Round 3 - Nocturnal Sportscar League

bman · Post by **bman** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:08 pm

Hard out races, thats for sure! I was the unwitting catalyst for Snakes unfortunate air time - lol - sorry about that man =]

I clipped a short (3 meg) WMV of Riven pulling an overtake off into T1 in BUSY traffic... things didnt go well!

http://www.atomik.co.nz/files/riv_ot.WMV

The same sort of thing happened twice more before he got past properly - the poor bugger!

Riven · Post by **Riven** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:14 pm

bman wrote:Hard out races, thats for sure! I was the unwitting catalyst for Snakes unfortunate air time - lol - sorry about that man =]

I clipped a short (3 meg) WMV of Riven pulling an overtake off into T1 in BUSY traffic... things didnt go well!

http://www.atomik.co.nz/files/riv_ot.WMV

The same sort of thing happened twice more before he got past properly - the poor bugger!

Lol, that was my screw up.. too impatient, and not seeing the 100 board go past before braking

Sorry to whoever it was on the receiving end

Deij · Post by **Deij** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:40 pm

Np Riven, wondered what had hit me, oh well thats racin, damn good fun at Limerock enjoyed 1st race better than 2nd but all in all a good nights racin, lookin fwd to the Glen.

Wood · Post by **Wood** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:44 pm

Prometheus wrote:

Well I was the unlucky fool being in the wrong place at the wrong time who took out Mr Wood in race 1. Too fast, spun, lost control, and wiped him out. As mortified as I was, I seriously considered dropping out of race 2, as I thought I would be just a danger to everyone else.

Np prom, It was awesome fun trying to storm my way back through the field.

Certainly was a lot of carnage about, hopefully it will be more settled next week.

]-[ITMAN · Post by **]-[ITMAN** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:57 pm

Just finished watching the replays... Damn!

In a comfortable 3rd and disco, that bites.

The speed difference around such a smallish track I think contributed to many of the incidents, but there certainly some pretty intense racing going on...

BAZZIL · Post by **BAZZIL** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:21 am

Now now snake it's not flightsim, it's car racing

RedValiant · Post by **RedValiant** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:39 am

NP Snake

. It was that kind of track where even the long straights were jumping out and biting people...just happy to have made it home alive.

Tickford · Post by **Tickford** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:34 pm

Excellent write up on the Lime Rock round @ SmRacerHq. Well Done Famin!

famin · Post by **famin** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:13 am

thanks mate, thought it might be a bit long or picture heavy...

apologies to those I missed seeing in the replays.

BAZZIL · Post by **BAZZIL** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:51 am

Yah very good Famin, very entertaining read that

I like the quotes you stuck in at the end there, LOL !
Donations may be available to those drivers who 'disrupt' Dwoods race

BAZZIL · Post by **BAZZIL** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:53 am

Race 1 started in two groups courtesy of Nathan Smith who seemed to hang back and the top 10 quickly opened a gap

Is Nathan going to get pinged for this ? this is the second race i've seen him do this in, and it screws everyone behind him.

Riven · Post by **Riven** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 9:00 am

Great write-up.

One issue, my bingle you see in one of them picks when i got turned around was T7 not T1

TonyG · Post by **TonyG** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 9:13 am

Excellent and entertaining write up Famin, look forward to the next one

limbo · Post by **limbo** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:33 pm

BAZZIL wrote:
Race 1 started in two groups courtesy of Nathan Smith who seemed to hang back and the top 10 quickly opened a gap
Is Nathan going to get pinged for this ? this is the second race i've seen him do this in, and it screws everyone behind him.

i reckon thats why he was banished to the rear of the grid for race two.

oh yeah! great write-up Famin.
good value
looks like you got a new job....
motorsports coloumnist for simracerhq :0
but i think i will be careful with my
apre race quotes from now on....
damned papparazzi!!

Tickford · Post by **Tickford** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:00 pm

BAZZIL wrote:
Race 1 started in two groups courtesy of Nathan Smith who seemed to hang back and the top 10 quickly opened a gap
Is Nathan going to get pinged for this ? this is the second race i've seen him do this in, and it screws everyone behind him.

I may have contributed to this. I have a GPL shifter and it decided to die on me as we were taking off behind the pace car. It just wouldnt engage a gear.

