UKAC Season 9 Porsche 962 - Laguna Seca - Mar 21

[spanner]

Having stuck a time in qually I decided it was safer not to stay for the race. Couldn't see me lasting that long before falling off.

[Fabri Fibra]

Apology to fabri early on who caught me after he fell off. I was trying to encourage you to pass me rather than hold you up but it meant I was getting scruffy in the corners running wide and costing us both time until you took the hint and went past.

Mark, it is your right and duty to protect your position! 

My race was compromised on the second lap. I took the high kurb part in the fast right corner and my car "landed" hard, she lose stability and went against the left wall. Car quite damaged and about half a second slower than expected.

Congratulations Matteo, impressive!

[Stefan aka Postal]

I set off ok, then on lap2? I was up the inside of someone going over the start line when we either made contact
or I drove over one of the marker posts, and somersaulted up into the air, landed on my nose, and went end over end
off the track, I think I may have landed on someone's roof. Gave up after that, not happy.

That was me who was on your outside. By the looks of it your where victim of a stubborn corner marker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm9AXGeq52o
Look here somewhere around the 3 min mark for your quite spectacular crash Matt. This movie is an unedited compilation of some of the action around me during the race. But still entertaining footage i guess.
Unfortunately I didn't get to use the provided setup from my teammate, but still had a decent race.

[phspok]

wow! those cones are "well ard" 

[Manteos]

What rig and ffb settings are you using to be so smooth and in preciseness ?
Can you pm me a replay of your fastest lap for memories?
 

I stopped autosaving the replay of the race since I noticed that the file were so big and my SSD space was not enough. You have to ask to some other drivers if they saved it.

About my ffb I started to use this LUT file since I bought a new G29 on black friday week. Here is the guide:
http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/rasmusps-lut-guide-for-g27-29-and-dfgt.16799/

I use the "NoClipButStronger_Recommended" LUT

I experience some 'rattling' from my wheel when standing still, and now I read that there has been an update on that LUT. Will try in the next days how it feels with 50% FFB strength.
http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/rasmusps-lut-guide-for-g27-29-and-dfgt.16799/updates

Remember to save the original files before modifying it, so if you don't like that configuration you'll be always be able to go back to the original

[picnic]

wow! those cones are "well ard" 

But I see the wheel tethers worked well, although I thought that was a recent F1 thing

[FullMetalGasket]

That went better than I expected - On Saturday I had high expectations for this round, and then Matteo set his first blisteringly quick time  
After that and a few people picking up his setup my hopes dropped as suddenly the field around me got faster while I languished in the mid-20's, so I did some more work on my setup and ended up with a car that would happily run low 20's without much effort (on softs!) and indicated a mid 19.
As I was happy with that I tried to migrate the settings onto my race setup.
Nope, not gonna work.
It was slightly faster but stupidly hard to drive, in the end I decided I'd keep to my original race setup as it was consistent and then concentrate on qually - as it's so hard to pass here  

Even that didn't go well as I couldn't keep it together for long enough to do even one lap that was worthy of my setup, so I started from 5th with only the hope that the guys in front would suffer issues to buoy my spirits!

I got a brilliant start and found myself sneaking past Fabri after running side-by-side from T1 through to nearly T3, then I actually found myself gaining on Maikel and Felix for a couple of laps until their cars warmed up and they slowly pulled away.

After Fabri's off I didn't have to worry too much about the cars behind past about the 10 minute mark, although they were always there somewhere in my mirrors.
Maikels off really woke me up as I suddenly had the worry of a faster car catching me from behind - lucky for me I guess that he killed his gearbox.
I also thought I might nab 2nd for a while, as Felix slowed drastically towards the end, I think I was pulling him in by over .5 of a second a lap in the last 5 minutes - fuel saving I'm guessing, as he was showing as using Hards so can't have had tyre dramas.

Anyway - 3rd is more than I deserved so I'll happily take it
Congrats to Matteo for his stunning pace and also to Felix for 2nd.
Good work to all who finished, it was a hard one - roll on Spa!

[Mark J]

Apology to fabri early on who caught me after he fell off. I was trying to encourage you to pass me rather than hold you up but it meant I was getting scruffy in the corners running wide and costing us both time until you took the hint and went past.

Mark, it is your right and duty to protect your position! 

My race was compromised on the second lap. I took the high kurb part in the fast right corner and my car "landed" hard, she lose stability and went against the left wall. Car quite damaged and about half a second slower than expected.

Congratulations Matteo, impressive!

Oh I would normally put up a fight but here I knew you front group were about 2 secs a lap faster and it's hard to overtake here without a big risk of both cars ending up in the gravel, so was safer to let you pass than pick a one sided fight 

[Thomas Wiesel]

Congrats to the podium. Stunning pace 

The quali was very close with PorcoRosso. At start he passed me on the inner line at the first corner.
I was always between 0.5 and 2 sec behind him. On the brakes in the last sector I was often able to get closer, but out of the corners he was to fast. Overall I was never that portion quicker to attack him. But it was very entertaining to race. The lapped cars made us a bit slower here and there but nothing serious.

Great race, thanks.

Looking forward to Spa 

[Baikal]

I stopped autosaving the replay ...

