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British GT3 Series - Snetterton 300

Booking:7:45 (15mins)
Practise: 20:00 (30 mins)
Qual: 20:30 (15 mins)
Race: 20:45   (50 minutes)

Cars allowed:

BMW Z4 GT3
Ferrari 488 GT3
Mercedes AMG GT3
Maclaren 650 GT3
Nissan GTR GT3
Lamborghini Huracan GT3
Porsche 911 GT3 R 2016
Audi R8 LMS 2016

In order to compete in the race you will need the following DLC's:

dream packs 1,2 & 3
Red pack
ready2race
Porsche pack 3

Track:
https://actrackrebootproject.wixsite.com/ac-track-re-boot/snetterton2017

Lap times:- TBC


Time of Day Setting: 14:00
Weather: Clear
Start: Rolling
Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: x2.5
Pit-stops: mandatory pitstop to be completed between 20 mins and 30 mins into race. at least 1L of fuel to be added or tyres changed

Ballast:

80kg - ChrisR
60kg - Felix
60kg - Jeffrey
20kg - nfsw55

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

Damage: 70%

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

Notes:
(1)PLP App - Not used in this event. Cutting will be monitored on replay and penalties issued for excessive cutting.
(2)Please make sure you are fully aware of the SimRacing.org.uk Rules especially the
rules about in-game chat messages.
(3) Please exercise caution when pitting as some tracks have a speed limit.
(4) Please follow the SROUK guidelines for using kerbs etc. Please keep 2 wheels on the track surface (kerbs do not count as track surface)
Excessive cutting of corners will seen as cheating and the results may be altered to reflect this.

(5) Start procedure
*It will be the pole sitter's responsibility to complete the first lap at a pace that allows the rest of the grid to follow comfortably
*There should be no overtaking or hard accelerating/braking
*Drivers should avoid getting too far behind or too close to the driver in front
*Approximately 20 seconds before crossing the start line the pole sitter should slow down to a speed of no more than 50mph (80km/h)
*Each following driver shall close up directly behind the driver in front also maintaining a speed of no more than 50mph (80km/h)
*The pole sitter should maintain that speed until they cross the start line and then accelerate away to start the race (lap2)
*Each following driver should only accelerate when the driver directly ahead does (they do not have to wait until crossing the start line)
*No overtaking is allowed before crossing the start line at the completion of the formation lap
 

The server is up and running for the next round of the series at Snetterton on the '300' layout.

FYI :

I have changed the pit window to 10 minutes during the middle of the race to mirror the real life series

Any chance to get the track without making an account at nogrip?

Initially hoped we would use this version:

https://actrackrebootproject.wixsite.com/ac-track-re-boot/snetterton2017

we certainly should be using the 2017 version!.

I hadn't noticed that version. I will need to try it on the server to make sure it works ok, is it better quality than the one I chose? as far as I know the layout hasn't changed since the '300' layout was introduced?

@Picnic, would you be able to upload this version so that we can try it out?

I've restarted the server with the rebooted version.

Thanks Picnic

I HAVE UPDATED THE RACE POST WITH THE NEW TRACK LINK

Can we also sort the cars with ballast too for this one :)

Can i suggest that setting the server up with as long a practise and qually session that you can and a race of a couple of laps?

Having a race length set of 300 laps is pointless

I hope that was someone checking the server. at 20:30.. Have now lost connection to it, its dissappeared

It was me updating the server with the ballasts

@spanner, the practice server has been set up with 120min practice/5min qually/5min race all week. where are you getting this '300 laps' from? is the server not working properly?

The server is working fine, i noticed the same 300 laps when i looked at the server, but when i joined it and exited it it came good.

What a great track  :), being a PS4 convert I really feel sorry for all those still on PS4 as they just don't know what they are missing.
That last corner is gonna be tough on race day  ;D

Any objection to my joining these? At least until the next GPL season kicks off..

