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you are george lambert ?

Man, so jealous! Those UK club races look like a lot of fun with so many people in a single skip race.

I had a *really* good skip season during the latter half of last season. I threw away a win at my very first Oulton race and after that my determination to not make mistakes just skyrocketed. I managed to have something like only 6x over 11 races. I felt pretty damn good managing to be in the top 5 in almost every one considering I’m always in top split. Even though I’m not nearly as fast as you, George (seriously, 1:44 laps at Okayama? I hit low 1:46′s at my best), I’m seeing myself as Button-esque: consistent, clean and smart, just lacking the raw speed. And I refrain from making Heidfeld comparisons since I’ve actually won some skip races ;).

@ajokay are you alex oddell ? im in as Jose Arellano. i did all my “learning” on LFS have you tried it? its pretty reallistic as well. and you can see the fast guys telemetry to know where you can be faster. what are you racing the mazdas ?

@Joey-Poey thats absolutely correct. i race a regional championship here in Mexico in the car i have as avatar :) and yes, in reality errors do come but not as often and as easy as here, its not because the simulation is wrong. its because you cant feel a lot of things that in real life you do. as well as the sense of speed its very low on the sim.

I do think time spent focusing on one car/series does help a lot. I know I’m much faster and more aggressive in the skip now than I was a year ago. The more time you spend in a car, the more you learn to read how it’s behaving and react instinctively.

And sometimes driving style comes into play as well. I know I personally don’t like the MX-5′s as they don’t play nice over a long period of my hard braking. I get a bad push from overheating the front tires. Plus, I prefer the feeling of being dead middle in the single seaters and knowing exactly where my tires are. I feel more accurate. For those reasons, I know I’m much more comfortable running the Skip Barber. It’s more over-steery, but not overpowered and still allows close quarters racing.

I’d suggest scouring the forums looking at “introduction to driving X” threads for some of the other cars to see which sounds like fun or like it might be better suited to how you drive. I don’t know if you’ve made it to D-class yet, but the road side has plenty of options between the Jetta and Solstice (and MX-5 cup) in the GT Cup series, The Mustang Cup and the Skips. There’s also private leagues that run other cars for any license level, too. It just takes a bit of asking around and reading to know which direction you wanna go.

Cool news! The private league I’m running in (Continental Endurance Sports Car Series) will have all their races broadcast on glaciertv.com! I’ll post a link once they let us know it. First race is this weekend on Saturday the 11th. Race starts around 6:30 EST. I’ll be easy to spot: I’m the Miata with “PLUM STREET” in giant letters on the sides ;).

Obscenities were flying, trust me. Unfortunately, I can’t really hold it against him too much because his spotter never told him I was there so he had no idea. Only thing he could have done was be more aware having just recently passed me to know an MX5 would be coming up behind possibly.

But yeah, I’ve been feeling absolutely gutted tonight after that because I was looking at a top 5 finish after starting 10th. Now it’s a 2 week wait to redeem myself at Barber.