed to keep me company the whole night with the odd rejoining spinner thrown in for measure.
I'm dog slow compared to most of you in these, how did you all get so quick in them so quickly ?  :-[ but i will say i couldnt get near my fast laptimes due to a lot of light-flutter fps stutters in some of the more technical corners.

Thankfully it seems my previous Ir troubles have perhaps disapeared, though not convinced. Tonight i was mainly on 50-65 fps for the whole race but the slight stutters did hinder my pace, albeit perfectly race-able, and i think Laguna with a full grid was pretty intensive on the gfx front with all that sand being kicked up around the track and many cars running wide here and there.

I had a really clean race upto 5 laps to go then my concentration just seemed to go and i span about 5 times in 3 laps..or was it down to tyre wear/wing damage  ??? It was a naff end to a great race. Didnt hit anyone or anything though so not all bad  ;)

Good clean racing and i am just surprised how fast everyone is. Will need to get more seat time but i find the skip really dull for praccy even though the racing seems great and very kart-like.  :) Well done to the winners !

Completely failed to reproduce the 39 I did last week; struggled to 9th on the grid and wasn't too happy with my pace.

Once the race started the car felt great and I battled hard with nsfast until finally squeezing by on the run out of the corkscrew. 0x contact but I don't think either of us suffered.

Unfortunately, it turned out my excellent race pace was because the pit crew failed to put race fuel back in after qualifying.

Crew - you're fired! :2guns:

Made a splash and dash stop and set about hacking my way back up the field from 12th where I rejoined. Made short work of Pops and Picnic, both falling victim to my better pace out of the last corner. TT was kind enough to sling himself off the road for my personal convenience :laugh: which put into the top 10, but further progress was going to be tough, with Burtoner's pace just a bit too good for me to hunt him down before the laps expired.

Frustrating because I undoubtedly had the pace for 7th, but some good racing along the way. Well done Brian for another Shark win, and commiserations Simon for an early return to the pool.


There's never any reason to retire from a live session unless you don't intend to come back to it. You keep the join button at the top until you do.


Quickly?! It's taken me over a year to be this close to adequate! :D

No problem Stew. I wondered what had happened! I saw you go left thinking you were letting me through but there wasn't any need I was a little way back. Then I lost sight of you on my left and then you suddenly appeared! My car looked destroyed but all 4 wheels were still pointing straight so it was ok. Your team plan worked though as Paul got past and then defended from me the whole race ;D Only joking it all worked out well as we had a great battle.

Sorry to Mike C for rear ending you in practice. I broke early to leave a gap but still couldn't slow down enough as we passed the apex in that uphill left. I should have been more careful having not followed you through there before.
 

I didn't get much practice for this race and boy, it showed ::)

A last minute switch to Paul Richards set-up for qually put me in 15th which tbh was better than I expected despite me qualifying with race fuel on board! (my pit crew, also fired).

I had an awful start to the race, I just couldn't drive the set-up on cold tyres for some reason and lost 4-5 places on lap 2.

I started picking up places as I got more confident and people started leaving the track :)

The highlight was a superb battle with Picnic, nose to tail for umpteen laps until Pete made his only mistake going a bit wide at the last turn and I was able to nick the place but the pressure was on for the remainder of the race, great fun, a pleasure as always :)

Good drive by Stuart Symonds to come storming back through the field and nick 11th off me a couple of laps from the end.

Nice racing with Dan and Gary tonight and a nice view of the two Pauls slugging it out in front of me.

I quite like Laguna!

Regards
Gary

That's me in work now, not bad going if I do say so. Hire cars are without a doubt the fastest cars.

Messing around in practice I managed 39.1s with both quali and race setups.

Started qualifying with the whole track ahead of me but at the end of my first flying lap I suffered a disco.

Jumped back in and found it hard to work an opening for a fast lap. Happy with the time and pole obviously under the conditions.

Race started well with PaulR hot on my tail. After a few laps I managed to ease away a little to allow some breathing space.

I think PaulR got tangled up whilst lapping and dropped behinf PaulH and that incresed the gap to over 7 secs.

Knowing they were having a fight I had nothing to push for and just maintained a steady pace and eased off  a little more at the dangerous corners.

Well happy with another win.

Good to see a large number of people suddenly finding a lot of pace. It should get interesting the more we go on!

Good racing.

