Maybe with some faster cars it will not be possible to got flat all the way down the hill
My jag was only just able to take that flat. If you didn't get the right-hand kink just right, then you did the steep section either sideways or slowly rotating clockwise!
Sorry to Geoffers for the nudge at the start but I expected you to actually move when the lights went green. Trying to avoid your Jag messed up my start and I was suddenly drowning in Ferraris!
That is interesting Clive.
I know you had the Jag and I was in the Fez, but from the tight left hander at the top (2nd gear for me) I was on max throttle all the way down the hill..no lifting except for the upshifts. It meant that I just hit the red line in 5th gear before I had to brake for that horrible right/ left combo at the bottom of the hill. Maybe my final drive was too low?
That right hander at the bottom of the hill was my nemesis on this track. When I got the braking and downshifts right, it was easy...but that did not happen often enough!. Plus dropping a wheel onto the ( obviously very wet grass!) anywhere before the braking point, did not improve one's chances of successfully negotiating any of those corners. This was usually as a result of looking in the mirror and not concentrating on the road!!!
I think my best lap in offline praccy was a low 1:39, still 3+ secs off the pace of the fast boys. But I made the mistake of competing in qualifying, and trying too hard instead of aiming to be last on the grid and picking up the pace slowly. I found myself on the grid surrounded by cars and forced to get going or cause a problem
for those behind me. My biggest problems are still the braking distances and getting the thing pointing the way I want it, when I want it. There almost seems to be a half second delay between applying steering lock and the car actually turning, is that how you guys find it or could it be the way I have the controls set up?
Biggest plus for me was getting the tyre choice right, something that is not an option in GPL. Although I did not complete the whole race I had a steady green for all the laps I did, and it looked like the tyre wear rate would have kept them healthy until the end.
I enjoyed the challenge of something different and will be back for more.