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

Round 1 - Mugello

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January 10th - Password entry (on day of race)

Practise: 19:30 (45 mins)
Qual: 20:15 (15 mins)
Race: 20:30   40 minutes

Cars allowed:
Porsche 962 Short Tail

SKINPACK (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=14771.0). Top of driver's list on the opening post.

Track:  Mugello


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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Don't forget these things are on the menu next week and not the 599's ;).

Yeah baby  O0 Looking forward to these :tt1:

When possible could you please set the server with this combo. Thanks!  :)

SRW is running his AC event this Sunday so notionally the server's his for the next few days. I can set it up but don't expect it to be there. However I might have a cunning plan but that'll have to wait until tomorrow.

Fair enough. Let us know then when it's on  :)

Can you not run two instances of it?

Oh that spoils it ;) I need to play around with batch files and config file renaming for this to work, hence tomorrow.

I have a Rackservice server with stracker which I could setup for 962c at Mugello tonight, if that helps.  http://managerdc4.rackservice.org:50359/lapstat

Would you want just practice, or qualifying & races also?  I wouldn't bother assigning everyone to their chosen livery, but might be able to insert a skin pack.  Would you want it passworded?  Let me know.

I've done enough on the server to allow 2 instances to run simultaneously. Note we'll still only run one when a race event is in progress. I've run out of time just now to sort out stracker for multiple instance but that should follow shortly. I've left practice at Mugello up for your delectation.

Good job Pete  :thumbup1:

When you can get stracker up and running that'll be great as its the only gauge we get as to how we are faring laptime wise against the grid, especially with unknown car/track combos as its hard to know if you are on the pace or not.  Usually not in my case  :P

Just to get in the mood further, motorsport TV are showing past Le mans race highlights. I wake up on sunday morning to come across them showing the 1990 race highlights  8)

 ;D Already set to record, cheers.

Don't have that channel :(

Its online as well i think. I get it through sky


EDIT oh well its not free. I think its been available in the past on some newer freeserve HD and Free sat devices

https://motorsport.tv/join

yeah been watching that all week, superb footage!  8) Its every decade so some corkers with 1960,70,80 races etc

I'm in! ;D

Stracker shows the fuel being 2,5x, but I guess that's because of the event tonight, as this series will use normal fuel settings.

"To be the Hard or Med- that's is a question!" (c) Shakespeare  ;)  ;D

Not sure really how Ptracker/Stracker handle multiple servers  :-[ The live web data showed ok for SRW's Silverstone race but for the Porsche event the data kept flicking between the 2 servers although the map always showed Silverstone. I never got as far as trying PTracker but the Stracker INI files should have unique port numbers for PTracker to connect on. Still needs more investigation.....

Pete, you just set 1x fuel eating in server_cfg and all will be ok   :)

The Porsche event has always been set at 1.0x Fuel, seems either Stracker or Ptracker were reporting the other server's setting.

Still not good so will be missing the first one of the series.

As long as the server is correct, rest isn't really important.


Getting better is priority.

Im hoping that between tonight and wednesday i will receive my new gpu in time for the race.

If not, im going to be stuck uaing a 560ti on a monitor... anyone who has used VR extensively knows how alien it feels to use a monitor again..

Fingers crossed :)

Conversely I'm borrowing a rift from a friend this week and hope to be racing with that!

I hope it's rubbish or I'm going to be poor pretty quickly :D

 ;D Can assure you a trip to the store to buy one is imminent, just remember the first few times you use it can make you feel a little nauseous.

