03 May 2012: Laguna Seca

download link group A replay:
replay_group A

Nice event, Orsetti and Steverink finished at just 0.2 sec. gap after 36 laps ! (close finish)
Good qualy and second race stint for me, did a pb again in qualy like at donington as well,
but then very bad luck for me + Clive after just the first 2 laps or so, (with a light damage at the car, because of a slight contact at the start) as I lost the car uphill to corkscrew on the brakes
and another car (Clive) crashed into mine, he was not able too see me standing there as he was coming up the hill, since it happened 'behind' the hill. I thought of pushing maybe 2% more
on the braking zone at that moment to maybe close up to the two cars in front and that was enough to lose the rear on slightly to hard braking for a moment.
This place is a bit similar to turn 4 at Donigton (at the end of uphill), you need some more brake balance to the front with those cars at such palces to be more save on brakes regarding the rear.
After ESC back to pits I was driving not so seriously anymore at the first stint of the race, since I thought I'm last anyway, so I pushed here and there and got off track sometimes, but at the second stint after
the regular pit my car felt great in the first laps (I balanced it very well), just as the tires began to lose some grip, it was not possible to push anymore at certain corners -t2, t4 (left), t8 (left, after corkscrew))- (some aliens can do, but for me mostly it does not work with worn tires).
Due to the fact that others did some mistakes too and crashed their cars, I gained some positions back anyway.

My start was not perfect -but not totally bad anyway-, I got into a little bit too low RPM at 1st gear, because of some a little bit too much lifting of the clutch.

..see you next time.. !

M Waechter wrote:download link group A replay:
replay_group A

Ho scaricato il replay per rivedere la vostra gara ma anche con l'idea di fare un video, ma con mia grande sorpresa le auto girano in cielo tra le nuvole ! LOL
Di solito (vedi altri simulatori) questo succede se manca la pista ma non credo possa essere il caso mio ... Qualcuno ha una spiegazione razionale !?

New Kunos Flight Simulator

Looks like Jesus sent a holy car..., a car coming out of the sky (/ from above)

M Waechter wrote:Looks like Jesus sent a holy car..., a car coming out of the sky (/ from above)

I don't know why . I downloaded your Replay LOL

I think I know why. You, or Marco, might not have the latest version of the track.
You can download the latest on our download section on the website

When I watch it every car looks normal, no differences.
Only thing I saw, was a funny melt of two cars without contact happening (one car drives half through another) at the last laps before the first right corner and after that before the left on the short straight, due to Illiano rejoned
the event in the last maybe ten laps and so his car was just visible as a wire-frame for the others (so he could drive through other cars without contact).

The car visible in the pics is also Illiano, who left the event, because of frustration and rejonied later, so that might cause it, but for me his 'two cars' look normal (one standing at the pit exit where he exit the event in lap 1, the other on track again at the last laps).

Andrea Lojelo wrote:I think I know why. You, or Marco, might not have the latest version of the track.
You can download the latest on our download section on the website

Che poi è quello che ho ipotizzato anche io, tipico inconveniente di quando manca la pista giusta. Io avevo effettivamente una versione precedente, ma anche mettendo l'ultima, appena scaricata, le auto del Replay sempre in cielo stanno ! LOL

English please .
Has anybody else that problem like Max C. has, when watching my replay-file ?

M Waechter wrote:English please .
Has anybody else that problem like Max C. has, when watching my replay-file ?

I didn't have the last version of laguna, but also with the new release i see always cars through the clouds LOL

Hmm no idea why this happenes, no errors on my PC, did you intall the latest update version "Hikki 1.30.1727" of NkPro published on this site, maybe you missed that ?
I downloaded also the replay to check, if there is an error in the uploaded file, but it works fine also.

Mi si è accesa la lampadina ed ho risolto, ma resta cmq una cosa non del tutto razionale. Dopo l'uscita dell'update ho fatto un'altra installazione di Netkar con 2 collegamenti ovviamente sul desktop che rimandano ai due exe differenti del gioco.

