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Round 1 - Spa-francorchamps

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September 6th - Password entry (on day of race)

Practise: 19:30 (45 mins)
Qual: 20:15 (15 mins)
Race: 20:30   45 minutes

Cars allowed:
Glickenhaus SCG003

Track:  Spa-francorchamps


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

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I'm liking the car here. Nice to be able to attack the curbs without the car spinning around.  ;D

I've also put my setup I threw together on ptracker.

Feels like an underpowered LMP2, is this what a LMP3 feels like lol. Suits me, less worrying about the car and more about how to drive it.

I have an appointment earlier tonight, but i should be able to make it back in time for the race. If not, you lot have fun!

Indeed, lets hope less focus on the car means more battles on the track!
Oh, and there is no definitve skinpack yet, right?

Thanks for the setup, haven't tested it yet, but all the setups I downloaded seemed to be bugged with maximum damper settings.


It is up now. Download link only on the series page, to prevent me from having to change a million links when a skin gets added.

I should give a try to it! I'm quite lost when there isn't Gavino to help me on the setup. I guess that the Red Bull must wait a bit to be on top again :)

Can't make this evening but hope to be around for most of the future races in this series. Have fun  :)

Has no one looked at the timings in the first post???
Is it the usual?

7.45pm practise
8:15 qually
8.30 race

It was a copy paste error from the Porsche series. Times adjusted. Thanks for the headsup.

Sorry I bailed, helped shift 200+ hay bales on Sunday and today it seems to have caught up with me. I can hardly move my left shoulder now. Once I crashed out I took the easy option. Good racing until then Shark and Postal :)

Dont take the hard tyres! completly changed the car, was 2 secs off and they would turn green and then cool down again during the lap

Rubbish race for me - Pace seemed OK considering my normal abilities in anything with an ECU, but I gently bumped NSFW in the Chicane at Fagnes and spun. Still don't know how I caught him so fast there, if anything I braked sooner  :o

After that I got collected by a spinner a few corners later, lifted to avoid him which threw the car out of control (Tires were red hot from the spin 3 corners earlier) so I clobbered said spinner pretty hard.
Trip to the pits to sort out my steering and rejoined 1 minute behind the leader - great start to lap 2  :(

From there it was just a battle to claw back some time and hopefully places, one was gifted to me when Picnic left - I then got passed Larry while he was in the pits.

Looking better than I expected until the penultimate lap: I didnt have enough fuel to complete the race! Presumably some of my aero damage was destroying my economy as I was using something like 1.3 laps worth of fuel per lap. My generous fuel load wasn't enough.
Pitted for a splash and dash but got pipped by Larry while stopped and couldn't get back to him.

Roll on the next one....

Enjoyed that. Car was great on this track.

For quali I managed to get the softs work somewhat. Though at around Pouhon they were all completely red temps.

Start was good and after a few laps I noticed Matteo, Jeffrey and Felix battling it out giving me a sizeable gap. Managed to not screw anything up though I had a few close slippery calls as the tyres were dying. Pretty much on hotlapping mode but I didn't mind it withthis car.  8)

good car and track combo, car was quite cool to drive around here.  :)

Had a decent qually and got best of the rest as usual tucked in behind the aliens. At race start I suddenly realised I had never tried a standing start in one of these!  :o but was good enough, losing out to FMG for a lap until his weird spin at Fagnes. Shame he fell off as although I clung to the top 5 for about 15minutes, they gradually pulled away from me whilst I steadily pulled away from those behind me.
After 20mins or so I was bored out of my mind running solely on my tod with a 10+ sec gap to the pack behind and with just the odd glimpse of nsfw up ahead in some corners  :yawn:  it stayed like that until race end so effectively I just did about 40minutes of solo hotlapping  ::)

Maybe it was the big track but for me, 45minutes in a grid of 15 cars is 15minutes too long.  :( I spent at least half the race just trying to maintain some focus to stay on track as my mind kept wandering to other things without any competition on track. It was dull, we need either more cars or a slightly shorter race.  :-\

My qually was horrible, only after my 4th attempt or so did I put a lap in.

Start was the same as the people around me, but I had to take La Source a lot tighter, so my car bogged down a bit there. Had Felix and nfsw right behind me before Eau Rouge, but was able to stay ahead with the help of a push  :D. Got a bit of a draft on the Kemmel straight, but couldn't get alongside Matteo.

I then expected Matteo to drive off, but I was able to get closer a few laps later. I gained a lot in Les Combes, but it was very hard to stay closer as these cars seem to suffer a lot from driving in the draft. At one point I was right behind Matteo through Eau Rouge, and my car didn't steer in and the front just lifted off the ground  ;D.

