[Pete Parisetti]

Kristian, mid 1:48s would place you at no. 2 in the RSR list of hotlaps (no. 1 is the fake RSR referencRe), on par with Bruno Fabiano, who notoriously breathes a mixture of liquid nitrogen and LSD. Congratulations to you.

http://www.radiators-champ.com/RSRLiveTi...riends=all

I also appreciate the suggestion to watch somebody doing hotlaps. Although I do on average 4 practice sessions of 30 minutes a day, I had never thought of that. I am sure it'll earn me those two seconds that are easily gained through "being smooth". 1:50 will place me at #15 of  the list above, there with fellow aliens, and I will be a happy man.

Yeah I had an absolutely incredible race with Bruno tonight, we battled for the entire 20 minutes, and I put in a 48.6xx in that session. Bruno is an awesome driver and top guy, seeing his times and knowing I could do it pushed me to improve. I've watched him a lot with the Miata and picked up some smoothness from it.

By the way, I thought RSR timing was deprecated? How are people still recording times there? I'd love to do the same.

I'll export my lap from the replay last night and send it to you, maybe it's useful!

Edit: Here is the last lap which was my fastest of that race https://streamable.com/jdyp2

Thank you very much Kristian. To tell you the truth, since I am a relatively newcomer, I did not recognize your name as a top racer and thought you were bullshitting me. Congratulations for real, then, hat off!

I was also trying to be ironic when talking about watching hot laps. As an ungufted but serious and passionate sim racer, I have watched a ton, and done a ton of comparative analysis on iracing. Nothing of all that has left me any wiser. The distance in performance with you guys remains incomprehensible.

Take your lap at Red Bull for instance. Except for first and last turn, where you cut into the apex a lot more than I do, our line is practically identical. Same braking pints, same turn in. So, I spent some time last night trying to cut as you do, and in effect gained almost a second. I never thought cutting so deep would be allowed, but evidently it is. This is truly enormous, but also minuscule if I think that there are two more seconds to gain. Two seconds at this level is an eternity. I am sure a few tenths can still be gained, but two seconds? It looks like you're driving a different car, one that looks like mine but behaves differently.

My failure to see, to understand where time is lost - let alone the capacity to replicate - is probably what keeps me in the slow league.

Thanks again.