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Hope some of you guys can make it on Sunday - this track really is fantastic in the Late Model.

Just to remind you which layout it is, here is the road with South oval driven in a Skippy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcRVo7DDl6E

I'm expecting to be here this week :) Only ever driven the Jetta here before so that'll be good practice  ::)

 :lol: What more could you possible need Pete!? Look forward to seeing you there with any luck - been a while!

Can't believe we're on round 6 already - that has flown, will be time to start thinking about season 2 before I know it!

BTW, you've all failed Oily's observational skills test - it's May 15, not Feb 15. :P

Hahaha the shame! Just been chuckling at Spanner doing something similar.

Clearly this shows it can happen to those within even the most finely honed of organisational skills  :whistling:.

I'll probably be doing the first round of the new ORO season in the LM @ Brands this afternoon (5pm race start) if anyone else fancies it - will stick the practice server up for a couple of hours between 8 and 10pm without a password and include a short race there too.

I'll be adding the Street Stock for tonight's practice only - just want to see how they are on track together.

ORO thread at iRacing - http://members.iracing.com/jforum/posts/list/1475163.page

Catch you later!

I think that's 5 GMT so 6PM UK time.

Yep - I'm second in practice right now, and have shared a setup. ;)

Well that ORO race didn't go too well - punted off into clearways on lap 4 lol! Hope you guys had decent races. Dave I saw you and James (?) get clobbered by a backmarker early on, really unfortunate but it didn't look like it was going to affect the lead battle even if the cars did look a little secondhand - did you feel any difference in handling at all?

SERVER UP!

Yeah, that was just a bit unfortunate; Michael touched the grass, at least he took both of us out at once. :laugh: Car still had reasonable pace but it took me half a dozen laps to find it again as the balance had shifted. Pity we needed so much fuel at the stop - I couldn't really pit early for repairs. As it was I pitted on the earliest possible lap but James pitted a lap later and so it ended up even stevens and I could do nothing to close the gap again. :-\

just realized I think I have this car/track combo ....................know nowt about these rounders cars is the Late Model the Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS I know dumb question  but I'm dumb ;)

IF this is so then can anybody help with a set-up for the combo never run the car anywhere ................picked it up with plans to advance the rounders side of iRacing then never did give it a go  ::)

Yes, that's the one.


Lots in the Team Shark garage... Setups for this car don't vary much track to track.

thanks Dave


what sorta times are being pulled here  ??? I'm feeling so slow and twitchy I don't want to join and get in everybody's way and mess up peoples races

Sorry chaps - running a little behind schedule today - should be good to go for 6pm.

Giz don't worry mate honestly, you're welcome along - I'm doing 1:06's IIRC but Dave's more likely to be your bench mark!

RACE SERVER UP!

Made a right hash of that - there's also a session using the Street Stock too, would appreciate it if you could disregard that one!

ha I knew I was slow but I didn't realize I was that slow ..................quick calculation and you would be lapping me 2 times by the end of lap errrrrrrrr 1  :-[ just done 25 laps and my best time was 10+ seconds slower than you bud and out of them 25 laps I think I got 4 clean maybe or was it 3  :-\

I love racin but not to the risk of others and I'm an unbelievable risk in this thing :) maybe if I had realized earlier that I actually had the car and done some real practice  it might have been possible but I didn't even know I had the car till today when I read somebody elsewhere mention that the Late Model was the Monte Carlo  ;D till then I hadn't a clue I had the car  :-[ :-[ :-[ I'm ashamed to say  :-[ :-[ :-[

Join in the practice GizMoTo, if you still feel the same come race time then by all means decide to miss it. These things are run on roads once you get the hang of it. Not that I have, I'll be 2+ secs of the quick guys pace, but I still enjoy this.

;)

That was a total comedy of errors. Spent most of practice trying to figure out how to use the stagger to minimise the danger of falling off in the middle of the oval part. Was on for a 1:04 in qualifying until I got a black flag in the final chicane; luckily with the short lap I had time to do one more out and flying lap pair and duly stuck it on pole with a good 1:05.0.

