Just like life, in iRacing you have good days and bad days and that's where I've been the last couple of days. Before I list disasters, I need to explain a little about how iRacing works.
Each year is split into 4 x 12 week seasons. At the start of each season, drivers are assigned divisions based on their performance and, in each race series, you compete for an overall championship and also a divisional one. The points gained in any race are based on how strong the opponents are - so if you're in a race with very good people, the winner gets more points than a race with low ranked people.
Each week, you race on a different track and your best 25% of results are averaged for your point score for each week. At the end of the season, your best 8 weeks count towards the season score. OK - got all that?
Tuesdays are the beginning of the week so for people in their first season like me, it's a hard day because there's new tracks to learn in each series you compete in. I've come to have low expectations for results on Tuesday but yesterday was just a string of disasters. In the Skip Barber series - my main focus - the new track was Okayama which I've raced on with other cars and always struggled and the Skippy is no exception - in the 4 races I did yesterday, I crashed in all of them - twice self inflicted and twice but take outs but other equally incompetent drivers :-) Other series were no better - in 4 oval races, I only made it past the 1st corner once (and on that one I then drove into a huge accident a few laps later.
My biggest crash of the day was at Indy. At the 1st corner I got squeezed onto the grass and then came back onto the track right in front of another car. The replay looks like the kind of accident you hold your breath for in real life until the see the driver climb at of the remains of his car...
Wednesday has been better. I've won a couple of Skippy races (but in low ranking races) and also had a good run in the Riley DP in the endurance race. ovals have gone better as well - no crashes and some pretty decent finishes.
Apart from the Skippy, my other main objective is to be the highest points scorer for England in the club competition. I'm in the England club rather than the International alone which includes Malaysia because my Paypal account is based on my UK bank and address. This looks like the easiest objective because it's basically dependent on performing OK in a lot of races and that's exactly what I'm doing. But, this does conflict a bit with my objectives in the Skippy. Explaining that is a bit complicated so I'll leave that for another post.
Each year is split into 4 x 12 week seasons. At the start of each season, drivers are assigned divisions based on their performance and, in each race series, you compete for an overall championship and also a divisional one. The points gained in any race are based on how strong the opponents are - so if you're in a race with very good people, the winner gets more points than a race with low ranked people.
Each week, you race on a different track and your best 25% of results are averaged for your point score for each week. At the end of the season, your best 8 weeks count towards the season score. OK - got all that?
Tuesdays are the beginning of the week so for people in their first season like me, it's a hard day because there's new tracks to learn in each series you compete in. I've come to have low expectations for results on Tuesday but yesterday was just a string of disasters. In the Skip Barber series - my main focus - the new track was Okayama which I've raced on with other cars and always struggled and the Skippy is no exception - in the 4 races I did yesterday, I crashed in all of them - twice self inflicted and twice but take outs but other equally incompetent drivers :-) Other series were no better - in 4 oval races, I only made it past the 1st corner once (and on that one I then drove into a huge accident a few laps later.
My biggest crash of the day was at Indy. At the 1st corner I got squeezed onto the grass and then came back onto the track right in front of another car. The replay looks like the kind of accident you hold your breath for in real life until the see the driver climb at of the remains of his car...
Wednesday has been better. I've won a couple of Skippy races (but in low ranking races) and also had a good run in the Riley DP in the endurance race. ovals have gone better as well - no crashes and some pretty decent finishes.
Apart from the Skippy, my other main objective is to be the highest points scorer for England in the club competition. I'm in the England club rather than the International alone which includes Malaysia because my Paypal account is based on my UK bank and address. This looks like the easiest objective because it's basically dependent on performing OK in a lot of races and that's exactly what I'm doing. But, this does conflict a bit with my objectives in the Skippy. Explaining that is a bit complicated so I'll leave that for another post.
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