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« on: January 29, 2007, 09:01:35 AM +0000 » |
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All members welcome. Practice: 20:15 (15 mins) Qualifying: 20:30 (20 mins) Race: 20:50 (30 laps = ~40 mins) Cars allowed: Ford Escort, Porsche 914 Time of Day Setting: 10:00 Server: UKGTL 2B; in the event that the lobby is unavailable, connect using Direct IP, entering games.avonrise.co.uk in the Add IP box Password: See this postNotes:(1) It's best if all drivers can make sure they are connected before the Qualifying session as drivers on track during qualifying will not see cars that join after they are on track until they go back to the garage. (2) Please make sure you are fully aware of the SimRacing.org.uk Rules. (3) General information on the ladder can be found on the series home page. (4) The season will be run using a UKGTL carpack v1.2 ( download which will need to be installed prior to racing.
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« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2007, 09:51:18 AM +0000 » |
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Oooow ! Donnington!! Excellent choice!? Will get practicing!? Does anyone have any tips on stopping the Escort doing a 180 under heavy braking!? I have been playing with the set up but havn't got anything I'm really happy with!? or is this just a characteristic of this car!? ( or the driver!! ) Looking forward to it!! M.
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« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2007, 10:02:39 AM +0000 » |
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Does anyone have any tips on stopping the Escort doing a 180 under heavy braking!?
Brake while the car is travelling in a straight line.
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« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2007, 10:20:27 AM +0000 » |
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Your a funny guy !!
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« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2007, 10:49:45 AM +0000 » |
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Increase the coast differential to 100% (or close to 100%), reduce the brake pressure and move the brake balance forward. That should hopefully go some way to helping your problem.
Also don't shift down gears too soon (i.e. let the brakes do the work rather than the engine).
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« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2007, 10:57:08 AM +0000 » |
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Also don't shift down gears too soon (i.e. let the brakes do the work rather than the engine).
That's the single most important one. You may also find that gently blipping the throttle manually (even with autoblip turned on) as you go down into the lower gears helps.
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« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2007, 11:05:27 AM +0000 » |
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Make another 180 after that and continue your run
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« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2007, 11:37:39 AM +0000 » |
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« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2007, 12:22:13 PM +0000 » |
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Make another 180 after that and continue your run LOL Im sure you'll get points for style!
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« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2007, 12:39:05 PM +0000 » |
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Being in Team Oldie, we get style marks just for turning up!!
Thanks for the advise all!! Will give it a go!!
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« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2007, 01:36:34 PM +0000 » |
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damn, dont think i can make this one :'( Got a leaving doo before i jump into the big bad world of self-employed-ness...gulp. Are the escorts v 914's evenly matched? Thought the RS would win hands down.
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« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2007, 09:33:28 PM +0000 » |
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Not really evenly matched - I never was even close to the times I did with the Escort driving the 914. But that said I only drove the 914 a couple of times and I drive the Escort as often as possible. From the Comet leauge I remmber the Trois Riviers race where in the test race most were in the Escorts and in the proer race most were in the 914. The qually lap difference was about 0,8 sec in favour of the Escort - I reckon that is a good benchmark on the speed difference of the cars. The Escort is almost spot on the speed of the slow CSL (Alpina). The difference is that the Escort is far more lively, but will blow the Engine, the CSL is rock solid in that area.
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« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2007, 10:00:49 PM +0000 » |
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I think they are pretty close, with the Escort having a slight edge. Two different cars so one is always going to have something on the other. But also one car suits one driving style and the other suits another driving style. We shall see, but I'll probably take the Porsche as I don't like the Escort particularly.
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« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2007, 03:06:35 AM +0000 » |
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I might actually be able to participate in this one, Already painting my 914 I just hope this time around my game doesn't keep crashing to desktop every time i try to join the server
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« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2007, 08:33:58 AM +0000 » |
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I'll be there for this one, partly 'cause I love taking the Escort round Donny, and partly to test how things are running on my system.
Just reinstalled my OS etc last night onto a new primary HDD. It wasn't the MOBO (although it did need changing in any case), not the GPU (tried another card in there), so hopefully that'll be the end of my fps problems.
Anyway, fingers crossed. See you all there.
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