Round 1 - Checker 200 [20th Jan]

Jason White wrote:

Jason Fitch wrote:

Server would NOT let me escape out.....Someone hit me as a result.

That's your settings.

My settings would've asked if I was sure...This told me Vehicle must be stopped to exit.

Jason Fitch wrote:

Jason White wrote:

Jason Fitch wrote:

Server would NOT let me escape out.....Someone hit me as a result.

That's your settings.

My settings would've asked if I was sure...This told me Vehicle must be stopped to exit.

I presume that's how all HSO races are set up - Procar had the same thing.

Unfortunately I was the one who hit you. I had very little time to react when cars in front of me veered out of the way to reveal the slow car, and I ended up clipping you with my right rear. Shame it happened so early on, but I'm not angry.

Rhys Gardiner wrote:

Jason Fitch wrote:

Jason White wrote:

Jason Fitch wrote:

Server would NOT let me escape out.....Someone hit me as a result.

That's your settings.

My settings would've asked if I was sure...This told me Vehicle must be stopped to exit.

I presume that's how all HSO races are set up - Procar had the same thing.

Unfortunately I was the one who hit you. I had very little time to react when cars in front of me veered out of the way to reveal the slow car, and I ended up clipping you with my right rear. Shame it happened so early on, but I'm not angry.

Apologies, I saw a red car that I thought was a Jiffy Car.

Yea, the HSO servers are set so that the car has to be stopped to exit out, however, during the race, it's supposed to be set to instant leave when you hit Escape.

Sorry Juha,
when the third yellow was thrown i had some lag or screen freeze similar when somebody join the server. Suddenly i was in your back and then in the wall. I didn't try to repair it because the suspension damage was too big. Very thanks to Alberto for the setup. With some adjustment to fit my driving style it worked amazingly.

Pretty crazy race from my standpoint..

Started well, had some good fighting, especially with David Sabre but then I lost it in Turn 2.. fortunately nobody hit me when I spun there, and even more fortunately, nobody hit me while I was trying to get back to the pits. I was staying high as long as possible, waiting for everyone to pass and then I went low to the pits. Cost me about 15 laps.
Then I was last for about the whole race, until Jason White had to pit too and then was about half a dozen laps behind me even. 

Rest of the race was pretty clean as far as I was concerned, however I spun one more time with worn tires and that caused one of the last yellows of the race.

Furthermore, I'd like to apologize to anyone who lapped me in case I caused any kind of trouble whatsoever.

Austin Johnson wrote:

Took to much fuel under the last caution because its + whatever fuel I had anyone know how to change this?

I was about to ask for this issue in bugs/gleetches, but I was not sure, I did not found any pattern, just didnt tested all the options, but it seems to me that car gets the amount of fuel as stated in the garage setup menu. Changing it through car pit menu does not change a thing, at least if you want less fuel than defined in garage. It also seems to me that if you set lower amount in garage pit strategy option, you are able to get more fuel though... it is something worth checking out!


And about my race.. i had high hopes, must admit after sleeping it over Im a bit dissapointed with my performance. All went very good, somehow I found myself in 11/12th position at arround half of the race. Then after pit stop I was messeged to let a lot of cars through which put me to 15/16th.. a lot of blue flags on restart I did not know who is about to overlap me and who not, so I let some drivers I was racing through too.. not a big deal, but slowing down was a mistake, it took me to the wall and a rear suspension got damaged.. then again and I lost too many time in pits repairing it. + it happend again, which I was most affraid: I call for a pit stop, I get invited to enter and the moment I enter the pits I got messaged it is canceled.. I dont know what has to be done to get this, but obviously I did something becose it happend a lot in practice too..

Well, I finished the race, which is important to me. Still, being overlaped so soon suprised me a lot, I knew I was slower than the rest of the field, but not that much..

I hope Long Beach will be released soon, at least unofficialy, I am adicted to this

Was determined to finish this one. Very conservative setup, driving style and race... and I did finish! Great start to the season.

I had 1 accident all week (at the end of practice) because I was not aggressive and never drove above 85%. Some of us need to be more socialist and help each other out in the races.

Congratulations Richard, David and Petr! It was a great race, what we come to HSO for!

Austin, Raul. You can change the setting in your PLR file.

Congratulations to Richard, David and Petr.

