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(2) Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R;group=1182)

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

Cars allowed: Touring Classics + Porsche 964 (Carrera Cup Classic)
Track: Road America (FULL)
Time of Day Setting: 13:00
Weather: Dry

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

Server: Simracing.org.uk E7
Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Championship Standings (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=1182&theme=4)

Example Setups:

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.

I might not be able to do this, i'm down to work late on thursday. Or if i do it will be late! good thing its only road America

Well, if I had known you were coming I wouldn't have included Laguna Seca, I know it's your fave track
but I lneeded it.... ::)

The track might be..these cars on the otherhand i've never got on with

Have you tried the Nissan, a bit cumbersome in the corners but very controllable.

The old pork is there as a (sometimes) more drivable option. I tend to use it.

Seeing as the circuit is basically just long straights connected by 90 degree corners plus the Carousel, both the Nissan and Volvo should do well. Now Sonoma is where it's going to get interesting...  :o

Cannot see our server in the RRE lobby! ???

2.1 Gig update, look like it's just for 2020DTM cars.
I will check the server

Thanks will give it a go after tea.

Didn’t get an update and RRE lobby has only 6 races available! Suggestions please.

You probably already have the update Bill, it was released on the 16th, not sure why Matt did not have it.

In multiplayer lobby, make sure you don't have some of the boxes at the top ticked which are restricting the servers you are shown.

Thanks Geoff.

Will use the Nissan, but strange to sit on the right side  ;D

Had today more training opportunities, due to a postive COVID case at our office (same desk). Tomorrow test.

No update here because I hardly ever race at this house  ::)
Server was running, but was full of errors and may have needed a small update.

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Damn first DNF due to a crash, started well (Toni even better), and after T1 still 4th. Then into T2 Pete spinned and tabbed the front of his car slightly (I think i helped you even with the tab to get your car back in the right direction)  ;D

In the exit of the carousel i went to early on the throttle, get in touch with the grass on the right side and spinned the to the left side in to the wall  :( engine 100% damage


Congrats to the winner

Think my luck was in yesterday, hard luck Geoff and Frex. It was a steady race of erosion from my perspective, I certainly wasn't quickest but the little BMW kept plodding on as others ran into issues. Well done to Frex for the storming pace and Toni for a solid podium.

Having run the R32 GT-R last series I decided to run the E30 M3 this time, they are both two of my favourite ever road cars and as a 90s child my idea of classic cars. The M3 spent most of practice being a lawnmower but once I learned how to drive it, it became a joy to drive (if not fast) and I surprised myself to get through the race with no major mistakes.

The Godzilla drivers were gone at the start, Frex seemed to lose the back end at turn 2. Had I chosen the outside I wouldn't have lost a lot of momentum but I couldn't hook the M3 inside without slowing right down which put me into a good battle with Pete. We both took avoiding action when Birger couldn't hold onto it out of the long right hander and spent the rest of the lap side by side. Apologies for the confusion at the first corner on lap 2, I braked early and gave room, Pete must have braked as early and when I then needed to turn in to make the corner he caught my rear end and spun.

Frex had great pace, caught and passed me while Geoff and Toni continued to build a gap. As the race went on and the GT-Rs worked their front tyres harder, Frex was catching Geoff and I was catching Toni. Had a good clean battle with Toni for third and the gap to Geoff started to stabilise. I was surprised to see Geoff and Frex both run into issues later on allowing me through. Frex caught and passed me again only to lose it on the last lap.

It's early days but I can already see it's going to be a love/hate relationship with the Volvo.. Only way I can get any speed out of it is to reduce the diff preload to almost nothing, stiffen the rear and turn in on the brakes. But with the solid rear axle that makes it very nervous on corner entry and so easy to lose the rear end - especially on cold tyres (at the start) or worn tyres (at the end). Getting it right though is so satisfying, and once you get to the corner exit the TC (turned down to halfway) allows you to get on the power so early. Which is nice.

But a spin is always going to be on the cards, as here - once on the first lap, and two near the end. It is a lot of fun to drive though. Mostly.

Congrats Glenn for the win, and Toni P3. Bad luck Geoff, I guess your car died when you spun and hit the wall?

That was me I think, not Pete, and yes your nudge definitely helped!  ;D

The Volvo is very drivable but don't show it a corner, I had huge problems slowing down or getting around a corner at a reasonable speed. The braking problem demonstrated nicely by the incident in T1 that Glenn mentions. I thought I was braking early as I wasn't in a position to attempt a pass but still managed to catch your backend :( Sorry and I'm glad it had no real impact on your race.

After a silly spin at T3 at the bottom of the hill I was almost last. Spanner and I played a game of wait for each other as we fell off, mainly me waiting  ::) Prating around at the end of the race, trying to get a dead heat, meant Spanner beat me by 1ms  ;D

Interesting to hear your setup changes Dieter. I softened the front a lot to try and get the thing to go round a corner, at anything other than a crawl, but I see you've been much more radical. Expect more tyre smoke and expletives in 3 weeks  :-\

I can post my setup Pete if you want to try it? And btw, how do you get the Volvo off the line - with the turbo lag it's low end torque is so low, a bit like the NSU it's really hard to get going. And if you get stuck in the gravel it takes ages to get out again. Not sure how anyone driving it without a clutch gets it moving at all..

Ahem, yeh sort of. It certainly reduced the engine health when I hit the wall, but I then went to turn around & hit the wall the other side & that did kill it ::) :laugh:.

