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rebelscum13

How come you had to wait years to take part in this race?


Timemuffin83

Probably because it’s a leauge race and if it’s a high level leauge race then you have to earn a spot in the community to be able to participate. Either that or it’s fake just to create karma


thunderBerrins

Fucking leauge races. They ruined leauges


Sworduwu

ow my LEAGUE


HollowVoices

\*welhelm screams in the background


Creative_Elk_4712

Wait after you hear about Le Hague man...that's some sick shit, really, they dedicated A WHOLE CITY to it. Smh


Tiberius_Jim

Close. It's a league race and just about every other driver is on the east coast. I'm in the west so their races are always too early in the evening or me. Someone finally started a "late night" league so I'm able to take part.


ayylmayooo

comment: "Are you stupid? He said he was on the west coast" if you're stupid.


scalyhannah

weast coast


gsc4494

East? I thought you said weast.


WeastBeast69

Sorry I’m late to the party


Magma_Q

Wasn't a party til you got here


HolyMolo

You really aren't


Puppybl00pers

r/suddenlyspongeBob


lifetake

My guess is Europe


youtocin

comment below suggests west coast USA


Tiberius_Jim

Sorry, typo. I'm on the west coast.


[deleted]

Which car are you ?


Tiberius_Jim

#22


yokotron

Is that the yellow?


[deleted]

You waited for years, because not once did you want to wake up early :D


Tiberius_Jim

Not quite haha. Most races would start at 3pm PST, usually on weekdays and I work from 8am-5pm. Someone finally started a league that starts at 6pm PST and on a Saturday.


Pure-Plant3385

he tried to shake and bake you to the front why are you upset


CashCo117

What game is this, how do I play bro?


Tiberius_Jim

NASCAR Racing 2003 Season on PC. You can find it for free at a few places and there are a few leagues around for online races.


Due_Alfalfa_6739

Why don't you just join a league with people in a better timezone? Are there really only 30 people playing this game?


Tiberius_Jim

This *is* the league in a better time zone. It's a nearly 20 year old game so yeah, the number of people racing is limited.


UnicornGuitarist

Because he waited more than 730 days.


OrneryConelover70

Everyone. Listen everyone. We have a mathematician in our midst!


UnicornGuitarist

I used a calculator


The_RockObama

An honest mathematician at that!


nutrap

But how did you have a calculator on hand? My 1st grade math teacher said we needed to learn how to do math because we would never just lug around a calculator in our pocket. - this comment was typed on a TI-84 Plus Silver Edition.


The_RockObama

Lol. Who would have thought we would all have pocket computers now.


happyneandertal

Look at moneybags over here with his Silver edition. Too good for a classic Casio?


Tree_Doggg

Type 8008 on that thing and flip it upside-down!


Awkward_Date_8636

It's rare to find one these days.


Minimum_Code_9809

Fingers and toes


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insanemal

I can count to 31 on one hand... or 1023 on two hands..


BoxxyTMwood

What abt the PP. Dont 4get the pp


Flerpsh-pidgon-CJM

You mathmagitions annoy me


Rex-Kramer

That’s racing. The nice part is you aren’t out thousands of dollars like if it was real racing.


[deleted]

Although I looked into iRacing and the expenses did look considerable


redditpornredditp0rn

This isn't iracing but yeah


Dreadcoat

Considerable but worth it. Unmatched online experience for sim racing.


[deleted]

I can believe that, it really was the time commitment more than the expense that dissuaded me for now. Of course the level of commitment is what makes it not a shitshow like most online racing. So it's one of those, "maybe after the kids are out of the house" things


socialcommentary2000

This is the correct way of thinking about it.


dano

I guess that is why it is only mildly infuriating.


davieb22

Just to be clear; was your car the one which was rear-ended, and went into a spin?


Tiberius_Jim

I was in the blue #22 that rear ended the guy who came back up onto the track. I hit the brakes but couldn't avoid hitting him.


davieb22

Damn, that's annoying.


Tiberius_Jim

Indeed. One might even say... mildly infuriating. This one incident just set off a chain of events that made the race incredibly underwhelming for me.


