ORS | SEASON 2 | Lexus IS-F RM Series

[spinner]

Jeez , the team list is intimidating ! Some pretty solid match ups there , Better get myself sorted quick smart.
Bonson , do you want our team to be Isotope green ? If you have another preference I'm happy to let it go. Pretty popular colour though I'm sure someone will snap it up if we dont use it. I have a chip ready to send to you

Any chance of posting the quali times Oni ?

 

[X3rx3s44]

Jeez , the team list is intimidating ! Some pretty solid match ups there , Better get myself sorted quick smart.
Bonson , do you want our team to be Isotope green ? If you have another preference I'm happy to let it go. Pretty popular colour though I'm sure someone will snap it up if we dont use it. I have a chip ready to send to you

Any chance of posting the quali times Oni ?

If yourself and Bonson decide against it I would like to run it by Mick_C as our possible colour! Like you said, it's popular!

Also, Qualifier times would be good as that would give us a benchmark to see how much people improve over the course of the season! 👍

 

[Oniichan]

Qualifier times have been up since the end of last night. Check the championship standings. There is a tab at the bottom called "Series Qualifier".

 

[X3rx3s44]

Qualifier times have been up since the end of last night. Check the championship standings. There is a tab at the bottom called "Series Qualifier".

Oni says "Open you eyes!" Cheers mate! 👍

EDIT: Hi guys, Oni and I have just been discussing the possibility of me doing a weekly photo shoot where I will post the best 6 photos I get each week here in the thread for everyone to take a peek at.
So I am just gauging peoples interest, also, if you think you had an incident/overtake that would make a good photo for my "highlights" reel each week then let me know (preferably what lap it happened on too) and I will check it out!
Tonight after dinner I will post up my first 6 for last nights mini-races held prior and post qualifying. Although for this first week as I had not planned on doing this all the photos will have myself included which will not be the case in future weeks... Sorry!
But as I am only on a 40Gb console I delete the replays immediately after taking photos so I will not have another chance this week to rectify this but in future weeks will take photos of everyone and pick the best 6 to display! 👍

So... Who's interested!?

 

[Mic_Col]

Okay, video of our practice formation lap and grid. Plus the funny moment when Evan wasn't seeing Waynz car:

 

[X3rx3s44]

Okay, video of our practice formation lap and grid. Plus the funny moment when Evan wasn't seeing Waynz car

That's great work Mick! 👍
"Due to connection issues the White car couldn't see the Pink car, just an empty grid box, watch whats happens"... They made love on the grid! The Orange car (Rota) was disgusted and got the 🤬 out of there!...

 

[Bennyjohnson]

Yeah spin, I'm easy with whatever colour you want. Isotope green it is, sorry xerx's, but let's face it, with that qually time it's probably the only time I'll beat you this season

 

[Lost-on-drugz]

Good stuff mick!1 like the video got a good shot of me coming out last corner onto the striaght good effort mate!

 

[Bennyjohnson]

Can we also organise for sometime this weekend to have a proper race with the different compounds of tyre.

With all do respect, I think it's a terrible idea to have such a difference in compounds. Degredation of the Hard tyre is terrible, when you're running the hard tyre at less than 50% it becomes terrible to race on. I'm never fond of a handicap to begin with, but having the hard tyre as a handicap is pretty much the worst thing I would personally want to happen.

Scratch that, I most likely won't participate if we're going to go ahead with this hard tyre idea. I don't really want to commit x amount of hours per week to a series I'm not going to enjoy, not trying to whinge, hopefully you'll see where I'm coming from.

 

[X3rx3s44]

Alright then, here we go!
Qualifier (Mini-Races) Highlight Reel - Photographed by X3rx3s44

Fuji Speedway F Mini-Race - Turn 1

Fuji Speedway F Mini-Race - Turn 3

Fuji Speedway F Mini-Race - Last Of The Late Brakers

Fuji Speedway F Mini-Race - Final Turn

Nurburgring GP/F Mini-Race - Turn 2

Nurburgring GP/F Mini-Race - Final Chicane

Nurburgring GP/F Mini-Race - Only Just Made It Stick!

Nurburgring GP/F Mini-Race - Final Turn


Hope you all liked the images! 👍 (Feedback is welcome! )
As I said earlier, sorry they all feature me but I had not planned on doing this until it was too late and the replays were deleted... Next week will be better!

Cheers, Xerx

 

[waynz]

The mass number of drop outs + the "missing" cars will be a problem throughout the series. Mick_C_1080 and Evan1080 kept getting disconnected and even me and Xerx got dropped twice...

I strongly consider trying a public lounge to test out race 1... I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this type of lag will cause problems.

 

[PIGBOY]

Oh dear,shows you how many brain cells ive got left if any to miss what ive missed.I will make an effort to remember what i have entered into.looks good what has been done already,cya's practicing soon if all's good,chow4now

 

[willco69]

mick = champion. great vid, subscribed already. will be interesting to watch replays during work time...
xerx, freelance photography looks like it could take off!
good s**t boys.

 

[X3rx3s44]

xerx, freelance photography looks like it could take off!
good s**t boys.

Cheers mate!
Will be better once I am prepared and take more photos to choose from rather than just ones including myself...

On another note, Mick and I have opted for our team colour to be RED, more specifically, K2RED, but red nonetheless!...

