The iRacing physics are weird with contact. Justin barely tapped my rear bumper and it made the sound, gave the 1x but I couldn't tell at all otherwise. In practice, I tapped Edmund's bumper just marginally harder and he literally flipped over.

Edmund, maybe just be a bit more patient until about lap 3. I found that's what I have to do as if I too aggressive too soon, I tend to have more contact out of nerves.

 

Thanks for the words of wisdom. Agreed. I will intend to attempt to apply (how non-committal is that?) .. But folks, maybe knowing I'm a bit of a soiled diaper on track and keeping away from me isn't a bad idea, at least for awhile. At least while I'm learning more self control.
I really do enjoy the Rennlist iRacing league thing. Racing in races where you don't know people is more of a recipe for aggression an non-accountability. Just don't want to be the reason someone wouldn't want to race with us...

 

I disagree, keep racing. It helps you learn faster, just remember to concede passes and close racing a bit easier knowing you can make it up if you are the faster car. We are amateurs, hits will happen, and they don't get more fun to be involved with over time. I just try to give a lot more buffer than I would in a real car because I can't judge distances too well and neither can someone else. My biggest fault, where I tend to have the most contact, is braking as I seem to brake much later than those I'm overtaking. So I try to work on being early on the brakes and doing the over-under move instead.

 

Video from last night's race:


Cameras are the defaults (I don't have a custom camera file for COTA) so the angles aren't as exciting...

 

No problem. I passed you but went a bit long in the turn and figured you were just cutting back under.

 

And I was going where is that damn white flag near the end :-)

 

Funny I don't even remember that part My big mishap was my fault. I started following Ted, then he went offline, so I went offline, when I tried to come back JP hit me hard on my rear bumper, sorry JP, I was out of control at that point, I know you couldn't avoid me.

Still finished 7 I think, pretty happy anyway.

 

LOL sounds like my race. Tony made a mistake with ~2 to go and I got around him. He was faster than me but his spin gave me a bit of a gap. By the checkered he was within a tenth or two. I was sweating big time trying to push to stay ahead!

 

I was spotting Tony from the Blimp Cam those last few laps Jim... That was fun to watch!!!

 

No problem man. I watched the replay from different angles while I was waiting to be towed, and I couldn't really tell whose fault it was. Looked different each time depending on the camera angle. Just one of those things.

 

I was trying to extremely hard to catch you, but failed! Therefore I felt it was appropriate to slam into the back of you after the race was over lol

 

LOL thus taking my "inc" count from 1 to 5

 

oh crap... mybad lol didnt think about that.

 

Yeah Grant says they count until 30 seconds after everyone finishes their final lap or something. Thats why I wait to do donuts or go off track.

 

Ok, here's the million dollar question, maybe it was asked before.

Why in the world do Tony and Justin have no microphone, and how do they type so fast? Ok, that's two questions.







Maybe they have a girly voice Hahahaha