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The__Camel
Bear I'm fairly certain it's directed towards me as after watching the replays I went wide on the first left hander on Zhuhai a couple times. Now some I'm close to here know that I already struggle with control of certain cars due to having one eye and one arm. But the main reason for struggling that night was my stupidity in having you and I practice the Rocket Bunny for hours and not having the track down like we should have. I'm all for any penalties I should incur for any time I "accidentally" cut the track and one feels I have done it purposely to gain an advantage. A few have raced with me a whole hell of a lot and know I would never deliberately cheat to gain an advantage. The one thing that hurt me the most in going thru that turn was while we were practicing the Rocket Bunny we found that slightly touching the ebrake would point the nose in that turn a little more and would help gain 2 tenths a lap. That didn't work so well in the car we actually ran as it would just push the car out to the right. So if anyone ever notices me going off track and feels like it gives me an advantage.....let me know.....I'll work on it........also depending on which way I have my head turned I may not see something that you guys see
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Camel you were very thoughtful telling me you are much younger than me, so not to feel bad when you kicked my ass. You never even mentioned you had missing arm and eye.... you are one talented driver my friend!
 
Zii1993
Yea but it does it with my club sport f1 wheel too. I’m not the only person this has happened to that’s actually how to make this video efficiently.
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sorry guys, won't make it tonight... sicker than ..... well I don't what. But I can't do like Lother Mochenbacker, and race with a fever of 103...( he was a 1960s can-am driver, never missed a race for the entire series, year after year.
 
Zii1993
I’m probably gonna have to host cause I don’t have a backup host for times like this.
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I have really good internet connection. I can back up host but this is only my second or third race so I am not sure what all I need to do.
 
The__Camel
Bear I'm fairly certain it's directed towards me as after watching the replays I went wide on the first left hander on Zhuhai a couple times. Now some I'm close to here know that I already struggle with control of certain cars due to having one eye and one arm. But the main reason for struggling that night was my stupidity in having you and I practice the Rocket Bunny for hours and not having the track down like we should have. I'm all for any penalties I should incur for any time I "accidentally" cut the track and one feels I have done it purposely to gain an advantage. A few have raced with me a whole hell of a lot and know I would never deliberately cheat to gain an advantage. The one thing that hurt me the most in going thru that turn was while we were practicing the Rocket Bunny we found that slightly touching the ebrake would point the nose in that turn a little more and would help gain 2 tenths a lap. That didn't work so well in the car we actually ran as it would just push the car out to the right. So if anyone ever notices me going off track and feels like it gives me an advantage.....let me know.....I'll work on it........also depending on which way I have my head turned I may not see something that you guys see
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Holy crap Camel, sorry to hear of your situation. Like CB said, even more respect than I already had. Have you mapped your wheel so you can shift with one hand or do you run in Automatic?
My nephew was in a bad accident a couple of years ago and lost his left eye, and can only see out of the left side of his right eye. He was in my rig a couple of weeks ago to see how he could drive and did surprisingly well. He has gotten back into his drumming so I think that helped him.
 
aerolite
Holy crap Camel, sorry to hear of your situation. Like CB said, even more respect than I already had. Have you mapped your wheel so you can shift with one hand or do you run in Automatic?
My nephew was in a bad accident a couple of years ago and lost his left eye, and can only see out of the left side of his right eye. He was in my rig a couple of weeks ago to see how he could drive and did surprisingly well. He has gotten back into his drumming so I think that helped him.
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Talk about coincidence. My nephew also lost an eye about 4 years ago. He used his insurance money to put a down payment on a house
 