I’ve been on the verge of buying one for ages. It’s crazy that you can’t try them anywhere considering how much they cost and the potential for nausea if your senses can’t cope  :-\

They are considerately cheaper now and to be honest the little bit of nausea only happened the first couple of times using. It is another dimension to Assetto Corsa and I would find it strange to revert to monitor. On a side note, it didn't make me any quicker.  ;D

You can book trials with them in John Lewis stores, look on the Oculus website to see if any are near you. Nearest to me is in Reading. I'm not driving an hou and a half each way to try it on a game I'm unlikely to want though!

grrr, I am pretty miffed after tonights practise session   >:( I really thought I was going to be able to mix it with the big boys up front when I saw their laptimes as I had been doing regular 1:43.2's to 4's and even banged in low 44's on full fuel whilst using offline hotlapping over the end of last week, (where you chase your own ghost car). But get online tonight and the grip was completely different and my setups that I thought I had perfected were next to useless  :taz: what a flipping waste of time that was!  ::)

Oh well, back to where I belong  :P

Re the Rift, I went to John Lewis in Bluewater over xmas expecting a nice display for it, hooked up to demonstrate, but all they had was it stuck in a poxy small glass case not even wired up!  :(
I really don't know whether to just buy one and chance it but expensive way of finding out if its going to make me hurl  ;D

I sent you my setup via stracker, but I guess you didn't notice  :).


Can't you just buy and return if you don't like it? A friend of mine bought one and returned it week later without a problem.

No I did not notice or had gone off to have dinner. I did look on stracker but it was in a new session after you guys left and there were no setups. Thanks anyway  :)

You have to book in advance, it seems to only be available when specialist sales staff are around and have setup for you.

I know someone who ordered and received it, didn't like it and simply returned it. (UK)

I meanwhile would never go back to triple monitors.  VR is ace.

Yes, VR is a future. But i'll wait till these devices becomes in more ( up to 2-3 times) in overall picture quality and game support. IMHO it will be in 2-3-4 years later. They should to pass some evolution way. But i appreciate guys who are owned VR today. Sorry that i am not  :) 

I think cv1 and the current vive are good as an idea of what to expect in the future.

They are both useable if you prefer immersion over sharp graphics.. there is no way you could call them bad atm but yes, they could be better.. i dont put the cv1 on anymore and think woah! This is low res.. it just looks normal to me now.

If anyone is on the fence, go to amazon and buy one, if you dont like it just return it. Simples.

Mark, I'm in West Sussex if you fancy coming over and see how you get on. My bet is that you will get a bit of motion sickness but if you persevere this will go.

I bought a set of Oculus for my son for Christmas and then I asked him to install Assetto Corsa so we could try it out in VR (my graphics card - gtx660 - cannot handle VR). Big mistake on my part... Now I have to buy a new gpu for my computer because I can't get ou of my head how much better it is to drive with VR than with a monitor.  ;D

Was there a soundmod for this car? I can't find it.

Damnit. All this talk makes me thinking about VR aswell  :P

Ps; I've put my setup on stracker if anyone is interested. Didn't need to change  a whole lot except the gearing

I just don’t know how you guys are getting 1:41’s here, especially on Hards  :o ???
For me the car is awful on Hards despite trying various setup options. I’m alright on meds but the rears turn yellow after about 5 laps  :(
Gutted as I really wanted to run well in this car  :'(

Sutol..thanks for the kind offer on the VR, may take you up on that if I’m over your way or near sometime soon. Otherwise I’m tempted to buy it from JL’s at £349 and just return it if i don’t get on with it.

I don't think anyone here is doing 41's on hard and race fuel. Softs and low fuel is what I ran.

Was actually surprised at the way the tyres work. Hards stay up to temperature and the softs don't overheat too much.
Not sure how long those hards will last though  ;D

Mark you can always check any single lap on stracker. Click on "Sessions" => http://stracker.simracing.org.uk:50041/sessionstat (http://stracker.simracing.org.uk:50041/sessionstat)

Then select the session you want to check clicking on a single line, after that click on the line of the driver you want to 'examinate' and the entire list of the laps done in that single session will appear. If the driver has the ptracker active, you will see even the amount of fuel loaded. If you want to check the tyres used on a specific lap, just click on the line of that lap, and you will get the infos.

