NGT Sprint - S3 R4 - Donington Park - 6th June

[Truetom]

From several post (including mine) I got the impression, that the cars were behaving differently than while practicing. How can that be possible? Could it be connected with more cars on server? Sorry if its a dumb question, I'm a hardware noob. Richs knowledge is like a medieval magic for me (Saruman!  ). 

TT

[RS]

Hey don't worry Trutom I have asked this question many a time before else where also, I am positive that the car can handle differently and not just coz of temps which were up in the race.....

RS

[[ZiP]Tyf]

...Robin Hood Escort...

WOT!? LOOOL!

I thought the rich people needed an Escort to protect them from Robin Hood?

* [ZiP]Tyf is all confuzzled now!

T

[Minton]

Minton would you be dale ? minton that race d in mod saloons

My uncle is Dale ,  my dad Steve and him used to race in  special saloons and Thundersaloons in the 80,s and 90,s in the escort in my avatar.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

"Dale Minton"... must... resist... obvious... joke...

[whitham69]

From several post (including mine) I got the impression, that the cars were behaving differently than while practicing. How can that be possible? Could it be connected with more cars on server? Sorry if its a dumb question, I'm a hardware noob. Richs knowledge is like a medieval magic for me (Saruman!  ). 

TT

We had this crop up on TPG We think there are a few reasons for this

Regarding Grip level.

You will experience it everytime, with each start of a session the grip level changes. it also chneges if you play Pract 2 on a server, leave it and rejoin it. if now Practice 2 starts again, grip level can be very difficult.

We're talking about Live track technology. Let's say we have 10 ppl without any problems, all doing clean and fast laps, grip level will be very high. if we now have 20 ppl with some not hitting the line perfectly, or being offtrack, grip level won't be any good.

 if only 1 person gots trouble with his connection, bad ping to server or anything else, the whole grid will have trouble then

[Jeffrey]

A track is never the same. Often the track conditions get worse when time progresses in race. Dust of people flying off, driving different lines and too much rubber on the racing line are a few reasons why it could differ. And to be honoust, I love the fast that that is ingame. If you can drive every lap on autopilot then there is no fun.

Edit: whitham beat me to it

[Truetom]

Ok, fine. I was worried that my driving wheel was playing tricks again - which could also be as well. 

On to next. 

TT

[Jamera]

"Dale Minton"... must... resist... obvious... joke...

PMSL 

Racing trollies lo

[Grinsomat]

From several post (including mine) I got the impression, that the cars were behaving differently than while practicing. How can that be possible? Could it be connected with more cars on server? Sorry if its a dumb question, I'm a hardware noob. Richs knowledge is like a medieval magic for me (Saruman!  ). 

TT

We had this crop up on TPG We think there are a few reasons for this

Regarding Grip level.

You will experience it everytime, with each start of a session the grip level changes. it also chneges if you play Pract 2 on a server, leave it and rejoin it. if now Practice 2 starts again, grip level can be very difficult.

We're talking about Live track technology. Let's say we have 10 ppl without any problems, all doing clean and fast laps, grip level will be very high. if we now have 20 ppl with some not hitting the line perfectly, or being offtrack, grip level won't be any good.

 if only 1 person gots trouble with his connection, bad ping to server or anything else, the whole grid will have trouble then

LTT works a bit diffrent !

It doesen`T matter which line 10 or 20 drivers go, LTT in GTR is time based ! sad but true ! it doesen`T matter when you pull of the racing line !
Every session the girp level changes, for example, at the beginning of the race weekend in practice 1 you will have less grip ( a bit slower times ) than in Qually 2, where you have hte most grip ( fastest laptimes possible ) .

Let`s say everybody in a race out of 10 drivers is driving 1 corner completely diffrent to the racing line, which means not the optimum line.
Still the grip level will be the best on the racing line even though you didn`t drive on that line !
This was discussed a very long time ago on RSC, maybe someone feels bored and tries to find the thread, I don`T feel bored ...lol

also the temps of air and track are changing and will give you everytime a bit diffrent feeling on how the car behaves !

also if you have got a racing setup which you tested for let`S say 10 laps, but you are using it for 30 laps, it might happen that the car feels diffrent from lap 20 cause of wearing out tires, fading brakes, grip level of the track and changing temps !

there are so many things that influence the whole car/setup..........

[silver53]

well well Minton isnt it a small world.cheers gerald

[Minton]

"Dale Minton"... must... resist... obvious... joke... Tongue

Hehe, like the orange writing!

[Minton]

well well Minton isnt it a small world.cheers gerald

Certainly is mate!

[Emmo]

i'm happy i won this race since this is one of my favorite tracks. qualy was exciting, the track was very crowded but near the end i could manage a clean lap. after that i kept an eye on claus to see if he could better it, but luckily he just came short 

i tried to keep my pace as steady as possible in the warm up lap, but it seems it still gave problems down the field at the start/finish straight. first race lap is always tricky and at the chicane i braked just a bit too late to make it into the corner, that gave teamie claus some problems since he lost speed because of that too and had to defend his 2nd place. after that i knew i had to drive full out to keep claus behind me, luckily my setup felt great and i could keep a 'comfortable' gap of 4/5 secs untill the end.

next up is anderstorp, definately not one of my favorites, cya there   

[RS]

Thanks for the moderators report Mo but I fail to see how people are not punished unless it is reported.... You gave Paul 968 a 3 point penalty the biggest I've seen but it doesn't count because no-one reported it. I understand that you can only moderate after the race but to tell everyone in writing that it was a bad manouvre and 3 points should of been deducted then not take them away because it wasn't reported is madness? I would think they felt hard done by....... There was not even a warning !!

The rules have to be seen to be applied evenly throughout the grid........