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Title: RRE Season 5 (2018) Race Room FAB935 - Salzburgring - Jul 5
Post by: phspok on June 17, 2018, 10:01:01 AM +0100
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Practice: 19:45 (30 mins)
Qual 2: 20:15 (15 mins)
Race: 20:30 (30 mins)

Cars allowed
:  Gr5 Fabcar
Track: SalzburgRing
Time of Day Setting: 13:00
Weather: Dry

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


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Title: Re: RRE Season 5 (2018) Race Room FAB935 - Salzburgring - Jul 5
Post by: spanner on July 03, 2018, 08:13:44 PM +0100
Not sure this is much of a birthday treat, not a fan of this track, or tbh the car but not driven it much.



It really does pay to keep doing the leaderboard competitions, i've just found 500vrp in my inbox from doing the DTM around silverstone GP a few weeks back! Shame theres nothing to spend it on atm.


Title: Re: RRE Season 5 (2018) Race Room FAB935 - Salzburgring - Jul 5
Post by: frex on July 04, 2018, 08:44:50 PM +0100
It really does pay to keep doing the leaderboard competitions, i've just found 500vrp in my inbox from doing the DTM around silverstone GP a few weeks back!

Really? Interesting..




Title: Re: RRE Season 5 (2018) Race Room FAB935 - Salzburgring - Jul 5
Post by: frex on July 04, 2018, 08:52:44 PM +0100
Fine with me, but.. haven't we just done this car/track combo a couple of weeks ago?


Title: Re: RRE Season 5 (2018) Race Room FAB935 - Salzburgring - Jul 5
Post by: phspok on July 04, 2018, 09:18:18 PM +0100
Yes, I thought it would be an easy one to learn for the 1st proper race


Title: Re: RRE Season 5 (2018) Race Room FAB935 - Salzburgring - Jul 5
Post by: goldtop on July 05, 2018, 06:03:47 PM +0100
No chance of making this one as once again it's baking hot in my man cave and neither me nor my pc is up to it  :surrender: Have fun.


Title: Re: RRE Season 5 (2018) Race Room FAB935 - Salzburgring - Jul 5
Post by: picnic on July 05, 2018, 06:32:02 PM +0100
That's a shame GT, just set 2 fans going in mine to hopefully make more comfortable for later


Title: Re: RRE Season 5 (2018) Race Room FAB935 - Salzburgring - Jul 5
Post by: frex on July 06, 2018, 11:00:16 AM +0100
Enjoyed that. Spent the whole race chasing Matt - getting closer under braking and through the twisty bits, only to see him get much better exits out of the corners and pull away again. Mistakes dropped me back a bit once or twice, but good fun. Good drive Matt, congrats.


Title: Re: RRE Season 5 (2018) Race Room FAB935 - Salzburgring - Jul 5
Post by: spanner on July 06, 2018, 12:18:20 PM +0100
Horrible car and horrible track. Why people seem to think this car is quicker than the other group 5's I don't know!

Wont be driving it again


Title: Re: RRE Season 5 (2018) Race Room FAB935 - Salzburgring - Jul 5
Post by: picnic on July 06, 2018, 12:26:13 PM +0100
I certainly learnt nothing from our previous outing here in this car as I went off at least 3 times again  :-[

Hopefully it gets easier at other tracks.........


Title: Re: RRE Season 5 (2018) Race Room FAB935 - Salzburgring - Jul 5
Post by: phspok on July 06, 2018, 12:38:43 PM +0100
Always open to suggestions for suitable tracks. Otherwise you will just have to trust my judgement  ::)
The tracks for this series are not set yet, and could be easily changed anyway.

The tracks for the DTM92 series are following the real 1992 series where we have those tracks
and I have substituted something similar (ish) where needed, so I would prefer not to change those.

For me to win in a porch of any flavour is just wrong  :o
If I can drive one round here, then anyone can.

These are not included in the Gr5/GTO series because in the past, good pork herders (like Tudor) were
able to get them to go significantly faster than the other Gr5 cars. I am usually slower in these than
the others, but then  I am normally rubbish in anything with the horse behind me.

Dieter and Pete were a little faster, but I managed to only mess up a couple of times, and had no
major offs, so stayed in front. Pete messed up the 1st chicane lap 1, allowing me through after
I made a slow start, then pulled out a bit, only to have Dieter slowly gain, then fall back, repeat, repeat


Title: Re: RRE Season 5 (2018) Race Room FAB935 - Salzburgring - Jul 5
Post by: BillThomas on July 06, 2018, 01:40:52 PM +0100
All the Grp 5 and GTO cars are a handful for me but I will continue to fight them! I race for fun and hope to continue for a few more years.  :wheelchair: :rockon:


Title: Re: RRE Season 5 (2018) Race Room FAB935 - Salzburgring - Jul 5
Post by: picnic on July 06, 2018, 02:28:20 PM +0100
I don't know what people did with their setups but as I saw the engine damage indicator flash on the back straight during practice so I lengthened top gear. Looking at the time differences I lost time down the long back straight most laps to Dieter and he says you pulled away better than he did! I'm sure there is a lot of time to be gained if you sort out a setup that works for you.


Title: Re: RRE Season 5 (2018) Race Room FAB935 - Salzburgring - Jul 5
Post by: BillThomas on July 06, 2018, 03:34:07 PM +0100
I don't know what people did with their setups but as I saw the engine damage indicator flash on the back straight during practice so I lengthened top gear. Looking at the time differences I lost time down the long back straight most laps to Dieter and he says you pulled away better than he did! I'm sure there is a lot of time to be gained if you sort out a setup that works for you.

I played around with the gear ratios and found that a higher ratio gave me fastest lap but with the Turbo Capri, at Imola, I found over reving at the end of the "straights" gave the fastest lap. Like you say a lower gear helps acceleration out of corners.


Title: Re: RRE Season 5 (2018) Race Room FAB935 - Salzburgring - Jul 5
Post by: frex on July 06, 2018, 03:50:49 PM +0100
I don't know what people did with their setups but as I saw the engine damage indicator flash on the back straight during practice so I lengthened top gear.

I did the same. Gained about 5kph at the end of the straight but I'm not sure whether it was faster or slower over the whole lap..


Title: Re: RRE Season 5 (2018) Race Room FAB935 - Salzburgring - Jul 5
Post by: phspok on July 07, 2018, 09:32:57 AM +0100
Not at my house where I raced on Thursday, so don't have the setup to hand.
I generally get a good exit, because I tend to maximise rear grip in the setups
So slower through the twisties and on the power early. Can catch people out
as I may brake a bit earlier than they expect, it's not test braking, I just lose
the rear if I try to carry too much speed into a corner with rear engines.

Busy weekend - Southport air show/Silverstone/Number one son's birthday/wimbledon
oh and some blokes are kicking a ball around in Russia.... migh get a hour for
event admin, but may have to wait until next week.