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Practice: 19:45 (30 mins)
Qual 2: 20:15 (15 mins)
Race: 20:30 ~ 30 Mins

Cars allowed: Porsche GT3 Cup
Track: Salzburgring
Time of Day Setting: 13:00
Weather: Dry

Start: Standing
Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption:  Normal
Pit-stops: None required

Server: Simracing.org.uk E5GT3
Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Championship Standings (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=627&theme=4)

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rules about in-game chat messages.
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non pack track occasionally)
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Excessive cutting of corners will seen as cheating and the results may be altered to reflect this.

Just done a bit of praccy for tomorrow nights race, these cars a bit of a handful, especially in the fast sections!

@phspok, I am a bit confused about the race date, it says 15 feb at the top of the thread but 25th Jan in the championship page. Is the race tomorrow night?

It's definitely tonight Stephen, ta for the heads up. I think when I first entered the events I made a mistake with the dates.

And the times? We are not in BST yet!

This combo is going to be tough; never got on with the track and the car seems less than fun! And no time to practise before the race.

Heck you lot want everything. You'l be asking for a car choice next  ::)

Part laziness, part senile dementure, but the pages are automatically copied from previous ones
so stuff may be in them that was not intended. On a good day I spot it and edit, but on a bad
day, like I am rushing for a train stuff gets missed.  :hang:

Probably wont join tonight, feel pretty bad.

Sorry to heat that Spanner, GWS.

Hi Guys

was going to join tonight havent been around for a while but i noticed that the server in on quali not practice?
JP

Good race, Thanks to all who turned up  :thumbup1:
Glad you came along Stephen, gave me someone to race for a change  ;D

I was surprised that John reckoned these cars are hard. Plainly I am not going as fast
but the only thing I struggle with is the braking. And I am rubbish at Porkas (or anything rear engined)

They are hard if you practice for the wrong race.. Somehow thought it was Zandvoort tonight  ???  :laugh:

Congrats podium.

These are quite hard, lots of understeer and then you can coax in a packet of oversteer. Makes them quite lively.

Enjoyed the race but messed up that 1st chicane a couple of times to many. Was pleased I never hit anything and kept in generally going in the right direction for the whole race.

I think I did a lap or ten when I bought the cars (no idea where, wasn't Salzburg).

I've got a telly hooked up to the 'puter atm, to watch the Daytona 24 stream (should the qualifying return, I'll go back to it).
Started the game, saying "whats the worst that could happen?."  :-[  Loaded the setup I'd created in those couple of test laps. The fov with the telly, was horrendous, left to sort that. When I came back, the setup seemed ok, though I was locking up a bit much. I was still adjusting the brake bias as the grid formed, worked out ok, on the whole. Except maybe, when I out broke myself into the turn one chicane (sorry Dieter).

No idea who was in Pete's car, whomever you are, please return Pete. Grats sir, grats to John and everyone else too. Sorry again Dieter.

No worries, I was struggling myself anyway. If you could properly chat in this game I would have said not to wait. But thanks.

great race well done Pete! you seem to have the hang of these  ;D

Not really much to fiddle with these on set up, but after watching Dan Cammish in car videos (from the carerra cup) I am sure he was having a better time than me driving these porkers. Every time you tried to push it would bite you!! and the brakes cant be right! you have to literally lightly press the brake pedal or it locks up! so trying to out brake someone is going to be very tricky! still is was fun just need to know what Pete's secret is  8)

JP

Braking kept catching a few people out I think. I will reduce braking for the next one.

My race Callander had Zandvoort for the race - that's where I had done all my practice up till last night!!! Agreed.

Was the feed broken last night? I couldn't see anything but thought it was me.Ignore that I've just seen the other topic.

Seems RRE suits me much better than AC where I'm struggling more and more. More RRE please  ;D

Hmm, sorry for the confusion about the event, I never look in the calender so miss stuff.
Have been here before if I change an event date, everything is good except the calender
doesn't update. Have fixed it in the past, but can't remember how I did it.
  :hammer: The next round for these IS AT ZANDVOORT  :hammer:

Hey Pete, just a thought but what wheel/rotation do you use? AC is set up well for 900 degree wheels, but is poor for low rotation wheels with no way to adjust properly in game. I struggled too until very recently when I came across a discussion about setting Scale value correctly in the config file, which has greatly improved steering feel for me (still not perfect, but much improved). Don't know if this would help you too?

Ok, thanks. Still says Jan 25 in the race announcement thread though, so you may want to change that.

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=14790.0 (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=14790.0)

Re comments on brakes, I think that they possibly overheat on a fast track like this and then grab or lock. After a few laps the chicane at T1 became almost impossible for me either locking under hard braking and sliding down the escape road or snatching causing a spin. :o

With my practice at Zandvoort I had no problem at T1, I could brake at the red marker and change down from 6th to 2nd and negotiate the turn and get into 4th before the next turn; I certainly felt it was like rowing around the track with the gear paddles!  :laugh:  :rockon:

Ok, Thanks Frex, I think it's fixed now, except the pesky calender, which seems to have a mind of it's own.