Well, I'm very sorry about that, but please, don't go jumping about TS going "Has the race started, I'm in the pits still, blah blah blah", and basicly being a nob. It's very distracting. I hit Michael van Scheppingen because of that. Thankyou very much.
Then there were so many ****ing utter FAILS. Nigel Middleton, try moving up the the guy infront of, instead of trying to keep a 100 yard gap between you and him. Were already so far back due to the nature of these pathetically pointless manual rolling start. Please get a move on you idiot. IMO Manual Rolling starts only work when they are double file, and most of whom are racing are on TS. You know, like in ATCC. Tonights was horrible, some people obviously didn't know how to do one, and all it does for people down the lower end of the field is punnish us even more. 1) You've had a bad quali, poor you, next 2) Do a lap that puts your 30 seconds behind the front runners before the race has even started. Have fun. Yeah
Next Fail was, why in the name of all that is holy, did some of you basicly reduce your pace to a crawl, even though the leader has crossed the start finish line. All you did was bunch things up. Then you had people behind you who knew that, once the leader crossed the line, you could floor it, but just don't overtake before the start finish line. Utter utter fail. I dived left onto the grass to avoid the pile-up of cars, but unfortunatly, some people ended up having damaged cars. Well done all, well done. What a way to start 50+ mins of racing, fantastic.
Next Fail. Fall off the track on the exit of turn two, when trying to apply a tiny bit more than half ****ing throttle. Car was basiclly useless today. Full lock sometimes just to turn into the slow corners, ones like the hairping before the two back straights. Then on the exit of the slow corners, if I tried to apply some more throttle, the car would try and bloody spin on me. No rear end grip what so ever on the exits. Even a few laps after my pit stop, with tyres up to temp, the car had next to no grip. Argh ffs. Then I was being killed in a straight line due to having a wing of 9. Then, because I'm a ****ing noobie pussy at times, I was always caught up in the braking zones, because no matter what, I just can't brake as late as some people. So yay, slow EVERYWHERE on the god forsaken track. Yay ****ing me.
Then the next ****ing Fail. I unfortunatly tag Michael van Scheppingen at turn 13, spinning him. Drop to the side of the track to let him back pass, but its dropped us to 24th and 25th respectivaly. Looking at the replay, we didn't actually physically touch, but our bumpers deform a tad, so contact was made. Chris Sykes told me after the race I was rather laggy. I can't understand why though. I wasn't seeing any real lag. Nobody in my house was uploading or dowloading lots of stuff, or anything or big. I didn't have my Firefox open, and the computer wasn't overheating or anything like that, and its only 10 months old, has a Phenom X4 945 at 3.0 GHz, 4GB of DDR3 ram running at 1066, a 5850 ATI card that hasn't been overclocked, all sitting on a Republic of Gamers Crosshair 3 Formula motherboard (that okay hasn't had a bios update in a while), so the computer can't be the problem. I know my broadband isn't that quick with speeds at such shown below, but I know people who race online with slower connections. Added to the puzzle, that I'm hooked up to my 2.0 BT Homehub by some Cat6 Ethernet cable. WTF is going on with my connection, I'm having alot of races lately where my car is bounching around a bit. Could it be in-game framerates? I was getting between 5 and 62 FPS around this track with my current settings. Sometimes on the exit of the parabolica at Monza I see a slight stutter of the surrondings. Another track where I saw some stutters of the surroundings was when I was up in the hill section going past the trees at Limerock Mountain. Currently thats all I can think of.
Well, next fail then. On lap 6, I get up the back of Frans Linden, I can instantly tell I'm quicker than him, especially under braking (odd thing I know), but I couldn't find a way past, and then at turn one next lap, I cock it up. Then with all that, James Huges has caught up to us. He gets past me on the exit of turn one. Following Huges and Linden through turn 11, Linden gets a little wheelspin causing a slight slide to the left. With that, hes real deep and is far from the apex of turn 12. So goes to take turn 13, sitting on its apex while I'm trying to do it at the same time. He starts to brake for the corner, being almost completly perpindicular to the corner. I try to slot in to the left of him, but end up tagging the left rear of his car. His car goes out a bit wide on the exit, and I try and stay to his left, but don't succed, and end up hitting him again into a spin. FFS! Argh!! Stop and let him past, then only to be held up at the next set of corners until he falls off the road at turn 19/penulatamite corner.
After that, only real things that happened were the leaders lapping me from lap 15 onwards (FFS, your not this god damn slow, what the **** is wrong with you, you can race people in GT Sport, WTCC, Muscle, 87s, Minis, why the **** are you so god damn slow and pathetic in theses?!). Then I had Tom Ostry drive up to me, but all I could see was a name tag, thank god I use them, because your car was completely invisible. So once yo got past, I just decided to back right off to avoid in silly punt due to me not being able to see you.
So, all in all, one of my worst races I have ever done on RD. I just don't know what the hell was wrong. Was it me, the car, or that I don't get along with the track. On my side, I spent hours on that server today, hours before the server went to official practice, and I must have done well over 50 laps before the race. But in all that time, I could barely do 2:13s, and would normally be only capable of doing stuff like 2:14s and 2:15s consistently. Only until the race I was able to do a 2:12.5xx at some point. On the track, other than just about every curb I touched seeminly wanting to spin me when I touched it, I had done plenty of TAs to learn the braking points in a GT Pro, so not sure about that being the problem. The thing I beleive was the biggest problem was the god damn car. Now, I have barely any experience in a GT Pro car, and only jumped in the Saleen due to a lack of testing with the other cars. But no matter what I did with the thing in terms of setup, the car would never settle down. It was forever a nervous car to drive, I felt like I had barely any control over it at times. The car would be a pig in the slow corners. Ones like turn 7 (the hairpin), turns 11 and 12, and at turn 20 (last corner) the car really didn't want to turn into to them. But at allthe other slow corners, it was still bad, they were just the worse, mainly because, on the exit of those corners listed, the car would try and spin with even a slight bit of throttle movement before the car was in a straight line. So it wouldn't turn in properly, with the problem only made worse with worn tyres (around the low 80% mark). Making it horrible slow at the apex, for it to only then try and (succed some times) spin on me under acceleration/application of throttle on the exit of them. I just don't get it. People who have raced me know I'm not an idiot, or pathetic when it comes to racing, and I know how to set cars up (from WTCC to Extemes, 87s to Muscle cars) and I can race door to door with people in almost every car (from WTCC to GT Sport, Minis to DTM). So what the **** was wrong tonight in this GT Pro Saleen S7?!
To try and figure something out, here is a link (
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Z8YHVLON) here you can download a WinRar folder containing the setup used for the Saleen, and the Motec files produced. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I hopeto take part next week at Silverstone, but if the samethings happen tonight at Silverstone, it'll probably be my last GT Pro race for a while.
I just don't get it, the GT Sport Mosler is a dream to drive, one of my all time favourite cars, the 2010 DTM cars are nice and lovely to drive, the WTCC Extreme cars I've been racing with some mates of mine aren't bad. In all of them, I could properly push them, and have confidence in them that they were going to do what I asked. That Saleen tonight, or a previous race at Limerock Mountain in a Audi R8 GT1, the car (in the second race, weird cause in the first race, it was okay) was nervous and lacked grip, making me weary of what it was going to do next.
Something is wrong and I need to know what.
Hope to see you all next time.
Bya.
