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Racing and Placebos
That was not what i expected after a whole week of intensive training. Every day my stints were just fine and with good pace but now, 6 hours before the race start, it was all gone.
Easily 3 - 5 tenths slower every single lap and i was just not able to figure out why i lost them. I changed the setup, even if it was good for a week and some other fast guys were using it too now, but for me it didnt work out anymore. Tried to find a new balance, changed tyre pressure, camber even the wings. But no matter what i did, i just couldnt get back to my pace. I started getting nervous as everyone was running faster than i was and i still - 1 hour before racestart - had no idea at all.
One of husky's and my opponents entered the server and asked for the load of fuel to fill in and i answered as if it was the most common thing in the world: "48%"... his reaction confused me cause he was laughing: "haha for sure, but u gotta pass me on track with equal settings ;)" now everything cleared up, i just had 10% too much of fuel in the pocket cause of some funrace from the weekend and didnt change it back, which means 24 extra pounds of weight and easily 5 damn tenths every lap (still hoping)!
I went back to my old set, took over some changes from my 6 hour non-stop testing that were keeping the tyres a bit cooler, and hell yeah, the set felt better as ever before (even if it was the same as the whole week before).
In the end that mistake and knowing that my car was way lighter now, helped me to treat the crap out of the car as i didnt do it for a long time.
I learned now, that one should never stop searching for a reason and start there, where you dont expect it at all. AND just trust in what you do - in gaming - it gives you the 2 or 3 tenths of a second you need, even if nothing has changed.
Because gaming is believing.
Oh and yeah, i won :)
Little review
As mentioned in some news comment heres my little personal race report, bit more detailed, bit more interesting (i hope).
I really wished to find some time earlier, but the week was just too busy. Joined another leage, the ESCC (hosted by Electronic Sports League) with a huge and strong international grid. Further i had to visit some special lessons to get my drivers license back, but uhm, thats another story ;). And its easter-holiday which means for me that i dont have to visit school, but work 2 more days a week, so im kinda wasted in the evenings. Anyway, we gotta get through that, right?
Wednesday was the start of the ESCC and i only had like one hour of trainig in my really hated front wheel driven UF-GTR, because ive been playing some snooker with my grandpa. But still the race went pretty well, i qualified for 7th 3 tenth behind the pole and managed to finish 8th in the first race after some lack-of-training-caused driving errors and a quite long fight with my mate RudiTurbo. Starting from pole in the second race (8 positions being turned round for the 2nd race) i could get like 5 seconds off the field, until i again hit the inner gras with my outside tyres - yeah the car is thinner than i thought - and a guy from Cyber-Racing cought up to me. until the finish which was still 10 laps to go we had the dirtiest fight ive ever seen and i know a lot of car-stuck girl scenes ;) We both just got everything out of the mini-like car there was or wasn't. It was about all or nothing, champaign or water, money or girls. If the brakepoint usually was 80 meters before the corner it was now 50 or less. Tyres and eyes started burning of being treated too hard and sweat running over our faces like the gran cannyon. finally i passed him in the last lap in turn one the last time and he couldnt get closer than 0.06 seconds anymore till the chequered flag. Overall 2nd!
The following Monday ESL Pro Series went on. With good motivation from the first place in the Raceabout the race before and the good fighting experience from ESCC i've been training quite a lot for the LX6 race one Westhill (reversed). Really a nice combo with nice flow. You are always between 230 and 100kmh, sometimes more, never less. Even better this time: Rear Wheel Drive. One could well say that the Lx6 is my favourite car and husky seemed to like it either, as we had double-pole after the qualifaction. The race started and i went to 8th position. Why? because rolling starts really suck without fitting rules for start-behaviour. The leader of the field is the only one without slipstream, so wheres the advantage of a fast qualification time there? No matter, frustrated and adrenalin pushed i fought myself back to 1st position, did the fastest lap and overall really felt well in the car, even if it was easily damaged from start-procedure. I was somehow able to adjust myself to the ex-centered wheel, which slightly steered to the right the whole race, cause The Toe (direction the tyre looks into) got damaged in the beginning. The 2nd Race i started from 8th (same grid turning as in ESCC) and fought myself to 2nd place without too much happenings that are worth to mention. Just sweat, adrenalin and concentration - as usual. 31 Points from the first and 27 from the second race means 58 points and the overall win again, the second in a row. I also took over the championchip standings. Hope to keep in that good mood and rythm the next time, and that girls dont get me off track again ;)
gotta get back to work, cheers o/
The new thing: Racing
On 18th of March 2007 it was time to finally announce, what a lot of people already expected. SK-Gaming decided to enter into the racing-scene. And im not talking of arcade-racing, no. Im talkin of real racing, with pyhsics close to reality, fights more adrenalin-pushing than getting busted with your girlfriends sister and more difficult than an 100 % accuracy with the Railgun on q3dm6. It's professional e-sport too and everybody who gave, or will give it a try will notice. Simracers are the only gamers that sweat from body-action and not only by concentration on the crosshair or OTB-control and fear of dieing or receiving a goal in a totally scripted situation. No. everything is different every lap, every corner, every second.
