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« Reply #75 on: May 29, 2017, 06:29:44 PM +0100 » |
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P.S. It was only a grey one! Haha
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« Reply #76 on: July 20, 2017, 10:26:44 AM +0100 » |
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Racing these beasts, with one eye on the brake status, is a hoot!
For me, qually and race approach are totally different. You often have enough brake performance for a one-off flying lap but you then have to develop a brake management strategy that will allow you to run continuous laps.
Racing needs everyone to be very mindful of the fact that you, or the bloke you are fighting, may not be able to stop!
If you are putting pressure on the bloke in front when going into a braking zone you have to take account of the fact that one or both of you is going to go straight on when you reach the corner and there is not a blind thing that you can do about it! Try not to be on the outside! ;-)
I'm currently enjoying Axel's Fun-Liga FUNL season and last night was a blast at Monza 10K.
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« Reply #77 on: July 20, 2017, 11:08:58 AM +0100 » |
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I found myself at a loose end last night and jumped into the Funliga race too. TBH I have not had time to spend getting into these cars as much as I would have liked, so I opted for the Lancia as I had a setup that worked at Zandvoort. Changed the gearing a little and did my first laps around Monza 10k in a 55 car......................... great fun. This must be one of the easiest tracks for the brake fade problems because I found that the brakes always recovered before I needed them again. Even so I still managed to exhaust what little I had at Parabolica on lap2 and went straight through the pack and into the gravel....sorry to anyone that got affected . Effectively that was my race over, as I had no-one to slipstream and unless the leading pack tripped over each other there was no hope of catching them. At the end I discovered that I had way too much fuel and was beginning to get the drifting through Lesmos right. As Clive Loynes says, these cars are immense fun and maybe they do encourage drivers to have a little more awareness of where cars are around them, especially in the braking zones!! lol
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« Reply #78 on: July 20, 2017, 11:46:13 AM +0100 » |
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LOL
Yes, lap two at Parabolica is the critical point. It's when you find out if you have been too heavy on the brakes up to that point for continuous lapping.
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« Reply #79 on: July 20, 2017, 08:28:42 PM +0100 » |
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Are we going to do any UKGPL races in the off season? I race Assetto Corsa on Wednesdays so can't join you lot
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« Reply #80 on: August 02, 2017, 03:22:28 PM +0100 » |
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I stumbled across a 55 race at Aintree on Monday evening, which I think may have been hosted by LBGPL.
Does anyone know if further races are planned by that league?
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« Reply #81 on: August 02, 2017, 04:24:18 PM +0100 » |
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I hope there are some more fun races with the 55's before UKGPL starts the new season...and things get more serious for some drivers. Maybe anyone with any knowledge of open fun races can post here so that we can crowd bomb those events. ( see how I am "down with the kids" and know all the trendy jargon?? ).
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« Reply #82 on: August 02, 2017, 06:18:00 PM +0100 » |
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Wasting your time mate. Nobody called Clive can do trendy! But a good idea. There is a lot to learn when it comes to racing the '55 cars and then even more to be gained from racing them on-line against humans. I find that my well honed brake strategy from training or off-line racing goes straight out of the window as soon as racing starts on-line.
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« Reply #83 on: August 03, 2017, 08:26:45 AM +0100 » |
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....see how I am "down with the kids" and know all the trendy jargon?? ). Word!
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« Reply #84 on: August 03, 2017, 04:23:05 PM +0100 » |
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....see how I am "down with the kids" and know all the trendy jargon?? ). Word! Word?? not sure I understand, that is the problem with me and trendy speaks. Anyhoo, Wed evening 55 race at Funliga was good. I took the Connaught, just because ........ and scared myself by putting myself on the front row of the grid. Everyone must have been asleep at the start because I found myself with a 50 mtr lead before T2 and it just stretched until YY extricated himself from the pack and closed me down. He definitely had better brakes/was better on the brakes and I struggled to stay with him until I changed my lines etc through a few corners. Then I began to close the gap and was just about within range to "have a go" when I blew the engine and lost touch with the leading Vanwall. After that, I was trying different braking points and lines into T1 and found yet another combination that did not work, stuffing the car into the fence and dropping to 3rd place. Another unforced error put me back to 4th and it became obvious that the gearing needed some modification to get the lap times down to the 1:41's. After I blew the engine again I parked it and walked back to the pits.......but with the knowledge that the Connaught can be made to lap quite quickly
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« Reply #85 on: August 03, 2017, 04:29:21 PM +0100 » |
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Word! = True, yes.
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« Reply #86 on: August 03, 2017, 06:04:14 PM +0100 » |
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Anyhoo, Wed evening 55 race at Funliga was good. I took the Connaught, just because ........ and scared myself by putting myself on the front row of the grid. Everyone must have been asleep at the start because I found myself with a 50 mtr lead before T2 and it just stretched until YY extricated himself from the pack and closed me down.
I was looking forward to their training race here but it all turned nasty on me. During practice I couldn't put a decent lap together because the fps kept dropping to below 10. I thought that it might have been connected with people entering and leaving the server as they were in and out like they were stuck in a revolving door! However, the start went well and I was up to second behind Evil, helped no end by Axel parking his Lancia on the apex of T2. This also allowed Evil to escape! At the start of the second lap, the slow frame rate hit just as I was entering T1. I thought that I had coped with it but the guy behind thought otherwise as he rammed into me on the exit. Decided that the others were better off without me and quit but I had ensured that Evil had a decent lead by wiping out the front end of the chasing pack! ;-) This was the first time that this ultra low frame rate had struck and previously I would have said that Buenos Aires was one of the least demanding tracks. :-( Hope Sunday proves to be a tad better.
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« Reply #87 on: August 03, 2017, 10:36:22 PM +0100 » |
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Whatever the problem is, I've still got it. :-(
I joined a 36fps server this evening and a couple of things were evident:
1 Sitting in pits but not moving the frame rate was the same in the 36fps version as it is in the 60fps version. Namely about 22fps. Which is not good.
2 It appeared that the single figure frame rate attack was still associated with other drivers entering or leaving. I noticed 5fps as I entered the field. When I looked at the chat pad it showed almost a page of connect and dissconnect messages for the other guy on the server. He appeared to still be in there and hadn't been in and out as it suggested.
Any ideas? I'm getting bored with off-line hot lapping. :-(
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« Reply #88 on: August 04, 2017, 09:58:34 AM +0100 » |
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At SRMZ there is a thread about reducing the stutters caused by the messages Editing the gplshift.ini helped, [ GPL Font ] Auto_Set_GPL_Font_Size = 0 and using the "no letterbox" patch + uncheck the chat in GPL. OpenGLV2 or Direct3DV2 ? Wich GPU and driver do you use?
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« Reply #89 on: August 04, 2017, 10:29:43 AM +0100 » |
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Thanks Axel, I shall investigate.
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