1973 Trentonian Split 300 [March 29th]

Pascal Le pihive wrote:

Your car is the 16#  DAVID SABRE
not the 8#

don' t take the false one for the race sunday

Don't worry I will be back in the #16 on raceday.
I had to see how fast the other cars are and the Eagle 73 is easy the fastest.

that s what it is mine David

ip 91.121.135.76:34410 ??

One important piece of information: The pit boxes in the Trenton pit lane start *very* early, so if you are in pit box 1, or even pit box 2 or 3, you will need to slow down extra early to make the turn in and stop on the marks.  Otherwise, you can easily roll past your pit and lose a lot of valuable time backing up. Just a quick FYI  

Are there any rules about exiting the pits and re-joining the track ?

Stay on the left of the yellow line and mergue at the back straight. If, for some reason, you are not yet up to speed when you arrive to turn 3, hug the inside and mergue at the front straight.

David Sabre wrote:

Are there any rules about exiting the pits and re-joining the track ?

Thank you for bringing this up David, it's important
Turn 1/2 is difficult enough without people blasting out of the pits and riding up the turn into the racing line    I'm going to add the following verbiage to the conduct portion of the first post:

- Drivers exiting the pits must keep all four wheels under the painted line until they reach the back straight, then they can merge with race traffic. This rule applies under both green and yellow flag conditions.

Jason White wrote:

- Drivers exiting the pits must keep all four wheels under the painted line until they reach the back straight, then they can merge with race traffic. This rule applies under both green and yellow flag conditions.

Nice to know, still very new to (online) oval racing

Jason White wrote:

David Sabre wrote:

Are there any rules about exiting the pits and re-joining the track ?

Thank you for bringing this up David, it's important
Turn 1/2 is difficult enough without people blasting out of the pits and riding up the turn into the racing line    I'm going to add the following verbiage to the conduct portion of the first post:

- Drivers exiting the pits must keep all four wheels under the painted line until they reach the back straight, then they can merge with race traffic. This rule applies under both green and yellow flag conditions.

One more question about merging, when you say the back straight you mean after turn 2 but before the kink (turn 3) ?
In pitlane I guess that you should stay as far right as possible, unless entering or exiting your pitbox.

Yes, but you can make the kink at the outside and go for the inside of T3 if you are not fast enough. The pack should overtake you on the inside at the Kink (No banking) and on the outside (banked) if you are hugging the inside of T3-4. In both cases they have a reasonable line for passing by, which is the essential idea when merguing.

pfff switching back from TCL to this Indy1973 mod is tough

see you all on sunday

3x power, 1/2 grip

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

3x power, 1/2 grip

Pfft, 1/2...... Try a Mongoose

I'm having a lot of fun peeling out of the pits, leaving big black marks 
Think I'll be a little more cautious in the races, but still... fun.

+1 I never enjoyed so much trying to make an even longer set of black marks

I need to post a screenshot of a replay I saved doing that in a practice race. 2 lines go to the wall, become one line, then go all the way across the track to the other wall and become no lines. The whole burnout was about 2/3 of the main straight. I admit it was intentional.

GLA hope everything goes well for the race

High drama before official practice!  Grant King's boys will have to get the backup car copied ready to go

Thankfully the pits are littered with parts with perfect fit!

My shortest race ever. After the Green Francois tried to win the race in T1 and drove into my left rear which left me with a puncture.

I'll see if I make the 2nd race.

That pit stall dissapearing is a real problem  

Trevor spun just in front of me and I lost my FW, pitted to repair but pit stall nowhere to be seen! Tried all stalls one by one with no success, did a full lap around and tried again from the first stall, again no luck. Had to quit

sorry!!! anyway it was crap and short indeed
got puntured stop n go , lol that all worked but
a pity the aiw is not optimized for this track , pitbox not working or showing , mine did but for others not
wonder how many cars this track can hold but at this stage no point to race the next heat so my car is free

Fun while it lasted......radiator was too small (mechanics error) blew engine......tried to roll to pits to avoid yellow, was gonna make it, so tried to get as far away from treack..

Sorry for confusing you Jason.......What I said intially was correct (not on pole)

what I said after was a joke and unneccsary.

Sorry for what looked like ade fensive line outta THE right hander......car didnt seem to want to go right there.