I guess to better explain first the eye......I did a lot 4-wheeler racing and riding as a kid. We had a place above where I lived in the mountains to where we would jump a ride just for fun on leisure time. My memory is a little vague of that time (I was 11) but my mother played the piano and organ at the church and also played for weddings, funerals, etc. An 18 year old who sang at the local high school had a recital or something that she was going to play for came to the house one Sunday so they could practice. After they were done he seen me and all the neighborhood guys who were much older than me out riding and he asked if he could go along. I had said yes and one of the few memories I have about that day was my father telling me not to let him drive that I was the only one to be driving my 4-wheeler. Well at some point I must have let him drive and somehow we went over a 75foot dropoff on the side of the mountain. Well (no memory) I must have landed at the bottom and the 4-wheeler landed on my face crushing my right side and forcing my jaw thru the back of my skull. It left my blind in my right eye and deaf in my right ear. I was in a coma for 6 weeks and after years and years of surgeries I look normal just no nerve movement on that side of my head. I still deal with daily pains but lucky to be alive is how I see it. I have 3 plates and 6 pins and screws holding my head back together. Now to the arm......I have 2 arms....I just can't move the right one. My father was going thru a divorce in 2009. We were moving things around and some things down to my place....I was in the closet and at the top he had a military issued .22 Ruger rifle. As I was taking it down it went off and the bullet went thru the right side of my chest and lodged into the back of my shoulder. I went thru a couple surgeries to remove what fragments that they could. It severed a bunch of nerves on it's way thru. I have no feeling on the outside of my arm and but I do have some feeling on the inside of my arm but very tingly and hurts like hell to the touch. I cannot raise it above my waist. If I have my hand pointed down I cannot make a fist but if I have my palm facing upwards I can close my fingers into a fist. To answer your question about shifting.....if I'm sitting in my rig and have my arm testing on my leg with my palm upwards I can close my hand enough to click the paddle to shift up. Temperature also defies whether or not I can move it as well. Warm temperatures help with the movement and the tingliness I feel. Colder temperatures hurt all of that. During colder weather I can't move it at all, almost all feeling goes away. I do drive soley with my left hand and as far as remapping goes a lot of the stuff I have mapped is either on the left side or the R3 and L3 buttons on the bottom right of the T500. I can hold the wheel with my knee on straights if I have to in order to set pit stops etc. I did not go into complete details on the original post as it would have been as long as this post. Same for a real life vehicle and putting it into drive or reverse or whatever.... As long as my palm is facing upwards I can make a fist enough to pull the shifter down or push it up. Like I said before....people have things a lot worse than I do and my wife and kids do a lot to help me with a lot of things but I am one stubborn SOB and like to do things myself.
 
The__Camel
I guess to better explain first the eye......I did a lot 4-wheeler racing and riding as a kid. We had a place above where I lived in the mountains to where we would jump a ride just for fun on leisure time. My memory is a little vague of that time (I was 11) but my mother played the piano and organ at the church and also played for weddings, funerals, etc. An 18 year old who sang at the local high school had a recital or something that she was going to play for came to the house one Sunday so they could practice. After they were done he seen me and all the neighborhood guys who were much older than me out riding and he asked if he could go along. I had said yes and one of the few memories I have about that day was my father telling me not to let him drive that I was the only one to be driving my 4-wheeler. Well at some point I must have let him drive and somehow we went over a 75foot dropoff on the side of the mountain. Well (no memory) I must have landed at the bottom and the 4-wheeler landed on my face crushing my right side and forcing my jaw thru the back of my skull. It left my blind in my right eye and deaf in my right ear. I was in a coma for 6 weeks and after years and years of surgeries I look normal just no nerve movement on that side of my head. I still deal with daily pains but lucky to be alive is how I see it. I have 3 plates and 6 pins and screws holding my head back together. Now to the arm......I have 2 arms....I just can't move the right one. My father was going thru a divorce in 2009. We were moving things around and some things down to my place....I was in the closet and at the top he had a military issued .22 Ruger rifle. As I was taking it down it went off and the bullet went thru the right side of my chest and lodged into the back of my shoulder. I went thru a couple surgeries to remove what fragments that they could. It severed a bunch of nerves on it's way thru. I have no feeling on the outside of my arm and but I do have some feeling on the inside of my arm but very tingly and hurts like hell to the touch. I cannot raise it above my waist. If I have my hand pointed down I cannot make a fist but if I have my palm facing upwards I can close my fingers into a fist. To answer your question about shifting.....if I'm sitting in my rig and have my arm testing on my leg with my palm upwards I can close my hand enough to click the paddle to shift up. Temperature also defies whether or not I can move it as well. Warm temperatures help with the movement and the tingliness I feel. Colder temperatures hurt all of that. During colder weather I can't move it at all, almost all feeling goes away. I do drive soley with my left hand and as far as remapping goes a lot of the stuff I have mapped is either on the left side or the R3 and L3 buttons on the bottom right of the T500. I can hold the wheel with my knee on straights if I have to in order to set pit stops etc. I did not go into complete details on the original post as it would have been as long as this post. Same for a real life vehicle and putting it into drive or reverse or whatever.... As long as my palm is facing upwards I can make a fist enough to pull the shifter down or push it up. Like I said before....people have things a lot worse than I do and my wife and kids do a lot to help me with a lot of things but I am one stubborn SOB and like to do things myself.
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As David would say, Jeeeeeeezus Christ mon!! You are lucky to still be walking on this planet! Great that you have the loving support of your family.
Crazy how quickly life can be changed! You have no choice but to carry on with what you have and do the best you can. If you do as well at other things as you do with us on the track, then look out world!
:cheers:
 