All the 41's are with quali fuel and soft tyres ;)

Thanks Matteo, that’s a small relief. Every time I joined the server someone was hurtling around on Hards but with a 1:41 pb showing so assumed it was done on those tyres. I’m still about 2 secs off though in qually trim  :( yet alone race..  :surrender: :boat:

You are not alone ( c) Michael Jackson . You will drive with me ! But be warned- i am using my own gears ( because can't improve lap time yet 0,001 )  ;D Take a good distance to my car, guys!   :D Combo is beautifull but i cant be fast and stabil here. So, choice will be stability as more as possible with maximum aero  :laugh:
Mark, i know the cause of all our troubles- you and i in sum have 100 + years old  8)

Interesting to see listed on Stracker is that people are running with downshift assistance on! I've only ever run with auto clutch on but in these manual shifting cars I've always struggled with actually driving them. Tried switching it on yesterday which certainly helped in some circumstances.

didn't run many laps last night but was certainly noticeable how the wear level had dropped in the tyres. only tried half a lap on hards but certainly felt the difference on the front end. Think I might stick to mediums.

I think it's an error in stracker, as quite a few run H-pattern and I'm fairly sure that's all without autoclutch.

There was a way to turn off autoblip somewhere in a config file, but I never noticed the difference when I altered that.

Yes, the auto-clutch icon is bugged on ptracker.
These cars should be driven full manual.

The heel-toe is a simple technique, you can learn it in a short time (indeed should teach before getting a driver's license).

It's so sorry that i am using paddles here. And Autoblip. Long time i driving online ( approx 10 years) and doing it at night time. Too loud rumble in gearbox shifts is bad things at nights for other peoples around. I using H-Shifter only when day fun in brilliant great dirt rally game. Yes, i know that cars which is containing manual shifting is goes faster ( paddles are adding a extra time for shifts in car code). But this is my way and i found my own fun when driving this cars anyway.  :)

Skinpack is up.

With the H-shifter I guess Autoblip is not allowed. With this car is surely a bit easier to downshift if compared to the Lotus 25 in which I broke a lot of gearbox during my tests. :P

In 2 minds how to race tonight, I'm only slightly slower in the Rift - and as said the experience is awesome - but actually having to use the mirrors properly and not having the warning arrows easily visible makes me worry I might become a hazard.
And recommendations from our resident VR users?

Helicorsa is your answer.  http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/helicorsa.5199/

Also Crew Chief  http://thecrewchief.org/

I was considering that for this race but prefer racing 'naturally'. When I give the Rift back to my friend the only reason I'll even have the virtual mirror on is because I can't see the real ones in normal 2D mode ;D
I'm quite enjoying having to physically look left and right to check then on the straights in the rift.

But for a one off while it's new to me I think I should maybe try Helicorsa....

I can always turn it off once the pack thins out I guess

When I got the Rift I was determined to race "naturally" and use mirrors, look about etc.  But then I realised I was a danger to others.  It's a balance between real immersion and not losing too many friends.

 ;D I just use the rift with nothing else on, probably why I'm always in the way. The drivers side mirror is OK but the offside is awkward to see. But that's how its supposed to be, its a simulation after all.

This put a disturbing image in my head  ;D

 ;D ;D SCREEN.....

Sigh, was wayyy off thepace, even mor than usual. I don't understand how people can go
round the corners so mych faster on hards when I' on softs or meds.
Avoided all the accidents, and had someone on my blind right corner, and got off line
spun, then waited to join, but joined clumsily and by the time I had got going again
I was a road block, and someone drove in to me, so left in disgust.

One word: gutted.... like a pork on a spit  :P

Great race though but kinda ruined it when I made such a stupid mistake and ended up 5th :'(

I spent almost the entire first half of the race within half a second of Felix. I had my " Rüssel" right up his tail the first few laps, trying to work out where to attack.
Tricky to do but we had a few great door-to-"Kotlett" racing going on at the first turn. Our times were pretty much identical so it ended up who could make the fewest mistakes. Saw a couple of wobbles on Felix's car and had quite a few times that the "Schwanz" was sliding all over the place myself, but still no real mistakes to which I could overtake. Then around the 10 minute mark I almost had him at T1 so after that I was on him like a pig chasing his prey..... ???
Though I completely screwed that up at the fast uphill righthander where I just hit the grass on the first part so the car wouldn't steer and it just went straight into the gravel  :'(

Bit of an anticlimax but overal a great race. Looking forward to the rest of them. Shame I squandered a few points here tonight though.

