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Re: iRacing after 2+ years
Thanks. I'm tempted to run another later but I don't want to abuse it. When half the field is rookies and there are only a couple C's, B's, and A's doesn't feel the same, but now that I'm back in the 1100's, maybe the next field will be more competitive.Comment
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Re: iRacing after 2+ years
Well I was in the 5th split. I started second because only 7 cars qualified. Had a couple of early incidents that caused me to be on the end of the lead lap then I tried to be too aggressive and got cut off and smashed into another car. I wasn't sure whether to take the optional repairs (6 minutes as opposed to 30 sec for the required repairs) but I decided to play safe and take them. The guy I ran into didn't take the optional repairs and finished 8th I ended up 9 laps down and there were enough cautions for me to finish 16th, 5 laps down. The interesting part was that I was the #28 car out of 28.
Richmond was a very tough place to race simply because of how aggressive people get. It was my first long race in the Oculus Rift. I enjoyed it a lot. It can get real heart racing when you are in a long line of cars who are constantly trying to pass each other. Keep in mind that I don't use the virtual mirror anymore, only real mirrors. It did get a little uncomfortable after awhile but I think it was because I had it too tight. I readjusted during a late pitstop and it was fine the rest of the race.
Really looking forward to Chicagoland next week with the new surface model.Comment
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Yeah some reason I shut down the iracing background lol oops. Did some iracing first 30 laps. Got spun out on caution. Then slowed down for 2 people spinning in front of only to be launched from behind 30 feet into the air. Called it quits after that. Kinda bummed.
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Re: iRacing after 2+ years
Here is my race from Thursday night's NiS-F race. The last 10 minutes or so were the most exciting.
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Anyone else running NiS tonight? Hoping my race goes better this time around.Comment
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My race =
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That was the worst race I've ever been in and I fixed about 8 minutes of collective damage throughout the race, but I ended up P13 and made it to 5,400 iRating, so I guess it was sort of a success.
Really awful race, though. Just terrible. 15 cautions for 75 laps...
I self-spun for the first time in a very long time and brought out the first caution (and damaged my car against the inside wall, though no one else was involved).Comment
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Sounds like our races were pretty similar.
Despite over shooting my pit, a pit lane violation for speeding, spinning under caution while trying to enter pit road (Yay me), a bunch of damage due to rear ending people who checked up for wrecks, and my engine going boom (30+ minutes of required repairs at this point) with 22 laps left thanks to all the damage, I still managed to finish 15th and pick up 7 iRating. Hilarious part is had my engine not failed, I would have finished top 10. And we 'only' had 13 cautions for 65 laps.
I actually did enjoy the race for the most part. After my penalty for speeding, I managed to work myself back into the top 10 and was feeling decent until my engine damage.
I did have about 3-4 minutes of optional before my engine blew that I didn't fix. After the damage I was way slow down the straights, then I fixed some of it and found most of the speed back even though I was still slow. I wonder if fixing the rest of the damage would have saved my engine?Comment
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The guy I spot for and I learned to always take optional repairs. Back at Pocono he had like 5 minutes optional repairs. Not terrible, but under green, he was like "screw it, I'm going". Engine blew half a lap later. Would that have solved it? Maybe, but probably wasn't worth the risk to not do it if you're already out of contention.Comment
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At a longer track I definitely would have done repairs, but I wasn't that far off my pace and at the time my engine blew, I was actually running higher than I had all race. Figured it'd was worth the risk at that stage.
In any event here's my race. Lap 60 is when I got my speeding penalty and after that is when things probably get more enjoyable to watch.
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I'd say repair your damage if possible, especially if it's front damage. Engines blowing up is a real problem. Sometimes it is even if you do get damage fixed.
Whether to give up a lap to repair damage or not is a tricky situation that kind of takes some nuance. There's no right answer there.Last edited by superjames1992; 09-14-2015, 02:09 PM.Comment
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Here is my second race from Sunday night. Watch at your own risk. It's a mess, but ended with a good finish. It's also an example of why you shouldn't quit races after early misfortunes.
I had a dumb self-spin early on, though. Don't think I've done that since last year at Richmond.
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