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Title: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: Jeffrey on August 27, 2017, 09:50:57 AM +0100
Password: see above (#post_event_password) (released 24hrs before the race)

Round 6 - Paul Ricard

(https://s2.postimg.org/9wbkqrx3t/Screenshot_ks_glickenhaus_scg003_paul_ricard_26-.jpg)

October 11th - 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:  Paul Ricard (http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/paul-ricard.6115/)
TRACKPACK (https://www.dropbox.com/s/ft2eyvf0w9tc163/Trackpack%20SCG003.rar?dl=0)


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

(http://www.blancpain-gt-series.com/timthumb.php?w=565&src=%2Fimages%2Fcircuits%2Ftrack-ricard.png)


Title: Re: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: picnic on October 05, 2017, 08:42:48 AM +0100
Jeff which track layout do you want to use? Blancpain, WTCC or Tourism GT?


Title: Re: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: Jeffrey on October 05, 2017, 09:11:39 AM +0100
Jeff which track layout do you want to use? Blancpain, WTCC or Tourism GT?

Blancpain  please,  the one with the long straight.


Title: Re: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: Stefan aka Postal on October 06, 2017, 12:36:52 PM +0100
I'll be missing the last round as i will be on holiday that week. Happy racing and see you at Brands!


Title: Re: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: Jeffrey on October 09, 2017, 12:36:07 PM +0100
I'll be missing the last round as i will be on holiday that week. Happy racing and see you at Brands!

Same for me, have to miss this one  :-\.


Title: Re: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: Jeffrey on October 09, 2017, 02:29:53 PM +0100
I just created the Lotus 25 threads, so I'm bumping this back up :).


Title: Re: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on October 11, 2017, 01:19:24 PM +0100
It looks like it's subs time again folk's  ::)

Please give what you can to help us survive  :notworthy:


Title: Re: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: Manteos on October 11, 2017, 09:40:40 PM +0100
I've to apologize with Chris Redman about the incident. Mine was not an overtake attempt, but I totally missed the braking point. I'm really sorry about this, cause that move ruined both our races.
I hope you will forgive my mistake. Sorry again  :'(

Grats to Jeffrey, Maikel and Felix for the Championship podium.  ;)

Hope to see you for the first race of the Lotus 25 champ, with a bit more training than today. Bye chaps  ;D


Title: Re: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: ChrisR on October 11, 2017, 10:12:09 PM +0100
I've to apologize with Chris Redman about the incident. Mine was not an overtake attempt, but I totally missed the braking point. I'm really sorry about this, cause that move ruined both our races.
I hope you will forgive my mistake. Sorry again  :'(

Grats to Jeffrey, Maikel and Felix for the Championship podium.  ;)

Hope to see you for the first race of the Lotus 25 champ, with a bit more training than today. Bye chaps  ;D


didn't ruin my race :)


Title: Re: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: Mark J on October 11, 2017, 10:43:25 PM +0100
B'ah not quite the last round I was hoping (and practising) for....scuppered by a flipping Win10 update just before I fired up AC  ::)
It fubared my steering/ffb  >:(  as soon as I tried to turn hard in a corner it would lose ffb or limply spit me off track like it couldn't handle the steering input  ??? Not had it in any practise sesh upto tonight so assuming it was the win10 update.  :-\

Anyway, meant I was mostly 1 sec a lap down in race trim and I could only prevent the mishap by taking smooth wide steering into the corners. Any handsawwing or sharp turns caused the repeat problem. I hope a re-calibration solves it.

Surprisingly, despite that I still finished 5th or 6th !  :o after some good fun chasing Matteo, who was quicker but seemed to have as worn out tyres as I had for last 10 minutes.

Cant say I loved this series but still enjoyed each round in a way and quite enjoyed racing this car even though it does nothing for me automotively. The races were generally a bit too long for a sub-20 car grid sadly, but had generally a good fight early on in most rounds, and liked most of the track/car combos.  :)

well done to JR for organising and to those who won the series top 3 places.  :thumbup1:


Title: Re: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: Simon Gymer on October 12, 2017, 09:00:38 AM +0100
Well done Team Shark for the team championship win and Jeffrey for winning the championship with one round to spare!

I've always hated Paul Ricard and my heart sinks everytime I see it on a race calendar. Usual zero practice, took my Monza setup and quickly added 2 clicks of gearing when I found myself bouncing off the limiter on the back straight. I was pleased to put it on the grid ahead of MarkJ despite qualifying on my race setup. :-* Now I see he was having problems so I feel like a fool!  :laugh:

Race was going ok, but got bored in the first half with no one to race and nothing to drive me on, so I let Mark and Matteo catch up. Well that was a big mistake, because once I started to push in front of them to keep them behind I overcooked it into the double right hander corner after the fast sweeper at the end of the long straight and ended up spinning and toasting my tyres. This was possibly a blessing in disguise as I lost so much time I ended up behind MarkE and ChrisT so spent the rest of the race chasing them down and eventually overtaking them which was just enough to keep me ahead of MarkJ in the championship! :P

I have yet to try the Lotus 25, it's probably been 15 years since I race old F1 cars (from the GPL days of sim-racing), so this may be interesting. From recollection the braking distances are the biggest "challenge".


