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Welcome to round 1 of the 1st UKAC GPL67 Series

1st off we have the Sandown GP, sadly there is no version without the chicanes but other than that the track is the same.

Some important notes you'll need to bear in mind:

We will be taking a leaf out of UKGPL's book for the running of this series, so damage and points scoring are as follows:

100% damage
100% fuel use
0% Tire wear (This is actually far more accurate than the mods' built in wear rate and 'fixes' the BRM)
Drivers must complete 50% of each race to score.

With the above in mind you will want to treat the first lap or two very carefully while your tires warm up and you adapt to driving on a heavy fuel load.
The 1st lap will be moderated

As per the 1967 F1 scoring system, each driver will discard their worst 2 scores when the points are calculated at the end of the season (Done for you in LM2)

BoP will be as follows:

Lotus & Eagle = 40Kgs
Ferrari           = 30Kgs

There will be no success ballast.

Practice: 19:30 (45 mins)
Qual: 20:15 (15 mins)
Race: 20:30  (42 laps)


Track:
Sandown Raceway
https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/sandown-raceway.18702/ (https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/sandown-raceway.18702/)


Cars allowed:
3l 1967 F1 from the GPL67 mod.
I've put them on dropbox for now as the original download was apparently VERY slow:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o719sdx2kohk668/AC%20GPL67%20V2.20.rar?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/o719sdx2kohk668/AC%20GPL67%20V2.20.rar?dl=0)

You MUST follow these instructions in order to install the mod:

Packs needed:

Ferrari DLC from Steam

Installing the Lotus 49 =

You need the original Kunos Lotus 49 install file:

    Extract folders content and texture to your AC install: …\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\assettocorsa\
    Goto …\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\assettocorsa\content\cars\lotus_49
    In this folder: Copy the lotus_49.kn5 file
    Within \cars folder, goto \ gpl67_lotus_49
    Paste lotus_49.kn5 here!

Installing the Ferrari 312 =

You need the Ferrari DLC pack from steam:)

    Extract folders content and texture to your AC install: …\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\assettocorsa\
    Goto:
    ..\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\assettocorsa\content\cars\ ks_ferrari_312_67
    In this folder: Copy the ferrari_312_67.kn5 file
    Within \cars folder, goto \ gpl67_ferrari_312
    Paste ferrari_312_67.kn5 here!


Live Timing: here (http://stracker.simracing.org.uk:50041/lapstat) (Only available in the week up to the race)


Time of Day Setting: 14:00
Weather: Clear
Start: Standing
Tyre wear: 0%
Fuel consumption: Normal
Pit-stops: Not required
Damage: 100%

Server track settings: (Stock FAST setting - temps are same as ever)
SESSION_START=98
RANDOMNESS=2
LAP_GAIN=0.007
SESSION_TRANSFER=80


(2) Driver lists can be found on the championship announcement page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=24972.msg480312#msg480312)

I'm on holiday next week so won't be running any races. I've set the server going with everyone in their selected chassis at Sandown - I'll be in a valley in Cornwall and won't have any way of re-starting it if it goes wrong, please shout at SRW or Picnic and they should be able to help you out.

If someone wants to run a fun race then you're welcome to - but I won't be able to help out :)

Any new members can still sign up - please refer to the announcement thread and if possible please pick one of the empty cars.
Announcement thread can be found here: https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=24972.0 (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=24972.0)

I can't see the server in the cm server list. Can anyone else see it?

I think it had crashed Syd - restarted now

Hello chaps.

I'm sorry but I can't join this race cause I have a football match tomorrow and I'll be late for the start of the race. Hope to be there for the next.

Have fun

There is a big chance that I'll be too late to make the start... Hope not though

How do you guys manage to reach 272/274 km/h ??  ???

It'll be the cars they're in, combined with gearing and fuel load Maxime. The Cooper will be slower in a straight line than all bar the Brabham as the Masserati V12 it uses is actually 1950's vintage and well down on power, you also have massive frontal area which means worse aero.
But it has much nicer handling than most to compensate so as most tracks I've picked are much more traditional 60's Euro circuits I wouldn't worry too much - the Cooper was a strong contender at SRO as I remember.  :)
You could also try playing with tire pressures, but the speed you gain will be a tradeoff off with mid corner grip.

Just be thankful you aren't in the BRM - I'll get some film of my driving so you can guess at the mental gymnastics I'm performing just to change gear in the bugger.
Then you have the epic weight and dodgy handling on top, although in theory I shouldn't be too far off the top speeds of the fast guys as the H16 made epic power when it actually worked so I'll be curious to try a qually setup in it ;D

Hehe thank you for the details..

And wouldn't this Maserati V12 be particularly glutton too, by any chance ? Because Syd told me he was needing 55L to complete the race and here it's 75 minimum by my estimations..  ::)

Crikey even FMG is getting his excuses in early  :laugh:

Fuel usage for the fezza seems to be around 75L for the race so I'm putting 80 in just in case. That together with 30KG of slow me down means I'll be even slower than usual off the line so I'll probably skip quali and sneak in at the back of the grid.

