Round 6 - Pocono (Jul 17th)

Jason White wrote:

I echo Mr. Remmen's sentiments.  Good luck to you all
Finally get to wear my Schaefer shirt for the Schaefer 500

Oh noooo Jason, youre a cutie!!!!

With that shirt you'll probably be schaefing a few tenths off your lap times.

Is there a way to swap from qually boost to race boost level without leaving the server?

James Knowles wrote:

Is there a way to swap from qually boost to race boost level without leaving the server?

Afraid not, but don't worry. I will be inputting the qualy results during the warmup so nothing will get lost.

Sorry to report that a family obligation might keep me from being back home in time to start at 3P EDT.

If someone needs a car the #98 is available.

If, in the unlikely event that I can make it back in time, and #98 is still available, I will join the action.

Flexibility is my motto. I will be at the race!

Lee Simpson wrote:

Flexibility is my motto.  I will be at the race!

Broadcast will start in 3mn.

Broadcast Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDSMJrugyJ8

Ugh great...my rF just crashed. I'll be back instantly! I'm hurrying!

Pranged it when ludovic spun-thought he would spin hi...but he spun low..

Start was a huge mess...

What an idiot i'm. You would not belive. During the warmup i tried to adjust the keys for movement in pit menu on my shifter and i didn notice that i unadjust my 4th gear of my shifter. So after start when i shift to the 4th gear i blewed my engine because the 4th gear was unadjusted. I dont belive what type of stupid mistake im able to do during this season. Heh.

No preparation, still a painfull foot, a computer getting mad with erratic freeze. The race was going to be very painfull. But thankfully it was very short

The car received damage in front wing (don't know why). While I was trying to say the crew to not repair anything, I miss the corner and hit the wall on turn one. My car was out of control then and spinned. Get hit by another car and issued a huge crash. Left rear wheel gone, engine out. Sorry for the poor chaps got caught in my dumb mistake

Should have been better not participate I think

Well the summer break arrives. Time to think about continuing or leaving the serie. The Chevy is totally uncompetitive in my hands and I'm getting less and less pleasure driving those cars.

A race to forget. I spun during a lap behind the pace because I knocked the car into first gear and had to pit.

Of course, I pitted at the wrong time, got a drive through and despite 5 or 6 attempts the penalty wouldn't go away and I got a DQ.

My apologies to Bob Wilson as I think I ruined his race with my accident.

The first pitstop, stop the car ok when time comes to leave the pit I get a massive lag which then blows the engine.

What a fu**g mess of a game, as the race started I inmediately got a message about being at the wrong position, and Alan Foster being DQ, I had to wait to let someone pass me till I saw the yellow marker, then I start and it gives me a end of the line penalty, get rolling ... and get a stop and go , then try to serve it two times to no avail. Finally get going and start recovering positions, then I stop under yellow and the crew does not refuel me so I have to come in again. At that point it tells me I pitted when not allowed (Why? No yellow at all we were racing again!) and gives me another penalty. That was too much and I quit.

I thought pit lane is closed for the first lap when there is a full course yellow? All cars went in then, so i went to the pit when green was waved  . My pit crew were at another spot than in warm up, so i missed my crew. Done something what i should have never do: reversing in pits. I hit someone i think, hopefully no damage for you.

Juha Bos wrote:

A race to forget. I spun during a lap behind the pace because I knocked the car into first gear and had to pit.

Of course, I pitted at the wrong time, got a drive through and despite 5 or 6 attempts the penalty wouldn't go away and I got a DQ.

My apologies to Bob Wilson as I think I ruined his race with my accident.

Hey Juha, those  things happen, no need to apologize...I guess I entered a closed pit with my right front damaged and I was given a drive through which I acknowledged the next lap. Lots of confusion..I made a drive through, a stop and go and the red arrows were still on my screen...I was then DQ'd.  

My shift lever spring broke as we were exiting turn 3 for the start..instead of shifting into 3rd, it went into 1st and locked the rear end causing me to spin onto the grass. Oh well, two starts, two DNF's.

Now that was a race to forget once more. Quali was okay, 20th time and 19th on the grid, a bit of a chaotic start, but I could find a decent rhythm. What didn't really help was my GID calling it a day on the second attempt of starting, showing only my lap times and splits. It was somewhat confusing at first to have a dead speedo in front of me, but I could adapt to it after a while.