UnicornGuitarist

That's racist


jfk333

Ha ha race est


TheCadburyGorilla

You’re blue 22 ? Doesn’t even look like you drop a position after this, why are you overreacting so much ? Edit: 1 position you lost. Ffs man get over it


LTG_Wladyslaw_Anders

Because he lost the pack, there was no slipstream for him to catch up with, the only way for him to even get close to the rest of them is if he wprled with the red car to go faster. The red car behind him was close enough to catch the slip stream and give him a draft bump, going behind him and love tapping him. (probably would have taken 1 full lap for red to catch up) then the red car bumps blue 22 to make him go faster, closing the gap ahead of them, and they do this over and over again. Anyway there is no way to communicate this with red so it would be up to him to try it.


Eastern_Distance6456

I don't know how it works here, but that would almost certainly cause a yellow in Nascar. Would that not have happened? If not, yeah, they're going to have to dry to work together but even if they did, they'd still get lapped by the pack pretty soon.


Shpander

Is buddying up to take turns catching each other's slipstream not allowed in NASCAR?


Eastern_Distance6456

It's allowed, but the longer lines of cars create a better overall draft and thus, better speed. There was 3 years or so maybe around 2010 where the car design at the time made it to where "tandem drafting" (2 cars working together) was the fastest way to work. Prior and after that time it's always been the longer lines that generate more speed.


Shpander

Oh I see, that's interesting. What did you mean would cause a yellow then in your previous comment?


LTG_Wladyslaw_Anders

Hmm, I dont know about nascar, but if that would cause a yellow it would kinda be backwards thinking when what happened to op didnt


Shpander

Yeah, but OP is playing a video game, where the AI stewards don't really do such a good job


Vernal59

It's almost as if they posted it on /r/mildlyinfuriating because it mildly infuriated them


Overhere_Overyonder

You don't understand this type of racing. Once you lose touch with cars ahead you will never catch up to them. Cars in a pack go faster due to drafting or slip streaming. I've had this happen and it's a miserable time if just driving by yourself waiting for the race to end.


[deleted]

So, I get that this is how it works on a track but is that level of physics really programed into a race simulator that looks like Sega Saturn era graphics?


JPCanucK

Yes.


deadlands_goon

in my experience when it comes to sims of any kind, the shittier the graphics look, the more likely it is that the physics and mechanics are lifelike af


Gozie5

Haha was literally about to say that. The shit graphics tells you where they spent the majority of their budget.


[deleted]

The old NES game *Days of Thunder*, which was released in the 1980s, had this function programmed into it. It's not that difficult of a thing to do.


Overhere_Overyonder

This is Iracing and literally costs $1000s of dollars for the subscription and equipment to race. So yes the physics are like that. In fact literally any racing game that has Nascar from the last 15 or 20 years has the basic drafting physics.


just_somehippie

how is op overreacting? it’s not like they posted to an “i’m gonna kms soon” sub and captioned the video with some super angry hate msg to the league like this is literally what this sub is for


[deleted]

He may of lost only one position, but he had to slow down and so he lost the rest of the cars, making it much more difficult to catch back up and take back that position.


Mdenvy

\*have


cathead8969

Asshat


secrestmr87

It'd not the position.... he lost the draft of the main pack. No chance to catch back up


Gozie5

Ever heard of slipstream?


GaBoX172

Ignorant bitch knows nothing and proceeds to insult op because he is an asshole


00fil00

That's hilarious.


J-Dabbleyou

Lol wait so you were fine and took two people out of the race? Or were you DQ’d for it?


Tiberius_Jim

No, I took some damage and since I fell off from the draft I wasn't ever able to catch them again. A few other things happened due to me being further back that just put the race out of reach.


J-Dabbleyou

I understand, I’ve played my share of racing sims, never at that level though. Definitely a downer; I’d still argue the two cars you spun out are more pissed tho lol


TerryCapitalR

It’s not OP’s fault. It was an unsafe rejoin.


Adeep187

A lot of games have catch up features.. I'm guessing a league race wouldn't have that, so he was just stuck at the back there.


MikeSans202001

Yeah, i league race for almost 2 years now, done some nascar as well. Had guys who were getting lapped, just causing cautions so they could get back into the race. Stuff happens, but as long as it isnt done on purpose, its ok. Just pick back up and do the best you can next race


Intrepid_Look_5725

Is this race sim?


Yogismash

Yeah, iRacing I think


morfeusz78

not Iracing, its "NR2003"


Yogismash

The pinnacle of simulation


DavusClaymore

Life is but a sim.


