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Welcome to round 2 of the Skoda 130RS Trophy!
This will be run at Tucuru Motorplex on the 'West A' circuit which is an utter blast in these but should still provide a tonne of passing opportunities.

As mentioned in the announcement for the series we have no mandatory tire/fuel stop, but the tire wear has been set at 130% so you may or may not need tires...

Timings:
Practice: 19:30 (45 mins)
Qualifying: 20:15 (15 mins)
Race: 20:30  (23 Laps)

Cars allowed:
Skoda 130RS (https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/skoda-130-rs.26700/)


Skin Pack:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kp1n9c9yt68yyih/Skoda%20skins.rar?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/kp1n9c9yt68yyih/Skoda%20skins.rar?dl=0)

Inside the pack you will find 5 folders - these need to be placed into "*Your steam library*steamappscommonassettocorsacontentcarstmm_skoda_130rsskins"

I also recommend you install the big skin pack from the 1st post in the announcement thread (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=30381.0) - I may have selected some of those cars when setting up the server (It's nearly impossible to tell which are which in the server software). If you see any white cars this will be your problem.


Track: Tucuru Motorplex (https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/tucuru-motorplex.48605/)


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

Time of Day Setting: 13:30
Weather: Clear
Start: Standing
Tyre wear: 130%
Fuel consumption: normal


Server track settings:
SESSION_START=98
RANDOMNESS=2
LAP_GAIN=20
SESSION_TRANSFER=80

Damage: 70%

Server is up!

I strongly suggest you get some practice in. At first go it will seem slow and twisty, once you learn it you'll discover it's a LOT faster than you thought ;)

It's also outrageously good fun!

Well, why don't you post a onboard lap of how it should be done then Tim?..  :P

You ask and sometimes you may receive:

https://youtu.be/L6J0HkZnndM (https://youtu.be/L6J0HkZnndM)


And here is another video using the VRC TA2 Chevrette to demonstrate why I won't be using fast cars here and hopefully tempt a few more to try these awesome mod cars out ;)
https://youtu.be/BHvy5mbWpwU (https://youtu.be/BHvy5mbWpwU)

Never heard of it but looks a great track in the Onboards  :)

Got my pcup league race Thursday so 50/50 I can make this, depends if I get enough practise in for both/either.

shows 10 layouts no motorplex, which one?

West A Bob :)

Thank you.

Hihihi. Tnx Tim.

That Chevrette looks the shizzle. It is going on the to buy list.

If you get it be sure to buy the TA2 pack, that way you get the Mare/Mustang sister car too :)

I'll try to show up and drive a little faster than my beloved grandma back in the days but I endure a terrible pain in my neck/top of back so that it's not sure at all and might stop after a couple laps only.

Quite disgusted as it should be full of fun tonight again..  :'(

Great fun track, should be a good event. Just one fly in the ointment, why did they put that pointless chicane in at the end of the lap.

Sorry to hear Maxime. Hope the pain is manageable and you can do the full event. The team needs you!  :yes:

Jos

Could someone confirm the timings are in BST or GMT? Thanks.

Jos

Zummer time (I'm on the edge of wurzel country)
Practice server starts in about 25ish minutes

 tumbleweed

 :thumbup2:

aaargh, bastard pc crashed out right before we went to grid.   :cursing: By the time i got back in i was a lap down so was pointless continuing  :'(  thought id make it as Tim normally has us sat on the grid for a couple of mins. Dammit was 4th too and would have had a good 3 way fight with others on similar time.

Bad luck Mark - the server is still set to 1M30 (any shorter risks people missing the start if they change anything setup related) so we're only 30 seconds shorter than previously.
As you joined us a lap down you were always going to miss the start sadly :(


That was another highly enjoyable round - again I had Jos breathing down my neck for the opening 6 laps or so, then started to loose pace around when all my pressures had stabilised and I could get a rhythm going.
As I mentioned after the race, I think you may have had your pressures too high given that your pace always seems to drop off after the opening segment of the race and around when my car starts to perform properly (get Pro-tires!).

After Jos had dropped back I switch from doing near qualifying laps to a more conservative method (3rd in a lot of places I had been using 2nd, less heavy sliding etc) which was only a few tenths slower - for a while this seemed to hold me static against Jos again until he started to drop again in the closing section of the race.
I've not seen that part of the replay yet but if you were still using 2nd in the early T1-T3 chicane/hairpin things then you were likely exciting your rears too much given the amount of grip left by then.

This was the first round where I actually changed my setup much from Stock, and I have to say it made the car much more alive - although it takes a lot more effort to keep straight now ;D

It will be interesting to test. I finally did the hop for ProTires just before this series starts. The setup you're talking about has been made thanks to it (unless Jos made some changes before the race). All is consistantly green after 2-3 laps.
I can't make any further tests as I'm still unable to drive for now.

Congrats on your win and to my team mate for bringing back a beautiful P2, nice P3 for Fabri too. Sad that Lorenzo wasn't there on this round to give this top end more density and keep fighting for the championship.
Regarding myself, I can have a bit of regrets but health and pain govern..  :'( ::) ;D

Enjoyable race although didn't really battle with anyone. Fabri was just a little too quick ahead & similarly I was just a shade faster than Stefan behind so both gaps increased during the race. Nearly threw it away with a big sideways moment 2 laps from the end but fortunately the car didn't spin & I only lost a couple of seconds. Shame Mark had PC troubles as we were quite close in qualifying times & potentially could have had a good race.

Congrats to Tim, Jos & Fabri.  :clap: :clap: :clap:

Indeed, this was an enjoyable round although I missed my teammate (hope you get better soon  :thumbup1: ). A fantastic track and great match to  the Skoda 130R.
I tried keeping up with the brutal pace that Tim imposed from the very beginning even improving my best time at qualy and getting in the 55's but not even with those improvements I could challenge  :alien: that keep being untouchable for us mere mortals  ;)

Regarding my declining pace, I just switch to a more conservative mode and make more mistakes as the race goes by when I'm not in a fight with some chances... Once I lost the rear of Tim's car I lost focus and made more mistakes. It'll be good to test lower pressures on the rear those for next race... Let's see if it give us a better edge....

Congrats to Tim and Fabri and well done all. Sorry to hear about Mark's problems. It was good to see him there despite his other race. Hope to see you in the next one.

Looking forward to the next round.

The video of the race as usual here: https://youtu.be/xN-UkGWbAF0 (https://youtu.be/xN-UkGWbAF0)

Enjoy!

Jos