92 liters for Honda, if my math is right.

And this engine sounds like a 500cc 2 stroke.  ;D

Syd is in a Brabham - by far the least powerful car, also very light.
I think I calculated 100+ litres for the beast from Bourne in comparison :D

T1 0% Max´s fault concerning my spin. Tought it was you because you were the car that was inside of me there but you didn´t even bounce against me when you were hit.

Maybe not best idea to make full attack past 4 cars on T1 with 0 FPS Fabri?

Congrats to Tim and Max for podium

No problem Jukka,  it was a reasonable assumption.


I know I bounced into someone but it turns out to be Lorenzo so sorry to you, but it seems you came out of that whole mess pretty well anyway, shame you got unlucky with a backmarker in the end...


Ignoring T1, it was a pretty fun race,  though I missed T1 braking point way too many times  :laugh:

Sorry a lot, guys, for Turn 1. As I said I had very serious fps problems, and I just couldn't figure out where I was because everything was jerky. It was not my intention to overtake anyone there. In fact, I hardly ever tryed overtaking at the start of the races. I just didn't know where I was at that point.

I'm sorry for have do this mess.

I think I also touched a lapped guy in the middle of the race, but there I found him almost stopped at half corner. I apologize also here if I did a bad.

This terrible race, however, still held a surprise: on the last lap a lapped car crashed into the wall on the straight and I, who was behind, could not avoid it. Right suspension destroyed and I completed the lap at 10 km/h, losing a position.

Everything to forget, mistakes and a constant struggle with bad fps and high ping.
Disheartened.

Enjoyable race last night and a better than expected result.

Started at the back and managed to pick my way through T1 then took it easy for a couple of laps until my tyres and brakes settled in. Had a nice few laps with Bob and was shaping up for a good battle until he got caught up in someone else's incident.

I then had a bit of a gap to Jari in front which gave me a target to chase for the next dozen or so laps. When I eventually closed in a small error onto the back straight made for an easy pass. From then it was a matter of keeping my concentration to the end and plugging in consistent laps. On the last lap I passed a car that had gone off track and then another that appeared to be stationary halfway up the s/f straight  ??? I only realised when I had crossed the line that I had somehow gained another position and in my confusion hit exit instead of return to pit  ::)

Not sure what was going on with this track. I had to drastically reduce my in game settings and those in my nvidia inspector profile to make it drivable and still it was a little sketchy in parts, obviously some conflict going on. Had a quick look at Interlagos for next week and was able to ramp everything back up to my normal settings....track looks fantastic  8)

Congrats to pody  :thumbup1:

Rear vision in the Lotus in VR is zero. The mirrors may as well be not there. Apologies to anyone who I may have impeded whilst being overtaken. Apart from that had a good race, not fast but no mistakes and most important finished.

I recommend installing helicorsa and putting it in the middle of the windscreen... helps a lot noticing cars around. There is also lots of tweaks you can do with mirrors. Was searching the one I have installed and just found this which seems much better than what I have right now (what I have now only changes viewpoint on mirror when I move my head - like in the real mirror... but this ads also indipendantly adjustable mirrors) https://www.reddit.com/r/assettocorsa/comments/apfoog/virtual_mirrors_app_by_custom_shaders_patch_setup/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/assettocorsa/comments/apfoog/virtual_mirrors_app_by_custom_shaders_patch_setup/)

I hadn't seen that one Jukka - that coud be handy.

I was going to mention Helicorsa though - even when I'm being ultra-authentic and have all the apps off I still run that just to avoid driving into people I hadn't spotted in the mirrors. :)

Will try the helicorsa as don't want to install CSP, tried that before and it messed my install up.

Qualif went not so good for me, I was unable to submit a good time.

At turn 1 I underestimated the conditions and went off by my own, to see then that half of the grid was accompanying me in the grass.   :o
That was a bad L1..  ;D

After a few laps I was eventually able to put some pressure on Syd Drake, but unfortunately I locked front inside wheel in T1 and failed to unlock it while Syd was closing to the apex though he had a quite outside lane. With a bit of luck we could have not contacted. Unfortunately my front right wheel got his rear left, not very brutal but it sent us in the grass with a complete loss of control for him. Then he got back on track and got a 2nd contact with someone. So that we lost loads of time and positions.
Again, I'm so sorry for that Syd, all my apologies. :'(

After that it was quite a nice race, trying to get back to the mid pack.

Though I punted Bob while lapping him, sorry Bob but I was pretty sure you were about to let me pass as it was since a few turns that I was expecting you to get out of the way. Perhaps there was a bug with blue flags or something ?

After some positions recovery, Syd did a mistake late in the race and so I passed him, a bit sorry to get his position eventually..  :/

Unless you're running a non-standard app AC doesn't have any blue flags ???

shouting at the screen works quite well though   :wetfish:

If you use crew chief he'tell you blue flag when the leader is within 4-5 seconds.

Erh ?  ??? For sure you're not so used to experiment blue flags Tim, but I think I've always got some.  ::)