posted 12-16-2003 06:31 AM            

I'd like to use the excuse of having had to rush this event as my reason for the appalling run; but in truth, I felt my sprint time was a pretty competitive run, at least as far as the "class B" runners are concerned , and I thought I was pretty much 'in the zone', so, knowing that I was only allowed a random guess at the tyres, I took the "hint" above, and slapped on a set of tyres which made the car entirely undriveable. A quick review of the replay seems to suggest that I got a clean lap on lap 7 (my FL), but by that time I had run out of fingers for counting fouls anyway. However, I did at least get a comfortable race win, after having been about 18 seconds down after 3 laps.

I was going to revisit the sprint as time allowed today, but the notion wore off after my terrible feature race, so I'll just submit what I've got, and go buy a fresh car for next week. The remains of this week's car can be viewed at Bedford Borough Council's "Tidy Tip".

posted 12-17-2003 12:03 AM            

So far in just practice its proved to be quite fun in the wet. With a lowish TCS setting its quite easy to control, with full power being applied out of most of the corners straight away.
With it off however Iv run prehaps .5sec faster, but the car becomes dangerously unstable, and will step out with absolutly no warning, good for a hot lap, but not for a race.

posted 12-17-2003 06:31 AM         

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Originally posted by Moppie:
What happend to your idea to run the Taxi ?

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NC1 and GT3Mich have told me I can't change cars, thats what happened Not that I would have done for this race. But I promise I will guest enter it, probably at Trial Mountain.

posted 12-18-2003 02:44 AM            

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Originally posted by 3ndMoparMan:
but I'll probably still run without TCS.

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Your a braver man than I!
It was my orginal intention, but the Taxi is a big heavy car, and likes to have the power on to keep it online. Its good fun in the dry, but can step out very easily in the wet.

If you feel like sharing some settings feel free to shoot me an email as well. andrew@automotiveforums.com

posted 12-20-2003 04:05 AM            

I think that the tire wear on this track is reduced for having a cooling liquid providing lubrication. The problem is that the tires slide a great deal more because the blasted liquid is providing lubrication. The steering tires are going to slip a lot more and I don’t know any driving tricks to address this, other than driving real slow. I use a slack gear, a gear higher than is required by the RPMs, during cornering a lot more on the wet and this helps stop drive-tire spin. So taking into account that much or some of it may be a product of driving style, I find that wear caused by steering is increased some but wear caused by propelling the car is actually reduced.

I used a softer grade of tire on the rear this event than last event, and I still had a lot of tire life left over at the end.

My times are in.

posted 12-20-2003 01:33 PM            

Mostly happy with my feature race run since my lap times were mostly in line with my practice times, but I had two bad laps that will ruin me. On each one I was about 3 seconds off my practice time.

One of them I just let my mind wander and lost track of where I was in the concrete canyon. I started to turn when I should have still been going straight.

The other time I just got too aggressive trying to lap the GT-40.

My sprint race was pretty good for me, though I'm sure it won't be competitive since I was no where near the practice times GT3mich mentioned.

Overall I'm a lot happier with this week than last week.

posted 12-20-2003 02:46 PM            

Think sprint race went OK.

Race was quite an event. AI made it fun? Interesting anyway. Time consuming also.

See ya at S-2, is it?

posted 12-21-2003 10:58 PM            

I should do it in about 30 min...

EDIT: Due to email trouble (it not opening at this point) the results will be posted in the morning.

posted 12-22-2003 10:44 AM            

I got invited out to a party at zero notice so I just had time to slap the races in, write the times down on a scrap of paper and dash out of the house.

I mailed you using a friends connection on Saturday night so you may not recognise the incoming e-mail address (I did it via my webmail account so it may turn out plain enough who it's from anyway)

posted 12-22-2003 10:10 PM            

(being that I was so druck I lost my wallet and cell phone, and spent an hour asleep in the driveway, I think its better that I didn't race )
(oh, and I got both wallet and phone back )

posted 12-22-2003 10:37 PM            

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Originally posted by Sukerkin:
Just a quick check that you got my times 'Psy?

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Shades of Spain,

How did everyone do this race?I guess I'll look harder for the results to ""Saturdays"" race, CHEERS, dont IES

posted 12-22-2003 11:10 PM            

Internet Explorer wont open that AOL email anymroe. Furhtermore to actually use AOL I have to wait for my sister to go offline.

posted 12-23-2003 12:43 AM            

Round 2

posted 12-23-2003 01:50 AM            

Sprint: 4:00.815
Feature: 13:56.693

Just forwarded the original mail again to iesresults@aol.com

Edit - didn't drive a CLK either - GT40 it was.

posted 12-23-2003 04:17 AM            

The battle that'll keep this interesting for me will be with Mands by the look of things (that and seeing how close I can keep to the GT40 times on the feature races).

Oh and just in case anyone is wondering about the truly bad Sprint Race time for this one - I forgot to change the tyres and ran it on T2's :O

posted 12-26-2003 01:25 PM            

This post is addressed to those who have the integrity to run the races completely clean, and whom I try in vain to emulate ...

Is the sprint at Seattle, in fact, posiible to race clean? Or is it a choice between racing and being clean? My efforts so far seem to suggest that the only way to remain clean of AI is to stay behind the AI all the way. Sukerkin, I look to you as my guiding light, but anyone else please feel free to answer ...

FWIW, the only field I raced so far includes a Vertigo, a Camaro and a GT40, which race together with such reckless abandon that if you pass one you will need to slow down for the next, at which point the one you passed will give you a hefty *&?$^% up the £!%*&/

p2

posted 12-26-2003 02:41 PM            

P2, I haven't run this yet but I would surmise the place to lose the AI is through the Suicide Chicane as they will brake and you won't have to. Depending on power, the back straight might be possible too - again as they'll brake more than necessary (or in the wrong place at any rate ) to go over the tracks.

Depending onhow bad the AI is, the Race Steward may have to rule that being hit by the AI does not constitute an infraction (as long as you're not deliberately anchoring up so they slam into you of course :lol:!).

posted 12-26-2003 09:18 PM            

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Originally posted by Psyfalcon:
We will be having an email address change for the series.

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Did this change happen yet? Because I'm ready to send in my results, and the only address I have at the moment is the iesresults one.

I'll send it to that one in hopes it gets through. If it doesn't, I am probably out of luck. Though I will likely get to check this thread tomorrow morning before I leave town for the day if another address is posted by then.

As for the races, don't ask. I was just trying to get them in to avoid a DNF. The results were not pretty, as could be expected due to the lack of time I put in.

The sprint wasn't too awful, but I only had time for 3 attempts. The feature stunk, other than a couple of decent laps.

posted 12-26-2003 09:24 PM            

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Originally posted by player2:
BTW - someone (Psy?) remind me whether qualifying was permitted in the sprints and features?

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P2, you may qualify if you wish for all the races except perhaps the last two features. Psy will have to make a ruling on those two.

Always happy to help my buddy p2.