iRacing Season 4 Radical - NHMS (Road with South Oval) - Sep 21

[Paul Richards]

Hoping to make this one. 57s so far too.

[ross.mcw]

Any chance of one of you 57s guys sharing a set-up - I just could not get below 59s last night and it felt like the set-up (because I'm such a great driver so it can't be me.....)

Great fun track though - should be pretty mad tonight!

[Simon Gymer]

Just had a chance to do a few laps. Stiffest car in the game with the bumpiest track. A very interesting combination.

Only had one lap below 1:00 myself and that was a 59.9. The car keeps sending the back end round into the concrete wall on the oval bit so that's a problem and the rest of the circuit the car is just plain evil around. I hope to nick a setup off someone else too although unlike Ross I'm sure it's me mostly, but with a better setup me being rubbish here won't be so noticable.

[popabawa]

Server's up. I think I've even set a rolling start (sorry to ruin the surprise).

[Paul Thurston]

Server's up.

Unlike iRacing it would appear...

[Kerr]

Down for me too.

I don't even have the track yet, so with no time to get a little practice that's me out.

[Paul Thurston]

Down for maintenance.  Bang goes any chance of last minute practice.

[Darren Seal]

Typical.  This always happens when I leave my practise until the night of the race. 

[Paul Thurston]

It is the scheduled maintenance that their network supplier was planning tonight.  Tony Gardner's just posted on the iRacing forum.  They thought they had a workaround but it evidently didn't work.

I guess the server's chugging away happily in the background with noone connected to it.

Interesting that the forum's fine.

Paul

[Legzy]

I just got in in double quick time, couple of others on there too


(so think I'm good for 3rd currently )

[Darren Seal]

No practise, no setup and it showed.. Qualified 8th...

On the first lap Ross was clipped and spun right in front of me.  I tried to stop but was I slammed from behind and sent high into the air...

Car landed (eventually) but my steering was off by over 90 degrees.  Race over! 

One consolation...  At least I didn't waste too much time. 

[Paul Thurston]

I worked hard at this one and it showed in my qualifying pace, nicking third off Paul.

Race started and I got a good start, though I suspect Paul hung back to stay out of initial trouble but I was holding him fine.  3 or 4 laps in my body just went to bits, my foot started shaking.  I've felt a bit carp all day but I've not had that happen before.  I stuffed up the last turn due to marginal throttle control and Paul slid easily by.  I settled down again but the shaking foot wasn't making gear changing easy.

A couple of laps later I came round the right hander at the top of the hill, changed down and found myself in 1st.  Instant spin, Mike followed me round with no chance to avoid me, we're both out.  I'm really sorry Mike.

Sorry also to whoever it was coming past as I popped out from over the brow.  I had absolutely no idea where I was at that point and was somewhat surprised to arrive back on the track.

Sadly the wheels were pointing in various directions so I decided to spear it into a nice safe, off the racing line wall for good measure.

Paul

[Mike Wrightson]

Qualified 5th, the car is a complete nightmare round here, bouncing all over the place.

Held position at the start and caught up behind Paul T, only to clip him when trying to avoid his spin.  Car didn't feel too bad, but it wanted to spin to the left all the time, which helped me bin it for good 2 laps later.

Thank god that's over and I can get practicing for a proper track

[Legzy]

Had Ross, Oily & Spanner round me at the start, a sea of black & (horrible) green

Made a rare good start & snuck up on the inside of Oily at the twitchy T1 & ran just ahead into T2 (I thought ), as we accelerated up & around, I got concerned that Oily must be on my inside as I could only see one black & green car behind, checked again &....BOOM!!! I'm into the back of two stationary cars. Race over.

Watched the replay, poor Ross got spun with what looked like minimal contact, Darren had nowhere to go & shot Ross into the air, then I did Darren the same favour.

[Simon Gymer]

It looks like me spinning Ross actually. I must admit I thought the flying car was Oily (which would have made it alright ), but checking the replay shows what happened.

I was going around the outside of the corner with Ross on the inside and a proximity collision with the front right zone of my car and the rear left zone of Ross's car, pushed Ross around causing his car to lose it and then get flipped in the air by unsuspecting victims behind. I didn't think we were as close as that at the time and put the flying car down to warp, but apparently it was me :'(.

Very sorry, seems like I once again took out half the field on lap 1. I'm getting good at this. Perhaps I should start from the pit lane at the next race just to make sure I don't do it three times in a row.

Shame about the turnout again. Must admit it's a horrible track, although very challenging, it's very hard in the Radical for sure.

Well done to the podium and sorry again to those that didn't get to the end because of me.