Nascar CTS League - Race 5 Hillside International Speedway

BAZZIL · Post by **BAZZIL** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:00 pm

Wood wrote: Does anyone think that it might be worth giving dover a miss for somthing a bit bigger?

I do, but what ?

we went through all the tracks and the ones we chose were about the best of the lot.

Prometheus · Post by **Prometheus** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:01 pm

@!$^*%!!

Did anyone NOT hit me in the 1st ding ? Went from a qualify of 6th down to 31st in the blink of an eye, worked my way back up to 7th before a pitstop and dropping 10 places.

Great tussle with Inspector for a wee while, but I wonder what might have been.

mikool · Post by **mikool** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:14 pm

All I can say is I am looking forward to the server reply.....

Wood · Post by **Wood** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:18 pm

Strange, I was expecting a flurry of posts after a 'race' like tonight's. Maybe everyones just stormed off to bed in a huff

rob_c · Post by **rob_c** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:20 pm

Well . . . I don't think it was as bad as the Pre-race comments indicated ?

I had fun in some of the "in between major prangs" sections . . . It was kind of like a cross between racing, slalom skiing and pool.

But it is always EXTREMELY hectic with No Yellows on smaller tracks . . . and even moreso when people are on different pit strategies . . . where lapped cars were sometimes faster than leading cars.

But you have to admit . . . it was INTENSE.

Do you guys ever have a Post Race chat in Yahoo/Paltalk/MSN ?
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Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:22 pm

rob_c57 wrote: Do you guys ever have a Post Race chat in Yahoo/Paltalk/MSN ?
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we have a ventrillo server we use to ' cool off '

BAZZIL · Post by **BAZZIL** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:24 pm

rob_c57 wrote: Do you guys ever have a Post Race chat in Yahoo/Paltalk/MSN ?

Good to see you join the race Rob, what Ron said, we use ventrilo voice comms

http://www.simcentral.co.nz/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10

if you want the details to join our ventrilo server on race night (we are also on there other nights so jump on if u ever want to chat)

Wood · Post by **Wood** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:26 pm

BAZZIL wrote:
Wood wrote: Does anyone think that it might be worth giving dover a miss for somthing a bit bigger?
I do, but what ? we went through all the tracks and the ones we chose were about the best of the lot.

hmmm.....all I know is that another race like this wont be good for the league.

Poccono?
Michigan?

Danman · Post by **Danman** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:26 pm

Bring back yellows anyone?

chronic · Post by **chronic** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:27 pm

Well that was fun.

I was driving pretty carefully around accidents but it was still impossible to avoid them all, not much fun when people behind drive into you when you're slowing for the accident ahead either.

Snake Rogers · Post by **Snake Rogers** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:28 pm

rob_c57 wrote:
Do you guys ever have a Post Race chat in Yahoo/Paltalk/MSN ?
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We chat on ventrilo

Dings all round

Danman · Post by **Danman** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:29 pm

Pocono, Pocono

Happy · Post by **Happy** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:30 pm

mikool wrote:All I can say is I am looking forward to the server reply.....

I think you'll be waiting a while for a reply from the server since it can't talk

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chronic · Post by **chronic** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:31 pm

Danman wrote:Pocono, Pocono

What about Indy.

Eagle32 · Post by **Eagle32** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:32 pm

G Davey gets an apology from me for one tap that was my fault, didn't back off the throttle enough and drifted up slightly in the corner

Typhoon, sorry for that tap from the rear mid-race in whichever turn it was. I was right off the gas and still caught you. Were you braking?

Can I protest about the people causing the dings that I ended getting caught up in?

I must have dodged 20 and got caught in 3, the last one of which was within the last few laps and knocked me -2 laps and 4th-7th after i spent 100+ laps getting back onto the lead lap

As I said on Vent. however, by the time tomorrow comes I'll have forgotten it all

Lot of chaos, lot of traffic to dodge. But, still FUN as always

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:45 pm

Eagle32 wrote: As I said on Vent. however, by the time tomorrow comes I'll have forgotten it all Lot of chaos, lot of traffic to dodge. But, still FUN as always

And the same villians get to come back next week and rip again

Was all good fun, i guess

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Shame the few couldn't be bothered lifting or looking ahead for wrecks and instead, took out or involved those that did, wont learn from the race, as they seem not to give a stuff, or worse are totally naive that they are at fault for some of the big dings.

However was happy to finish ahead of the main 2 wreckers, thou unlike eagle, i will send in a protest for each incident so that their in-consideration can be brought to their attention.

