UKAC Season 14 GT2 Endurance Series - Spa - Oct 13

[Mark J]

spotted in Max's garage...

[MaxVeloce]

yeh, had to take them all out 

Road america could be hard work too,  but I had a nice email from Porsche offering me a drive for Le Mans 

[Mark J]

yeh, had to take them all out 

Road america could be hard work too,  but I had a nice email from Porsche offering me a drive for Le Mans 

im away for that round which is a bummer as the Vette would shine there. It would have done at Spa as i was running an extra slippy setup until some idiot turned it into a 50pence piece before it got off the line

[MaxVeloce]

Japan sounds interesting though, I'd like to go there one day 



I don't think I ever raced at Road America!  but I will try and stick with the F car for the season, though if its seconds off the pace at Le Mans who knows...

[Alfrance]

Any chance of some car balancing to even it up?

Agree with Simon proposal

[Mark J]

not really needed, the beemer only loses out on the power circuits with long straights. Its easily a match for most of the other cars once there are more corners involved, especially in Sharks capable hands (see the results for rounds 1&2). The porker has the best all round of the set just because its a newer evolution than the others and hence why Stephen asked if the faster guys could refrain from taking it at the beginning of the series.
Dont know what wing Simon ran at Spa but i was only on 3 rear to make the Vette more slippey, so he may have to do likewise for Road America.

[SRW]

Performance Balancing..........

I am not against using ballast to balance out the cars. I do not have the time (or setup and driving skill) to work out the benchmark lowest lap times for the four cars. This will also change depending on which type of track you do the testing at.

What track would be suitable for testing (IMHO it would need a long straight and some fast and slow corners) maybe Silverstone or Catalunya?
We would then need to do a bit of testing with ballast to decide how much ballast to fit?

Is anyone willing to carry out these tests?

[MaxVeloce]

Not sure if this helps, but I did some back to backs already

A nice twisty track
http://stracker.simracing.org.uk:50041/lapstat?track=sebring&cars=bmw_m3_gt2,ks_corvette_c7r,ferrari_458_gt2,ks_porsche_911_rsr_2017&valid=1,2&date_from=&date_to=
Porsche time is a little misleading because I messed up the 1st sector on that best lap and there is another 0.3 in there,  458 and Vette were on it!

Strangely at Spa the gaps were closer,  I did try Porsche but had to do it offline as the server was reset to another track, but with same track temps/grip it was possible to do a lap in the low 16s
http://stracker.simracing.org.uk:50041/lapstat?track=spa&cars=bmw_m3_gt2,ks_corvette_c7r,ferrari_458_gt2,ks_porsche_911_rsr_2017&valid=1,2&date_from=&date_to=



From the test race a while back at Interlagos the BMW was close to the Ferrari for me, with the other 2 faster...



Road America might give a decent set of results - some long straights,  and a mix of fast / med / slow turns



Edit:  not sure its really possible to blunt the porsches top speed advantage though, adding weight will only kill the accel a bit, top speed will still be higher so for Le Mans LOL

[Simon Gymer]

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