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Simulation Racing Leagues => Assetto Corsa => Australian Assetto Corsa League, Tuesday nights => Topic started by: Wally on December 16, 2014, 10:39:16 PM
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Post away...
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Away. ;D
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Race Results (http://xgnassettocorsa.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/s4r5-gt-at-nurburgring.html)
Season Standings (http://xgnassettocorsa.blogspot.com/2014/11/season-4-standings.html)
Round Points
Guybrush Threepwood 75
Wally 67
Matthew111 63
Ysu 58
StanDaam 55
Bacchulum 54
Freezer 47
Marty 47
Vipergod 47
Dave O 45
Imperious 43
cramjet 43
M8R 40
GWyar 38
Schmittez 32
Grubbet 28
Krahl 27
Gratulin 24
Phil 18
Rob 14
Tom 8
Clean sweep by Guybrush!
Season Podium
1. Guybrush, 279 pts
2. Matthew111, 260
3. Ysu, 229
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Good and bad night for me.
Qualified around 12th for R1 and got a slightly slow jump but managed to gradually pick off a few people as the race wore on. I chased Grattulin toward the end and made a dive pass into the final chicane where I out braked myself a bit and possibly effected Grattulins corner, so I redressed which unfortunately let Wally through also but got home 6th.
R2 Didn't quite get a decent lap and started about 12th. Got a good jump however over the first two laps I get punted off twice by people veering across track which saw me right down the back. I had to work hard to pass GW, Schmittez in and in battling with M8R, YSU slipped by. Then I got spun again!!!! Not happy Jan. But a look at the replay shows a big lag spike caused M8R to rear end me. I managed to pass Cramjet after this and thought I was away but toward the end he was coming back hard and he pressured me all the way to the end to get home 11th.
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qualy I did reasonable a bit off my pb but ok
race 1 I was alone in 2nd as Guy ran off lol
race 2: Similar thing but I made a stupid mistake at turn 5 oon lap 18 pushing to hard seeing guy just up the road but it put me in a cool little battle with wally, marty and sand and came 5th, was filthy lol... car was pretty good around here though a lot more driveable for me but I still hate the lotus goes against my style, as soon as it sniffs a slide it loops lol
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Wally I think something might be up with the race results. In the second race I didn't pit until lap15 and I think I lead all the way but the graph for race 2 looks different.
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1st race was great. I was in the middle of quite a close train: Bacchulum, Ysu, Me, Freezer, Tom. It felt like Freezer put a bit of a push-to-pass move on me at the top chicane on lap 5, but I haven't watched the replay, so I could be wrong. That let Tom through opportunistically as well. But later I passed Freezer and Bacchulum after an incident to finish 4th in a good result.
Race 2 went well. Dodged a few mishaps. You've got to have awareness of things that look like they could end in tears and not get caught up in them. I was behind Guybrush and Matthew111, lead for a while while they pitted, but after all three of us had pitted, we were back to normalised order. But then Matthew111 spun off-track on lap 19 and I got through to 2nd. From there it was just trying to keep a charging Marty at bay, hoping that Mathew111 behind him would keep enough pressure on Marty to slow him down. There was 1.3 seconds between me, StanDaam, Marty and Matthew111 at the finish. Good race, and my best result.
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Wally I think something might be up with the race results. In the second race I didn't pit until lap15 and I think I lead all the way but the graph for race 2 looks different.
What do you think is wrong? I did hit the lead for a moment after you pitted and I hadn't yet, but when I pitted, race order was normalised.
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Wally I think something might be up with the race results. In the second race I didn't pit until lap15 and I think I lead all the way but the graph for race 2 looks different.
What do you think is wrong? I did hit the lead for a moment after you pitted and I hadn't yet, but when I pitted, race order was normalised.
Sorry, it's all good. I must have accidentally swiped across my screen on my phone and was viewing the Monza results!
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I was reasonably happy with the night from my own performance.
R1 managed to qualify a tenth off my PB which I was happy with. In the race I put soft on and tried to nurse them around - especially the opening lapsso they wouldn't grain. They went off with a couple of laps to go but that turned out alright.
R2 I was again happy with qualifying. The race was good. I did lose concentration around the mid part and went shooting off turn 5, so that cost me 4 or 5 seconds. I stayed out on the mediums until lap 15 making sure that Matthew wasn't going to undercut me and then put soft on for the final 8 laps and then nursed themhhome for pretty much a carbon copy of R1. matthew drove well and we were trading lap times on the mediums at the start of the race which was cool.
