iRacing Season 2 Skippy - Silverstone (International) - Mar 16

[Ben "Welling" Summers]

Mine does the same if I come out of the server and go back in, not sure if even alt tabbing does the same also, I will have to check.


got a G25 wheel btw.

[popabawa]

My view is that drivers should make every effort to drive the track within the prescribed bounaries as defined within the game, i.e. not to pick up any 1x off-track incidents.

That's one of the benefits to the incidents being reported, if someone flagrantly picked up a 1x every lap by cutting too much it's pretty easy to pick that up after the race, if it's deemed to be deliberate then a penalty would follow.

In this specific case (T3), as Brian points out, it's safer to ride the kerb there, no 1x is detected so it's perfectly allowable.

[picnic]

Mine does the same if I come out of the server and go back in, not sure if even alt tabbing does the same also, I will have to check.

Alt-Tab cause the problem for me as iR loses the focus.

got a G25 wheel btw.

Snap, makes no difference if I'm running the Logitech Profiler or not

[Fred Basset]

My view is that drivers should make every effort to drive the track within the prescribed bounaries as defined within the game, i.e. not to pick up any 1x off-track incidents.

That's one of the benefits to the incidents being reported, if someone flagrantly picked up a 1x every lap by cutting too much it's pretty easy to pick that up after the race, if it's deemed to be deliberate then a penalty would follow.

In this specific case (T3), as Brian points out, it's safer to ride the kerb there, no 1x is detected so it's perfectly allowable.

Its also realistic, as has been pointed out. I'm driving this like I do in real life, iRacing have it right with no 1x here

Gary

[Kerr]

Put in another little practice and I'm still all over the place.

I'm beginning to see how fast Brendon's time is. It would not be surprised to see that time more than good enough for pole.

After the recent debate about driving standards I do feel there is still too much focus on hot lap times.

There are a few corners that really bite but hopefully like I'm finding, I get thrown well off the racing line out the way.

I'm still miles off race standard so I will hopefully be on the server early doors tonight.

[ross.mcw]

I'm still miles off race standard so I will hopefully be on the server early doors tonight.

Lol yeah, miles off Brian!  Doubtless I'll be lapping you at least twice during the race with your 'slow' pace

[Dan Minton]

Struggling here ..just not carrying enough speed through the corners. Using Brendan's set which was a million times better than mine..Cheers mate.

[purdie]

sorry Michael, I over reacted to Don slowing i knew you were on my right but didn't realise you were a little alongside   your car was knackered and when I saw you pit I felt worse! Sorry again

DNF'd.... after the incident but I enjoyed combo and have had quite a bit of practice but still only quali'd 18th with a pb! Setup from Pops was great but I just didn't know how to carry enough speed through the corners (especially tricky T2 and T3!)  

Can't wait to get behind the Dallara which I seem to just click with..... pretty much addicted to power!

[Mike Wrightson]

My car was so beaten up after the first few laps it's a wonder it still went in a straight line  :'(  Although I had some good racing in the midfield and a massive battle with Ade for 8th, I pushed a mistake from him on the last lap!

That race goes into the "what might have been" pile.

I think you must have seen someone else pit though Andy, I carried on without resetting since the car was still driving OK.

[ross.mcw]

Really painful car/track combination that - I was hopeless in practice but finally managed to pull together an okayish qualy lap.

Spoiled my race at the start with a dumb jump start/black flag/pit which was a shame because I finally found some consistency and could have probably had some fun racing in the mid-field.  As it was I instead spent the whole race on my own and it's not a great track for just hot lapping.

Congrats on the win Brian and to all the other front runners.  Amazing pace!

Cheers, Ross.

[Kerr]

That went a lot better than I thought.

A few corners were really getting to me. Impossible to do consistently fast using right foot braking.

Qualifying was hotly contested with drivers up and down the chart all the time.

In the last couple of minutes I slipped from 1st to 4th but could not find a clean lap with all the traffic added with a few errors of my own.

Looked at the lap charts to see Dave at the top of the chart and I almost felt bad for stealing it off him however Paul came through to take 2nd late on too.

I knew there was no point trying to push too hard as at one point or another T3 into T4 would get me. Also the tight right hander at the end of the straight was getting to me. My braking was really inconsistent and I often ran wide.

Paul was never far away and I thought once I found myself 1.5 secs ahead I might ease away. A couple of little errors and Paul was right on my tail for the next series of laps.

Paul was really strong in and out of the tight right hander and was forever taking a few tenths off and could probably see I was struggling with that bend. Looking in my mirrors I could see him about to make a move on the brakes but I read what was going to happen. I just stayed left and let him run on wide.

That gave me an 8sec lead and I just cruised to the finish.

Great race and very surprised to win as earlier I really was struggling badly. Just shows if you forget about fastest laps and overdriving consistency rewards.

Looks like a few others had a real battle behind too.

[Noel Kellett]

That was good fun, had two unforced and silly spins towoards the end of the race which moved me back a few spots, but other than that, really enjoyable and some good close racing. Spent the first 5 or 6 laps doing my best Jarno Trulli impersonation, I was that green mobile chicane that 5 or 6 cars were backedup behind

Tipped Adam at the hairpin on lap 10 when I out braked myself, apologies, pulled aside and let him back through, Mike snuk past then too, in a car that was more skip that barber.

Noel

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Looked at the lap charts to see Dave at the top of the chart and I almost felt bad for stealing it off him however Paul came through to take 2nd late on too.

Heh heh, I saw the 34s in practice so I figured I'd have little chance of being anywhere near the front 3 rows; one lap I pushed too hard into T3 and had to drift it all the way through into T4. Thought the lap was spoiled so pushed in the rest of the lap hoping to stretch the limits a bit more on a scratch lap and was shocked to see 1:35.0 come up - and even more shocked to see the "1" in front of it!

Wasn't that surprised to see that that was still only good enough for 3rd but I figured that I'd soon have the 3 or 4 cars immediately behind me, er, well, immediately behind me. It was clear after the first few laps that Brendan was going to be the biggest threat, but I had enough of an advantage in the second half of the lap, especially in Priory and Brooklands, to be able to maintain a gap of around 2 seconds.

That was, until I reached Welling to lap him. Without much of a gap to play with, where I caught him was just going to be where it was going to be - unfortunately that turned out to be the tricky T3/T4 combination and my gap to Brendan was wiped out. From there on I had to defend like crazy, my only real advantage being that his strong section - T3/T4 - wasn't a great place to try an overtake.

At one point we actually traded places for a couple of laps; I can't remember now whether this was before or after Paul968 had his moment, but having him struggling right ahead of me didn't help much either.

A podium is an amazing result for me, and really only came about because of that freak qualifying lap. Still, I'll take what I can get!

[popabawa]

That was a pretty disappointing performance from me tonight

After quite a bit of practice I was going pretty well yesterday, getting into the 1:35's and easily running low 1:36's I was nowhere near it tonight. 10 mins praccy wasn't enough to get up to speed and I then struggled in qually.

As usual I only picked up places due to others mistakes but I was pretty consistent and didn't make any big mistakes.

The highlight was a great battle with Adam at the end, we had a small private wager on this race so I was very pleased to pip him

A pint of Crème de menthe and tizer please Adam!

[Simon Gymer]

My race report...

Roll on the IndyCar race.