65's at Sodeguara Forest Raceway - funrace 21/09

[Turkey Machine]

Band practice has been cancelled due to a sick singer, 30 minutes to the race, not even looked at this track but I do need some Coopertime so wave to me when you pass 

With pleasure.

[blito]

its a twisty evil bugger...  2nd gear the whole way round :E

[FullMetalGasket]

Doh! Screen freeze While chasing Hristo 

Was really enjoying that.
Can everyone report on wether they had any techinal issues please. Need to know if my incident was due to the track or not 

[blito]

i had a freeze in practice, approaching the final hairpin.. otherwise no issues

[vosblod]

No server problems for me, it was just my driving but the Coop is improving

[b_1_rd]

not top of my list of favourite tracks! Server was ok, but did get a full red bar at one stage in the race for a few seconds.

[Turkey Machine]

Screen freeze occured about 5 minutes before the end of practice going around the second corner.

Fun track, good when you get the lap right but frustrating when you can't work out how to go quicker.

After the T1 fiasco (not my fault for a change, I kept a wide berth and was collected by an avoiding-another-car-Hristo), I kept a watching brief and worked my way back into the track groove. PB of a 1:08 (finally!) came, then people started falling off, so moved up the order! Bernie did his level best to keep third but had that snatched from him, so the poor sod finished 5th in a gallant effort. I ended up 2nd chasing Hristo until a tap with the outside wall on the penultimate lap put paid to that one.

Fun race, enjoyable.

[Samb]

Bit of a disaster for my debut with Black Night Racing. For season 18-19, the problem was my internet connection, but now for season 20, my main bugbear is my laptop! That ruddy Intel speedstep option, which I can disable within the bios but the only other option is a constantly low clock rate.

Despite turning off the function in GEM, I experienced numerous slowdowns during my short track time, with the S bar constantly going haywire on screen. I'm going to have to find a solution pretty quickly if I am to race at the start of this season. Maybe I could shift my old desktop from home, but for now, I'll see if I can dig up any other solutions. Hope the rest of you had a great race  .

[Baab]

I think I was to blame for the T1 issues, I am racing with onboard graphics at the moment due a faulty cooling fan.  When entering T1 with other cars the frame rate slowed, I bounced off the inside wall and into the path of others.  I also hit bernie a couple of times while trying to pass, sorry Bernie  , these incidents were my fault and not technical issues.  I'll wait to get my proper graphics card back before racing online again.

Cheers,

Bob.

[Hristo Itchov]

I had a very bad start for some reason and was passed by Jethro and Tim on the run to T1. Bob was also on his way to pass me on the inside, but as he explained there was contact and that spun me into Jethro's path. A few other cars got involved while Tim took advantage and set off into the lead.

I managed to pass a few cars immediately as they were recovering, but it soon became evident that my race setup wasn't so good - oversteer every time I touch the throttle and inability to drift smoothly as a result. This led to a couple of half-spins plus one full spin, so I thought the chance of winning was gone by then.

Still pushed as much as I could, trying to adapt to the car and that took a couple of laps to get used to. Caught up with Fulvio and Bernie who were having a dice at the first hairpin - they had a bit of a slow exit and I went for the inside, but Fulvio's car swerved suddenly towards the inside when I was already there and he got bumped off the road.

Bernie proved much harder to catch and pass than I expected - great driving, Bernie. He had a moment a lap later though and so I managed to get through on the s/f straight. That moved me up to 2nd, but Tim was some 10 seconds up ahead.

With another mistake on my behalf, the gap grew to 11 seconds with just 18-19 laps to go, so I thought it would be impossible to catch him anymore. For some reason the gap dropped down by 3 seconds 2 laps later - either backmarkers or Tim's own mistakes, I thought.

As the fuel load went down I could manage some decent laps and the gap shrunk to 5 seconds, with Tim now in view in the distance. Some more backmarkers and I closed up within 2 seconds a few laps later. Just when the battle was about to begin, Tim had a spin on the exit of T1 and I waited for him to recover, because it's a fun race and stuff.

Sadly he had a screen freeze a lap later, so now I had Jethro over 30 seconds behind. I slowed a lot for the next 3-4 laps and was then chased by Jethro for the reminder of the race.

Nice track for racing, but really tricky to get a lap right, especially with more fuel in race trim. I would definitely like driving on it again though. It might be great in the other mods as well.

-=Hristo=-

[FullMetalGasket]

Think I discovered the source of my screen freeze - when I turned off after the race I discovered Windows had downloaded an update in the background.
9 times out of 10 that'll crash whatever I have running  :cursing

Think I may schedule the pc to only update on wednesdays as I don't tend to do anything then!

[Hristo Itchov]

Think I discovered the source of my screen freeze - when I turned off after the race I discovered Windows had downloaded an update in the background.
9 times out of 10 that'll crash whatever I have running  :cursing

Think I may schedule the pc to only update on wednesdays as I don't tend to do anything then!

The dreaded Windows Update... and NO, there's BREASTS on Wednesdays!!!

[blito]

some of us have access to breasts everyday   

my race was very interesting, mostly spent watching my mirrors and trying not to make others crash.  Somehow i got nerfed off at the first hairpin by an unseen car behind, otherwise no drama except for 3 own-fault spins caused through pushing too hard...
gotta say, i LOVE that track, its sooo Gran Turismo ! lets do it again sometime

[FullMetalGasket]

Think I discovered the source of my screen freeze - when I turned off after the race I discovered Windows had downloaded an update in the background.
9 times out of 10 that'll crash whatever I have running  :cursing

Think I may schedule the pc to only update on wednesdays as I don't tend to do anything then!

The dreaded Windows Update... and NO, there's BREASTS on Wednesdays!!!

Yes, but I can't race on wednesdays - Something to do with some other breasts......

[bernie]

I got the sort of start you dream about , every one seemed to do there best to let me by , but my swiftly inherited P2 didn't last that long  before I could hear the sound of a hard charging Hristo catching up fast .

My Lotus was doing fine on the twisty bits ,  It wasn't too good on the straights  the one that mattered most was the start finish straight I just couldnt get this part right no matter how hard I tried and I could see H was a little ( actually a whole lot ) faster than me , so I decided to let him pass me so I could give the straight bits my full concentration .

All went well for a while, but then the straight bits seemed to somehow get shorter and shorter , until they weren't straights any more,  they had all become corners.  I couldnt believe it,  they definately were not the same straights I started the race with , where had they gone ?  I decided to go looking for the missing straights , searched here , searched there , everywhere !

Eventually I ran out of time and I never did find them 

The End