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Post by XRF Formula1 on Nov 21, 2018 18:44:18 GMT
I'm going to be mostly restarting my setup so i'm not much further ahead of you Greg. The AI are hard to catch at 120/60 with their best in the 1:31s I'm cool with doing a half hour practice with an 18 lap race or so which is about half distance if that's what everyone wants to do?
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Post by y22rydr on Nov 21, 2018 19:19:15 GMT
I am not going to make tonight. I ended up not needing a root canal so all is good there. The bad news is I have to do some emergency bed repairs for my sons bed which means I will more than likely miss tonight’s race. I will try to make it, but I can’t gaurantee.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Nov 21, 2018 20:23:45 GMT
It's all good Rob, we're just using tonight as a practice session anyway
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Nov 21, 2018 20:52:24 GMT
I'm going to be mostly restarting my setup so i'm not much further ahead of you Greg. The AI are hard to catch at 120/60 with their best in the 1:31s I'm cool with doing a half hour practice with an 18 lap race or so which is about half distance if that's what everyone wants to do? That's a big jump then, at 105 they are a long way off my 1:33 time. I'm good with that format for tonight.
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Post by y22rydr on Nov 21, 2018 21:08:30 GMT
Repairs complete. Swapping the racing gear to the Xbox and jumping on in about 10 minutes
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Nov 22, 2018 5:17:40 GMT
That was a fun session everyone. The AI really mixed things up. I'm not sure why I didn't take any damage from the turn 1 incident, I slowed down to almost a stop but it was still enough to take a wheel off of the AI. They pretended like it didn't happen and kept driving for laps and laps until I eventually got past🤣
When is everyone good for the actual race?
P.S. Happy Thanksgiving 🍽🥧🍰🍪🥛🍗
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Nov 22, 2018 9:52:49 GMT
Yeah agreed, I love this car and track combination.. possibly my favourite of the season. Just seems to suit me for some reason. My 1:33.060 was my best lap so far but I really should have been into the 32's. The 18 lap race was fun. With the random start I was at the back with Boothy but got a good start until that first corner mess lol, what happened there?. Took bad rear suspension damage so had to crawl around to the pits to make a first lap stop that cost me 46 seconds so I was a long way back by the time I got going but the fight back through the field was all the more fun and satisfying for that. Spent most of my laps in the 1:33's and by the halfway point was up into 10th and had cut 17 seconds off the lead. Had a spin on lap 12 when that lag hit that cost me 12 seconds and got tagged by the AI behind as I rejoined that damaged my rear suspension but I decided to just carry on and was still able to maintain decent times. By lap 15 I was just over 7 seconds behind Tyler and up into third place and then closed that down to 1.5 seconds by the time we crossed the line with my fastest lap on that final one of 1:33.322. No doubt I would have been into the 32's without the damage. Finishing just 1.5 seconds off the winner after losing 40 seconds due to the long pit stop and lag induced spin made this possibly my best drive in the Vintage series. Can't wait for the race proper Aiming to get as close to the 1:31's as possible over the next week or so.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Nov 22, 2018 9:55:04 GMT
That was a fun session everyone. The AI really mixed things up. I'm not sure why I didn't take any damage from the turn 1 incident, I slowed down to almost a stop but it was still enough to take a wheel off of the AI. They pretended like it didn't happen and kept driving for laps and laps until I eventually got past🤣 When is everyone good for the actual race? P.S. Happy Thanksgiving 🍽🥧🍰🍪🥛🍗 Next week's good for me.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Nov 22, 2018 18:52:51 GMT
Wow Pete, you deserved to win that one. You are by far the quickest here. I thought we were both in the low 1:32's for our best lap.
The turn 1 pile up was my fault. I breaked way too late and tapped another Sgt Formula 1 Brabham #1 car. I'm not sure how much damage I caused behind me but I apologize for the pile up.
I hope you win the actual race, not that I won't try my best to stop you! I was lucky through the lag spike and it barely affected my driving. I was a little aggressive with the AI and I ended up taking both of the rear wheels off of one of them. The glitch was both funny and disappointing because I honestly feel like I should've taken damage too. My settings are set to full realism and others took damage so I wonder what causes that?
