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Race #2 CTS Lowes_night 10/01/07 9 PM



72.232.228.186 10/01/07 9 PM

Craftsman Truck Series
Lowes_night
15% Length - 60 Laps - 3x wear
10 AI cars - 92 % Strength
No Yellows

5 minute Practice begins at 9 PM, Qualify, Race.
No Happy Hour

Race clean.

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Re: Race #2 CTS Lowes_night 10/01/07 9 PM


Oh the intense sting of failure. As high as i felt after the first race, i feel just as low after this second race. And this has nothing to do with my actual race. Just my adminship of it.

Lessons Learned:
1. Don't even discuss restart. No restarts from this day forward. Must clubs and leagues have a 50% rule. If 50% of the field is taken out on the first lap, then they restart. Well, until i have better admining tools or a dedicated human admin, i wont even be doing that. NO RESTARTS PERIOD from here forward. It is the only fair thing.

2. Races start as scheduled. i have to put an end to the loose scheduling now. As more people come to race, it only multiplies the problem. From this day forward, the server will be set with the given settings and the admin'ing removed from clients until the race is over. Again, it is only fair. i will be open minded to scheduling events so it works for the majority.

i hope this will remove some of the chaos. Racers should just be able to connect and play, not deal with the chaos. i take full responsibility for all of the chaos last night, cuz i am the admin. i am not pointing any fingers outside of myself.

With all that said, here was the outcome, and my personal play by play of my race.

1st Place - fx
2nd Place - Death Stalker - -6 laps
3rd Place - Slinky - -10 laps
4th Place - fsckr - -12 laps
5th Place - Gator - accident, DNF

My play by play:

First race, we have a bad start, someone jumps the green flag bad (you have to stay behind the lead car on starts until the green flag waves). Not sure if the server black flagged him or not, we didnt get far enough to find out. On the first lap, a couple cars get together, fx, and DS i think. Knowing they are both very good racers, and wanting a good race, i park on the infield and ask if everyone wants a restart. Worst move of the night. MED becomes upset (understandably, as stated above in Lessons Learned) and leaves the game.

After he leaves, we restart the race. About 1/3rd the way into the race, a car hits the wall and bounces into me, destroying my car. i am able to make it to the pits, losing 3 laps in getting it repaired. Once out of the pits, the car is stable, but can only pull 133 running by itself. Even with a wiff of a draft, i can only pull 137. i try to stay off of the race line, and out of everyone's way for the remainder of the race. With about 15 laps to go, the motor expires (on its own DS. emoticon i didnt nuke it.)

This was the first race, and some of the first time even on the track for both slinky and fsckr. Pretty good driving by them with that in consideration. i do have to recommend they run some races in singleplayer to get an understanding of flags, starts, yellows(for if/when we do move to yellow flags), and pit stops.

fx drove a great race, and MED had shown tremendous improvement. i really look forward to the group as a whole coming closer together in skill. This week was a big step forward. fx, h8, DS, i and now MED are coming pretty close in skill. This will make for some great racing.

Just gonna have to watch all that first lap stuff. They will always be chaotic. But in a long race, it just doesnt matter. Let your tires get warmed up, then go pass them safely. Please. emoticon

i'll update this post later with my replay etc.

i think i will add a screenshots section to the files, and everyone can upload thier replays into the replays file.

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