Worldwide Digital Proxy

[Czar]

I agree with Burrell. Run the race when you can and have a good time with it. Don't make it a burden. It seems that unexpected snafus have been the hallmark of this proxy. Though I think it is appropriate to warn the remaining hosts to "expect the unexpected". If you have the time, maybe a quick note on how the qualifying went?

[MrFlippant]

It went well. Some of the cars were a little loose in unexpected places. One of them seemed to never have any traction, and another had a guide with a rounded off front end that made it come out of the turns way too easily. This is all in my video so people can put those comments to specific cars. I don't remember the names off the top of my head, though.

[CJR]

Any update?

[MrFlippant]

Yes.
First off, I want to apologize for the delay. I won't list or make my excuses, but I will say that I'm running the proxy with a couple friends who pitched in at the last minute to help me get this done so I can ship the cars to the next location. I'll post the results as soon as I can after we're done, but those who see this message or who are already subscribers to my uStream account can watch it live starting in about a half hour (practice) and the racing ASAP.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mrflippant

[MrFlippant]

Well, we got it done, but poor Buspor63 fell prey to a racing incident. Though I had done my best to make sure there would be no penalties of any kind, we some how ended up in a heat where he got stuck with a penalty. Not knowing how to mitigate this, we soldiered on, but he counted barely any laps in that race. I discovered later that we could have canceled out of that heat (no on-screen buttons or indicators of what can be done mid-heat) and restarted it. I ended up going back in later and giving him just one lap less than the other car, so he didn't suffer too much, but it didn't seem to help much. We didn't have time to run the entire proxy again, so it was determined to be a random racing incident, like when there's an cascading accident at the start of a race. ;-)

Here's the qualifications I did early in October:
WDP_qually.jpg

And the results:

Race 1 consists of 13 driver(s) running 13 heat(s) at Rainier Vista. [Del]
Current totals for this results file:
Result totals at Rainier Vista
1. RTRandy completed 40 laps in: 3:19.5 with a best lap of 4.173
2. TPRgmwrench completed 40 laps in: 3:21.1 with a best lap of 4.192
3. TuscoTodd completed 40 laps in: 3:24.1 with a best lap of 4.239
4. CJR completed 40 laps in: 3:25.8 with a best lap of 4.118
5. Lancelotalove completed 40 laps in: 3:28.9 with a best lap of 4.054
6. KOMP completed 40 laps in: 3:31.2 with a best lap of 4.167
7. Zcarfan completed 40 laps in: 3:35.4 with a best lap of 4.138
8. Czar completed 39 laps in: 3:38.4 with a best lap of 4.209
9. GAUB completed 39 laps in: 3:38.4 with a best lap of 4.367
10. Burrell completed 39 laps in: 4:45.2 with a best lap of 4.597
11. KenC completed 38 laps in: 3:24.7 with a best lap of 4.292
12. BARC completed 37 laps in: 3:32.1 with a best lap of 4.373
13. Buspor63 completed 37 laps in: 4:48.9 with a best lap of 2.880

I side-loaded the video to my YouTube channel for posterity as well. The official racing starts at about 42 minutes. We take a break after several cars (about 1:22) and then finish up starting at about 1:39.

[buspor63]

Sigh.... well, I just seem to be the Charlie Brown of the proxy, good grief.... there's always next year.... ;)

[dw5555]

Where's the ghost car?

Dave

[MrFlippant]

I decided against it because these guys were not very familiar with the system in the first place, and the ghost could be pretty brutal if you're not skilled enough to avoid it running through you. Instead of pausing for a crash every single lap, I chose to finish the race instead. I understand that some may not like this, but I feel it was an acceptable compromise given the lack of assistance I was able to muster. As you can see in the video, lane changing and pit strategy did play a role, and in spite of it being only two cars, I feel that the nature of digital was well represented.

This was NOT my ideal running of the proxy. But, this is, after all, the FIRST digital proxy. Sadly, even my digital club had little to no interest in helping, probably because proxy racing is an anathema to them. Hopefully, in coming years, this will not be the case, and more venues will be able to garner more people (especially me) to have a proper digital proxy with 6 skilled digital racers on track at once. It just didn't work out that way.

It was this, or no race at my venue.

[Burrell]

[TuscoTodd]

Looks like some CLOSE competition!
:handgestures-thumbup: :handgestures-thumbup:

[MrFlippant]

Boxed up and ready to ship tomorrow. :)

[R/TRandy]

Thanks MrFlippant for hosting the last race! Looks like there was some really close racing.
My Ferrari looks to have found a track it was well suited too.

The box of cars has arrived back at my house after the race at MrFlippant's.
Was out of town yesterday (at Trainfest in Milwaukee) and the box was by my garage door when I arrived home last night.
I will be unpacking them today as I watch the Packers trying to play football :angry-tappingfoot:

Randy

[Czar]

Glad you have the cars, Randy. I hope you have a good time racing them. I will look forward to your report.

[buspor63]

I've got some good news to report. My timing system seems to be working great again, I think I had several things bad at once. I bought a cable from DRS to replace the mystery one and I also replaced the circuit board in my remote CU. In other words, so far, so good.

[R/TRandy]