Well done to everyone. Seemed like there was some great racing.
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Race was was short lived, I ran meds many others seemed to have softs. I got a little loose out of t3 then Stan helped me around pretty much a 50/50 but he didnt really have anywhere to go and if he slowed a bit more he probably would have got rear ended too. Car was still ok at that point but was stuck on track facing the wrong way with me nowhere to go. I just hoped the field would get by without collecting me as it was a fair way inside but got hit by someone. This damaged the front corner suspension and it backed into the wall slowly also bending the rear, car was not really driveable. I limped to pit to see how long the repair would take but they were still working on it as guy crossed the line, I didnt want to be a nuisance in the middle of the pack a lap down with no hope of picking up any spots so I didnt resume.
Race 2 I stuffed u qualy, was sure I added 3x fuel but running out half way through the hotlap said otherwise. Then I went back into the pits and added way too much fuel, was pretty slow on my first flyer and quite a bit quicker on the second but ran out of time at the last turn same as Bird who I was following.
The race was incident free but I struggled getting by many cars, luckily I got handed a few places including Dave O missing a gear down a straight as I was getting a draft. I did pass him on the grass but it was either that or crash as you dont expect people to slow so much there. Especially if you tried as hard as possible to get by for 5 laps or so with no success. Once I had some clear air I started to chase down Wally and Stan was close behind, he had the pace on me and I just tried to stay ahead until my stop hoping the mclaren needed more fuel then me in the stop. Stopped on lap 12 and tried to get in some good laps to maybe get by Wally as he exited the pits. Looking at the results I was 4.5 seconds behind him when I made my stop then he stopped a few laps later and I was 2.5 seconds behind so gained a little but not quite enough.
With about 5 or 6 to go I got fairly close to Wally but didn't really have any good chances to make a move on him. I then saw Stan and Matthew gaining on me as I couldn't get past and I was a bit of a sitting duck in a lotus vs the Mclaren while being a little held up in a couple spots a lap.
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Race 1 went well for the first 3 corners, then I was just sticking to my side of the track coming around turn 3 watching the cars on my right, leaving plenty of room then when I look more straight ahead of me there was Marty sitting on the track, and I just panicked and slammed on the brakes and hoped for the best, but in doing that all the wheels locked so there was no way I would of been able to turn away even if I had thought of it in my panic, I probably could of got around if I didn't lock the brakes or panic.
When It first happened I thought I didn't hit Marty and when I got rear ended I hit him but upon watching the replay I gave him a reasonable knock before getting hit myself, which resulted in me having a yellow front splitter and red rear wing and broke wind shield witch doesn't really bother me as much as it seems to bother some other people.
then I just started lapping and a couple laps later me and some one else had a bit of side bumping action which left me with pretty much red from the front to the rear around the left side of my car, So I just drove it home hoping to get as many points as possible.
Race 2 on turn 2 lap 1 some people went off ahead of me, no big deal but when I got to the corner one of the people, In a P4/5 didn't catch the name was re-entering the track and just kept moving left until we eventually collided with me right on the left side of the track just as the road straightened out and at least one person behind got caught up in it as well which left my car with orange damage all round, I thought that was a pretty unsafe re-entry to the track but there is no footage of it to be reviewed due to the replay size limit.
Then I ended up in front of GWyar and we had a good battle until I pit then I ended up behind him after he pit and we battle some more both having a few minor mistakes here and there but then I ended up make a big enough boo boo to put me in the gravel which left me a fair way behind, which actually wasn't bad for me as I again didn't do so well on the fuel front so I just drove around saving fuel, but GWyar must of got a PLP or something because he came of the pits just ahead of me with 3 or 4 laps to go and I just hunted him down. We went side by side almost all the way from about turn 5 to about turn 8 on the last lap where we bumped a little and GWyar ended up sliding off.
Looking at the replay I could of left more room and it looks like GWyar was just a bit fast to make the corner where we could of not hit. Then I just brought it home finishing with 0.1 laps worth of fuel left.
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Race 1 went well for the first 3 corners, then I was just sticking to my side of the track coming around turn 3 watching the cars on my right, leaving plenty of room then when I look more straight ahead of me there was Marty sitting on the track, and I just panicked and slammed on the brakes and hoped for the best, but in doing that all the wheels locked so there was no way I would of been able to turn away even if I had thought of it in my panic, I probably could of got around if I didn't lock the brakes or panic.
