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Round 5 - Laguna Seca

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Championship Table :- https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=669&theme=4 (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=669&theme=4)

Practise: 19:30 (45 mins)
Qual: 20:15 (15 mins)
Race: 20:30  2x20 minutes (2nd race reverse top 10)

Cars allowed:
Alfa GTA

Skinpack - https://www.dropbox.com/s/1h4q2j6dvdh33rx/Alfa_skins.rar?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/1h4q2j6dvdh33rx/Alfa_skins.rar?dl=0)
extract to here:-
C:Program Files (x86)SteamSteamAppscommonassettocorsacontentcarsks_alfa_romeo_gtaskins

Track: Laguna Seca (Stock track - full circuit)

Live Timing: stracker.simracing.org.uk:50041/lapstat (http://stracker.simracing.org.uk:50041/lapstat)

Time of Day Setting: 16:00
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

The shipping containers have arrived in Northern California to unpack some Alfa GTA's  ;) lets see some cars in action out on the track  8)

i'll hopefully jump on this eve for some practise laps  :)

Usual practise PW is not working....

K

Apologies, I left the password from the last race on it :( No password required now until race night.

Have you remembered to check the driver files? That dodgy red car I was given last time handled funny :hammer:

 :P

 :rockon:

No but thanks for reminding me! I will try and check it tomorrow, it was fine until I added that Johnny come lately shark geezer  ;D

practice server tonight =  tumbleweed

Yep and last night  :( only 3 people had set any times when I was on earlier  :boat:

The car feels good fun here  :)

Busy at Brands :P
consider it a handicap :D

yes it does, back to that goodwood feeling for me with a setup that works  8)

fmg 1.47.597
Galaxy record.

^ that one took me by surprise if I'm honest, I knew a 1:47 would be possible once I worked out the lines - but didn't expect to get my time down so far!

I really enjoyed both rounds, while the uphill section encourages tidy driving if you want to go fast, the downhill bit is pure joy as you can make up loads of time if you drift the right corners.
The penultimate turn had to be my favourite,  even getting the car out to full opposite lock didn't seem to slow you much  ;D

It's a pity Max span in race one and got tapped in race 2, it would have been even more fun with someone to fight.
Any idea why Thomas (I assume that's 'our' Thomas) practised but didn't join us? Based on his times he would presumably enjoy these.

White car show in the mirror and in the cosmos in front   :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWRK7DLnPXc

PS Some tired from this car. People amount are less and less.. May be  long champ and hard to drive car.
Used 4 gears for more easy driving and relacs feelings  ;D


 

These cars are really good here at Laguna Seca. To bad we had a small grid, although i had someone to fight or chase in both races.

Strangely it only saved race 2 form me. So here is a short clip of the first lap or 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTIjjTf0UDo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTIjjTf0UDo)

I was looking forward to this race. Worked hard on my setup and my lines and was returning some decent times (well for me anyway). Unfortunately got hit by a drink driver on the way back from the Gym and didn't get back in til 9.15pm.

Although the racing was fun and for the most part close action, i struggled to enjoy myself as much last night. I was struggling with eye strain after a long day and To be honest i let it get to me that people have stopped bothering turning up and its ruined the series as a spectacle. When i spent a lot of time testing these cars (and the Evoras) it was always with a grid of approx 15 cars and both cars had the potential for a great series with good close racing for all skills, but now with so many regulars crying off we are left with meagre grids for both series. Both ends of the grid are affected as whether you are quick or a bit slower you now have less guys to race and so less and less turn up each week. :(
I'm thinking of benching this Alfa series after round 6 which is Monza '66 before we are down to only 6 racers  ::) unless enough people want to continue until round 8?
(dont read that as a rant as it isnt, more just disapointment, everyones entitled to decide if they want to race or not, and i very much appreciate those who do turn up and race each week)  :)  but i dont want to flog a dead horse.  :-\

