Discuss your first time racing with NoDo

There should be a "I lost my NoDo-virginity"-thread, for people to talk about their first experiences with the crew

I remember my first races with nodo. Felt like I was driving a Fieldmaster disguised as an Entity , maybe I'll dig the post I made about that up And we hijack this thread hahaha.
Edit: nodo.freeforums.net/thread/2039/understatement-year-award-goes
Jackimo was right about not using my suggestion for the title though

I wonder how often that mistake will happen. It's @ jackimo1999. I haven't posted about my first experience racing with NoDo but I distinctly remember giving up halfway through the playlist and going to bed. This was after being lapped on almost every race. 

My first experience after joining was when some Nodo's joined a lobby I was hosting with randoms and and we had some good races.

I got on the 2nd half of a daily playlist and realised how good some(most) of the members are.
It was DNF after DNF but I enjoyed it , although being in the pack was making me a bit nervous and probably slowing me down.

As the playlists have progressed my goal was to finish the majority of the races and I've pretty much achieved that.
My next goal has been to finish in the top half and cross the line before the countdown begin which I've managed a couple of times at least now.

When I reached these goals I couldn't help mentioning it on Teamspeak and the response has always been congratulatory. I sense no elitism whatsoever.


I'm feeling more comfortable in the pack now and hope my driving keeps improving. I think it will be a long time before I ever win a race (if ever). Middle age dulls the reactions or mine anyway, but I don't really care. I just enjoy the racing 

The first race I did with Nodo was a playlist hosted by katenhond2010 - I felt like a mentally challenged kid playing football with a team of professionals as part of a "dreams come true" charity. ChrisDE22 won every single race and everyone else destroyed me handily, I was scared.

Fast forward nine months and I just lapped katenhond2010 's ass in an endurance race

Proof that racing in Nodo helps. But I still feel like the retarded kid most of the time.

Few hours ago, I believe it was at a custom Rebel Radio circuit that took place at Sandy Shores, went on highways and all that. I jumped in my Osiris and was the worst time, after finding out that it wasn't fully upgraded. I earned the money from a NoDo 16 race playlist (everyone left after 10 or so) and got enough to buy out all the mechanical upgrades.


Some other NoDo members hosted those huge supercar ramp races which were a pain, because I suck at supercar stunting.

After the Rebel Radio circuit came some other one, forgot the name, but I was eating and forgot to choose a fast sports classic, like the Monroe or Sterling, and accidentally chose the Z-Type.


That thing understeers like a jumbo jet, and I don't know how many times it either spun out, got rammed by another car, or even clipped itself against a telaphone pole, I certainly got the DNF, but that's life,

Few hours later I started getting used to the NoDo ambiance and got in 3rd and 2nd places with my Zentorno.