UKAC TCR Series - Zandvoort - Round 6 - Oct 31

[Syd Drake]

Had a few nice battles in the first race, but then in the second I got spun around on lap 2 or 3 and the whole field went by. After that I didn't feel like continuing. It's the first time this season I gave up on a race, but in almost every race I have been hit from behind, usually by a faster driver not being patient/misjudging my braking point at one of the first harder braking corners while following.

[Mark J]

Grrr Sutol you swine, you quit the server near end of the race and caused a big lag pause that put me in the wall from a hard earned 5th 

Great couple of races other than that, shame to finish my second race in such a disappointing way with only 30 secs to go. Lost 6 places due to that with bent steering 

Superb first race after qualifying 3rd  and finished 4th after a race long chase of nsfw nose to tail. I actually think he was holding me up 

Race 2 wasn't as great, that rascal nsfw changed lanes in the braking zone at t1 and I was run onto the sandy verge  and lost a few places. Then drove like a demon battling past several good drivers to get to 5th after a great duel with Fabri again    just as I was thinking 'nice haul of points tonight' Sutol quit and it all went horribly wrong as I got a big screen pause and rift freeze, next thing my car was in the barrier with bent steering and I lost all those spots from a big gaggle of cars. 

Great racing again, tough track to pass on unless someone makes a mistake 

[Jeffrey]

Great second race again. It took many laps to try and overtake nfsw and Stefan. I tried everything to make him nervous, but he wouldn't budge and like MJ says, it's very hard to overtake here without a mistake.
In the end I was gaining on FMG and Kimi and just like all the previous races, I wished the 2nd races were longer  .

Race 2 wasn't as great, that rascal nsfw changed lanes in the braking zone at t1 and I was run onto the sandy verge  and lost a few places.

And guess who was right behind you again ?

[Bob]

  Probably my best 2 races for a while, didn't get shunted off, didn't shunt anyone off, and didn't finish last. Result  

[nfsw55]

Superb first race after qualifying 3rd   and finished 4th after a race long chase of nsfw nose to tail. I actually think he was holding me up  

For sure, I think so too
I really hate zandvoort, especially turn 10&11 (I think they are called Renaultbocht and Vodafonebocht)
For me both races were an unenjoyable strain. I was lucky that overtaking here is quite hard. Happy that it's over

Race 2 wasn't as great, that rascal nsfw changed lanes in the braking zone at t1 and I was run onto the sandy verge   and lost a few places.

Sorry for that, didn't notice it during the race

[Jeffrey]

My Replay

[Fabri Fibra]

My car was terrible to drive. Maybe I wrong something in setup.

Mark, you were really unlucky! 

[Simon Gymer]

That was a race to forget. Really enjoyed the circuit, but threw it off the track in race 1 avoiding people ahead of me. Fought my way back to 13th or something. Race 2, didn't get back in time and started a lap and a half down. Couldn't be bothered. Can we really not have a bigger gap between races? I had a technical issue that needed resolving and it didn't take long and still race was already 3 mins in! Basically a pointless night for me, which is annoying as I liked Zandvoort in this car.

[Simon Gymer]

BTW, I was in the wrong car tonight. I was in the blue Merc instead of the red one I've had for the rest of the season. Sort it! 

[Baikal]

BTW, I was in the wrong car tonight. I was in the blue Merc instead of the red one I've had for the rest of the season. Sort it!  

I agree, this is the reason for failure . I am tested and singed to "tripple one" car number (111), should to be full winner in RL, P, Q and both R, but in fact, i am driving in a 112 skin each race. Looser's skin number with appropriate results   But i hope that things will change to better irl and in racing , just wait  
Thanks for the races guys, was fun this combo, a lot of fights, but in 2nd race 1st lap needs a more lucky in deeeeepest bumpy drift   and have time to practice and car turning. FMG you are vision superman in your VR, Fabri was not so lucky here   But i hope Fabri was still alive   I had 75bb in 1st laps , but...  
Happy for Bob, Jeff and Kimi! And for others who enjoyed races  
Jeff, send me a set please. I still wants to find a secret of your increadible laptimes!  
It's interesting that in this car each track can need a whole setup rebuild for proper racing
 

[FullMetalGasket]

FMG you are vision superman in your VR, Fabri was not so lucky here  

I honestly have no idea how I avoided you in race 2, I watched the replay from loads of different angles last night and now have even less idea!
The view from Fabris' car is especially hard to understand 

[Jeffrey]

Jeff, send me a set please. I still wants to find a secret of your increadible laptimes!  
It's interesting that in this car each track can need a whole setup rebuild for proper racing
 

These setups were made for testing purpose at Silverstone. I wasn't sure if I wanted to to softer or stiffer with my Vallelunga setup, so I created these experimental setups. Weirdly enough tho, I was faster with both setups than my more normal Vallelunga set  .

I've used the stiffest version for Silverstone, Brands and Nurgurgring. Setups for Zandvoort never work on other tracks and vice versa for some reason, so I switched to the softest version for this.

Softest
Stiffest

[Baikal]

FMG you are vision superman in your VR, Fabri was not so lucky here  

I honestly have no idea how I avoided you in race 2, I watched the replay from loads of different angles last night and now have even less idea!
The view from Fabris' car is especially hard to understand  

It's just yours lucky reaction last moment, my big (140) inet ping + small lag  
PS Thanks Jeff for setups  

[Mark J]

No idea why Shark would suddenly be in a different skin car   I never change the individual driver entries from race to race other than adding or removing a driver.

Glad to hear most people had a great race i'd never thought of this track as a hard to overtake place until last night, but in similar cars it is very tough. Even when nsfw was getting a bit wild under pressure and running wide etc i never had enough momentum behind him to shoot up the inside and the best overtaking place at T1 is fairly easy to cover off by putting your car mid track.

@nfsw no worries on race 2. You got a slightly better start (again! - can i have your clutch?!) but i was watching you alongside through my side window with the Rift but you moved to the left once you caught the cars ahead and the slight nerf was enough to punt me wide under braking.
Still had great fun trying to get back past Bob and Fabri   after a few robust encounters with Felix who got his elbows out a bit  

It wall for nowt late on thanks to the lag pause crash anyway. Can i ask drivers to stay in server in future if near the end of the race? With fuller grids its obviously straining the bandwidth a bit. Ive had similar in the practise/qualifying with people keep jumping in and out of the server for whatever reasons.

If we thought this one tough to overtake, we have tight and twisty Magione next !  

[Baikal]

Can i ask drivers to stay in server in future if near the end of the race? With fuller grids its obviously straining the bandwidth a bit. Ive had similar in the practise/qualifying with people keep jumping in and out of the server for whatever reasons.

These lags should not depend from pilots connecting-disconnecting. All must to be clear here.
BUT. Only one reason of such lags from server side was if the server have improved  frequency of clients poll. Additional, it may be added car slots. Each car slot have a CPU load here. In hard situations it can bring an overall lags. 
I dont know and not sure in final , what frequency was set for our server. If it was set to 25 ( for better repformance) , we can revert it to 18.