Had some great side by side action with Matteo as well. I overtook him at Les Combes, obly to get drafted past the next lap at the same place. I then got on the dirty stuff, which gave Felix a run on me and I got the Alonso/Palmer treatment in Rivage  :). Can't remember how I got past Felix, but I was within a second of Matteo most of the time.

I was about to say, he never buckeled under pressure, but then in the penultimate lap, he spun, gifting me second place.

Great pace Maikel, guess we need to step it up a lot next round.


May I ask why you opted for the hards? I saw somebody go for it during practice, but I thought it was a mistake.


You aren't 18 anymore Pete ;).


Great suggestion, let me just get some more cars  ::) ;). Depending on who joins, there could be more people next week, but this week we had 2 people I didn't expect.
Not going to shorten the races after 1 round. For me the laps flew by as I was constantly chasing somebody and if the race was 30 minutes, I wouldn't have been 2nd.

In the GTR2 days, we did 40 minute races, which were called sprints :P. Races of 30 minutes are really short for cars that are quite simple to drive, like these. That's more suitable for the classic cars, which will make a 30 minute race feel a lot tougher.

 

Quite a few 'other' drivers seemed to like this combo on stracker, did you advertise this over at kunos? (Just asking not having a dig). It might entice new drivers to join, it's worked before!

Horrible evening for me.
Qualifying went bad, race wasn't any better. Started and finished on P5.
I was nearly a whole second behind my practice pace, don't know why ???
Off to Elkhart Lake now, hopefully with a better result.

If I'm honoust, the amount of unknown people that did a lap on the server was quite low. That was often a lot higher with the Porsche practice server. I'm not counting the people that did 1 lap or did very uncompetitive laps.
There was a welcoming message on the practice server and the race is advertised on kunos forum.

I can't remember that working before.

I find myself agreeing with Jonzo on something :o :o, I thought 45 minutes was maybe 5 minutes too long for this type of race. I had no-one to race after I had dispensed with Stefan fairly early on. The rest of the time was spent improving my lap times, but I was still never as fast as Mark ahead so even if I had practised I still would have had no one to race as I wasn't the same pace as anyone ahead of behind me.

I've no idea where you guys were finding another 4 seconds on my final times as I was on the absolute edge for my fastest lap. I guess you weren't using the default setup like me, but I have a horrid feeling some of you were! As usual my fastest lap involved no off-track "cuts". I hate that PLP thing, it nearly always moans at me even when I've lost time for "cutting" ::). I only have it cause CORE wants it for their league.

If only MK had taken my advice to take 80 litres it might have been closer! ;D

I put my setup on ptracker for that Simon  ;)
Though its mostly just the default with a softer front.

5 Minutes, yes that would make a huge difference  :D. I saw you were improving your PB's during the race (as usual :)), so if I'm honoust, the fact that you were alone, has a lot to do with you losing time at the beginning of the race due to lack of practice. Maybe if you were a bit faster at the start, you'd be able to cling on to the car infront.


I used Maikel's setup, which was faster during practice, but I was struggling with it during the race. I turned PLP off as I won't be racing at CORE for a few months, as their car choices are so boring (GT3, GT4, GT2, GT4, MX5  :yawn:).

It can all change next round, maybe that track suits you better than Spa and you have closer battles.

I'm open for suggestions on formats, there is also room for people to create their own series (either via me or on their own). I'm just not going to change something that isn't proven to be broken after just 1 round :).

I was going to work at asking for 5 minutes off each week until it was down to 30 minute races, otherwise you may just ignore me (I would!)!  :P :-*

Next series will be 10 rounds of 2 hours at the Nords...with the Abarths, just for you  ;D

With only one other opponent...you. ;D

If the Abarths are as much fun as the NSUs in RRE count me in  8)

I didn't want to start a new series with a criticism as I know too well how that feels when I was organising  :P
But did feel the race was 10 minutes too long with nothing happening. I kept looking at the drivers positions  table and I don't think it changed for 30 minutes! Which meant everyone was just trundling around in their own position. Maybe there were fights going on but I didn't see another car behind so wouldn't know  :-\

I need a sprinkling of pace dust to find those extra secs a lap that the top 4 have otherwise I'm destined for a lonely series. I actually considered parking up last night at lack of action but stuck to it for the points.
Bring back the old porkers  ;D

Let's see if Road America mixes it up a bit more  :-\

Series if off ;D

NSU?