Cheers, Xerx

 

[Lost-on-drugz]

Pigboy man i find it hard to understand you most times lol when your writing on here or when u joined the room that night? u make no sense lol what drugs u on i want some

 

[Rusty*]

Pigboy man i find it hard to understand you most times lol when your writing on here or when u joined the room that night? u make no sense lol what drugs u on i want some

Hehe.
Hey great work with the photography there Xerxes!👍
Rusty

 

[Bennyjohnson]

So can we get a 15 lap practice race organised for sometime this weekend?

Maybe Friday or Sunday?

 

[Oniichan]

Friday night sounds good to me.. otherwise saturday

 

[Lost-on-drugz]

i dont think ill be out partying this weekend so anyday but im keen

 

[X3rx3s44]

So can we get a 15 lap practice race organised for sometime this weekend?

Maybe Friday or Sunday?

Friday night sounds good to me.. otherwise saturday

Friday suits me too! ...Or Saturday for that matter, as long as it is before F1 Qualifying, two Australians now!
Should have been online last night Bonson, we did a few 10 lap races to test tyre wear with about 6-9 of us, I ran hards and after looking at the replay my tyre wear was no worse than anyone on Mediums (and I won 2 of the 3 so I wasn't cruising), some people had worse wear than me on Mediums which I put down to smoothness of steering input, I think if you give it a go you will be pleasantly surprised that it is not as bad as you expect! 👍

Plus, look at it from my point of view and probably that of most of the front runners, yourself excluded... That challenge is what we are all here for, without a challenge you dont improve and then what are you achieving... NOTHING!

Ofcourse we all want to win, at least I do and I know you do too! But if your not out of your comfort zone you will never improve. I have multiple State Championships to my name in REAL kart racing and a 4th place in a National Finals event but I still believe that my driving can always be improved, simply because, I'm not as good as Sebastian Vettel, but I could be with practice, we are all just humans after all...

In summary, after this long reply, what I'm trying to say is, don't pull out of the Championship, you are a fast, clean racer and for that I repect you greatly, you will enjoy it! I think you just need to get on and get the hard tyres sorted and you will be fine! 👍

Cheers, Xerx

Sorry for such a long reply...

 

[Lost-on-drugz]

looks like ure pouring yourself out thier for him sam. something going on ? ha

 

[X3rx3s44]

looks like ure pouring yourself out thier for him sam. something going on ? ha

...Well... Wouldn't you like to know...
No, not at all, what I'm getting at is that we have a good system in place and even though some may not agree with the tyre handicap it does not mean that the Championship should be canned or adjusted at the last minute, the system with all our tests so far does work and I would like as many people to stay onboard as possible! 👍
Racing with 6 is not as fun as with 10... More the merrier, you know how it is!

Cheers, Xerx

 

[Lost-on-drugz]

wasnt the answer i expected lol i got what u ment bud i was just being a smart ass

 

[X3rx3s44]

wasnt the answer i expected lol i got what u ment bud i was just being a smart ass

WHAT!...? You, A smart arse...!? NEVER!...

 

[Lost-on-drugz]

Haha look at my location =)

 

[willco69]

there's a lot of love in this discussion...

 

[PIGBOY]

Trying to understand me will just bring more confusion

 

[Lost-on-drugz]

Trying to understand me will just bring more confusion

LOL nice one

 

[PIGBOY]

I have been having ongoing brake problems with my G25 wheel,so therefore it would not be fair to compete and possibly impede other competitors,sorry for this inconvienience.A silly $10 part from the U.K. will be ordered monday.Ive been trying to fix it myself to no avail.Can somebody please translate for lost,thanks.

 

[Bennyjohnson]

I don't think there's a way I could pull out after that speech. Put JFK to shame with that one mate...

I'll have another fiddle with LSD settings, but I spent about 3-4 hours on Monday trying to fix the amount of Oversteer I was getting with suspension setup and found nothing after the tyre was 50% worn. I just couldn't drive properly, and I wasn't enjoying it at all. I was having to concentrate to heavily on trying to keep the car on the road, which I don't particularly like to be honest. I've tried it numerous times, didn't enjoy it once.

I'll see how I go if we can get a test race organised. I'm not looking to improve or be challenged, I do that enough every day, I'm just looking to have fun, and if I can't do that, I won't find the motivation. I'm not going to sit here and lie to you, I'm not looking forward to 40 laps on Monday if the tyre and car is as crap as it's been when I've been trying to find setup for me. You can't push at all, and it feels for me like all you're doing is trying to keep the thing on the road.

When I signed up, there was not the slightest indication of the race being handicapped, something I'm not fond of, and the way we've handicapped it, IMO, is not the correct way to do it. So the conditions of the raced changed and my dilemma is whether it's going to be worthwhile for me.

Anyway, I'm not looking to have a whinge, I'm just voicing my concern, I don't want to rock up on Monday and ruin a good series, If I'm there, I'll be there 100%, and if I'm not I would want to give you guys as much notice as possible so you can get 16 guys in there, it's poor form to do anything otherwise.

Again, not trying to bitch, but surely you can appreciate where I'm coming from.

Anyway, Sorry for the long reply, I'm easy for any day, just not to late at night, and as Xerx said, not when Qually is on