UKAC Season 14 Lotus Evora GTC Cup - Round 1 - Brands Hatch - Jan 9

[FullMetalGasket]

Please not for this race - I've spent about 3 hours on the current setup and it'll be worthless if you change the temps...

[Manteos]

Please not for this race - I've spent about 3 hours on the current setup and it'll be worthless if you change the temps...

+1

It's true that rear tyres tends to overheat easily on this car, but they're still manageable. I don't know which setup are you using Mark, but if you are on that of Siebert I must tell you that tyre pressure of that setup were completely wrong.

I mostly agree with Jeffrey about default setup. I changed only the front ARB (+1 click) and tyre pressures to it. During the lap I adjust the TC to a value of 6 on the Cooper straight and then I put it down to 4 on the pilgrims drop and for the rest of the track. That's my little dirty secret

Hope to be on time for the race tomorrow. See you chaps

[Bob]

Hospital visit but hope to be back in time for race.

[Baikal]

Very first time in slicks cars i see that softs is not working in this temperatures... For example , in this conditions in GT3 cars , soft can have better lap times in SPA. I am sure- this car softs will not  

PS Mark- no race password signed in first post  

[picnic]

Please not for this race - I've spent about 3 hours on the current setup and it'll be worthless if you change the temps...

I agree with this, we provide a practice server so people can practice the race conditions. We can change the temperatures for future races though.

Mind you as I've not actually driven a single lap in this car yet a radical change like this would help me out 

[Jeffrey]

For future races I wouldn't mind some randomness in the weather. Have the computer randomly pick a temperature within a certain window.
I'm not a fan of unlimited practice to get everything perfectly prepared, it's not realistic IMO and it makes things too predictable.

[Mark J]

Okay, agree too late to change the temps now, just dont complain if you cook your rear tyres  sliding them about really heats them up so adjust your setup accordingly, be that extra wing or a stiffer front/softer rear to reduce oversteer. If you overcook them in a spin you will need to take it easy for half a lap after to let them cool back down otherwise you will spin again and get the hump and leave. 
I found these cars are running too high camber as well, albeit that helps with the knife edge handling, but does generate a lot of heat in the tyre too.

Im a fan of random weather too, but if i run anything other than mid-clear i get complaints    I'd quite like a moody grey cloudy sky at somewhere like Brands.

[Jeffrey]

Okay, agree too late to change the temps now, just dont complain if you cook your rear tyres  sliding them about really heats them up so adjust your setup accordingly, be that extra wing or a stiffer front/softer rear to reduce oversteer. If you overcook them in a spin you will need to take it easy for half a lap after to let them cool back down otherwise you will spin again and get the hump and leave. 
I found these cars are running too high camber as well, albeit that helps with the knife edge handling, but does generate a lot of heat in the tyre too.

That's what I like about these cars, adds an extra dimension.

Im a fan of random weather too, but if i run anything other than mid-clear i get complaints    I'd quite like a moody grey cloudy sky at somewhere like Brands.

That's because you always go for those annoying sunsets  .

I prefer sunny as that makes the game looks best, but as long as it's 14:00, I don't mind some clouds . It's more the variation in temperature that is interesting, not really how it looks IMO.

[Mark J]

i like sunsets for Historics  when you have seen them at Le Mans you will understand 

Driver list (17 cars)  :-

MJ - Battery_Tender Skin
Jeffrey (TBC) - Marc VDS_mustang
FMG - Team_Penske_Miller_Lite car (White)
Spanner - Marc VDS Silver & yellow
Baikal - phantom_black
Manteos - bull_run
Stefan - BiArt #15 (gold) skin
Nfsw - JetAlliance_11065IL_Spa  #65
Sutol - JVC
Shark - gtc_Keyloggs
Bob - Quartz_Silver
Goldtop - Motorsport_Green_Cosworth
SRW - Playseat_fanatec
Picnic - JPS
Jaari (L4DE) - Berk Technology
Kdiesel - BiART #07
Ceolmor - Gulf

[FullMetalGasket]

Heavy overcast + the rift is horrible.
My offline practice race in the 962's for Silverstone was heavy overcast to make it more believable.
I found it increadibly hard to spot corners when everything is grey and I have low res to spot it though...

