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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=1631)

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

Cars allowed: Fabcar 935 (Gr5 car)
Track: Road America
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=1631&theme=4)

Example Setups:
https://phspok182510top.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/Racevirt/fabcar_935_fabcar_935elkhart1.svm (https://phspok182510top.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/Racevirt/fabcar_935_fabcar_935elkhart1.svm)

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.

Server appears to show a choice of cars ie Aquila Cup, Group 5 does this mean we can drive the Aquila again? ???

No Bill. It means that although I thought I had unchecked the box for Aquila, I hadn't really.  ::)

Thanks for clarification Matt.

These cars I find too fast and twitchy to even try and race, also had visitors staying for a long weekend.   :surrender:

I'm with you Bill. Your visitors can have a go perhaps?  :laugh:

I have posted a sort of drivable-ish setup on the event page, be aware
though I don't remember them having this originally, but they have a choice of engine maps
1-5 Map 3 is the default, my best lap so far is with Map 2 as I can get on the power earlier
without worrying as much about it killing me. Map 1 is probably even less dangerous.

If you have enough buttons on your wheel, you can set the map + and Map - on the wheel
and push it up to map4 or 5 on straights, and then back it off for the twisty bits
I have trouble doing that myself, so I tend to set it in the setup and leave it.

If you can lap consistently with Map 5  then I want to know which planet in which star cluster you are from  :alien:

If my “test drivers” Ollie was still here he would have had a go. He could always beat my PB on his first flying lap in any car on default setup; but then he’s 50 years younger than me and has driven Silverstone in his Souped Up Ford Focus RS at Ford Owners test days! My only drive at Silverstone, was for about half an hour, many years ago in a formula junior car!  If I can find time tomorrow I’ll give it a whirl with your setup!  :

Looks like there is a game update today.

Server was down for maintenance before lunch, also there was a Windows 10 update which took about 20 minutes to install.

maintenance RRE still ongoing from this morning

message from RRE discord
^{@everyone Apologies for the extended duration of this maintenance. We're seeing some issues with cache everytime we open the gates again, and we're investigating that issue. No ETA available other then the obvious "asap". Sorry for this!}

Looking forward to this, but as it happens I will have to miss it. Hope you chaps get to race later.

if it should be that the servers are down, we postpone this race to the end of the season ????

RRE is up again  ;D

Not seeing any update?

No update for me either.

Was enjoying that once I drove "Like the throttle was an egg" Had put in more than the suggested fuel
but ran out on final lap  :(

Good race with Pawel and then Geoff after he fell off.

Ah, saw you slowing down there, a pity to end a race like that  :-[ Have you been altering the engine maps during the race? It might be that the prediction was based on map 3 and higher maps have higher consumption...
Nice race anyway, though couldn't make the car turn at all :D

I ran map 5 very carefully for the whole race until the fuel got low. then I ran map 2 or 3
I think you are correct about it assuming map 3

indeed  no update, servers probably down just for maintenance.

Had an amazing start  ;D and moved up to P3, off course Meazza and Ricardo where faster and after some laps they overtook me. Due to my good start i stayed out of trouble and had a gap of 5sec to the rest of the pack.

I was also struggling with fuel, due to the pace of the Italians after some laps my calculator took 5liters off (due to an extra lap). So couldn't maintain engine map 5. Mostly my tactic was engine map 5 on the straights and engine map 3/4 after T4 up to the last corner. Maybe due to the reduced engine map i was more consistent with almost no slides, than in practice and quali.

Congrats

good race, I struggled at the beginning due to a contact at the start with Alessandro, then at the second corner due to blocking I ended up in the field, restarted behind everyone, a great comeback and I arrived in the desired position, Massimo and Alessandro too fast for me. I had map 5 always fixed. I loaded 85 liters of fuel and I have it left. Hi everyone

That was a far different can than i remembered driving a few years ago!

Brakes constantly on the edge of locking, huge understeer off the front end on corner entry and the back sliding a lot on corner exit. How did you guys drive it so quickly!  Well i know you were all using map 5!

Great car to drive until you want to go fast in it, then it becomes nasty. Still quite enjoyed it apart from a couple of major mistakes early on which dropped me to last place. Had fun fighting my way back through the field to  6th at the finish, another lap & I may have caught Birger. Apologies to Baldoni, I think I clipped your car as I passed you, but I don't think (hope) it caused any problem.

Congrats to Massimo, Alessandro & Riccardo.  :clap: :clap: Excellent speed as usual, hopefully in one of these races us Brits may be able to challenge you.  :no:

Yes Spanner this car is not what it once was, looking at previous events it is now around 5s a lap slower at this track. Does not seem to have the grip it had the last time I tried it.

Just checked, Riccardo did 2.06 with it when we raced here in Jan 2020. It is now very little quicker than the DTM92 cars, surely that isn't right.

Not tried the other Gr5 cars, they are, I assume. also changed. The old Gr5 cars were fast monsters, fast that is if you could drive them
the engine maps were not there before, and I remember them being hard to control out bends, not so understeery.

wow!
I was too busy to drive all the time to think (and remember) to change map also  :o
Map 5 was the way I think, tried first laps with default map3 and ok the was driveable but impossible to be fast, so after so many practice laps we have understood (circa  :-\) how to drive without too much mistakes, and it's strange because must don't brake.. don't speed up.. don't turn.. it's all so frustrating  :'(
So often I was in low rpm in turns to avoid the turbo in the middle, and in my opinion helps to go early in apex and wait "in neutral mode" before to go on full gas


Hi Geoff, thank for compliments.
Like I wrote before, this performance is the result of many many laps of practise, the first day I drive this car I was on 2:15 for a long time before improving, improvement that was arrived for the correct lines and not just to "drive" the car
Unfortunately the feeling with this game in general is terrible for me and the only manner to improve is to run many laps (an hundred?) at least  ???