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Post by niblips on Mar 25, 2019 15:31:30 GMT
Tough go here on Saturday. Had to run the Blacks which were 3-4 seconds a lap slower than the Reds. On top of that my lap times were down because of the old xbox issue as well, so add another 2 seconds a lap to that. It wasn't nearly as fun and challenging as the Willow Springs race. The Steering was sloppy and forgiving, but the red tyres were usuless. I pushed my first set 6 laps and that's all i could take after the wheel shaking started.
I've compared my lap time data from both my practice race earlier in the week with the league race.
Best Red tyre lap time in Practice race - 1:47.760 Best Red tyre lap time in League race - 1:51.077 Best Black tyre lap time in Practice race - 1:52.648 Best Black tyre lap time in League race - 1:53.194
Average Red tyre lap time in Practice race - 1:50.387 (48 laps running, 3 stints) Average Red tyre lap time in League race - 1:52.441 (11 laps running, 2 stints Average Black tyre lap time in Practice race - 1:53.080 (12 laps running, 1 stint) Average Black tyre lap time in League race - 1:55.196 (46 laps running, 3 stints)
all in all it was a pretty frustrating race due to my handicapped pace. I'm on the hunt for an upgrade, but it seems the Fallout bundle deal is over now. It was $469.99 last week but I guess most of those bundles have sold out now. And the price is slowly creeping back up to $599.99 in most stores.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Mar 25, 2019 15:42:07 GMT
Big difference on the red tyre in particular. I just don't get why things go screwy like that. No doubt that the changes they made to the tyre model in one of the patches are the biggest culprit in that respect. It really has ruined the racing between those on the old and those on the new box.
I thought the price would have dropped much more than that by now!! Shame you can't get one of those interest free buy now pay later deals.
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Post by niblips on Mar 25, 2019 16:08:52 GMT
Big difference on the red tyre in particular. I just don't get why things go screwy like that. No doubt that the changes they made to the tyre model in one of the patches are the biggest culprit in that respect. It really has ruined the racing between those on the old and those on the new box. I thought the price would have dropped much more than that by now!! Shame you can't get one of those interest free buy now pay later deals. Do you know if it was just the indycar tyre modeling that they changed? So far this is the only car i've had the issue with... I've not driven many of the other cars, but we have run a few of the vintage lotus cars and i've not had any issue being able to compete equally in those....
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Mar 25, 2019 16:53:58 GMT
Big difference on the red tyre in particular. I just don't get why things go screwy like that. No doubt that the changes they made to the tyre model in one of the patches are the biggest culprit in that respect. It really has ruined the racing between those on the old and those on the new box. I thought the price would have dropped much more than that by now!! Shame you can't get one of those interest free buy now pay later deals. Do you know if it was just the indycar tyre modeling that they changed? So far this is the only car i've had the issue with... I've not driven many of the other cars, but we have run a few of the vintage lotus cars and i've not had any issue being able to compete equally in those.... No I think it was a general change. I think the difference with the Vintage cars we drive is that the tyres we are using are just not so susceptible to changes the way the modern tyres are. Not sure though. I have often thought that the Indycar is not quite right though... it sometimes seems to have way too much grip and maybe that comes into play somewhat with the problem you have.
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Post by niblips on Mar 25, 2019 17:22:44 GMT
Maybe i'll have to compete in another series in different cars so i can find out..... spending 500 bucks just so i can race indycars if everything else is fine would be a bit excessive.....
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Mar 25, 2019 18:13:35 GMT
Yeah can't disagree with you there Karl. if everything else you play is fine its too much to lay out. Maybe you could join some public lobbies with various numbers racing and see how the performance is then. Not really any other way to test it unless we can get enough of us together one night running different cars and tracks to test it that way. But it's tough enough getting numbers for the league races let alone anything else lol.
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Post by niblips on Mar 25, 2019 19:06:08 GMT
Yeah can't disagree with you there Karl. if everything else you play is fine its too much to lay out. Maybe you could join some public lobbies with various numbers racing and see how the performance is then. Not really any other way to test it unless we can get enough of us together one night running different cars and tracks to test it that way. But it's tough enough getting numbers for the league races let alone anything else lol. Yeah, I think the best way to test would be in a private lobby with you. We have similar pace so being unfamiliar with the other cars wouldn't be that much of an issue. we could compare lap times between us pretty closely. I think if i started joining random lobbies with strangers I would need to have some base lap times in the cars sorted out already.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Mar 25, 2019 22:17:13 GMT
I can help you guys test this out too, I think Peter is right about the type of tyre we use but I can't help feeling the Vanilla Xboxers are still at some sort of disadvantage.
For whatever reason Rich doesn't have as much of an issue on the ovals which is what our Vintage League only runs on with the exception of the Hockenheimring.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Mar 26, 2019 20:39:53 GMT
Here's the next installment of the abridged series:
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Mar 26, 2019 21:36:34 GMT
Here's the next installment of the abridged series: lol such deep and insightful thoughts 🤣😂
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Post by niblips on Mar 27, 2019 12:47:04 GMT
haha. Nice!
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Mar 27, 2019 18:54:05 GMT
I'd imagine that's about how it would go in real life for me so I made a joke of it😆
My god, I know what people mean when they say that I look and sound like im 15.😳 I still get carded frequently after all.
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