My first and LAST Legends Race!

[Troy Dalton]

I joined my first ever iRacing oval race last night. Rookie Legends at Lanier and if that was any indication of what oval racing is like...I'll pass. Erratic, over aggressive, and down right ridiculous driving. I had a guy turn down on me while we were on the straight! He hit me in the right rear, which caused me to lose control. I thought it was intentional at the time and after looking at the replay, my opinion hasn't changed.

I filed a protest today, but my SR took a thrashing and I even lost .04 SR pts on my road SR!

[Troy Dalton]

Nim took a look at my protest and said it wasn't intentional and just the result of inexperience. O.K., but that's why I'm done with the Rookie Legends. Maybe the Advanced Legends will be better, but I'm holding out for some Trucks.

[davidan]

My experience in the higher class Oval Races has been good. Very few cautions for the most part ... ... I think in the lower ranked races it's a crap shoot.

[vendsale]

I agree, the rookie races are really hit or miss. It gets a lot better.

[Troy Dalton]

Well...against my better judgment, I decided to give the ole Legends (Rookie) another chance. This race was much better, but I still got spun. At least this time the guy apologized. I started 8th and finished 4th. Considering that I spun and finished only ten seconds behind the leader, I consider that a pretty good run.

I must admit, last year when I tried the Legends for the first time, I hated it, but it's starting to grow on me. I like the Rookie Legends, because I don't have to fiddle fart around with setups, but the brake bias is diabolical and at a bandbox like Lanier, you don't want to touch the brakes even in the slightest.

One thing is for sure, there are a ton of noobs in the Legends cars and I'm not sure if I'll venture back out amongst them. I don't want to sound like a sim snob, but I really hate racing against noobies.

[Troy Dalton]

When will I ever learn...

I just couldn't keep away from the Legends car this week and I entered three races. I looped it while leading in one race, got punted by lapped traffic in another and ran an unofficial race all by my lonesome after the other two guys dropped out.

I'm developing a serious love hate relationship with that damn legends series.

[Nick Kershaw]

Did my first one last night at Boston. Ran a 18.167 in practice so thought i should be ok. Joined a race and Wow!



Somehow avoided a bunch of those, to be left leading when i got disconnected. Rejoined after restarting IE, and reeled off a few more laps, managed to put it in the wall going around another spinning car. After that my legend generally wanted to turn left on her own which would have been helpful but was also very prone to a bit of snap oversteer, so ended up looping it again before the end. Still got +.05 SR, mostly because my only other offical oval race was the crashfest Daytona 500 (1st one).

Also had a Rebecca in this race... first time i've seen that, voice chat appeared... Rebecca XXXXXX, either she has a really deep voice or it was a man, man.

Overall i quite enjoyed it, so I'll try again at some point.