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Title: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: popabawa on October 05, 2010, 09:04:41 AM +0100
Car: Star Mazda
Track: Milwaukee (Oval)
Practice: from approx. 18:30
Qualifying: 20:40 (4 laps solo)
Race: 66 laps (approx. 30 minutes)

Start: Standard iRacing double file rolling start
Flags: Full course yellows
Re-starts: Single File

THERE WILL BE NO RESETS AVAILABLE!

Password: see above (#post_event_password)
(2) Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R;group=263;theme=33)


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: popabawa on October 05, 2010, 09:08:03 AM +0100
I just want to highlight this race will be run with full flag rules in effect.

I'll set the lap count such that an entirely clean race will last about 30 minutes. We'll probably end up with a few yellows and I don't want it lasting forever :)

Re-starts will be single file but the race start will be standard double file.


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: Blunder on October 10, 2010, 07:48:55 AM +0100
Boys,
I know you all hate ovals but this will be fun!... promise! :)
Just make sure you know your rules/restarts etc.
M.  ;D


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: IanBassi on October 10, 2010, 11:34:56 AM +0100
Does anyone care to share a nice Oval Setup for this race please?

Thanks,

Ian


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: popabawa on October 10, 2010, 12:40:30 PM +0100
Race length updated to 66 laps which equates to 30 mins or so without yellows.

If anyone is really desparate, they can try my setup here;
http://www.legendsracing.net/iracing/POPS_Milwaukee.sto

It's pretty stable but a bit slow. I can't seem to drive anything quicker though :(


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: Mike Wrightson on October 10, 2010, 04:55:24 PM +0100
I know what you mean, I found a quick setup on the iRacing forums, hung onto it for 2 laps before crashing.  I got it calmed down so it won't try to kill me on fresh cold tyres.  It's stable but soon starts to push.

Seems like you have to run the cars scary loose to be really fast on the ovals, and I can't make that work at the start of a run.


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: Kerr on October 10, 2010, 06:32:59 PM +0100
It does need to be a little loose to be quick. Normally after a few laps it does come good though.

You might need to search the old forums, but Tim Holgate usually made pretty good setups.

Get the right one though. He did post one and had to update it. As I found, the car was great for 75% of the race and then the front grip switched right off. If yellows come out at the right time you would get away with it.


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: Blunder on October 10, 2010, 07:32:38 PM +0100
Point is boys, practice your first 5 laps on cold tyres!
Anyone that doesn't will be in the wall and the rest of us will have lots of yellows!  ;D


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: popabawa on October 11, 2010, 08:44:25 AM +0100
A yellow every 5 laps is the only way I'll be staying on the lead lap ;)


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: Blunder on October 11, 2010, 10:31:58 AM +0100
A yellow every 5 laps is the only way I'll be staying on the lead lap ;)

 :lol: :lol: :lol:

Good point! Lets leave them to help us!  ;)


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: popabawa on October 11, 2010, 11:17:45 AM +0100
I'm currently managing to just about duck into the 26.9's on a good lap once the tyres are warm. I'm seeing a fair drop-off after that though as the tyres wear as it starts to get tighter...


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: Ken Murray on October 11, 2010, 04:02:53 PM +0100
I'm currently managing to just about duck into the 26.9's on a good lap once the tyres are warm. I'm seeing a fair drop-off after that though as the tyres wear as it starts to get tighter...

With those times I don't think you'll have trouble staying on the lead lap Pops!


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: popabawa on October 11, 2010, 04:07:39 PM +0100
"on a good lap" <> "my usual lap" :D


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: popabawa on October 11, 2010, 06:39:41 PM +0100
Server's up!


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: popabawa on October 11, 2010, 09:29:53 PM +0100
Well.... you lot suck, I was fastest in practice :D


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: spanner on October 12, 2010, 04:28:13 PM +0100
Wow, an iRacing racing i'm actually looking forward to!


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: popabawa on October 12, 2010, 06:13:40 PM +0100
Server's up - only the bold and brave (or stupid) need apply! :D


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: Ken Murray on October 12, 2010, 07:24:20 PM +0100
Getting an Internal Server Error when I try to log on to iRacing?! :(


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: popabawa on October 12, 2010, 07:25:39 PM +0100
Me too at the moment.


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: IanBassi on October 12, 2010, 07:25:56 PM +0100
Same here,  Looks like site just went down, hopefully short blip

Ian


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: Ken Murray on October 12, 2010, 07:29:28 PM +0100
Ah, well at least I know it's not my end, thanks guys.


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: popabawa on October 12, 2010, 07:30:43 PM +0100
"We are currently working on restoring the service."


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: popabawa on October 12, 2010, 07:34:34 PM +0100
I'm working on the assumption that I'll have to re-create the session when/if it's back up in time.

I'll tentatively say if it's not back up by 20:15 we'll postpone the race.


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: Adam Parle on October 12, 2010, 07:37:25 PM +0100
TOO SENSIBLE!


:D


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: IanBassi on October 12, 2010, 07:37:54 PM +0100
I think the session will still be running,  Because when the site goes down,  people connected to a sever can carry on,  so it might be the same with hosted race.  

Ian


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: Ken Murray on October 12, 2010, 07:38:29 PM +0100
I'm fated this season. The one night that my daughter isn't going to dance class, which would allow me practice and qualify in a much less fraught fashion than normal, and iRacing goes down!!!! Aghhhhh


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: popabawa on October 12, 2010, 07:43:02 PM +0100
Glad I practised last night :angel:


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: Ken Murray on October 12, 2010, 07:48:59 PM +0100
Glad I practised last night :angel:

I did some laps earlier. I just needed a few to re-familiarise, so if it goes tonight no problem. But if it is cancelled and re-run at the end of the season then I may well be back to dashing back in to the house at 8.30pm, running up the stairs in to the loft and qualifying in rather flustered manner!!!