Riven · Post by **Riven** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:48 pm

Snake Rogers wrote:
rob_c57 wrote:
Do you guys ever have a Post Race chat in Yahoo/Paltalk/MSN ?
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We chat on ventrilo ... http://www.simcentral.co.nz/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10 come and say gidday

Dings all round

Psst Sanke.. you dont want to be posting links with your 'sid' number in there, some can hax your acct with it

Post by **Jetboy** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:54 pm

my luck seems to be running thin these days....some fun racing had but after a tow on a track with 20 sec laps race was pretty much over....seemed to keep being in the wrong place at the right time and got dinged from all directions....some just racing incidents...but a noticable few were simply the case of the other drivers not quite having the situational awareness (am assuming that if my spotters calling then their spotter should be relaying some sort of info as well)

Retired soon after giving Tony G a nudge as we where clearing out from a spin and noticed that my brakes where not working (sorry about that Tony...had my foot planted on the brakes but nothing)....pedals tucked....going to do some research and build my own now to interface with the DFP...stuff fixing the plastic fantastics

Feel sorry for the judges and Prom this week...the judges are going to have a stack of protests to go through and poor Prom is going to have to buy a few new hard drives to fit all the footage of crashing on

M · Post by M » Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:24 am

Probably a good time to start focussing on the near misses and close calls and situations of excellent judgement in the videos.

RedValiant · Post by **RedValiant** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:27 am

Ummm, i guess you're not meaning me when you are talking of protests, but why protest the worst offenders and not the consistent offenders and the aggro, skill-challenged guys who fly past you when you slow for bings, or decide their is agap there and you will yield?
Rookies get yelled at, & bad mouthed for the slightest mistake yet some of the old hands drive like it's combat, even some of the supposed top guys are guilty of driving to take no prisoners Ã¢â‚¬â€œ doesnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t matter if they are in 30th or 3rd theyÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll push the pass. Truck 105 is as bad as the others week in and no one says boo, ( proof that there is a God is on Lap 155-odd when , after barging his way through a pack a lap earlier and getting crossed up, he barrels into a multi-car brawl in an attempt to pass the entire field and gets nailed). I let everyone go past that was ahead or far behind meÃ¢â‚¬Â¦even slowing and losing places to tell them to pass; because IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m gun-shy now about being involved in incidents and called out for it. Was top ten at half way, staying clean, then got spun into the pits backwards and lost a lap. Yet, I knew if certain mullet-headed guys kept at it, chances were of a good resultÃ¢â‚¬Â¦and lo it came to pass.

chronic · Post by **chronic** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:32 am

ronwest wrote:
And the same villians get to come back next week and rip again

Was all good fun, i guess .

Shame the few couldn't be bothered lifting or looking ahead for wrecks and instead, took out or involved those that did, wont learn from the race, as they seem not to give a stuff, or worse are totally naive that they are at fault for some of the big dings.

However was happy to finish ahead of the main 2 wreckers, thou unlike eagle, i will send in a protest for each incident so that their in-consideration can be brought to their attention.

In fairness though Hillside is a very difficult track to race on with that much traffic, sometimes you unintentionally add to the carnage by slowing down and unsuccessfully trying to pick a clean line through out of control vehicles.

Happened with me on a number of occaisions.

BAZZIL · Post by **BAZZIL** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:34 am

from what I saw red valiant you didn't do too bad, two people I noticed not slowing for accidents were Live M and Jason Dellaway.

Red valiant, if you see any 'non-rookies' breaking the rules, / dangerous driving or barelling into accident areas then submit a penalty for it.

You can submit a penalty for anyone breaking the rules, you don't even have to be involved in the incident.

M · Post by M » Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:57 am

BAZZIL wrote:from what I saw red valiant you didn't do too bad, two people I noticed not slowing for accidents were Live M and Jason Dellaway.

Don't know where you get that idea. I've just been through the replay counting how many times J Dellaway took me out and I can confirm that is not the case at all.

Biteme · Post by **Biteme** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 1:18 am

Mattly wrote: Alot of you know Biteme's driving style by now and i just want to let you know that it's a genetic thing. I manged to get hold of this photo of his grandfathers car after his first race at manfield in 46'

When told he should take a good look at himself before opening his trap
Mattly took things a bit literally.
We only hope he can get his head out of his arse before next wednesday.

M · Post by M » Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:11 am

Bold's in second place in the points! W00T! GO SIMTV!!!