Much more controlled race than the disasters on the public servers last night. However I wasn't terribly consistent. Got a new PB on the penultimate lap but no idea where it came from really. Only had one proper off at the cork screw out braking myself and having to cut the right hand part out. The Slow Down thing costing me around 5 secs. That's not very real world, you'd get away with the odd indiscretion as long as you didn't gain a place. So much for simulation  ::)

I am actually enjoying the Skippy, just tried a few laps a Sebring as that's this weeks track on the public servers. Boy are the 1st and last corners tricky.

What a bummer. Last time I was in a position to actually race on a Tuesday night a mate rang just as qually was about to start. Tonight, no Dad's taxi's required, the mrs out picking her son up from cubs, so I'm left in peace to concentrate on the race, or so I thought. Just as qually is about to start my brother and his wife arrive unannounced with a card for my daughters birthday, which is tomorrow. They've only just left now!!!!!!

Although it wasn't the greatest night for the Kerbies, I had a really good one. Managed to stay fairly close to Paul R in the opening laps (Brian was just too quick for everyone tonight though). Then when Stew accidentally took Paul out (thx m8, cheque is in the post   ;D) I nipped past Paul. Considered giving the place back given the circumstances, but Paul's a good mate and I knew the racing would be much better with him chasing me than vice versa, so I carried on. He was still very quick despite the bent car, and I had to battle hard right to the end to keep him behind - twice we went round t1 side by side  :thumbup2:. One or 2 close moments where both of us seemed unsure about who would go first, but Paul was a gent as always and we survived to the end. Very happy with 2nd, and also really enjoyed the driving - laguna is so much nicer than the first 2 tracks. Grats to Brian, who was just too quick this time. On to VIR, which should be fun - can we run a sweepstake on crashes at the tree turn?  :D

Wow that was the most concentration Ive ever had in a 40 mins  :o

Had a free day today so spent the afternoon testing at this track. Was getting more comfortable as time went on but i knew there was more time to gain so i went on you tube and studied some fast laps. That really helped and i made good gains.

Qually went really well and i was really surprised to be 4th and so close to 2nd  :o  this brought the butterfly's even more though as i suspected that there were probably a few guys behind that were faster and just didn't get in a good lap.

Race started well and i managed to keep ahead of the two behind and even keep the guys in front in view. Gradually Gary was creeping closer and he made a great move on me into the last corner ( i was sure you weren't gunna stop it as you came from quite far back but you did) so i gave you some room, this allowed  Brendan i think to get along side me aswell and i decided to just slip in behind them both and follow them. Managed to stay with them for the most part until one of them went off at the squeaky bum left up the hill. Kept Gary within 2 seconds from then on doing good times until he had some problem which left his car looking pretty bent lol and i went into 4th. Thought i just needed to keep calm and bring it home but alas Dan came from nowhere and started catching me, he got close a few times after minor mistakes and i had to defend the last corner on the last lap a little but made it. A few more laps and i probably would of let him past.

Really chuffed to bits with that result as i class Iracing as very tough.

No incidents aswell i just noticed which is good  8)

Well done Podium and everyone.

Ah stopping was no problem Gary and I was quite tentative in case you turned in. Its one of the real benefits iRacing's multi view I think, I could see where you were the whole time. Thanks for the racing room and I enjoyed it too, right upto lap 20 when as you say my car became bent out of shape, I did a lap but it was just too hard to continue.

Regards
Gary

You reep what you sew!  ;D

Little or no practice... strangely the Private leagues have got me hooked into iRacing again but can't be bothered to put in the time with the Skippy, especially at Laguna!
Actually have never been a fan of that track but quite enjoyed it!
Got down to 1.42's in the race but need to practice more if I expect to do any better!

Oh, big apology to Gary Tall, looks like I completely wiped him out when he was lapping me!!
Am holding my head in shame and plead for forgiveness!  :'(
Was limping back to the pits thinking the car was good enough but lost it on the next to last bend and was a passenger after that!
Sorry Gary! I will be getting 20 sirens to flog me!  ;)

 :-[ :-[ :-[

Was showing missus The Charms of Surfing and what do I get? Less time for training! :P Had a plan to finish a crude setup from Paul ;) but couldn't get on PC in time. ::) Car was a lot better than in previous training sessions, only oversteer corner entry was the issue. When I got it right I had low 1:41s and when I didn't I spinned. Twice. ::) Lost a few places unnecessarily. But I'm getting there. Umm, somewhere. ;D
 

Its ok Martin, you apologised immediately and I understand. :)

Sorry if I was not too gracious last night but I was incredibly dissapointed as it was my best race for a long time and was on for a good finish. I had a bit of a foot stamping kicking the cat exercise for a few minutes, never did like the cat much anyway! ;D (I am joking, well about kicking it, I've not liked it since it sat on my car)

Regards
Gary

I know what it's like to be on the receiving end too Gary which is why I was so frustrated with myself!

