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Booking: From 19:15 (BST) (60 mins)
Practice: 20:15 (15 mins)
Qual: 20:30 (15 mins)
Race: 20:45 17 Laps (approx 30 mins)

Cars allowed:
SLS GT3, McLaren GT3, Z4 GT3, Nissan GTR GT3

Track: Monza GP
Time of Day Setting: 15:00
Weather: Mid Clear
Start: Standing
Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: Normal
Pit-stops: None required

Server track settings:
SESSION_START=97
RANDOMNESS=0
LAP_GAIN=25
SESSION_TRANSFER=60

Damage: 70%

Server: simracing.org.uk
Password: Our usual practise password

All drivers must be booked in to race before booking closes at 20:15 UK time.

IMPORTANT: The PLP app VERSION 1.0 /(http://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?threads/a-pit-lane-penalty-app-for-repeated-track-cutting-0-9.17852 (http://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?threads/a-pit-lane-penalty-app-for-repeated-track-cutting-0-9.17852))) is required. The file is an attachment on the first message, download and install as it is.
The string that is posted in chat when you join should read: "PLP:running version 1.0,3-50-3-True-1.3-0.9-3" - if it doesn't, then you will be excluded from the results.

Hello all! My name is Thom, and this will be my first race here. Simon sent me here from esra-league.com, which is closing down soon.

I'm looking forward to this one, see you all on Wednesday.

Edit- I have a couple of questions:
1. Do we need to use our real names in game, or our forum username?
2. I can't seem to find the server password, is it sent out or is it hidden on here somewhere?

Welcome :) You'll see some familiar faces here

1 - You can use either, most use their forum username but as long as we know who's who for the results either is fine.
2 - I've sent you a PM with the password. :)

Great, thanks!

Welcome Thom, Wednesday night races are a lot of fun, enjoy yourself, Bob.

Welcome Thom, another racer from ESRA here  :)

Can i Alsdo get Pw for the race ?  Plz

Can people not see the Password sub-board of the Announcements board in the the SRou section?

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?board=20.0

i found that on my own .. .so it's simple laziness  :P

Mee too..

Some questions..

Where can i see if there is a spot free for tomorrows race?
is the choice of car free ? or is it any rules regarding this?

So far we've failed to fill the server so it's simply first come first served during the booking period, there is a free car choice.

Welcome to all the influx of new drivers to this league :)

Seems a good time to just remind everyone of the gentlemanly, sportmanlike behavior here at the leagues run under the SROU banner.  :angel:

The password seems to be wrong. I tried to access the practiseserver but the pw was refused.

Password is right as I've just been on it myself as I've just upgraded the server to the new version Steam downloaded to me today (1.1.6 I believe)

Please try again

Got it. Was on wrong server. Sorry.

Cool - now don't practice too much ;)

Hi.
I'll be joining you this week with my Z4. Finally. Cu on track

what sorta times is everyone doing?

Laptimes

Merc 1:51.7 on the server with mediums and race fuel.

Nissan is about the same times for me..
In the other league we had 1 hour races with more fuel consumption and tireware, makes it more fun when you have to make a strategy regarding pitstops and so..
20:15 uk time is 21:15 Sweden time right?

What SRou has done in the past with GTR2 is Sprint racing (30-40 minute races) in the week and Endurance racing on a Sunday (60-120 minute races). I don't know if that's the longer term plan for AC should there be demand for it, but that would be in line as to how its worked in the past here.

AC is still lacking a lot of help for server administrators that would help make it less of a hassle to run leagues properly so it may be that these other series are added in line with AC versions that work properly. ;-)

I find the pit stops in AC ridiculous still tbh. They work, but barely and they are poorly implemented.

hmmm...  :-\  ok

Think of this as the Blancpain Sprint series :) and hopefully longer endurance races will follow. I like the pit stops and longer events too, especially in GT cars.

Server available for booking in.

I'm having a break from racing for a short while. Good to see some new faces here which should freshen things up a bit...see you soon.

GT3 series replays (https://mega.co.nz/#F!OxpgERDS!5XUfE684vBYJrIi9Wxo81A)

That was fun despite not racing anyone after T1 where I managed to avoid the little start incident and nip past up into 2nd as I had pressure from behind for the whole race. :-)

Had never driven that car until 5 mins before practice started, but soon discovered it was absolutely mighty down the straights, a real bonus at Monza, and as a result bagged me 4th on the grid and 2nd in the race.

Chris was untouchable though so well done on the simple win for you.

Nice first race here.

Was cautious on lap one trying to keep my line in the first chicanes but in parabolic i got hit really hard and went into the gravel, don't really know what happened there.. from the back of the pack it was just trying to to the best of it, lacking 7-10 km/h in speed on the long straight the times was suffering and i got caught up by a blue shark merc, we was fighting for some laps, nice and clean, but he overtook me into t1, and i was following him trying to push as hard as i could, he made a mistake and i could pass him later on.
I hit a Nissan i thought it was in the early laps, a merc stood in the middle of the ascari chicane ? last one anyway, and the Nissan was driving out in the track, nowhere to be for me..   
Fun race anyway, really liked the Nissan, haven't driven it before..

See you next time, hopefully with more drivers  :thumbup2: :thumbup2:

 :) :) :) Got to say this combo really lived up to expectation.  Good clean racing all the way through, some of it very close indeed. Thanks to all who took part, I hope the new faces had fun, well done podium, thanks for server and race, Bob.

                      >>>>> Results - Click Here <<<<< (http://www.avonrise.co.uk/srou/ac/monza 29_04_2015.htm)

(http://www.avonrise.co.uk/srou/ac/monza 29_04_2015.png)

I enjoyed that one. A nice first race here, a good sign of things to come.

I had a scruffy first lap with 3 separate incidents, and spent the rest of the race trying to move back up the order. Even though I finished higher than I qualified, I reckon I could have done better if I concentrated a bit better and avoided quite a few silly mistakes. I'm happy with my pace, now I want to work on consistency. Thanks for the fun & clean racing everyone!

From my POV (and in the replay) your car was jumping around at that point, like dodgy netcode. Me and Frex almost came together in avoidance.

Got a start like **it and lost several positions right before T1. As i had again raised my rearwing i was pretty fast&stable in the corners but lost all of it again on the straights. Note to myself: Q-setup doesn't fit to race  :-\

Had a hard fight with Bob for several laps which was maybe sometimes close to the limit but still fun.
Hope it was ok. After passing him i could close the gap to Battenberg and frex which ended up in a tight finish of some hundreds.

Cool race despite my wrong setup.

Strange, i had good ping but i have had these issues before.. i may have to reinstall all of Steam, maybe a SSD disk will solve it..

Got hit twice  :( damaged car didn't go very fast, went to pit, started getting blue flags as the grid caught on me and was looking more to the back than to the front. Was running from impeding Shark in first chicane as all froze for like a second. Went to sand asap as not to be the cause of incident. Had no motivation to go on from there. For me, the cars are still too soft, with dodgy netcode there will be contacts. How can the net code be worse than in GTR2? The game is 10 years older...  :-X

The track seemed very dark, at times I didn't see the track or where my braking point is. Is this got to do with the time of the race? Went to try a few laps in quick race after and it was ok. Is there like a gamma settings for getting more light on track? Coulnd't find it in settings. 

Probably the time of day tom, i had the exact same problem so i used different things as my brake markers, be it a marshall, end of. Bridge, end or some armco etc..

I had a decent yet uneventful race, i was hoping that after qualify sven was going to give me a nice battle but he messed up the start and then was gone.

Roll on the next gt3 race :)

There are still bugs in the graphics engine regarding lighting as it seems now that everytime I start the game it's really bright on track with it being almost white. Have to use PageDown key to stop the bright light effect. I'm not a fan of these low sun race times as everyone seems to pick them and I never get to race in the normal, middle of the day conditions anymore so you either have really reflective track, or sun in your eyes or long shadows, all of which I find annoying. :)

In terms of pure collision detection and positioning I find the net code very good. The rest of the multiplayer leaves a lot to be desired but the core net code seems good so maybe some problem with the network between you and the server TT?

Like Shark I've tended to find the netcode fine. I did have Anders warp a couple of times last night while I was following him but everyone else seemed solid for me.

Sadly I threw the car off 3 times at the same corner, stupid boy  ::) Still I had fun the rest of the time.

And it was nice to see some new faces to these parts race last night  8)

No problem with dark track or soft cars here TT, sounds like your own settings being wrong. Nor dodgy netcode! To suggest it's as bad as Gtr2 is totally innacurate. I've enjoyed full grid races online plenty of times without problem.
I thought Monza looked superb last night with the lighting and gfx  8)

What a cracking race that turned out and I only finished 8th despite driving my butt off!
I didn't want to take the McLaren as knew it was slow here compared to the z4, yet alone the Mercs and Nismos which destroy it on the straights here despite me running 0-1 wing !  :o. But I hadn't done a single lap of praccy before last nights event so plumped for my previously used mp-4 setup and hoped for the best.

Quality soon proved it was the wrong choice again  ::)

Got stuck behind a slow off the line Nismo at race start and so lost two places down to the chicane. But everyone around me seemed well behaved and we all got through the chicanes without any dramas that I saw. Had a few early battles but was just left standing every time we got on a straight. Several cars ahead threw themselves into the Armco which was handy for me!  ;D
Late on I caught Bob in his GTR battling another. I closed and chased him hard for many laps watching him disappear on the straights but catching in the chicanes. Eventually he cracked under pressure and I was able to nip past after what had been some great adrenalin laps  8)
Romped home to a bewildered lowly 8th despite many laps in the 51's and 52's :)
Cracking race

Surprised there were still only 15 runners, we seemed to be missing a few still.

Yes! At last a trouble-free AC race for me - my previous loss of controller issues had returned, but this time I hope I've properly cracked it. And what fun AC multiplayer can be..! Lots of good racing, though very skittery for me in the final few laps, specially around Ascari. Sven was so much quicker then, but must have had damage or was running a lot more wing than me as I easily pulled away down the straights. Good fun.

