Assetto Corsa - GT3 Championship - Silverstone GP - April 15

[picnic]

There was no problems last Wednesday - it was the week before

Assuming the Internet does its thing I will get the server updated.

[picnic]

Server updated and accepting bookings

I thought this was round 2 so that's what the server's called. Hopefully I'm right!

Request to event organisers, can we please include the round number in the title and perhaps a link to the championship so save all us numpties having to trawl many threads to find the answer. Not good when I'm panicking to set the server up 

[picnic]

That was going well until the game crashed, screen went black but I could still here it and the force feedback was still alive. Eventually I ended up with half a desktop but could get back in game. Had to Alt-F4 to close it. Hope I didn't get in anyone's way with my floundering around.

[Jester]

GT3 series replays

[Mark J]

Well that was mostly fun but ultimately frustrating  

Hadn't done any praccy and never used a Z4 here before! So had no setup and 15mins to get in shape.
Qualied a satisfying 5th or 6th.
Had a good battle off the line with a pair of rampaging Nismos who were all over me with their extra grunt.
Picnic got ahead then Bob a short time later. Pete disapeared later but I chased Bob for the whole race for 4th place and started to really put pressure on in the last few laps, which was great fun.
However that's where it went pear shaped as I got told I only had 1 lap of fuel left on lap 11   this was despite the pit menu telling me how much I needed for 15 laps and me adding a few extra litres for good measure!! So I had to bite the bullet and pit for a splash and dash  
I dropped from 4th/5th fight down to 8th  :'( gutted, and that's where I finished. How come no one else suffered it?

[Jeffrey]

... and that's where I finished. How come no one else suffered it?

Nearly suffered it, game said I need 51 or so litres for 15 laps, I put in 60 as the weight hardly slows down these cars, but still I had a dark orange icon when I finished. No idea how long that will last, but I doubt it would have been a lap, eventhough the garage said 17 laps.

There is a fuel app, but it didn't work for some reason, maybe because of the update.

[picnic]

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[Tibernius]

However that's where it went pear shaped as I got told I only had 1 lap of fuel left on lap 11   this was despite the pit menu telling me how much I needed for 15 laps and me adding a few extra litres for good measure!! So I had to bite the bullet and pit for a splash and dash  
I dropped from 4th/5th fight down to 8th  :'( gutted, and that's where I finished. How come no one else suffered it?

The fuel estimates are per user, per session unlike in GTL/GTR. It adapts to how much you've been using, and averages it - so if you've been short-shifting for a while during practice/qually, it will give you an inaccurate estimate. It usually gets mine wrong, since I'm slow on my outlaps.

[Sutol]

Drove badly and had a couple of offs at the start, then the game crashed just to cap it all. Came back on the server to rejoin (don't know if that's allowed) once I'd started the game again, and finished I think. I'll be interested to see how the results interprets all that!

[Jester]

I use the fuel part of the OV1 app and that told me tonight that it was 3L/L, so put 48L in. At the last corner before the final lap I got told by the audio of ministatsbar app, that I had 2 laps left so that was right as it should be. I never go by the games fuel estimate.
Had good fun trying to stay close to GT. Didn't have the grunt to pass him. I had 1 moment where I was beside him and there we came together, I let him go in front again as I didn't know if it was my fault. Looking at the replay, on the one side I might say it was a racing incident and on the other side I was a bit late to go to the inside. We had no one close by so no loss to our positions. Jeffrey was clearly out of our league, nice pace mate.

[Jeffrey]

Car felt totally different on the official server. Did the practice server not have TC allowed? The Nissan kicked like a donkey on the practice server, but was very driveable on the official. So my setup was wrong, as I did everything to prevent the back end from leaving me, so it was too understeery. Am I right to think that the higher number TC is actually a lower setting, as it bogged down corner exit at TC 1, but became more alive the higher I set it  .

Forgot to check my first gear, which showed, as it was too long and I had a terrible start. Hate the fact that you can't select 1st gear atleast.
Got overtaken by Erik and Goldtop, which made first few laps quite tense, as it has been such a long time since I did a league race, and I didn't want to be the local Maldonado. So I waited for one of the straights to overtake them both, as that was the strength of the Nissan.

Could do stable laps during the race, did my best in lap 10, but in lap 11 my tyres were shot . All of a sudden my laptimes were a second slower. Almost like the Pirelli tyre cliff. So maybe I should have gone for hards instead of mediums. Softs only lasted 1 outlap and 1 timed lap for me, 2nd lap was always way slower.

30 Mintues race sounded short, as I just to do 2 -3 hour endurance races, but I was knackered at the end 

[Bob]

  Was having fun chasing Picnic, not a lot between us then I realised there was a problem when all at once he shot off the track. So unlucky Picnic it was just becoming a race. Mark J hung onto my tail for quite a few laps and just as it was getting very close he pulled off into the pits, low on fuel as I now know.  Last 5 laps very lonely, had nowhere near the pace of the top three. Well done the podium, incredible pace.  

[goldtop]

No fuel problems here...I usually put a few extra litres in anyway and didn't notice any warning light towards the end of the race.

Had a nice race with Erik close behind throughout. Regarding our incident, I thought you were just having a look up the inside going into Copse and didn't expect you to try to pass. That was only ever going to go one way mate as I had to turn in to make the corner but thanks for waiting anyway  

I see Jeffrey hasn't got any slower    

[Jester]

Car felt totally different on the official server. Did the practice server not have TC allowed? The Nissan kicked like a donkey on the practice server, but was very driveable on the official. So my setup was wrong, as I did everything to prevent the back end from leaving me, so it was too understeery. Am I right to think that the higher number TC is actually a lower setting, as it bogged down corner exit at TC 1, but became more alive the higher I set it  .

The only difference was time of day, between my server and the official, 14:00(official) instead of the race announcement of 10:00(practice)  ABS and TC were set on factory.
As far as I could tell when I tested TC, that the higher number is less traction control. I never use it, so I can't tell how it works nowadays.

[Jeffrey]

The only difference was time of day, between my server and the official, 14:00(official) instead of the race announcement of 10:00(practice)  ABS and TC were set on factory.
As far as I could tell when I tested TC, that the higher number is less traction control. I never use it, so I can't tell how it works nowadays.

Weird, when practicing I never heard the TC and the car was all over the place.

The Nissan was the only car for me that really needed it, so much grunt