iRacing Season 2 IndyCar - Infineon Raceway (IRL) - Mar 9

[popabawa]

Paul Richards wins the "who can break 1:20 first" contest... he's reporting a 1:18.9

[Ben "Welling" Summers]

Latest Pre-testing laptimes
Paul Richards    1:18.9
Dan Minton       1:20
Andy Purdie      1:20.099
Ken Murray       1:20.190
Brendan Wright  1:20.8
Iain Mabbott     1:21.271
Adam Parle        1:21.708
Mike Wrightson  1:21.9
Blunder            1.23.0
Mark Ekins        1:23.564
Tomaz Ostr'nik  1:23.672
Dave Gymer      1:24.2
Martin Mason    1:24.481
Robert Burton   1:24.548
Ben Summers    1:25.093
Chris Laker       1:27.727

[purdie]

Paul Richards wins the "who can break 1:20 first" contest... he's reporting a 1:18.9

....he can't even be decent enough to 'just' get under the 1m20s! 


nice Brendan, I hope to be in the 21s at least with race fuel.... looks like it will be close!


.......in quali anyway lol

[popabawa]

....he can't even be decent enough to 'just' get under the 1m20s! 

LOL!

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[Dan Minton]

Just watched that vid and i noticed how different the shape of the real front tyres are compared to the iRacing ones... theyve got that a bit wrong.

[Truetom]

Just watched that vid and i noticed how different the shape of the real front tyres are compared to the iRacing ones... theyve got that a bit wrong.

What, in real life?

[popabawa]

Apologies, looks like I set a 20m qualifying time instead of 15m.

[Ken Murray]

Apologies, looks like I set a 20m qualifying time instead of 15m.

I'd prefer that anyway!

[Brendan]

What a plonker!

Couldn't really get a decent lap in qually so lined up 6th on the grid.......... on qual fuel 

Anyway, start was clean and was close behind Ken who was impressively quick despite carrying much more fuel than I.  Pitted on about lap 6 and rejoined with the faint hope of clawing back a few places.  After about half distance it was starting to look like I may have enough fuel to last the distance if I could manage the tyres for that long.

Turns out I locked the RF a few too many times and got a puncture about 3 laps from the end.  I suppose the poor tyre had it's own back on me as we were quickly united with the tyre wall.  Race over.

Miffed at my own daft mistake but overall I think I learnt enough about the Dallara to entice me back for more.

Grats to all finishers.

[Mike Wrightson]

It took until the last 10 mins of practice to find a setup that worked for me, and I lined up 4th on the grid only 0.2s away from 2nd! 

All I wanted was a clean start and then we would see what happened.  Start was good, and I was staying with Dan for a few laps, but he edged away a bit as I overheated my tyres and had to back off a little to cool them again.  Near the end the fuel estimate was very close to letting me go non-stop, so I short-shifted for a few laps to see how far I could stretch it.  I chickened out with 2 to go and pitted for a splash.  Very nearly jumped past Andy, but 4th place it was.

I'm happy with that, particularly here!

Anyone else have the car set up to use only 5 gears here?  Seemed to work for me.

[Ben "Welling" Summers]

I never used more than 5th gear, only use 1st once a lap

Surely no-one gets a long enough straight for 6th gear   Do they ?

[Simon Gymer]

Thank goodness that is over. I found that very difficult indeed.

Qualified fine, down in 9th I think and followed Gizmo for the first part of the race. I was miles better under brakes in the slow stuff in the second half of the lap whilst he was much quicker through the hard fiddly stuff in the first half of the lap. Then on one lap I think Ken had come out of the pits and Gizmo was a bit slower into the last corner and I jammed on my brakes to the max to avoid hitting him. Unfortunately I span whilst doing this which ended the fight (not that you can overtake here anyway, like 75% of the awful american circuits in this game).

Hadn't hit anything (there isn't anything to hit down there) so carried on. Did alright until I span coming out of the downhill left hander shute like bit. Again missed all scenery and gently rolled up the bank. Ok carried on. Took pit stop, no problems there. Mid way through second stint I accidentally went down too many gears into reverse at the hairpin causing me to spin not far in front of team mate Mike. Ok, still hadn't hit anything, fine carried on. Penultimate lap (although it turned out to be the last lap as Paul lapped me) and I span for the first time in the race at T1/2 and at last hit the scenery. A very mild touch from my rear and car seemed fine. Carried on, finished the final lap and very relieved it was all over.

Dunno where you guys were 4 seconds quicker or how you kept it on so easily, so hats off to you.

EDIT...I was using all 6 gears right to the top of the revs. 1st was awesome.

[Ken Murray]

Dear me, when am I going to get my act together. Running nicely in 5th and slowly seeing Mike coming back towards me as he battled with Dan was it?? Anyway lapse of concentration at T2 and off I go with my nose in to the tyres. The better course of action may have been to force a spin and avoid contact. Anyway only Iain went through and once I got used to driving with the steering cocked and slightly less front downforce I started reeling him back in. When I caught him he made the tactical decision to take his stop. I thought right, make these laps count. Next thing I new after barely starting the next lap was the right front had punctured. Toured round slowly, hopefully I didn't get in the way too much. In to the pits, tyres and fuel, off I go, black flag for speeding!!!! I'll actual learn not to do that one of these days. Back in a lap later, stop short of my bay to uncheck fuel. Served my penalty and salvaged a couple of places in the final part of the race. I might get it right one of these days!!!!

[picnic]

That was seriously hard work. No practice before tonight and it showed in the actual practice session. Once Gizmo shared his setup I found it so much better and managed to put together several laps without going off or spinning.

Qual was nightmare, even when I tried to stay out of others way they seemed to be distracted and fall off.

The race was just difficult. Can't see how you guys go so fast, hats off to you all Glad for a small turnout, makes for some easy championship points