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Practice: ~19:20 (60 mins)
Qualifying: 20:20 (20 mins)
Race: 20:40 (25 laps, 1 rolling/ 24 racing)

Track: Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3356.msg169369#post_yasmarina2011)
Track support files: Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54517#post_gtr2TrackSupport)


Cars allowed: Ford Capri Mk3 Turbo Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_capri3t)

Only the following cars are to be selected. CLASS A DIV 1 '81, CLASS B DIV 2 '81, DIV 2 '80 and DIV 2 '79.

Special Notes: Rolling start procedure will be implemented for this race. See below for details.

1) When qualifying ends drivers will join the grid as usual, before the timer countdown ends.

2) At the green light the pole position driver (lead driver) will be responsible for moving off at a slow pace.

3) The remaining drivers will follow the driver in front of them forming a single line formation.

4) The lead driver will increase speed as soon as it is safe to do so. The following drivers will match the speed of the car in front of them, whilst keeping a safe distance between them.

5) The lead driver will maintain slow/average speed for the duration of the lap until approaching the final corner when he will engage the speed limiter.

6) The lead driver will maintain limiter speed (limiter may be switched off) until the start line is reached. Having crossed the start line the lead car will begin race speed.

7) Following drivers may not exceed limiter speed (lead drivers speed) or attempt any overtaking until the start line is crossed.

Car restrictions: NONE

Time of Day Setting: 22:00
Start: ROLLING
Tyre wear: x2
Fuel consumption: Normal

Server: simracing.org.uk Monday
Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Notes:
(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) The AI control should be turned off so that you have control of the car at all times, including pitting. Your player file should therefore read
Autopit="0"
Force Autopit Off="1" // Forces autopit always off
No AI Control="1" // AI never has control over car
If you still finding pitting problematic, experience tells us that its less to do with positioning and more to do with approach speed. A slow approach to pit crew chief has proved most reliable.

Special Notes: The start lights at this circuit do not show a green for go. Drivers are advised to have their start countdown turned on.

IMPORTANT

Please install these files in to your Yas Marina 2011 folder and allow to overwrite

http://www.mediafire.com/file/05rcnqaz8rl3flr/Yas_Marina.gdb

http://www.mediafire.com/file/r3oycf52f42922f/Yas_Marina.AIW

http://www.mediafire.com/file/tt0umgz9aesldz1/Yas_Marina.trk

IMPORTANT

When leaving the pits and re-joining the track do not cross the white line on your right. Likewise when on the track and approaching the pit exit stay clear of the same line please. Just to avoid any  :'( :'( :'(

 I m not fine but i decided to drive DIV2 until the season end

Good to hear that you are still able to race Ziu, even in the Div 2 cars.

But, I will miss this race and the race on the 9th Oct as I will be taking a holiday ( or maybe a secret Blue Moose training camp ? ) in deepest Cornwall.

 At least you won't have to listen to my whingeing about over powerful cars and slick tyres....................................................... see! you're missing me already!!  :D

It s a pity that you will miss own on this race,  I m sure that I could have great battle with you,  Clive

IMPORTANT

Following received advice cuts will be off for this one.

Drivers are reminder that at all turns, two wheels must remain on the racing track.

I'm switching to Div 2 as well - pointless to continue Div 1 with only two cars.

Cheers,
Erling

Just got back from Cornwall, Saturday. Ate all the Oggies - none left for you!  :yes: :lol:

Just revisited the forum thread for our earlier race at this track.  Seems we had all sorts of problems with it, including a race terminated after 6-7 laps.  Did we ever reach a working / stable configuration ?

These are some of the last posts from Tony regarding the problems:


Guy's, I have just finished a test race session on the server using the modified track files and regretably the race still gets terminated at around lap 6/7 (do not remember exactly when).

This, I think, is the final straw with this version of Yas Marina.

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Just finished online testing again, this time with a trace file in place. Went up to 20 laps and no problems.

I will try to run another test soon and see if I can repeat that.



Did you ever do that second test, Tony ?

Cheers,
Erling
 
 

Yes, but I cannot recall how many laps I did  ::)

I agree that it is a risk running it again but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that all will be ok.

Strange problem play GTL okay exit GTL then go back to GTL on select screen see car spinning but cannot select car or buy car, check GTL and this file missing sim gtc.gdb,  copy over file from steam GTL works but have to reinstall cars, exit GTL and problem reoccurs any ideas please.

Odd one Roger. Rather than copy the file from your Steam install do you have another GTL install that you could copy the file from?

Hi Tony no, all my old GPL copies etc were stolen.

Totally forgot that we have our national holiday on Tuesday and I'll be using the bridge day for a prolonged weekend without internet etc.
in the Eifel mountains.
So I'll miss this one.

Have fun guys.

I'll email you a sim gtc.gtb file

Just finished a 25 lap test race on the server and happy to report that all is well.

I dont know if laught or cry...... This time not is my arm but my head

It has been my best race I was so fast that the others drivers finished the race 25 laps after to ne

Total screen freeze around lap 19 or so..  Nothing else to say.

TTFN
John.

Hi John also you here?  If you are here it mean that you pick the second place

What Fxxk i was saying  like is easy take corners with Div2

It s a little strange one hit the guard rail and the engine exploding.....

Anyway also on qualy lap I was sure to pass too much fast    and closed to those guard rail  ::)

Tony,  i can write a post in Italian using dirty words?

