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Password: see above (#post_event_password) (released 24hrs before the race)

Round 1 - Silverstone 1967

(https://s10.postimg.org/e6y2rln49/Screenshot_ks_porsche_911_carrera_rsr_ks_silvers.jpg)

July 26th - Password entry (on day of race)

Practise: 19:30 (55 mins)
Qual: 20:25 (5 mins)
Race: 20:30   30 minutes

Cars allowed:
Porsche RSR 3.0

Track:  Silverstone 1967


Live Timing: stracker.simracing.org.uk:50041/lapstat (http://stracker.simracing.org.uk:50041/lapstat)

Time of Day Setting: 14:00
Weather: Clear
Start: Standing
Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: Normal
Pit-stops: Not required

Server track settings:
SESSION_START=100
RANDOMNESS=0
LAP_GAIN=0
SESSION_TRANSFER=N/a

Damage: 70%

Password: see above (#post_event_password)

PLP App - Not used in this series. Cutting will be monitored on replay and penalties issued for excessive cutting.

Notes:
(1) Please make sure you are fully aware of the UKGTR Rules (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3349.0)
(2) Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Silverstone_1952.jpg)

One of my favourite cars, on holiday for the whole series, have fun.

Should be in for the first two races, then I'll probably have some holidays ::)

As stated in the announcement tread. I'll be getting home from my holiday this day, so not sure if i'll make the first race. If grid slots are getting full, you can drop me from the first race then.

Pete, is the server up?
All pilots needs practise with laps amount 200-500-1000 this week because just to drive and stay on track with others  ;D
I need 2000  :laugh:

Should be, 19 times have been set so far. Your're currently aiming to beat a 1:36.813.

 :o Who are all these people  ;D

Yes, thanks Pete, now i see this time  :o and joing to server asap  :)

I jumped on late last night for some recon laps and Felix was on there, but then about 10 Italians joined the server creating chaos and voting to skip sessions so I left after a few laps.

Forgot how cool these cars are to drive with some nice oversteer drifting into the corners  8)

Jeffrey, could you kindly provide a link to each track used in this series in the first post? Thank you :)

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=14462.0

I already have that, individual link and a trackpakc link with all 3 tracks. This is a standard track already in game  ;)

Sorry Jeff. Missed that post ;)

Thank you ;)

Hi guys!
Chris and Felix- can i ask what way of gears shifting are you using?

I'm using default gear ratios

Correction: i mean what rig ( H-shifter ) are you using?  :)

i'm using a TH8RS

Me too   :)

Me three  :)

I'm still using my trusty G25  ;D

I'm also using an > 10 yo G25. But the gear selector is no longer working properly. That's why I bought an TH8RS. Now I use the G25's gear selector for adjusting the brake balance, traction control a turbo pressure :)

It's awesome to use H-Shifter . I cant do it because night time i racing AC... Too loud. So in AC i using paddles.( G27)
I was many hours fun with H-Shifter in Dirt Rally. IMHO, In Great Dirt Rally H-Shifter feels more better and naturally than in AC.

Mine mostly works OK - I'm going to have to pull the pedals apart soon though as the clutch is starting to play up.
I suspect it's full of dog hair and needs a damn good clean out!

Are you moulting?  ;D

Skinpack (https://www.dropbox.com/s/akwhwvev1fsvmgz/Skinpack.rar?dl=0) link added to the series overview page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=14462.0).

No, she bloody well is though!
All the time seemingly  :censored:

Can somebody please save the replay tonight :)?

Can I suggest some effort to investigate the config file regarding this as there is definitely an issue with the session timings and waiting times. Whats been happing for a long time now is that the race will finish then immediately jump to a new event so when I exit I don't see any results and so cant manually save the race replay. We also seem to be getting a lot of waiting time events between sessions of a couple of secs.

Guys, now AC automaticaly saves each session replays in C:\Users\***\Documents\Assetto Corsa\replay\temp. Numbers of replay set in AC options. ( how many session will save automatically) Please check this. ;) I have 4 Gb RAM (principially) and i can save 2 hours race in low quality and file size 800 megs. I dont want to upload replays due my bad ( but stabil) ping ( 130)  :)
Have a nice race tonight, guys! :)

Except when AC lets me down I always save them - But as Baikal says, you will save it automatically anyway  ;)

Yes, but I ain't racing, so it's kinda hard for me then ;D.

