UKAC Season 3 Blancpain - Monza - May 31

[Manteos]

A couple of tips about wednesday race.

Me and the other VDAs will quite surely use soft tyres during the whole race without changing them, as we said to Jeffrey this evening. Yesterday I tried a long run and after 25 laps they were behaving good. You'll find them a bit slidy during the last laps of the race, but it's the unique option to have a better grip and higher temps on your tyre for almost the entire race. I strongly recommend to you to do an attempt of a long run and see what happens. Monza is the only place in which you can take this hazard

About the fuel strategy.
Fuel weight is a factor that you can consider if you want to be a bit more aggressive in your strategy. Starting with full tank (100 ltrs circa) will assure you the advantage of a superfast refueling, but will penalize you in acceleration and max speed if you dont't have some slipstream to exploit. The difference between full tank and half tank laptimes are between 3-5 tenths per lap, but this advantage will wear thin lap after lap until the half race, when you will be in the same situation of the full tankers but losing approximately 10 seconds (5 ltrs per second for the refueling) vs the 0.2 seconds needed for the spalsh and go. Obviously nothing prevent that You may take a bit more than 50 litres at the start and make a longer first stint for instance. That will let you save more seconds at the pit stop and to be more aggressive during the first part of the race.
Otherwise, if you are planning to change the tyres (somethng that I strongly discourage you to do), it will cost to you approximately 20 seconds. In this case refueling and tyre change will be done simoultaneously, so it would be better to start with an half tank in an hotlapper mood .

Now do your maths, and good race

[spanner]

I have been doing now all my running on softs and was going to use them for the race. They are only marginally better temps than the medium, but am not seeing alot of wear on them. As for going through the whole race...maybe for you guys at the front, but will probably change them anyway.

Was just going to run fuel half and half. I know running fith full tank would be quiker overall but, find its easier to drive and get the time with less fuel. Those of us not in the top 10 don't worry so much about saving every tenth!

[phspok]

Pitstops in AC? hmm never done them before 

[Jeffrey]

Was just going to run fuel half and half. I know running fith full tank would be quiker overall but, find its easier to drive and get the time with less fuel. Those of us not in the top 10 don't worry so much about saving every tenth!

IIRC, tyres take longer than fuel for half an hour. So if you are going to change tyres, it's no use starting with a full tank.

[FullMetalGasket]

I'm sure you could fill about 60-70L in the same time as changing tires based on my testing for silverstone

[ChrisR]

Tyres take 20 seconds to change.

They used to take 10 but for whatever reason they decided to make it 20, which is why the animation looks like its in slow motion.

[spanner]

Oh, thought it felt really slow last time.


As we have lots of people here with a lot of indepth knowledge of AC. Saw a comment on FB or somewhere that he joined a server, saw that it reported the tyre pressure incorrectly in status area (hot pressure is less than cold pressure) and thought that the server was running some sort of cheat, told them and then got booted!

I know i shouldnt believe anything i read, but i noticed it the other day. cold pressures were 17, hot 16. Its been like this for a long time now, surely they should have fixed it by now?

[Baikal]

I know i shouldnt believe anything i read, but i noticed it the other day. cold pressures were 17, hot 16. Its been like this for a long time now, surely they should have fixed it by now?

Earlier than 14 feb , as i can remember the dates  , hot pressure was 33 for GT3 cars. Now it's 26.  Cold pressures is begins from 16 now.

[spanner]

I know i shouldnt believe anything i read, but i noticed it the other day. cold pressures were 17, hot 16. Its been like this for a long time now, surely they should have fixed it by now?

Earlier than 14 feb , as i can remember the dates  , hot pressure was 33 for GT3 cars. Now it's 26.  Cold pressures is begins from 16 now.

I know but you run some laps then go back to setup screen and see the reported tyre pressures on the status area. My cold pressures were 17, the tyre app while driving shows them to be 24-25 but stop and go back to the setup screen...

[ChrisR]

The car setup screen has always been a bit odd..

i ignore it and look at the live tyre app.

[Baikal]

Mark, what about rules of ascari turns? IMHO we can use all 4 wheels on green zone in first left side ascari turn for safety reason?  
Hope we'll have a good battle tonight!  

[ChrisR]

Two wheels within the white lines at all times, if you go out fine and dont gain an advantage.. , but if you think someone is gaining by constantly going over the white lines then you need to say something.

[Tim Schneider]

Hey guys im sorry but i cant race tonight. I am still at my workplace and unfortunatly i cant make it in time.

[Mark J]

Hey gents I am back! Will be racing tonight though it will feel like a true endurance race to me as I've just driven my stripped out Old Porsche for 6 hours across France    I'm flipping tired but will give it a go 

[Mark J]

well thanks to the shower of Sh*te at BT I was unable to race because once again my phone line is down and broadband is at snail pace. On trying to fire up AC I got told the latest download would take 10hours to do!!  very annoyed to miss this race  :'(  that's my championship pretty much screwed after the disco at silverstone and then lap1 shunt last week.