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Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Round 7 - Okayama

(https://i.postimg.cc/VsXyGqXC/Okayama-International-Circuit-map-alfa.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

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: Okayama GP
Track: Okayama (http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/okayama-international-circuit.15846/)

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

Time of Day Setting: 15:00
Weather: Light clouds
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.

Not tryed , but this combo looks like FMG's drift paradise   ;)
But for me it seems to be like a nightmare  ;D

oooh,  a new track to learn  8)

After the weekends run here in the GT's I'm really looking forward to doing it in a proper car ;D

Very first time in this car rotating racing wheeeeeel at 180 degree .  :laugh: Twice!  :o
Have a nice weekend, fellas!  :)

wow this really is a fantastic combo  8) The Alfa suits the flowing curves like a natural. FMG is going to be in heaven  ;D

I'd just spent an hour chucking a BDA Escort Mk2 around the snow and ice of Monte Carlo in DR2 (as you do!) and so this felt brilliant as a follow on, with the Alfa feeling like its on a hillclimb in some parts of the track.  :)  Sweet ride as the Americans like to say  :tt1:

The guys who bailed on this series really missed out I think  :wacko:

Top 10 going into the penultimate round, FMG has an un-assailable lead and is whooping us just for the pleasure of it  ;D  but Fabri and Max are locked in a fight for 2nd, whilst 3rd to 7th get to squabble over best of the rest  :P

1   FullMetalGasket   266.0         
2   MaxVeloce      148.0            
3   Fabri Fibra      121.0            
4   Baikal      106.0            
5   Mark J      102.0            
6   KDiesel      98.0            
7   Manteos      96.0                              
8   picnic      64.0            
9   Postal      62.0            
10   kaifos      37.0                    

that gasket guy, left us all to fight over scraps

I cant help thinking he looks at the GTA races and is like
(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/732/207/d15.jpg)

Fmg’s years of gpl training certainly pays off in these cars, he’s still got a 1.2 sec advantage over the rest of us scoundrels  :surrender: at least the rest of us are close together   :)

Race night, guys, but i am still thinking what rear ride height i must use against Max, Fabri, Mark and Kimi. 4 or 5?  :2guns:

Another RL thingy has come up. Hope i will make it tonight as this track is great with these cars!

Alexey, I have 6, but I'm a disaster with setup in this car.

IMHO, rear RH is defines basic driving  style of car here. 3-5 means "grip" style, when you have more modern car behavieur, faster exits, but loosing speed in mid turns. Not so effective in this track, but i still there.  All values above 6 is close to crazy "drift" style like FMG doing. 6 is neutral style but, for me, i have no reason to use it due less fun. Because not grip and not drift style it will be.  Front RH is turning depending of rear RH.   

eh, ride height means nothing without knowing the spring rate too. 1 click harder spring = 1 click less ride height to maintain the same height at the rear...

don't ask me though, I thought I had the car worked out at goodwood but since then I seem to have gone totally the wrong way in the setup  :taz:

5 or 6 rear ride height? Think mine is set at 10  :o haven’t really  tried playing with different heights, you guys have too much spare time  :D

BTW no event password in top.  :helpsmilie:

I've added one, hopefully I've remembered the previous ones correctly!

Thanks Pete!
Let's race, guys!  :)

Ok. What happened to the server?

That's very underhanded Mark!  :P

it went pffftttttttt  :D

So it wasn't just me who got dumped off the server. I'd had a few stutters all evening at times, not sure if they were all related.

Damn inet issue  :-\
It was 9.30 sec left the race 2 session. I have a whole vid and full replay in 1 file . Tell me if admins needs it.
I and Mark was still in server till the race finish.
Was fun to drive in 1st and second race guys! .  :)

PS Here is a full event replay ( including practice). I'll agree with any decigion  :)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l20lqqpucpf51mc/UKAC%20ks_alfa_romeo_gta_okayama_11-4-119-2-38-13%202nd%20race%20massive%20disco.acreplay?dl=0

PPS. UKAC AlfaGTA at Okayama Race1 highlights P3 P3
Another one small white car in the mirror ( great moving, FMG!) and her great maneuvering at start  :D  It was fun and hard to see his trying before  overtake me you have 4 unsuccess attempts. But i was unfortunatelly  too wide in last try, leaving a space to you and hit the grass slightly  :sweatdrop: Thanks for the battle! You are the best, you know  :thumbup1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z77lkZXQOSM

Well done Max! Please send me your setup- it looks great from the other car!  
Fabri was stable in whole race in the mirrors too  :thumbup1:

My hard drive went broken 2 hours before race....was it fun there?

Yes, see a vid  :) But it was not favorite combo. I dont like to rotate rwheel +- 360 degree a whole race in narrow turns  ;D
Sorry for you HDD and double finns absent here.  :(

Sadly almost a non-event due to the low number that raced (6 cars!  :( ) but a great combo imo. If it had 15 of these cars battling around it would have been awesome, but i still enjoyed some action in race 1 at least.

