Skippy @ Lime Rock - Fun race tonight (27 October)

[ginsters sponsored]

We can pracci all we like offline (I believe) and one night to pracci together seems enough for me. I would say that cause if you move it from Tuesday then I will not attend. You have to bare in mind that many from here are committed to racing GTR/PnG events still, especially Sunday evening, surely you don't want to exclude that lot? If so, its not really a UKGTR league is it?

I'm pretty sure iR is the "future" but please don't run over whats already here just yet.

[popabawa]

That's fine with me, I'd rather we didn't move from Tuesday tbh

And yes, you can practice as much as you like offline on any track/car combo.

[Paul Richards]

Really enjoyed that last night. No problems here what so ever. It has been so long since I have been in the car the first thing I spotted was that the fuel could be set! Even without the fuel in I was a little slower than the last time I drove the car so as Brian said above either the car is a little slower or I was a bit rusty in it.

After many practice laps (and spins!) I was able to get down to some pretty solid times all though still off the pace of Paul H by a couple of 10ths. Due to losing quite a few places at starts in the DP which are pretty hard to get back in the Pro series I have been working on my starts a bit but not in the Skip Barber. So not really knowing what to do I just revved it to max and slammed it into gear. It worked a treat and I was past Paul and was able to take the optimum line into T1. Got a bit of a gap and after the first tententative lap I started to push on. Paul H didnt take much time to close it up and was quicker than me through the uphill. I got a bit sideways through there one lap and he nearly got alongside enough into West Bend. I was concentrating on being good in the last corner to minimise his chances of making a move into T1 which is really the only passing place at Lime rock barring a mistake.

Was sorry to see Paul slide wide into the barriers in the uphill a few laps later which left me a 2.5 secs ahead of Brian. I caught traffic in just the right place on the front straight and they both made the passing easy which was great so many thanks to them. This left me just over 3 secs up on Brian so I decided to take it easy with 4 to go as instant death is never far away at Lime rock. After nearly losing it and Brian taking a big chunk of time out I pushed on again and Brian was still catching a few tenths a lap so was glad to see the chequered flag.

Even with the track limitations at present we still should be able to put together a good initial series I would have thought. I love the long first practice meaning thats probably ok for me to get prepared in that. This would keep our league down to just one evening which is great for me as my time is somewhat limited with the other series and 'real life' commitments. Tuesdays best for me as well.

[Burtoner]

Who ever organised it for last night what a joke!

It was worst thing i ever had in iracing coming back too!

Just couldnt connect to server, the website was down now and then, so now i missed out on what could of been a "fun night"

[Legzy]

Who ever organised it for last night what a joke!

It was worst thing i ever had in iracing coming back too!

Just couldnt connect to server, the website was down now and then, so now i missed out on what could of been a "fun night"

Though it's not what he's written, I'm certain/hopeful he meant: "thanks for putting your time into organising this, I'm gutted I missed out".

[Kerr]

Robert it was not who organised it that was at fault.

From the people who joined only you had issues. Your ping was showing over 1000.

Not sure what anyone could have been done other than give the advice that was given to you.

Hopefully your connection is better now.

[Paul968]

I think he means, "thanks for putting your time into organising this, I'm gutted I missed out". Roll Eyes

...and paid for it out of his own pocket 

[Paul Richards]

Who ever organised it for last night what a joke!

It was worst thing i ever had in iracing coming back too!

Just couldnt connect to server, the website was down now and then, so now i missed out on what could of been a "fun night"

I don't understand some people at times. Unbelievable 

[Truetom]

  Don't know what to say, really. Pops, you're an irresponsible bumwell.
Seriously though, hope a thing like this gets reorganized soon. I was waiting for this since I tried this impossibly iResponsible "punt&drive" sim.

[ginsters sponsored]

It was worst thing i ever had in iracing coming back too!

I don't understand some people at times. Unbelievable 

I didn't understand that bit in particular    Don't let the bleeders get you down Pops.

All signed up for another 3 months here, any plans for another fun event soon?

[Kerr]

Hosted racing is down at the moment for maintenance.

I was thinking soon, really really soon infact.

[Adam Parle]

Pops, you're an irresponsible bumwell.

Favorite quote of the day


I've struggled to get motivated to drive in iRacing of late - last night's just the ticket for getting me back into it.

[Kerr]

Just checked out the results page from last night.

I like how it includes all sessions run and not just display the race result.

Although please ignore my incident points from practice, lol! That's more than I score in a season.

[Paul968]

Only problem I can see Brian is that the csv export doesn't seem to have the qual results in (at first glance anyway).

[popabawa]

Pops, you're an irresponsible bumwell.

Funny.... my boss was saying exactly the same thing the other day