Per veder correttamente il Replay devo lanciare il gioco originale! Credo che questo succeda per la condivisione della cartella Documenti/Netkar/Replay. Se lancio la Versione Netkar con UpdateRSR e poi apro il replay si presenta il problema.

I resolved the mistery ! After the release of the update I did another installation of Netkar with 2 links on the desktop that refer to the 2 different .exe files .To see properly the replay I have to run the original game!I think this happens for the sharing of the folder under My Documents / Netkar / Replay. If i run the version with Netkar Update RSR and then open the replay it shows the problem agin.

I guess, just as a general note: you can't just change between the old version and the update by just running/linking to the different exe files, because the exe(s) [nks.exe and nkserver.exe] are not the only files that changed.. (there are the new dlls and other stuff also).

M Waechter wrote:I guess, just as a general note: you can't just change between the old version and the update by just running/linking to the different exe files, because the exe(s) [nks.exe and nkserver.exe] are not the only files that changed.. (there are the new dlls and other stuff also).

I have done 2 different installation in two different directories C:\netkar (original) e C:\ProgramFiles\netkar (rsr update) ;-) But Replay is the same folder for both the installations.

Max Caputi wrote:

M Waechter wrote:I guess, just as a general note: you can't just change between the old version and the update by just running/linking to the different exe files, because the exe(s) [nks.exe and nkserver.exe] are not the only files that changed.. (there are the new dlls and other stuff also).

I have done 2 different installation in two different directories C:\netkar (original) e C:\ProgramFiles\netkar (rsr update) ;-) But Replay is the same folder for both the installations.

Ok that's better, the my documents/nkpro folder is unfortunately always shared (don't know if this is 'healthy').
I've just two installations on two OS'es', one on WinXP and the other on Win7, so each installation has its own/separate folders under my documents.

Btw.: It looks like you missed out to use my car skin in the vid. (nice music btw. ), my car has only default skin in the video. But that's just because it wasn't included
in v1.0 of the skin-pack, maybe there will be an updated skin-pack soon.

M Waechter wrote:

Max Caputi wrote:

M Waechter wrote:I guess, just as a general note: you can't just change between the old version and the update by just running/linking to the different exe files, because the exe(s) [nks.exe and nkserver.exe] are not the only files that changed.. (there are the new dlls and other stuff also).

I have done 2 different installation in two different directories C:\netkar (original) e C:\ProgramFiles\netkar (rsr update) ;-) But Replay is the same folder for both the installations.

Ok that's better, the my documents/nkpro folder is unfortunately always shared (don't know if this is 'healthy').
I've just two installations on two OS'es', one on WinXP and the other on Win7, so each installation has its own/separate folders under my documents.

Btw.: It looks like you missed out to use my car skin in the vid. (nice music btw. ), my car has only default skin in the video. But that's just because it wasn't included
in v1.0 of the skin-pack, maybe there will be an updated skin-pack soon.

I could do the same having 2 OS (Vista 64 e Windows7 64 ), but for the moment i did so.
Your skins links don't work, i tried yet to download few days ago. The first one no page found and the second one file not found ;-)

Uploaded them again and edited my last posting with the links. Seems with no dl-use the uploaded content gets deleted after just a few days from their servers.

Some changes and addon . Longer than the other one

i started my new job at the back end of last week so had very little running time to prepare for this race. i wasnt very happy with the setup, which showed in quali. my PB of 1.29.8 put me in p5 which was a disappointment.

i guess one of my strengths is getting the max out of every car / setup and that showed in the race. p5 to p3 within the first couple of laps, which i then managed to hold till the end of the race. what a fantastic battle between luca and maarten, probably the battle of the year so far! congratulations to both.

redline now head both champs and we hope to keep it that way. im very happy with matt's performances aswell - youre doing a great job to say youre on your own mate!

see you @ sepang boys

Max Caputi wrote:

Some changes and addon . Longer than the other one

Well done Max.