As others mentioned, these cars were great for Laguna's twists and hills, a full grid would have been a total hoot, but even with 8 or 9 of us the action was close, fast and furious, especially race 2! More position changes than a MotoGP race!  :o  
Race 1 saw quite a few position changes too and i enjoyed a few dices and at the end i got frantic as my tyres went off and Kimi hunted me down relentlessly! Only taking a defensive line into the final corner saved my hard earned 4th.  :)
Race 2 was amazing for the first 10 mins, like wacky racers! ;D eventually it all shook out but i dropped down the order after a mistake at the first uphill left and then enjoyed watching Max and Fabri duke it out for the rest of the race. Finished 6th i think.

FMG was imperious as always up front  :notworthy:  what springs are you running?

Sorry I was hoping to race last night but other things got in the way, I still hope to do the remaining rounds.

Mark, dont worry about me, for example. I'll here till the end of series anyway :) Main fun for me is to be in fights with guys and i got it every round. Sometime i loves Evoras and GTA , sometimes i hate it. Our battle with you continues  , you dont relacs  :D
But i am in hope that next series will be more user friendly for ppl and more popular. But may be i'll take a brake, due real life reason, not sure will see  :)  

its a little sad at the dwindling grids,  I'm not sure why as its a great car to drive  ???


Anyway, this round didn't go my way, in race 1 I went full potato again and dropped it into the corkscrew, by the time I'd recovered to 2nd fmg was long gone and there wasn't much to do but bring it home.

Race 2 lol,  I saw Mark go wide into T5 and though there was going be a gap but it disappeared and I ended up in the dirt and good way back from the pack. I struggled back and then coming through the pack had a minor ding dong with Kimi down the hill between t9 / t10 (sorry!) After that the car never felt quite right...

oh well, onto the next one  :)

I asked several times to Thomas to join us in races, but unfortunately he doesn't seem too much interested. This is a real shame, because Thomas is one of the fastest pilots I've ever seen and also very regular/consistent in race. For some reason he prefers racing in open servers. I hope he will join us, almost for one time.

I agree with Mark, unfortunately some pilots have left the series. This means FMG alone in front, this is no fun. Only Max can fight him, but if like yesterday, he has troubles, FMG remains alone and obviously gets bored of racing like that. A shame that Matteo and Jeffrey left.

I am not very competitive with this car, but this is not a real problem.
This format is the main problem for me. It is absolutely not my cup of tea, but in any case I preferred to keep racing to honor the series.
I hope in next series with medium/long races.

PS: unfortunately I'm pretty limited in taste, I only like F1 and prototypes of '60-'70s.  :)

I also love those older cars, I think they are my favorites in the game and such a riot to drive hard. I'll drive pretty much anything though with the exception of some of the modern road cars other than on odd occasions.

Talking of driving and I know fmg said it before, but I saw a few cars on the grid last night that were running way too low ride height at the back - this ruins the handling of the alfa and gives major understeer, you need to keep the ride height pretty close to the default setup for it to work well, regardless of spring rate  ;)

 :o
Hope you're ok?

Mark, I think the front springs are roughly standard and the rears a little stiffer.
I have been varying it to suit each track though, and occasionally adjust ride height too - so I'd have to check if you really want to know..

This Thomas is a friend of mine, he is Norwegian. Absolutely a fast pilot.

Thomas quite often sets times in our practice servers and I have chatted to him before. He seems a nice guy and is quick but didn’t take up the offer when I mentioned our races  :(

I’m surprised that so many dropped out of this series, the cars are simple to setup and easy to race closely. Put TCR on and we get 20 drivers  ::) :P. I thought we had all bases covered running a modern and a classic series alternately but people seem to want the imaginary perfect car combo...or have the attention span of a goldfish  ;D

I want to run a lairy series like CanAm or f1 60’s/70’s but will we only get 5 racers ?! Maybe in tandem with a modern spec series like the CaymanGT4  :-\. That or we can run another TCR Series using the improved mod.