Good a got start and watched in my mirrors as Oily and Picnic touched in the banking and Picnic went flying off in a big cloud of smoke. :o

Tried to pull away but Oily kept up pretty easily with the draft; after about 4 laps it dawned on me that I was short on fuel so I started trying to save a little; I needed an extra two laps which was going to be a big ask, but I was just about able to carry enough corner speed in critical places to keep Oily behind. After not very long I ran wide out of turn 10 and Oily scampered by, but for reasons best known to himself he let me by again. ???

A few laps after that I made a slightly bigger mistake and this time Oily went ahead and stayed ahead. Knowing the fuel situation I decided to just follow and try and use the draft to save a little more fuel. By just past half distance it was clear that this wasn't going to work so I started pushing again, hoping to scare him into a mistake. He duly obliged, locking his rears into T4. That gave me a small gap, but I was stunned when he started going backwards at the rate of two seconds a lap. :o

I didn't know whether he'd damaged the car somehow, or was having his own fuel drama, but given that I only needed a single splash of fuel, I decided the only sane strategy was to push like crazy, and splash and dash with two to go, but I didn't really have much hope of having enough time in hand to get away with it - especially as the Late Model's refueling now appears to be done through a drinking straw. :-\

With the laps counting down, the gap was growing and growing, and I had about 30 seconds in hand as I entered the pits. With three screens but single rendering, the stupid game puts the right side of the F-box panel behind my monitor bezels, so I didn't know for sure whether I was going to get right side tyres or not. As it happens I did - but the crew did a phenomenal job under such pressure and I was out again with a 7 second lead - and Oily was still crawling round trying to make the end without a stop.

That let me do the last two laps with a little margin for error. Sadly after the banking when I pulled over the do some doughnuts the blasted thing ran out of fuel! :laugh:

Pity about the small turnout but at least Pete gets a podium. ;D

I don't expect to be anything other than complete rubbish next time out in the FW31 and with a double header after that, mathematically any one of the top five drivers could still take the title. :punk:

Yes I owe Pete an apology for that first corner - really sorry dude, I looked left to check there was nobody there and you were nowhere to be seen - from the replay it's hard to tell but I think you were just in my blind spot. I think it was just because we were so far apart on such a wide piece of tarmac but I'm sure it must have been a surprise that I didn't give you more room - believe me I was as shocked to see you there. I turned out of it as soon as I realised but there was the slightest of touches to the front corner which was obviously enough to turn you around bizarrely!? Thought it would be me who'd lose it from that angle. This is what i hate most about simracing on my current setup - peripheral vision is an absolute nightmare - need three screens or TrackIR or something!

Aside from the indiscretion and lack of drivers, thanks to Dave that was actually an enjoyable race. I let you by because of a cut track btw - definitely wasn't out of choice!

Strangely I didn't notice much of a tow effect at all - it felt like I had the pace, particularly on the brakes. and also when I sussed the technique into that big swooping left hander at T4 I think it was, I was able to close up in the latter part of the lap. Still, major cock-up with the fuel - that killed me having to hand back the lead and drop off the pace totally, I was the best part of 5 laps short and should blatantly have pitted instead of driving that slowly. I realise now I don't really know how to drive and conserve any significant amount of fuel - in the end I was just coasting massively, had there have been other drivers about I definitely couldn't have taken that approach.

I'm also expecting to be rubbish in the Williams but I'll keep the faith! Just hope we get a better turnout for it. That was an awesome track/ car combo, such fun throwing it around through the banking and elevated bits, to only get a handful is criminal really! Would have been epic with a few more but I'm getting the feeling we've reached critical mass now with Club England's latest series of events and the re-introduction of the ORO series.

Never mind, onwards and upwards as they say! Skippy tonight @ Club England which should be a giggle.

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