UKAC Season 3 Blancpain - Round 2 - Silverstone - May 17

[Mark J]

not much I can enforce really without stopwatching everyones pitstop after a race, and I don't want to remove the strategy element of an endurance otherwise its just another sprint but longer. I guess leave it as we have it, ie stop for min 1L fuel and/or tyres.   

Still not quite following on 'timed races' can you explain?

[Linus27]

I think for me, timed races for endurance just adds another element of realism and makes it like the real Blancpain as well as other endurance races. It doesn't really make a huge difference but if we have the choice then why not take advantage of it. A bit like car skins, doesn't really make much difference but if we can run our own then lets make use of them.

[Bob]

   Need a new rule for those over 72 years of age..........two laps start and excused the pit stop.

[Mark J]

https://youtu.be/4A7AG_BLUyU?list=PLEC8B95916B0BA0A2   

[Baikal]

Ok. Sorry for my eng )
Timed race is :
- you not need to calculate race laps for us )))  
- set 60 in server.cfg )))
- you can set pit window not bug. But you can not set pitwindow.)
- you can set+1 lap option for race
- for fuel you'll need some calculation ( for example - i am so slow so i can fuel less 1 lap because race will finish earlier 1 lap for me )))
IRL timed races beguns from 1 hour as i can know ( to save benzino, peoples life time and nature)
Thats all.
All of options is good modelled in AC  
For AC champs it is another way to improve challenge- you must to calc fuel better  
 

[Linus27]

I not actually thought of that, in the sense you would need to work out how much fuel to add based on your lap times rather than how many laps in the race. That could be fun and interesting especially if you go quicker or get your calculation wrong 

[Jeffrey]

It's not that special, I think that's always how we did it in the GTR2 days . Isn't it also how it's done in real life? So it's not a biggy, but more a quest for more realism if that's how they do it 

[ChrisR]

just to clarify; the current mandatory pitstop in ac works as follows, you must stop and add at least 1L of fuel for the game to register the pitstop has taken place, secondly you must "leave" the pitlane before the time runs out.. it is incorrect but it is "as designed" atm.

My thoughts on having forced pitstops (ie pitstops which are required through choice than necessity) are still quite a challenge. Even if you was to just have a drive through you need to carefully choose when to pit..

Lets take for example my race at brands, matteo was holding me up a lot lap after lap, if i would of had a mandatory pit to take, i would of done so early on meaning i can come out into clear track and potentially make up time and not be stuck behind him.

I hate multiplyers to fuel & tyres because it changes the dynamics of the cars too quick. You could force drivers to use softs, this would mean they will have to pit through necessity. There would be lots of stops tho, might even make for quite an interesting race.

It wouldnt take long to review a replay and make sure everyone pitted.

[Maikel K.]

It wouldnt take long to review a replay and make sure everyone pitted.

A quick look into ptracker is probably even quicker. At sessions and then in the race it shows how many pitstops and how long it took ( only if you have the ptracker app installed, which everyone seem so to have )

[Mark J]

It wouldnt take long to review a replay and make sure everyone pitted.

A quick look into ptracker is probably even quicker. At sessions and then in the race it shows how many pitstops and how long it took ( only if you have the ptracker app installed, which everyone seem so to have )

Well found that man 

 plus no last lap pitstops should be allowed, in case that's not clear (and another reason why I don't agree with 1L fuel stops.

[ChrisR]

you can dictate the laps on which a pitstop has to be made.

[Mark J]

But again don't want to ruin variable strategies by enforcing a pit window though that could also keep the racing closer together  . Just no sneaky last lap pits please.

[Gavino Pintus]

Hi guys,
after you decide what we can do and what we can't do, please can you prepare a brief inside the first post?

I've read a lot of good ideas but for me is not clear the final decision.

[picnic]

The normal pit stop rule around these parts is

Pit Stops: You must make a minimum of one pit stop during which you must take on at least 1 litre of fuel and/or change at least two tyres. You cannot take a mandatory stop at the end of the pace lap, or with less than 1 lap to go.

I've assumed without further notice that this will be adopted here, I'm sure MJ will clarify shortly

[ChrisR]

But again don't want to ruin variable strategies by enforcing a pit window though that could also keep the racing closer together  . Just no sneaky last lap pits please.

I dont think you get what i mean.

In the server manager you choose to enable mandatory pit and can dictate the pit window, if its a 28 lap race then you open it at lap 2 and close it at lap 27

If you dont pit within these laps then you get disqualified.

And for a mandatory pit to count you must take on at least 1L of fuel.