What an exciting race that was! Narrowly missed out on pole in quali but was nearly able to get in to the lead on the opening lap as myself and Tim ran side by side for most of it. Eventually i had to tuck in behind and settle in to a rhythm.

After a few laps i started to push and closed up little by little to Tim but the Ford was quicker on the straight and he drove really well so opportunities were few and far between. Had a small overlap exiting T1 around half way through the race but couldn't make it stick and after that all i could do was increase the pressure to try to force a mistake. A few laps before the end Tim ran wide at T1 and i was able to move past and hang on for the win.

A great race, very intense and fair. Looking forward to the new season in 2016 

Joined the server expecting to be leaving with connection issues but for some reason everything was fine! Did my best lap of the week for the pole lap and got a good start to the race to lead away. Got my head down to turn some fast laps but wasn't initially gapping Berger as fast as i was hoping for.

After a few laps he got a cut penalty at the Schumacher S and after that i was able to get in to a nice flow and stop watching the timings so closely. Enjoyed the race. Fuel usage was around 28l if my memory serves me correctly. Grats to Berger on second and Joel on third.

Thats a good suggestion, will try it and see what happens when i get chance.

Yeah he is only 11 years old so i haven't managed to get him to move out yet  We have never had any problems with racing this way in GTR2 or iracing so i wouldn't expect it to be any different in R3E. We actually did some R3E races in public servers a few weeks before we raced here and also had no problems with connection so i am baffled why it is so bad now.

Could be but Joel is gaming from the same connection and he has no problems at all 

So after some more testing this afternoon on the server with Joel i still have not been able to track down the cause of my problems. Every time i join the server we can do about a lap together with everything nice and stable and then my car starts to flicker and soon disappears completely.

I tried changing refresh rate, graphics settings, deleting my user profile and starting from scratch, verifying steam cache, adjusting settings in catalyst control centre, resetting my firewall rules, none worked. I would rule out my anti virus as Joel runs the same O/S as me and also uses the same A/V and his connection is rock solid. We both used wired connections too so no differences there. Also tried it out on some other servers beside the UK GTR one, again no different.

Looks like i am out for the time being, at least until the next game patch. Maybe that will solve my woes? My graphics card is not 100% anymore, occasionally it artifacts or shows rainbow textures, could that be related to the problem? Over on the S3 forum i submitted my log from the previous race and a dev said there was a large time difference between my computer and the server.

I was on the server earlier with Joel and my car was flickering or disappearing on his screen again

Weird thing is his car was perfectly fine on my screen and if he used the plus and minus keys on the number pad to change his primary camera on to my car it re appeared or stopped flickering completely too. I tried re testing after switching off opponent cockpits and reducing visible cars, neither worked? Maybe it is somehow linked to my refresh rate being set to 144hz? Was looking forward to the race tomorrow but seems like maybe R3E and multiplayer may have to go on hold until they sort out problems in my case.

Hoping that all goes well this time and my connection remains good to the server. Done some practice and the track is enjoyable to drive so looking forward to the race.

I never managed to get past error 503 all night despite repeated efforts. Glad a few of you guys got on to the server to have a race. See you all next time i hope!

Error 503 here for me too  :'(

Yes very disappointing as they have really had enough opportunities to fix it now.

It is beginning to remind me of the launch of EA's Sim City 5 - i bought the game and then spend ages trying to get on to play it. Soured me on all EA games since and i purposely avoid them now. Similar thing may happen with Sector 3 if they don't get their act together.

Error 503 every time i try to play today so far  

Any idea when we can expects a decision to be announced on if the race will go ahead or not? Or are we just going to try for tomorrow night and if things don't work out go from there?

They sent me an email this morning saying the will be larger discounts on Black Friday, so maybe worth keeping your VRP's until then. As Anty said though, no pack for GTR3 at the moment, you need to buy the cars individually.

Reinstalling the game will not help, the problem is their end, not ours. I have only turned a handful of laps all week with this combo and still can't get the game to run, just loads of error 503. Very frustrating!