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Hello, fellow PITSers,
An idea has been growing in my mind and, now that Alex and Zii somehow placed me in D1, it really has taken root and I'd like to share it with you all.
First, a bit of background (not an attempt at uselessly increasing the wall of text, I swear).
I have never in my life found anything that I was naturally good at or that I had any natural advantage in it, ever. Every sport, every endeavour, anything I tried, I found I had to learn and work hard at it to even be decent. Even my favourite sport (basketball), which I played insanely for years, it took me a while to get competent at it.
Sim racing was no different. I did a bit of karting when I was young, but even though I looked like a twig, I was always heavier than my competitors and once I grew tall, I started playing basketball and stopped racing (money situation at home also didn’t help and dad had 2 other kids to take care of). But I got competent before I stopped, especially in the rain, which I always loved. I never stopped loving motorsports, but I was out of it before I got to be 10 years old, forever consigned to watching others, who were faster than me, doing the racing.
Then life happened and I kept watching and learning about motorsport but driving only my cars out in the world, no tracks, no racing.
When I found GTPlanet in April of 2014, after buying GT6, my first sim racing game as a Xmas present for myself the year before, I was a sim racing novice. So I did what I always had to: I worked hard at it, because there was no natural gift to help me.
After a couple of months toiling around public rooms and with a group of casual racers online, trying to absorb as much knowledge as I could, I found SNAIL and joined the Sunday Night series.
Naturally, I sucked. My racecraft was horrible (public rooms and AI will do that to you), I had zero consistency and I was way too aggressive, but following the OLR saved me from making a fool of myself and spent my first year and more without any incidents against me, but still sucking and learning and working at it.
But, even though I was terrible and in the bottom third of the league, the faster guys took time to teach me. I did Race Camp with Klutch, I took part in the public practices with many of the D1 guys, I watched and I learned and I asked questions that got answered and I learned some more. And I kept working at it, practicing and reading and driving and watching real life racing and doing all I could to improve.
Then I got decent and reached D3 in the Sunday Series, with that promotion coming right as I bought the PS4 and stopped racing Sundays. But then a few SNAIL series started in Project Cars and that nice feeling of competing against my friends returned.
Now that I found myself surprisingly placed among the faster guys, I would like to pay forward the graciousness and attention that I got once and pass along what little knowledge I learned along the way. I am in no way an alien. I am in no way gifted with speed and car control. But I believe I have learned enough that I can help others shave a few tenths off their times. And I am also still trying to learn as much as I can, no matter from where, in order to get just a little bit faster each time out.
So I'd like to know if there is any interest in holding Monday night (or another day that works better for more people) practice sessions where we would get together on track and help each other out, give tips, trade techniques and help whoever wants to ask questions, get help via riding onboard, discussing racing lines, racecraft, whatever anyone wants to, in order to make everybody, myself included, learn and improve.
If enough people are game, I'd be happy to start hosting and hopefully get more fast guys to help out and to participate and pass along what, they know as well.
One of the things that always amazed me about SNAIL is the helpfulness of complete strangers that suddenly become yours friends and, in honour of the beautiful thing that @zer05ive created and so many others improved and made grow, I'd like to import that into our Dark Side corner of SNAIL.
So if you'd be game for it, please let me know and we'll get it rolling.
Cheers and Race Clean, Race SNAIL, Race with PITS.
Hello, fellow PITSers,
An idea has been growing in my mind and, now that Alex and Zii somehow placed me in D1, it really has taken root and I'd like to share it with you all.
First, a bit of background (not an attempt at uselessly increasing the wall of text, I swear).
I have never in my life found anything that I was naturally good at or that I had any natural advantage in it, ever. Every sport, every endeavour, anything I tried, I found I had to learn and work hard at it to even be decent. Even my favourite sport (basketball), which I played insanely for years, it took me a while to get competent at it.
Sim racing was no different. I did a bit of karting when I was young, but even though I looked like a twig, I was always heavier than my competitors and once I grew tall, I started playing basketball and stopped racing (money situation at home also didn’t help and dad had 2 other kids to take care of). But I got competent before I stopped, especially in the rain, which I always loved. I never stopped loving motorsports, but I was out of it before I got to be 10 years old, forever consigned to watching others, who were faster than me, doing the racing.
Then life happened and I kept watching and learning about motorsport but driving only my cars out in the world, no tracks, no racing.
When I found GTPlanet in April of 2014, after buying GT6, my first sim racing game as a Xmas present for myself the year before, I was a sim racing novice. So I did what I always had to: I worked hard at it, because there was no natural gift to help me.
After a couple of months toiling around public rooms and with a group of casual racers online, trying to absorb as much knowledge as I could, I found SNAIL and joined the Sunday Night series.
Naturally, I sucked. My racecraft was horrible (public rooms and AI will do that to you), I had zero consistency and I was way too aggressive, but following the OLR saved me from making a fool of myself and spent my first year and more without any incidents against me, but still sucking and learning and working at it.
But, even though I was terrible and in the bottom third of the league, the faster guys took time to teach me. I did Race Camp with Klutch, I took part in the public practices with many of the D1 guys, I watched and I learned and I asked questions that got answered and I learned some more. And I kept working at it, practicing and reading and driving and watching real life racing and doing all I could to improve.
Then I got decent and reached D3 in the Sunday Series, with that promotion coming right as I bought the PS4 and stopped racing Sundays. But then a few SNAIL series started in Project Cars and that nice feeling of competing against my friends returned.
Now that I found myself surprisingly placed among the faster guys, I would like to pay forward the graciousness and attention that I got once and pass along what little knowledge I learned along the way. I am in no way an alien. I am in no way gifted with speed and car control. But I believe I have learned enough that I can help others shave a few tenths off their times. And I am also still trying to learn as much as I can, no matter from where, in order to get just a little bit faster each time out.
So I'd like to know if there is any interest in holding Monday night (or another day that works better for more people) practice sessions where we would get together on track and help each other out, give tips, trade techniques and help whoever wants to ask questions, get help via riding onboard, discussing racing lines, racecraft, whatever anyone wants to, in order to make everybody, myself included, learn and improve.
If enough people are game, I'd be happy to start hosting and hopefully get more fast guys to help out and to participate and pass along what, they know as well.
One of the things that always amazed me about SNAIL is the helpfulness of complete strangers that suddenly become yours friends and, in honour of the beautiful thing that @zer05ive created and so many others improved and made grow, I'd like to import that into our Dark Side corner of SNAIL.
So if you'd be game for it, please let me know and we'll get it rolling.
Cheers and Race Clean, Race SNAIL, Race with PITS.