Joining SK-Gaming is not only a step for me, but also a step for the racing scene and it's acceptance as professional e-sport, too. It simply means that racing can't get higher anymore, cause it has reached the biggest and most professional Team in E-sport. Now the racing scene can just settle here and prove that it belongs, so the future has just begun.
Everyone who is moaning, that Racing might be boring, is personally invited to message me and ask me for a race (as soon as i have time, sorry), information, hints or anything you want to know. I promise you will all get addicted after some time, when you complete a whole lap without leaving the track for the first time. Don't fear the difficulty in the beginning, by practicing you will get over it.
Yes from time to time I have to admit that it looks boring on ESL-TV or GIGA. But thats why one just can't see the driver being at his total limits. Seeing cars driving behind each other for laps with a 2 tenths gap is uninteresting as long as you did not do it urself. Every mistake could be your last or you loose lots of places. The pressure and concentration while driving gets everything out of you. You have to listen to the engine, to the tyres, feel the wheels Force Feed Back (FFB), whatch tyre temperatures and also have to keep the car on track without over- or understeering, without treating it too much, without destroying the engine by shifting down too early and all that as fast and precise as possible.
Everybody out there believe me, if i say racing is not boring. Cause else i simply would not do it.
Cheers and keep racing buddies, and those who dont already:
TRY REAL RACING!
http://www.liveforspeed.net/?page=downloads]Download the Demo[/url]
[url=http://www.liveforspeed.net/?page=screenshots
By Nils 'n1lyn' Naujoks
May 8, 2007 14:23
That was not what i expected after a whole week of intensive training. Every day my stints were just fine and with good pace but now, 6 hours before the race start, it was all gone.
Easily 3 - 5 tenths slower every single lap and i was just not able to figure out why i lost them. I changed the setup, even if it was good for a week and some other fast guys were using it too now, but for me it didnt work out anymore. Tried to find a new balance, changed tyre pressure, camber even the wings. But no matter what i did, i just couldnt get back to my pace. I started getting nervous as everyone was running faster than i was and i still - 1 hour before racestart - had no idea at all.
One of husky's and my opponents entered the server and asked for the load of fuel to fill in and i answered as if it was the most common thing in the world: "48%"... his reaction confused me cause he was laughing: "haha for sure, but u gotta pass me on track with equal settings ;)" now everything cleared up, i just had 10% too much of fuel in the pocket cause of some funrace from the weekend and didnt change it back, which means 24 extra pounds of weight and easily 5 damn tenths every lap (still hoping)!
I went back to my old set, took over some changes from my 6 hour non-stop testing that were keeping the tyres a bit cooler, and hell yeah, the set felt better as ever before (even if it was the same as the whole week before).
In the end that mistake and knowing that my car was way lighter now, helped me to treat the crap out of the car as i didnt do it for a long time.
I learned now, that one should never stop searching for a reason and start there, where you dont expect it at all. AND just trust in what you do - in gaming - it gives you the 2 or 3 tenths of a second you need, even if nothing has changed.
Because gaming is believing.
Oh and yeah, i won :)
Little review
By Nils 'n1lyn' Naujoks
Apr 5, 2007 11:12
As mentioned in some news comment heres my little personal race report, bit more detailed, bit more interesting (i hope).
I really wished to find some time earlier, but the week was just too busy. Joined another leage, the ESCC (hosted by Electronic Sports League) with a huge and strong international grid. Further i had to visit some special lessons to get my drivers license back, but uhm, thats another story ;). And its easter-holiday which means for me that i dont have to visit school, but work 2 more days a week, so im kinda wasted in the evenings. Anyway, we gotta get through that, right?