Although I bought the TC cars ages ago, I had never actually gotten around to driving the Skyline, so I thought I had better give it a go. Instantly liked it, brakes are poor & it is not too keen on turning into corners but boy isn't it fun.

Lucky to get pole, Frex was potentially faster in the Volvo. Amazed at the start how the car gets off the line, for a moment I thought I had missed that it was a rolling start & everyone else was taking it easy, but then saw that the other Nissans had got through to 2nd & 3rd & I was OK. Toni stayed close for a few laps but then started to fall back & I built a useful lead until Frex got through to 2nd & started to reduce the gap. It quickly came down from 9s to 4s but then stabilised, I was pushing a bit harder & I guess Frex's tyres were starting to lose grip. Then I turned into T1 a little too early & caught too much grass, thought the 4WD would sort it but no the rear stepped out & the resulting tank-slapper sent me into the wall (see above).

Congrats to Glenn, Frex & Toni.  :clap: :clap: :clap:

Love to try your setup please :)

I didn't give it enough revs at the start, initially I thought I'd got it right but it then bogged down and fooled Spanner in to thinking it was a rolling start  ::) ;D Need to practice that I think. Also I know what you mean about the gravel, took me well over a minute to get out last night and without the clutch I'd never had made it.

Bad luck, Geoff and frex. Seems like almost everyone lost it at some point, myself included when I tried to chase Glenn a bit too hard, spun in turn 7 and ploughed into the wall. Unlike Geoff and Birger, my engine was still going so I was able to limp home even if the car looked "interesting" to say the least.

My main issue was that the tyres don't build up temperature apart from the LF, so I was struggling with grip and a second off my leaderboard pace. Oh and wondering every lap if the brakes on the Nissan would actually do something coming down the Moraine Sweep or whether I would beach the car in the sand trap. At least every car having some kind of fundamental flaw makes things more balanced.

I had a similar problem to Frex and Pete, the M3 is naturally aspirated but very highly strung so has good high end power but no torque low down. I resorted to kicking the clutch in again a couple of times at the start just to get the revs up into the powerband but still struggled up the hill out of the last corner.

Geoff, I agree the GT-R is brilliant. Great power, sound, traction and really controllable. It's brilliant at launching but the key to it is not being too greedy with the brakes. If you accept the brakes are poor (which I didn't do when racing Markus at RaceRoom Raceway in the last league) you'll never be far from the front, at Suzuka it was in a class of one.

I had some ballast added for the Nissan last series (at first) as in the past it was too quick compared to to others
Since the last downgrade it is supposedly not faster. The little beemer seems faster than it used to be
so was happy to remove ballast on the GT-R, perhaps I should give it a little to even things up
not much just a bit.

I remember, it was at Dubai. The GT-R probably wasn't the quickest car at that track anyway and the weight crippled the braking performance further  ;D I think I came last?

If you are thinking of ballasting the GT-R a little it might need to be track specific. Last series it was lightyears better at Suzuka but probably not any stronger over a full lap at RaceRoom Raceway and somewhere in between at Bathurst.

I won't be handicapping at individual tracks. Experience has taught me that just because I can drive a particular car
faster than others doesn't mean it is faster, usually just easier to drive. If the races all get a grid of Godzillas
then I would look at adding a small weight handicap to balance if required. Same as the free Lada at the WTCR sessions
if it turns out to be the car to have it will get handcapped.

I suppose you're right, it's probably better to let the races at the different tracks ebb and flow between different cars rather than trying to penalise the strongest car just enough each time.

Then the championship becomes about maximising the advantage when you have it.

Either way I enjoyed last night's racing!

I would say that the only other track on your schedule which may favour the Nissan is Daytona, the other tracks are probably a bit too twisty. It certainly has an advantage getting away from the start but the Volvo (certainly in Frex's hands) is probably just as quick if not quicker over a race distance. I am quite happy to change to another car if the Nissan does prove dominant.

People should drive whatever they are most comfortable with, that's fine with me.  :yes:

I ran the little beemer last night, and was not on the pace of the faster guys, but found it, after some tweeking
to be quite well behaved. I tried the Pork, but it was too dissadvantaged here with the many long straights
Usually it can outbrake everything else, has better traction out of the corners, and gets round corners faster
but the others pull away on the straights. It would work better at other tracks.

I have altered the final event in this series as I must have been drunk when I clicked on the track to use
This is supposed to be mostly American tracks, with a quick flit over to Japan. Silverstone Stowe
got in there somehow.  ::)

I thought maybe Stowe was a stand-in for the Caesars Palace Grand Prix -circuit that sadly isn't available in RaceRoom.  ;)

OK, I have changed it at S3 forum.

LOL, I have done a sprint at the Stowe circuit for real, it's err "quite small"
Would suit NSU or maybe FJ

If everyone was in the GTR we could have made it a drifting competition, which the circuit seems more fit for.

New PB in qualifying then on FIRST lap missed my braking point and stuffed my porker into a wall and killed it!  ::)

Used rest of my race night setting up my Audi up for next Thursday’s race. ;D

Road America setup: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zo0s6ayzu8oesio/frex_2020-09-23_08-42-32_volvo_240_turbo.svm?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/zo0s6ayzu8oesio/frex_2020-09-23_08-42-32_volvo_240_turbo.svm?dl=0)

Used with TC level 3.

Thank you kind sir  :thumbup2: