rFactor 2 Round 3 Road America - Sun Feb 9, 2025

I'm just hoping for no disconnections today. Three disconnections in two races is extremely worrying, and if it happens again today then I don't know what to do!

 

Yes, but I pretty much always have been

 

I'm really looking forward to the race...last race I couldn't get the engine to start. Today that won't happen (hopefully).

 

Anyone notice that they are flying the Michigan flag in Wisconsin?

 

Apologies for late dereg but Im not going to be able to make this in time :-(. Have a good race!

 

Mr. Hightree, sorry...

 

I've now had 4 disconnections in 3 races, 2 of which were mass disconnections affecting multiple others too. This is getting really silly, and I can't continue to race like this. I'm effectively at a 2 lap deficit to others. If you can't do something about this server before the next race, I'm going to have to deregister.

Once again, I'm so sorry for the contact @Nick Westy . That was purely a misjudgement on my part, and I took a drive-through immediately as per the rules. We'd had a great race up until that point, and that just makes me feel worse about hitting you. You deserved better.

I'm also sorry to @Ertan Karadag for the same thing, although I have to admit that I'm a bit confused about why you braked so early for that corner. It's still my fault, but I don't think that was a reasonable braking point unless you had some kind of issue I didn't know about.

 

I had that disconnect thing going on at somepoint and there was a fix, just cant remember what it was. Ill look into it tomorrow.
Also nowdays wifi dont really have anything to do with it. I use and have used wifi with mobile for years now.

 

After watching Robs broadcast (good job, as always btw.), oh dear - a lot of action and carnage.
My race could have ended in tears pretty early. See

Close call and lucky me, also because when I would have not made the mistake into turn one or tried to pass Mark into Canada corner...
Apart from that and the disco, my race was smooth. I was very happy with my set up, which was a compromise between downforce/topspeed/stability. Enough stability to feel comfortable and being able to do the Kink full throttle, but also a topspeed roughly 305 kph at the end of the start finish straight. The tyre deg was also quite ok, the only issue I had, over one lap it was slow. Huge respect, for those who were able to drive the car with less wing. Although, even I felt quite comfortable, it was still tough out there. In addition, I was glad to have my FFB back. I knew something was strange in Mid Ohio with my G29 but I could not figure out what.

Regarding the disco party at half point, it seems ervyone except for Ben and was affected by that. Weird, that was way more extreme than at Surfers Paradise. And for me, that was the first one for a long time. I assume no one is save from that, so it would be good to have that fixed. I am sure the guys will be on it, even though I think we have to accept a certain risk, but of course 100% is too much.

 

For my debut race yesterday, I found it to be full of action. My strategy was working out very well until, all of a sudden, I got kicked from the server—no idea why… But I didn’t give up and made the best out of the situation.
At one point, I misjudged the car and had to brake earlier or take the corner more slowly, which led to Penny running into me. These things happen, all good!
I had a lot of fun, except for the "disco". Otherwise, it was a great race! I’m looking forward to the next one—hopefully without a "disco."

 

Well, that was a great race for me. Obviously the server issues half way through helped me get a leg up for sure, I think just John and Myself were lucky enough to avoid a disco.
I felt that I deserved something for sure though as I hardly made any mistakes and finally no speeding penalties
John just had a little too much for me at the end, but really happy with my P2 in this race.

See you all at Laguna Seca, fingers crossed all goes well.
Here is my video for the race....

Regards Ben

 

I lost connection but I didn't understand I should have stay and waited till I reconnected. Oh well it was fun while it lasted. I want to thank a competitor who shared a good base setup for the race. I think I can assure everyone it is not the setup that matters.

 

well cant find it, its been years...
something to do with deleting one folder and let game download it again on launch...

 

The disconnections were definitely server-side though, just like in Surfers' Paradise.