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: popabawa on October 12, 2010, 07:53:40 PM +0100
Looks like we're back :)


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: Ken Murray on October 12, 2010, 07:54:26 PM +0100
Looks like we're back :)

Wey Hey!!


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: ross.mcw on October 12, 2010, 09:08:01 PM +0100
My initial good pace seemed to drop off after as understeer crept in at about 19 laps of following Ken.  A lap or 2 later, I bumped the wall and that was that, thankfully I managed to pull over without causing a yellow.

Not sure I could have handled 66 laps of droning around that place though!  I don't think ovals are my thing really.

Cheers, Ross.


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: Kerr on October 12, 2010, 09:27:39 PM +0100
That's 3 nights of the trot iRacing has gone down about the same time.



Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: Ken Murray on October 12, 2010, 09:36:07 PM +0100
At last.

Having done a few Mazda Milwaukees over in the iR system I was pretty comfortable running here. I have a decent setup and I found the line a while ago and it just takes a bit of hunting out again every time I go back. Ross was looking ominous until he started to get his understeer. Normally I get that, but I think mine was on the loose side right to the very end on this occasion. I wonder if that is something to do with running in clean air, or because I was able to manage my tyres after Ross retired? Iain still kept me honest the whole race though, with the gap never getting that big. The yellow with 10 to go made my nerves jangle a bit. It was a shame we got a little spread out. Racing here in the iR system is normally much more hectic. I know most of the big hitters were missing, but I would have beaten them anyway!! ;)


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: popabawa on October 12, 2010, 09:42:04 PM +0100
I'm giving myself a big whoohooo! The last time I finished as high as that was July 2007! :o

I really enjoyed that  8)

I was a little off my pace in qually but I'd rather start on the inside in 3rd than be on the outside in 2nd so losing out to Ross worked out OK really. It looked like Darren and Bernie were going to push me hard but Darren unfortunately lost it on lap 2 to leave me fairly comfortable in 3rd as I pulled away.

It looked like Ross was really hammering it but seemed to get tight pretty quickly, I knew my setup worked pretty well in the long run so I just settled back and watched a couple of seconds down. When Ross scraped the wall I lost another few tenths making sure I avoided him, then sat just over 2s behind Ken for about 30 laps until the final yellow came out with 10 to go. I had a sniff as Ken slid it a little on the restart but that came to nothing as I had half an eye on Mike in 3rd.

Really happy with my consistency, the set-up and the result :)

The right man won, a pretty flawless drive from Ken, congrats on the win, nice to see another name at the top!

Well done to all on only getting 2 yellows, awesome!


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: IanBassi on October 12, 2010, 10:29:04 PM +0100
Wow,  I really enjoyed that race. 

Started 6th, which is higher up than normal for me,  managed to miss the first incident that brought the yellows out, and was up to 4th, but faster cars behind me caught up and got past me.  Tires went off, and I got lapped, which was a shame as a few laps later another accident brought the 2nd yellow flag out with 10 laps to go.

Made a pit stop for fresh tires, and managed to steal 5th place with a lap to go.

Really enjoyed this race,  and looking forward to Silverstone in two weeks time :)

Thanks everyone, Well done to Ken for the win.

Ian


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: Adam Parle on October 13, 2010, 08:21:41 AM +0100
My setup just wasn't up to it - understeering massively meant I was losing time hand over fist after a surprisingly good qually.  In the end I rubbed a wall, and that was that - I brought it in to the pits to get out of everyones way.


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: Mike Wrightson on October 13, 2010, 09:29:39 AM +0100
I didn't get as much practice as I would have liked, but found a stable and consistent setup at least.

No heroics at the start, and found myself following Ian Bassi after the restart, made my way past as his car began to push and settled into a good pace that I hoped would bring me back towards Pops if his tyres went off.  At half distance the gap was still going the wrong way, so it looked like it wouldn't happen :(

No joy on the final restart either, I could keep up in the draft, but that was it.  I didn't have the setup right for anything more.

Congrats Ken, there was only going to be one winner, you were mighty.  Grats to Pops for a well driven 2nd :)


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: mr_oily on October 13, 2010, 10:26:18 AM +0100
Sorry I know this a bit blatant but don't forget *cough* https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=8494#event2434 *cough*.

You have permission to do the same to my threads Pops :)


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: popabawa on October 13, 2010, 10:39:30 AM +0100
No problem Oily, I'm just sorry I can't join you on Friday's :(


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: spanner on October 13, 2010, 01:12:46 PM +0100
And where were you Oily???

Enjoyed that, my first oval experience. About a third the way through i understeered to much into the barriers which damaged the steering making the rest of it quite a challenge with an offset wheel and even more understeer. Could only manage 28's after that.


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: mr_oily on October 13, 2010, 01:31:54 PM +0100
No problem Oily, I'm just sorry I can't join you on Friday's :(

Yeah that is a shame Pops - hopefully one day you'll be able to do an event or two!

Enjoyed that...

Liquid lunch was it!?!?! Can you give me warning next time you're going to drop that kind of bombshell, there's coffee everywhere!

And where were you Oily???

Err unavailable....sorry dude, will get my behind in gear for the next one!


Title: Re: iRacing Season 4 Mazda - Milwaukee (Oval) - Oct 12
Post by: spanner on October 13, 2010, 02:31:37 PM +0100

Liquid lunch was it!?!?! Can you give me warning next time you're going to drop that kind of bombshell, there's coffee everywhere!

And where were you Oily???

Err unavailable....sorry dude, will get my behind in gear for the next one!
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Dont expect me to be there tho! Dont intend to do many more.