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This will be a fun race to test Grindelwald - As this track was most aligned with classic cars in GT2 We'll use the Ferrari 250GTO AC Cobra 289 (Trackday version) by Oldrebel.
I was going to use the 250GTO but it has so little grip that it's basically going to put people off joining as every corner is a spin or crash :D (Great fun once you acclimatise though!)

We often use the stock 427 Cobra, but that is also just stupidly overpowered - so I've plumped on the trackday version of the 289 car. This is simply smack-bang in the middle of the sweet spot for this track and is great fun as a result.

Ensure you read the notes on the car installation (below) - they don't affect the car we're racing with, but if you want to try the others in your own time there are some files you'll need to correct to enjoy them properly

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Timings:
Practice: 19:30 (45 mins)
Qualifying: 20:15 (15 mins)
Race: 20:30  (40mins)

Cars allowed:
AC Cobra 289 (Trackday) (https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/ac-289-sports.29082/)
Installation notes - install as normal you need to put the 3 car folders (AC_289_Competition, AC_289_Sports & AC_289_Sports_Trackday) into your AC 'cars' directory.
In the AC_289_Sports directory delete the DATA.ACD file or it will load the wrong engine power curves.
If you want flames in the Competition version you'll need to copy the flames.ini file from either of the other cars data directory in to the data directory of the competition car.
There are also some bugs (local timing) that can be caused if you leave the capitalisation in the folder names as AC hates it (As an example you need to change "AC_289_Sports" into "ac_289_sports" - do that for all 3 but with the correct names).
I've just spent an hour checking that this won't affect your ability to join the server (It won't) so basically you can skip it if you can't be bothered, but may loose some offline timing results if you do.

Track: Grindelwald (https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/project-grindelwald.46068/)


Live Timing: stracker.simracing.org.uk:50041/lapstat (http://stracker.simracing.org.uk:50041/lapstat)

Time of Day Setting: 14:00
Weather: Clear
Start: Standing
Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: normal


Server track settings:
SESSION_START=98
RANDOMNESS=2
LAP_GAIN=0.007%
SESSION_TRANSFER=80

Damage: 70%

"If you want flames in the Competition version you'll need to copy the flames.ini file from either of the other cars data directory in to the data directory of the competition car."

I didn't find any .ini file so far but different bunches of flame images (.dds), so that I did nothing in this regard. My competition track 289 will keep being a cute kitty and not the tiger she should be.  :laugh:

If I could permit mysellf a suggestion Tim, perhaps a link providing with a Fire&Forget download ?  ;D

The cars we are using for the race are working out of the box - that stuff is only for the other 2 versions, and the only one that really matters is the data.acd in the sports directory :)

There a new upload (v1.1) since yesterday evening Tim, will it still be fine whatever the people are downloading ?  ::)

The notes seem to suggest nothing has changed other than the installation and some file for controlling the volume, so they should.
Try it out - the previous version will also remain available

Password?

Sorry guys - no idea why that wasn't set in LM2 :-[

You should see it now (refresh this page if not)

What a combo - so much fun sliding the mini-beast around ;D
Although I did get too carried away and ended up having two meeting with the fence/armco, which combined with my accidental start from the pits made for a very interesting and frantic race.

The end was very hard as I bent my steering in the 2nd crash and had to chase Maxime very hard to try for the win still - I eventually got past him only to mildly loose control a few corners later and he collected me while I was trying to catch a massive slide.
You should have probably scarpered mate - I was always going to end up behind you even if you hadn't hit me :P

Anyway, a great combo - and as they were popular we'll try the Competition version in a fun race after the Skodas to see what they are like (Providing I still remember in 8 weeks time).

Anyway, as usual if you missed this you missed out :P

Results will be a little while as I have asked for a new car entry - I don't want to assign these to the competition version of the 289 we have kicking about from GTL/P&G when we also have a competition 289 waiting to be tried.

 ;D This is in my opinion probably the best modded car have tried in ages, a great combo , shame I kept  clipping the barriers, tremendous fun.....

Yes sorry mate I couldn't avoid you in such a situation : 1st because even if I was seeing you starting a massive slide, my first thought was "it's Tim, he's just drifting this beast like a kid plays with his prefered model car"  ;D ; 2nd because the only way out was to the left in a part of the track where going left seems quite suicidal..  :D Then I saw that the slide was really super massive, but was too late to avoid your car.  :o
And I couldn't pass you like that, near the end, to (maybe !) finnish ahead of a driver who's 2 sec faster a lap !...  ::) ;)

Agreed, a very nicely done car. Also good fun to drive! Powerful, but manageble. Good for a series...

I had the red lights from the track not turning green, so ended up with someone rear ending me. Better to check this before we use this track in a series?

Congrats to Maxime on the win. Good pace mate.

Thank you Stef but I didn't win.  ;D :D

We were checking the track before a series :P

That's also the reason for my accidental pitane start - I was typing a message to warn you all that they didn't seem to change colour so you needed to watch the 'floating' lights instead.
The track is still in development, but is just so good in the Skoda's when you reach the downhill section that I wanted to use it.

It's kind of the opposite to the Cobra's, they're probably more fun on the uphill and are then tricky down...
The Skoda's on the other hand are a real exercise in efficiency on the uphill, but a hoot on the way back down 8)

The car has been added so have some results :)