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Archive for the ‘General Musings’ Category
GameVee.com loses my racing vids… (and then recovers them…)
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Unfortunately GameVee.com (the video hosting site I use for my iRacing videos) has relaunched as GotGame and it appears they haven’t ported their previous gaming videos over. Nice of them to tell us all!
Long and short of it is that all my previous hosted vids at GameVee have now ‘disappeared’ from my posts.
I use Vimeo & GameVee and I would have put money on Vimeo being the first to take my racing vids down, but what do I know!?
In the future I’ll have to use Youtube along with Vimeo…. lower quality, but hopefully more reliable.
EDIT (20/11) – And they’re back! Phew!! Must have been a server blip or something…
EDIT (01/03) – Aaaaand they’re gone…. for good. All of the posts prior to this will no longer have the videos embedded, so might look a bit odd. Oh well!
Learning VIR…
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 |
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Week 2 of the Skip Barber series has required me to make a concerted effort to learning VIR (the full layout). I have been looking forward to, and regretting this for some time!
I actually like this track though, it feels so natural, and about as far removed from a flat oval as you can possibly imagine. At over two minutes a lap it doesn’t get boring, and to be honest, there are only a few corners that require any serious care and attention…
That said, I am trying to improve my laptimes here as it’s lacking currently. The top reference times are mid 2:10′s and I am some ways off with mid 2:13′s. Abstracting out where I expect to be relative to the aliens I am looking at a personal best pace of around 2:12, so that is my focus and goal.
I don’t think I’ll get there this week, so hopefully next time around I’ll be able to shave off the tenths and see a 2:12…