OV9

Last night saw the inaugural event of the SMRC E Sports series. Our very own racing superstar [mention]Nefarious[/mention] took part in the PS4 round. Im up tonight on the Xbox round.

Registrations are open for round 2 now - https://www.smrc.co.uk/championships/es ... istration/

Heres Neils efforts from last nights live stream.

Quick look at that between meetings - I can see Nef doing quali, but is there a race?

mik wrote: Wed Apr 01, 2020 10:50 am Quick look at that between meetings - I can see Nef doing quali, but is there a race?

yes - right after the quali

Got it - race starts around 7min10s.

3rd not so shabby - although I guess he spent more time airborne than desired.

Is there anything that man can't do...

dinny_g wrote: Wed Apr 01, 2020 10:59 am Is there anything that man can't do...

jelly vibrators.

Kill himself on TV crossing the Baring Strait on a hovercraft?

mik wrote: Wed Apr 01, 2020 10:58 am Got it - race starts around 7min10s.

3rd not so shabby - although I guess he spent more time airborne than desired.

TBH, I was expecting to completely embarrass myself - I set the PS4/wheels/seat thing up in November, played a couple of times that first week, then got distracted by real life stuff (and the occasional bit of COD). Roll forward to about a week ago when they announced this Esports thing, I set it all up again and frantically practiced for 3-4 days, but knew I was still best part of a second adrift of the quick guys.

So I was pretty surprised when I managed to qualify 3rd!

With hindsight, if I'd been a bit more patient in the race, I did actually have the pace to bag 2nd (what's needed to qualify for the grand final). But I wasn't. Hey-ho. At least in esports your cock-ups don't come with a massive repair bill!

Oh, and I can and will re-do the jelly cake, but have to concede that the Bering Strait trip is looking extremely unlikely at this point

Forward to approx 2hrs15mins for the final race

Fuck bollocks and bastard all in one. Thought i had that. Had to lift to avoid a time penalty.

Coverage is a bit crap in that they don’t go back and review / comment on incidents. It’s easy to miss things.

Bloke that took you off appeared to think the apex for Duffus was about 25m before the corner....

Been meaning to get a proper set up for ages, maybe nows the time

Foz wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:28 am Been meaning to get a proper set up for ages, maybe nows the time

Im just playing on xbox with a logitech G920

Don’t have anything

I’ve ordered a rig - should be here soon.

Cool! But replace the triple screens with VR...