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Date: Wednesday 4th Oct
Track: Shanghai, aka Jiading, officially release ISI track, download here (http://www.rfactor.net/).

Practice 1: 20:15 (15 mins)
Qualifying: 20:30 (30 mins)
Warmup: 21:00 (2 mins)
Race: 21:02 (30 mins)

Cars allowed: Formula Nippon v1.2, can be downloaded from rFactorCentral (http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=NIPPON%20Racing).
Start: Standing
Time Of Day Setting: 13:00

Server: SimRacing.org.uk F-Nippon
Password: Server Password will be the usual practice/fun race password, as shown in this post (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=12.0).

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Practice server up if anyone wants to try it ;)

I've assumed you meant the GP layout Shark!

Yes please, full circuit.

I'm there! Loving the Nippon!

Strange track this. You can't help feeling all those slow corners are (depressingly) there so that the cameras can get a good long look at the advertising on the cars >:(

Couldn't get my head around it at first but seem to have found a nice rhythm now about 10 laps in  :)

Any setups floating?  ::)

TT

Man o man is this mod awesome. These cars feel like how I would think these openwheelers should feel. Not that my feeling is right at all, but this feels so much better than lots of open wheeler mods around.
At first I hated the track, especially T1 and T2, but T1 is only awefull if you enter it too slowly.

With my lack of knowledge, I started working on a setup, and so far my time is 1:52.025m which is pretty damn bad I reckon :laugh:

i'll keep mine a secret then  ;D

Otherwise i'll look like a real noob  :D

 :-X

 ;)

TT

After many many laps, and following the set-by-step setup guide, I finaly did a 1:49.990, so please don't say you did faster than that in your first outlap.
I still suck at setups, but I tweaked the default setup a bit, and it feels somewhat good.

Jeff, Director (and ACTION :cowboy: :death: :gun_bandana:)(quiet in the Studio please), GT Legends. LOL, shall we now call you ........ Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard). PMSL

Or are you now a traffic (Vroom   :wheelchair:  :scared: Director in GT Legends. roflmao

I hereby sentence you to a life long sentence in Shuttyuppy Ville ;D. I'm still trying to get Dr. Ing. Prof. etc infront, but that will take time ;).

I just testing GTL tracks to see if they are usable for the league, but so far, I'im just collecting my paycheck and taking it easy :P

 ;)  :D

Why did you change John boy Walton to Richie Cunningham (whoever that may be)? And why John in the first place? ;D

Im still sucking big time with this mod, 2 eager on the throttle and brakes :(

Just say a little prayer for me........

Me too. More the track than mod as I just haven't learnt it. Might not turn up if I have had no extra track time to learn it by then.

Yes I like the feel of this mod, but the track hmmm not so sure.
Very flat, feature- less and therefore difficult to learn.
Not a memorable layout, all the corners look similar.
Hope to race tho. ;)

Got it mixed up, he was in the Fonz and is now a movie director! I think the Walton boy is now a writer, not sure, does not matter really.

Restarted the server as needed but for some reason I was getting a mismatch when joining, even though I have 1.2 the same as the server (although I have a soundfix installed, but surely that isn't different?!).

Anyway, hadn't practiced the track or mod at all and I'm not really in the mood after two nights racing in a row so left them to it.

Really good fun thanks guys- nice to do some single seater racing. Had great fun with you Radius, swapping places pretty much the whole race  :laugh:

This was fun, this mod rocks.

Did a PB in qually and took pole, just 3/100 before JonM.
During the race I was slooooowly pulling away from Jon, and before the last lap I had a 11s lead. I was pushing the whole race pretty hard, to get Jon off my back, but all for nothing as he ran out of fuel in the last corners :o.

I would like a champ with rF, and I suggest this mod as one candidate.

I don't really like the track, and couldn't get the car setup right, so thought it'd be better to stay away. Hope it was a good race.

Very impressed with the cars. Definately better than the Armadillo cars, feels more natural. The engine sound is fab too. Not sure I want to go back to Armadillo now.  :P

Once I'd learnt the track it was MUCH better too. Very hard track to learn, took quite a few laps to get it down and once I knew the layout found some of the hardest corners in the business. Really this is a very techinical track even harder than Turkey. Undecided whether I liked the track or not, it has a certain flow but too many 1st gear hairpins ultimately I feel and the lack of scenery is not good.

Well done to Jeff on the win and unlucky Jon for running out of fuel on the last lap, otherwise it would have been a Team Shark 1, 2, 3.

Replay (http://ukrf.simracing.org.uk/Jiading%20Circuit%20-%20Formula%20Nippon%20Fun%20Race.zip) available but I'm struggling to import the results, could 28th CDM Von Helsink identify his forum ID for me please.

It is one Demonic Dan. Would love a champ with this mod too... but we'd need a bit more interest!  :-\

Good race!!! Fun littel jap cars :)

Just needed some more praccy and good track imo. Needed more starters tho as that 1.3 km straight was very lonely :p

Good race Paul :D

Ah, Mr Longskater1969 ;)  Thanks.

Provisional Results (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&event=229) now also available.

Hopefully I'll be boosting numbers in the not too distant future, just waiting for rF to turn up on disc.

Wednesday is always awful turnout, so we'd probably get more anyway than we did.

One thing I did notice at how easy the standing start was with no launch control. Everybody got away cleanly and with no danger of spinning off the start?

The cars feel good but didn't like the circuit.
So hard to find brake markers etc
l was very slow. (as usaul)
Never quite managed a completely clean lap.
When I was lapped, decided to make a quick embarrased exit!
Needed some slower guys to race against!