We have a few backmarkers there who love to have some more so please join when you can. They will also confirm that racing with us is the best way to become faster, especially if you use the replays to jump in other drivers cars and see what they do different.
Correction: The track was chosen by you as Track of the Month
. My choice would been a small circuit (and will be next week!).
Here is the replayI had a couple of run-ins with someone, don't know who it was because I had driver names disabled, and my max replay size was set to 26 mb for some reason, so I can't really review exactly what happened... Will definately review and adjust these settings before next race.
But it would be interesting to watch these incidents from another perspective, does anyone have a replay showing this?
Nice. What gear ratio were you using? I felt during late pratice that I had it wrong but it was too late to changeHad a blast driving this car around Feldbergring yesterday, thanks for the amazing track David!
I see I missed 5 races with the Lotus 25.. a bit sad about that
I felt quite at ease pushing the car yesterday during qualifying and the race. I think Allan didn't quite put his lap together during qualifying and made some small mistakes during the race. At the start of the race even though Allan was only a second behind I felt quite in control and relaxed. I was enjoying the driving, still going fast but not over the limit. During the race when Allan got a bit closer I pushed a bit harder again and that worked quite well.
Congrats to Allan who kept pushing, Colin for the podium and anyone who made it through!
Here is the pole lap, I added pedals and gears as well.
Oh and David, you're a much better driver than you are making it out to be!
I switched to the longer gear ratio when I saw Allan had about 13 kph more top speed.. other than that exact same setup as previous race. Shorter gears was maybe 1 second slower, not more, you got more acceleration in other parts of the track.
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Sorry to hear your race did not go as smoothly as you had hoped @Fat-Alfie but, I agree with others here, you're being too hard on yourself. Believe me, I've made every mistake in the book, and find myself bringing up the rear in almost every race. I keep at it though, because simracing is just so much damn fun and even more so against other humans! And, although I still make my share of bonehead mistakes, I've learned A LOT here by racing with these guys and have found my racing skills slowly improving (very slowlyI also had a terrible race. I crashed into 2 other people, and I'm really sorry to them and hope I didn't spoil their races
I had done a bit of practice in the week just to refamiliarise myself with the track and try to find a decent set-up, so I didn't bother with the pre-race practice session. I always intended to start from the back, so I didn't get in anyone else's way.
I was certain I had selected the set-up I'd used in my mid-week practice, but straight away it felt wrong. Massive understeer, brakes locking up, slow on the back straight... my best lap in last night's race was 10 seconds off my practice time and the car felt horrible. All I can think is that I had selected the wrong set-up by mistake
After the second collision I decided it was better that I withdraw, rather than ruin a third person's race - I'm sorry I bailed but I thought it was the best thing to do.
Last night just confirmed what I already suspected - that online racing is just not for me. Even on circuits that know well, or in this case actually made (!), I'm so slow that I just end up circulating on my own at the back of the race.
At least I didn't get lapped. Sorry to those I crashed into; it really wasn't intentional
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Unfortunately, the new track is on hold
I always felt a little quicker with short gears because it turned in easier and did not bog down when changing up. Had my power up to plus 8 and just revved it to death in lower gears. Maybe speed was lost up the long straight then
