AC Rookies: Abarth 500 @ Nurburgring (Live Stream) - Wednesday March 22, 2017

[SenseR]

Cheers all on server#1, it was another evening of fun It looks to become my wednesday night of racing fun Cheers to Fabian for a great win and thank you al for the amusement See you next week

 

[Benutzername]

Nice event!

Less contacts than last week, tried to defend my position hard but fair and amnged it for about half the race. After that i gifted away positions and ended with no fuel right after the finish line. Perfectly calculated

 

[Mr Chip]

Apologies for having to retire.

Managed to break my clutch pedal - need some new screws and torx wrench in time for next week methinks

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Had a great night with the peeps in server #2 lots of old/new faces and great banter on TS.

Lets do another AbarthyParty race soon

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Thanks @Joseph Wright for the epic stream buddy

 

[Joseph Wright]

Thanks @Joseph Wright for the epic stream buddy

Amazing racing by all the guys again. Glad to be there!

 

[sanguinerose1985]

Great fun they wee cars. Teamspeak issues so couldn't reallty speak or hear clearly. Nice to virtual meet you all anyway on server 2

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Any issues we can help resolve @sanguinerose1985 ?

 

[sanguinerose1985]

Thanks but i got it setup correctly now, just volume adjusting and push to talk button mapped. Hard to adjust them while in VR ha.

 

[Jimlaad43]

Sorry for that move on the last lap @Lucas Gerlach, You left a space, I was better on the brakes there, so i dived for the gap, but we were both squeezing each other. It was one of those moves where both were to blame, but neither were to blame either. I did my best to get you pointing back the correct way afterwards

 

[Lucas Gerlach]

Yeah no problem The race was still good! I rewatched the crash and I have the same opinion. You did a move from very far back but I had anough time to see it in the mirror and then give you the space. The problem was that I looked ahead to the corner and was very suprised as the crash happend :/ But at least I learned something from that... always watch the mirrors if someone is behind

 

[Benutzername]

Yeah no problem The race was still good! I rewatched the crash and I have the same opinion. You did a move from very far back but I had anough time to see it in the mirror and then give you the space. The problem was that I looked ahead to the corner and was very suprised as the crash happend :/ But at least I learned something from that... always watch the mirrors if someone is behind

In karting i was told that everytime i look back i will lose about 1 tenth in that corner. I would certainly be aware of the guy behind you but not to focus too much on the mirrors.
You usually will lose time focusing on your opponent behind you, maybe even making mistakes because of the 'threat' right behind you. Find a good compromise between looking at your mirrors and focusing on yourself

 

[Jimlaad43]

In karting i was told that everytime i look back i will lose about 1 tenth in that corner. I would certainly be aware of the guy behind you but not to focus too much on the mirrors.
You usually will lose time focusing on your opponent behind you, maybe even making mistakes because of the 'threat' right behind you. Find a good compromise between looking at your mirrors and focusing on yourself

The way to do it in games is to have the "Look behind" button right next to one of your thumbs. Every so often, just press it for a tiny amount of time to just get a brief glimpse of what's going on behind you - the human brain only needs to see something for like 1/100th of a second to get the information. I have two butons on my wheel only, and during racing, one is Push-to-Talk or KERS, and the other is look behind. I press the look behind button an awful lot while racing so i know what's going on behind me, and I can see where anyone else is. I still find myself doing it in qualifying on a hot lap, and even do it when I'm the only car on track, it's just natural. The more you learn to look behind without losing time, the better you get at defending positions fairly.

 

[Kek700]

Good idea, the mirrors distort the view too much anyway.

 

[Lucas Gerlach]

You are right Benutzername. I didn´t mean watching into the mirrors all the time but in this case it realy could have prevent this accident

 

[Jimlaad43]

You are right Benutzername. I didn´t mean watching into the mirrors all the time but in this case it realy could have prevent this accident

It's a learning experience this race anyway. The crash will almost help you learn more than the decent finish, as much as you'd prefer it to be the other way

 

[Benutzername]

The way to do it in games is to have the "Look behind" button right next to one of your thumbs. Every so often, just press it for a tiny amount of time to just get a brief glimpse of what's going on behind you - the human brain only needs to see something for like 1/100th of a second to get the information. I have two butons on my wheel only, and during racing, one is Push-to-Talk or KERS, and the other is look behind. I press the look behind button an awful lot while racing so i know what's going on behind me, and I can see where anyone else is. I still find myself doing it in qualifying on a hot lap, and even do it when I'm the only car on track, it's just natural. The more you learn to look behind without losing time, the better you get at defending positions fairly.

I know, i do this aswell.
Just wanted to mention that this might not be the best habit to have - It's useful to an extent because there is kind of an psychological factor that makes you do more mistakes or drive slower due to the fact that you constatnly will think of the opponent behind you. Yes, he should be in the back of your head, but focusing on YOUR line is making you faster.
The opponent has the opposite effect, he has a target, can really focus on "damn, i want to get that guy" and he comes closer and closer, faster and faster while youself are getting just a tad slower just because you think of the guy behind you.