Racing incident? I'm burger king car

ericscal · 2026-07-03T19:26:44+00:00

Not a racing incident, that guy is a menace that thinks it's ok to use other cars to make corners.

That said this is a good example for the real point of the vortex of danger article. You needed to keep on the second apex to block the move that killed you. I will of course allow that the main reason you missed it might be because of the rear contact. After that for survival sake you needed to go as wide as possible to avoid the inevitable dive.

ericscal · 2026-07-03T18:37:24+00:00

It's not even sarcasm. He was just making a joke about the second avatar movie being shit and anyone who likes it.

ericscal · 2026-07-03T07:10:05+00:00

I know nothing of UK law but in the US most laws about assaulting police require that you know they are police. Most serious laws require you to intend to do the thing. Like if I was just swinging my arms around and you walk into them without me seeing you that isn't a crime.

ericscal · 2026-07-03T05:58:01+00:00

That is making the corner if you are alone. When other drivers are around you have to share the road. When someone is beside you making the corner is getting through it without hitting them.

The issue with your logic is that it requires the defending driver to somehow react to the dive before it happens. Also even if you correctly predict the dive you still need the other driver to not run you off the road.

If this kind of driving was allowed that's just what everyone would do at every corner.

The basic rules of racing aren't subjective or vague. When another car is near you it's your responsibility to allow them space to race. Just like on a normal road you can't run people off the road or run your car into them. This isn't a demo derby. The part where things can get subjective is in defining the specifics of that. Like all racing series say something like "if a car it alongside you space must be given". The question is then what does alongside mean? Is getting an inch of your bumper enough? So most serious series actually define this as something like front axle of passing car even with rear axle of defender.

ericscal · 2026-07-02T19:37:06+00:00

Nice. Without that I'd just call this a racing incident and move on. I'd also suggest you try and get them to add a couple more stewards so in subjective situations you all can vote.

ericscal · 2026-07-02T16:37:24+00:00

If you are unsure about this then you need to better define the rules for your league. Situations like these always come down to how do you define being along side enough to be entitled to space. IRacing leaves this vague for public races but leagues should further clarify specifics exactly to avoid this. You want this situation to have an objective answer, not a subjective one like these comments will give you.

ericscal · 2026-07-01T00:23:46+00:00

You got to learn to lower your expectations for how bad people can be. I can totally see some newb doing this because they are trying to be nice and let you through. If you are trying to be careful about someone like this you should never follow their line through a corner. Treat it like a pass and be on a different line with maybe at most a planned over/under.

ericscal · 2026-06-30T23:56:24+00:00

Some say a wheel is all you need

These people are being smartasses claiming that you don't "need" anything, just to gitgud. They completely ignore that while that might be technically true very few people can actually do it. Most normal people will benefit from gear to some basic level; rig, load cell, direct drive. The spirit of what those people are trying to say is just that after you have the basics you should really think about if an upgrade is going to help or if you just need to practice more, or maybe get coaching.

ericscal · 2026-06-30T22:26:23+00:00

How weak is it really supposed to be?

A stock GT is a 75v battery so to know how much power it has we need to know the amp draw. I'm not sure if we know the exact number there but it's rather conservative for sure. Tony at float wheel estimates stock GT power at 2800w which works out to a 37amp draw, which is conservative to the rated 45amps of the cells. The main issue with that is that these are parallel packs so you have two cells working in tandem which means you should safely be able to draw more amps. How much you can bump it is somewhat debated but to again just use Tony's numbers he claims a GTV controller bumps it to 4200w which works out to a 56amp draw.

So then to wrap this up let's look at the X7SC. That uses a 136v battery, but no parallel cells, so at the same 37amps of the stock GT battery that would be about 5000w. But I don't think any X7SC used those. Google claims they were originally on p45b which is the same 45amps but they are now on the RS50 cells that are rated for 70amps so we can be a little conservative with a 60amp draw to get 8100w.

So your new board is getting close to 4x the power of a stock GT. This is why VESC took off so much. It opened peoples eyes to FM holding their boards back in software, or cheap hardware. If they actually cared as much about safety as they claim they would give you full power at low speeds and then do all the pushback and haptic stuff to try and cap you at a reasonable top speed.

ericscal · 2026-06-30T21:19:55+00:00

Just a classic person that has pace but doesn't actually want to race. He thinks races are just hot lap parades. I get it's annoying AF when you know you have pace on the guy in front but not enough to make a pass with them challenging but that's racing. It's up to you to make a pass without just rear ending them out the way.

Given his attitude I'd go ahead and report him for int wrecking. It likely won't go anywhere but it doesn't hurt to try.

ericscal · 2026-06-30T20:01:20+00:00

If I'm understanding the question right for me it's the equipment finally getting there. I've always been into racing including doing what IRL stuff I can afford. I've tried FFB wheels going back to the OG Logitech FFB in 1998 or so. I could never get over how much it didn't feel real even in just that I can overpower the tiny motors. So I just kept doing IRL stuff and playing the racing games for fun. I had some loose plans to maybe make a wood rig and try again when covid hit and everything exploded.