I might need it for incident reports and qually checking.

We're still running the same settings, any changes are due to changes in the way AC works. Race over time is still set to 300 seconds. Sadly I don't have any access to secret server documentation help that anyone else has so I'd welcome whatever solution people have. However last week was really the time to moan so we could test anything needed on a non championship event  ::)

I usually save the replay, I will put it up on the web after the race.

EDIT: I dropped out early, so didn't get a full replay, so I won't upload it unless asked.

I'll be giving these a go if that's ok....with only 20 grid slots I'll hang around tonight to see if others want to take them up asI've had little time to practice.

Leave it to the last minute why don't you! I've added you to the entry_list file GT.

still don't see how 5mins qually is any use to anyone, 20 cars will be all going out at once to set a time = mayhem  :clown:

Haha, didn't realise that was the way AC worked. Ta for adding  :)

Any idea how to stop the snap oversteer in the middle of every corner? Tried diffs at max and min and inbetween and one at max and the other at min and nothing helped.

stiffen the front up helps, either with dampers or spring 1-click. Does mean a tad more understeer but makes the car more stable. Plus you cant do a heavy hit of the brakes and then quick release or you get lift-off oversteer. Slow in-fast out is the old 911 mantra  :) plus use your gears to engine brake and slow the car for good turn in and power out.

Well my first taste of one lap qually ended predictably....in the wall  :laugh: Though in my defence I was still muttering to myself about this single shot qually after someone pulled out in front of me from the pitlane right at the start of my hotlap and took the racing line  ::)

Started from near the back with about 3 other hot-shoes  ;D  Must confess it did make the first 10 minutes frantic and fun making our way up the pack whilst racing each other. Had some epic laps fighting my nemesis shark whilst Felix and Maikel snapped at our heels eager to get past too.  :fencing:
Sadly shark faded and those two scampered off down the road leaving me running completely solo for the rest of the race with nobody within 12 secs of me in either direction  :( so the rest of the race was dull hotlapping trying to keep focused. Last 4 laps I was short-shifting as I wasn't convinced I had enough fuel in the car and crossed the line with fumes for a well earned 'best of the rest' 6th place  ;D

A full grid of RSR's snarling about in the opening laps was a visual and aural delight  :punk:  Congrats to the mighty fast hombres up front  8)

Coz of the engine been in the back the front is hyper light and this car has build in understeer, so to overcome that the default setup (and how I setup it) is stiffer springs at the back and slight nose down. This cures the understeer on coast enough, but under power it understeers again and if the rear tyres loose traction its pretty easy to snap if you are more aggressive with the wheel or throttle.

This car can't trail brake. I mean it can but its more the shave the last 5-10 kilometers. So I drive it early braking points, aim the apex, slight throttle maybe around 30-40-50 depends on grip and when it straights up firmly but not slamming it going to full power. That car doesn't like to be pushed.

I'll share my setups later. But in general slam the car to the lowest, stiffen the suspension all around as keeping the diff front to back as stock for height and stiffness. Full camber front with 1 degree - at the back ( I think this is like rule of thumb for AC ) and that's it pretty much. And the toes front 0 back something like 0.05 you can try 0.10 if u feel the car the agile for you.

Firstly, big, big (BIG) apology to Alexey for T1 second lap. Check the replay from my cockpit view and you will see my shifter jumped out of gear into neutral at just the wrong moment.. (Don't know why, it was fine all evening otherwise - just a mis-shift I guess). No way for me to brake correctly or control the car properly in that situation and I went into you, so sorry for that. I did wait for you, but I think you must have have either quit or I missed you going by, as I waited a long time. I hope you managed to carry on.

Rest of race good fun, I really like this car! Also like the qually format, although my front tyres were not up to temperature until half way round my hotlap. Probably not being aggressive enough.

Congrats podium, sorry again Alexey.