...About my ffb I started to use this LUT file since I bought a new G29 on black friday week. Here is the guide:
http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/rasmusps-lut-guide-for-g27-29-and-dfgt.16799/

Thanks for the info, Matteo.  
I already have a replays of races. But here i needed a first person replay because it's containing  telemetry data ( true pedals inputs, suspentions movement and so on)  
About rig- i am too have LUT in G27, from first days, but my own, generated and edited. Due i am an electronics engineer, i have a hobby to mod this wheel and pedals ( hall sensors in pedals and so on)
I was just interested of you feelings when you driving LS and 962 )

[PorcoRosso86]

I stopped autosaving the replay ...

...About my ffb I started to use this LUT file since I bought a new G29 on black friday week. Here is the guide:
http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/rasmusps-lut-guide-for-g27-29-and-dfgt.16799/

Thanks for the info, Matteo.  
I already have a replays of races. But here i needed a first person replay because it's containing  telemetry data ( true pedals inputs, suspentions movement and so on)  
About rig- i am too have LUT in G27, from first days, but my own, generated and edited. Due i am an electronics engineer, i have a hobby to mod this wheel and pedals ( hall sensors in pedals and so on)
I was just interested of you feelings when you driving LS and 962 )

Hey alex, I've a question for you: how can help the HALL sensor here, on pedals or, idk, steering wheel?
I know as well this tecnology, I've a HOTAS (vkb gladiator mk.I, I think you know as well, with a Thurstmaster throttle) system with the HALL sensors, thats changed my pilot-simlife forever, but I never thought that this tech could be implemented here.
Could help a lot?

[Baikal]

Hey alex, I've a question for you: how can help the HALL sensor here, on pedals or, idk, steering wheel?
I know as well this tecnology, I've a HOTAS (vkb gladiator mk.I, I think you know as well, with a Thurstmaster throttle) system with the HALL sensors, thats changed my pilot-simlife forever, but I never thought that this tech could be implemented here.
Could help a lot?

Sure, Porco! Electrical contacts free - is a main idea here. No rotating resistors (pots), no electrical noice, no signal loses, no wear, no maintenance needs.  I use magnetoresistors in brake and gas, and hall sensor IC in clutch ( Dont keep in mind why- it's a simple my choice of parts which i had at home) Other thing- i use a standalone USB controller ( buyed from Borada ( VKB owner and friend of mine more than 10 years ago). In G27 pedals it was a fully hand-made in 1 day- simple and easyest way. Here is a some pictures of it:
You can see what happens ( mechanical wear) with pots in G27. Did you see damaged resistor( pot)  compound layer?  
 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ka20o7jrup8d0bm/AACDizKldl0mpXfz9rtc4zf_a?dl=0
G27 wheel no needs to mod here due same ( optical) contact free know how is already used.
PS BTW i have an old and one of very first ( s\n 155) TM HOTAS Cougar flightsim joystick. First  in Russia Aaand.. I ve done a hall sensors here a long time before G27 was buyed. 200 usd economy in hall IC    Remembering- it was a holy sweet Egle Dinamics   LockOnFlamming Clifs ( nowadays DCS) betatester time    

[Flavus Periculum]

Interesting comments about Hall Sensors. I have been thinking about trying a Hall effect  angle sensor for throttle. I have G27 pedals and I currently use a LED/LDR (light dependent resistor) on my throttle and it works a treat. The led and LDR fit inside the G27 plastic plunger so not affected by ambient light. Maybe a thread on this could help some people get rid off the potentiometers as they are problematic after a while.

[PorcoRosso86]

Hey alex, I've a question for you: how can help the HALL sensor here, on pedals or, idk, steering wheel?
I know as well this tecnology, I've a HOTAS (vkb gladiator mk.I, I think you know as well, with a Thurstmaster throttle) system with the HALL sensors, thats changed my pilot-simlife forever, but I never thought that this tech could be implemented here.
Could help a lot?

Sure, Porco! Electrical contacts free - is a main idea here. No rotating resistors (pots), no electrical noice, no signal loses, no wear, no maintenance needs.  I use magnetoresistors in brake and gas, and hall sensor IC in clutch ( Dont keep in mind why- it's a simple my choice of parts which i had at home) Other thing- i use a standalone USB controller ( buyed from Borada ( VKB owner and friend of mine more than 10 years ago). In G27 pedals it was a fully hand-made in 1 day- simple and easyest way. Here is a some pictures of it:
You can see what happens ( mechanical wear) with pots in G27. Did you see damaged resistor( pot)  compound layer?  
 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ka20o7jrup8d0bm/AACDizKldl0mpXfz9rtc4zf_a?dl=0
G27 wheel no needs to mod here due same ( optical) contact free know how is already used.
PS BTW i have an old and one of very first ( s\n 155) TM HOTAS Cougar flightsim joystick. First  in Russia Aaand.. I ve done a hall sensors here a long time before G27 was buyed. 200 usd economy in hall IC    Remembering- it was a holy sweet Egle Dinamics   LockOnFlamming Clifs ( nowadays DCS) betatester time    

Indeed DCS is my main platform when I fly
Is cool as hell alexy! I've a peddals in plus I will try some experiments! Thanks A lot!