Wednesday was the start of the ESCC and i only had like one hour of trainig in my really hated front wheel driven UF-GTR, because ive been playing some snooker with my grandpa. But still the race went pretty well, i qualified for 7th 3 tenth behind the pole and managed to finish 8th in the first race after some lack-of-training-caused driving errors and a quite long fight with my mate RudiTurbo. Starting from pole in the second race (8 positions being turned round for the 2nd race) i could get like 5 seconds off the field, until i again hit the inner gras with my outside tyres - yeah the car is thinner than i thought - and a guy from Cyber-Racing cought up to me. until the finish which was still 10 laps to go we had the dirtiest fight ive ever seen and i know a lot of car-stuck girl scenes ;) We both just got everything out of the mini-like car there was or wasn't. It was about all or nothing, champaign or water, money or girls. If the brakepoint usually was 80 meters before the corner it was now 50 or less. Tyres and eyes started burning of being treated too hard and sweat running over our faces like the gran cannyon. finally i passed him in the last lap in turn one the last time and he couldnt get closer than 0.06 seconds anymore till the chequered flag. Overall 2nd!
The following Monday ESL Pro Series went on. With good motivation from the first place in the Raceabout the race before and the good fighting experience from ESCC i've been training quite a lot for the LX6 race one Westhill (reversed). Really a nice combo with nice flow. You are always between 230 and 100kmh, sometimes more, never less. Even better this time: Rear Wheel Drive. One could well say that the Lx6 is my favourite car and husky seemed to like it either, as we had double-pole after the qualifaction. The race started and i went to 8th position. Why? because rolling starts really suck without fitting rules for start-behaviour. The leader of the field is the only one without slipstream, so wheres the advantage of a fast qualification time there? No matter, frustrated and adrenalin pushed i fought myself back to 1st position, did the fastest lap and overall really felt well in the car, even if it was easily damaged from start-procedure. I was somehow able to adjust myself to the ex-centered wheel, which slightly steered to the right the whole race, cause The Toe (direction the tyre looks into) got damaged in the beginning. The 2nd Race i started from 8th (same grid turning as in ESCC) and fought myself to 2nd place without too much happenings that are worth to mention. Just sweat, adrenalin and concentration - as usual. 31 Points from the first and 27 from the second race means 58 points and the overall win again, the second in a row. I also took over the championchip standings. Hope to keep in that good mood and rythm the next time, and that girls dont get me off track again ;)
gotta get back to work, cheers o/
The new thing: Racing
By Nils 'n1lyn' Naujoks
Mar 21, 2007 11:12
On 18th of March 2007 it was time to finally announce, what a lot of people already expected. SK-Gaming decided to enter into the racing-scene. And im not talking of arcade-racing, no. Im talkin of real racing, with pyhsics close to reality, fights more adrenalin-pushing than getting busted with your girlfriends sister and more difficult than an 100 % accuracy with the Railgun on q3dm6. It's professional e-sport too and everybody who gave, or will give it a try will notice. Simracers are the only gamers that sweat from body-action and not only by concentration on the crosshair or OTB-control and fear of dieing or receiving a goal in a totally scripted situation. No. everything is different every lap, every corner, every second.
Joining SK-Gaming is not only a step for me, but also a step for the racing scene and it's acceptance as professional e-sport, too. It simply means that racing can't get higher anymore, cause it has reached the biggest and most professional Team in E-sport. Now the racing scene can just settle here and prove that it belongs, so the future has just begun.
Everyone who is moaning, that Racing might be boring, is personally invited to message me and ask me for a race (as soon as i have time, sorry), information, hints or anything you want to know. I promise you will all get addicted after some time, when you complete a whole lap without leaving the track for the first time. Don't fear the difficulty in the beginning, by practicing you will get over it.
Yes from time to time I have to admit that it looks boring on ESL-TV or GIGA. But thats why one just can't see the driver being at his total limits. Seeing cars driving behind each other for laps with a 2 tenths gap is uninteresting as long as you did not do it urself. Every mistake could be your last or you loose lots of places. The pressure and concentration while driving gets everything out of you. You have to listen to the engine, to the tyres, feel the wheels Force Feed Back (FFB), whatch tyre temperatures and also have to keep the car on track without over- or understeering, without treating it too much, without destroying the engine by shifting down too early and all that as fast and precise as possible.
Everybody out there believe me, if i say racing is not boring. Cause else i simply would not do it.
Cheers and keep racing buddies, and those who dont already:
TRY REAL RACING!
http://www.liveforspeed.net/?page=downloads]Download the Demo[/url]
[url=http://www.liveforspeed.net/?page=screenshots
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