I'm undecided what I'd drive, but don't mind taking something slower/under-represented so I don't cause issues for the championship battle.

I could even be tempted with an SLS to keep myself out of contention if you fancied adding them - I've liked them since first seeing them in a VLN race  back in about 2011 or so
Otherwise I'll have a think and get back to you with something I can see out of!

The more the merrier :)

As for car choice, you can choose anything off the current car choice.

If you let me know your car choice i can add you to the booking list, otherwise just log on on the night during the booking session (7:45 - 8pm)

I'll take a Merc please. They seem under-represented.

This track feels different from the original one, but cant get a good flow around the place. That long fast right hander right before the last corner is going to catch everyone out!

Ive driven the proper 300 every year for last 5 years so know it very well. Be interesting to see what this mod version is like. Sadly I don’t think I’ll make the race as I’ve been hooning around Oulton Park  8) so been away a couple of days and I’m totally shattered. Will see  :-\

I've done around a dozen laps, not once did I get that last corner right  ;D

Going up to Oulton for the first time to see the British GTs. Cant wait. Driven it loads in PC2 and love the track.

It feels a good version, pretty similar to the PC2 version especially the profile of the first corner and kurbs, as well as the last corners. Cant drive it in that either!

I've only driven the 200 in real life (and passengered the 100 in a friends car), but the outer section feels and looks pretty realistic to me - certainly better than the older version I had from a few years back.
I need to take my 180 out in AC to see if I can trail brake coram as well as in real life (probably not, as I keep crashing the Merc there ;D)

I went to Donington on Thursday for the media day to watch them testing, plenty of cars in the GT3 class this year! Astons are still my favourite, pity we don't have any in AC

They will be in ACC! Hopefully next year when the new car arrives, someone will get it in a sim.


180?

Anyone got another link for the track, the link in the first post just goes to a blank page for me?!?!?

http://www.mediafire.com/file/7jusyhlw54h2y4t/snetterton.rar

The link on the 1st post is working for me, however the above is the file download that page links to

Please can I be added, in the Lambo

Thanks. Yeah its working for me now too. Weird. :blink:

180SX - Silly foolish Nissan (AKA the hole in my bank account)

Question is the server up!

Yes

ok thanks! I had to download it. better version I just need some laps on it!

ok

FYI i will be turning the praccy server off at about 7:30 to add the extra drivers etc

If someone can explain how I was disqualified and kinked from the race for not pitting - after having pitted around 5 minutes earlier (and put the wrong tyres on!) please do  :censored:

I had been having a great race with Jeffers, who somehow managed to keep me behind despite clearly having a less than ideal car.
Then nothing :(

 :'( My race went like this, bumped on formation lap bumped on first race lap the pc froze into a light blue screen, Win10 informing me it had encountered a problem. Win7 Ultimate now out of drawer ready to go back on PC.  Not how I wanted first race back after 5 weeks to go!!

I got DSQ aswell. Why was the pit lane not open till half way through the race?

Well I did not see that post. All I saw was the OP stating  -
"Pit-stops: mandatory pitstop to be completed between 20 mins and 30 mins into race. at least 1L of fuel to be added or tyres changed"

What a great race again :).

For a few minutes I had pole, but then people started to overtake me and I dropped down to 4th. Flavus gave me his 3rd position, if that was because of last race, then you shouldn't have, that was already way behind us. Or maybe it was because of something else.

Me, Alfrance and nfsw were able to pull a bit of a gap towards the rest from the start of the race. At first it looked Alfrance would drive off into the distance, but we were able to hold on to him. I had a feeling I could go a bit quicker in some parts, but I lost time in some importane corners, so I could never attack. Then the BMW went wide and we were promoted 1st and second. Before that, fmg had also joined the fight and we had some great side by side action. At some point I was considering letting him past, as he was faster, so I was hoping he would then attack nfsw and I would benefit from that.
I didn't have any special strategy as I didn't want more weight at the start. I added 94L which was way more than I saw everybody else add, but I only finished with 1 lap of fuel, so I wasn't that royal with the fuel (6,8L per lap).