Watching the replay I realised what it was I'd forgotten while working on the setup - my car was a good 5cm higher than everyone around me at the front of the grid  ::)
Extra happy with my pace considering this - also happy with how well it kept up (Although a visit to the wall on lap 4 caused some damage which slowed me a bit, I couldn't get close to a 1:36 after that :( )

I ran the safer of my 2 race setups in the end - my qualifying and 'angry race' ones had a more tail happy feel (and overinflated tires for qually use), their only difference was fuel load and lowering the pressures a bit for race.
The actual race setup I used had softer rear springs + ARB's, and I think a ride height adjustment to make it tamer and slightly less likely to kill me.
It succeeded at that task but didn't have those final few tenths I needed to compete with the front runners, as a result of the added understeer.

I still managed some great racing with ChrisR and I think it was Maikel who finally passed me in the last 2 or 3 minutes. If I hadn't hit the wall there's a good chance he wouldn't have closed enough and I'd have taken 3rd! Oh well, I'll try something different next time out maybe...

I enjoyed the qualifying, although I'm bound to really mess it up at least once in this series  ;D

Good race in the end.
Second in qualy I had the usualbad start, but manged to keep the second at the first corner, trying to keep Peyo's pace that was pushing badly from the start and creating a small gap on Chris. After few laps I realised that would be impossible to come back on Peyo unless a mistake by him, that will never happen in this race.
At half race Chris exploited a bad exit speed at the Club and get alongside my car at the Abbey taking quite all the track for him cause of the worst entry line he had on the inside. I simply had no space to corner, cause I was on the outside and his car was widening the line, so we had a contact with me going on the grass. I didn't give up anyway.
In a few laps I recovered the gap and at the first corner Chris went wide and I passed him again.
With three mins to go Chris recovered the gap again, but this time it was my turn to go wide and Chris exploited my mistake taking back the second position.
Than came the last lap. The lap of the Divine Providence  ;)

See you :)

Ok frex   Be more carefull next time.  :)
BTW, as i see in replay ( yours brake lights) , you simlpy lost brake point аt 1st turn. Normal point was 100 m (left hand table) but you was pass table near 15 meters and then press brakes. ;)
 I lost 9 position and has big car damage here, but continue the race and finished 8 ( after Mark). I was done 1 overtake ( Chris T).
Thanks all guys for the race. Congratulations podium! "Bulgarian arrow" laptimes was incredible! Need your setup, Peyo!  ;D
 
  

On my replay I am definitely braking before the 100M board, not after. But yes, I should have left more room in any case as we were so close. Apologies again.

just a reminder to the admin team  ;) before race 2, the skins were wrong for some of us. I was in car 60 and Sutol was in my Vaillant skin and someone else said they were wrong too.  :-*
Shame more of you didn't take up the numerous tasty historical skins available, makes the grid look much better  :'(

Hi Mark, where do I find the skins?

It's a shame we don't understand how the entry_list file works  :-[ It appears Sutol joined the server before you Mark and stole your skin. I thought the point of adding GUIDs to the entry_list was to ensure only a matching entrant could join but this is obviously not the case. Sutol is not in Jeff's list of drivers!

I just created the entry list how I was told  :P. Put the folder name of the skin behind the SKIN= line. If somebody tells me how to do it properly, it will be fixed for round 2, but if the skins was the only main issue, I can't complain.


Because as far as I can tell, he never applied  :P

From my understanding there was nothing wrong with the entry_list file but obviously I don't understand how this works as someone was able to join not in the list. They had to have a car, as the game was letting them join, so it gave them the first available free one. When MJ joined, as his stead was thus already taken, he took the next available and so the mix up continued. I'm struggling to understand the logic adopted here or what setting needs changing to ensure only registered drivers are included  :'(

Apologies to Pete for spinning into your path  :-[ I was trying to not block you too much and over did it into
the corner, after that I was a "passenger" Good fun these cars after I made an easy to drive setup
I was clearly slower in turns than some - Frex for e.g drove up behind me mid corner as if we were in different cars  :o
But if I gave it more front grip, my "fast in slow out" style threw me off at every corner.

It's on page 1 of Jeffs series thread. I think it would be best to have the link on the first post of the race thread really so new drivers know about it.