What a disaster, didn't have enough fuel and had to pit and dropped a load of places at the end. But something  is wrong with the standings, I re-overtook Spanner and Colmeor on the last lap  ??? I should be 9th or 10th. (don't know where fabri was in relation to me at end).

Spent the whole race in 6th with a big gap to the cars ahead and those behind so it was pretty boring on the most part though I was very happy to be in 6th for this round.
Then with 3 laps to go my fuel was looking desperate so I had to pit for a splash and dash but for whatever reason it wouldn't let me pit or acccess the put menu  >:( so I had to hit 'escape to pit' and it gave me a bloody 20 second hold penalty. I was fuming as several cars shot past and I rejoined behind two of the leaders.
I let Felix past but then he fell off and I shot past again, I wanted to get out the way but not lose time as I could see two of my position opponents ahead. I let Felix past on the sf straight but he then braked much earlier than I expected so I again had no choice but to go ahead on the inside or risk contact (sorry Felix).
My focus was purely on catching spanner and Colmeor ahead and after stalking their battling cars I got past with a couple of good overtakes to regain a couple of important places. The last 3 laps were the most exciting of the race for me!
Can't understand why my fuel calc was so out  ??? Nor why the standings put me back behind the two I overtook? No way was I a lap down on the few that past me in the pits and I rejoined behind them on track as I could see them ahead as Felix was closing to lap them.

Not a good start at all.

At the first corner I realized that the base of my stick shift was not well anchored at the desk and was falling down :'( :'(
I struggled all the first lap to return the shift in a decent position and I tried to tighten it again on the straight but I was almost killing me and fmg, so I decided to park my car on the grass and replace the shift, but after a mishift my gearbox suffered very bad damages and turned immediately orange.

1 minute lost  :hang:

After I summoned with kind words all the saints of the calendar I tried a desperate come back. Was quite successful but, mishift after mishift, I finally ended up in braking the gearbox.
Race over.

The race of Massimo was similar but shorter. He did only one mishift but I guess he didn't notice that he was destroying the gearbox with that VR thing on his head. He said that he had no warnings by the game and he didn't realized how that happened. Remains the fact that it happened, so race over at the first laps.

Great first race for the VDA. I was searching an adage to sum up our race and I think this is perfect: 'The first step is half the journey.'

Grats to Felix, Fabri and fmg ;)

What an utterly epic race 8)

I was hoping that any short-falls in my setup would be over-come by the slight practice advantage I probably had over the field (According to my odometer app, which had 0 miles on it for the Porsche before this season - I had done roughly 1500 miles while practising and setting my car up at Mugello as I was enjoying it so much :whistling: ).

That combined with how the Rift seemed to be allowing me to plot my route through corners so much better, meant I had a legitimate front-of-grid pace as soon as the race got underway.
I actually thought I'd lost a spot off the line as I had too much wheelspin - Helicorsa showed the car next to me slowly coming level and moving up past me, confirmed by the Mk2 eyeball once it appeared around my door.
Then at T1 the pack moved in my favour (finally!) and I found myself not only taking my spot back but getting alongside the Marlbro car (Jeffery I think?).
The sensation while fighting side by side was awesome, and continued afterwards as I was instantly able to attack Manteos while also having to keep track of Jeffers - who was just far enough behind to be invisible on Helicorsa and required searches of the mirrors to find 8)

Once past Manteos when he pulled off to make repairs I pressured Fabri as hard as I could as Jeffery was in turn pressuring me. This seemed to give me a boost into a 'higher gear' as my laptimes improved into the 1:43's regularly, which allowed me to get right onto Fabri's rear wing and also to drop Jeffery a bit - giving me a chance to breath again.

