UKAC Season 15 F1 1975 Round 1 - Buenos Aires - Nov 20

[goldtop]

I'm going to have to miss this one and the following 2 rounds unfortunately but should be back for Montjuic. Real life and work getting in the way of playtime again....I want to retire 

[Fabri Fibra]

Unfortunately Barone will miss this round cause delay at work.

[picnic]

Sorry run a few minutes late, just trying to generate the new entry list file. Server will be up in 5 mins

[picnic]

Server should be up with race password. I basically added all the cars twice so everyone should get their car choice but not always in the right skin I'm afraid.

Please shout if something's not right as I can't hang around too long

[Mark J]

thanks Pete, all went smoothly that i could see.  

Enjoyable if not that exciting race for me. Got a lights to flag 2nd place and didnt really get any competition the whole race. In fact i got excited when i caught back markers as at least i got to see some of the cars in action  

Qualified 3rd, got a decent start but with Kdiesels BRM attacking me in the first few corners. We had a Ferrari tyre rub without our cars imploding  
I also got past Fabri in the sweeping turn and expected them both to be assaulting me further around the lap but one of the new drivers appeared in my mirrors for a few laps in a cool yellow car. I started to pull an increasing gap on those behind whilst fmg did similar to me, and after 5 laps or so i was pretty much on my tod until the end.

VR cockpit view whilst wrestling the steering down the aptly named Tobogan corner complex felt so immersive, like watching Sennas onboard at Monaco!   Grid of 70's F1 cars revving on the grid was pretty special too  

Nice haul of points for me in round 1, will expect more sterner competition in the rest of the series.    FMG needs some stiffer opposition for a title challenge too!  

ps...what happened to the two Finns about 2/3rds into the race? both disapeared at same time. 

[LesN]

I had a decent race in my yellow car without making too many unforced errosat least, and had a good battle defending myself from Bob in the Fittipaldi.

Everyone had more straight line speed than me, but I was at least the last of the late brakers into the right left at the end of the back straight. I realised too late I was running far too much downforce (if these cars could actually generate much downforce I'm not sure)

Looking forward to Brazil now... would be good to have some more cars though, we were pretty spread out most of the time.

[Mark J]

Looking forward to Brazil now... would be good to have some more cars though, we were pretty spread out most of the time.

Indeed, out of 18 listed drivers only about 10 or 11 turned up for round 1    For various reasons some were awol this week, hopefully the grids will expand as real life permits for some.

Interlagos '75 should be another cracker of a track in these cars 

[Fabri Fibra]

When I have turn back to pits, the team asked if I had some problem with engine. Ferrari did a phonecall, he was furious. "A Ferrari is slower on straights than a car self built in a garage", he said.

I had an intense and really hard fight with Maxime. Every lap I was really close exiting from fast right corner but my speed was not enough. Maxime defended himself very well and hard. Unfortunately we lost tons of time in that battle. Considering my low wings set that was quite embarrassing.

After race, with the eng Forghieri we supposed to have too much areodinamic drag. Next time we will remove completely the wings.

Ferrari was also furious with me for my bad first lap. I'm risking my contract. He wants replace me with a Canadian snowmobiling driver.

[Mark J]

   nice race report Fabri    i can picture the Boss peering at you over his sunglasses blowing smoke in your face with a frown 

Got to admit i really expected you to come back at me during the race as i could see you harassing the yellow car in my mirrors for a while. You seemed quite slow or overly cautious on lap 1 ?   

[Fabri Fibra]

The 312t is dangerous with cold tires having a big understeering on fast corners. Maybe also I bad estimate the my speed in the fast right corner.

With tires in temp. in that point I was a lot faster than Maxime.
In every case, the 312t is never very friendly.
My gears set was also no perfect. For some reason the Rev in this mod seems too low, my max power should be at 12500, if I go so high (using 103 on Rev) I destroy my engine in 10 laps or less.
If I remember well with Ford is possible push above the max power rpm.

[CerebralVortex]

I have to say it is a very nice track ! Not particularly the quality of it (which was ok-ish) but the layout. Very fun with these cars.

I was understeering a lot in the fast corners, not only on cold tires.. That was my issue mainly, so I had to let go of the gas a lot. Not sure if it is how the car is or if I can change it with setup. I didn't change much setup wise, only longer gears and bit lower aero. I concentrated on learning the track which I hadn't driven before yesterday evening.

I was hit braking after the long straight on lap 1, lost a couple of places, after that I was chasing one of the finns Unfortunately I saw him warp 2 times before he was disconnected.

Hoping for more drivers next time !

[Bob]

A good race littered with mistakes. Battled with LesN most of it, good fair racing, well done LesN.

[LesN]

Anyone happen to save a replay?

[Mark J]

Anyone happen to save a replay?

FMG usually does.

[FullMetalGasket]

I did - but I'll need to delete all the sounds I uploaded for everyone in order to upload it.
Has everyone who wants the files got them?
For new joiners who don't know what I'm on about I mean these: https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/cosworth-dfv-soundmod-immersive-replays.27747/

Some videos I made at Buenos Aires to give you a comparison:

For anyone still not sold on the DFV sounds I found and linked to in the series threads 

Standard sounds from the Mod (Lotus 72 - One of the better sounding cars)
https://youtu.be/AkrhTDgVDwc

Hesketh 308 - Using the updated DFV sounds:
https://youtu.be/mVxhIXbLNXM

I'll give it until tomorrow for everyone who wants them to grab the edited versions - after that you'l have to do it the harder way using the file from the site 
Sounds edited for F1 75 = https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xzxdeokrgya2o5a/AADbEO2X4NBrlepoUPBDxu7Ra?dl=0


My race was a bit quiet, I'd hoped Fabri would be bothering me as my tests showed the Ferrari on par with the Hesketh.
But for some reason I was lapping nearly half a second quicker in the race on my setup than I had been in practice 

As Mark says, I was also very pleased when I caught some backmarkers - it had been very quiet until then! Luckily this track is a blast to drive, despite being pretty poor in the graphics and quality department.
Brazil looks like it will be massive fun after taking a quick spin there yesterday to try it out