UKAC Season 14 - Spa Classic - May 22

[miner2049er]

I can't see the server.

[FullMetalGasket]

Naturally the server resets the lap BEFORE I take the 908 into the 2:35's....

[picnic]

Naturally the server resets the lap BEFORE I take the 908 into the 2:35's....

Sorry

[KDiesel]

Didn't make it on time, c u in next one...

[Bob]

All was going well, had a reasonable pace and wasn't making the usual blunders, apart from getting the fuel usage way wrong. Had to slow right down with 9 mins to go and tried to limp home. Ran out of fuel on start finish straight with one lap to go. Shame about low numbers a good combo.

[Mark J]

that was great fun, a brilliant way to end my Spa Classic adventure week 

Didn't let the low numbers bother me, just had a race long chase/fight with Stefans 908 for the first 20minutes, then a duel with Bobs GT40 for another 10mins and then the final 10 chasing Stefan down again, albeit with a  bit more margin than the first fight, great stuff   
I was really enjoying hussling the GT40 around and only had one minor wobble under braking at Les Combes that allowed Bob past but enjoyed battling him to get my place back. The cars looked ace on this amazing circuit.

Well done all that raced and finished, top work gents, hope you had as good a race as I    I was drenched in sweat at the end (though could be all the Belgian beer oozing out) 

if any of you have ever thought of going to that event, do it !  Its brilliant seeing GT40's, Bizzarinis, 917's, 908's Lolas etc hammering around such a cool track and you get close access all over the place. I could even stroke the cars  I walked 32km in two days and saw every corner of the track for plenty of the action day and night. if this was a more media friendly site i'd share some of my vids.

I'm not here next week but when i return we can have a Lauda tribute F1 race at the Green Hell 

[MaxVeloce]

I'm not here next week but when i return we can have a Lauda tribute F1 race at the Green Hell 

 


Back to tonight's event,  it that was fun even if I got my ass kicked - that GT40 is just plain difficult 

I spent practice testing several setup changes and thought it felt better, but my qually was lame and I didn't really nail a lap. The race wasn't so bad, I expected Fabri and FMG to disappear into the distance but I held on quite well the first few laps till I made a mistake braking into campus and almost threw it into the kitty litter. I just stayed on track and recovered but lost ~5 secs in the process. The gap slowly opened out but mid race the car came to me and I started to bang in some decent laps, even slowly catching the 2 in front for a while with a PB lap of 2:36.4,  why didn't I do that in qually!!
  Then FMG threw it off the road with some help from his errant wheel, and I was in 2nd.  A lap or so later there was suddenly a porsche in front of me and I thought Fabri had made a mistake, then half a lap later it went into the litter at campus and for a short while I thought I had the lead. That kinda distracted me and I lost my rhythym a bit, then when I got to the S/F line I realised it was backmarker and fabri was still 10s up the road..  doh!

After that there was only 2-3 laps to go and not much happened really, just trying to keep it on the track.


Congrats to Fabri, unlucky to FMG (no idea if this helps but a while back I had some windows update which borked my wheel and it started disconnecting after a random time, I think it was USB related.)

[Baikal]

Congrats Fabri and podium!  I am happy - i finished the race!  
Guys, please , any advice for clutch pedal tune?  i have no dead zone in axle begins  and it was mistake- i've slightly press it errornesly some time .. IMHO i need 20 dead zone in axle begins and 35 percents in axle ends ( CM options).  How are using this ranges? I know that all pedals are different, but may be it tuned this way ( using deadzones?)
 

[MaxVeloce]

Guys, please , any advice for clutch pedal tune?  i have no dead zone in axle begins  and it was mistake- i've slightly press it errornesly some time ..

I like 10% start - 65% end in AC axis settings, feels much more real to me

[Fabri Fibra]

Congrats Fabri and podium!  I am happy - i finished the race!  
Guys, please , any advice for clutch pedal tune?  i have no dead zone in axle begins  and it was mistake- i've slightly press it errornesly some time .. IMHO i need 20 dead zone in axle begins and 35 percents in axle ends ( CM options).  How are using this ranges? I know that all pedals are different, but may be it tuned this way ( using deadzones?)
 

I have 8%, for stay sure to don't press accidentally the clutch. Nothing on end.

[Baikal]

Thanks guys! 

[Stefan aka Postal]

Jolly good race lads! Even though not to many drivers around and cars being not on the exact same pace, it turned out to be good racing ultimately. Had some setup time on sunday on the 908 and it was very nice to drive.

Altough running a Lauda tribute on the Ring would be appropriate, it will be quite hard too. I am up for it, but perhaps to select another track from the '76 roster?

[Mark J]

Altough running a Lauda tribute on the Ring would be appropriate, it will be quite hard too. I am up for it, but perhaps to select another track from the '76 roster?

Monaco?    but i think the Grune Holle would be great fun, just have to drive it at 8/10ths.


We got 9 drivers last night, not too bad as that seems the sad average no matter what we race nowadays sadly.

[picnic]

I don't think Monaco is any easier, just as likely to wipe out on a barrier somewhere. Might be worth reducing damage a bit for this 1 off event if running somewhere really hard.

BTW there is a practice server up, might be wrong version of the Nordschleife tho'

[Baikal]

Buhahaha, brothers!   Really Buhahahaha!    Laugh at me guys, I deserve it!  
Short story like a joke! While practicing on a machine, having recently installed an excellent shifter, I began to use it and learn again. So, in driving, i noticed the strangeness in the "car": Sometimes, about once out of five, after downshifting, in 3-4 seconds! noticed a delayed kick of the moment, as if a delayed machine releases the clutch. I think what a car such a shit! Where is the code in the physics of kunos ?I dont see it before!  Well, I think they laid some strange real option by an unknown for me method. So i was tormented, i was waiting for this kick, and i didn’t have much time for analyzing the telemetry. And today, after having suffered in the race and as usual, I began to watch the my onboard video. And I saw that  pedals app in these cases, shows the clutch pedal is fully fully pressed for another 3-4 seconds after its physical release!   Hence the kick to my ass, being uncontrollable this 4 seconds!! Opened the pedals and found the reason   I assembled a separate USB controller on the pedals, their two axes (gas and brake) received a signal from the magneto resistors chips, but the clutch channel from the hall-sensor chip  ( i have no magnetoresistors for it but have a hall sensor brilliant chip). And it turned out that it often happened that when the pedal was short pressed to the floor, and than released , it continued to give a signal like a pedal was still the fully presses  for another 3-4 seconds (it was in Hall sensor chip saturation!), And then let the singal go back to normal !!!) ))) Hahahaha! It turned out that he had such a feature in the work on the high-resistance load of the controller input! After connecting an additional load resistor to the sensor, everything returned to normal! I hope that such tricks will not happen again! Well, can you laugh? I’ve already cursed all these days on the car ))) And was thinking that these cars are worst i ever see in AC!  Really funny story, guys  
I love you all, racing maniacs!