Thank to the commentary team . I've just watched it today.

I couldn't get my Lola to go fast all week therefore I thought that I would try and save fuel and see if I could get some extra laps out of a tank of fuel. There was too many yellows for a fuel strategy to work and I was no where near the pace of the leaders, they must have been running high boost with the speed they lapped me at . My car was setup to be safe and I made it to the end without too many problems.

Not the start to the season that I wanted

I was quite surprised by my lack of speed come race time. Watching chatter pre race, I felt I could at least hang with some of the pack and work the draft. Saw some mentioning potential race pace and I thought I was at least close.
On the track, I certainly felt like I was able to "hang".......quali was a rude awakening. Might as well have not quali'd, I did that well

After the race started and I realized it was all I could do to even keep up with the rear end of the field, I started just trying to protect the car, hope for the best, finish under power. ...but as the race really got going, through a few yellows and one fairly lengthy green flag stint, others troubles saw me move up to around P16.

And then that's where the real frustration started. I got up in the marbles in the first turn trying to give plenty of room for lapping cars. I tapped the wall and slightly damaged the rear wing. Car got sketchy as hell, but I wasn't about to stop under green as long as I could hold it in the road. I was holding out for a yellow, and as luck would have it, about 10 laps later it came. I sort everything and go in for tires, fuel, and damage repairs. 56 seconds, this will take.

Stop complete and car patched up nicely I head out of pit lane. Apparently, I did not make it out of pit lane before the field crossed S/F.....?.....as I exited pit lane and started to hustle around to the rear of the field, I start getting a message that I'm ahead of the car I should be following. At this point, I'm not sure if I should try to "outrun" it and round the circuit back to the rear (where I should have been, provided I made it off pit road before the field crossed S/F (I think that's how that works...?...)

The message wouldn't stop, so I back off, fearing penalty if I don't. It flips through cars I "should be following" until it places me all the way at the rear of the line, which renders me a lap down to cars I was just fighting for position with (So I assume this is because the field crossed S/F before I crossed pit lane exit?)

That's where the frustration came in. It's my own fault I suppose. I should understand that procedure better. Of course, wouldn't help when I can't see S/F so if that is applicable it means nothing to know. Was just following orders from the sim.

Anyways, puts me a lap down. Lapping traffic all over me and I'm faster than some of the cars that are now either a lap or a few laps ahead of me. I wanted to fight for my lap back from the ones nearest me that I'd just been fighting, but the mix of lapped and lapping cars was great stress. Eventually just backed off from everything, threw the car in a low boost mix, and decided to try to take it to the end on the least fuel and stops possible. Not going to finish great, but at least I'll finish under power.

That didn't last long. Yet again found myself in those damned marbles near the wall in T1. This time, I had to drop a gear because of all the speed I'd lost...except, I got lazy and botched it. Downshift, throttle, kaboom....car hung in neutral and when I hit the throttle it was all she wrote, engine dead.
I'm sure sitting in my pit stall for almost 60 full seconds with the turbo wide open and the engine on didn't help much, so I imagine that played a role.
Game over, till next time.

Grats to the front runners...and thanks for the broadcast.
It was fun. ...lessons learned and will be moving forward with knowledge gained. All one can do.

See ya next time.

Points and results are up. Sorry for the delay.

Raul Jereb wrote:

Austin Johnson wrote:

Took to much fuel under the last caution because its + whatever fuel I had anyone know how to change this?

"relative fuel strategy" is the name of the option in the .plr file. this changes the display on the hud to either set how much fuel to ADD or how much fuel TOTAL will be in the tank after the stop.

Raul Jereb wrote:

+ it happend again, which I was most affraid: I call for a pit stop, I get invited to enter and the moment I enter the pits I got messaged it is canceled.. I dont know what has to be done to get this, but obviously I did something becose it happend a lot in practice too..

I had this on the caution around lap 100, but when i looked at the replay i was very very late in making my decision to pit, so i didn't turn left off the track till the last second. it seems that cars needed to be left of the pitwall before a certain point, if you stay on track and cut left at the last second before the start of the pitwall the game thinks you have already past the entry and it cancels the stop. the painted line changes colour before the pitwall, maybe where it changes is the "commitment" point? not sure if it was intended or not, but after watching my replay seems fair, i should have been making my entry much sooner. I didn't check the replay for your situation raul, but im guessing its related to making your left turn to the pits pretty late like mine.

