iRacing Season 1 - Silverstone (GP 2000 ) - Jan 19

[Paul968]

Just a quick glance at the lap times would suggest the draft did improve your lap times.

Your quickest laps came when on my tail early in the race whilst heavier.

On your own whilst trying to catch your laps were between 0.4 to 0.6sec slower. 2.11.346 the best with 2.11.5s the normal.

As you can see from my laps consistency and errors was a real issue.

There is a number of very low 11s without draft followed by 12s and 13s which is poor.

I'm not suggesting it makes not difference, but just not that much. The lap in question I am several miles per hour quicker than you when I am at the apex and you are several car lengths ahead (when you should be faster as should have been on the power earlier). This is the main reason I am right on your exhaust into maggots, where I am close enough to have to back off early to avoid overcommitting - you gain several car lengths as a result. At chapel I am 1 mile per hour faster at the apex which certainly helps me gain down the straight but I don't gain that much and again I back off at stowe giving you all that I gained back again. I know this was happening because I was conscious of doing it to prevent running into you if you had a moment mid corner. The only other place is after club, where I gain nothing. I think there is a phsycological effect when you are chasing another car closely, as you know how hard to push. You are right, the draft does help (and it certainly did at VIR where Paul towed me down the very long back straight) but there were other factors at play in the quick lap last night. Later in the race I knew that driving flat out wouldn't catch you in time anyway, so there was little point in driving at 100%.

[spanner]

Wasnt really expecting to do this race and was still trying to get GTL to work right up until the last moment so only joined at the end of practise.

Having only done a few laps the day before was expecting to be in the 15's so surprised my self by just getting in the 13's in qual. However I was just too nervous in the first few laps running with everyone, I dont actually get time to do much on iR and the races tend to spread out quickly so sorry about that.
Later on was happy to sit behind Pops as there was now way of getting past but going through that corner after Bridge it looked like I was gaining a bit too quickly and stupidly lifted slightly spinning me out.

Also sorry to Simmo, though i was expecting you to go past quicker than that and i ended up running out of road.

Thanks for the first season guys, its been an eyeopener! It feels like i've gone back right to the beggining and am having to learn it all again! i suppose thats what you get for getting too comfortable in GTR2 land

[popabawa]

I was a bit dubious whether Silverstone GP would be decent for racing the Skip but I think it turned out OK.

I'd had virtually no practice for this one, I didn't have anything to go for in the standings and the week had practice time been taken up trying to haul the Dallara around hell Mosport.

Thanks to Darrens set-up I got a vaguely decent time in qualifying and gained a few places at the start but that left a few slightly faster guys behind me and I knew I would struggle to keep them at bay.

On lap 2 Ian got a bit close and rear-ended me spinning me around putting me to the back, no problem Ian, just a misjudgement, I don't think my final position was really affected.

Got places back as peopel span. MJ ruined my chance of a sweet overtaking opportunity by spinning out of T1

Spanner kept me honest for a while but also unfortunately span.

Not sure if I'll race the Skip next season, after all this time in iRacing I still can't extract any kind of decent performance out of the codding thing. Finishing down the field wouldn't normally bother me but I'm getting uncharacteristically frustrated with the car and not really enjoying it.

Thanks to everyone who took part this season, I think it's been a good season, even with the track limitations in place, next season will be better.

The season was ... educating, thanks Pops. Still, iR lacks several things in the way of quality racing. The cars are too fragile for my taste and until repairs in pitstops are done it will never be a real sim. Even in one seater real races contacts don't always damage the car as much here. Fast tow is not really an option for me and I'll probably not use it at all as it just makes me unhappy and mad to sit in the pit like a sad geezer. Until these and other things are fixed GTR2 will still be my number 1 and iR a supplementing fun Tuesday racing game. Sorry Pops.

Looking forward to season 2.

I understand where you are coming from TT. I hope you stick with iRacing because it's going to continue to improve and all that stuff you want will be there eventually. In the meantime, I hope it offers that single seater racing (at a minimum) that you can't get anywhere else 

[Legzy]

Sounds like a good race last night. I wasn't able to get online till quite late on. Had to settle for some fun in a Skippy race at Mosport. Seems to be a very good track for that car for a "driver" of my talents. Not once did the back end come round on me I don't think, but some great feeling turns for the car. Straight was a bit long, but in company that doesn't matter, adds to the suspense

Started 11th (from 11) & finished 5th. Not bad I thought... just don't go looking up the strength of field

[Truetom]

I'm in Pops.
About getting there (somewhere) eventualy - I heard this several thousand times in my youth in YU, so spare me... 

[nsfast]

Sorry I didn't make the race last night. With the wife out I was responsible for entertaining the children. 

Thanks to Pops and the rest of the organisers for a good first season. I really enjoyed the first three races in particular.

Looking forward to trying some new tracks in S2.