Alex I believe there’s a Scottish League. Somewhat associated with knockhill as well. I’ve been tempted to contact them before; as much for the opportunity for local meetups as anything. Although obviously it’ll be a while now before those happen.

I’d imagine smaller, more local orgs tend to have a more sociable and friendly ethos

    10 days later

    Right. I’m almost certainly biting the bullet today.

    It’s a fairly big commitment but I’ve missed competitive sport* for a very long time; and at my age especially with all the current shit going on, this is as close as I’m going to get for a while.

    Looks like new members get a fair amount in the sub and get their first sub for half price. I’m going to take the two year option. Pricey but if I took the one month option or whatever I’d end up spending that amount of money in about a year anyway.

    This way I’ve got 24 months to git gud or git sick of it; and I’m also committed to it.

    Makes it easier to justify a CSL elite down the line too 😄

    *an endeavour that cost way way more than an iracing sub btw.

    Right. I’m about to pop on for two or three hours. I’m just going to practice Oran Park to begin with as that’s where the MX-5 race is until Wednesday I think.

    I /may/ try a race if I gain enough confidence. I’m thinking if I can keep it on track for the requisite number of laps while doing a test drive then I’ll drop into a race. Not interested in beating anyone. Just want to finish.

    I’ll be streaming it at twitch.tv/ClodOfWar if anyone fancies lending some moral and technical support.

    No pressure to though. I have viewer numbers turned off and just babble on anyway.

    I just reinstalled this today, also going to have a bit of a crack.

    Edit: christ i’d forgotten how awful the UI is.

      Alex The UI is fucking terrible isn’t it. It’s horrific.

      That said, I did my first two league races (Oran Park GP in MX5s), and loved it, despite getting punted in both races. I even kept my 6th place in the second race despite getting spun round. Got REALLY nervous for my first race as well. 😀

      I was surprised it wasn’t purely a rookie race. Had a few from leagues above mine in there, which meant I was 2nd rookie. I’ll take some solace in that.

        Cool man, I ended up spending ages tweaking it to run right, only had time to do a few laps. Actually really enjoyed it. Maybe I’ve gotten a lot better in the last couple of years but it doesn’t feel anywhere near the knife-end of old. The MX5 is very chuckable and I’ve had fun learning Oran Park, a track I don’t think I’ve ever done before. Got my obligitory YouTube hotlap.

        1:18.605

        I feeling the need to do some actual racing.

        Question 1: Seems I had A and B license opponents last night, now that I’ve looked at the results properly. They had worse safety rating than me. Like low 2.00s.

        Did they get busted down to private for being dicks?

        Question 2: if I click on the MX-5 season in the GUI I get the option for a race, or time trial (which I’ve done a few times now).

        Is that different from the Time Attack events? I don’t seem to be able to enter any of those but I can do TT any time I like it seems.

        Also. You’re about 6 tenths up on my best I think. My problem is consistency right now. I’m going to put the hours in on this one to improve that 🙂

        • Alex replied to this.

          Couple clips of the first race. Despite the punt it was a genuine thrill.

          Brave I did a practice session and the times were 1:16.** so reckon I’m two seconds off the pace.

            Race pace I was pretty much mid pack looking at everyone’s average. A few folks were in the 1:17s but they were mostly the guys who’d been busted back down to private 😉

            Cool, a 1:17 easily doable.

            Okayama from today onwards. Gave it a test drive in VR and then a time trial session. Not very consistent but quite pleased with the result. No incidents and a best 8 lap avg of 1.03.715 something. 1:03.359 fastest individual lap. It’s about 1.5 seconds off top split afaik.

            Not sure if anyone but me can access the result but here it is anyway.

            https://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=35533353&custid=565936

            • Alex replied to this.

              I don’t think it can be that close to top split tbh. I just put in a 1.01. something. Couldn’t finish the run because family stuff. If that’s top split now then I’m as fast as Dan Suzuki and I’m not believing that.

              I think things must have changed since he made the video I watched. It’s about 9 months old.

              I’ve been doing 1:01s. About to start my first race!