I should know by tomorrow if I can do next week 🙂
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Nov 22, 2018 20:02:30 GMT
Wow Pete, you deserved to win that one. You are by far the quickest here. I thought we were both in the low 1:32's for our best lap. The turn 1 pile up was my fault. I breaked way too late and tapped another Sgt Formula 1 Brabham #1 car. I'm not sure how much damage I caused behind me but I apologize for the pile up. I hope you win the actual race, not that I won't try my best to stop you! I was lucky through the lag spike and it barely affected my driving. I was a little aggressive with the AI and I ended up taking both of the rear wheels off of one of them. The glitch was both funny and disappointing because I honestly feel like I should've taken damage too. My settings are set to full realism and others took damage so I wonder what causes that? I should know by tomorrow if I can do next week 🙂 No not quite 32's yet.. yours was a 1:33.283 so just under 4/hundredths quicker than mine.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Nov 22, 2018 21:37:51 GMT
Wow Pete, you deserved to win that one. You are by far the quickest here. I thought we were both in the low 1:32's for our best lap. The turn 1 pile up was my fault. I breaked way too late and tapped another Sgt Formula 1 Brabham #1 car. I'm not sure how much damage I caused behind me but I apologize for the pile up. I hope you win the actual race, not that I won't try my best to stop you! I was lucky through the lag spike and it barely affected my driving. I was a little aggressive with the AI and I ended up taking both of the rear wheels off of one of them. The glitch was both funny and disappointing because I honestly feel like I should've taken damage too. My settings are set to full realism and others took damage so I wonder what causes that? I should know by tomorrow if I can do next week 🙂 No not quite 32's yet.. yours was a 1:33.283 so just under 4/hundredths quicker than mine. Ah, I must have read it wrong. I thought you were 2 tenths up on me. After my pit my car felt weird again, I set it to repair areo & suspension only which didn't need any. But my times were a couple seconds slower a lap.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Nov 25, 2018 2:02:23 GMT
I'm good for Wednesday. It's scheduled for this Wed. the 28th for now. All you need to do is resign up
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Nov 25, 2018 15:56:28 GMT
I'm in..
Hammerpgh/Lotus #4
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Post by Uncle De4dly (Ian) on Nov 25, 2018 20:15:24 GMT
Damn - gone to Williams Lake until Wednesday and won't be back in time. Are you guys racing the Lotus 25 again?
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Nov 25, 2018 20:35:36 GMT
Damn - gone to Williams Lake until Wednesday and won't be back in time. Are you guys racing the Lotus 25 again? Yep! Still on the Lotus 25! There is still 1 more round which actually is Round 9 but we moved it back and are doing Round 10 first because you need the Spirit of Le-mans DLC for the classic Le-mans track and some of us don't have it yet. For the next series, Pete & me are thinking about putting together a short Vintage 1965 IndyCar Championship and then we'll either do the 1967 F1 season or another short Vintage IndyCar series with the 1968 car. I want to go through the years with all the F1 cars in the game making the seasons similar to the real ones but also changing things to simulate how F1 changes over time. For example, we ran the full Monza + GP Circuit for this season even though they didn't in real life that year. I want to run the full Monza for the 1967 season if we do that one, but then for 1970 we'd run just the GP Circuit. It kind of simulates how GrandPrix racing changes over the years for us.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Nov 26, 2018 8:59:52 GMT
Damn - gone to Williams Lake until Wednesday and won't be back in time. Are you guys racing the Lotus 25 again? Yep.. this is a one car series.. just this race and one more in the 25 and then it's on to the next car.. Lotus 49C I think is next on the agenda.
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Post by hurtmagurt on Nov 26, 2018 14:26:45 GMT
In #25 Ferrari
Really hope some of my ice skating around this track is improved with no AI running or else it's going to be a long day with little points.
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Post by niblips on Nov 26, 2018 16:07:16 GMT
In.
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Post by niblips on Nov 27, 2018 2:26:41 GMT
shit, i'm out. I forgot i have an appointment on Wednesday
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Nov 27, 2018 9:58:14 GMT
shit, i'm out. I forgot i have an appointment on Wednesday Oh crap!!! That sucks..... what time is the appointment?
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