Lemons Season 4: Next Race on 29 November

[spooble]

Good question. Are there any reserves willing to drive my wonderful Isuzu?

I can't send the car since I can't get online, but its bone stock with no parts...I'm sure someone else has one that a driver could borrow.

I'm pretty sure I have an extra that hasn't been touched. Let me know if I can help.

 

[Vol Jbolaz]

Good question. Are there any reserves willing to drive my wonderful Isuzu?

Diabolic_J may be there to drive for himself. There are still three drivers that I haven't heard from and may have dropped from the season.

 

[TrackBound7]

I know Diabolical_J would love to race, but the last I talked to him today, he got nailed with the storm (as did I), but didnt fair as well...he has no power. Not sure if he will be restored by tomorrow night. If he is, I am pretty sure he would be ready to race.

 

[BTK]

I'm offering to have Chuyler share my points, cash. I'll drive the Isuzu and we can take the same stats? Is that fair, since (not to be rude) I think chuyler would rather have someone he knows that's just as fast as him driving his car. (I sound like a douche, sorry.)

I'll just park the Jazz, and if I finish 5th, chuyler get's fifth points/cash, and I'll take 5th points/cash to be fair. If someone objects, just say it.

 

[Vol Jbolaz]

I'm offering to have Chuyler share my points, cash. I'll drive the Isuzu and we can take the same stats? Is that fair, since (not to be rude) I think chuyler would rather have someone he knows that's just as fast as him driving his car. (I sound like a douche, sorry.)

I'll just park the Jazz, and if I finish 5th, chuyler get's fifth points/cash, and I'll take 5th points/cash to be fair. If someone objects, just say it.

I'd rather have two cars on the field. I'll make a post in the 450 room for anyone interested in running an hour long race.

If you do race for yourself and Huyler, I think it would be more fair if you and him shared 5th and 6th, instead of two 5ths.

 

[BTK]

I'd rather have two cars on the field. I'll make a post in the 450 room for anyone interested in running an hour long race.

If you do race for yourself and Huyler, I think it would be more fair if you and him shared 5th and 6th, instead of two 5ths.

Well, give him the higher place, the issue is, I don't want someone mad because they think that they're getting 6th, but when I'm split, they are pushed too 7th.

 

[Diabolical_J]

I know Diabolical_J would love to race, but the last I talked to him today, he got nailed with the storm (as did I), but didnt fair as well...he has no power. Not sure if he will be restored by tomorrow night. If he is, I am pretty sure he would be ready to race.

It does not look promising. The town is saying it could be a week before they restore power to everyone, but the electric company doesn't have an estimate for our neighborhood. I'd love to race tonight, but I'd really really love to not see my breath when I'm lying in bed. I wonder if the people at Starbucks would give me crap if I walked in with my ps3, my wheel, and a monitor haha.

 

[chuyler1]

I sent Nicktune a PM yesterday but he hasn't responded. I don't know anyone else not in the series that could race. Still no power at the house but my wife saw crews working down the street this morning and they are making progress in other parts of town. However, some people who have power are reporting comcast cable/internet isn't working so things don't look good for tonight's race.

If I start race 2 in last place, does that mean I'll get 20k to spend on my car for the race? Seeing as the new reward system is based on current standings I think I can make it work. I'd rather have 7 points and 20k but I'll settle for just the 20k.

 

[diabolicwyvern]

Is anyone driving the Corsa? If not I would like to see how it goes since two other polos are in

 

[TrackBound7]

Just heard from Diabolical (still at work). He said according to the power companies message, he has power. Not sure how timing will work out as I am sure things are a little hectic just getting back to normal, but he did mention maybe making the race (if there is an opening).

 

[Vol Jbolaz]

I'm offering to have Chuyler share my points, cash. I'll drive the Isuzu and we can take the same stats? Is that fair, since (not to be rude) I think chuyler would rather have someone he knows that's just as fast as him driving his car. (I sound like a douche, sorry.)

I'll just park the Jazz, and if I finish 5th, chuyler get's fifth points/cash, and I'll take 5th points/cash to be fair. If someone objects, just say it.

The more I think about this though, the more I just don't know. It is hard to explain, but it just seems to take away from the idea of the race. Everyone could just race for everyone else. Next thing I know, there is just one car on the track, driving for sixteen drivers.

 

[pyxen]

Can it be me? I'd rather race than watch.... of course that means I'd also like to take first.

I kind of like this idea!

 

[WiiFreak]

I won't be racing tonight either. Sorry for the late notice.

