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Practice: 20:00 (30 mins)
Qual: 20:30 (15 mins)
Race: 20:45 (30mins)


Cars allowed: GT4

Time of Day Setting: 13:00
Weather: Dry

Start: Rolling start
Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: Normal
Pit-stops: none required

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 especially the
rules about in-game chat messages.
(3) You will need to install Race Room Racing Experience from Steam, and have the relevant Track Packs for this series
(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.
(6) Start procedure
*It will be the pole sitter's responsibility to complete the first lap at a pace that allows the rest of the grid to follow comfortably
*There should be no overtaking or hard accelerating/braking
*Drivers should avoid getting too far behind or too close to the driver in front
*Approximately 20 seconds before crossing the start line the pole sitter should slow down to a speed of no more than 50mph (80km/h)
*Each following driver shall close up directly behind the driver in front also maintaining a speed of no more than 50mph (80km/h)
*The pole sitter should maintain that speed until they cross the start line and then accelerate away to start the race (lap2)
*Each following driver should only accelerate when the driver directly ahead does (they do not have to wait until crossing the start line)
*No overtaking is allowed before crossing the start line at the completion of the formation lap
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The Raceroom store is currently having a Halloween sale with items 20% off, including this track if you dont have it!

If thursdays track was wild, this looks just as mental

I may be struggling to make it back in time for Sunday's race.

If the M25 and M1 are kind I may just manage.

I'm assuming the GP circuit? it doesn't say anywhere I can see.

Under "Forthcoming" it says GP.

Maybe on your screen, but mine has an "F" in italics, and everything elase is chopped off.
Be easier if the layout was in the track info  in the main page. Not a killer, Just my opinion.

We will be using the GP Layout

Practice server is up and running  :)

I have decided to switch from the bimmer barge to the Lotus, i find it a lot nicer (less understeery) car

I am trying to use the 718, as I like it, but it's not quite as fast as other cars for me here.
I will persevere  :-\

Sorry, can’t make it this week. Have a good one.

Err, I can't remember the password!!!!!! ???

there is no password above SRW...

password should be above now
just resetting the server

Thats good as it didnt work!

The server seems ot be just sat there waiting for people to join, no restart needed

I think this is a prime example of how not to design a race track. I guess someone thought it a good idea to string a a shed load of 2nd gear corners together. All in all not the most exciting race on a dire track

Congrats to Matt & Toni on the podium  :clap: :clap: & well done to Stephen & Bill for staying to the finish.

Yes finished just, Stephen passed me on the entry to the last corner and on my next lap I successfully tried taking corner in third gear instead of second. So I tried to use third in a couple of other corners, without success but cracked the windscreen with an off. Got too confident on last corner and ran onto all the rubber debris and went straight on into crash barrier! The windscreen was very badly cracked, appeared to be sagging and I found the car handling almost ruined so I slowed down for the corners. Fortunately I only had a few minutes of racing left and made it to end of the last lap.

An interesting and enjoyable night’s racing with a new PB!

The tyre model for these cars isn't doing any favours either. All my tyres were red starting from lap 3 until the end. Makes racing kind of unpleasant. At least Mid-Ohio should be a breath of fresh air.

I will try to see if I can recruit some people into these events so they don't become hot lapping exercises in the future.

I can't remember a cracked screen in this  :o Well done Bill  ;D
Is like the other Chinese track we used. Works ok for these, and I quite enjoyed it, but it does seem a bit "regional"

I agree it wasn't the most interesting track, I thought I would give it ago as it is part of the new breed of tracks in China. My race was a bit of a hotlapping session. I definitely prefer the Lotus to the BMW but was still way off the pace and just drifted back.

Out of interest I was using the default setup, were the other Lotus drivers in this race running default or modified setups?

I ran Lotus at the previous event, and increased front grip quite a bit.
I have always rather liked the X-Box from previous seasons, so was keen to run that, and I reduced front roll bar, and one clickoff
the rear wing so it would be less disadvantaged on the straight. Ialways swap the TC round as to me it's more intuitive
to add from non, than reduce from max.

Modified quite a bit & different to what I had used previously too. I find the default understeers quite a bit & all those slow corners magnified it, so I softened the front to try to gain grip there & stiffened the rear to try to loosen it on turn in. Also did not run too much rear wing, corners are quite slow here so mechanical grip more important than aero & hoped it would gain a bit of straight line speed on the fast bit.

Usually the Lotus does not like kerbs & can lose the rear quite easily over them, so rear grip is important, but here the kerbs are quite flat so I could get away with loosening the rear somewhat.

Toni mentioned the tyres getting rather hot, yes they did but did not really notice much loss of grip in the later stages.

I tried to change the Lotus to reduce the understeer by softening the front and stiffening the rear but my times were no better than when i ran default! There was no fun driving that combo so decided to give it a miss; The Lotus was ok but the front just kept plowing on, getting on the power just made it worse..