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Practice: 19:45 BST (30 mins)
Qual 2: 20:15 (22 mins)
Race: 20:30 ~ 40 Mins

Cars allowed: NSU TTS
Track: Nordschliefe
Time of Day Setting: 13:00
Weather: Dry

Start: Standing
Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption:  Normal
Pit-stops: None required

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Championship Standings (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=533&theme=4)

Notes:
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cars that join after they are on track until they go back to the garage.
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Excessive cutting of corners will seen as cheating and the results may be altered to reflect this.

Martin, make it 40 minutes.. This track is super cool

How many laps would that be? Ideally the time will round up to a lap.
WE always ran 40 min races in P&G, so more than 30 is not an issue.
I will make it 40, but can you post some times?

Also, is there a short cut for qual? 15 mins is not likely to be enough to post a time with an outlap as well
Ta

Now don't quote me...

I think there is, just go through the tyrewall chicane at the GP track final turn. But my memory's fuzzy, when I'm absolutely sure.

I'm stuck down in London this week, so hence my request. No biggie, I can have a go at weekend.
There is a short cut in GTL and P&G versions. never tried in this one yet.

The various layouts, leaderboards.

http://game.raceroom.com/leaderboard/?track=5095&driving_model=2&car_class=4810
http://game.raceroom.com/leaderboard/?track=4975&car_class=4810&driving_model=2 I tried this, the VLN layout, got 11 minutes. I can confirm, there's a shortcut, even the AI use it. No place for a short cut, on the shortest layout though.
http://game.raceroom.com/leaderboard/?track=2813&driving_model=2&car_class=4810

OK thanks. So, Nordschliefe - Nordschliefe is around 10 mins 10/15 secs for quick humans.
So at 40 min event time whether it becomes 4 lap or 5 laps depends on how fast the leader goes.
I "think" it will announce the final lap when the leader passes the finish line after 40 mins.

Thanx Martin

I think 11 minutes is good,

For qualifying leave it 15 minutes, it makes it interesting for a super pole shoot out, you can turn outlap off buy selecting personal qualifying season, so that means we will be alone on track. Also the actual AI run the GP lap the first lap, then they do the whole lap for the second. So If we make it 15 minutes, we can all run through the bricks on our fisrt lap. I hope this makes sense..

Any

I think so, I assume it similar to the shortcut in GTL/GTR2

Matt, Maybe I had the wrong layout setting but the Leaderboard was showing folks with times in the 8 min + region.

Also I think you need to remove the Championship Standings link in the Race Announcement.

I did 11 mins last night using the VLN config. If we don't use that, or the full GP extension, won't the short cut using the final turn on the plain GP track not be available. Or is there a short cut for just the plain Nordschliefe without any GP circuit?

Also there is no tyre / fuel / engine damage when doing the leaderboard thing. The car's gears can not be changed and there are several bits of the track where you're maxed out in 4th gear. Are we just going to kill the engines?

I could change the gears in non-leaderboard praccy. There was one part of the track where the revs in 4th redlined.

Sorry - you're right you could change gears. But unless it works the opposite to what I thought I could only shorten them, must confess I didn't go on track and test that.

I did a few laps some weeks ago, and though it did red line on the final straight I had no engine damage.
I am using the Nords- Nords layout, rather than the one that does some of the new track... I think
Can't do any testing until I get home.

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Thanks Tony.

Just done a cautious 9:25 lap, and I can't find a shortcut in this nords - nords variant, so I have set qual to 22 mins
to make sure everyone gets at least one lap in.

Matt, just a thought but could we do away with qualy all together? Would mean more race laps maybe?

I guess. How many laps will these things do witha tank?

Just finished a 45min race against the AI. 5 laps possible with 11 litres left in tank.

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Leaderboard....

http://game.raceroom.com/leaderboard/?track=2813&car_class=4810

I have set the practice to 20mins, and left the qual at 22mins, so timings work out something
closer to our normal events.
Not sure how many will turn up for this, so people might want a qual, otherwise treat it
as an extension of Prac  ;D

Good fun but a little lonely at the back. Also found the daylight a bit sparse which made the track difficult for me to see in some places. Hope there's a chance to race these little cars again sometime.

Really enjoyed my race here tonight, with Ant and Dieter coming from the back and Eck making a mistake we had a classic 4 way battle for awhile. Even after Ant left it was still nip and tuck all the way basically for all 5 laps. Great fun :)

Enjoyed that one  ;D Was not quite on the pace of the leaders, but kept seeing someone in front
when one made an error, looked very close for 2nd to 5th.
Might try this place again, as I do like it, and it is a "gentler" version than GTL or GTR2 editions
but perhaps with some faster cars, not Gr5 or GTO beasties. Maybe DTM92 or Touring Classics?

Why did you quit Ant? I had turned off damage and cut tracks as people often go off here, and
getting a slow down because you had bent something off road would be too much hardship with
a small field INHO  :angel:

Can we do that every week?  ;D

As already said, an excellent multi-car fight for much of the race, and with us being so close on pace it just came down to who would make the fewest mistakes.. I managed to get ahead of the group, then started to lose rear grip on the last lap - Eck timed his run nicely, slipstreaming me on the run in to the finish. Great fun!

Congrats GT, and apology to Matt for lap 1 - you went off at Miss-Hit-Miss and I took my chance to go past going down the hill, but I probably squeezed you too much there and should have been a bit more cautious at what is the most dangerous part of the track.. Sorry for that.

That was excellent fun  :)

Threading the little car through all that greenery while trying to maintain momentum was a great challenge. Reminded me of some GTL races on those long forgotten tracks.

Sorry for dropping out, I was exhausted and really was not focused on the track. But please I didn't mean to offend anyone.

Ant

I don't think anyone was offended, just curious as to why you left.