When It first happened I thought I didn't hit Marty and when I got rear ended I hit him but upon watching the replay I gave him a reasonable knock before getting hit myself, which resulted in me having a yellow front splitter and red rear wing and broke wind shield witch doesn't really bother me as much as it seems to bother some other people.
Not much you could have done there, the aero damage doesnt seem to be much of an issue in GT cars but my suspension was bent in 2 corners and so it didnt drive too well that way. ;D The funny thing that I got no suspension damage from the initial hit with Stan and that was wheel to wheel contact. But the secondary impact which was pretty much head on caused the left front and right rear to bend, the rear must have been when I hit the wall. This was a pretty soft impact too but damage does need a bit more love before its actually considered more then random stuff happens in some contact. My windscreen didnt even brake which is even stranger as this normally breaks at the slightest contact.
Here are a few screens.
Race 1 Start into t1, Guybrush has already checked out ;D
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/9e48/xu1jfhf45e37c0c4g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/xu1jfhf45e37c0c/Screenshot_lotus_evora_gx_nurburgring_16-12-2014-23-48-50.jpg)
Contact with Stan, check out his head lol. I hope he didnt hurt his neck too bad as it looks pretty broken in this shot.
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/ae68/6j2fyg8jo3131to4g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/6j2fyg8jo3131to/Screenshot_lotus_evora_gx_nurburgring_16-12-2014-23-51-49.jpg)
Me parked hoping everyone gets by.
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/9be3/e95sk6dui3e6ngs4g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/e95sk6dui3e6ngs/Screenshot_lotus_evora_gx_nurburgring_16-12-2014-23-59-40.jpg)
Car after the secondary crash.
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/363f/90fl9r4ct4b2gs94g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/90fl9r4ct4b2gs9/Screenshot_lotus_evora_gx_nurburgring_17-12-2014-0-3-33.jpg)
Race 2, trying to sneak inside Davo early but he was a hard man to get by in the little lotus. I was behind him for 8 laps I think until he missed a gear. Also got that darn Mclaren trying to find a way by as Im a little held up. I kept it behind for 22 1/2 lap but he finaly made the move on me.
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/7c5d/cc84hqqqt2chc2w4g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/cc84hqqqt2chc2w/Screenshot_lotus_evora_gx_nurburgring_16-12-2014-23-26-50.jpg)
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It felt like Freezer put a bit of a push-to-pass move on me at the top chicane on lap 5, but I haven't watched the replay, so I could be wrong.
I dived down the outside as you seemed to brake early and in squeezing around the outside there was a slight touch of my rear left and your right front, but I don't know about any push to pass??
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It felt like Freezer put a bit of a push-to-pass move on me at the top chicane on lap 5, but I haven't watched the replay, so I could be wrong.
I dived down the outside as you seemed to brake early and in squeezing around the outside there was a slight touch of my rear left and your right front, but I don't know about any push to pass??
I dare say you're right - I haven't watched the replay. It just felt a bit forceful at the time. I think I was braking to pull out of an attempted inside pass on Ysu. I was probably just annoyed that Tom got through the hole too :)
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Race 2 on turn 2 lap 1 some people went off ahead of me, no big deal but when I got to the corner one of the people, In a P4/5 didn't catch the name was re-entering the track
What colour P4 . . . . . there was only two of us . . . . I did get hit early in the piece but I dont recall this!!!
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Apologies for not turning up fellas, got a surprise party sprung on me for my birthday last night.
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Mixed night for me, some highs and lows.
Having the MP4 I was feeling pretty good for this round :D
That changed after 3 corners into the sprint race and I've given Marty a tap and sent him round... After I looked at the replay, like Marty said, it wasn't completely my fault as he was quite out of shape... but he would have saved it if not for my tap so I felt terrible... Now at the back of the field, I raced on until about lap 6 then had another little incident that busted my liddle McLaren, so I limped home all sad.
Race 2 was a much better race!