In the end, all went downhill when I prepared for my first pit stop. Just the moment I was about to roll into the pitlane, a yellow was dropped, so keeping in mind one shouldn't pit right away when yellow is called, I did another lap, arriving at the pits on fumes. In that process I overtook the guy in front of me while under yellow and received a stop and go penalty. To add insult to injury, someone else was standing right on my pit spot, which I hit in the back, cos I was a bit late on the brakes, and damaged my car. And had to wait until he moved out of the pits, which cost me a lot of time. Furthermore, green was dropped while I approached the pits, so I lost a lap right away, and sitting off my penalty added another one. Instead of 11th, when I joined the pits, I came back to track in 16th. I gained two positions, when the guys in front of me made their second round of pit stops, but trying to gain some time on one of the Greene's, my rear got a bit loose in T3. The first time, I could correct it, but the second time, I lost the car, slid into the pit lane and crashed very hard. End of my day

To bad, because this time, I felt really comfortable with the car. Dunno, lately, I'm kinda hitting a bit of a wall, failing to finish most of my races...

Really pee'd off with this game now, to the point I'm not sure I want to play it anymore.

As we were going into turn 3 on the parade lap I'll cycle through my HUD to bring up the tyre temps and see that all 4 corners of my car have yellow suspension damage So I was being careful because I wasn't sure how the car would behave, after the first safety car on lap 1 I dropped back to 5th to try to get used to the evil handling car (and 5mph slower in straights), I then followed Mike into the pits on the next safety car period but get a drive through pen. After that was just trying to finish as the car was 0.5s+ a lap slower than it should of been and sliding all over the place but lost it going into the tunnel turn right in front of one of the Greene's so sorry about that was trying to be really careful around other cars too

Alan were you DQed at the start? My HUD showed you as DQ as soon as the grid started, and I started getting weird messages to change my position behind other cars (The car I was supposed to stay behind cycled widly and with no apparent logic).

I'd like to thank my sponsor. And a big shout out to Jason for getting me a terrific setup when my own chief mechanic was clueless about how to get the 70 eagle up to speed.
I had some bad moves at the start. I knew I was suppose to ignore the messages from the server. But they did distract me. I found myself going to slow, when I sped up I caught the field but rear ended the car in front of me. In so doing I must have messed my front wing up because at T1 under green the car heads right for the wall. Race over. I am very sorry to who ever it was I rear ended.

Bob Holada

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

Alan were you DQed at the start? My HUD showed you as DQ as soon as the grid started, and I started getting weird messages to change my position behind other cars (The car I was supposed to stay behind cycled widly and with no apparent logic).

Nope, think some sort of weird glitch must of happened at the start as my car must of started damaged

My most sincere apologies to Mr. Jason White for the punt coming out of T2! Especially since I was a lap down! I was seriously contemplating withdrawing out of guilt when my car quit at start/finish. The crew once again failed to fuel me under the previous yellow. That's instant karma!

Qualified well and was ready for a long race. Got a stop-n-go on the start along with Alberto. Had to wait to serve it until the first yellow cleared. Barely missed big wreck in T3 coming to the green at the end of that one.

Served my penalty and came back out half a lap behind the field. Clear track, clean running and with help of more yellows, caught the back of the field. Somewhere between laps 10 and 15 clapped the wall outside of T2 avoiding a dive bomber. And, yes, it IS dive bombing when get passed then drive way past your braking point to jam it inside of a car you already know is 10mph faster through that corner than you are. And, yes, I hit you in the ass after hitting wall because I was still 20mph faster than you while you tried to save your car!

Nursed the car to lap 25 with the damage. Got yellow exactly when I needed it. Dove into the pits early to fix the damage. I got caught a lap down. Laps 26 to 50 were very clean. I fought my way up into the top 10. Good pit stop under green.

By lap 75, I'm up to 8th and need to pit again. Yellow flag. Great. Dive in early. But I didn't check the fuel. The setup was spec'ed to give me full fuel for eight stops, but I guess the crew decided not to.

Green flag! Pick around a couple lapped cars and find myself right behind Jason White, the first car I need to get a lap back from. We both get a good run into T2. I've been faster than the Parnelli's all day so I'm setting up for a slipstream down the short chute to T3. And I didn't see the log jam in front of Jason. I slam right into his gear box. Ignorant, stupid rookie mistake! Totally my fault.

I get back around to the front straight and the car runs out of gas. End of the day.

Jason, I hope I didn't mess you up too bad, but I damned sure know I didn't help!

But I did get further than my first two attempts. That's some kind of half-assed progress. I'll try it again, if I heal from the beating I'm gonna get in Jason's garage after the race.

I had no problems with the game as such, but I didn't have a good race anyway. Driving my heart out battling for 12th when I spun for the 3rd time with about 20 to go, this time fatally for my car. Got the car running quite good, much better than at Indianapolis, but little things, wall scrapes and badly timed cautions meant I was many laps down. Bummed.