iRacing Season 2 Skippy - Laguna Seca - Mar 30

[Paul968]

Despite winning, that wasn't one of my better races Like everyone else I seemed to struggle in qual, but clearly not as badly. Not sure if this is down to the issue of practice sessions not taking conditions into account like altitude? It would make sense if it was though. I was as surprised as Brian not to see him up the front, and it made the first few laps seem strange. I found it really hard to concentrate and started making silly little slips that had nothing to do with pushing too hard. In the end I got the corkscrew a bit wrong and got a slow down, which meant that Mike could get past. Luckily Gary and those behind were far enough back for me to keep 2nd. Followed Mike for a couple of laps and then had a little bit of a run down the start finish straight, which seemed to unsettle Mike and he went a bit wide at T1. I tucked in tight but as Mike came back in the 2nd half of the corner we got a big warp contact which spun him round into me   At the time I didn't know it was warp, but did know it felt wrong. Mike unfortunately ended up in the gravel with a bent car but luckily I could keep going. Gary was kind enough not to push what would have been a tricky move at T2 (thx m8   and after that I was able to slowly pull out a lead and then cruise to the finish.

Well done to Gary and Dave, and hard luck to Mike, who was driving consistently fast early on and made it impossible for me to relax. Real shame that it ended as it did  

[Fred Basset]

No worries, it would have been pretty tight and the incident with Mike and yourself looked strange to me too as I was following you.

Agreed, Mike was very unlucky, good drive mate.

Gary

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Not sure if this is down to the issue of practice sessions not taking conditions into account like altitude?

I still think that's psychosomatic. AFAIK nobody from iRacing has commented and IMHO people are imagining it.

[Paul968]

If it is then it's remarkably consistent. We see this in most races.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

If it is then it's remarkably consistent. We see this in most races.

We also see more cars on track at once and thus more network load. I think that's much more likely to be the cause of any discrepency than some nebulous 'different conditions' - especially as it also seems to hold true in other sims.

Of course iRacing could put the whole thing to rest by just posting that there are no physics differences between sessions. But as usual their idea of commuity is everyone but them.

-- Mr Cynical

[Ken Murray]

although I think it was a very minor racing incident to be honest. 

Me too, I did say small contact. No worries, these things happen.

[Fred Basset]

If it is then it's remarkably consistent. We see this in most races.

We also see more cars on track at once and thus more network load. I think that's much more likely to be the cause of any discrepency than some nebulous 'different conditions' - especially as it also seems to hold true in other sims.

Of course iRacing could put the whole thing to rest by just posting that there are no physics differences between sessions. But as usual their idea of commuity is everyone but them.

-- Mr Cynical

I posted better times in qually than practice last night and did at Brands too from memory. I think its down to traffic etc, both times I ended up first car on the track with a clear road in front of me.

Gary

[Ken Murray]

If it is then it's remarkably consistent. We see this in most races.

I know I wasn't driving particularily well and we had full fuel, but I was a gear lower in the race on many parts of the track. It did liven up as the fuel load reduced.

[Ken Murray]

BTW, is anyone having trouble seeing hosted race results at the iRacing site? None are showing for me atm. Underneath the filter options it says Ken Murray Showing records 1-25 of 35 but there is nothing visible. I've tried refeshing the page a number of times.

Just did a quick search on the iR forum and seemingly it is an IE problem. The unnoficial solution is to use Firefox. I will try that later, I don't have Firefox on this laptop.

[Paul Thurston]

Just did a quick search on the iR forum and seemingly it is an IE problem. The unnoficial solution is to use Firefox. I will try that later, I don't have Firefox on this laptop.

You could also try Google Chrome.  Good browser.

[Paul Thurston]

Of course iRacing could put the whole thing to rest by just posting that there are no physics differences between sessions. But as usual their idea of commuity is everyone but them.

Has anyone asked them?

I've stuck a post into the tech support forum.  It's worth asking.  They may or may not answer.

[Burtoner]

Start was very tight but made it through the first few corners, and was soon putting Brendan under serious pressure. During lap 3 I called over TeamSpeak that I thought he would chuck it off at some point and sure enough, on the next lap he obliged.

LOL remember that, and he came out right infront of me!

My race, started 8th went bit hot into turn 2 going on the gravel alongside Dave, pasted Pops at corkscrew to go back to 10th at end of first lap, and set about getting higher up. Got stuck behind Andy and Ross only for them to both lose it at corkscrew and get upto 8th

When Dave over the team radio  announced Brendan was going to bin it, and sure did, he came out right in front of me! 

I half spun on 2nd last corner and went from 8th to 13th doh!

Battling well with Ken which I was faster and having the lead on him, to finally catch Andy Purdie up and past him too.
The last 3 laps were spent catching Adam Parle and passing him on the last lap at turn 1, to take a nice recoverable 8th place.
I could of caught Paul Thurston up if I had about 2 laps spare to go, so not a bad race, was eventful.

Pity i had about 2-3 spins costing maybe a 6th-8th place finish.

Think this was my move of the race

http://www.burtoner.com/iracing/robvskencorkscrew.rpy <- Got to see 

http://www.burtoner.com/iracing/andyandross.rpy <- Nice easy move on Andy and Ross at Corkscrew! 

[Paul Thurston]

I could of caught Paul Thurston up if I had about 2 laps spare to go, so not a bad race, was eventful.

Of course you'd then have had to get past as well.  There's no way you'd make that Corkscrew move stick twice.

[ross.mcw]

Incident summary report here:-

http://www.zensoftware.co.uk/downloads/temp/iracing/20100330.LagunaSeca.Skippy/incidents.htm

[popabawa]

Thanks Ross