UKAC Season 14 - F1 '75 Shakedown Test Race - Silverstone - Oct 9

[Mark J]

I saw that Fabri, well done 

I found the hards gave a fair bit of understeer, did you adjust your setup to compensate?

I will be in either a Shadow, Hesketh or a Tyrell tomorrow eve 

[vva_avv]

Hey all! tried to join prac server, checksum failed:( ... only works with 312T. donno why.

[Fabri Fibra]

Yes, the understeering is because with hards the rear is lower than with softs. I increased the rear height a bit. Check also gears, with hards also that change.

I would take Williams.

[Fabri Fibra]

Hey all! tried to join prac server, checksum failed:( ... only works with 312T. donno why.

Mod version 1.1. There is the link in this topic. It is a small file.

[vva_avv]

Thx for Fabri problem solved!

[Mark J]

Race day folks, hope to see a decent grid tonight 

@SRW, hope you are good for the server duties?

[SRW]

Race day folks, hope to see a decent grid tonight 

@SRW, hope you are good for the server duties?

Yes I am ok for server duties

[SRW]

server is up and running, any problems shout out in this thread

[Mark J]

Thanks SRW 

[Bob]

  Settled into a good rhythm and found I was going quicker every lap and set a new pb. Got my fuel calcs way off, ran out with 7 mins to go, bugger. This series is going to be mega.

[vva_avv]

Nice racing ... ahead of me:) My sreen became black for some 5-7 seconds. So crash - pis - repairing -7th place... fooking computer.
donno what is pproblem. Looks like video card changes application for some seconds and then back... Sad sh~t.
Still very, very nice race! grats all folks!

[goldtop]

Seems like a very solid mod to me. Thought there might be a bug with rear tyre dimensions of the softs (as mentioned earlier in thread) but there's plenty of room in the setup for adjustment so maybe that's just the way they were back in the day. Cool detail if that's the case.

Didn't notice any problems or weirdness and the car drove well throughout the race. Fuel usage might be slightly off....I put in enough for 30 laps but had to slow down on last lap as I was well into the red. I put a wheel on the grass on the s/f straight which spun me into the pit wall as expected. Not a heavy impact but some minor damage which didn't seem to affect the car too much so 70% damage is probably about right. Tyre wear was fine....I was on hards and had probably 60% remaining on my rear left at race end.

If we have a series I'll probably stick with the Parnelli car if that's ok.

[MaxVeloce]

well LOL that was fun,  but starting a new undriven car 20 min before qually probably wasn't the best plan, so I'll use that as my excuse for being dog slow tonight  


Apologies to sir barone,  I don't usually forget to put it into gear at the start   - hope that didn't mess up your race!


For the proper races can we please have a grid of 10 x 2 car teams or similar and everyone has to pre-select a car and stick with it,  because tonight I was just trying to pick a car no one else had practised for days so I didn't mess up their race, and it didn't really work out  



Congrats to the podium, was nice to see Jari get up there  

[Mark J]

really enjoyed that last night, nice to have some proper racing with other humans for the first time in ages with a quasi-decent grid of 12? only need a few more and thats the full compliment of F1 75 cars 

Couldnt match my pb's in qually predictably, wasnt used to other cars about distracting! but still got on the 2nd row.

Had a good start off the line but the car then bogged down when i must have changed up too early whilst glancing at the cars on either side of me heading down to T1    to avoid any chance of contact i took a wider line but the combo of off-line lack of grip and cold hard tyres made the car a real struggle for lap1 whilst several cars on softs got amongst us. There were all sorts of battles going on throughout the grid as guys swapped places, any lift of the throttle would immediately allow 2 or 3 cars past. I had a torrid first couple of laps until my tyres got some temp and took me while to start getting my rhythm back and clawing back places which was fun 
I even caught up with Fabri at one point, he must have had an off, but he gradually eeked away from me in 3rd place.
Finished 4th, almost dripping with sweat from the effort! (is the ffb slightly ramped up for these? - felt realistic anyway)

Cars looked ace in action and on the grid and many drivers seem to be on similar pace which bodes well for racing 

For the series we will have a drivers file so your chosen car will be assigned to you (maximum 2 of each type will be allowed). Personally i still want to try out the rest of the set so will ask if we can run the practise server a bit longer. 

[Stefan aka Postal]

As GT stated, there looked to be no issues with this mod and these are great for racing.
The new physics mod and the switch to hards caught me out though. I noticed on the grid that my toe settings where totally off. Had to ride around that during the race. Still it looks like tweaking the setup again can make it behave.

Start of the race was nice with this bigger grid and had some good scraps all race long. Unfortunately i was quite tired and by the end of the race i clipped the grass and damaged the car. Was still be able to bring it over the line. Had good fun.

Ohh and like MJ I would like some more praccy time to establish a preferred car list and create some sort of decent base set-up. Always takes me a while and i don't have a lot of spare time.