I'm not generally one to go looking for pickup races. I never have been, in any sim. Just one oir two league nights and a bit of practice in between is enough for me. But maybe that's exactly because of Gratulin's point. The lobby is usually an empty wasteland.

Although I don't like iRacing's pricing model, hats off to them for trying to organise and structure the online experience.

There's always people who will check out a game out of curiosity while it's new, like people are doing with Dirt Rally for example, before they drift off to the ”next big thing”. The numbers that stick behind and play a sim regularly are always going to be smaller. I'm certainly in that crowd. I played netKar for years with about 12 or so guys racing the same 8 or so cars over and over, because it felt so good. I prefer to just find a good feeling sim and stick with it.

Four options (or classes) to choose from. You can choose up to two of your preferred options.

1. Pagani Zonda R
Fast, race-spec car, lots of setup options, soft, medium, hard tyres.
Single make series.

2. Lotus Evora GTC and Lotus Evora GX
Mid-range race cars, pretty much the same in performance.
Drive each car for half the  season.

3. Lotus 2 Eleven and Lotus 2 Eleven GT4
Handicap option: The top half of the starters get the slower Lotus 2 Eleven, the bottom half of the starters get the faster GT4. This is pretty much like ballast in a single make. There's roughly 2 seconds difference in lap time over a 1:40 lap. There's usually much more than a 2 second gap between fastest and slowest in our races.

4. Abarth EsseEsse Step 1
Slow road car with enough power to slide.
Single make series.


We can have some trial races in any of the options to see how they pan out, and people can change their votes. AC 1.2 may well surface this month too, so the timing on that might have a bearing on how many trial races we have before the season starts.

Quote from: Wally on July 08, 2015, 08:23:05 AM

Quote from: Freezer on July 07, 2015, 11:42:13 PM

Is the score based on your total points minus your worst round (not including zero results)??

Yes, but your worst round might be a zero result.

That being the case I think the numbers might be wrong.  My example - total of 266 - 0 = 266 where as I show 202  (numbers taken from the "Rounds & Dropped Round" table).
Rolz -  204 - 0 = 204 and shows 204
GB - 201 - 0 = 201 and shows 201
I think my score hasn't includes last nights round as it is 64 short....?

Fixed! My spread sheet still only extended to 6 rounds as per last season.

I'll check it tonight. Thanks for the eagle eyes

Sorry gents, for the early exit, I got mugello'd. 
Pretty much every time this track does the same; 40 laps in praccy and qually w/o issues on the curbs, then during the 9 laps of race there's guaranteed to be a huge jump on one of them.
I just could not get myself to continue with the damaged car from the back.
Maybe I need a break.

There are allegedly kerb fixes in 1.2.

Quote from: Wally on July 07, 2015, 10:57:10 PM

Quote from: Joe on July 07, 2015, 10:55:53 PM

Quote from: Wally on July 07, 2015, 10:45:55 PM

Joe warped into Bafs, taking him out.

Damn was the warp def me? My ping has been solid recently and very low. Much lower than Stan's and no goats harmed.

I'm pretty sure. In my replay it looked like you jumped backwards. It's pretty much impossible to see yourself warping. If you ever see every other car jump at the same time, that's you warping.

Yeah I've seen that in the past but didn't see anyone warp today, just had the impact from behind all of a sudden. In my replay bafs warped jumping forwards, but I guess even if it was me, my replay would show it was him?

It's hard to see your own warping in a replay. You'd see all the cars jump though, if you warped.

Quote from: Wally on July 07, 2015, 10:45:55 PM

Joe warped into Bafs, taking him out.

Damn was the warp def me? My ping has been solid recently and very low. Much lower than Stan's and no goats harmed.

I'm pretty sure. In my replay it looked like you jumped backwards. It's pretty much impossible to see yourself warping. If you ever see every other car jump at the same time, that's you warping.

Race 1 - sorry Jeremy for locking up at the end of the straight and T-boning you. I was hoping I'd miss you, but couldn't. After that, I couldn't close the gap to Phil.

Race 2 - got a punt in the first few corners, but fought back until I got to the end of a Grubbett, Bafs, Joe and Rob train. That was fun for a while, until Joe warped into Bafs, taking him out. Then I was chasing Rob until finally I was close enough after the last corner to get the slipstream past both him and Joe. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see that Rob was closing on the inside way to fast, so I went wide into T1, held back just a fraction of a second, and let the Rob bullet fly past into the sand. From there I chased Grubbet until he pitted. After my pitstop on lap 10, it was a lonely race, with no one else in sight, and big gaps to packs of cars in front and behind.