UKAC Season 1 ETCC - Imola - Nov 25th

[Simon Gymer]

I pmed you 10 minutes ago 

Thx, but it didnt turn up till after booking ended. Oh well. Next time. I had done 8 laps practice too for a change!

[Mark J]

im struggling to get in too, stupid steam didn't do the update first time and I got a checksum error and kicked. Its now doing a download at dial up speeds so not sure I will get in on time  :'(

[spanner]

Tonight i seemed to be suffering badly from my brake pedal spiking. Because of it I only really got a single qually lap and in the race there too many people around to have to press it fully to clear it as i'd get someone up my back. So in the first 2 laps i ended up at the back with it as it slowed me significantly

[Bob]

Sorry I didn't support tonight's race, been under the weather a bit hope to be back next week.

[Jester]

UKAC ETCC season 1 replays

[picnic]

>>>>> LAP Charts <<<<<

[Mark J]

jeez what a night of misfortune that turned out to be  :'(

had troubles logging in as the game didn't update properly, then when I got in I had no engine sounds so had to exit the game again  Been ill last few days so had no practise since Saturday, and so missing tonights practise and half qually scuppered me.

Still....got in with about 5mins of qual remaining and bagged 4th or 5th on the grid 

Only to find from lap one the car felt nothing like it had in all my practise sessions under braking and had developed a snap sensation (felt like a differential change) or braking anomaly which wanted to kill me in half a dozen corners. Hence my questions about server settings or car update at end. 
Mixed it with the big boys for about 2 laps at the beginning but just couldn't live with them and dropped back into my usual 'behind the aliens' ringside seat.
Never got near my pb, in fact 1.1 secs off it so don't know whats changed unless id got rusty since Saturday 

To rub salt in the wounds my race-long held 4th place was lost to Erik on the final corner complex on the last lap when under braking the car pitched me off the track and gave Erik an easy position gain  :'( Just a bit miffed at that 

[frex]

Fun race again, thanks all.

Congrats podium.

[ChrisR]

funny you should say that mark, when i was practising on the server throughout the week i was getting 2'03 on mediums all night long, on softs i was 2'01's consistantly even at 96% tyres.. and i was no where near my 2'00 PB.. the time of day was the same wasnt it? as i know that will effect the grip.

[Simon Gymer]

Jeeze, probably a good job I wasn't there then, as I was managing 2:06/2:07 in my practice laps! I'm obviously missing something with these cars to be so far off the pace as I don't feel like there's lots of time to find for me.

[Jeffrey]

Jeeze, probably a good job I wasn't there then, as I was managing 2:06/2:07 in my practice laps! I'm obviously missing something with these cars to be so far off the pace as I don't feel like there's lots of time to find for me.

You can try my setup posten in a previous thread. For me that gave me a few seconds compared to the horrible default serup.
IiRC you have a smooth driving style, and I think these cars work better being thrown around.

[Simon Gymer]

IiRC you have a smooth driving style, and I think these cars work better being thrown around.

I don't think it's my setup, by I have meant to try your manic setup out anyway. You're right I'm not a chuck it in sideways kind of driver though, even though that's fun, it normally results in the track needing some barrier repairs. 

[Jester]

So some went slower than what they did before, but I was somehow 2sec faster than what I was able to do 
Had an excellent start and went slow through turn 1 to be on the safe side, but then at turn 4 the car decided to keep going left    So it was trying to climb from the back up to the front. At one point I had a good place to overtake Chris (Sutol), but the bloody shifter didn't go in gear, so that was another loss in time. With a lap after I did pass him, I nearly lost it to him again as the car did again a snap oversteer. I finally came to the one I was aiming at (MJ) as he was to only one I thought, I was able to catch before the end. Unfortunately I made a few mistakes and only got to MJ in the last lap and with no clear idea on his braking points it was only hoping for a drag race for the finish-line. Unfortunate for him, he had the bleeding snap at the final double lefthander, giving me fourth place.

[spanner]

Not sure how significant it is but in the announcements it specifies a time of day and a cloud cover. However when you set up an offline session it also asks for a temperature. I find the conditions are sublty different when i got on the server.

[ChrisR]

when you setup a server it should automatically select the temps based on the weather and the time of day.. so if the time of day are the same and the cloud cover is the same it 'should' be the same when you go on your own server. i personally leave these values as default but i don't know what mark does.