Got a good start and was in 3rd. Was pressuring Mathew a bit too much too early, I should have let my tyres and the track rubber up a bit more. I was following a bit too close through the Schumacher S section and suddenly I've got that 'ohh dear I'm not gunna save this feeling' and I'm in the sand with yellows on the front n rear. But the McLaren still felt good and I was in about 8th when I rejoined I think. From then on I had a great race, right down to the last corner when I had a slim chance to get 2nd but Wally was too good and I came home very happy in 3rd . Of course I was behind Marty for a lot of this race and I made sure I was on my best behavior after the race 1 incident :)
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Apologies for not turning up fellas, got a surprise party sprung on me for my birthday last night.
That's a fair excuse! Happy birthday.
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(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/9e48/xu1jfhf45e37c0c4g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/xu1jfhf45e37c0c/Screenshot_lotus_evora_gx_nurburgring_16-12-2014-23-48-50.jpg)
Hey Marty, what graphics card do you use? Your images look 10 times better than mine. I find my shadows almost black whilst the highlights over exposed.
However I have just ordered a MSI GTX 970 Gaming which should fix the problem.
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(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/9e48/xu1jfhf45e37c0c4g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/xu1jfhf45e37c0c/Screenshot_lotus_evora_gx_nurburgring_16-12-2014-23-48-50.jpg)
Hey Marty, what graphics card do you use? Your images look 10 times better than mine. I find my shadows almost black whilst the highlights over exposed.
However I have just ordered a MSI GTX 970 Gaming which should fix the problem.
I'd say it's more down to your graphics settings than the graphics card. Have you played with the post-processing effects?
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(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/9e48/xu1jfhf45e37c0c4g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/xu1jfhf45e37c0c/Screenshot_lotus_evora_gx_nurburgring_16-12-2014-23-48-50.jpg)
Hey Marty, what graphics card do you use? Your images look 10 times better than mine. I find my shadows almost black whilst the highlights over exposed.
However I have just ordered a MSI GTX 970 Gaming which should fix the problem.
As Guy says I dont think its so much the graphics cards as the settings, but I do have 2x Titans liquid cooled so can run settings pretty much maxed. I just use the in game PP effects at dynamic as this seems to give the best look to me mostly in the areas you mentioned with highlights and shadows.
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(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/9e48/xu1jfhf45e37c0c4g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/xu1jfhf45e37c0c/Screenshot_lotus_evora_gx_nurburgring_16-12-2014-23-48-50.jpg)
Hey Marty, what graphics card do you use? Your images look 10 times better than mine. I find my shadows almost black whilst the highlights over exposed.
However I have just ordered a MSI GTX 970 Gaming which should fix the problem.
As Guy says I dont think its so much the graphics cards as the settings, but I do have 2x Titans liquid cooled so can run settings pretty much maxed. I just use the in game PP effects at dynamic as this seems to give the best look to me mostly in the areas you mentioned with highlights and shadows.
I can't run higher settings in game on race night as it gets to stuttery. None of the PP settings remove the problem on my rig. So better card equals higher settings and my 6800 series card is getting a bit tired....
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It can also be your monitor calibration. Brightness, gamma etc.
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Race 2 on turn 2 lap 1 some people went off ahead of me, no big deal but when I got to the corner one of the people, In a P4/5 didn't catch the name was re-entering the track
What colour P4 . . . . . there was only two of us . . . . I did get hit early in the piece but I dont recall this!!!
They were both black weren't they, I think it might have been you just based on the fact that you were behind me for the first few laps. What happened may have been different to what I recall happening. It may have even been you getting rebounded back on to the track from a hit or something, but from where I was it looked like you came all the way from the right side to the left side and I went to sneak up the left as you started on the right about a car length in front of me but by the time you go to the other side of the track we were pretty much side by side.
If only we could watch that part of the replay because I would really like to know what happened because I was really confused at the time as to why a car seemed to be cutting across the track to be in front of me.
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I was right behind you both in the 'other' P4/5 and it looked like a racing incident to me as I sailed by thinking you beauty! Similar thing happened to me and Stan Daam in the next corner a few laps later. Both of us gave each other room but the cars suddenly came together as we went around the corner side-by-side. I also wish I could see the replay because I wonder whether my car slid sideways into Stan Daam even though visually I saw his car come sideways towards me.
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Race 1 was OK for me, I slowly fell back due to my actual pace, as opposed to my supersoft pace which gave me a good grid spot. ;D
Race 2 was eventful with some close but fair racing.
I decided to keep my mediums on at the stop to save time, and it work as I undercut DaveO but just didn't have the pace to hold him off.
