Gary R.

Just ran a Hosted Daytona race, started 13th, got as high as 5th when I got the *** of the car in front of me light and MAN it was a wild ride after that! I put the video file up on MediaFire for dwonload, you have to watch it in the "Replay" app in iRacing. Just put it in "Yourusername\Documents\iRacing\Replays folder.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mmtmn3...a-1_1-9-10.rpy

johnclay

should I see the practice session now?

Circuit Motorsports

The Daytona race is tomorrow evening.

johnclay

thanks- snow is getting to me I guess.

Gary R.

This up on the iRacing Home page, thought it was pretty cool -

Will we have to do a pit in your race Kevin? Used to do it in NASCAR 2003 but not sure tire wear is modeled in this yet?

Circuit Motorsports

Tire wear is modeled but in my experience during the races I've run on the big ovals the fuel issue is the big thing. That will depend on the length of the race obviously.

Gary R.

Joe - missed a good race Monday, if you, Ed, and Glen stayed we would have had ten guys to wreck in there! Still have no idea who Ray Rivard is, maybe someone's kid from here?? Sounded like Paolo on Helium..

kevin135

Tires do wear and fuel burns off. I was thinking of running a 30 lap race which should eliminate both issues and NOT require pitting. I figured for the first oval race let's keep it simple. I need to run a test to make sure the car will hold 30 laps of fuel to be sure though. I am also planning on turning on full course cautions. Without cautions the field will get too spread out and people who lose the draft avoiding an accident will never catch back up. Cautions work like this:

Caution flag comes out
Field is frozen
once the field is bunched up the next time by pit-in cars on the lead lap can pit
next time by cars a lap down or more can pit
next time by green flag is thrown

Race control will give each driver individual instructions (shown on screen) as to where to line up. You may be instructed to let someone by, or to go around someone. Just follow what race control says to do. If you are not sure what to do just key your mic and let us know what is going on and I can try to help.

kevin135

The story is up on NASCAR.com too!

Gary R.

You could always set an initial fuel amount (you can change it, yes?) to start with to make a pit stop required, then each person has to decide on getting 0, 2,or 4 tires or having a chassis setup change (can be done like N2003?) during the stop. Adds a lot to a race. Maybe too advanced for some (including me!)..

Circuit Motorsports

The only thing I don't like about pitstops is that it also spreads teh field out. At lest in the few races I've run.

Circuit Motorsports

Just did a five lap run and the 18 gallons should get about 32-33 laps running solo and a bit better running in a pack.

Gary R.

I suppose if we only get 10-15 guys that will be an issue... 43 cars, just adds to the realism!

I'm going to try and hop into a Hosted race this afternoon, been a lot of open Daytona races up of late.. gotta practice not bumping the guy in front of me when the draft yanks me in..

Circuit Motorsports

No need for hosted races if you just want practice. The Daytona 500 special which is under the rookie category has very full practice sessions.

Gary R.

Thanks Joe, forgot it was an open race for everyone.