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Title: Fun race : 'Battle of the Barges' Weds 1st April
Post by: FullMetalGasket on March 28, 2020, 07:45:33 PM +0000
Apologies for not getting this up sooner, I've been trying to come up with something that would require the minimum of practice time and setup work as I know that most of this site will be concentrating on the GTLegends series every other week ;)

I think I have something - and it's fairly appropriate for April fools day ;D
A collection of big heavy sports cars thrashing around the twisty Okayama Piper circuit for 30 minutes..

Your choice of steads is as follows:

Ford Mustang (2015)
Nissan 370Z
Toyota MkIV Supra

(https://i.postimg.cc/QNgnG64s/Battle-of-the-Barges-Okayama.jpg)



All cars lap to within 10ths of a second, have matched tire degradation (by this I mean the same compound - weight and underlying chassis tendencies will make certain tires wear faster on certain cars ;) ), but each has a clear advantage over the other 2 if you can find it.
So pick your favorite and let battle commence!



Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Practice: 19:30 (45 mins) (NOTE THAT THE CLOCKS HAVE MOVED FORWARD AN HOUR IN THE UK! WE ARE NOW ON SUMMER TIME)
Qual: 20:15 (15 mins)
Race: 20:30  (30 mins + 1 lap)


Cars allowed:
2015 Ford Mustang - Nissan 370Z - Toyota MkIV Supra
All stock Kunos cars, Japanese Pack required.



Track: Okayama - Piper Circuit

Download link: https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/okayama-international-circuit.15846/ (https://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: 14:30
Weather: Mid-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: 60%

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.





Title: Re: Fun race : 'Battle of the Barges' Weds 1st April
Post by: KDiesel on March 29, 2020, 01:48:34 PM +0100
What if you add Panamera and Alfieri in, no idea if they competive or not but just for fun....  :)


Title: Re: Fun race : 'Battle of the Barges' Weds 1st April
Post by: FullMetalGasket on March 29, 2020, 02:22:53 PM +0100
Totally unmatched. It took hours to find 3 cars that actually had the same pace!

I do like the Alfieri though, it's basically a drift car 8)


Title: Re: Fun race : 'Battle of the Barges' Weds 1st April
Post by: Stefan aka Postal on March 31, 2020, 09:48:24 AM +0100
Ahh something arrive & drive. Good thinking FMG.



Title: Re: Fun race : 'Battle of the Barges' Weds 1st April
Post by: FullMetalGasket on March 31, 2020, 11:20:29 AM +0100
Yeah, I'll do interesting stuff on weeks where everyone has time to practice. And something that's more 'pick up' for the remainder.

If this week and next week go to plan I should be ready to run a first season then  :)


Title: Re: Fun race : 'Battle of the Barges' Weds 1st April
Post by: FullMetalGasket on April 01, 2020, 01:10:13 PM +0100
A fun reminder that the clocks have changed in the UK - that means for many of you this race is now an hour earlier!


Title: Re: Fun race : 'Battle of the Barges' Weds 1st April
Post by: Bob on April 01, 2020, 09:13:19 PM +0100
 ;D ;D Thanks Stefan for a great race, well driven, could not find a way past you were just too fast :thumbup2:


Title: Re: Fun race : 'Battle of the Barges' Weds 1st April
Post by: Barone on April 01, 2020, 09:25:22 PM +0100
Nice race!

I had a good start but since I didn't have the pace of the first 4 in front I didn't hold that long. The rest was cruising.

The track was I think a bit too short for this cars but goods for drifting and fun indeed.

cheers


Title: Re: Fun race : 'Battle of the Barges' Weds 1st April
Post by: frex on April 01, 2020, 09:26:03 PM +0100
What a mess that was.. Sometimes I forget I'm not in RaceRoom where the favoured start procedure is to bring up the clutch before the lights turn green. Must have been on auto-pilot and did it here and of course got an immediate drive-through penalty for jumping the start..  ::)

Worse than that though I made a hash of attempting to pass Syd. Twice. Damn. Very sorry Syd, my fault entirely, would have dq'd myself if it was a points event.

Hopefully better things next time. Congrats podium.



Title: Re: Fun race : 'Battle of the Barges' Weds 1st April
Post by: FullMetalGasket on April 03, 2020, 06:52:44 PM +0100
I'm doing the results import - can salesman let me know who he is on here please? :)


Title: Re: Fun race : 'Battle of the Barges' Weds 1st April
Post by: salesman on April 04, 2020, 01:34:31 AM +0100
Hello mate,
Sorry i didn't catch up with the post! The username is the same!


Title: Re: Fun race : 'Battle of the Barges' Weds 1st April
Post by: FullMetalGasket on April 04, 2020, 09:31:38 AM +0100
Thanks for that!
All done.

While I remember - here's my excuse for coming 2nd.
In the final 5 minutes I think a 2CV might have been able to pass me :D
The central bars are tire wear - the left rear was down to the cords with 5 minutes to go as I lean on it so much during the lap. Still amazed it didn't pop!

(https://i.postimg.cc/BbsfCpSj/20200401210908-1.jpg)