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Post by iang0355 on May 27, 2020 19:25:32 GMT
Oh my god, the next season is a whopping 17 race season! Silverstone classic will be back and it looks like LongBeach & Fuji will be on the calendar. Hey, that sounds like a good one! The '77 car is an ungodly turbo'd thing too, isnt it? Probably insanity at long Beach either way
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Post by XRF Formula1 on May 27, 2020 19:58:03 GMT
Oh my god, the next season is a whopping 17 race season! Silverstone classic will be back and it looks like LongBeach & Fuji will be on the calendar. Hey, that sounds like a good one! The '77 car is an ungodly turbo'd thing too, isnt it? Probably insanity at long Beach either way It wasn't turbo but it was the first ground effect car. They handle like go karts and I can imagine everyone will be really close as it's an easy and fun car to drive on my experience.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on May 27, 2020 20:17:41 GMT
When were you thinking of running the next season Tyler? The current one ends around the end of June and I was wondering about whether we should have a break for at least part of the Summer having had a lot of racing over the 5 series and two years. Especially with the next one being such a long season.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on May 27, 2020 20:37:56 GMT
When were you thinking of running the next season Tyler? The current one ends around the end of June and I was wondering about whether we should have a break for at least part of the Summer having had a lot of racing over the 5 series and two years. Especially with the next one being such a long season. Yeah I definitely would like a break and maybe run some one offs in the mean time. I want to run some sort of endurance race at Nordschleife and we could revisit Mario Kart night. It'll be a lot of work putting the next season together and it might take me longer than usual to get it ready due to the 5 extra circuits. They also ran a non-championship event that year as well which we'll probably skip.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on May 27, 2020 20:56:46 GMT
FFS!! Bloody Xbox update time again 🤬
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Post by hurtmagurt on May 27, 2020 20:58:55 GMT
FFS!! Bloody Xbox update time again 🤬 Me too. Maybe 4 more minutes
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Post by hurtmagurt on May 28, 2020 14:17:47 GMT
Other than a half dozen laps to get my braking points down, I had not turned my wheel on since I crashed out at the Nurburgring 3 weeks ago. Not xbox or PC. It was a much needed break. Last nights first 23 laps were the best racing I've ever had on this Forum. I'm really sorry it came to an end for Peter and I but it really was just a racing incident. I had done the same move the lap before as well, but Peters acceleration out of turn 2 was so much better than mine for the first hundred meters or so that he just pulled ahead. On lap 23 I again was on the right of Peter along the right side of the track, as he pulled away I was slightly ahead but he caught up and our back tires touched side to side. Because the rears are wider than the front (and because of project cars physics) both our front wheels turned towards each other as the touched. A real shame and very sorry.
I'll twitch the first 23 laps from the track side camera view, then do a replay of the incident from multiple views on Friday evening.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on May 28, 2020 14:57:27 GMT
Other than a half dozen laps to get my braking points down, I had not turned my wheel on since I crashed out at the Nurburgring 3 weeks ago. Not xbox or PC. It was a much needed break. Last nights first 23 laps were the best racing I've ever had on this Forum. I'm really sorry it came to an end for Peter and I but it really was just a racing incident. I had done the same move the lap before as well, but Peters acceleration out of turn 2 was so much better than mine for the first hundred meters or so that he just pulled ahead. On lap 23 I again was on the right of Peter along the right side of the track, as he pulled away I was slightly ahead but he caught up and our back tires touched side to side. Because the rears are wider than the front (and because of project cars physics) both our front wheels turned towards each other as the touched. A real shame and very sorry. I'll twitch the first 23 laps from the track side camera view, then do a replay of the incident from multiple views on Friday evening. No sweat Greg, just one of those things. What is weird though is that on your screen you clearly were ahead based on what you are saying but on mine you were nowhere in sight lol I assumed that I was alone as I went along there so was caught completely by surprise when I suddenly started to get turned to the inside!! Agree on the racing in that first 20 odd laps though, that was just intense and immensely fun.
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Post by iang0355 on May 28, 2020 18:24:30 GMT
Really bummed I only got to take part in about 3 laps of this race but watching it was almost as much fun. So much close racing it was hard to keep up with in the spectator menu, such a good time!