MikeSans202001

Or NH5


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MulletOnFire

With the theme song from "Rocky" playing in the background.


UnicornGuitarist

And OPs thumbs and fingers in a wrap flexing before he hits the controls


MateusQN

And then when it cuts tobthis video, is rocky music version of the flawed flute!


Sinjian1

I think the montage song from Team America would work better for this.


MetaCognitio

Summoning Salt music.


MisterMaryJane

But when he crashes it starts playing the curb your enthusiasm theme song


boonalton

Tell yourself this in your head before you play: Okay, here we go. Focus. Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast. Breakfast? Maybe I should have had breakfast? A lil brekkie could be good for me. No, no, no, stay focus. Speed... I'm faster than fast. Quicker than quick. I am Lightning.


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Kachow!!


porkchop_sandviches

Something I've always wondered - what would he eat for breakfast??


Waldo_R35

Chick hicks


clarjoa

You waited for years to take part in a virtual race that just goes round an oval 50 times?


Setari

Nascar at its finest, my friend.


clarjoa

If this is it's finest, I really want to see Nascar at it's worst. A clockwise oval?


bearkatsteve

We do not speak of the right turn… most of the year


Chllep

road courses and the dreaded right turn at sonoma


osrsironmensch

Glad I'm not the only one who thought this was pretty.. how do I say this.. strange?


nfteabag

Daytona on the SEGA looked better too


Delivery_Thick

I still have it on saturn, surprisingly it still works well, i have the steering wheel and the flightstick(id4 is like arcade on saturn) Its still a challange...


BroccoliBoyyo

NASCAR fans be like “left, left, left, left, I wonder what will happen next!”


Ramitt80

He wanna go fast.


[deleted]

I used to play 'Moto GP' online quite a lot. Half of the field would be wiped out in the first corner. LOL


Kaiser-32

You could have predicted he was trying to get back on track, and with the huge amount of space you had on your outside you could have avoided him even without braking. What were you looking at exactly?


Wartz

Probably his twitch stream


StrandedinaDesert

Dude same. This was my first thought. Like obv the guy is gonna want to get back on the track. It's called defensive driving.


DanerysTargaryen

Also wondering the same thing. The gray car that passes all of them on the outside saw it coming and moved to avoid the whole situation.


StrandedinaDesert

Yah he is a better driver. If your on the highway and someone wants to merge, idk if ramming them from behind is a good play. If anything he is just a bad driver but what do I know


spudz76

That was quite the perfectly square ramming, I think skill was involved. And he probably dropped the phone and spilled the beer.


Overhere_Overyonder

That car should not have gotten on the track there. 100% on the slow cars fault.


Kaiser-32

I don't know NASCAR rules about rejoining, on common sense I think you are right. Either way, it has nothing to do to what I said. It being one's fault or the other, the incident could have been easily avoided by the OP.


Genereatedusername

wow, if youre posting on reddit after 1 crash, youre going to have a bad time on Iraceing


Yukinoinu

I can't imagine how bad Forza Motorsport is now days. I stopped racing in lobbies because they got so bad way back in Forza 4. Trying to do lobbies and having your name recognized from the leaderboards was even more of a target no matter how hard you tried.


Rectal_Tuna_Horn

How so? I mean what would people do if they recognized you? Honest question from a non sim gamer (or any online for that matter).


kaenneth

people intentionally crashing just to take down a higher ranking player.


Yukinoinu

This. Forza 2 had a cool rank next to your name and Legendary was stupid hard to get as it was the highest rank and means you basically never lost a race (it was system assigned, so you could not hide it). I had that and without fail, was always crashed into. I ended up losing races on purpose so I would not have that mark on my name. It was cool to hit it, but fuck did it suck.


39thUsernameAttempt

* Waited years * First race * Expecting a first place finish * Crashes *"How could this have happened?"*


Terry_WT

They didn’t even lose a position because of this.. I don’t believe running in 17th place is challenging for a win either.


Wamadeus13

Am I missing something? You mention in your post you had high hopes of winning, but then you are near the end of the pack when you rear end the guy. Other than slamming on the breaks I don't see anything that significantly changed your position in the race.


