The Rolex Sports Car Series- Season 2! Finished! Thanks Everyone!

[cnd01]

Will we be racing this weekend?

 

[ITCC_Andrew]

Why do you think I said nothing of it up until now? I'm suggesting that your braking zones improved suddenly between the first part of the race and second. After the qualifying strategy you sent, I find that it's too convenient to be coincidence.

Qualifying strategy: ONE fast lap. I run my car so hard in qualifying, that the softs ONLY LAST TWO TIMES AROUND THE CIRCUIT; Out-lap + fast lap. Your strategy worked FINE, until you were outqualified. After last season, you're not used to sharing a team setup. If you're not willing to use my qualifying strategy, then don't. Certainly, during one-lap races, I can use that qualifying setup, but, ask ANY driver in the world, if a qualifying lap is possible in a race... Nope. The tires last two laps. I got 6+ laps out of this "Qualifying setup" in the second race. However, I had no reason to conserve tires or fuel during that race.

Every good racing driver (especially those in V8 Supers) will run their race, with the goal of running out of fuel after crossing the finish. If you don't use every resource at your disposal, during a race, you're wasting performance. So, yes, my strategy involved using as much fuel and tires as possible.

As I mentioned before, Cows and Storm put me in the "unsafe zone," a term I use to explain a type of adrenaline based rage. I've always had one of the most wicked tempers I've ever seen. And, during my temper break-downs, I run at least two seconds a lap faster. Army personnel can slow their perception of time using the same types of outbursts.

 

[ghskilla]

ghs: I accept the apology for the chicane incident you sent in lobby. If you have a replay, you were on the run off, hence I assumed you were taking to it. But fine you acknowledged that mistake after that race. However, after the pits, you continually hit me at Ascari messing up my d/c-disrupted rhythm.

I take blame for that. I was trying my hardest to get past you since I saw Mel catching up in my rear view mirror. I had so much speed carried in those corners, and my Audi is so loose on sudden braking, that I ended up hitting you through Ascari because I had nowhere to pass. Again, I apologize, was just trying to pass, but there were almost no room in the corners - the only place my Audi had a chance of overtaking.

 

[Storm_SP17]

Qualifying strategy: ONE fast lap. I run my car so hard in qualifying, that the softs ONLY LAST TWO TIMES AROUND THE CIRCUIT; Out-lap + fast lap. Your strategy worked FINE, until you were outqualified. After last season, you're not used to sharing a team setup. If you're not willing to use my qualifying strategy, then don't. Certainly, during one-lap races, I can use that qualifying setup, but, ask ANY driver in the world, if a qualifying lap is possible in a race... Nope. The tires last two laps. I got 6+ laps out of this "Qualifying setup" in the second race. However, I had no reason to conserve tires or fuel during that race.

Every good racing driver (especially those in V8 Supers) will run their race, with the goal of running out of fuel after crossing the finish. If you don't use every resource at your disposal, during a race, you're wasting performance. So, yes, my strategy involved using as much fuel and tires as possible.

As I mentioned before, Cows and Storm put me in the "unsafe zone," a term I use to explain a type of adrenaline based rage. I've always had one of the most wicked tempers I've ever seen. And, during my temper break-downs, I run at least two seconds a lap faster. Army personnel can slow their perception of time using the same types of outbursts.

Your setup wasn't much quicker than mine in either race, if you look at the times. I wasn't running anything other than my setup that strikes a balance between speed and endurance. The straight line kings, Mazda and Chevrolet, were being closely followed by a Viper for much of the first race. To burst your bubble on the earlier post, you weren't faster than me on mediums, not by any stretch of your imagination.

Your so-called "rage" where you do faster than normal; it makes sense but given that my "rage" takes longer to kick in, and didn't kick in that race, but I was lapping similar times. You smashing me into the wall did something to the stability of the car, and the only two reasons you were pulling away after than incident is because I could no longer use the same lines as before to the same effect, and thus slowed my times down, and because in one of the laps I dragged half the car through sand. This makes sense, given how I was actually in close contention with the top 3-4 in both races before that incident, where your "uberspeed rage" showed its biggest flaw. If you're going to be pig-headed and disregard this as me making excuses then you're dumber than I first thought.

Yes you go faster in your "rage", but you also drive like a c*nt in doing so; evident in how you cannoned me into a wall. You lose your sense of right and wrong. You lose your composure. I triggered that somehow, since you think I done wrong at Parabolica, but given that you hadn't lost time at all really and kept it nicely in control, merely fell a few places back but were on the coat-tails of the people you lost places to, your actions were unecessary. It just you taking matters into your own hands like a little child unaware of rules and guidelines.

A REAL professional, IN ANY SPORT, doesn't enter a state of rage as you call it, its an intense zone of focus, and they don't act like a red-flagged bull romping through a china shop and intentionally destroy others like you did. Your actions on GT5 last night will kill you and someone else IRL, maybe several, coz **** knows how you didn't involve anyone else in your toy-throwing ****fit. Something you might want to consider in your pursuit of professional racing.

You don't hear me going around trying to break people's legs in a soccer game just because people do it to me, coz they can't handle my pace and ball control. No. I enter a zone, and in that zone I move faster, react quicker, actually anticipate and jump over two-footed kneebreakers, slip the ball to someone with improved accuracy, strike the ball harder, read movement patterns eaiser. I wasn't awarded player's player of the season this year for nothing.

Anyway, back to Saturday night. If you hadn't have cannoned me into the wall, continued to race with at least half a hint of composure, I would've apologised. But sod it, you wanted to get reckless, so that apology can be shoved someplace used for excretion of solid waste; a place that rarely sees the light of day.

I reckon that parabolica thing you keep protesting is soley my fault was 50/50 at least, and there's things you could have done to avoid being so close to the edge of the track anyway, like I dunno, ease off the throttle. I could've done the same, but I was on the proper racing line unlike you, at that moment. Also, given you dived through the middle of two people (one of which was a Mazda braking at the same time as me, so **** your claim of being able to brake later due to lighter car) and I heard your tyres skidding under braking, a CLEAR indication that you'd overshot the braking point.

A) You should've been more patient, slotted behind and/or braked earlier and used the draft upon exit to make a pass.

B) You should've eased up off the throttle to allow more track space to reduce the risk of being forced onto the grass, either by your own action or someone else. You did do a hazard perception test before driving didn't you?

C) I should've eased on the throttle to make sure I gave more space either side of me and position more of my car on the racing line better, depite being on the racing line anyway. I would've hug the curb and white inside line but to preserve tyres for a final attack later on I used the "clean" line.

You did more wrong that I did, yet it's my fault entirely? Hah, sure... Sometimes you have to yield a position to get it back, because its better than getting yourself into trouble. Remember it well.

OH, while we're on the whole "I got pushed onto the grass" thing, you ran me wide on a straight, two tyres on the grass, after YOU lost speed after wanking up your exit at Lesmo less than a minute before. Now, YOU lost speed, I went up the right hand side with the speed advantage, but you pulled across on me, forcing me to put two tyres on the grass to avoid you, and then I lost speed as a result, which meant that Nirv could slot between both of us. Should I have raged out and KO'd you? In hindsight probably, since a minute later that's what you did, but no. Instead, I bided my time, and overtook you cleanly through Ascari in a lovely little inside overtake.

 

[ITCC_Andrew]

So, Cows is allowed to pass while off-circuit? You're allowed to "use the racing line" which pushes me off? I stayed on-track and made no contact, when I passed you & Damu. Seems decent to me.

However, with what happened at Daytona, and now at Monza... I've yet to win this season, and you're always involved. I think you need to start to give room, for once.

As for your football history, idgaf, because it's nothing to me. It doesn't impress me.


What impresses me, is when, for example, someone makes a clean pass at speed, without even losing time.

As for my professional career, I won't have to put up with shunts and corner cutting, in my real racing career, will I?

I'd like to remind you, that it's the 🤬 in sports who get noticed... Tiger Woods, Dale Earnhardt Sr., Kyle Busch, Tony Stewart... It's because they can get their point across, and get attention. Player's Player of the Year... Sounds more like a sex-addict than a sports superstar.

You want a fight, you've got one. You want to give room on a racetrack? You've got it too.

You leave no room at Parabolica, I leave no room for you. I play hardball, because no one else can step-up here and defend themselves or issue reprimands. I haven't seen any. Have you?

 

[NizmoDr3]

Shall we take 2 weeks off?

I know I'm new to this series, but that sounds like a good idea ... ego's and mouths need a chance to calm down so everybody can enter the next race with a calm, clear mind ...

My 2 Zim Dollars worth ...

 

[ITCC_Andrew]

I know I'm new to this series, but that sounds like a good idea ... ego's and mouths need a chance to calm down so everybody can enter the next race with a calm, clear mind ...

My 2 Zim Dollars worth ...

Might take longer than that...

 

[NizmoDr3]

Might take longer than that...

Well 2 weeks should hopefully help the process ...

 

[Shinshiki]

****ing modem broke Friday night. I went to my brothers to race but I couldn't get my PS3 onto his wifi. So I tried to join the room and tell you guys NOT kick me but I didn't get a chance to finish typing. At least that round was only half points. I'm still down by like 70 though.

 

[polarbear345]

****ing modem broke Friday night. I went to my brothers to race but I couldn't get my PS3 onto his wifi. So I tried to join the room and tell you guys NOT kick me but I didn't get a chance to finish typing. At least that round was only half points. I'm still down by like 70 though.

Well, I'd be glad if I wasn't there...

 

[Shinshiki]

Well, I'd be glad if I wasn't there...

Yeah. Seems like you guys had a total **** storm to deal with. I didn't even bother reading through all the posts that I missed on the thread.

 

[polarbear345]

Yeah. Seems like you guys had a total **** storm to deal with. I didn't even bother reading through all the posts that I missed on the thread.

That is a good way to put it.

 

[anirishnirvana]

I stayed on-track and made no contact, when I passed you & Damu. Seems decent to me.

You divebombed past me. Storm was probably running his line to defend against me, as I was waiting to be alongside by the straight to attack Storm. How can you expect him to change quick enough to change that line? You weren't catering for other people's turns, otherwise you wouldn't have hit me at the Ascari just before the Parabolica.

I like how when I made an ambitious move and was ahead at Madrid when you whacked me into the barrier, it's the fact that "I didn't consider understeer." Or when I was past diddy and cnd at Tsukuba, it was me being ambitious. I agree totally at Tsukuba, sensed a bit of bull at Madrid, but was still "fair enough." But look what happens for you when you encounter a similar incident.

By the way, I didn't like the qualifying idea, so I didn't run it. I never left the track during qualifying aside from changing rooms and pitting in.

Team set-up, could have fooled me. Aside from that hint, nothing was mentioned. It appears quite clear that we're using 2 different set-ups.

Heck, when trying to balance the car, you only took power down, whereas I played with weight and power. I was pretty close to getting a decent set up for Tokyo. If not for my illness I may have even got the set-up balanced much better. However, thanks to it I went back to the 465/1085 set up.

ghs: you've made your mistake, apologised for it, thanks man. I just want you to keep it in mind for the future. Though Monza isn't the best for corner overtakes, I agree. The courses are meant to be a blend of certain cars' strong points, I think. Though I can't think of many purely technical tracks in the schedule...

 

[Johnnypenso]

If you guys have another season of this series, don't include a link to this season in the new thread. That would be like going to www.reelectobama.com and finding a bunch of Mitt Romney ads...lol.

 

[polarbear345]

If you guys have another season of this series, don't include a link to this season in the new thread. That would be like going to www.reelectobama.com and finding a bunch of Mitt Romney ads...lol.

....ha?....ha?....

 

[Storm_SP17]

So, Cows is allowed to pass while off-circuit? You're allowed to "use the racing line" which pushes me off? I stayed on-track and made no contact, when I passed you & Damu. Seems decent to me.

However, with what happened at Daytona, and now at Monza... I've yet to win this season, and you're always involved. I think you need to start to give room, for once.

That depends on why he was off-track in the first place. And I'm allowed to use the racing line, the dark strip of track that is generally used as the optimum racing line during a race, yes. If you're overshooting past two people (one being a Mazda, so **** your drivel about being able to brake later because you car is lighter, and I heard your tyres screeching too) who are braking normally, and you run extra close to the far edge of the track, you should be taking precautions to lift off the throttle to allow YOURSELF more space so that if contact IS made, you are reducing the risk of going off-track.

For once? I generally give room to everyone. You got into an incident a Daytona that I was far enough away from to safely say wasn't my fault, and at Monza, the only reason you didn't win is because you couldn't let go of a situation that was apparently my fault that happened a week ago, over-reacted on an incident that wasn't as serious as you made out, and slammed me into a wall, putting yourself pretty much out of contention in the process. In short, you ****ed your own race up at Monza, and took mine with it. Hey, at least you got third though aye? Be glad I never pinned you to a wall to prevent anyone else being affected by your rage.

As for your football history, idgaf, because it's nothing to me. It doesn't impress me.

Failing to see the concept relation I was making between different type of sport, i see. I didn't say it to boast or reveal my "history" about football. It was to highlight a characteristic that happens in any sport. The only difference from sport to sport is what it affects, which in essense will fall under the same psychological, perceptual or physical category anyway.


What impresses me, is when, for example, someone makes a clean pass at speed, without even losing time.

So technically my pass on you at Ascari should've had you jizzing your pants right? Doubt it. Unless its YOU who makes the pass you aren't impressed.

As for my professional career, I won't have to put up with shunts and corner cutting, in my real racing career, will I?

Yes you will, and thinking otherwise means you aren't fully prepared yet. Don't be stupid.

I'd like to remind you, that it's the 🤬 in sports who get noticed... Tiger Woods, Dale Earnhardt Sr., Kyle Busch, Tony Stewart... It's because they can get their point across, and get attention. Player's Player of the Year... Sounds more like a sex-addict than a sports superstar.

LOL low blows are allowed now? Wait, aren't autocross guys racing alone on the track? I'm glad its that way, for the other people's sake, after seeing what I did on Saturday.

Two can play the diss game, mate. End it there and grow up.

You want a fight, you've got one. You want to give room on a racetrack? You've got it too.

You leave no room at Parabolica, I leave no room for you. I play hardball, because no one else can step-up here and defend themselves or issue reprimands. I haven't seen any. Have you?

I haven't seen any reprimands, if I'm honest, but that's no reason to play hardball, and I don't think the incidents were that severe to reprimand anyone anyway, Oh, except YOU smashing me into a wall, which should be heavily reprimanded.

I'll defend myself quite merrily, as I've proved in a number of cases including this one, but I don't see the point of playing hardball when retribution can be achieved with skill alone. Nothing is more rewarding than gaining the better of a dirty player/situation without sinking to that level.

Preseason Daytona. Got unintentially forced off track by someone who I thought could see me. Didn't call caution and just grew a pair of balls and carried on. Won convincingly despite the adversity. Realised that the person involved in shoving me off couldn't actually see me, and was then even more grateful I didn't get all red-misted and just raced cleanly. Yeah, I did that. Have you did that this season? No?

Bolded text is my response.

 

[Cowboys965]

So, Cows is allowed to pass while off-circuit? You're allowed to "use the racing line" which pushes me off? I stayed on-track and made no contact, when I passed you & Damu. Seems decent to me.

However, with what happened at Daytona, and now at Monza... I've yet to win this season, and you're always involved. I think you need to start to give room, for once.

As for your football history, idgaf, because it's nothing to me. It doesn't impress me.

What impresses me, is when, for example, someone makes a clean pass at speed, without even losing time.

As for my professional career, I won't have to put up with shunts and corner cutting, in my real racing career, will I?

I'd like to remind you, that it's the 🤬 in sports who get noticed... Tiger Woods, Dale Earnhardt Sr., Kyle Busch, Tony Stewart... It's because they can get their point across, and get attention. Player's Player of the Year... Sounds more like a sex-addict than a sports superstar.

You want a fight, you've got one. You want to give room on a racetrack? You've got it too.

You leave no room at Parabolica, I leave no room for you. I play hardball, because no one else can step-up here and defend themselves or issue reprimands. I haven't seen any. Have you?

Off circuit? What are you smoking? Damu was cutting through the green on entry, but went in too fast and bumped you, giving me an opportunity to pass both of you.

 

[polarbear345]

Off circuit? What're you smoking?

He's talking about Monza... And I don't know the second thing.

 

[Cowboys965]

He's talking about Monza... And I don't know the second thing.

I know, but I didn't cut corners. Why was I braking so early, Mel? Because I could get on the gas quicker and carry more speed on the straight than you, and pass you. I've noticed, if Mel doesn't win, everyone is a cheater in his book.

If this isn't reckless driving, I don't know what is. Shame this killed your race, Storm.
http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee428/Cowboys964/8db417a5.mp4

 

[Storm_SP17]

Meh, it happens when people decide to take matters into their own hands, without sitting back to think if it was necessary. At least I've won a race this season though. As have you.

 

[polarbear345]

I know, but I didn't cut corners. Why was I braking so early, Mel? Because I could get on the gas quicker and carry more speed on the straight than you, and pass you. I've noticed, if Mel doesn't win, everyone is a cheater in his book.

If this isn't reckless driving, I don't know what is. Shame this killed your race, Storm.
http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee428/Cowboys964/8db417a5.mp4

HOLY COW! (And not like your name cow, but the saying...)

Mel, Prehaps you should take a break.

 

[ITCC_Andrew]

HOLY COW! (And not like your name cow, but the saying...)

Mel, Prehaps you should take a break.

I love how entirely intentional and short that replay is. You can make anyone look like a bad guy in one single corner. Had Cows bothered to show the lap, before hand, you'd be saying "GT, perhaps you should ALL take a break." Oh, but, no, these other idiots are too "high and mighty" to post replays of their own mistakes, and their own divebombs, and their own off-track passes. Cows couldn't even upload like ten seconds before it, just to show Storm putting me off the track.


Besides, Polar, I see you blabbering about cleaning the racing up, but what do you want to do about it?

 

[freshseth83]

No one is going to do anything differently. I say move on. It was only half points, everyone gets a talk about showing discipline in corners and early braking from the draft. On to the next round. All this 'skipping a week' is annoying. GT5 is made for racing. This is a racing on GT5 site, why are we taking breaks because people bump into eachother? That crap happens irl do they take a break? They get on with it and try their hand next race.

 

[ghskilla]

Yeah... we shouldn't take a break. People lose interest - fast. And one dirty race isn't really an excuse, because a week off and not thinking about the race helps cool one off. And what track are we doing Saturday?

 

[anirishnirvana]

Yeah... we shouldn't take a break. People lose interest - fast.

Say, 1 race distance?

 

[cnd01]

No one is going to do anything differently. I say move on. It was only half points, everyone gets a talk about showing discipline in corners and early braking from the draft. On to the next round. All this 'skipping a week' is annoying. GT5 is made for racing. This is a racing on GT5 site, why are we taking breaks because people bump into eachother? That crap happens irl do they take a break? They get on with it and try their hand next race.

Thank you. Settle it on the track. You can apologize and explain off the track. You can express your opinion as long as it isn't belligerent on here as well. Mel and Storm go out there and test your tails off. Use it as motivation. Make it your goal to beat each other on the race track fair and square. An off week IMO just allows tensions to build. Let's go out there and race!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[polarbear345]

I love how entirely intentional and short that replay is. You can make anyone look like a bad guy in one single corner. Had Cows bothered to show the lap, before hand, you'd be saying "GT, perhaps you should ALL take a break." Oh, but, no, these other idiots are too "high and mighty" to post replays of their own mistakes, and their own divebombs, and their own off-track passes. Cows couldn't even upload like ten seconds before it, just to show Storm putting me off the track.

Besides, Polar, I see you blabbering about cleaning the racing up, but what do you want to do about it?

I was being sarcastic... Not saying it was right, because it sure as heck wasnt... But I do understand what you're saying, and it is correct, to a extent.

@ghs if you haven't lost interest after that race... One week won't kill anyone. And if it does, then they shouldnt be here anyways.

And it's not really the race that's my main reasoning for the week off (it is a factor) but a lot of its ITCC, that ALWAYS runs late when more than 5 people come, and I usually leave right after the third race and open a Rolex lobby. Then Mel either comes or makes a new one.

I do think that if you guys do race, it should be a practice race. If anyone is "Dirty" PM me, with video of their actions.

And Mel, if you want to get into the whole video stuff, why don't you upload some videos? You can, you've done it a few times for various reasons.

I do think that of you guys can't work it out, you guys won't race. It's simple as that. I was lenient with Cnd and Seth thinking that everyone wouldn't want that to happen again and would drive better... I couldnt have been more wrong. Now everyone thinks that they can do whatever... That video is a prime example. That was so intentional it's not even funny. Had some other thinkers not happened, that would be your ticket out Mel.

 

[ITCC_Andrew]

And Mel, if you want to get into the whole video stuff, why don't you upload some videos? You can, you've done it a few times for various reasons.

I didn't save the replay. I was honestly trying to avoid a confrontation, but, when I came on Skype, I saw you, Storm, and damu trashtalking me. Therefore, I decided that it was too much, and that I'm sick of being punted in this series. It doesn't happen two races in a row (Daytona and Monza) for no reason. Watch the real Rolex series. There was a Camaro and a Mazda, and any time they'd come near each other, the Camaro would bump the Mazda, and eventually, the officials had to intervene, because the Mazda was bumped two races in a row, and THIS IS HAPPENING HERE NOW, TOO! Whether it's a Dodge or a Chevy punting the Mazda off, the Mazda didn't take that brown stuff, on-track or off, or in real life, or in the game.


Now, if you want to get people to drive cleanly, you take back control of the series. It's your series. You can do whatever you want. You can tell James to paint his cars pink, and, unless he would rather leave, he can't do anything. You can do whatever you need to, to ensure that the conduct improves. All I ask, is that penalties (?) be given out fairly and evenly, considering not just what I did, but the contributing factors as well.



And, as for what was said on Skype, I'm not logging in, until I know that you are all calmed down, because I refuse to read the 🤬 you guys write there. It's not like people can't just log in, and read the 🤬 you're typing out there.

 

[cnd01]

I didn't save the replay. I was honestly trying to avoid a confrontation, but, when I came on Skype, I saw you, Storm, and damu trashtalking me. Therefore, I decided that it was too much, and that I'm sick of being punted in this series. It doesn't happen two races in a row (Daytona and Monza) for no reason. Watch the real Rolex series. There was a Camaro and a Mazda, and any time they'd come near each other, the Camaro would bump the Mazda, and eventually, the officials had to intervene, because the Mazda was bumped two races in a row, and THIS IS HAPPENING HERE NOW, TOO! Whether it's a Dodge or a Chevy punting the Mazda off, the Mazda didn't take that brown stuff, on-track or off, or in real life, or in the game.


Now, if you want to get people to drive cleanly, you take back control of the series. It's your series. You can do whatever you want. You can tell James to paint his cars pink, and, unless he would rather leave, he can't do anything. You can do whatever you need to, to ensure that the conduct improves. All I ask, is that penalties (?) be given out fairly and evenly, considering not just what I did, but the contributing factors as well.



And, as for what was said on Skype, I'm not logging in, until I know that you are all calmed down, because I refuse to read the 🤬 you guys write there. It's not like people can't just log in, and read the 🤬 you're typing out there.

Hold your horses for a second. Let's take a look at the series as a whole. Let's look at the drivers as a whole. How many professional drivers do we have in this series? How many real race teams and companies sponsor us? I know this is a lot of fun. I had an absolute blast at Daytona. I have had an absolute blast in the support races this week. Let's not get caught up in the logistics and bull:censored: that happens. I have said it many times in various threads and I will say it again. "EVERYONE WILL MAKE EVERYONE ELSE MAD AT SOME POINT"!!!!!!

 

[Downhill Dino]

Mistakes happen? Learn from them, then experience will come in.