Picked up some front splitter damage and together with old mediums started to get swamped due to understeer.
Bird got by but despite some door-to-door through turns 3, 4 & 5 I held off Vipergod (good racing that, mate ;D)
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Was awsome fun Dave. Fair but hard racing, i was sweating at the end
R1 i stuffed up on my own went near the back, ended up racing m8r. wow is he hard to pass lol, ended up sliding off at the last chicane, cutting it and had to redress.(you may have squeezed me a little ;D)
R2 Has to have been the best race so far for me in this game Steve great racing till you slid too much, Istvan LEAVE ME ALONE
And as said Dave great stuff
One thing though guys do any of you use look left/right Twice i was pushed off the track by slower cars when passing, it was like they didnt know i was there. I always leave room when wheel to wheel even if i lose the spot.....
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Similar thing happened to me and Stan Daam in the next corner a few laps later. Both of us gave each other room but the cars suddenly came together as we went around the corner side-by-side. I also wish I could see the replay because I wonder whether my car slid sideways into Stan Daam even though visually I saw his car come sideways towards me.
Yeah I too was surprised by that contact. I thought we both gave each other racing room... looking at the replay it looks like we had slightly different lines around that corner which didn't help... here's a rough video of the incident... sorry dude!! :)
http://youtu.be/ps8E-buZjqo
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Similar thing happened to me and Stan Daam in the next corner a few laps later. Both of us gave each other room but the cars suddenly came together as we went around the corner side-by-side. I also wish I could see the replay because I wonder whether my car slid sideways into Stan Daam even though visually I saw his car come sideways towards me.
Yeah I too was surprised by that contact. I thought we both gave each other racing room... looking at the replay it looks like we had slightly different lines around that corner which didn't help... here's a rough video of the incident... sorry dude!! :)
http://youtu.be/ps8E-buZjqo
Watching that video looks to me Stan left plenty of room inside but the inside car didnt leave any on exit pushing up into it. When going side by side through a corner like that the inside car cant keep its normal pace as it always will end up leaving no room for the other with a natural exit on the kerb. You can see just prior to the contact Stan holdijg the outside line but Gratulins car moving up into it carrying a bit too much speed to hold the tight line needed to leave a car space on the outside lane.
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Not really Marty. I think what Stan Daam says is correct except it was my fault. I had the angles wrong. I thought I was driving on the same radius as Stan Daam except on the inside line. I actually drive straight into him. I could see his car in my side monitor but didn't help. Sorry Stan Daam :(
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In car it would be very hard to see stans car from where you were, I think you were exiting too wide and the only place he could go is on the kerb so technicaly that would be inside car at fault not leaving enough room IMHO. Stan would have seen you much better then you saw him, its not like its a deliberate crash or anything. Its still a racing incident but Im just saying how I see it and there may be differing opinions.
I just always like to look at replays to see any incidents Im in as its the only way to learn. Quite often what you thought happened and how it actually looks on the replay are quite different. Even my incident with stan in race 1 though he spun me around I had got fairly loose before that which slowed my car a bit in an awkward spot.
I would have saved it quite easily without the contact but also Stan didnt have much option other then braking quite hard mid corner to avoid contact. It was my error initialy added on to a small error by him but had I not lost speed in the corner it would never have happened so its my fault too.
Also I spun him on the last lap of a practice race the nite before after a great battle so it may have just been a payback. ;D
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Also I spun him on the last lap of a practice race the nite before after a great battle so it may have just been a payback. ;D
Ha ha!! That's exactly how it happened!! I just lined up for the race 1 chanting 'Must Get Marty!! Must Get Marty!!' >:(
All good Gratulin, just a tight racing incident :)
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Also I spun him on the last lap of a practice race the nite before after a great battle so it may have just been a payback. ;D
Ha ha!! That's exactly how it happened!! I just lined up for the race 1 chanting 'Must Get Marty!! Must Get Marty!!' >:(
I have that written across the top of my monitor to remind me of the big picture. Actually, I write different things down for each race, such as "must not superman, must not superman", or "remember not to fart while on Team Speak", etc.
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I have that written across the top of my monitor to remind me of the big picture. Actually, I write different things down for each race, such as "must not superman, must not superman", or "remember not to fart while on Team Speak", etc.
That fart one must be a new message, Im sure ive heard a few sneak into your mic on race nites.
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...and I thought it was his controller making all that noise when he crashes...