The fight with Fabri was more a war of attrition. One lap I'd get closer, the next he'd pull back ahead again - then I finally got into a position entering the S/F straight and got a run on him.
I knew from the race so far I could easily out brake him if I could get even slightly alongside so it was looking good for what was by then 3rd.
Then the one and only VR fail of the race struck. I knocked the car out of 5th just as I was starting to draft up behind Fabri because I momentarily thought my gearstick was where the Porsches' was!
I think that lost me nearly a second and took several laps to close again - I think Fabri had a wake-up-call of his own as he never allowed me to close in the critical areas again after that.

About 15 mins before the end of the race I ran wide onto the grass/gravel while pushing even harder in an attempt to close the gap again to a passing opportunity - I dropped 2 or 3 seconds as a result and suddenly found Jeffers appearing in my mirrors again.

I soldiered on for a bit with a few mistakes caused by my car balance shifting with the lowering fuel weight and as a result stayed pretty static - after a few laps of fiddling with settings (working by Braille as I obviously couldn't see my gear stick!) I found something that was - if anything - even nicer than my starting setup.
Another lap to get to grips and I decided it was solid enough to really push with - so I did ;D
Instantly I dropped back into the 1:43's. I think I did my fastest lap in this state as I was suddenly able to feel the car so well I could 4 wheel drift almost everything (it felt like the Bellof video at Spa looks). I think this took Fabri completely by supprise, the first flying lap I did knocked a second out of his lead - the next lap was still over half a second as he started to respond.
I don't think I ever stopped closing until the flag dropped, but he had done enough to stop me from catching him in time :)

A fantastic fight, well done to Felix for taking it home, and Fabri for claiming 2nd.
Equally well done to all who made it to the finish. The replay's gonna be a looker from tonight :angel:
Bad luck to Maikel for hamming it up ;)

Many of you probably realised that i was just sat in pits this race.

I have managed to secure a gpu but its only a 560ti until i get mine back.. so it wasnt up to the job of running ac and i would of had to mes about changing monitors.. all of which i didnt have time to do.. between sorting my luggage out (flying to singapore, currently sat in the airport waiting for my full english to arrive) and the mrs screaming at me i managed to sneak away and watch the race from within ac.. and what a fantastic race it was :)

Im going to miss next race but i will be back for round 3 and trying to claw some well needed points!

Wow Wow guys! I see it was so dramatic race for all pilots , especially in leaders part. Cool and dramatic.
I got same dramatic but very fun race too. Dam'n- i woken up in 10 minutes to qualy. I hate my alarm clock in deepest night  ;D
So, qualy was ok for me- 8 start place - it must to be so ( looking to our aliens team laptimes  :)
After start in 1st lap i was good in saving position but dangerous mistake of Ceolmor , who returned to track from the sliping on the cerb  and hit my car set me out to gravel and set my position to last  :D.
Ok. I have no question to Ceolmore because it's brings to me a chance to have a good race and battles from last place. But my front was 24 points of damage..
There are many things happend in race to me . In final i have 6 place and good chance to battle with Mark J ( my strategic opponent ) next rounds. ;)
Congratulation  Felix, Fabri and FMG!  Very cool race and combo. I love Mugello a lot!
Here is my onboard .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCciDk-903g
Main things in short:
0. Cool start. Thanks to all pilots for patience and skill .
0.43 Risky Massimo passing. MissShifts?
0.54. Time to walk to the gravel for last pos  ;D
3.00 Why PorkoRosso86 let me pass him?
8.48 Beginning 1st battle with Ceomor. Was fun, thanks! True spirit of great Mugello begins! carRadar app small bug was fixed but still exist!
11.09  1 sec of slipstream is magic!  ;D
18.30 approaching to "sweet 3 friends group"  ;) I love you guys!  :)
19.32 Shit happens with me. Mark was slip in exit, i am begin to attack. I am breaking hardly in curb ( Mark is not) . Result- car contact and grass. Sorry Mark- it's more my  mistake. I should be more calm here and overtake some later  :)
21.15  2nd battle with Ceomor begins. Was fun, thanks again! True spirit of great Mugello!
23.19 Mark mistake...  :(
26.32 approaching to Peter
27.47 Bob mistake. Tyre wear...  ??? Pos 7.
34.21 Than passing Mark J who is eating coffee and sandwitch in pits    ::)
To finish in pos 6 after Maikel!  :o
Thanks guys for the race. See you are all in next tracks!  :)
Sorry for my Eng..



