Ah, it was fine. Looking at the replay I can see I started to come back into the middle of the track. It caught me out as you closed the gap really fast otherwise I would have stuck closer to the outside. I think the battle in front meant I had to back off quite a bit, which triggered the whole thing.
Real shame. If I'm in the wrong headspace about this, please, let me know as I can use it as a learning opportunity and take that knowledge into next week.
Personally, I think you didn't do anything wrong and someone should have waited.... Kudos for just getting on with itHaving viewed both perspectives I believe my T3 incident could have been avoided. Continuing to accelerate into a corner while the two in front are actively braking was either a miscalculation or ....
Not sure exactly what causes this. There seems to be an issue with the way the time of day is handled across timezones. If you are running Sol, you should have an app running that allows you to change the time of day during a replay
Some of your cornering speeds, and manouveres just don't seem possible manMy VR onboard. T1 for jump scare.
Some of your cornering speeds, and manouveres just don't seem possible man
I used to also be really confused when looking at leader's onboards years ago, and the truth is that it just takes a lot of practice. There are no shortcuts: you'll get there if you have the will to eventually.(Warning: this is a long advice post
Hah, you folks should have seen my frustration after 2nd at Donington
I used to be right at the back in my early days sim racing -- I still remember being always at the back and honestly having no idea how others were able to go so fast. The truth is there's no secret, it's just the culmination of slowly realising the places you aren't extracting the most out of the car and ironing them out, one by one. That requires sticking with the car, the sim, and the practice until you've got it.
My sim racing career looks like this -- hopefully it helps newer racers understand why it's not reasonable to compare yourself yet to so-called "aliens" until you've had more time
- Early 2011-2012: Public racer in Live for Speed. I started off right at the back of the field and worked until I was pretty close to the front in leagues.
- 2012-2013: VIER eSports driver (also Live for Speed). Spent a lot of time in the nimble FOX formula car.
- 2013: Moved to Malaysia for work and sold my wheel/etc.
- 2013-2017: I wasn't sim racing.
- Late 2017: Started doing public racing in AC.
- May 2018: My first race at RD. You can really see how ragged my racecraft is, I'm way overdriving the car. I learned that the skill ceiling for AC was higher than I anticipated and that I need more practice.
There's so many aspects to learn, and at least for me, it took me maybe a year to go from "bad" to "pretty good", and several more to go from "pretty good" to being good enough to get people inflating my ego by calling me an alien.
- July 2018: My first win at RD, and it was a lucky one (Aki got spun around in 2nd). So even going from "ok, but not great" to "can win with some luck" took me three months.
- Mid-2019: This is probably the point where I started consistently winning races at RD and elsewhere.
If you just came here it might be shocking to realise that some people can go that quickly in the car, but you've got to also realise that those people have maybe several years more experience, and you can get there too by putting the time in. We've seen it time and time again at RD, there are plenty of people at the front who weren't there at the beginning.
My top tips from looking at your replay would be to use more of the track, try to be less (yes, less!) smooth with your inputs, and focus purely on consistency over pace.
I will post an onboard when I find one for you to review. I'm also curious to see your car setup. even though you drive something else, there's still something to learn. As for the race: i just psyched myself out of racing today. Anyway maybe next timeDon't feel too down
Which corners are you thinking of particularly? Happy to give some tips or advice. If you post an onboard of a lap I'm also happy to review it.
All that said, we've seen plenty of people improve a lot in RD club: hell, I didn't win frequently at the beginning either. Here's a long post on that subject the last time it came up:
Are you using content manager?Someone still got the race results cause it seems opening a replay overwrites it
Don't feel too down
. It's very unfortunate that I had to miss this one because of some crazy people here... Nurb is my favorite circuit
My VR onboard. T1 for jump scare.
No worries mate. It was my first race and I am used to much harder (and less cleaner) lobby battles. I really enjoyed the race and the midfield battle until I had to stop and (as I am used to auto pit in PC2 and F1 2020) I completely missed my box (the very first one) and had to reverse gear and reach the right position
My apologies to - I think - @Fiberoptix, who was chasing me just a lap before the pit (around mid-race), I saw he spun just behind me in T4, I saw the replay and can't tell if he was forces out by me being too slow..
Nice battle also with @Stefano La Commare for a few laps, and yes, @doof205 it was really fun!
Such a rewarding race if I think of the public lobbies in PC2 and F1..
Shame that with just a couple of laps to go, my poor connection decided to give up, and in T3 I saw 3 cars battling all going straight through the grass. I though there was something strange and in fact..
How is it that if I try to switch to my car in the replay posted by @GeekyDeaks I can't see nothing? just a grey-ish screen or seeing the circuit from below?
. My races still have a incidents like this, was a total in 3 times I went off. My biggest loss was when I nudged @Stefano La Commare at turn 7 on lap 23. In the replay I see you tap @UHF79 who slides in front of you slowing you down. I then nudge lightly into you due to the loss of speed and you spun off. I didn't know at the time if it was my fault, figured it might have been so pulled over and waited for you to come past driving slowly through whole schumacher S on the grass before you and others over took me.
I just loaded it up and I can see you as car 28. It has you right up until the disconnect near the end. Can you double check that car number on your end?