Hope the cat gets better soon!  :P

M

Having received multiple "can't connect to server" messages, I was desperate to try anything. What other options were available?

In true bird fashion, I consoled myself by polishing off a large bag of Doritos & a pot of Salsa dip ;D.

Started off really well and spent most of it chasing Ross but got too eager and having got a good run out of the second turn thought i'd try a risky pass but the moment i moved over Ross told said he'd let me by after! I was too busy trying to work out what he'd just said that while trying to think about what i was going to do that by the time i'd worked it realised it wasnt a good move i was going too fast and ended up straight in the wall! Handling after that was interesting as it liked to turn left! but iwas about a second off so wasnt too bad, i thought i'd leave it a few laps then tow back to the pits to get a new car. But I noticed it was going to fill the fuel up and couldnt work out how to untick the box so was sitting in the pits trying any key i could think of but ended up turning off the gear/ speed display. So exiting the pits i was trying to switch it back on without knowing what to press so i picked up a stop-go. Bit tentative on that lap but ended up going off in that banked 2nd-to-last corner and just decided to quit out in disgust.

After doing endless laps in the solstice, plus the radical, was getting a bit bored of the track but driving the skippy around here has shown just how difficult it can be as!

Strange how people seem to be only having FPS issues with this track, wonder if its something to do with the gradients and draw distance?  

Reboot - you should be able to rejoin even after a reboot, even if the race has started, as long as you don't withdraw.

The things is, I'd literally just rebooted :'(

Not entirely sure why you rebooted your PC Legz? A restart of iR was all thats needed if your changing settings.

Sorry for the confusion there Spanner - seeing you were quicker I think I said something like 'go by after the next corner', but by then I could see you were trying a pass anyhow and saw that you ran wide in the confusion.  Apologies for that - shame as I think we'd have had a good race together.

Despite being a bit off the pace, I loved this - iRacing really is superb.  Despite my practice woes on Monday, I held it together pretty well for the race with just a single minor spin and a cut corner slow down coming out of the corkscrew.  Managed a good start and enjoyed the first few laps but had a bit of a lonely middle stint with the highlights being some dicing with Spanner and Brendan.  I could see that Brendan was way quicker but I couldn't resist making him work for the place ;)

For all those that haven't tried iRacing with a three screen set-up, you really should!  It really is amazingly cool if you have the room and the cost of doing it these days really isn't that bad at all.  It even beats using a 40" TV which I've tried but it wasn't as good because it's really the extended width you want with racing games.  My frame rate seemed to top out at 106 for the entire race I think, but I'd knocked the vertical resolution down to 768 (horizontal is 3072 with that) with the details just under half (I think).  A bit grainy at that resolution so I think an upgrade to my CPU and graphics card is due because this sim is definitely worth it (P&G/GTR2 just crashes online at high resolutions with three screens).

Watching the replay from the blimp is also very cool although for some reason my saved reply missed the first 7 laps - is there a 30 min limit on replay length?  Can it be changed?  Does anyone have a link to the full replay I can download?  I'd really like to watch the first few laps.

Well done to all the front runners - amazing pace, I'm just glad I didn't have to be lapped!

Hard luck on your troubles Legzy - very unfortunate.

Not sure I'm ready for the Indycar at RA yet mind you!

Cheers, Ross.

Spanner, use space bar to select/de-select your pit options.  

I usually de-select everything when on the grid, waiting for the start.  I forgot to do this last night, and after my fast tow, was sat there wondering if the guy with the pit-board had been recruited from Ferrari's F1 team  :D

Thanks, though i had setup the spacebar for chat! Think i need to sort out that joytokey thingy to assign it to the wheel. Though i have the tow command set to the wheel..

Until the new display port thingy comes popular isnt the TH2G thing the only way of doing it?

Laguna was one of the original iRacing tracks, I wonder if they've got better at optimising along the way?

Rob saved a replay for me so I could have a watch again. I must say it shows it as an excellent attempt at a rally style Shark take-down. ;) Full marks for style. :laugh:

I was unable to do anything about it once you were rally crossing across the dirt as it was already too late for me to change my position or braking, otherwise I would have let you sail on through and into the barrier on your own. :-*

Cod happens. :) Laguna is not on my favorite circuits list anyway, it looks like it should be good and it looks good, but I can't help but dislike it for some reason. Maybe it's one of those 'marmite' circuits.