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Race Reports - Singapore Grand Prix
By: GAZZA_308 Date: June 14, 2012, 4:12 pm
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:P :P :P
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Re: Race Reports - Singapore Grand Prix
By: drewdawg727 Date: June 18, 2012, 9:55 am
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This is one of my favorite tracks, however I have been
struggling with camera flickering issues again, so I hope that
it doesn't happen again tonight or I'm screwed. If it starts to
become a problem I'm going to simply retire cus I'm not gonna
put up with it.
Check this vid out from the league race I did with Stubbs and
Dale yesterday (start from 5:45), and you'll see what I mean.
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfLBvEDoQio&feature=plcp
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Re: Race Reports - Singapore Grand Prix
By: angryman Date: June 18, 2012, 5:14 pm
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Drew, does it only happen with one controller? It looks like the
right stick is being triggered if it's the only button set to
change view?
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Re: Race Reports - Singapore Grand Prix
By: drewdawg727 Date: June 18, 2012, 6:34 pm
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I mean it happens so rarely that if I were to try it on a
different controller, I wouldn't know if it was the controller
or not. I don't know what would be triggering the right stick as
I don't hold the controller differently each time I play it but
I tend to find myself shaking the controller when that happens.
When we were racing at Valencia the other night, it was just
acting up uncontrollably and I was losing heaps of time.
Singapore is a track that you need to be inch-perfect though so
any acting up at all, I'm just going to retire before I screw up
someone's strategy by crashing and bringing out a safety car.
Let's pray for the best.
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Re: Race Reports - Singapore Grand Prix
By: angryman Date: June 18, 2012, 8:00 pm
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If you have multiple contollers and it happens again, I'd mark
which one it happens with and use another. I reckon its possible
that something is loose, broken or failed inside and
occasionally bridges the connection between the button on the
sensor for the right trigger. At least if it happens on two
different controllers you can rule that out.
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Re: Race Reports - Singapore Grand Prix
By: drewdawg727 Date: June 18, 2012, 9:05 pm
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Only problem is that the other controller is completely
different to the first one, the feel of it I mean. Not to
mention that the joystick and the D-pad are switched on the
controller I use (I think it was custom made) so it would be so
different playing with it, as I have tried before.
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Re: Race Reports - Singapore Grand Prix
By: camstubbs86 Date: June 19, 2012, 3:18 am
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Hey get to mums so I can race and there seems to be q dns bull
shit error n I can't connect to anything I have no luck with
this bullshit
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Re: Race Reports - Singapore Grand Prix
By: supanash Date: June 19, 2012, 5:02 am
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Q - 4
I've hardly done any laps at Singapore, so was expecting to be
off the pace. Had a setup that I found online somewhere. It
seemed ok in the bit of practice I did at the weekend, so I just
went with that. Did a very safe 1st hotlap, which was good
enough for 4th in the end. Was going quite a bit faster on my
final hotlap, which should have been good enough for 3rd, but
stuck it in the wall! 4th was ok for me here though.
R - 2
Manged to jump angry at the start and after a couple of laps he
must have made a small mistake as he dropped back a bit. After a
few laps I passed Livo, who had spun and was facing the wrong
way, and moved up into 2nd.
After that I just drove as fast as I could without risking
crashing. Could have gone a bit faster and was quite a bit off
Moss' pace but didn't think there was any real point pushing
harder, especially once Livo spun out and then crashed later. I
spent a lot of the race 5 - 10 sec behind Moss, but I'm sure if
I had closed up he would have just pulled away again.
Drove a really clean, consistent race, pretty much on my own,
until 3 laps from the end where I lost concentration, missed my
braking point, and clipped the barrier. Was a bit shocked by
that, so I slowed down a lot for the final 2.5 laps! Had enough
of a lead over 3rd place angry to give up about 5 sec a lap
without any risk of losing 2nd place.
