Assetto Corsa | I’m Here to FIGHT! LFM Mazda MX-5 @ Interlagos

[@Ben_LaBroca]

Wowza that slipstream was quite something - almost like having DRS! Great pack racing there and AC looking majestic as ever. Some great overtakes in there Chris!

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Yeah! The particular highlight was me slipstreaming someone to pass them on the start straight, them tucking in behind me and slipstreaming me right back before we made it to T1 🤣 classic Mazda shenanigans

[@bustab8649]

Great race Chris and a good result. It was a nice clean race from all the other drivers too, making a great race to watch.

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thank you, yeah it was brilliant. A few questionable collisions elsewhere, but the drivers I raced alongside were all excellent 😃

[@timbrown4928]

Yes, Chris, yes! Well earned! Great drive! On a no-F1-race weekend this is what I needed! Keep it up!

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Excellent, glad to be of service! Cheers for watching mate 😃

[@doodlebeanz5634]

What a race Chris! Put a smile on my face that finish did 👍🏻

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Nice one, glad I wasn’t the only one grinning at the end of this one!

[@ashwinnat666]

Oof! I think you've outdone yourself with both the racecraft and commentary with this video. What a great finish. It's very tempting to go for a psychotic divebomb in the last turn, but you managed to keep it clean and fair. Great job!

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thank you, yeah it definitely felt like it was one of the most exciting races I’ve done… both driving, and video-making. Thanks for watching, and I’m glad you enjoyed it 😃

[@mso9319]

OMG! I was in that race! I am Marc "Padre"! I, like you, always try to race clean and it resulted in a brief by intersting battle with you. Fortunately I didn't realize it was you since I play in VR and tend to disable all on screen widgets. I say fortunately because I would have gotten nervous otherwise! I've been following your races for some time now. I love your narration style and the fact that you cut off the uninteresting parts. I am sure it takes a lot of work to record and edit this kind of videos but some of us surely enjoy them. Keep up with the good work! You made my day today featuring me in that race. You even showed a replay of my f**k up when trying to shift down and enter the left hander: I use a clutch and an H pattern shifter and apparently forgot how to use them for a brief moment: kind of confused the clutch with the brake and relased the clutch suddenly when the revs had gone down too much causing the car to spin. Very nice race indeed. See you on track!

[@awakeandwatching953]

yeah the ease of use with AC and VR is the nain reason i still main AC LFM.. unfortunately doing the 296 series has resulted in killing my SR.. should probably grind some back in the mx 5 but with my limited time i really enjoy the 296 which often feels more like a lmp2 than a gt3.. seems way faster than the 296 from acc that its imported from

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Nice to meet you Marc, thanks for watching and it’s great to finally get a battle out on track! Yeah that was a wonderful spin at the end of the straight! But I imagine very easily done with an H shifter. Apologies if I pronounced your name wrong… as you’ve watched the channel a while, you’ll know name pronunciation isn’t my strong point 🤣 cracking racing though, I’ll keep an eye out for you on future grids 👍

[@mso9319]

@@chrisrogerssimracing Your pronunciation is good enough, mate. I added the quotation marks because it's not my real surname.

[@raggiezockt]

Wth man, what a race. By far your best race. The tension I could feel it😅. That was an absolute banger. And this photofinishing absolute first class. Well done Chris 😊

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thank you, yeah I can’t think of many better performances than in this one. I’ve had a few race wins this year, but I think I worked harder in this one than in any of those! Cheers 😃

[@Alan-mb8zy]

What a race that was. Exciting from start to finish and brilliant commentary too. Great P6 finish 👏

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Cheers Alan, thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed it 😃

[@nocommentaryjustgaming]

This was a wacky race Chris!! From start to the very end, you really got your hands full. Attack and defend...and attack a little more and then defend a bit more, awesome race to watch brother!! Great display of skills, thanks for the share!! 😉🙂

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thank you, yeah there was definitely to time for a rest in this one!

[@meawayfromhome]

Nice work Chris, you don’t know how much I was cheering you on at the end.

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Haha thank you mate! It was a fitting end to a cracking race!

[@simonoregan4744]

Thanks mate. Always a pleasure watching your races. Been so busy with other sims I didn't get around to this race this week. You've now changed my mind. Guess what I'm going to be doing today 🤣🤣🤣

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Haha my pleasure! Funnily enough, I was exactly the same and hadn’t planned to race AC this week, but then I also saw a video of this combo on the Flying Scotsman’s KZbin channel and thought it looked like a cracker. Good luck, hope you find a good grid too 🤞

[@gabrielmora8403]

Woah that was amazing from all sides! Your car control and awareness is top level, I wouldve been having lunch with Barry R nearly the entire race lol

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Haha thanks mate. I’m not always this much in control 🤣 but it was definitely one of my best days. Cheers

[@MikeSerafin]

What a great race! I just got started with LFM and the Mazda Cup and Interlagos is one of my favorite circuits. This race was exciting to the very end!

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Yeah this was a surprisingly brilliant combo! It’s made me keen to try Oschersleben this week. Good to hear you’ve started up on LFM, enjoy it 😃

[@paoloambrosio]

Great race, Chris! That drag race to the finish line was a nail-biter!

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thanks Paolo, yeah I think that’s the first time I’ve ever won a drag race like that! Usually I come up 0.001 short, but finally it worked. That finish line is a looooooong way down the straight 😃

[@nieko3038]

That was entertaining. Rooted for you to get p5. That last tow was exiting to watch. P6 still a good run. Nice one.

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Haha yeah, if only the pair of had stayed a bit closer together on that last lap, P5 could have been very possible!

[@Walt1119]

Absolute cracking race there Chris!!! Congrat on ur finish and thanks for sharing w us!!!!

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thanks Walt. It was third time lucky… the two before it were disasters!

[@ericjack3218]

Wow, what a great race! I saw a couple questionable incidents elsewhere, but at least your race was clean! Interlagos didn't seem like an ideal track for MX5s, but it worked out well with lots of positions back and forth. Lots of excitement, even with the long stretches of flat-out throttle.

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Yeah, I’m not normally a fan of a combo that relies so heavily on slipstreaming, but I have to admit it made this one even more dramatic. And of course, it set up my grandstand finish!

[@dannyhudson7675]

mazda racing on lfm is just brilliant it really is . i love racing on it

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Yeah, when it’s good, there’s not a better series on any sim.

[@robhollomby7617]

Great clean race Chris, brilliant to watch 👍👍

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thank you Rob, glad you enjoyed watching 😃

[@davidontherailroad]

Bloody hell! That was epic. What a finish!

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Cheers David, yeah the ending was befitting of the race! A definite classic! Cheers

[@gctsimracing2258]

Wow! Fantastic race, Chris. Congratulations.

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thanks mate, yeah it was a blast. Cheers for tuning in 😃

[@kevinkane2843]

Brilliant, you earned that coffee!

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thank you Kevin, yeah that’s for sure! Cheers mate

[@TugboatTony]

Best race I've seen in a while. Great job.

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thank you mate, glad you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed racing it! Cheers

[@mr12thletter]

Showed some real sisu there! Great race! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Cheers man, yeah definitely one of my better showings!

[@iankaranja7765]

Absolute banger of a race.

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Cheers, yeah wasn’t it just! Best one I’ve had in a long long time! Cheers for watching 😃

[@grahamdennis2810]

What a race congrats Chris 👍👍👍👍🎸🎸🎸

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thank you Graham!

[@TheFlying-Scotsman]

Cracking race, really enjoyed that one. I see you've started using the CMRT hud as well.

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Yeah I’m glad I went back to give it one more try (the two I did earlier in the day were… not good!) Loving the CMRT too. I don’t like the faff of running browser overlays, so it’s great in AC that you can configure it in-game without having run separate tabs open.

[@pryere]

Hats off, what a belter.

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thank you mate, yeah it sure was. Cheers for watching, much appreciated

[@BeardedRacing]

That was a great watch Chris

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it 😃

[@lewisgordon1490]

4:10 if you shifted your line to the left, then followed Adriano as he made the pass, on the inside (right) you could have gotten a more late apex drive, then had a chance to pass Marc on the inside entering the next corner. 5:40 if you had hesitated on the throttle ~1/10 of a sec, you would better be able to take advantage of the draft (as is you would have to move to the right like you did or let off the gas), move to his inside then pass going into T1. If he saw that coming and defended more, you could have started the pass on the right but hold him at the far left to compromise his entry, then swerved to the right just b4 breaking, hold the line on the outside, get a better drive out of that right and if not yet passed, pass going into the next left. This would require trusting him making the apex or hope he outbreaks himself, notice that and quickly make the right response (let him by then dive for the apex.) Both of those moves are pretty advanced to get the timing and positioning just right. The ones I've seen able to pull stuff like that off usually had an iRating of at least 5K on iRacing.

[@lewisgordon1490]

Lesson on the expert bluff pass. Search: "Ricardo being the dummy move master at monza" By Yelistener

[@timwebber3676]

That was great Chris well done😊

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thank you Tim, yeah it was one of the best ones I’ve had! Cheers for watching

[@rexblackstream]

congratulations, cracking race!!

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thank you, yeah they don’t come much better than this one 😃

[@stormforce9521]

Fantastic racing and a brilliant exciting finish, timed perfectly. 👏

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thank you Tony… I’ve tried that move several times before at a finish and always fall ever so slightly short. So it was incredibly satisfying to finally pull it off. I’m grateful the finish line is such a long way down the straight at Interlagos!

[@davidmoscrop3021]

Wow, fantastic race and finish!!

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Yeah, the ending was definitely befitting of the race! So much fun 😃 cheers

[@studio9guy]

Well done, Chris. Great finish!

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Cheers Dave, definitely one of my best all-round performances. Thanks mate

[@kevinstevens3429]

Mann, take that coffee with no sugar, great race Chris!! Lol😂

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Haha I certainly will! Cheers Kevin, thanks for watching 😃

[@sillymonkE73]

Daaang! Nice drive mate.

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Cheers, yeah loved this one. One of my favourites of the year, definitely.

[@EhPlusSimRacing]

Nice driving! Got that p6 right at the finish line!!

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Closest finish I’ve ever had! And I think it’s the only time I’ve actually won a drag race to the line! Cheers man

[@williamkaufman401]

Awesome driving , you are doin better

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thank you, yeah I definitely feel like I’ve made great progress these past few months. Cheers for watching 😃

[@VirtualVroom1]

Great commentary!

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thank you. Even louder than usual for this one 😵‍💫📢

[@Glutzie]

Great vid. Nice announcing

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Cheers man, glad you enjoyed watching 😃

[@lowfastracing]

Your racecraft is became better and better, and the MX5 Cup is the best car in simracing to improve it.

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Cheers, yeah it certainly felt like I had the confidence and ability to be way more assertive and attacking here. Loved it!

[@TNSAOD]

Great racing!

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Cheers mate, yeah it was a belter!

[@nicko5237]

Nice finish!

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thank you mate! Cheers for watching 😃

[@sssss4644]

This lfm mx5 either gives the best races or the worst, never in between 😅

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Haha very true! I did the race before this one too, and that very much fell into the ‘worst’ category 🤣

[@sympl357]

These MX-5 races are always so intense!! Good fighting, Chris. Always a joy to watch! Btw, how did you get the proximity radar and the mirror for AC?

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thank you mate. The HUD is a new app for AC called CMRT. The relative board, tyres, radar and delta bar below the mirror are all in the CRMT app. You can move and rescale them, so I just positioned the delta bar right below the standard in-game virtual mirror 👍

[@iankaranja7765]

Radar is from CMRT app and virtual mirror can be enabled in settings under CM -> Settings -> Assetto Corsa -> View & UI -> Show Virtual mirror

[@lowfastracing]

​@@iankaranja7765or just press F11 :)

[@gdude66]

Nice race Chris - I have had varying luck with some other dreadful drivers in Split1. Some people cant accept they are too slow and drive straight through you. It is very frustrating. Lost 2 SR and 100 ELO in 4 races from people hitting me from behind. What times do you race GMT - I wouldn't mind having an LFM race with you. You race very fairly which is great.

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

I encountered the same mate. I did 2 races before this one, both top split, and they were really bad. I got taken out in both with people driving right through me. Then, I came back to give it another try, dropped down into Split 2 and it was so much better. My race times are pretty random, but often it will the 4.20pm or 6.20pm (UK time) races on a weekday. If I’m home at the weekend, then lunchtime or early afternoon on a Saturday 👍

[@vikingpsg]

Nice race although you still have a tendency to give too much consideration to drivers that are fully behind you. It's their responsibility to avoid you not the other way around. If they don't have a reasonable overlap then you should concentrate more on your entry, apex and exit. On this track exits are far more important as their are some long fast runs out of some of the bends and if you don't get a good exit then your just throwing away lap time. Really good to see the continued improvement in racecraft though. Keep it up dude. 👍

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thank you man, much appreciated. Yeah I know sometimes I leave more space than I need to, but for this one, it was purely about self preservation. The two previous races I did of this combo, I was taken out by impatient people behind driving through me. So I was mindful of it when it came to this third attempt. To be fair, I could have trusted them all in this one, as they all seemed like fair and decent racers 😃

[@agostonmihaly4]

Wonderfull racing my friend, was wondering what hud mods are you using?

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Thank you! The hud is a new one called CMRT and I really like it. You can move it around easily, scale it. Much better than the default.

[@agostonmihaly4]

​@chrisrogerssimracing cheers mate, will try it out

[@TheSimRacingGuyOfficial]

What recording software do you use

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

Just the basic GeForce Experience that comes with Nvidia. Nothing too advanced!

[@firstjayjay]

❤️❤️👀👀😘❤️❤️🏁🏁

[@chrisrogerssimracing]

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