I'm with Jeff on the variable temps and grip though, my practice runs for the 962 had a variable track surface and really added a dimension to the races.
Especially as there would often be a random corner with extra low grip thrown in to really make you work 

[Baikal]

Driver list (17 cars)  :-

MJ - Battery_Tender Skin
Jeffrey (TBC) - Marc VDS_mustang
FMG - Team_Penske_Miller_Lite car (White)
Spanner - Marc VDS Silver & yellow
Baikal - phantom_black
Manteos - bull_run
Stefan - BiArt #15 (gold) skin
Nfsw - JetAlliance_11065IL_Spa  #65
Sutol - JVC
Shark - gtc_Keyloggs
Bob - Quartz_Silver
Goldtop - Motorsport_Green_Cosworth
SRW - Playseat_fanatec
Picnic - JPS
Jaari (L4DE) - Berk Technology
Kdiesel - BiART #07
Ceolmor - Gulf

Nice grid! My respect to guys! Lets have a good championship!

But Mark, before i go to sleep 2 hours before the race due night time, i want to report again that still NO PASSOWORD  for race in 1st post 

[Mark J]

oops sorry Baikal, I remember you pointing it out now, password done  

ps I also added Ceolmors Gulf skin to my dropbox skinpack if you hadn't downloaded it already, otherwise just download it from the link I added to post 1.

[Jeffrey]

My Replay

[Manteos]

First of all, I should read more carefully the race announcement  

I avoided to make an attempt on soft during the qualif. session, but I guess I'd never get closer with that compund to Jeffrey. If you add that I spent ten precious minutes to make a phone call to say happy birthday to my aunt, all in all the third place was not so bad.

I managed immediately to take the 2nd position at the first corner with a scary braking side by side at the first turn with nfsw. Than I tried to keep Jeff's pace and I was quite successfull until that damned spin at lap 7 or 8. For a question of luck I was not caught by nfsw and fmg and I found myself on the right direction to go on trying a desperate comeback for a podium place. I did a slow lap to cool down the temps, and than, lap after lap, tenth by tenth, I managed to rejoin the battle for the podium.
I had only 10 minutes to make a final assault, but after a couple of laps, nfsw had a spin and crashed into the wall, so I regained the third place. Last laps were really immersive trying to put some pressure on fmg in the middle of some lapped drivers battles that were all extremely fair in letting us pass  

With only 4 corners to the checkered flag fmg went slightly wide on the grass at the 'Westfield' and I had a last chance to put my car side by side taking the inside at the 'Dingle Dell' completing the overtake that granted me the 2nd position.

I must say that I'm pretty happy for my comeback.

Hat off to Jeff for his race. Well done fmg and nfsw.

See you

[Mark J]

well, that was an eventful first round  

Will start by saying the grid of cars looked fantastic with some lovely paintjobs on display  

Qually went very well for me, tried softs for the first time and on my first flying lap did a 1:26:1   which put me 2nd for ages. My runs after that were near abouts but even with a 1:25.9 I could only bag 4th.  Great pace by the 3 ahead. So I was pretty chuffed with a high qually spot.

Race start went well and cleanly until given a nudge by the green Lotus at Graham hill to get him past. He then continued to blatantly block from side to side for the rest of the lap until nerfing me off at Clearways (after he'd already been fully off on the grass and should have conceded).  I lost several places but steamed on and retook several places. I then closed right up on shark for a couple of laps but he had a moment on the exit of clearways with me right up his chuff, and just the slightest jink of my steering sent me into a silly weird spin   I got damaged on the Armco and I had to wait for the whole field to go by  
Now I had it all to do but good pace, so I picked my way back up the entire group upto Alexey in 6th   and with 6mins to go I got past him at Surtees and had my early antagonist shark just 4-5 secs up the road! I thought 'I can do this'   though my rear tyres were now seriously worn. But whilst closing him down with a few laps remaining the racing gods once again spat in my beer as a rejoining back marker side-swiped me at hawthorns at full chat   and I was sent into a massive spin, though without hitting anything. But I lost my hard earned 6th to Alexey and now no chance of catching Shark    plus my rears were now bright red  

Somehow I caught Alexey again and we had our second photo finish in two races   :

Loved the racing at my home track and the cars but the 3 separate incidents, none of my own mistake, destroyed my chance of a top 5 finish.  

Well done to Jeff on a strong win and the two podium finishers   plus thanks to all who raced to make it a good event.

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