 

[Vol Jbolaz]

I've updated the spreadsheet.

That was a fantastic race for 36 laps. And then I wrecked myself.

Remember to share your car.

 

[TrackBound7]

Crap, I forgot to share my car, will do it tonight when I get home. Same boat as you, had a lot of fun for about the first half, then wrecked myself too. Dab and I had quite a good race going for the first 20 or so laps. After I banged the car up it became quite a handful. I think it was still better than pitting, held my own for a little bit. Once the tires went away combined with the damage, it was all she wrote.

 

[BTK]

Lol, at least I wasn't the only one who missed. I fell asleep while waiting for an audio book to download, and didn't wake up until 3 this morning. Diabolic's got a hell of a headstart, and it looks like an Alfa, an Isuzu, and a Honda will be be working together for 5 races.

COME ON ST. LOUIS TWINS! Make Lewis Schumacher proud!!

 

[chuyler1]

Yep, I'm pretty much screwed. No way I can keep up with those FFs with only 5k. I'll give it a go but most likely I'll never recover from missing the race. Still waiting for power to be restored. Estimate is that 95% of the town will be back by Thursday, 99% by Friday. Ugh.

 

[Vol Jbolaz]

Last season, we did 5,000 for missing a race. In seasons past we did half of what the field received. For last night, that would've been 9,100 Cr.

Still, the 5,000 Cr. is more than what I would've expected for the drivers that missed the race last night.

 

[BTK]

Great.... This book I downloaded sucks. Who promoted Catcher in the Rye?

 

[dabneyd]

Great.... This book I downloaded sucks. Who promoted Catcher in the Rye?

Crazy people.

 

[spooble]

I was so disappointed last night. My car was actually running a decent pace around Tsukuba. The fastest lap in qualifying was 1:16.517. I think my best was 1:16.8xx and I wasn't even running very clean laps. So the race starts and when my black loading screen goes away, people are already passing me. I end up last, but at least I avoided any damage. I remember passing Pyxen in his Move and breathing down the neck of the 8th place car (Dyabolic in his Tigra maybe?). I look up and notice that it's showing me in 5th place instead of 9th. I'm thinking "What's going on?" and just then... "You have been disconnected from the lobby."

Sucked.

Anyway, it finally let me back in and I watched the rest of the race which was quite entertaining!

 

[Diabolical_J]

Sorry I couldn't make it last night. I came home from work to a house full of heat and lights, but had too much going on getting settled back in to get online in time for the race. It's gonna be hard to make up for such a disadvantage of already being way down in points, plus having to overcome the fact that half the league also has more credits available. Oh well at least I'm tied with three other guys lol.

 

[chuyler1]

Bowtie abd wiifreak have been close competiton for me so it should be interesting to see how this second wave of drivers makes back the points. we will be at the bottom of he list for a while but i think the reward system will help us catch up.

 

[diabolicwyvern]

Should I feel insulted...Ive been no worse than 3rd the last 4 series, but since I always bomb one early...we rarely have equal cars. Hopefully with my marginal ability Ill be able to hang with the driving gods.

 

[chuyler1]

You are always competition for the championship, but I don't think we've ever had a heated battle on the track in Lemons... I think we end up alternating in speed every season. I have raced endless laps with bowtie, wiifreak, and sl3ight but I can't recall spending more than 2 laps in front of or behind you (within drafting distance).

 

[morbo]

my car is awfully slow, and wears all 4 tires so unevenly

but i can't complain, since it's faster than pyxen's choice

and although it got pretty loose toward the end, i was able to drive the entire race without having to pit for tires

nice win dabneyd

 

[BTK]

Easy Diabolic, he just means you have been to fast for him. :tup;

 

[diabolicwyvern]

No..he's right. When I win...no one is within 30 sec of me. i spent a lot of time last season following wiifreak which was nice. i really wanted to be top place ff car. when sli3ghtaru races, he and I are very close,but other than him and bowtie...i'm often alone in first or near bottom. if u look at the series history, I podium over 40% of races but I also purposefully lose about 25%. No one else is doing that which makes finding cars near my speed after week 2 hard. This series I only have 1 night of purposeful losing planned, but with rivals starting far back I may just race them all out!

 

[chuyler1]

My plan was to place 10th in race 1, grab the points and the credits, and then run full out the remainder of the season. Now I guess I'll just run full out since sandbagging would only put me further behind.

 

[Vol Jbolaz]

This series I only have 1 night of purposeful losing planned, but with rivals starting far back I may just race them all out!

Good to know.

The rules need a little bit more tweaking for next season.