Round 9-10 - Ontario (Oct 16th)

@Scott, get your friend Diego involved. There are plenty of "Toilet seat" cars he could drive. May just be a Eagle 72 toilet seat with his pace but get him involved.

I echo Richard's and Scott's sentiments; there are a lot of good open cars that no one is snapping up :/
Shame to see them go to waste.

Those of you who are struggling behind other cars in the turns, remember to take this into account with your setups

Well, I'm supposed to be working tomorrow. Only reason I haven't said yay or nay is because it's also supposed to rain in the morning and if we get enough I won't have to work.

Richard Coxon wrote:

@Scott, get your friend Diego involved. There are plenty of "Toilet seat" cars he could drive. May just be a Eagle 72 toilet seat with his pace but get him involved.

I know, Richard. I've twisted his arm as hard as I can over the computer. But he's trying get through his senior year of mechanical engineering at college. And when you add in the fact that he has a young stewardess girlfriend leading him around by the nose, well . . . . you get the picture.

Plus, you do know why I call the Gurney cars "toilet seat specials", right? Olsonite made their millions making and selling toilet seats! Bummer of a job.

Now that sheds a whole new light on a car which I always thought looks cool in both in shape and livery...

http://everything2.com/title/olsonite

Qualy engines are banned for EVERYONE for the race?

Mick Chapman wrote:

Qualy engines are banned for EVERYONE for the race?

Yes

welp looks like I'm out for this one folks.

Will the 90 mph pit lane speed limit be enforced?

Bob Wilson wrote:

Will the 90 mph pit lane speed limit be enforced?

No

Just installing the bits then I'll join server, very unlikely I'll be able to make the 500 next weekend though.

GRID HEAT 1

/editgrid 1 David Sabre
/editgrid 2 Jason White
/editgrid 3 Alberto Ibanez
/editgrid 4 Dana Schurer
/editgrid 5 David Jaques
/editgrid 6 Michal Janak
/editgrid 7 Raul Jereb
/editgrid 8 Lee Simpson
/editgrid 9 Simon Wattman
/editgrid 10 Richard Wilks
/editgrid 11 Michael Drechsler
/editgrid 12 Felipe Novaes

EVERYONE ELSE RACES IN HEAT 2

I crash after made a mistake... Now a know this car is not IRL. Thanks for move me to Heat 1. Next race believe I can do the good race

totaly sad race after promising times, cant move car enough quick(didnt want destroy engine) to formation lap and other drivers dont read the sigh behind which car they must go after i got penalty

and the in half race where i came to pit i didnt otice that the car has got something to repair so i stayet in pits too long, after restart touchet wall twice and lost speed, (before pit i ca keep wit Drechsler) , now only last in heat

GRID HEAT 2

/editgrid 1 Alan Forster
/editgrid 2 Richard Coxon
/editgrid 3 Scott Urick
/editgrid 4 Jukka Maattanen
/editgrid 5 Pascal Mikula
/editgrid 6 Martin Lacina
/editgrid 7 Juha Bos
/editgrid 8 BoB Holada
/editgrid 9 Petr Hlavac
/editgrid 10 Jacob Fredriksson
/editgrid 11 Mick Chapman
/editgrid 12 Jan Kowalski

Well i just circulated around, it seems my setup doesnt like too many restarts and i lost force feedback as i did in the 1991 F1 race. So i just cruised to the finish. I guess i better try to extract a bit more out of the car for the 500

First half of the race wasn't great. Lost the draft pretty early and was to slow to keep up with the others, and I lost some more when Raul passed me out of the draft and moved into my lane right in front of my nose. That was rather tight. I was probably a bit faster in the corners, but it would have taken a bold move to pass, so I tried to follow, but that didn't work to well. After a while, Raul and Michal had a little fight and I could close in to them. Then, nearing the middle of the race, a yellow was thrown and right in time for me. And here I played out my tactics, because I decided not to change my tires. Into pits in 9th, out in 4th

First restart, I was able to gain another position, and Simon (I think) crashed, and yay: second position! Had to give it back to Jason, apparently I passed him when the yellow was already pending, but a brief moment of glory! Well, restart and back to normality, its a bit frustrating with the Foyt engine, as people went by me left and right pretty soon, and I was back to 6, but I managed to keep that position until the finish, and that makes me super proud and happy. Didn't have the speed to keep up with Richard, but well, I won't complain today

Richard Wilks wrote:

Well i just circulated around, it seems my setup doesnt like too many restarts and i lost force feedback as i did in the 1991 F1 race. So i just cruised to the finish. I guess i better try to extract a bit more out of the car for the 500

Assign a key on your keyboard with the 'reset FFB' option. That should do it. Had problems with the RealFeel plugin, though, if that one fails midrace, it can't be reset.

Sorry about that Martin(close call) Car was bent, and was trying to get out of the way.....Saw you coming, just at the last second.

Very sorry BOB H. My stupid mistake. I lost the grip on my rear wheels and when i tried to move the car back on the straight i lost totally a control so then i had to only pray to miss the other cars. Apologize to all in the pack for this moment.

I don't know how I can get competitive until next weekend. I'm really struggling on these flat tracks.

Always good to be racing though.