----race report----
so excited to be running these cars in AMS, they feel amazing! tested and practiced hard, was really happy with my car and pace, but realized pretty quickly in the race that it would take a lot more than just that. i seemed to be running a bit more aero than the cars around me, i felt quicker in the turns, but i didnt have enough on the straights to finish moves/runs. the car had pace, but unfortunately it would be frowned upon if i just drove thru the cars ahead :p, so i just tried to hold on till the end. just ran my race and things seemed to happen around me that put me in a good position in the final laps. got a gap to coxon on the 2nd last restart, and think i was mostly holding the gap, the laps were counting down as slow as molasses, then caution. last restart coxon was right on the ball, and quickly was able to draft past. i knew even with a great turn and exit i wasn't going to have enough to get by, the best i was going to be able to muster was to get along side, and even that would be a huge challenge. side by side on the outside is doable, but not likely against coxon, and my car didn't like the inside of the first turn, so i was trying to setup a crossover before the kink where i could get inside. the odds were slim to none, but just as i felt like i was closing up to richard's gearbox and there might be a glimmer of hope, the final caution flew.

great race richard, amazing pace with the judd. austin, same for making that old chassis fly. in general really good racing all around, maybe a few too many cautions still, but pretty dang good for an online sim race, in cars like these, on a short track. we can always strive for better, it would be nice for to have some long green runs, but pretty good, and great fun racing with you all.

best,
dave

Jason Fitch wrote:

Rhys Gardiner wrote:

Jason Fitch wrote:

Jason White wrote:

Jason Fitch wrote:

Server would NOT let me escape out.....Someone hit me as a result.

That's your settings.

My settings would've asked if I was sure...This told me Vehicle must be stopped to exit.

I presume that's how all HSO races are set up - Procar had the same thing.

Unfortunately I was the one who hit you. I had very little time to react when cars in front of me veered out of the way to reveal the slow car, and I ended up clipping you with my right rear. Shame it happened so early on, but I'm not angry.

Apologies, I saw a red car that I thought was a Jiffy Car.

Yea, the HSO servers are set so that the car has to be stopped to exit out, however, during the race, it's supposed to be set to instant leave when you hit Escape.

Richard, is Fitchy correct?  Are we now using direct escape during races?  Please advise.

You can't have 2 different settings for 2 different sessions.
If we want the realistic settings with tow back, the car needs to be stopped.

Richard Coxon wrote:

You can't have 2 different settings for 2 different sessions.
If we want the realistic settings with tow back, the car needs to be stopped.

Thank you for the clarification

I don't know if this should be reported but I had very few messages pop up letting me know whats going on. I have the spotter set to 3 and only sometimes would I get the 1 to green or a report of a car on the outside or the inside. Is there like a better spotter add on or something?

Not that I know of, but that's all my spotter tells me too. As long as I know if someone's around me I'm happy.

Richard Coxon wrote:

Not that I know of, but that's all my spotter tells me too. As long as I know if someone's around me I'm happy.

At least yours reports...mine is drunk up in the skybox wondering around..

He's fired!!

The results table

Austin Johnson wrote:

I don't know if this should be reported but I had very few messages pop up letting me know whats going on. I have the spotter set to 3 and only sometimes would I get the 1 to green or a report of a car on the outside or the inside. Is there like a better spotter add on or something?

http://www.thecrewchief.org/

Lukáš Vydra wrote:

The results table

That's a lot of people finishing 19th 

Do you have your Message Center on Austin??

My Spotter doesn't actually tell me "1 to go" but it does pop-up in the message center.

Jason Fitch wrote:

Do you have your Message Center on Austin??

My Spotter doesn't actually tell me "1 to go" but it does pop-up in the message center.

Yes. It was hit and miss.

Jason Whited wrote:

Austin Johnson wrote:

I don't know if this should be reported but I had very few messages pop up letting me know whats going on. I have the spotter set to 3 and only sometimes would I get the 1 to green or a report of a car on the outside or the inside. Is there like a better spotter add on or something?

http://www.thecrewchief.org/

Wow thank you that is awesome

Jason White wrote:

That's a lot of people finishing 19th 

Yeah. I am sure it's going to split up in future races