RCTalk VRC Race Club (VRCT)

[Lessen]

What's wrong Lloyd?Rear view getting fuller?

 

[Racer 1966]

I'm gonna run soon but it'll probably be in high 40's if I can concentrate enough.

 

[Racer 1966]

I hate running on that track! If it weren't for getting cheated and for whatever reason the choppy video....... just reminds me why I gave up video games YEARS ago!

 

[robmob]

All yours Josh.

My only run got me 2nd and that's good enough considering I only practiced for about 5 minutes before running.

Had a few problems with AI's and spun out 3 or 4 times on my own.

 

[Lessen]

Damn nice run for so little practice Rob. I put quite a bit of practice in, but I'm trying to get back up to speed anyways. I'd say that's a pretty tight race for a somewhat slick and technical racetrack.

 

[robmob]

Race No. 5 - Results

1. Racer 1966 - 111 Laps
2. robmob – 110 Laps
3. slowngreen – 109 Laps (14:03.882)
4. lessen – 109 Laps (14:05.220)
5. SMaxxin - 108 Laps
6. alien13 – 98 Laps


Fastest Lap: Racer 1966 - 6.94 seconds

 

[robmob]

Race No. 5 - Boss Speed - Results

1. lessen – 52 Laps
2. robmob - 51 Laps
3. slowngreen - 50 Laps
4. Racer 1966 - 49 Laps
5. SMaxxin – 44 Laps


Fast Lap: lessen – 19.16 seconds

 

[Lessen]

2010 Winter Rnd 5 Charts

Most of you guys are familiar with the first chart. It's simply a line chart that gives everybody a good representation of each lap completed in comparison to their entire run. The higher the peak, the greater the amount of time for that lap. The purpose of this chart is to highlight a racers individual laps for comparison. The 2nd graph is new although not really displaying the race the way I'd like to, however, it still creates a different visual. The purpose of this chart is to utilize accumulated times to show actual driver position as if the race were live. Unfortunately, due to data layout it does not do a great job of displaying this.Time increases the further you move away from center. Laps progress as the position moves counterclockwise around the chart. Ideally I'd like this chart to show the opposite with time increasing with rotation and laps progressing with radius but until I figure out how to do that this is what we get.

*edit* HINT: To see more detail in the net chart use your browsers zoom option.
RC Speedway

Boss Speed

 

[slowngreen]

Too bad I'm color blind....

Hemsteed is a pain!

 

[Racer 1966]

That second graph looks just like my Boss run,spiraling down the tube!

 

[Lessen]

Unfortunately that graph does not do a good job of actually showing the pass for position, which is my goal. In order to see a pass for position one needs to look at a given moment in time and see where each racer is at in that instant. Time is somewhat ambiguous in that chart because it's represented by undrawn concentric circles. If I can figure out how to reverse the data then an instant in time can be viewed as a ray within the circle and the furthermost racing line is the leader. Below is an example of what I'd like to be able to do. The outermost line at any given point around the circle is the leader. You can see two cars have bad laps in this example and lose positions by the end of the race. Unfortunately this is a completely manual example and is not formulated in the spreadsheet.

 

[darkslayor24]

hey guys, how are we doin? lol its been awhile since I've been on here, I'm just so busy, I'm now racing RC cars sundays and thursdays, my girlfriend comes over to the house on mondays, i race online on wednesdays. plus with school everyday and my racecar being worked on it makes for a verry busy scedule.

id love to come race with you guys again, i just hate saying I'm going to be here when most likely i wont be.

 

[robmob]

Join us when you can.

We are now running a separate road course and oval series which is working out pretty good.

 

[Lessen]

Come on in whenever you get a chance darkslayer. Nothin' wrong with having another spoiler in the crowd

 

[robmob]

I actually put a run in first for once.

I was anxious to see how the AI speed was after making the changes. Practice up on your passing skills boys.

 

[Racer 1966]

I ain't skeered of passing! :

 

[Lessen]

Cool. I think it will probably be more challenging for the AI to be more at our level. Now we'll see who can race rather than who can run off a string of clean quick laps. I'm excited. This is however probably one of the tougher tracks to start "racing". Now that I'm back to work I probably will not start doing any VRC until Sat. At least for another week and a half (cuz I'm on vacation AGAIN! :d )

 

[slowngreen]

I'm might be out kinda. I was switching rx' yesterday and broke all three of the wires off of one rx plug of the adapter, I thought I fixed it but I can get it to work at all now, even though it is being recognized, arrrggghhh. If anything, I'll have to go back to key board like last season for a race or two.

 

[Lessen]

Dude that sucks. I don't know how you were racing on the keyboard last year. I find that simply aggravating. But as long as you can still put something down you get an A+ for effort.

On another note.. I went back to the drawing board for this race. Started with the stock setup yesterday and started tuning again for this grip level. I just finished a mock run offline and Rob's provisional time bested my test by 1/2 second. Pretty dang close competition these days.

Where are you good Rob? I'm practicing RCS with AI at 100% Club. I'm smoking them on T2 exit. I've actually been tweaking an engine setup that focuses on torque rather than top speed (I'm using the bottom end mill) and I'm finding it very drivable although I don't seem to be saving any fuel at this point. I'm getting 4-5 less laps now than at the 85% grip level, probably due to being in the throttle more, especially through T3.

 

[robmob]

I'm might be out kinda. I was switching rx' yesterday and broke all three of the wires off of one rx plug of the adapter, I thought I fixed it but I can get it to work at all now, even though it is being recognized, arrrggghhh. If anything, I'll have to go back to key board like last season for a race or two.

I have a tool and plenty of connectors/plugs to replace a RX plug.

I do it all the time to shorten those uber length Hitec wires.