No power, little grip but respond well to lift off oversteer at a speed / rate I can usually handle. We had an awesome race at the Nordsclife where 3 of us were swapping places the whole race.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSU_Prinz

Join us one Thursday night, next race is https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=14545.0

Don't worry, I don't mind. Just giving my thoughts on why I do certain things the way I do :)

First half of the race it was me, Matteo and Felix, all withing a few seconds (with Maikel driving off :P). I was within a second of Matteo the most of the race. I only overtook him in the penultimate lap, so even with a 5 minute shorter race, it would have been 3rd for me instead of 2nd.
Not saying because I benefited from it, is the way it needs to be 45 minutes, as I had no idea at the time I picked it. There are often just more stories. And this race might have been boring for you 2, but who knows, maybe next week you are in an epic fight when all of a sudden....chequered flag. Then there will be posts, I wish the race was longer as we were having so much fun :D.


I have no idea how to do Maikel's pace, but these cars can corner faster than you might expect, which is a mindset I needed to adapt to. Hope the next series will float your boat more :).

I can't race RRE because it's triple screen support involves single screen rendering and that makes me feel sick and I ain't going down to a single screen!
Presumably I would have to buy the car?
I would not be popular racing 3 nights of the week!

I need to spend some time with settings for Rift support, sat way to far forward or FOV is wrong. AC just works with it.

You would but if you just bought a single skin it's ony a couple of quid.

You would here :P

Succes ballast/handicaps??  (finding cover...)

:stupid:

It's something I'll consider for future series where I find it might be of benefit.

But I can already predict it won't have the effect people hope for. It might get you closer to your standard rival if he is a fewn tenths faster, but ballast will never achieve more than that. Or we should attach a trailer to Maikels car  ;D

In the next Porsche series he can drive a Macane against our 911s ;)

First of all I must say I'm an idiot  ;D ;D

Before the start I fell into the Jeffrey's trap  ;D and decided to go even safer than his advice, so I started the race with 108 litres instead of 100  :dots: :censored:  ;D
Than Maikel disappeared :D

So the race started. Me and Jeffrey had a pretty good fight during the first laps with a couple of overtakes in which we both risked our lives (as Thomas Brown would say :D ), than Felix added to the party, and I was able to put a small gap between me and the two followers that in the meantime had exchanged their position a couple of times. Jeffrey didn't give up, and we put together in an "hammer time" mode that will last for about 15 laps. Jeff was gaining less than 1 tenth per lap on average, but was enough to catch me again during the last two laps.
Don't really know what happened at the second of 'Les Combes', cause my car suddently tail out throwing me directly into the wall at high speed with less than 2 laps to go. It's a shame cause I was ready for the fight, but seems that my tyres weren't.  :'( :'(
Fortunately I managed to recover and defend my wood Medal with a destroyed car by the final attack of nsfw. Race over.

Grats to Maikel for his superior pace, to Jeff for his tenacity, and to that damned podium stealer of Felix for the lucky strike  ;D ;D ;D


VDA Brothers, Where Art Thou?  ???

I had too much fuel too at 105L, didn't even reach low fuel light at race end  :P. I dropped my final drive ratio one notch at qually end so put a bit extra fuel in just in case as wasn't sure of the revised fuel hit.
Other thing I noticed in early laps is these cars don't seem to draft  :-\ I got no tow at all up the kemmel when I was tucked up behind Fmg. Must have been the fabled f1 dirty air  ;)

I hardly got a draft from Matteo, but he was on lower wing settings. That could also explain why he flew past me on the straight, so that might not have been the draft. The dirty air is very much a thing I think, as I almost got airborne when the car didn't steer in at Eau Rouge while being tucked behind the car infront  ;D

I definitely got drafts in the those first few laps when i was behind someone. Worse was the dirty air going through the final fast left hander before the bus stop, meant understeer off into the greencrete, it was quite apparent (and not cold tyres!).

I remember doing a race @ Spa in a F138 over at Core quite some time ago.

I was chasing someone and finally got abit close behind at Pouhon and the car just completely lost any downforce into the corner spinning me around.
I've been abit more cautious about dirty air in high downforce cars ever since.  ;)

I should watch the replay but unfortunately I didn't saved it.

Jeffrey managed to got my draft only 3 times during the race I guess, but was evidently higher then me on his wings. After he managed to pass me, I had a couple of strange moments with the dirty air I was taking following him as somone already noticed, but I managed to stay close to him for the whole lap simply anticipating my braking points and exploiting a bit of trail.
Before La Source, I was thinking that the Kemmel straight was the only point to overtake him, but I should have risked my race at the Eau Rouge.... so I bet I lifted up a bit on that lap but I managed to exploit really well the draft offered by Jeffrey's car on that lap due to my lower wings, passing him well before the braking point. Sometimes it's a psychological question, but it makes me feel better to be in the position of the hunter, rather than to be the quarry  ;D

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7tammhynde3vll9/ks_glickenhaus_scg003%40spa_20170906222737?dl=0

In case you want it :).

I don't suppose you wanna send it to me? I was too stupid to see it on pTracker for the last race. :-D

I've put me new and improved one on the pTracker for this race aswell  8)

Thanks.