Came out of the pits around 4 seconds behind nfsw, who went very long on his first stint. I was worried he would go for the softs in his 2nd stint, but I saw he picked the mediums again. I was slowly able to close the gap to him, but I was never able to try anything if he didn't make a mistake and we finished within half a second I think.

Time really flew by and eventhough these cars have been done a million times, they are always a good formula :).

Amazing punctuality on the server BTW, it started at exactly 20:00  ;D.

Did you go in 1 lap too early? I went in as soon as possible and I think you were already gone behind me at that time?


Yes, was good fun. I was driving quite safe as this track has some punishing corners, but when you attacked I took a bit more risk in the corners, which gave me just enough on the exits. If you have setup tips on how to make my car more ideal  :-*? And don't say, take out the weight ;).

@BOB, Sorry for the contact after the backstraight, I braked early but then got distracted looking in my mirror and cocked up my turn in for the chicane.

With regards to the compulsory pitstop, I think I may have set the server up wrong (I must have set the window to 25 - 35 instead of 20-30 mins)

For future reference a message comes up at the top of the screen during the race telling you when the pit window is open and a count down to when it closes

But the message in the game itself said the pit window was from 15 minutes into the race until 15 minutes from the end of the race. I pitted approx 30 mins in - i.e. half way

Wasn't there already some sort of message at the top?

The pitlane opened after 25 minutes, I didn't check when it closed, but the pit window was on top of the setup screen when you were in pitlane the whole time, so I didn't even now about the other times. I read  the  opening posts so well  ::) :angel:

I have just checked the server settings, I made an error on the pitstop times  (I put 25-35mins instead of 20-30). Sorry for the confusion  :-[

Not sure what happened there then, you should have been in the middle of the window, did you have the message at the top of your screen saying the pit window was open?

The sky is falling. Another purple lap from me, on the last lap of the race. I qualified on race tyres as the porsche is impossible to do soft tyres, they overheat after the warmup lap. I changed the front pressures at my pitstop and it made a big difference, was going faster and could see that I could get that purple lap if I just persisted at it. Best thing is that I didn't pit 4 times cause I wasn't totally incompetant this time around!

I didn't read when the pit stop was supposed to be, just followed the prompt at the top of the screen which said between 25 minutes to go and 15 minutes to go.

I always know it's you putting in purple laps when I see a purple pop up from stracker  ;D.

Good racing everyone, chrisR jumped the start and gaind 2 positions as well as apex jumping straight off the line then what looked like purposely ramming BOB.

Sorry Bob!  I got confused when that Porsche disappeared on the grid. and I don't know what happen when our cars touched! I was waiting for you to go past but it seemed like you didn't want to go past! So sorry! 

No worries little mistakes happen, I should know, make plenty of them unaided. :thumbup2:

that was me in the Porsche that disappeared. Long story short, I dropped my keyboard and accidentally esc. back to the pits. Started from the pits, thought that I should drive through the field to get back to my qualifying position on the warm up lap but then thought - no I'd better start from the back, so dropped back. Sorry for the confusion.

Enjoyed that one, despite "incidents"
Qualed better than usual, the Lambo is much more friendly than most of the other cars for me
never driven it before, feels similar to the 911, but seems a bit more forgiving.

Went off after the bridge early on trying too hard, then got wrapped up in someone else's spin, and
took a little damage, and lost more time, and probably places, but was fun dicing with a few people.
Found I was slowly catching Postal in the 1st half up to the pits, but then after the pits, when I somehow
came out just ahead (possibly because of a spin) and could hold the gap for a while
then started losing ground rapidly despite doing PBs  :o did you swap to softs? or figure how to drive the car?