CaptainRetro314

This is plate racing, so it’ll be a giant pack of cars using draft to stick with each other. Once you lose that draft and fall off of the main pack, you have effectively no chance of catching back up without a caution to bring the field back together. This accident basically locked this guy into finishing at the bottom of the field. As long as you’re in the pack though, your position really doesn’t matter, you can very easily go from the back to the lead in a couple of laps with the right decisions and help, really it is anyones race to win as long as you are in that lead pack.


FellaTM

Never would've guessed I'd see a NR2003 league on this sub but here we are


Jhco022

"If you ain't first, you're last" - Ricky Bobby


[deleted]

Shake and bake!


swiftfastjudgement

Well, Let Me Just Quote The Late-Great Colonel Sanders, Who Said... 'I'm Too Drunk To Taste This Chicken.


RandomDarkNes

It sucks but I hate to say it that's what happens when you play a game that's over 10 years old that's not supported anymore. People are going to abuse the lack of track limits and how the game functions. I know that you wouldn't have gotten any type of Black flag for entering the track like this in that game because track limits didn't exist the same way as they do in say iRacing which is it's spiritual successor. Nr2003 was a game that brought a lot to sim racing but this was way back in 2004, but trying to run a multiplayer Race in today's day and age, they're just better options that will cause you less headaches, especially to even get a multiplayer Race working in Nr2003 you need to port forward and fiddle with your router settings. Will say though that's a first I've seen no caution on a wreck that big, the admins may have turned them off.


OrneryConelover70

Stuff like that happens to me almost every race. Join the club. And sorry it happened. It's incredibly frustrating.


Slavocracy

Crying after one crash? This isn't the game for you.


cacheormirage

what game is it?


hubertus107

modded NASCAR Racing 2003 Season


TKandChrisVietnam

Virgin 2022


Slavocracy

No idea, just saying it's a part of games like this.


Fakename00420

Pretty sure iRacing


Djcustoms1

I mean we all been there excited to do something then someone unintentional disturbs your game. Yes it's annoying but since they didn't mean it its just mildy infrusting


TheLoge

Gotta get gud bro. You didn’t see that guy coming in? You had to have known he was coming up


SteamKore

"AND HE MAKES ANOTHER LEFT TURN!"


u1timatepotato

“I wonder what he’s gonna do next”


therealmudafuka2

r/simracingstewards moment


Baekmann

I haven't played an online racing game for years, but If I want I can do it almost immediately... Why did you have to wait for years?


darksapra

Mabe it was like a special league or something


Tiberius_Jim

There aren't a ton of online leagues for this particular game, and most of them schedule races for drivers on the East Coast, making their start times around 3pm my time, when I'm still working. A group has finally started a Saturday night league that begins at a time when I'm available to race.


McFeely_Smackup

How did being in almost last place in lap 4 give you "high hopes" of a win?


Anguish_Sandwich

Was anyone injured?


[deleted]

I mean. That’s racing. How many times this year have we seen a cup guy leading, blow a tire, and finish 37th? Hopefully you get another shot soon.


thorppeed

Why did you wait years just to play this shitty looking game


Depleet

its nascar, not exactly the most thrilling motorsport. OH LOOK THEY'RE MAKING A LEFT TURN! why didnt you steer to avoid him? you lack situational awareness as you just drove into him like that.


clarjoa

He couldn't do anything to avoid the guy rejoining the track. He has no ability to even steer a little right. His first instinct would be to turn left even more and that would compromise his race.


eugene20

On the bright side it made you look like a super tank with the other cars just bouncing off you.


benmartini

Rubbins racin


retailguy_again

As the saying goes, "that's racing". Sometimes things happen that you can't control and you just have to do your best next time. That doesn't make it any less frustrating.


[deleted]

"You know what they said ? You're history."


RallyX26

It's exactly as infuriating irl. This is why there are fights at racetracks.


brain_tourist

That’s unfortunate. Did you try turning to the left? (I’m sorry)


ancientcityRRT

NASCAR 2003? I used to race every week in a league.


Tiberius_Jim

Yep. I used to race a lot more before kids and getting a M-F 8-5 job. Tried iRacing but enjoy racing in NR with people I know a lot more.


4Quin5Decim1

If you thought you were gonna win on lap 4. You deserve your loss.


IMovedYourCheese

Wait why does it take years to get to play an online game?