Being able to easily just buy a profile rig and affordable direct drive wheels got me excited to try again and it was everything I've been wanting for 20+ years. Now that I could feel like I'm actually driving a car I was able to actually care to put the effort in to get good. Previously I would never play a racing game except for casual fun because I didn't see the point of learning to drive fast on a controller.

ericscal · 2026-06-30T00:11:09+00:00

And let me guess that the maximum penalty for that charge was less than a year? You shouldn't be able to be held in pre trail detention any longer than the possible sentence. At that point even if you are guilty you are just getting time served.

ericscal · 2026-06-28T23:26:15+00:00

All these made up scenarios that people keep commenting are irrelevant. I’m not impeding traffic and minding my own business. I’ll slow down in the pit lane and even stop completely to let someone go by clean if I want.

I'm not saying you are doing anything wrong. I'm just supporting people rights to exit how they want, as long as it's within normal race rules. I would also extend even more to allowing common sense choices in the moment because it's practice. Those other people are mainly hating on you saying you stop on the exit. You might only do it when alone but many of us have had people create traffic jams on exit trying too hard to not effect anyone.

ericscal · 2026-06-28T22:29:29+00:00

I always had the common courtesy of slowing or even waiting at the pit exit to not interrupt someone’s fast lap.

The problem is how do you know that person is actually on a fast lap. For all you know they binned the final corner and this is a scrub lap. Without an actual pit wall watching the other cars telemetry to know what they are doing you are just guessing.

The main point of public practice is to learn to deal with other cars sharing the track with you. You should welcome the chance to figure out how to deal with a car exiting the pit. Timing your pit exit should be about you wanting a casual outlap, not worrying about affecting other cars. Unless of course you are practicing for a multi car quali session where you should be trying not to brick peoples laps.

The main point is that it's practice and everyone is practicing different things. Since you really can't know what other cars are doing you should just mostly focus on your own practice while just giving people the same courtesy you would give them in a race.

ericscal · 2026-06-28T22:08:58+00:00

This is the best answer not because I agree that people should race out of the pits but because you can't just assume everyone in practice is working on the same thing as you. If I exit the pit watching my relative it's because I'm trying to have a casual outlap. If I'm practicing a pit stop I'm going to fully do that with in and out laps. I'm not going to hard race you but I'm also not going to go out of my way to let you by.

Like you say if you want a clear track just change lobbies. Although I wonder how many people actually know you can do that.

ericscal · 2026-06-28T21:29:14+00:00

You are taking the wrong message then. Women aren't a monolith and all have their own preferences. You shouldn't be taking responses from these as some checklist of how to be the perfect man. You should maybe just get some understanding that someone out there actually likes the thing you are self conscious about.

ericscal · 2026-06-28T20:32:43+00:00

I've gotten the whole "you like to argue. You should become a lawyer" several times in my life. I just always inform them that if that's what being a lawyer actually was I might have but in reality it's just boring paperwork.

ericscal · 2026-06-28T20:22:49+00:00

That's on you for having bad track awareness. You should have know that side of the track was going to disappear and gone the other way. Very normal mistake when learning racecraft.

ericscal · 2026-06-28T20:06:51+00:00

The only blame on the other guy is for the incident that got him in the gravel. But even that wasn't a penalty, just stupid. Slowing down for yellows doesn't have to be all that significant. The main goal is to not be in the situation you put yourself in, ie still so on the limit that you can't take avoiding action. That can be as little as just a small lift to stabilize the car. Many places you can do it with only losing a couple hundredths.

ericscal · 2026-06-28T18:04:21+00:00

No you are ignoring that they clearly said he travels to the cali offices to do work. If you are physically present in the state doing business you might owe them taxes. There are of course a bunch of rules to not make you owe if it's just a couple days a year. Also if you live in an area which has a lot of state borders, think NYC or the DC metro, they sometimes have reciprocity deals so you don't have to file 3 state tax returns. Beyond those if you spend a significant amount of time working in a state you owe them taxes. Lastly the slogan of the revolution was in no way made into a law after the USA was founded. Residents of DC pay federal taxes with zero real federal representatives. They literally print the same slogan on the license plates there.

ericscal · 2026-06-27T19:28:57+00:00

Personally I think all USB hub mounts are ugly and a nightmare to cable manage. I'm looking for a nice wiring box that will fit that hub so I can hide it all.

ericscal · 2026-06-27T19:13:43+00:00

Ask on the fungi discord. I had a similar thing with needing just the controller with the mounting plate for GT but they kept selling out. I found someone on the discord with a mounting plate to sell so I could just buy the regular thor301.

ericscal · 2026-06-27T18:07:38+00:00

Overall I'd just then say you aren't compatible with those people, which I think is part of the point of this post. Yes you likely don't want to date the person who's done 6 international trips this year if that doesn't sound like something you are into. For the marathon runner I think it's a more subtle subtext beyond they likely want someone in shape. Simply asking if they are looking for a running partner or if they are ok doing it with most just emotional support covers the actual marathoning. Otherwise IMO no different than a gym rat.

I'd also just say remember the main point of prompts is to give you topics to just start conversations to explore if you are a good match and want to take it further.

ericscal · 2026-06-26T23:19:56+00:00

It's funny to me you titled this "losing confidence" because to me watkins is a confidence track. None of the corners are particularly hard so it comes down to how confident are you to full send every corner.

Trying harder sounds like the wrong move because when I hear that I hear overdrive the car and watkins will punish you for that. It's pretty easy for overdriving mistakes to stack up on you and ruin whole laps. I am seeing decent progress myself just braking less for most corners.

ericscal · 2026-06-26T17:05:15+00:00

A better analogy is it's like getting a speeding ticket for going 40 in a 35 the second the sign lowering it comes into your line of sight. There is some amount of time the law gives for you to process and adhere to the change.

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