Congrats podium, and welcome to the new chaps.

Yes, sorry about that Battenberg - I see from the replay that I pretty much ran you onto the grass at Parabolica, but didn't realise this at the time as my attention was fully on the warping/spinning car just ahead of me. Apologies.

You guys are really picky. ;) When I say netcode I mean it in general, as not daring to close race like I did in GTR2. I find cars sometimes jumping around in AC and sometimes (as yesterday) the game just freezes for a few moments which in the case of close racing is a no-no. Found relevant posts to PgUp / PgDn Shark, seems like it helps people, will try it.

MJ, I never found our GTR2 races so jumpy (again, it's getting better, but in the begininning it was  :-X ) and my connection seems fine in games like WoT where ping and stable conn really counts.

All in all, first I have to find some more pace.  :P

As Shark says, you never get to race at 2 pm no more.  :-*

Yeah, for me though I have no such worries and happy to race as close as GTR2 (depending on the opposition! ;))
Do you have frame rate issues?
Are you using vsync or frame limiter?

I'm pretty sure my bright track issues are a bug in triple screen rendering, but possibly SLI (or combination) as I think I've read that before somewhere.

Maybe your framerate is an issue then? The sub-systems in AC seem a lot more connected than GTR2, so if graphics are not smooth then the rest of the game suffers too.

Will sort out things on Tuesday after I come back form holiday. :)

But that's what makes me think it's maybe a problem your end TT as I am able to literally sit on the bumper of cars in AC like I did Bobs Nissan last night, it was exhilarating able to race so damn closely! Likewise in the Dtm or M3 series I've been competing in. Me and Sharky had a great close scrap for many laps last week 8)
Happy to share some car setups too TT, if your struggling with 'soft' cars.

Will agree the time of day settings are sometimes ill advised for mp racing as there can be sun glare in some corners but then why should we race in perfect conditions all the time? All part of the challenge.

Glad the new drivers enjoyed themselves last night, spread the word!

Is there a schedule for the races for this and the Dtm cup series? With my usual Thursday Esra races now cancelled I can get a little practise in as wife's out on Thursdays  :)

 ;D ;D Was really hoping you had forgotten fill up again Mark J, I cracked under the pressure in the end. Time of day for me was spot on, very realistic and made for a good event. Think it's time for these type of races to be a bit longer, pit stops maybe included to add to the fun, only my take on it I've no idea on how it could be implemented.

IMHO pit stops suck in this game, but they do work, so if you want to use them fine, but I would say Endurance races are best with big grids otherwise people can get quite lonely.

I'm happy to race different time of day settings, but that should include midday and 2pm still! :-)

Agree totally, but if the Wednesday night races increase in numbers it would be one to think about further down the line, I'm not meaning mega long races, just long enough not to be too tiring, age rapidly caught up here!

Not being a computer boffin a lot of this netcode talk just goes straight over my head. However the other night when racing on Core I had significant warping issues. Turns out the wife was downloading something while I was racing. I'm getting an uprated internet connection next week - fibre optics I think, which hopefully will sort the problem. Meanwhile the wife has been banned from the internet when I'm racing!

regards Chris

Shark, thats your pp filter whoch is causing that, its the hdr balance.. I will upload my personal one which ive tweaked, it looks better and it doesnt have the screen going bright or dark (auto hdr balance)

I love racing in low light gives a lovely atmosphere.

Thx. I wonder if I just reset the game settings whether it will fix it, but argh fiddle, fiddle, fiddle. ;)

Yeah, occasionally, but every AC race I've done for the past few months seems to be low light and it gets a bit samey and annoying. :-*

For me personally 75mins of racing have the perfect balance between being able to use different strategies and not being to exhausting for an old man :)
Double fuel consumption may increase the immersion of strategy risks and so on. 8)

I had only 1 or 2 warps of Bob in front of me, where i was scared that a crash is near by ..... but in general Kunos seems to have fixed it "a bit" ... it's not that bad as at the beginning.

With the user of PLP and stracker i find AC more or less league compatible ... if Kunos is using communities feeback it could be as great as rFactor was in appr. 1 year imo.

cheers

I would love to do endurance races, but unfortunately I can't health wise. My max I can hold out to race is 30 minutes or 2 of 25 minutes, with a break in between the 2 of 10 min.

I now have installed my computer from scratch and I hope this will solve my ping problems.

Dont mean to sound harsh but race lengths shouldnt be dictated by 1 drivers health..

I'm not asking for anything Chris, just stating where I stand. What ever the choice will be I'll stand by it and wont moan about it (unlike some)

Kk.

Nice to know. I mean there is nothing stopping you starting and pulling into pits when you have had enough.

Whats up with ya that stops you doing the longer races?

For those here who haven't done the UKGTR races before, there's (almost) always two seasons running, a sprint season of 30-40 minutes per race and an endurance season. If we do have endurance races here we will be running them alongside the sprints, not in place of them. :)

And round 4 will be at?......

 :-*

You lot seem to know before i've decided! Its Spa.

Whoohoo, love Spa  8) should be mega in these cars