iRacing Season 4 Radical - Brands Hatch (Indy) - Nov 9

[Paul968]

So frustrating - I absolutely had to beat you to stand any chance of taking the title.

You do realise that you drop 2 scores? Mike is effectively only 32 points ahead of you at this stage, the same amount as the difference between 2nd and 3rd in one race. It's Gary you need to worry about most - well done m8   

[Mike Wrightson]

Indeed, when the dropped scores are taken off, Gary is leading comfortably at the moment.

[popabawa]

Thanks for importing the results last night.

Apologies for my absence, I'll be back next week as long as my PC is behaving

[Paul Thurston]

Oops. 

Cheers Darren, you're a Gentleman.  Sadly I was too much in my own little World to figure out what you were doing.  Once the pace car had peeled off I figured we were supposed to go.  I normally go when the car in front of me goes.  It went so I went.

Qually was pleasing though.  That lap I just hooked up every corner.  I was surprised Gary wasn't ahead as I know he's quicker than that and in the end was slightly disappointed to miss pole by two thousandths.

In the event this season's been a real learning curve what with pitstops, pace car starts, setups and the like so I just swore, made a mental note to read the bloody rules and switched to damage limitation mode.  I'm good at that now as I've had a lot of practice.

At least the car was straight and I didn't end up driving a fuel tanker this time so my pace was good.  I started catching the tail of the field and found I was quick enough to actually be able to overtake people, which is a novelty.

Oily proved troublesome.  I caught him fairly easily but he was defending beautifully.  I could get right up behind him round Druids but wasn't quite fast enough to get alongside anywhere that mattered.  In the end he went wide at McLaren and I was off after John.

At this point Gary caught me and I pulled over to let him through down the Cooper Straight.  I saw Brendan following him through but took the pragmatic view and didn't risk a fight into Surtees.  As it was a couple of laps later he tangled with John and I slipped past both of them into Druids and was away.

I took my stop very late as I wasn't sure I'd be able to turn off the refuelling and didn't want to spend long running with a heavy car.  In the event I managed to do it down the pitlane with the keyboard balanced on my knees (Oooer...) so just changed tyres.  Despite decent pace I'd not managed to get enough of a gap to jump Simon and finished 6th.

Overall I enjoyed that.  Good qualifying, good race pace and lots of overtaking.  Just the one mistake but I'll learn from that.

The new build has definitely brought the Radical towards my setup.  The real-world style setups I use work a lot better now than they did and the tyre temperatures actually seem to make sense now.

Zandy next.  I'm carp there.

Congratulations to Gary on a fine drive.

Paul

[Simon Gymer]

The new build has definitely brought the Radical towards my setup.  The real-world style setups I use work a lot better now than they did and the tyre temperatures actually seem to make sense now.

Have to say this continually baffles me with iRacing builds. I hear people say how much the new build has changed a car and I sit there driving as normal not being able to feel any change from the previous build at all. I wonder if they just keep giving me the alpha version whilst upgrading the rest of you. The Radical feels absolutely no different from "before" to me.

[Paul Thurston]

Have to say this continually baffles me with iRacing builds. I hear people say how much the new build has changed a car and I sit there driving as normal not being able to feel any change from the previous build at all. I wonder if they just keep giving me the alpha version whilst upgrading the rest of you. The Radical feels absolutely no different from "before" to me.

Maybe you should stop driving in welding gloves?

In many cases I'd agree with you but something this time has made a real difference to the Radical for me and available evidence suggests it's the tyre damping.

[Darren Seal]

I have to agree with Paul..  The Radical has been improved with this latest build.  Before if you got the Radical slightly sideways the pogo effect would kick in and it would be almost impossible to recover.  Now the pogo effect has almost gone and the Radical is drift-tastic

[spanner]

Even i was enjoying how easy it was to catch it at times.

[popabawa]

Does anyone have the replay puh-lease?

[mr_oily]

Even i was enjoying how easy it was to catch it at times.

Yeah was good to have you there Spanner - for a moment it felt like we were on our way to a proper team presence again!

I enjoyed it but also found it immensely frustrating being so far off the pace. Lost my way completely with my setup in practice, getting lost in all the ones I'd been downloading from the forums and making fundamental changes minutes before the race.

Started from the back and then over-drove my way to 8th'ish before spinning at Clearways trying to chase down John and Simon I think it was. Topped that off with a penalty for speeding in the pit lane at which point I took on yet another load of juice and set three of fresh rubber. A good night's work all in all

Does anyone have the replay puh-lease?

I've got the replay Pops so can upload it for you later when I'm home if you've not got it by then.

P.s - sorry, not very gracious of me, well done you podium chaps - the standard's really impressive at the moment at the sharp end.

[Fred Basset]

Hi guys, thanks for the congratulations I had a good race last night.

Qually was torrid and I was dissappointed with a lap over half a second from my pb.

However the race was better and with Mr Thurston eliminating himself on the pace lap (I didn't take the mickey much when we went to lunch today, honest!) that left me to hassle Darren. He was driving well though so I concentrated on being neat and tidy and eventually there was an opening out of Graham Hill Bend and I got through on the entry to Surtees. Shame to hear how your race went after that, you deserved better mate.

We circulated together for a while but I slowly pulled out a gap and when Darren pitted I concentrated on some quick laps. This became harder as more people pitted and there were some interesting moments. Mostly however people were being very kind and lapping was fairly risk free.

However for once I made a good pitstop and the final laps were a joy easily keeping the sharks at bay 10 or 11 seconds back.

Well done to all finishers, its a tricky combination this one. Congrats to Mike and Dave and comiserations to Paul Richards, I wish you'd have made it too mate.

Dave you go on fighting Mike for the championship, don't worry about me at all:-)

Anyway it looks like the Sharks have the team championship all sewn up again so congrats on that.

Regards
Gary

[Legzy]

I just noticed I've been given 8 points & credited with driving this one.
I did connect to the server for 5 mins during pracy/qual... but was long gone before it got near the race session.

[Paul Thurston]

I just noticed I've been given 8 points & credited with driving this one.
I did connect to the server for 5 mins during pracy/qual... but was long gone before it got near the race session.

It's the thought that counts mate.

[picnic]

More iR favouritism In the SIMBIN games you get zero points if you don't get to the end of lap1

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

More iR favouritism In the SIMBIN games you get zero points if you don't get to the end of lap1

I raised a bug report/feature request with them ages ago so that the importer could distinguish between DNS and a lap 1 DNF and they filed it the same place they file all reports that don't suit them.