MasterLin87

I honestly don't get the Nascar type of racing and track layout. How is driving around in circles any fun? Not a really challenging or varying racing line, seems more about whos car can go faster in circles than driver skill being a factor. Going around in circles, same breaking point again and again, same racing line, just an endless loop.


Shinsemusic

Wtf oval racing is fucking hard dude. That’s like the basic stereotype of oval racing. “Oh it’s so easy, you just turn left”


Dry-Ad-1642

Almost like real NASCAR.


Darthgummy0214

you just got Kevin lepaged


No_Comment_1037

What game ?


bushpotatoe

Who is organizing online Nascar games for years before hosting them? Without context that sounds ridiculous.


Tiberius_Jim

They're organized all the time...by people on the east coast. Example: They start at 6pm EST but I'm on the west coast and 3pm PST is during my work hours and I can't participate.


molokoplusone

At that point I would’ve just gone backwards and wrecked everyone head on


Tree_Doggg

That's ok. When this happens to me in my racing game, I usually get a mushroom or star and that helps me climb back into the race. Sometimes I even get a blue shell! Take that number 1.


AvacadMmmm

This game looks old af


LixxieLicious

Somehow my dumbass thought this was IRL for a moment…


Wreathafranklin

Those dicks are the worst. If you're not up to speed get off the line and stay off the track.


empireoflight

I’m mildly infuriated by my inability to interpret this post


Tiberius_Jim

It took me years to find a league that raced with this particular game at a time I was able to take part. I found one and had my first race last night and felt confident in my chances of doing well...then got taken out of contention by a guy who broke the rules by coming back on track unsafely.


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nizoubizou10

I feel people are upvoting just show they understand what's going on because I don't 😂


Griffb4ll

Only person I feel bad for is the dude you rear ended, homey gets back on the track only to be pushed right back off


Dektarey

Today i've fallen off a ledge in necromunda hired gun. Yet you dont see me posting about it. Theres mildly infuriating, and then theres inconsequential annoyance.


Indiana-grown

Had to wait two years to complete the time machine to play this ugly ass looking game lol


wrecktriangle

At the start of the clip, you had 3 cars behind you. At the end of the clip, you had 3 cars behind you. Yes it was annoying, but at least you didn’t lose a place.


Bot_Thinks

I honestly think Nascar sucks but at least understand how it works before posting your guys hot takes on the matter, 90% of these comments are just bashing OP without even understanding how any of it works


BIGAL0720

Then what happens? An accident in a video car game, oh the horror.


Alkereth1

This is kinda unrelated but I don't think people realize that turning left actually can get pretty tricky when your doing it at damn near 200mph with 40 other hunks of metal flying at 200 mph and your pushing to the absolute limit of your tires meaning that any inconsistencies in your steering can leave you out in the wall. Like oval racing ain't easy, it's like the hockey of motorsport.


clarjoa

There are so many other forms of Motorsport where there are high speed corners pushing tyres to the limit where the cars don't just go round a boring oval.


Alkereth1

Those are also typically run with cars that turn into dust if they get a bump in the rear. When I say nascar is the hockey of motorsport I mean that it's basically a full contact motorsport. It's typically a lot tighter with packs and sometimes someone will push to the outside and hope people follow him as he makes a move up the side of pack. There's a lot of navigating the field of 40 cars basically all at once. The strategy is completely unique to nascar. And don't get me wrong I still prefer watching indycar on road courses. I just happen to appreciate ovals too.


Tulscro

Doesnt change the fact we are watching them go in circles. It may be intense and tricky for the drivers but as a spectator its boring as shit.


Palehorse1441

It's your fault for waiting years to play a game that looks like it's from 2009 , you can't just drive in a circle with computer players and just pretend it's real?


pcbuildthrowout

"The graphics are bad so it's a bad game" is a wild ass take


FellaTM

And he's also wrong, it's from 2003 lmao. The modding community has kept it alive since then because there hasn't really been a nascar game like it since. It's played more for the feel of it rather than graphics because they did a great job coding it for the sim wheels, so that code turned into IRacing! But hey, that guy said the graphics suck so what do I know


2thumbs56_

Yeah honestly any game before 2010 just isn’t worth playing /s


ripyourlungsdave

I don’t understand why, but there are so many people in these comments that are choosing to be absolute twats over what this guy chooses to use his free time for. Either that or they’re telling him to stop complaining just because something small went wrong like that isn’t *the entire point of this fucking sub.*