Title: Re: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: picnic on October 12, 2017, 09:16:11 AM +0100
It must be a Team Shark thing, I don't grok Paul Ricard and hate racing here. I've got a gamy leg again so all in all my mind was not in the best place. I also found Maikel's setup too loose for me especially in the fast right at the end of the back straight. A spin and broken windscreen on lap 4 allowed an early exit  :-[

Apart from one lucky race in the US these were all disastrous events for me. Sadly a tricky to drive Lotus 25 doesn't bode well for the next series either. Not tried it yet but I suspect the default setups are a bit lacking so if people want to share their work I'm sure I'm not the only one who might appreciate it :)


Title: Re: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: Jeffrey on October 12, 2017, 09:32:46 AM +0100
keep me ahead of MarkJ in the championship! :P
That is one close finish you 3 had  :o.


I have yet to try the Lotus 25, it's probably been 15 years since I race old F1 cars (from the GPL days of sim-racing), so this may be interesting. From recollection the braking distances are the biggest "challenge".
Biggest challenge for me is the downshifting. The thing only has 5 gears and because some long straights, the gearing is very long, so you have to be patient while downshifting if you don't want to end up going backwards.

It must be a Team Shark thing, I don't grok Paul Ricard and hate racing here. I've got a gamy leg again so all in all my mind was not in the best place. I also found Maikel's setup too loose for me especially in the fast right at the end of the back straight. A spin and broken windscreen on lap 4 allowed an early exit  :-[

I always thought PR was a loved track by pretty much everybody. All that blue around the track should attract Sharks  ;).



Title: Re: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: picnic on October 12, 2017, 10:18:26 AM +0100
All that blue around the track should attract Sharks  ;).
I think that's the problem, all I want to do is go off and swim in it  :'(


Title: Re: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: Maikel K. on October 12, 2017, 11:42:19 AM +0100
I guess I'm one of the few who loves this track  ;D

Managed pole as I found out softs don't work and I was half a second quicker on the mediums. At the start I was paying too much attention to what was happening behind me and Ibwas making too many mistakes. Luckily the 3 behind me were having a close battle so after a few laps I got into my rythm and I drove off to victory.

Enjoyed these cars. Not sure how good the battles are gonna be in the lotus 25 as I found the 49 to be easier to drive. Too m7ch sudden oversteer when braking. Could be a setup fix though.


Title: Re: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: spanner on October 12, 2017, 12:27:37 PM +0100
Always enjoy PR as a track but have grown to dislike these cars, Feel like an LMP2 or 3 but the tyres are very sensisitive at times, in the slow speed corners it feels like a GT.

Had a good race with ChrisT I think we were within a sec all race as a maximum. Managed to finally drag past down the straight but then over cooked it at the the long tightening RHer after it.

Not drivien the Lotus 25's but surprised to hear people say they are not nice to drive. Expect to turn up but haven't driven the cars yet.


Title: Re: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: Sutol on October 12, 2017, 12:38:54 PM +0100
I started off enjoying these cars but in the end I found the lack of rear view really annoying; my TomTom's got a bigger screen than that rear view thing. Still had a great race trying to keep Mark E behind me. I knew that if I could keep him behind me by more than 0.4s before the back straight he was unlikely to slip stream me and get by. The moment it got to 0.3s he did just that on about lap 20. Fortunately a lapse of concentration gave the place back to me. Felt guilty (well sort of) as he'd stuck patiently close behind me for most of the race.

Right by all accounts these 25's are a bit tricky so better get practising.

Chris


Title: Re: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: Mark J on October 12, 2017, 08:00:13 PM +0100
Joint 5th with nsfw, i'll take that  :euro: and only one point behind Sharky boy (thanks to those lacklustre layabouts ChrisT and MarkE !!  ::) :P )

Second series in a row I've finished 5th. knocking on the door of the alien club  :laugh:

I like Paul Ricard, think its a good track and a very good mod of it. Do think the cutting app should be used here as looked like a few liberties were being taken considering the amount of cut warnings I saw others ahead getting  :hammer:

Looks better in evening sunlight though  ;)


Title: Re: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: Jeffrey on October 12, 2017, 08:28:56 PM +0100
Does anyone have the replay or was the first lap clean?


Title: Re: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: spanner on October 12, 2017, 08:46:18 PM +0100
If i'd known i would have let Shark through sooner!


Title: Re: UKAC Season 5 Glickenhaus SCG003 - Paul Ricard - Oct 11
Post by: Sutol on October 13, 2017, 12:03:49 PM +0100
If i'd known i would have let Shark through sooner!
yeah it's not nice having a shark nipping at your heals