Well, the 650 is a nice drive, however it has some nasty habits when on the edge.. I thought i had a decent setup coocked up, but online it needed some more tweaking to make it behave.

After the hectics of the first laps it was a matter of getting in clean laps and stop the soft tires from over heating. This was a bit of a gamble with having to change tires and refuel. Made things more complicated by spinning in the last corner just before i had to pit.
That meant i had lost quite a bit of time with my pit stop and when i reentered the track i saw Matt flying by in his green Lambo.

Got more of a rhythm and flow of the track in the second half of the race. Combined with better tyre temps I was able to slowly reel Matt in again. I could see he was upping his pace too, as i was
setting Pb's and just gaining a tiny bit each lap. Finally with a lap or three to go i was in striking distance. But Matt defended well and altough I could gain in the corners my 650 was no match for the power of the Lambo on the straights.
It was a beautiful dice and kuddos to Matt. I hope we can do it all again at the next outing.

Great to see many pilots on the grid yesterday evening!

... and even greater for me to get the pole in the qualy, a very very rare event for me!

Unfortunately I couldn't manage to make all the race without mistakes so I lost 2 positions in the first one and other two in the second mistake, always in the same turn (after  the bridge) ... probably avoiding them I could stay in the fight for the first place till the end of the race, even if my pace in the second stint was not so good.

Finally I was very lucky to get the podium due to Flavus and FMG involuntary retirement ...

Congrats to Jeffrey and nfsw55! their pace in the second stint was still very good and definitely deserved the first 2 places! :clap:


PS: I'm also very pleased that my ping keeps stable around 60, while in the Okayama test race it was higher than 130...

I went in when I ran out of fuel - for some reason despite my race setup having been saved as a full tank I only had 76 litres in at the start.
When you then remove the 2 minutes wait from the start of the race on the replay, this suggests I pitted about 20 seconds too soon (I noticed the pit window message in my head lining during the pitstop).
As I've never been on a server with a pit window programmed in I didn't even know it was a thing, technically I was still within the limits as posted here though which is annoying - glad I'm out of contention due to missing the start of the series anyway.
But given my brakes strategy in the race I doubt I'd have been guaranteed to see the message anyway - Anyone who watches the Australian Touring car series will be familiar with SVG's alterations 'on the fly'.
Last night I was varying my brake bias by about 8-10% across the lap, I think the maximum number of turns without adjustment were the final 2 at the end of the lap. As a result the system message at the top of the screen was mostly displaying Brake bias for the entire lap ;D

Probably explains my ability to dive bomb people from quite far back in the hairpins ;)

My race was semi ruined by the pitstop anyway - as I happened much sooner than intended I had to alter my settings for the stop. As I was using my rift this took some effort and I accidentally set hard tires.
I think I came out in about 5th (I'd over-shot and had to reverse into position :-[ ) and was unlikely to climb more than 1 place higher by the end of the lap.

Great racing again guys.
Qualified in P2 and was able to follow Alfrance for the first 15 or 20 minutes. I found a good rythm and the gaps to P1 and P3 remained mostly equal during this stage. After Alfrance went slightly off, I was promoted to first with Jeff not far behind me.
I decided to pit two laps before the pit window closed, but overshot my pitbox due to never practised the pit entry on this track before :D
I feared that I lost P1, but in fact the gap increased by one or two seconds.
Luckily this remained my only mistake this evening and I was able to hold Jeff behind me, who closed the gap to me in the final stage of the race

Btw: I really like those british tracks. I've never driven Oulton Park or Snetterton before, but both are surely on my list of favourite tracks now (which isn't the case for Rockingham tho ;D)

And a technical question: Does anybody know what the "AC lap timing bug" is (at Stracker). I'ts listed under "Penalties" here: http://stracker.simracing.org.uk:50041/sessiondetails?sessionid=2316#
Mostly very low numbers, but Postal for example lost 3 seconds... ???

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