 

Was a bit dramatic for me, never tried the car before this week, no good feeling, don't like, don't understand..
anyway, qual 10, very far from the main positions.
Start, and maybe had much fear for my cold tyres. Stack bit long at Luco (try to stay far from the other cars), 2 tyres on grass and I lost many positions.
At materassi corner tried to avoid a car that made a spin, I slowing down too (we was in yellow flag), but somebody overtake me in full throttle on my right side and hit my car.
Next lap, same scene. Car over the track attempt a dangerous reentry and hit me hard, car destroyed.
That's why I decide to give the position, Baikal: I was damage and dangerous for your race.
Box, I changed every destroyed part and returned around 20 second from the last.
Passed the rest of the race to try understand this car.
Hope Monza, one of my prefered track give my a bit of luck next time!

Apart from a 'fun' LMP1 race, this was my first serious race with simracing.org.uk.  As I am one of the slower drivers here, I had a very good plan going into this race.  No mistakes on the first lap, drive conservatively throughout, keep it on the tarmac, let others fall off and gain a reasonable position.  Well it was a good plan ..........

First lap I miss a gear and have that awful moment when the car is grinding away in neutral and you are damaging your gearbox.  This caused me to go wide, loose control and spin back on track, hitting someone.  At the time I didn't know who, but now know it was Balkal.  Really sorry mate.

So now I'm hot lapping on my own near the back.  One or two drivers ahead go off, so the plan is sort of working.  Balkal catches me up.  We have a little clean tussle, but he is clearly faster so I don't mind him getting past.  I try to stick on his tail for a while but he has better acceleration and pulls away.  Then later I see he has gone off.  I get past him and then a little later we have a repeat of our earlier battle.

Hot lapping again, but then I am gaining on I think Bob who is a little way ahead.  My mind wanders to thinking how much fun these cars are, and I then immediately spin!  On my own again, but I catch up spanner in the last few laps.  Last lap I am all over him like a rash, but Crew Chief is telling me that the big orange car (MarkJ) that has caught up behind us is lapping us, so I try not to impede his progress and let him pass.  (Turns out according to sTracker that he is two laps down due to a very long pitstop, so he was only regaining a lap on us, not lapping.  I am going to have to have a stern word with my Crew Chief.)  Spanner is now a few yards ahead so he crosses the finish line before me.

Apart from the stupid errors on my part, this was a great race.  I don't think Mugello is best suited for these cars, but some of the other tracks are going to be awesome.  Thanks everyone and see you all in Italy.

How could I be two laps down? I pitted from 6th place with 3 laps remaining whilst something like 20 secs ahead of the chasing pack then only spent about 30 secs in the pit lane getting fuel ??? I saw Alex and few other go past down the sf straight and I rejoined with the two lead cars going past (hence the blue flags). The only cars that lapped me are those 2 leaders because of the stop, not the rest of the grid.

Looks like quite a lot had a fun race, unfortunatly, I wasn't one of them.
In practice I was doing mid 43's with race setup, but during the race I was nowhere. I just had no front end whatsoever.

Had a decent start, but going into 2nd gear I slipped a bit too much, so I couldn't gain anything. Heading into turn 2 I had 1 car right and fmg's nose on my left. At that time I didn't know who was on my left, so I cut my loss and steered away from the apex, giving room, but with hindsight that wasn't necessary, as at that time fmg backed off out of the move. It made me ran a bit wide and lose the position anyway :P. Not that it really mattered, as I didn't have the pace to keep him behind anyway.
I couldn't match the guys infront and there was a gap behind, so I was alone the whole race. Only the last 10 minutes Maikel tried to make smoked bacon, but luckily Felix backed off on the last lap (I assume) to prevent going for 1 more lap. Finished right infront of some loud oink oink sounds.