The__Camel
I guess to better explain first the eye......I did a lot 4-wheeler racing and riding as a kid. We had a place above where I lived in the mountains to where we would jump a ride just for fun on leisure time. My memory is a little vague of that time (I was 11) but my mother played the piano and organ at the church and also played for weddings, funerals, etc. An 18 year old who sang at the local high school had a recital or something that she was going to play for came to the house one Sunday so they could practice. After they were done he seen me and all the neighborhood guys who were much older than me out riding and he asked if he could go along. I had said yes and one of the few memories I have about that day was my father telling me not to let him drive that I was the only one to be driving my 4-wheeler. Well at some point I must have let him drive and somehow we went over a 75foot dropoff on the side of the mountain. Well (no memory) I must have landed at the bottom and the 4-wheeler landed on my face crushing my right side and forcing my jaw thru the back of my skull. It left my blind in my right eye and deaf in my right ear. I was in a coma for 6 weeks and after years and years of surgeries I look normal just no nerve movement on that side of my head. I still deal with daily pains but lucky to be alive is how I see it. I have 3 plates and 6 pins and screws holding my head back together. Now to the arm......I have 2 arms....I just can't move the right one. My father was going thru a divorce in 2009. We were moving things around and some things down to my place....I was in the closet and at the top he had a military issued .22 Ruger rifle. As I was taking it down it went off and the bullet went thru the right side of my chest and lodged into the back of my shoulder. I went thru a couple surgeries to remove what fragments that they could. It severed a bunch of nerves on it's way thru. I have no feeling on the outside of my arm and but I do have some feeling on the inside of my arm but very tingly and hurts like hell to the touch. I cannot raise it above my waist. If I have my hand pointed down I cannot make a fist but if I have my palm facing upwards I can close my fingers into a fist. To answer your question about shifting.....if I'm sitting in my rig and have my arm testing on my leg with my palm upwards I can close my hand enough to click the paddle to shift up. Temperature also defies whether or not I can move it as well. Warm temperatures help with the movement and the tingliness I feel. Colder temperatures hurt all of that. During colder weather I can't move it at all, almost all feeling goes away. I do drive soley with my left hand and as far as remapping goes a lot of the stuff I have mapped is either on the left side or the R3 and L3 buttons on the bottom right of the T500. I can hold the wheel with my knee on straights if I have to in order to set pit stops etc. I did not go into complete details on the original post as it would have been as long as this post. Same for a real life vehicle and putting it into drive or reverse or whatever.... As long as my palm is facing upwards I can make a fist enough to pull the shifter down or push it up. Like I said before....people have things a lot worse than I do and my wife and kids do a lot to help me with a lot of things but I am one stubborn SOB and like to do things myself.
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Holly crap man, you are a tough dude!! Glad you don't let any of this things hold you back.
 