I had to duck inbehind the pc, unplug and replug it back in. Luckly this did the trick and I was able to get going. But I did stall on the grid for a short while (seemed like an enternity!).

cap'n · Post by **cap'n** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:14 pm

yes a good read there famin. I feel that a good roundup adds a certain something to any racing

odonohuesp · Post by **odonohuesp** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:25 pm

limbo wrote:
BAZZIL wrote:
Race 1 started in two groups courtesy of Nathan Smith who seemed to hang back and the top 10 quickly opened a gap
Is Nathan going to get pinged for this ? this is the second race i've seen him do this in, and it screws everyone behind him.

i reckon thats why he was banished to the rear of the grid for race two.

oh yeah! great write-up Famin.
good value
looks like you got a new job....
motorsports coloumnist for simracerhq :0
but i think i will be careful with my
apre race quotes from now on....
damned papparazzi!!

Just keep a low profile and you will never have to worry about the press.

Danman · Post by **Danman** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:32 pm

T7 at Lime Rock is one scary place to find yourself turned around and facing the wrong way!

It's also amazing how fast cars appear in the F2 screen

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:32 pm

BAZZIL wrote:
Race 1 started in two groups courtesy of Nathan Smith who seemed to hang back and the top 10 quickly opened a gap
Is Nathan going to get pinged for this ? this is the second race i've seen him do this in, and it screws everyone behind him.

while it's not the policy of the officials to discuss penelties in a public forum, he was penelized and put to the rear of the feild for race 2

Tickford wrote:
I may have contributed to this. I have a GPL shifter and it decided to die on me as we were taking off behind the pace car. It just wouldnt engage a gear.

I had to duck inbehind the pc, unplug and replug it back in. Luckly this did the trick and I was able to get going. But I did stall on the grid for a short while (seemed like an enternity!).

nope, your shifter issue had nothing to do with it, you where in th correct postion when you approached the start line, nathan simply failed to move up behind you.

snakes gets pinged as well for holding his line back, thou it's only an ip point.

Eagle32 · Post by **Eagle32** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:07 pm

ronwest wrote:snakes gets pinged as well for holding his line back, thou it's only an ip point.

Ok I'm not trying to cause grief or argue Ron I just want to clear something up incase it happens to me. I may have the in-game rules confused or they may be different for the tptcc mod.

Wasn't Snake required to stay behind N Smith unless his spotter gave him permission to pass? If he had caught up with his pacing line he would have passed Nathan and recieved whatever the games penalty is for overtaking before the start line?

Obviously I have something slightly wrong here ?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:15 pm

Eagle32 wrote:
ronwest wrote:snakes gets pinged as well for holding his line back, thou it's only an ip point.
Ok I'm not trying to cause grief or argue Ron I just want to clear something up incase it happens to me. I may have the in-game rules confused or they may be different for the tptcc mod.

Wasn't Snake required to stay behind N Smith unless his spotter gave him permission to pass? If he had caught up with his pacing line he would have passed Nathan and recieved whatever the games penalty is for overtaking before the start line?

Obviously I have something slightly wrong here ?

theres an email being sent out to the group as i type

in short you wont get a penelty unless you pass the guy in front of you in your line of cars

Eagle32 · Post by **Eagle32** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:39 pm

Cheers Ron

and I just read your write-up Famin, good stuff

Sulley · Post by **Sulley** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 5:10 pm

I hope I didn't contribute to this broken field issue too much, every race so far I've found that the cars infront leap away up 50+mph then slow dramatically, the concertina affect, in the second race I had to take evasive action off the track to avoid piling up the guy infront.

Also I've been trying to follow the 0.5 sec gap, pace speed until start line then accelerate rules, I sometimes wonder if I'm the only one.

Maybe its just me in that I'm slow away or something..thoughts?

limbo · Post by **limbo** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 5:18 pm

Sulley wrote:.....I've found that the cars infront leap away up 50+mph then slow dramatically, the concertina affect,

yeah me too.

Sulley wrote:Also I've been trying to follow the 0.5 sec gap, pace speed until start line then accelerate rules, I sometimes wonder if I'm the only one.

No, there is at least two of us.

Sulley wrote:Maybe its just me in that I'm slow away or something..thoughts?

i think the first rank take off... then every body goes 80mph to catch them... then discover that the leaders are only doing 40mph.. hardbrake = concertina. then the hard brake lets the lead rank get away again and it starts all over again. etc etc ad nauseum

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 5:19 pm

Sulley wrote:I hope I didn't contribute to this broken field issue too much, every race so far I've found that the cars infront leap away up 50+mph then slow dramatically, the concertina affect, in the second race I had to take evasive action off the track to avoid piling up the guy infront.

Also I've been trying to follow the 0.5 sec gap, pace speed until start line then accelerate rules, I sometimes wonder if I'm the only one.

Maybe its just me in that I'm slow away or something..thoughts?

hopefully with th new suggestions made we can prevent the rapid speed up - brake movements