As for the couple laps I got, it went well. had a ligtning start and made a place up and was underneath pete going into 3, but i couldn't see my brake markers so I thought better of it and backed out. Car had immense speed; really looking forward to monza now, I think that setup will be a good starting point. I managed to make the pass for the lead and was holding my own but coming into T1 on lap 4 when I went to shift down under braking I missed 4th and hit 2nd, hurt the gearbox bad and started to lock up. Started spinning towards drivers right after the corner, thought I had caught it but it snapped and landed right in front of Pete who t-boned me and sent me to space. Lost 3 wheels and couldn't move so i retired. Luckily you guys put on a hell of a show so I'm still glad to have been there for it. I'll be back for vengeance in Italy though!
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Post by vdub4life on May 28, 2020 20:12:00 GMT
Ya guys that was one hell of a race. Sucks about my pit stop but was nice to fight with people can’t wait for Italy
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Post by XRF HammerPH on May 28, 2020 20:38:02 GMT
Would have been so much better if they hadn't been using the modern Monza at this time. That track with those crappy chicanes is not suited to this car and is one of my least favourite tracks 😔
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Post by XRF Formula1 on May 28, 2020 20:43:07 GMT
Q: P6 R: P2 That was definitely the best racing i've had here at the forums too. The entire race for me was intense, I pushed harder than I have in quite awhile to try and catch Karl, Pete, and Greg for a huge part of the race. The replay was exciting to watch all of the action, it had to have been the most overtaking i've seen out of all the races i've participated in here so far. Tyler Smith is improving every race and made it difficult for me to keep him behind! I was attcking and defending at the same time for just about the entire race. I had sweat running down my forehead into my eyes which started burning lol. I was gutted for Ian, Greg, and especially Tyler 2 at points during the race because each of you had potential to win or get a podium, which was all in fair competition and racing incidents. That sucks Tyler that your pitstop ruined what could have been your first podium, keep pushing! After my pitstop I pushed like there was no tomorrow and had to make up 11 seconds to catch Karl but ended up finishing on his bumper on the last lap, still that was a lot of fun. Karl (54pts.) has now moved his lead over the rest of us with a healthy 6 points ahead of Peter (48pts.) in 2nd with me right behind Peter (47pts.). Fantastic battles everyone, this is what racing is all about. I twitched the replay and can record it to save if anyone wants me to
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Post by XRF Formula1 on May 28, 2020 20:48:12 GMT
Would have been so much better if they hadn't been using the modern Monza at this time. That track with those crappy chicanes is not suited to this car and is one of my least favourite tracks 😔 Well, the layout they used in 1972 only had the Ascari circular chicane, the first two didn't exist yet. I wouldn't mind switching to the historic but we'd have to figure out a new number of laps.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on May 28, 2020 21:04:22 GMT
No it's ok Tyler. We're trying to be as historically accurate as possible and they actually had the circuit modified for this very race with the addition of the first and third chicanes. It was only the second that did not exist for this race.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on May 28, 2020 21:35:42 GMT
Alright, i'll post the signup for next Wednesday in awhile then
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Post by niblips on May 30, 2020 19:51:32 GMT
I uploaded my video. I'm trying to use the editor in youtube to cut out the quali session, but i'm not sure if it's gonna work. Race starts round the 25min mark.
EDIT - the cutting out of quali seemed to work, but the video quality dropped. It was much clearer when i uploaded it the first time.....
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Post by hurtmagurt on Jun 1, 2020 23:13:46 GMT
So I Twitched for the first time today. I setup the broadcast started it, went for 40 minutes and showed the first 23 laps and did some replays. However after i stopped it, I can't find it. I was on my Twitch app on my phone during the broadcast and I was in the chat room for my broadcast. Thoughts on what I may have done wrong?
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jun 2, 2020 5:23:44 GMT
So I Twitched for the first time today. I setup the broadcast started it, went for 40 minutes and showed the first 23 laps and did some replays. However after i stopped it, I can't find it. I was on my Twitch app on my phone during the broadcast and I was in the chat room for my broadcast. Thoughts on what I may have done wrong? Have you checked the settings to make sure the option is checked to save the stream? That was something that I had to do when I first set it up. Not sure whether it's turned on by default now so worth checking it out.
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