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****Please State your Car Choice for all races after your 1st One****

Phspok = KTM
Bill       = KTM
Geoff   = Lotus
Tudor   = Porsche


Password: see above (#post_event_password)
(2) Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R;group=678&theme=4)

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

Cars allowed: GTR4
Track: Motegi Road (Full)
Time of Day Setting: 13:00
Weather: Dry

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

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Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Championship Standings (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=659&theme=4)

Notes:
(1) It's best if all drivers can make sure they are connected before the Qualifying session as drivers on track during qualifying will not see
cars that join after they are on track until they go back to the garage.
(2) Please make sure you are fully aware of the SimRacing.org.uk Rules (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?pid=7) especially the
rules about in-game chat messages.
(3) You will need to install Race Room Racing Experience from Steam, and have the Euro and American Track Packs for this series (And maybe another
non pack track occasionally)
(4) Please exercise caution when pitting as some tracks have a speed limit.

(5) 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.

Are we in need of a season car choice?. Or, are we just going with the fun race cars?.

Just a thought, I notice there is a 'Leagues & Communities' section on the Sector3 Forums, could it be worth advertising our RaceRoom race series there, may bring in  a few more drivers that don't know we exist.

Always worth a try but when I've promoted us there in the pastwe had very little take up and the few who did join us never stayed around more than a couple of races  :(

If this is Motegi, which layout please? (EDIT: Ah sorry, just seen it says Road (Full) at the top of the page)

Also, be aware that any setups for cars that now have tyre pressure adjustment should be redone from scratch after the April 4 update. Pressures and toe settings can be way off apparently if you try and load an old setup.

We need a car choice:
Mine is the   KTM
Geoff is the  .....

Snap, KTM also!

There seemed to be a predominance of KTMs last race so I'll take one of the others ;)

Lots of Porsche action elsewhere at the moment but I didn't really like the Evora in AC so will have a quick go in each tomorrow and make a decision, if I have time, otherwise it'll be a random selection from the 2

Have a guess.

I'll have Pork.

This is for the rest of the season, yes? They’ve fixed the downshift in the Cayman, but even so I think I’ll give the Lotus a try.

Anyone's 1st race, whenever that is, is a free car choice, from then on you need to pick a car and stick with it.

I'm gonna miss tonight, sorry gents.

Swiped Pete's nose as he went for a pass when I got wobbly... then Sky's part time narrowband dropped the conn.
pah, and I love these cars  :taz:

Nice racing tonight, although I think I was very fortunate to take the win with both Geoff and Dieter being quicker.

I was struggling with the gears in the Cayman as 2nd seemed too short and 3rd too long in the corners, or maybe I'm just not very good at corners. Might have to take a look at the Evora for the rest of the season  :-\

Good news no problem logging in about 15 minutes earlier than usual. All practice and qualifying went well but the race was a disaster!  ::) I out braked myself and hit wall killing the car.  :o

That was the first time I've run a race with both Web HUD and Second Monitor running, but I don't think I'll try that again as the frame rate was very choppy.

Good fun, but a silly spin whilst stupidly pushing too hard on the last lap handed the lead back to GT. Shame Geoff spun early on - could have been a KC threesome for much of the race..

Congrats GT and Geoff; sorry to see others didn't finish.

Yep that web HUD lasted about 2 minutes on my hard drive. And what is the use of having tyre pressure adjustment and temp data when we don't have IMO values......and what are the temp readings anyway? Surface, core?? Rant over  :)

On the plus side the Cayman felt very nice to drive even on default settings (except I had traction control off and lowest wing). Maybe the gear ratios will be better suited to other tracks in the series  :-\

We do already have IMO readings in game, although not in Web HUD. However, that was just RRE's own take on the concept - there are now several other third party apps that do a similar thing, some of which do show IMO values. I'm still checking these out, but I suspect they will have a similar performance hit. I do like some of the enhanced timing screens and delta times showing for practice though - helpful to show where you're gaining and losing time - but I'll probably stick with the default HUD for races.

However I have also started to use Second Monitor, which is not a web overlay so doesn't have the same performance hit, but does show IMO readouts and a lot more besides. Detailed telemetry screens also, although haven't looked into those yet. I already have two monitors connected to my pc for other stuff, so works great for me, but you could also use a spare laptop eg if you have one.

Look in the Community Workshop on the official forum if you want to check out any of these: https://forum.sector3studios.com/index.php?forums/community-workshop.73/ (https://forum.sector3studios.com/index.php?forums/community-workshop.73/)

Thanks Dieter  :thumbup1:  but I can't see the IMO data in the game, is it hidden somewhere? Also yes, that lap delta would be so useful and save so much time.

I found the Cayman too tail happy when I briefly tried it. The Evora was the complete opposite in handling to the one MJ's been running in AC. The RRE one understeers so badly where as the AC one would just swap ends on me. It's been a long time since we've had such a large time differential between drivers so not sure how this will work out. Those with setup skills will just get quicker and leave me even further behind.

Would have been a good race if I hadn't spun early on at the 3rd gear esses, bit too eager on the power & round it went. Trouble with these modern tyres is once they start to go it is difficult to catch them, can't get the car sideways like the old stuff in GTL. Had another spin later at the same corner when chasing Mark, but that time I lost the rear going into the corner.

Congrats to Tudor & Dieter.  :clap: :clap:

I know what you mean about the understeer Pete, I improved it a bit by softening the front & stiffening the rear a little, but it still understeered quite a bit mid-corner. Will have to experiment with tyre pressures before the next race, see if that makes a difference.

I can make available my setups, such as they are. I found the Lotus quite well balanced, but can't remember
whether I changed anything or not.

Ok, should have explained a bit better - the game now outputs those values, but the original HUD was never designed to display them. Hence, unless they update it the only way to see them is to install a third-party app. You would think think RRE would have included those IMO values in their own app (Web HUD), but they didn't - an odd oversight imho. However other third-party HUD overlays, or other apps such as Second Monitor, will show them. Best solution would be if they update the in-game HUD so other apps aren't required, but I don't know if this is planned or not.

Odd to hear about the Evora understeering, as I found unless I was going way too fast into the corners the handling was pretty neutral. I can post my setup if it helps also, but I don't think I did an awful lot with it, beyond what Geoff has already mentioned.

@Pete - you did have TC turned off I assume? It's much quicker (and livelier) without it.