4 Or 5 people said before the race they were going for roughly 80 litres, so I can't understand why you were stubborn  ;D. I used 3,2 litres a lap and I calculated 23,2 laps, which I rounded up to 24 laps. That came to 77 litres of fuel and I always take 1 lap extra, because it doesn't matter anyway.


Mugello was used during the 1985 World Sportcar Championship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_World_Sportscar_Championship). I picked all the tracks that were used that year and had to substitute a few due to them not being available. I have no idea how Mugello has changed over the years tho.

Does 'escape to pit' give you a penalty?

Yes a 20second hold penalty ..which feels like an eternity  ::)

Maybe the game doesn't count the lap you escaped on?

I was wondering that Jeff, maybe back to pits and start of same lap. If all you get is a 20 sec S&G then cross the line, escape to pits and repeat. Got to be quicker than doing a 105 sec lap.

Looking at the results I see you had a 271 sec lap MJ, that's more than 2x your normal laptime so yes you did drop a lot of time.

Oh for ffs   :'( what a waste of all that practise and race time  ::) why couldn’t I pit normally? The car just sat there with no option to do anything. I even tried forward and reversing to make sure it was in the correct pit markings but nothing happened.  ???
How disappointing.

Did you try pressing the arrow keys?

No I didn’t press any keys. Been quite a while since I did a pit stop during a race in AC but thought we just normally park in our pit box and a pit menu pops up  :-\

Only myself to blame for not putting the correct fuel amount and then not knowing the pit procedure (if there is one). But for fuel I did 40 x 60 secs divided by the fastest 1:41 laptimes and then stuck an extra 5 lites in.
When you guys said 80L I just assumed you were using shorter gear ratios and different wing.

Yes Mark. I remember a race online when i just go to pit for normal and sheduled pit but nothing happens. I done my pit here only when i pit in second lap.  SO. If you planned a pit , try to popup pit app window for test BEFORE you coming to pit. ( for self-check)  :)
Another one but i see online when sheduled tyres change was't done in pit.( i have video for it) . SO doublecheck and try to change values in race BEFORE pit.It's AC.  ;D

I think since the introduction of the pit config in the setup menu, it's now the idea to set it up beforehand, that way as soon as you stop, they get to work, instead of selecting what to do. If you want to change something before stopping, you need to press an arrow key to get the window to pop up.


What did you use to see the fuel per lap? I divided 2400 by 103 as I thought that'd be the racepace.

Tough but enjoyable drive this car here. With everything going on in the first few laps I seemed to end up running directly behind Jeff and Mark, in 7th struggling to work out how I get there! But then the guys behind started catching and I started to make a few mistakes getting distracted looking at the timings. Enjoyed running with you all near the back of the field!

Little confused as to what happened there Baikal, I lost the back slightly, actually thought you'd touched my backend, realised you were along side so tried to give you the apex but was expecting us to both get through the chicane, so kept my line, expecting a bit of room but probably should have a been a single line through there. Sorry you ended in the gravel.

Tried to workout why, from my live-tracker why Mark J seemed to be constantly in front of the leader, yet according to my listing was at least a lap down, do we not get blue flags.

Last lap or so we all seemed to close up, but no one seemed to be wanting to let the leader through, Mark was getting a bit aggressive and wanting past so decided to just let him past as I knew it wasn't going to change the result.

Sorry Spanner, was only aggressive as thought I was fighting for position on the final lap! That combined with my fuming outrage at not being able to splash and dash from a healthy 6th place meant I wasn’t taking any prisoners. If I’d known it had auto dumped me a lap down  I would have just retired  :'(

As Jeffrey says; you have to tell the put crew what to do before you put in using the arrows or by pre-setting the apps in your setup.

Hey, I wasn't criticizing your track choice or saying that you were wrong to include Mugello.  I think the circuits we have in this series are brilliant and a great mix and I love that where possible you have mirrored an authentic championship  It was just that having tried some of the other circuits in the 962c, the more open, sweeping tracks are my favourites.

Under pressure... that'd be the theme song for my race  ;D

Qualify went better then I expected when I got the pole. I was a bit surprised by that because I expected, specially, Maikel to be faster than me.