Never thought I'd get as high as 2nd place in Singapore, so I'm
pretty happy with that. I haven't done much online racing at any
of the remaining circuits apart from Brazil (I missed all the
races from Singapore to Abu Dhabi last season), so I'm not sure
how good my results will be.
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Re: Race Reports - Singapore Grand Prix
By: drewdawg727 Date: June 19, 2012, 5:26 am
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So practice then Nashy!!! ??? ??? ;D :D
Q: DNQ -> 7th; well this was pretty interesting, was warming up
the tires on my warmup lap...started my hot lap and suddenly had
zero grip like my tires were ice cold again. I skidded right
into the tire barrier at turn 3 and busted my car up :o
R: 5th; -1L P6-O5-P8-O4-P2-P6 Good launch off the line but
didn't want to create a lag incident with Gazza so I backed off
and let him through the first complex, when we made the right
hander onto the straightaway I ploughed into the back of him as
he stopped in the middle of the track ??? ???. The sweeping
left hander at the start of S2, Gazza had a good pinball off the
outer wall so I shot past and grabbed 6th place. I never really
gained much ground on the cars ahead of me, except when Livolay
and Macca both had a crash on L3 or 4. The next lap I got all
shaky in the triple chicane and Gazza spun me out (probably lag)
in the chicane before the hairpin. From there I was pretty
ticked but kept my head in it and the safety car appeared a lap
later.
I pitted for the options and turned the fuel mix up and got the
jump on Gaz as he spun out on the front straightaway. Within 3
laps my options were beat red which really surprised me and I
was not even planning on checking the status of my tires until I
realized I was losing the rear on every single corner. I pitted
for primes a lap later and I slowly realized I had absolutely
zero grip anywhere on the track. I was running 1:39s and 1:40s
for pretty much the whole race, it was pathetic.
When I pitted on lap 19, I was gonna see if I can do two sets of
6 laps on options ... so I put options on and turned the fuel
down and really just tried to baby it around the track. L22 the
tires were orange-ish so I knew it wasn't gonna happen, it was
getting to be really frustrating and L23 I was all over the
track. So I said screw this and put the primes on. Macca was 18
sec ahead of me in 4th, Gazza about 50 back behind me so I
turned the fuel up and tried to go to work on him. I got
extremely shaky at T15 under the bleachers, missed a downshift
and slammed into the tire barrier and got a RF puncture. Luckily
I was by the pit ... but at this point I was wondering if I
should put on options or primes ... thought primes were smarter,
so I got lapped by Moss in the pits, and went out for the last
stint: Macca 55sec ahead and Gazza about 15 behind.
Still zero grip ... holding on for dear life really. Last lap I
spun out on the turn before the triple chicane with VERY LITTLE
STEERING INPUT!!!! I mean, I'm PURPOSELY driving slow to just
bring the car home and I still spin!! >:( >:( I didn't even
want to finish the race but I just spun back around and Gaz was
right up on my tail the rest of the lap. Wound up finishing prob
not more than a car length ahead of him.
That was just a dreadful race really, don't know if my setup was
really the problem or the game cus I drove this same setup in
RaceDepartment a few months ago and I won the race, so don't
really know what the problem was. I felt like I was driving in
the rain all race long :-[
DOTD: Moss, no really need to explain why, it's obvious that no
matter what happens to him during a race, he's always there at
the finish to see the checkereds wave first.
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Re: Race Reports - Singapore Grand Prix
By: supanash Date: June 19, 2012, 6:15 am
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[quote author=drewdawg727 link=topic=145.msg1444#msg1444
date=1340101616]
So practice then Nashy!!! ??? ??? ;D :D
[/quote]
I'll do what I can, but there's only so many hours in the week!
I don't usually get time apart from at the weekend, and I'm
pretty much starting from zero at these circuits. So my plan is
to try a couple of setups from the online forums, see if any
works for me, do a bit of time trial and then hope for the best
on race day. If you can call that a plan :-\
Unless my new team-mate wants to share some setup advice of
course ;D
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