UKAC Season 2 Porsche Cup - Hockenheim - Feb 8

[phspok]

I can.  Managed to get the steering something like normal (for me) and set it to bonnet view
So now things look and feel ok. Still not very fast though, but at least I can now "race" rather
than drive like I'm steering a barge 

[Maikel K.]

You should also give the FFBClip app MJ linked a while  back a try. Setting it to auto and dynamic. It makes a big difference  for the g27  imo, the car feels alot more natural and responsive if the back end slides away.

[picnic]

I see the quick times on STracker were around 1:41 so I've set the race length to 18 laps otherwise we'd all be finishing too early

[picnic]

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

[Linus27]

Must say, that was a terrible race. Qualified in 6th which was making the race look hopeful. Sadly, it never happened.

Going in to turn 2, nfsw55 ran into the back of Denis. This in turn pushed him into me, Alexey and Samwell. FMG also missed the corner and hit Samwell.  Not sure what happened to nfsw55 but he was warping and just didn't stop and went all the way to the end of the run off.

My car felt horrible after that and going in to turn 3, I missed my braking zone and tagged Apextechusa and spun him around. Sorry

After that, I had nice battle with Samwell and Denis but ended up coming home is a terrible 14th.

[Brocookie]

Here are the replays of the last three races

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0njvWR_hy3wRy1pLVY1bG9UM00

[LesN]

Well, that could have gone better... I was careful at the start and was up to fifth after avoiding the mayhem, then got swiped off at turn 5(?) and had to pit to straighten things out. Decided to carry on, hoping there might be at least a point, but got tangled up battling for 16th with a couple of laps to go and didn't see Thomas going down the outside in the stadium section. Apologies, I was looking out for you, but you surprised me how quickly you caught me there and I was taking evasive action myself.

I don't use any of the add ons, I prefer things as realistic as possible. Just my oculus, and my mirrors.

[nfsw55]

Lost my internet connection for a few seconds right after the start. Guess I just drove straight forward then.
Sorry to anybody who suffered from that

[Mark J]

I had an awesome race full of superb close quarters action and chases  .

Shame to see the multi car incident at T2 on lap 1, but before everyone points fingers it's always wise to watch the replays first as what you think you see from your cockpit is not always the case. There is also a lot of cars piling full chat into a very tight right hander on cold tyres.

Had a poor qually sesh and ended up 11th thinking I had a long race ahead. But after a good start I found myself right up with shark and another heading just behind the front group melee. I was so hypnotised watching several cars slide off that I went very deep on my own cold tyres nearly following them off. Exited t2/3 in 4th !  
Chased Simon hard for a lot of laps whilst Nfsw gradually reeled me in. Fought him for a while but he was quicker so he got past after a few laps. Then FMG joined the party stalking me whilst Simon and Nfsw fought just ahead. It was a relentless pace!  
We fought on for many laps and I set several of my fastest race laps to re-close on the two ahead but unfortunately their squabbling threw all my gap away to FMG and after it happened a second time he pounced past me when I had to get out the throttle. Laps 16/17 was mental with 4 cars going at it  
I had nothing left in the tank on the last lap, I was spent! I Could do nothing but chase the 3 fast guys and finished a strong 6th  
Amazing racing  

[Maikel K.]

Just watched the replay and it was a shame nsfw ping was all over the place. He was warping pretty bad going into T2. Saw it happen in my rearview mirror, unfortunate mess.

Had a pretty relaxed race after that. Thomas kept close but I was inching away every lap. I still had my delta time app on so I was just trying to beat my fastest lap and get into the 1:40's, but around lap 13 or so I just tried to much and I clipped the grass, corrected it too much and ran into the wall ( stupid delta app   ). Came back 4 seconds behind Thomas and it took me a while to get back into my rythm again. Car was abit beat up but other then a little bit over downforce loss it wasn't that bad.
Got close behind Thomas and then he got tangled with a back marker while passing him, though I was being a good sport and just waited it out behind him  

Last lap I was just closing in on him, shame we couldn't have had a proper battle. I remember the GT2 race at this track had some great battles.

[Baikal]

I slept in spite of alarm clock was on... Woken up when Q , connected to server in 9 min of Q... Got 5 p.
Pete, Denis- sorry for 2 lap .. Brake point lost in approaching hairpin. I returned pos to Denis next lap.
Samwell, Stefan, sorry for last lap. Brake point lost in approaching hairpin. IMHO, car was damaged and not breaking well here..
Guys. Thanks for the race.
The combo was cool and so sorry that i can't take full satisfaction here. May be repeat this round?  
Congrats podiums!  

[Thomas Blackett]

Another win! Don't know what happened at the start but found myself in second with a good gap. Soon realised that Maikel had way better pace but was taking lots risk over the kerbs, decided to just run some error free steady laptimes and hope for an error. Fortunately for me the error came and I had a 3-4 second lead. Held the gap to a good distance until the second to last lap when I came upto 2 back markers in a dual, got a good run into the stadium, went for a gap on the outside which closed as soon as I was along side. Well.... The words that came out of my mouth... Well well... Thanks to Maikel being a gent he slowed and let me keep the lead. Covered my line for the last lap and finished to great relief. Please watch your mirror's next time!

[FullMetalGasket]

FMG also missed the corner and hit Samwell.

Not so much missed as abandoned when all hell broke loose ahead!
As to the contact with Samwell it took me 3 or 4 viewings to even work out if I did make contact it was so gentle (Even AC's insanely sensitive damage didn't register it) - If anything I was more concerned over joining carefully once straight again as the exit to T2 is a dodgy location when there are cars behind!

Other than that chaos I had a good race fighting with people who had mostly qualified around me and so were on similar pace. Passing was difficult often as my race setup wasn't the best on brakes for some reason, I had tuned it to turn more than stop as that suited my style here better..
The ending with the 4-way battle was great fun - I had previously caught and reeled in Jonzo only to run out of track into the kitty litter entering the stadium with about 4/5 to go and originally thought I'd lost my chance at passing him.
Thanks NSFW and Simon for slowing him back up again

[phspok]

Enjoyed that very much  
managed to not hit anyone, gave the faster boys loadsa room when they were making their way back up the field
kept right in to the hairpin to avoid Alex's suicide charge into someone' back end  
had a good chase with Spanner and Picnic up to the end and just managed to stay in front.
Good fun  

Thansk for the replay Brocookie. I allowd my max replay to be 350 meg ( I think0 and it saved a 313 MB replay
but it's only the last 20 mins   how do I set it to be smaller file with more time in it?

[Baikal]

Onboard live just for history.
BTW, i used new cockpit camera tune very first time in this race for my 37" fullHD single monitor.
IMHO- finaly- it's a best car-track proportions view\compromise\erghonomics choice i found here for all my hard AC years and investigations  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf3GairZIvk
Another one sorry for my brake point mistakes, guys  :'(