I was oddly out of sorts last night, couldnt get near my pb's and struggled for the braking point at T1 on numerous laps whereas i was nailing it in pre-event practise. Took until about half way through race 1 before i picked up my game.  :-[ Then i enjoyed a great chase of fabri for many laps with Alex just ahead of him.
Race 2 was good fun for the first few laps and i pulled a decent lead until FMG caught me, then i nearly threw it off getting confused by his 'chuck it in' cornering techniques which appeared to defy physics sometimes  :P but looked like he was enjoying himself! But i threw away my good 2nd place when i got a big wobble under braking at T1, and dropped to the back  :taz:
Then around 9-10 mins i was convinced i was going to drop connection as cars started warping ahead, then it stabilised and i could see Alexey up the road so carried on racing. Eventually the other guys re-appeared on my driver list so wasnt sure what was happening and carried on until the end. Weirdly all my hud-menus came out tiny last night after a windows update so couldnt read them whilst racing. ???
Not sure what the official line is on disco's for the race results?  :-\ Normally its tough luck if you disco in a race and a couple of us continued to the end, but not an easy call when 4 of the 6 disapeared !   Though i'd love the points, i'm okay if the 2nd race results are voided or given as positions held at time of server interruption.

Generally events are not re-run but as long as we're consistent it doesn't really matter IMHO. I can import both results and the 2nd will be what it is, you'll then need to tweak it if you want to end the event early. I'll await your go ahead Mark before I do the import.

Personally it makes no difference to me, I wasn't last at the time of the incident in the 2nd race but more than likely would have been by the end. Didn't get on too well here last night, I'll blame Jeffery's setup from Cadwell Park (yes I still use  ::))

2nd race full vid for history. Fire dance in start and 1st lap. My stupid brake mistake ( lucky divebomb to Pete).  3 wide on backstraight. Closing a door in front of Max. Sorry Max, my risk , may be my bad, but i was cleared to do it very last moments.  :)   Good and risky battles with guys futher. Lost position to Max due my stupid too early gear upshift mistake. Chasing Mark. Fish from Mark   >:D. Where is FMG? As always with these baths - in front of all after 3 turns from race start.  :laugh: Massive disco online with chat and track map view  :laugh: But we with Mark are winers!  :P ( joke)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyYLuo3buMk

PS . If to be serious- it was very good combo. And i've fully enjoyed it. Always too tired after this kind of races, hate it just after the race  ;D, but loving it  on next day  with fresh head:). Need more pilots here as Mark said.  :)

certainly wont be re-runnning it, with such small turnout!  Go ahead and import, but me and alex deserve a consolation point for ploughing on regardless  ;)

Yes, send me  1 kg of English chocolate or some money  ;D
Mark, shut up please   ;D

I'm not bothered what you do with race 2 results, it was just unfortunate that some network glitch caused most players to lose connection mid race  :(


Race 1 - I got a decent start, and at T1 decided to play it safe only to see fmg run very wide and disappear from my view :o - a few corners later I could see he had dropped a few positions and after 2-3 laps it was clear he was struggling to find clean overtakes to chase me down. By half distance I had enough of a lead I knew even when he passed alexey I was safe from his faster laps if I kept it tidy. Looking back its clear I had the wrong gear ratios and it was costing me a lot of time in the slow turns, but I ran out of practice time pre-race so just drove what I had...


Race 2 - Ok start, then I tried to play it safe with overtakes, not wishing to be the cause of another monza :(.  I quickly found out why it took fmg so long to pass everyone in the race 1, the places everyone else was slower also meant that they blocked easy overtakes. Clearly he'd worked it out in race 1 and race 2 he was gone, but it took me a few laps to work my way through and not long after that the warping started, first I thought it was just fmg with the problem as his car went all over the place, then he dropped out and half a lap later I had the message "connection to server lost" - I kept going for another lap or so until it was clear it was a permanent problem and then stopped. Oh well...


I've not raced Okayama before but it did suit the Alfas very well, nice choice!  Looking forward to the finale at Zolder, thats a fun track

BTW guys, here is AC livehack ( confirmed bymyself). When you see warping, connection losts, and other bad inet behavieur in AC- just drive, even you see a server message about server disco. Practically ( i was a witness) in one race, 50 percents of pilots was diaconnected same way! But! Server was rebuild a connections  of all of pilots who not exit the session after 8 ( omg 8!!! minutes!)  and race was continue normally. So, next time, if you see massive warps- just continue to drive and have a good chance to recover the grid after some minutes gone!  ;) :)

OMG i see the published race table. I've won 2 nd race? NOT SURE. I will agree with it if it match to UKAC rugulation . If not- i will agree with grid state at moment of massive disco. We've all done just slightly more than 50 percents of race time ( see my docu vid).

Interesting if it can recover after that amount of time disocnnected, next time I will just keep going then  :)


BTW also forgot to say,  if I'm a bit quiet in the game chat its because its a massive pita to chat in VR, I'm not trying to be rude or anything!   I need to work on some better method of making that work for the future

Isn't it, same issue here. I think it was Alexey who said hi to me last night and I didn't notice for many minutes before going to the chat in the garage.

same here!, i do some weird head twisting to see out under the Rift just enough to type but its hard work hitting the right keys like a dyslexic chimp with a toffee hammer  ;D

I rejoined the race because I quit out and manually reconnected to the server.
It certainly didn't re-add me on it's own

Same here.