I managed to do a good start and kept the first position braking for T1. I knew Maikel was faster and that I wouldn't have an easy race if I wanted to keep him behind me. I directed all my concentration for corner exit to try to defend. But still a couple of times Maikel managed to get along side me braking for T1. One of those times I had a bit of a wheel lock and went a bit too wide bumping side-to-side but luckily we both managed to keep it on track without losing too much time. Other time I had to try really hard exiting T1 so that I could keep in front for T2.

The I saw Maikel going straight ahead in one corner and first I though it was some connection issue but then I realised that he had actually lost a few places. After that the pressure dropped but I kept pushing because there were still a couple of fast guys not too far behind. And in the last couple of laps I had to do a few evading manoeuvres to avoid being hit by Mark  ;D and crossed the line just a couple of seconds after the race time was over.

It was a very tight race.
I started very well and I was third at San Donato corner; I did the first laps with very cautious, because of the cold tires and the weight of the fuel. After a few laps I see the FMG's yellow car that followed me very closely.
He put a little pressure on me and forced me to push hardest. A lap he was perfectly in the slipstream ready to overtake, but he missed a gear and this saved me. I think he was hypnotized by the red "pois" on the back of my car. We have studied that skin for this reason, and it works!
At half race I did several fast laps, taking some space on FMG. He then reduce the gap at few sec, but I managed to keep the 2nd position despite my problems with the tires.

I saw the battle of the leading pair, fantastic. Maikel was really a pirate with a knife between his teeth. Red Number!

Do you mind slowing down next time, I'd like to experience it as well and I'll tell you afterwards if it worked ;)?


(https://lyonsmouth.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pirate_pig_boots.jpg)

Sorry guys I missed the race, I thought it was this evening.... Opps!

 :thumbup2: Judging by the amount of enthusiastic post race comments it would seem this car has been a big hit with all. Personally found it a challenge but very enjoyable. Keep them coming.

Microsoft Paint skills +1

I found it more of a challenge than you did :P I just got slower and slower as the race went on, you were very patient each time you were stuck behind me. Thanks for that. :)

Not patient at all, all on to keep with you, I suspect you had a tyre problem last few laps which slowed you. Your best lap was quicker than mine.   :thumbup1:

Bah both amazon and John Lewis have put the price of their rift up to £399  ::) nowt like price fixing  >:(

I actually found it on Google, didn't even have to do it myself.  ;D

Google skills + 2

Though I think I'm gonna try to fit this skin in every other car I'm ever gonna race    :o  :P

They were only £350 for about a week while they were on Sale over Black Friday ;)
Not that I nearly bought one at the time or anything.... ;D

Unfortunately i had to miss this race. Looked like good fun!

No even a week ago they both had it at £349 ..damn I’m normally an impulse buyer  ;D
I have got a 10% off code for curry’s..tempting  :-\

Ah, Boxing dayweek sales then! :P

Don't worry, what with HTC/Steam announcing an improved Vive coming out the price should start to drop further on the rift and (normal) Vive headsets.
Although I'm tempted to wait until a higher res model comes out, spotting the kink at Riverside in the 917TA is almost guesswork for me - not helped as I wear glasses!

The new Vive Pro has almost double the pixels of the current Vive, and slightly smaller screens, so resolution should be much improved.  Don't know what the price will be though.  You would think that Oculus will bring out something similar soon.   Could all mean a lot of second hand VR sets on the market.

Just for you Mark - I recorded this before giving the Rift back today.
It should have been in 720P but Youtube seems to have royally screwed it up!

This was taken from the replay, but I tried to mostly look as I would have been in the race to give you the idea. Annoyingly the headset re-centered just before the lights changed so you get a funny angle for a few seconds while I was feeling for the keyboard to re-centre the view :D

https://youtu.be/7T2mBPgi_nk (https://youtu.be/7T2mBPgi_nk)

I also took a live recording from the 917TA at Riverside on full boost, that was epic - especially finding all the hidden details that made it onto that car!
I can edit and upload that if you're still interested, hopefully that will actually come out in 720.....