Please don't  ;)

Results and replay now posted.

I see the result and the new standings and I don't like go back on my words but I m forced to drive Div1 in the last three races.  I ask apologize to all but I must do it

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do....  ::)

In a turkish way

 :lol: :lol: :lol:
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/199/447856693_47219099d5.jpg)

Essentially I got bored.

Was well off the pace of Ziu & Erling in practice & Tony as well in the race. After Ziu's early exit I was running in a lonely 3rd place so started experimenting with braking points & how early I could get on the gas out of corners which predictably led to some spins & I dropped back towards Matt & John. After John dropped out another spin let Matt past, tried to catch back up but span again. Lost interest after that & just cruised around until the end letting Bob past on the last lap.

Enjoyed these cars to start with but they are now becoming tedious to drive so not sure I will bother with the rest of the races in this series.

See ya all at Mid-America in some fun cars.

PS: sorry forgot to say congrats to Erling, Tony & Matt. :clap: :clap: :clap: :oops:

Surprised to be 2nd quickest Div 2 driver yesterday. Expected Geoffers to be faster, as that has mostly been the case with Div 1, but if he's bored with the cars, then maybe that's the reason.

Pleased with qual, as I knocked over ½ a sec off my pb, but Ziu's pole time was positively otherworldly. Thus a great shame to see him wreck his car totally unnecessarily at the end of L2.  Did present me with an unexpected opportunity though.  Had Tony behind me at the time.  Keeping him there was going to be a problem. No chance against the straight line speed of his Div 1, so would have to beat him on braking and cornering.  Regrettably I'm nowhere near the insane cornering speeds of our resident flying donkey, so despite my best efforts, Tony reeled me in over a few laps.  Eventually he was in position to just power past down the long straight.

Not cause for great concern, as I knew he would have to pit around halfways. Thus got the lead back around lap 13-14. A couple of laps after Tony's stop, the gap was 53 secs and apparently holding. Around lap 18 however, I started to slow down to conserve my tyres. Was greatly concerned my right front tyre would blow. Had tested a full distance offline, to make sure it would last.  Had reached a wear value of 31 then, but the hard racing earlier had taken its toll, and it was clear I would exceed that.  Braked ever sooner and softer, and practically crawled through the corners on the last laps.

Around the same time, the pit board had stopped showing the gap to 2nd place, so had no idea how fast Tony (presumably) was catching me. If a car appeared in my mirrors, I would just have to go for broke and hope the tyre survived.  Threat never materialized and I made it with tyre intact. After finishing, I did an extra, complete banzai lap, to see if I could make the tyre pop. It didn't, despite wear reaching 35 and the tiniest bit of red remaining. Will have to do some offline experimenting with tyre wear 5x, to see how far you can squeeze it.

Grats to Tony & Matt for the remaining podiums, and commiserations to Ziu, who could have cruised home to victory.

Switching to Div 2 didn't really produce the desired effect - bar the early laps, the race was as lonely as they've been in Div 1.  If Ziu returns to Div 1, I'll probably do the same, to defend my 2nd place in the Championship, which I can then do without stealing 1st place in a way I wouldn't want to,

Cheers,
Erling

Results (https://www.avonrise.co.uk/srou/kurts/YasMarina_02102017)

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No Erling, could not get below 2.17 with the 80 car, the 81 you were in has 50bhp more, however I doubt I could have matched your time in that. How Ziu managed 2.11 in the same car as me, I have no idea. ??? Watching him in qually he does use short gearing for 1st to 4th & a long 5th gear, I have tried that but it does not make me any faster. Clearly there is something in the setup of these cars that eludes me!

PS: Doh, just noticed the modified files in post #2 of this thread, never installed those, that's why I was getting the mismatches last night.  ::)

I had done so many laps online on this track, testing for the race, that I was really relieved that we managed to go the full distance. Worth it in the end. Thanks to Ziu for sourcing the track and to Geoffers and John for their inputs, much appreciated guy's, but lets not make a habit of this. I don't think my nerves can take it.
Asonishing pace from Ziu but sorry to see you expired after that barrier hit. Thought I would be quick enough to win this one but didn't count on Erling having the speed he did. Could not see his times on XD in the race as he showed as DNF which he obviously wasn't. After my pit stop I had no idea how far he was up the road but thought I may at least get a visual on him. Maybe if I had pitted earlier I could have caught up with him.
I'm looking forward to the next one in China as I like the circuit and it has that immense straight which will stretch the legs of these beasts once again.

Thank you Kurt  :thumbup1:

Don't think it would have changed anything Tony - pit stop simply takes too long.  Horrified by the tyre wear, I timed a pitstop offline. Even if only for tyres, it still took well over a minute to execute.  I could never make that up, despite the faster laptimes on fresh tyres.  If you look at your laptimes, it can be deduced that your pit stop took around 1 minute and 25 secs.  After your stop, and until lap 21, where I slowed in earnest, you were typically 2-3 secs faster a lap, so never enough to make up for all the time in the pits. (Sorry, guess I went into professor mode for a moment...  8))

Cheers,
Erling

Tyres are quite resillient.  Not until wear level reached 100 did it finally blow:  8)

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a60/erling2792/GTL%20screenshots/GTL%20Tyre%20wear%201.jpg~original)

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a60/erling2792/GTL%20screenshots/GTL%20Tyre%20wear%202.jpg~original)

Not terribly much grip left though...  ;D

Cheers,
Erling