purolator,
The more you race, the better you'll get and the less any one disconnection or crash will bother you.

I'd suggest getting LFS or iRacing where you can do decent casual/pick-up races during the week.

Best of luck!

Fantastic Race reports there! Hope to be back racing with you guys real soon

Sounds like a good race. Shame I couldn't make it.

And Chris is right. The more you race, the better you get. You do have to learn, especially when starting out, to race against yourself rather than anyone else on the track. I'm still trying to make my first goal of a whole race without any mistakes (I was so close at the Turkish GP, and in the end I was happy as I was putting out some good consistent PBs after my final pitstop). I don't really care where I finish when I do it, but if I can manage that I'll know I couldn't have gone any faster on that day. Then just take it from there.

Interesting you mention the almost-flip, Chip. As son as you said on TeamSpeak that you lost your splitter, I knew that was going to happen.

I had the same thing happen with an intact car. I was drafting a Corvette as we came over the hump, and my car got a lot lighter in the front than most laps. Nice modeling, and it caught me by surprise.

Purolator,

I think we've all had those @!#(&%^ you've got to be kidding me moments at SimHQ or other online races. For me it was the GP79 race at Silverstone, 80% damage where I crashed out of P3 with less than 5 minutes remaining. I sat in the car for a full minute after I had torn off a wheel and blown my engine trying to limp across the track to pit-in (so close it was right there) just thinking to myself "man, I simply can't believe that happened." It was a race for which I had practiced a lot and was confident driving my car.

But as others have said, that's racing - real and simulated. Shake it off, keep practicing, and we hope to see you back. And remember, even Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa don't see the red light all of the time.

Silverstone 2008 - First F1 win - stoked!
Silverstone 1979 - First F1 retirement on LAP 1 - gutted! For sure the biggest disappointment since I started sim-racing.

Must push on, what will Silverstone 1988 bring? Only one way to find out, join us purolater!

Guys, thanks for your support, but for the time being I really need to stay on hiatus. At least as long my attitude problem is not satisfactory solved.

The tantrum I threw when I was DQd at LeMans was unacceptable. If it comes to actually throwing things around and yelling like a madman, because a flawed online racing experience gets so badly under my skin, then something is wrong. Luckily my girl was not around.

Doesn't matter if I practised for weeks, if things go so badly wrong I need to keep my cool, and this wasn't the case at LeMans.

In smilies: = fine, = bad . And that is my major task at hand now, not my subpar driving.

Besides, when the Silverstone race is coming up on sunday (19:00 my time) I'll be here, I purchased the ticket weeks ago.

But it's a hiatus, and not a retirement. So one day I'll be back. Could be in winter, could be earlier.

Nothing wrong with throwing things around a little bit,you feel better immediately

Come on Puro dont go mate!

I admit I was a hot head when I first started last year. I would get proper pissed as I used to practice shed loads, but I really dont give a #%&*$# now really.

Get yourself back in that server!

Unfortunately I didn't feel better. I was appalled at myself after I changed back from being the Hulk.



You expressed it differently, but that's the state of mind I'd like to achieve. The faster I manage to develop that attitude, the faster I'll be back on the server.