The__Camel
I guess to better explain first the eye......I did a lot 4-wheeler racing and riding as a kid. We had a place above where I lived in the mountains to where we would jump a ride just for fun on leisure time. My memory is a little vague of that time (I was 11) but my mother played the piano and organ at the church and also played for weddings, funerals, etc. An 18 year old who sang at the local high school had a recital or something that she was going to play for came to the house one Sunday so they could practice. After they were done he seen me and all the neighborhood guys who were much older than me out riding and he asked if he could go along. I had said yes and one of the few memories I have about that day was my father telling me not to let him drive that I was the only one to be driving my 4-wheeler. Well at some point I must have let him drive and somehow we went over a 75foot dropoff on the side of the mountain. Well (no memory) I must have landed at the bottom and the 4-wheeler landed on my face crushing my right side and forcing my jaw thru the back of my skull. It left my blind in my right eye and deaf in my right ear. I was in a coma for 6 weeks and after years and years of surgeries I look normal just no nerve movement on that side of my head. I still deal with daily pains but lucky to be alive is how I see it. I have 3 plates and 6 pins and screws holding my head back together. Now to the arm......I have 2 arms....I just can't move the right one. My father was going thru a divorce in 2009. We were moving things around and some things down to my place....I was in the closet and at the top he had a military issued .22 Ruger rifle. As I was taking it down it went off and the bullet went thru the right side of my chest and lodged into the back of my shoulder. I went thru a couple surgeries to remove what fragments that they could. It severed a bunch of nerves on it's way thru. I have no feeling on the outside of my arm and but I do have some feeling on the inside of my arm but very tingly and hurts like hell to the touch. I cannot raise it above my waist. If I have my hand pointed down I cannot make a fist but if I have my palm facing upwards I can close my fingers into a fist. To answer your question about shifting.....if I'm sitting in my rig and have my arm testing on my leg with my palm upwards I can close my hand enough to click the paddle to shift up. Temperature also defies whether or not I can move it as well. Warm temperatures help with the movement and the tingliness I feel. Colder temperatures hurt all of that. During colder weather I can't move it at all, almost all feeling goes away. I do drive soley with my left hand and as far as remapping goes a lot of the stuff I have mapped is either on the left side or the R3 and L3 buttons on the bottom right of the T500. I can hold the wheel with my knee on straights if I have to in order to set pit stops etc. I did not go into complete details on the original post as it would have been as long as this post. Same for a real life vehicle and putting it into drive or reverse or whatever.... As long as my palm is facing upwards I can make a fist enough to pull the shifter down or push it up. Like I said before....people have things a lot worse than I do and my wife and kids do a lot to help me with a lot of things but I am one stubborn SOB and like to do things myself.
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You are an inspiration man. I hear you when you say you have the support of your wife and kids... it makes a difference just to know they are behind you and support you. After my heart attack I viewed life differently and I am glad I also have the support of my wife and kids. I just appreciate everything more now. If that blood clot would have moved 2 days later we would have been in the motor home and our way to the mountains. No where near a hospital. As it happened tho I was two blocks from the shop, and managed to finish driving there and staggered into the building. My wife took one look and knew what was happening and called 911. I guess my face was grey and lips were purple. The ambulance arrived in less than 10 minutes, less than an hour later I was in recovery. They went in thru the arm, grabbed the clot and put a stint in. I counted myself very lucky, had we been on our way to the mountains I wouldn't have made it. Also 20 years ago they would have been cracking open my chest. That was the day I quit smoking. Plaque had created an 80% restriction to the heart. The clot came along and blocked it off... so..yeah... I also had my wife and kids support. It means a lot.
 
Super impressed Camel. Respect factor of 200. To race as fast as you do with one eye and one arm just freaks me out.......in a good way. Here I am whining about a sore wrist makes me ashamed of myself.
Bear......you have a heart? I had a stent put in me when I was 40 years old and have been tickidy boo ever since. 22 yrs and counting.

Zii, I wish I could join your league, but I need to keep it to the two leagues I am already in. Wednesday is usually when Steve and I test for Mondays.......to bad you missed the snow races, they were a blast.
 
Mike Lobban
Super impressed Camel. Respect factor of 200. To race as fast as you do with one eye and one arm just freaks me out.......in a good way. Here I am whining about a sore wrist makes me ashamed of myself.
Bear......you have a heart? I had a stent put in me when I was 40 years old and have been tickidy boo ever since. 22 yrs and counting.

Zii, I wish I could join your league, but I need to keep it to the two leagues I am already in. Wednesday is usually when Steve and I test for Mondays.......to bad you missed the snow races, they were a blast.
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Good to hear mike, ok I guess the stent technology is older than I thought. But I still count myself lucky.
And yeah I'm whining about a pinched nerve, camel has dealt with more and look what he accomplished.
Hey wait a minute... it just sunk in....whattaya mean, I have a heart!,!,
 
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@CB_racer takes the trophy home this week.

@CB_racer will get a new combo choice this week to replace round 3.

@The__Camel won prize B last week so he is not eligible for prize B. @The_Camel will receive Prize C.

@SAMHAIN85 will recieve prize B and will either freeze either the Huracan or Oscherschlaben
OR
Pass the freeze option to @The_Camel and replace what he doesn’t freeze.
 

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