Regarding the driver entry file I am as confused as you Pete as assumed the idea of it is that only drivers on it can enter the race and with the skin assigned to them in the file.  ??? Worked well for my Blancpain series. Is there a server option that has to be ticked to force it to use the driver file parameters?
Otherwise we run the risk of a non regular driver rocking up and taking the place of someone if there is a full race (tho unlikely)

Why do I even make a series page  :P. Link to skinpack is added to the first post of every race thread, under the track links (lazy buggers  ;D).

Link to MJ's skinpack with historical skins can be found here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/wxlbcdkjrmudmyb/rsr%20skins.rar?dl=0)

OK thanks Jeffery, I would like to officially apply for the Season 4 race series please. I am sorry that I have caused so much confusion but on previous series I have been told that I was on the list even though I hadn't asked to be (thanks by the way). As for skins I was looking on the announcement for Round 1 and couldn't find anything, so obviously I'm looking in the wrong place and I still can't find it!

Once I have downloaded the skin pack how do I determine whether a particular skin is available and then how do I notify race control which available skin I'm using. Sorry to be a pain?!

Chris

You are now on the list, as can be seen here (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=14462.msg263195#msg263195).

There wasn't a link to the skinpack in the opening post of the race, but it was on the series information page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=14462.msg263195#msg263195) (under the drivers list). I now included a link in every opening post, except for round one, as that pretty much over now  :P.


You can see the selected skins in the driver list. Whatever is left, you can pick, or you can download a skin from somewhere else and link to it, so it can be included in the skinpack.

Pretty sure last night the server was "merely" passworded, as my name was not in the list of drivers (in yellow or white) on the connection screen, but I could join anyway with just a password.

I saw you spinning and thought if I brake I'll do the same in sympathy so I tried hard to get passed before you reached me. Sadly I wasn't quick enough. If I had more skill I'm sure I had enough time that I should have been able to avoid it. Thanks for the apology but these things happen, it obviously wasn't deliberate ;)

You were in the drivers file Simon

I don't doubt it, but all I can tell you is that my name wasn't listed on the lobby thing when I went to join the server. Everybody was in white, whereas normally you see some in yellow and some in white dependant on whether they have connected or not. So I wonder if the option to restrict to driver list wasn't enabled, or Kunos has broken it? It was fine cause the password restricted entry and didn't prevent anyone joining who wanted to.

Main thing is everyone got on, the system not working 100% worked for me :)

OK Jeffery, I've chosen Porsche_RSR_Esso_v1 from the skin pack in your earlier post. I seem to still be missing a lot of the skins though - #40 onwards, do you know where I could find those?

cheers Chris

The folder numbers  aren't equal to the car numbers.  No idea what genius came up with that.

Had quite some fun in these cars last night.  8)

Though it seemed I went abit of different direction with the setups. Changed the gearing abit, lowered the car and put the front ARB at its lowest to get rid of any understeer. Though the car was quite tailhappy it made for a fun ride  ;D

The quali format is pretty interesting, I went out and took it easy. Was about a second down on my pb being cautious and then I took too much inside kerb at the 2nd to last corner which made the left side bump up and down and I went abit wide going on the grass/dirt. This cost me time and it disqualified my lap  :'(
Had to start at the rear together with Felix. First few laps were pretty intense. I knew Felix and I were pretty similar in pace so I tried not to fight him too much and just get by the rest before we could duke it out. Managed to create a gap inch by inch and close down on fmg the last few laps. Got gifted 3rd as Chris ran out of fuel.

Love this track with these old-oversteery cars  ;D

Bridgehampton should be fun aswell. Definitely a track which suits these kinds of cars.


Not sure if anyone has uploaded the replay yet though : https://mkurv989.stackstorage.com/s/oQAUQg0wZ83gOfZ

ah so what you're saying is, I have got them then?

Download the skinpack and you should have everybody's custom skin.
To see which ones are available, just watch in game, as then you see the car numbers, which makes it a lot easier.

Pretty miserable outing for me. Just don't seem to feel connected to the cars in AC which gives me no confidence pushing them. Still, I had a couple of nice battles but as I'd forgotten how to switch the driver tabs on I had no idea who I was racing  ::)