Season 17: No Halo's Here!!

As we didn't get any more skins the skinpack v1 is still the current one, I have added it to the bottom of the first post. You can also get it here.

Its only 5.4MB and without this you will see the cars that have custom skins as plain white.

Ive updated the server for next round, a sprint round at Zandvoort laps TBD as it depends on laptimes in these 2x 20 minute races I think it is for sprint rounds. For some reason the OSRW version was crashing on server for me so I loaded the regular version instead, currently we have 18 entries only which is the grid limit for the regular version and will be ok unless we get some new entries.

My race summary

Qualy I was lucky to get 3rd as I managed to spin and hit the inside wall with 2 laps remaining.

Race I decided to try the opposite tyres to Andy, sorry if I messed anyone up lap 1 t2 as I found neutral and my gearbox lost half its life before the first lap was even done. Pretty much had to nurse it home the next 37 3/4 laps and even then I was killing it slowly and barely made it.

My pace on the hards was too slow to threaten Andy later who made a nice gap, end of the race I tried to go for fastest lap hoping the gearbox would hang on with the softer rubber. Gearbox was bright orange at the line and Andy still was quicker on the hards so well done to him on another dominant race and Stiggy for the 3rd position.

Round 2: back to normal for me!
Well I qualified way better than I expected and nearly missed it as I thought it started 30min later for some reason
Unfortunately came together with @Godzilla at Cimini 1, think I pushed him wider than I wanted and our back wheels had unprotected sex which isn't ideal and spun us off. Disappointing, as I thought it was @ed40t at the time and was hoping to rough him up just kidding Anyway pretty sure we were last and second last with some light damage. Luckily we both had hards on and a lot of fuel so it could of been worse.

Was fun following Rolz, he went for a pretty inspo/wild overtake on BELL3R (I think) on the outside of Trincea. I was nervous for both of them, although it slowed them both down and I managed to jump them that move definitely set the tone and was keen to try and drive with that commitment too

Unfortunately I made too many errors and didn't have a good pit strat as I forgot there were 38 laps instead of 31, so I was never going to claw back like Rolz was able to do amazingly
Had a great battle with @Parkour. But with 3 laps to go had a big off into the wall at Trincea from taking avoiding action resulting in broken steering

Positive is something I still don't believe...somehow set a few purple laps on the second stint, with only Andy going faster although his time was a lot faster than mine
Thanks all for the racing!

EDIT: Godzilla and I came together not Rolz (doh)

Knew this was going to be a hard race as lost basically 3 days of practice, p4 quali was decent though. Got a great launch but nowhere to go, @Rolz was slower of the line and I briefly thought of going down the outside but just not enough room so had to back out, was iffy enough as it was with tyres in the grass already, bit of a panel rub but think no I’ll effects anywhere there. Regathered myself for T3 and was hanging nicely around the outside but sadly had a bit of a coming together with @jlynn777 , nothing too major but enough to unsettle the car and throw me off the track and full 360 spin, think I ended up dead last there. From there was all about a recovery drive. The dissapointment quickly faded as trying to race my way back up the field was just sheer joy, great battles all round. Thought I would go for an overcut but lost way too much time coming in to the pits being way to cautious (no prac) and ended up 6th, couldn’t improve from there. Another most consistent point is welcome though, two for two there

Well done @andyo450 on the usual place and @marty and @TheStig13 on the podiums.

On a related note, this is cool: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2018/10/g...im-racing-as-a-legitimate-form-of-motorsport/

That was the second race in a row I've struggled for consistency earlier in the week only for it to come good on race night. Vallelunga isn't a favourite of mine but driving the Lotus ever so slightly sideways through the last chicane more than makes up for it. So much fun.

I had a good 15 mins of qually. I think I did 4 or 5 laps in the 9s so pretty happy with that.

I got a very nice start on the softs and ended up being able to follow the racing line through t1. I was able to take it flat out which gave me about a second lead by the time I hit the brakes for t2. From then I was able to use the pace of the softs and pull a gap to @marty while still taking care of them. Stopped for hards at the end of l22 I think. I was a bit quicker on them than I was expecting which was nice. All in all a pretty quiet race though.

Well done marty and @TheStig13. That was a bit of a race of attrition by the sounds of it so good work on the podiums.

OMGGgggGGGgg sorry I hadn't watched the replay back.....I thought that contact was with @Rolz !! how embarrassing. Guess I was hoping you'd take the same line that Marty and Rolz did but our rears just kissed. Pretty for both of us but we both had more room to give each other though so I don't think there was much in it either way - happy to be corrected if someone thinks otherwise great recovery

Cheers fella, these look great. Way too busy at the moment, but after I move I'll see what I can do about whipping up a few more skins for Ignition - might be a bit weird to have others rolling in tezpez livery (please don't have incidents ).

All good, racing incident

Just noticed this is the traditional scoring format - are we going to change this to the updated one as discussed last season?

@KoAStR I think Marty had the fastest lap in the first round (by about .03 ).

Will have to see if I can make the Softs last for 13 laps then.
Not sure how that will go, they get really hot with my driving.

Anyone got a lotus setup to share? I’m still struggling atm.