Season 11 Race 5 Road America

My bad JPN. Wasn't trying to poke. Was just trying to point out how it coulda went better for ya.

I'm about an hour from my job, which is about 15 from home. Just got around a flower lapped car n I'm shaving time off the SP33D RAC3R way....... Don't start without meeeeeee....

imma say it right now. never again. if i quallify and end up in a tiny B Lobby im not running with AI. I showed up, i qualled properly. I race to race people and if im not pre-racing then im not putting a single AI in my room. Ever again.

SaintedPlacebo4 wrote:

imma say it right now. never again. if i quallify and end up in a tiny B Lobby im not running with AI. I showed up, i qualled properly. I race to race people and if im not pre-racing then im not putting a single AI in my room. Ever again.

I wish I raced with you tbh, I ended up last place in the 1st lap on the 2nd corner to avoid contact with hiredgun (just bad luck I was there)

had contact with Roscoe in turn 8 on the 1st lap (thankfully no damage occurred to either one of us but was my fault)

crashed into maxxmillion after he rolled over in turn 5 and he moved into my path trying to get out of the way of myself, roscoe and big duty.

and finally lagged out in lap 5 and had to do the rest of the race on my own.

I can't remember the last time I raced at road america without incident or lag out.

Dude i watched Burpdator get spun in a straight bc the AIs were trying ot wreck us. im serious. they literally were zigzagging and all sorts of horribleness. I got stuck behind one that was trying to dump me, and since its a 700+ pi race car it was faster in the straight too. Therefor... i was left to run 2"20s until he caught an AI and rammed him off the road.

SaintedPlacebo4 wrote:

Dude i watched Burpdator get spun in a straight bc the AIs were trying ot wreck us. im serious. they literally were zigzagging and all sorts of horribleness. I got stuck behind one that was trying to dump me, and since its a 700+ pi race car it was faster in the straight too. Therefor... i was left to run 2"20s until he caught an AI and rammed him off the road.

jesus, had no idea the AI was this bad around road america and forgot about the AI.

I had a pretty quick car/tune for this track, could've finished well, but turn 5 tire wall reached out and grabbed the Cadillac. 

Sorry to Tommy, Roscoe & Duty, tried to get the big girl off the track before you guys got there, she was not moving fast after the flip. 

Got to the pits, only to have the power go out three laps later.  Not a very good night.

I messaged GTDon about 10 minutes ago. This is jsut a secondary notice. Something came up and i have to miss the race. If anyone in BLobby is looking for the room AAR GTDon is hosting.

racing requires 3 things: Speed, exacution and luck. I excuted qualifying, all 4 cars have had speed this weekend, but the luck has not been on my side with lag. It knocked me out 3 times at the alps and so far 3 times this weekend. Maybe i'll get lucky and survive this GTR race..

Not a good evening for me either, couldn't start in the same lobby as the rest of the field and then xbox live went down in my own lobby on lap 37.
On the bright side I beat the example lap.

On to next week

Too much goes into getting lag hit, bad connections, unfavorable restarts, and other things that have grinding at me this season.

With that said, I retire from the FSCS

Enjoyed racing with y'all, take care.

Aye man you might as well stick in it. In some ways its almost funner because it changes it from being about winning or staying consistent enough to win anything to just going out there to put down some laps and see whats going on. In ST, after missing that race it kind of turned into just a fun race that i go out there to try my best and stuff. I dont have to worry about trying to finish high for the championship and in some ways its funner.

JPN, We all have had some bad luck at some point or another.  You been around long enough to remember when I had 2 races where my Wheel failed, 1 race I somehow flipped on Infineon (still finished though). And the race I was in second with 10 to go and a lag spike all but rendered my car immovable.  That was all in one season!  Stuck it out each race and ended up 5th that season. I scraped, clawed and scratched but made it to top 5.  

I understand your anger and frustration, but no need to throw in the towel.

Good job to GtDon in Blobby, GT. Due to him disconnecting twice before we had a successful start, he was last on the grid. He damaged his motor before pitting. After the pit stop he laid down fast lap after fast lap, and caught me with 5 to go, made the pass stick the second time, and won our class in room by a couple seconds.

As for my race it started off not too hot. Had a bad start and the GT field pretty much pounced on me and I fell to almost last. Then in turn 1 Manuel's Noble jumps left then right on me so i try to stay in the middle then JPNs car moves over just a foot or two. I hear the touch and my car gets loose for a sec but on the straight I look and no damage. Race on. After that I just got my focus on, made no mistakes and was making time on the two rabbits speed and rb77. Got up on Rb77 and was giving him a fight. But his pit strategy worked in his favor so after the pits cycled he had gained about 5 seconds. Good clean hard fought race. Bonus I got my fastest lap ever at Road Atlanta 2:05.844!

