The Okayama Full Course with the Mazda Cup Cars (MX-5 / Roadster) next Wednesday night.

9:00 - 9:20 Practice
9:20 - 9:45 Qualifying
9:45 - 30 Lap Race

I'll purchase 2hrs of "hosting" for the event.

More details to follow.

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

This will be a "Fixed" setup race. Setup used is "baseline" for both cars.

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

Ok, track time is purchased.

Password to join session next Wednesday night is "amp" (all lower case)

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR

Thanks Jason!

As Scott mentioned in a previous post, maybe we should skip the practice and have 2 shorter races. Everyone can practice on their own and having 2 "sprint" races will be more like racing at home.

Just a thought!

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Brian
VP, AMP
#51 Vantage Motorsports

The hosting forces you to have a practice session in order to give people time to join.

However it has to be a min of 10-20 minutes, we can cut that down next time.
We can also cut down or remove qualifying.

I've set this race up as part of a tournament, meaning that the stats will be kept and applied towards future races in this "series" by iRacing.

I should also clarify that your iRating and SR will not be affected by this race.

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

How many tows did you set it up for?

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Brian
VP, AMP
#51 Vantage Motorsports

unlimited

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

Interesting, would prefer two races as well.. as I don't I'll be very sharp post 10 pm (I get up shortly after 5 each morning).

I hate Okayama though!

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Tim G
Halifax, NS

I'm in!

Car #10 in the Gulf racing colours if I nobody else has taken that yet?

I do have a few questions though...



When you say:

do you just go to the "Join a Race" section and click on "amp" there?

I haven't been able to notice any tire grip changes in the practice mode. (Probably because I'm not doing enough practice laps) Does tire wear come into play in a 30 lap race? Will pit stops be needed?

I see people mentioning "tows" Do I need to configure a button for that?

How many people will have microphones?

Can you export pictures/videos?



Thanks
Stacy

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The fricton circle for my 911 Porsche resembles more of an oblong... I'm either trailbraking or accelerating while trying to get it to turn!

No, I believe you goto the "Hosted" and then "Join a race" from the main page. The session name will be "Atlantic Region Virtual Motor Sport" ... "amp" is the password


I don't know, I don't think so. Tires in iRacing don't die as quickly as GT5. There is a blackbox button for tire wear % but I don't know it off hand.


That's your default "enter/exit car" button.

I have one, I'm not sure who else but I believe Varga, Brian & Jon at least have them.


I don't know.

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

Like Stacy and McIntyre said, everyone who can should join this race tomorrow night.

It doesn't hurt your SR or iRating.

I haven't even driven the full course yet, I'm hoping to put a few practice laps in tonight.

Tomorrow should be fun!

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

Something like this....

There is a drop off in grip throughout a race, but it's less than a 1 sec / lap. I have yet to run a series where anyone had to pit for new tires.



In other words, when you crash and your car is too badly damaged to drive back to the pits, bring the car to a full stop and press / hold the ESC key on your keyboard. That will initiate the towing countdown. Before the towing countdown completes, click it (green button, same as RACE button) so that your car will be repaired in the pits.



I have one too. I think you'll find that most everyone will. You can pick up a cheap $10 headset pretty much anywhere.



Yes, you can, but not within the iRacing service. First you need to save the race replay, then use video capturing / editing software to convert it to a format that can be uploaded to YouTube or whatever. Here's a thread on how to do it: http://members.iracing.com/jforum/posts ... 66065.page

Here's a couple examples of what can be done with various camera angles via the iRacing replay and some clever video editing:

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/823BNPlyWcY?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BpV7MbePZxs?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR

Thanks!

Good to know about that green button before towing countdown ends. I'm sure during the first race there may be some kinks to work out

This headset thing though... In GT5 you have your vroom-vroom-tire squealing-sounds coming through your audio speakers and you talk on the bluetooth as if you were carrying on a conversation during a phone call.

With a headset wouldn't you get the talking and car sounds both coming through at the same time into one ear on the headset?

Stacy

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The fricton circle for my 911 Porsche resembles more of an oblong... I'm either trailbraking or accelerating while trying to get it to turn!

Yes, you hear both voice chat and in-game sound through the same speakers or headset.

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR

Don't forget to map a Push to Talk button....

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

I still need to enable the audio communications ...will do that tonight

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2008 Toyota Prius (Currently 180,000km)
2002 BMW M3 (Currently 197,000km, was 96,300km Jan of 2009)
2006 Toyota Prius (R.I.P 2011, 182,000 km)
1990 Beretta GTZ (R.I.P 2009, 396,000 km)
2000 Grand Cherokee (Sold 2006, 105,000 km)
1990 Laser RS (R.I.P 1989 Halloween day, 2,500 km)

I've bought some connectors for $9 to see if I can hook my racing headset up to the audio card in my computer (or I guess I could also use my helmet mic )



This way I can crank it up more and not bother anybody in the family ...or they can't bother me as much

Stacy

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The fricton circle for my 911 Porsche resembles more of an oblong... I'm either trailbraking or accelerating while trying to get it to turn!

I just ran the course for the first time... did a dozen laps... I can do 1:55s consistently however 1:54 is my fastest lap.

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

That's about where I'm at as well.

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR

Thanks for making me feel better about my lap times guys.. I'm looking forward to tonight more now

I haven't configured voice chat yet either, plan to use headphones with a separate mic. Not as much 'need' for chat in Iracing, but I'd like to be able to say "I'm sorry" to folks if I punt them by accident!

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Tim G
Halifax, NS

So can do we two qualy/ two races (or maybe one qualy and 3 short races?)

I would think smaller sprint races would be more fun for all than 30 laps (that is an hour/race at 1:55's...).. an hour long race will get folks pretty spread out at our various skill levels.

How about 25 min qualy, and 3 25 min races?

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Tim G
Halifax, NS

I can't remember what my laps times were, I only did like 5 laps last week and that was it. Somewhere between 1:50 and 1:55 sounds about right from what I remember.

Tim, I don't think when you set up your hosted race you have the option to arrange your 2 hour slot any way you like. When I looked it was sort of prescribed recipes and you didn't have a chance to have 2 shorter races. Kinds sucks but maybe there is a way around it.

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Brian
VP, AMP
#51 Vantage Motorsports

I'm not sure I can change it now that it's been booked.
I'll look into it this afternoon.

EDIT: We can't have 2 shorter races. As Brian said there's only certain "schedules" you can use and they all only have 1 race.

Right now it's 20mins Practice, 25mins Qualifying and a 30 Lap Race.
It looks like I can adjust those times, but I don't know when the cut off is for changes.

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

Ughh.. Iracing is beginning to sound like Apple!

If that is the way things stand, I'll be around for practice and qualy to have a bit of fun but I'll be out for the race.

Doh!

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Tim G
Halifax, NS

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR

I am assuming the room will be available at 9:00 pm, and not before, right?

I dont see it on the list yet....tis 8:42 pm

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2008 Toyota Prius (Currently 180,000km)
2002 BMW M3 (Currently 197,000km, was 96,300km Jan of 2009)
2006 Toyota Prius (R.I.P 2011, 182,000 km)
1990 Beretta GTZ (R.I.P 2009, 396,000 km)
2000 Grand Cherokee (Sold 2006, 105,000 km)
1990 Laser RS (R.I.P 1989 Halloween day, 2,500 km)

Yea I'm guessing that's how it works.

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

Results from week #1: http://members.iracing.com/membersite/m ... stid=80818

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR

Congratz on your win Scott!

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental