Season 9: Race On...RaceOnOz!!

Regardless for me, the way I see it! IF a div 2 driver is quick enough to hold me up, I congratulate them and not put them down saying they should get out of the way, and they are simply doing a good job of keeping me behind... As a Div 1 driver, I earn my 'Div 1' status by getting by as quick and smooth as I can..... I understand their is some frustration with it, but I really enjoy having the 2 divs together... It makes for a bigger field and its extremely fun coming from the back, with mostly clean racing with a rub or two, which rubbing is racing lads! (keep calm Anon ) Since going VR, I don't know who is who, only way I can tell is by looking at the gap distance down at my bottom of my lap which I don't do when I'm wheel to wheel.

In terms of 'getting out of the way' as such this should ONLY be done with the leader's are coming around to lap, just be smart about where you place your car (off the racing line) and think where you will make less impact when they are racing for the win, If you don't it can completely undo their hard work of practice that week. This goes also for Qualifying... If your not on a hot lap or you have binned it, just move to the side and wait and look for a gap for your next hot lap. I can't count the amount of times my hot laps have been ruined from this, however I just suck it up and go again.

I don't believe we should be making "L" or "P"s for drivers... Common guys, we are meant to be the best in Australia... If you NEED something like this then put the "P" on Div 1 for "Pro" and the A on Div 2 for "Amateur" IF it needs to be done....

Gent's in the end we are all one team, racing is racing... and there is still common curtesy and we all need to obey ROOZ rules!

As a Div 2 driver (and a slow one at that), If i see someone is catching me quickly i will move out of the way when safe to do so but as Rotor said you have earned your status by being quick, clean and smooth and if you are that good then there should be no reason for me to yield just because you are fighting your way back through the field.
These small tracks are awesome fun in this car and provide great racing and it definitely makes me try harder to keep up with the faster guys
I do like the P for Pro and A for Amatuer idea though (Better than L plates )

Thinking more about it, I think the "Div 1/Div 2" should be scrapped... Have one championship table then mini table within, PRO, PROAM and AM... To make a PRO, either make a qualifying within a time set by the leader with the season's car (and a strict one at that) within a time frame (say 1 second), PROAM missing that window (within 2seconds of PRO) and AM outside 2 seconds. This can easily be monitor with Meal's awesome servers! We need to get rid of the bad negativity of "Div 1" and "Div 2" it makes us look bad as a sim racing community...

Next season @KoAStR Next season!

PRO, PROAM and AM "class"- Idea of this, happy to take this out the back with my awesome idea! But maybe 1 week before the season starts we could even do a 'LIVE' time trail's EVERYONE is on track or doesn't have to be and setting your time in the season car - 1 second from leaders PRO, over 1 Second PROAM and over 2 AM and you get a race distance time to do it, this includes tuning, so 45mins. One table, me thinks that would be awesome!

Like I have mentioned to the MODS here before I am happy and willing to help out, however never get asked to!

Geez what did I start? haha
I'm guessing most of the comments are aimed my way so I will respond accordingly.

Firstly what is it with all this put down stuff? Who has put down anyone for being in any division? That is ridiculous, we are all here for fun and not everyone can spend hours in front of the wheel.

Also I never expect anyone to move over and never said I did either, However I just can't see the point of doing it to a much faster car, eg. A few battles I had meant the div2 driver lost touch behind the other div2s. Most of the battles I had with div2 drivers were great, including everyone who posted recently, especially our battle spidey. I would have done the same as you! Goes back to the old saying "time and place".

I disagree somewhat, especially if that person was taken out unfairly/accidently! If I could see in my mirror someone catching me quickly and I decided to become defensive and accept the pressure of another car up my arse my lap times would drop and I would lose touch with the others who I should be battling. From my point of view I saw this quite a few times on Monday night. I can't remember who it was but there where a few guys who where in that position and they drove smartly and weren't comprised at all? This track because it is so hard to pass, I guess, brings this whole issue to light. Barbagallo will be the same so ALL YOU DIV2 GUYS MUST LET ME THROUGH WHEN I STUFF UP. lol


The new liveries are cool dunno about the yellow plate though, i dont think special liveries are required to be honest, I am happy the way it is, just wanted to shed some light on my thoughts.

Anyway bring on Barbagallo my home track.

wow i disapear for 2 races and come back to this lol

@spita84 you mentioned about splitting divs into 2 servers, we have done this for many seasons already it just depends on grid size for us to choose to run 1 or 2 servers.

Ill be back on monday sorry i been MIA for 2 rounds had surgery last mon and then went out to photograph the supermoon this monday lol i think this is possibly only the 4th race ive missed in 9 seasons , and for the L plates it dosent bother me heck even when i first joined and we were running our own skins before we had teams and divs i was putting L plates on my car for a laugh and after 9 seasons i still would do the same haha and i second the motion for diffrent colours for divs or something because in vr i have no names apart from what shows up in my realtime app but most of the time im also too focused on trying to stay on the track with a consistant pace that i dont even pay attention to what colour the car is so i prob wouldnt even notice the L plates or team colours

A Few seasons ago when i had a race i felt like i was creating problems due to my lack of skill and inability to keep it between the lines. So i left for a while to learn to drive. ( I'm getting better these days ) I was thinking of returning soon and i like the idea of a slow guy and fast guys server so i dont feel the need to constantly look over mt shoulder as i get lapped all night. Oh and a mark to let people know your a beginner is not a bad thing.

I think my post may have been misunderstood (or maybe it hasn't). First of all I don't think that this is an argument at all and I don't want people to think that us div 2 guys have got it in for the div 1 guys. I think that this is just a discussion about things that WILL happen if we are all in the one room and I am by no means having a go at anybody. I also think that this is healthy for all members so we all know where we stand.
Now the only reason I say we should seperate the rooms (I do not want this to happen by the way) is because I think we are all here for the same reason. RACINING COMPETITIVLY IS FUN!!! If we are in one room and when a div 1 driver catches me and I can't race them then that is no longer fun. No point combining the rooms if we can't race each other imo. If I'm going to let a div 1 driver drive on by then we have only combined room so there are a lot of people on the track at once.
Just a thought, what happens if I catch a div 1 driver? Do I just lap behind them or am I allowed to try and overtake?
My opinion is we have no divisions at all (not for this season)and we all race if we are on the lead lap, getting lapped is totally different.
Maybe we can post here each week to allocate a spot and if numbers get too big then we can split rooms. Pretty rare that we get more than 24 drivers I think and if you post here saying you are going to race but you don't turn up you miss the next week unless there is room, again just a thought.

Bloody hell that was a long post from me, sorry for draining your lives, just wanted to put some scenarios out there and figure out the reasons why we have combined rooms.

maybe for the next season I could whip up some number plates with drivers names on them help out the VR guy's and colour code them for div's blue victoria plate for div 2 yellow nsw plates for div 1 something bright that can be seen from afar

i dont think id be able to see any numberplate on a car, bad eyes plus VR is pretty blurry all i see in my rearview is what colour the whole car is so i only know who my teammates are