Admin/PredatorUSMC wrote:

Then in turn 1 Manuel's Noble jumps left then right on me so i try to stay in the middle then JPNs car moves over just a foot or two.

I gain 2places at the start, get into turn 1 and got hit from behind. That was all 37% dammage and 17% on the sides, enought to ruin my race. As it was only me I didnt call for a restart or quited. Just roll all the race

After getting a decent start on the 2nd restart, shot myself in the foot over-correcting coming out of turn 5 on lap 3, and gave myself 40% front/27% side damage by bumping the inside wall. Had to let most of the GT field go by while I got adjusted to my new tune....  Never really ran the kind of times I was hoping for after that, but ran a fairly consistent (2:08s) race rest of the way, except for spinning out one time late in the race.

Congrats to all the winners!  Off to the bumps of the Nurb GP.....

My quali was awful, just too tired at the time.  Had Xbox freeze up twice at the start, once for the grid lap, and then once for the race, ended up starting at the back in last. Had to fight through everyone for the first 24laps especially Roscoe in his Lambo. He pitted. I blew my motor trying to make time on his pit, 37% damage. I limped to my pit, and when I came out Roscoe was farther ahead.  But now with a fresh set of valves (not sure how my pit crew did it so fast) I was at full hp and caught up to Roscoe quickly.  

Instead of gaining 500 ft down the straight he was only gaining 200ft now.  10 more laps of playing with Roscoe and he finally went off.  From lap 30 to the end I started to click off 2:06.000s and was slowly reeling leader Vator's Audi in who had gotten a 3,000ft head start on me.  He was being held up by slower GTR cars and I finally caught him on lap 45.  

He bobbled the carousel almost walled it, I went by. A few mistake later and with not enough gap, Vator passes me on the back straight with his superior speed.  Then in a game of braking chicken going down hill towards the hard left before the arch and carousel, me on the inside, he on the gravel outside, he over shoots more than me, all our brakes locked up! No contact, I took the lead and eventually the win.  Best lap 2:05.990.

A high pressure win for sure. Great fun for everyone.

Good racing everyone, congrats to all the winners! Sorry for that little tap again duck . I wish I coulda given speed a better run for his money but damage is a killer!

RB hit someone? Haha isnt that rare lol.

Admin/PredatorUSMC wrote:

JPN, We all have had some bad luck at some point or another.  You been around long enough to remember when I had 2 races where my Wheel failed, 1 race I somehow flipped on Infineon (still finished though). And the race I was in second with 10 to go and a lag spike all but rendered my car immovable.  That was all in one season!  Stuck it out each race and ended up 5th that season. I scraped, clawed and scratched but made it to top 5.  

I understand your anger and frustration, but no need to throw in the towel.

Way back when the points system wasnt so complex. Its all good, I ain a top runner and I aint gonna be missed.

SaintedPlacebo4 wrote:

RB hit someone? Haha isnt that rare lol.

didn't really hit, more of a tap in the behind. shouldn't have given any damage but we got slight

jpnvr4 wrote:

Admin/PredatorUSMC wrote:

JPN, We all have had some bad luck at some point or another.  You been around long enough to remember when I had 2 races where my Wheel failed, 1 race I somehow flipped on Infineon (still finished though). And the race I was in second with 10 to go and a lag spike all but rendered my car immovable.  That was all in one season!  Stuck it out each race and ended up 5th that season. I scraped, clawed and scratched but made it to top 5.  

I understand your anger and frustration, but no need to throw in the towel.

Way back when the points system wasnt so complex. Its all good, I ain a top runner  and I aint gonna be missed.

<3 love you bro

EZT Sabre wrote:

On the bright side I beat the example lap.

You were the only one to do so.

I think he just makes up those times

jpnvr4 wrote:

Admin/PredatorUSMC wrote:

JPN, We all have had some bad luck at some point or another.  You been around long enough to remember when I had 2 races where my Wheel failed, 1 race I somehow flipped on Infineon (still finished though). And the race I was in second with 10 to go and a lag spike all but rendered my car immovable.  That was all in one season!  Stuck it out each race and ended up 5th that season. I scraped, clawed and scratched but made it to top 5.  

I understand your anger and frustration, but no need to throw in the towel.

Way back when the points system wasnt so complex. Its all good, I ain a top runner  and I aint gonna be missed.

Thats very true JP. this season after Tachyon very nicely made up a table, showed that one 10th place finish this season nets you less points equivalent than a DNF after 50% last season. Its more like F1 scoring where if you arent first you are last.