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[Swarley]

I decided to pick up a few things tonight. Just went with stuff I wanted instead of worrying about it lining up with series'.

So I picked up two cars and two tracks: Daytona and Mount Panorama, and then the Corvette C6.R and the Ford Fusion Gen-6 NASCAR. Daytona road course and Bathurst are two tracks that I really enjoy (especially Bathurst). Bought the Corvette b/c I wanted another GT car and I figured buying the McLaren wouldn't make much sense right now given that I already have the Z4 (both GT3). Aaaand finally I chose the Fusion so I could run in some Carb. Cup races and get my feet wet with some real oval racing once in awhile instead of those slow Street Stocks lol.

Went ahead and tried out all the stuff. Run the Fusion at Charlotte in open practice for the Carb. Cup. Tough, but more fun that Street Stock. I got down to 1 second off the others in the lobby. Still working on having a clean, long run and not spinning out coming out of corners onto the straights. Then I took the Corvette out onto the Daytona road course. Getting those corners right is going to take some practice. The Vette is fun. Better handling than the Cadillac but not quite as good as the BMW. The gear indicator is a little small and hard to see, but other than that, I'm enjoying the car so far. Finally, I took the Z4 GT3 out at Bathurst. I love that track and I love that car. That track is even more fun with a wheel.

Maybe I'll post some pics of my new stuffz before or after the league race.

 

[Swarley]

Corvette C6.R on the infield portion of Daytona:

Ford Fusion at Daytona:

 

[HardHittnOzone]

That Vette looks SICK!!! I bet it sounds nice too. We need to get you out of R and D class in ovals... From my past experience oval racing there is garbage, with one exception being the late models. Trucks, Indy, and silver crown are my favorite when it comes to ovals.

Haven't tried the new tire model, but the old classA impala was impossible for me to drive. It felt like you were floating on air. I had a hard time keeping the car on the track, let alone running it wide open.

Ironically enough I find myself working on more road stuff now. My goal is to try the Ruff by the end of the season and possibly run the ruff cup next season.


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[Swarley]

That Vette looks SICK!!! I bet it sounds nice too. We need to get you out of R and D class in ovals... From my past experience oval racing there is garbage, with one exception being the late models. Trucks, Indy, and silver crown are my favorite when it comes to ovals.

Haven't tried the new tire model, but the old classA impala was impossible for me to drive. It felt like you were floating on air. I had a hard time keeping the car on the track, let alone running it wide open.

Ironically enough I find myself working on more road stuff now. My goal is to try the Ruff by the end of the season and possibly run the ruff cup next season.


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I only mess around with it here and there while I concentrate most of my time on road. Although it's a nice change of pace once in awhile. I'm almost at Rookie 3.0 for oval, just waiting for the schedule to come back around to Charlotte (Street Stock at that other track is a destruction derby). We'll see. I'd like to get up to the better stuff to run races here and there, but we'll see if the desire is there to go through the crappy series' in oval first lol.

 

[HardHittnOzone]

I noticed you have the ruff. How does it handle? How would you compare it to the lower tier cars? Is it a big jump?


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[Swarley]

I noticed you have the ruff. How does it handle? How would you compare it to the lower tier cars? Is it a big jump?


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It's kinda tough at times. Coming out of high speed straights into low speed corners, if you hit the brake too hard, it'll turn right around. I've got aero maxed out and that's helped a little. It's easier than the MX-5 haha, but tougher than some of my other road cars. I bet it'd be a lot better if I really sat down and got a tune for it.

 

[Swarley]

Welllllll... I went ahead and bought the McLaren. I just had to know how it compared to the BMW. Luckily now I have most of the cars I want (at least until the new Aussie V8s release later this year). I haven't looked at lap times yet, but handling wise they aren't too different. Both very enjoyable and probably my favorite two cars I've driven in the game.

Here's a quick outlap in the McLaren at Bathurst just to show how well it handles:

 

[HardHittnOzone]

WOW, looking Goooooood Swarley. Car looks really stable... You using any assists? The track looks awesome too, even though as a new guy to road racing elevations give me fits.

Not sure what kind of wheel you have, but I strongly recommend taking the "hands off" feature. The drivers hands cant cross and you are limited to 90 degrees. That is a huge waste (and disadvantage) especially if you have a 900 degree wheel.

 

[Swarley]

No assists, and that was a stock setup too. Elevation has been cruel to me at times, but I haven't had trouble with the mountain at Bathurst. Although I know that track ridiculously well from Forza 5, maybe that helps.

I have a G27. I'll try that sometime, although there's no way I could run the full 900 degrees. What I like about the 90 is that I don't have to take my hands off the wheel when I turn. But I'll test it out at some point and see.

 

[JBauerisGod]

Corvette C6.R on the infield portion of Daytona:


Ford Fusion at Daytona:

That Days of Thunder car looks sexy.

 

[Swarley]

Did a few things tonight. First, I ran a bunch of hotlaps in the BMW at Daytona road at nighttime. So fun. I can't wait to hopefully do an enduro there.

Then I decided to run my very first Carb. Cup race. Charlotte this week. So I practiced for about an hour. I still hadn't gone more than a handful of laps while not spinning out. And I was put 7th on the starting grid. I was pretty damn nervous haha. Some wrecks behind me, but I never really ran into any trouble and I was able to run all 25 laps cleanly and finished P4. Not too shabby.

And all of this just reminds me that I need to do some practice for the Global Challenge race this week and get a couple races in.

 

[HardHittnOzone]

BMW looks awesome under the lights and congrats on the good finish. Let me know if you want to run the Global Challenge Race together. Those are usually large field races and we have a pretty good chance on being on the same split if we decide to run the same time slot. All we need now is VSN paint schemes so we can represent!

 

[Swarley]

I'll probably end up running one tomorrow night. I need to keep upping my safety rating if I want to get eligible for the Road Warrior Spa 2.4 Hours next month. Ha, yeah, I did a VSN livery for the MX-5... I didn't like it very much. It's hard to find the right shade of gold to look just right. I'll see if I can whip something up this week for the Caddy now that I'm finishing up most of my personal liveries for now.


And speaking of...

Been working on the McLaren and Corvette liveries tonight. FINALLY have a livery I really like for the McLaren. I'm not sure if I'll stick with this Corvette one or not, but it's still a work in progress either way.

 

[Swarley]

And now with the McLaren MP4-12C GT3:

 

[Swarley]

Boom.

 

[Swarley]

Just made another purchase:

 

[Garrett67]

iRacing

I forgot to post my purchase from the other day.





And from last week.

Sent from me.

 

[Swarley]

 

[Swarley]

Pretty cool tweet I just came across. Both of these guys are Americans running in GP2 and have been/are test drivers for F1 teams.

 

[Swarley]

Driver swaps slated for Season 4 this year. Teaser pics of Donington and a redone Phoenix (next tracks to be released).
http://www.iracing.com/big-foot-and-the-loch-ness-monster-do-exist/