Grats to podiums and winners.
Race 1
The truth is that I had misread the post for Monday's race and I thought we were due to run the 55's at Greenway, which I had downloaded and tested offline during the afternoon, so when I discovered ( at the last moment!!) what was actually happening I d/loaded the Laguna Seca track and simply copied across the setups from Portland.
In the few minutes of free practice I tried to make some sense of the abysmal Corvette setup and did find a adjustments that made the car a little more compliant. But the truth is that I had zero confidence going INTO the corkscrew as the front end refused to offer any reliable turn in. Going OUT of the corkscrew was a little better as long as I did not provoke any wheelspin. As the race progressed I began to find some consistency and had just enough rubber left in the final laps to worry Erling….a little.
Race 2
Apologies for being so slow at the corkscrew Erling, I would never deliberately try and provoke an incident because as you say what would I gain from being nudged off? I was very aware that everyone was faster through that section than I was
I used the Cobra setup from Portland that had worked well and it felt OK here too. But after driving the Corvette in race 1, I was too timid into the same corkscrew and also through T1. I just hooked a single decent lap ( on race fuel) to get me onto the second row of the grid which I hoped would allow me to follow the fast boys and "dial into" the race.
The nudge from Erling was just enough to unsettle my Cobra and spin me around, then we both had to wait for the field to pass before rejoining the fray.
Again it was a case of feeling my way into the Cobra and finding where I could go quicker...which took more laps and more mistakes than I would have liked!
Eventually I got my act together and nailed a couple of good laps, although still slow through the Corkscrew
and got close enough to Erling to apply some pressure. On the lap that Erling went wrong I had tried just a little too hard to clip an apex and bounced over one of those half tyres, which I suspect is what handed Erling the place back. My tyres were OK'ish and the previous lap I was very quick, but suddenly the car did not want to drive in a straight line and was extremely unstable under braking. Then I discovered that it did not like acceleration either!! and promptly screwed off into the desert just by the pit entry.
It was at this point that I quit, not because I was pi**ed off with losing a hard won position, but because the AI had taken control of my car!! and was insisting on taking me into the pits
I had applied the changes to the Player file as per Tony's instructions in the race post ( and saved the amended file ) when I set up this series, but when I checked after the race it had reverted to the default?? I tried again, amended- saved- exit-reboot game and test only to discover that AI was still in control anywhere near the pitlane??
Tried again and this time, after saving I immediately re-opened the PLAYER file to see what was there. The lines that had just been edited were no longer visible as text and now showed as incomprehensible heiroglyphics. If I closed the file and rebooted the computer I got the legible PLAYER file back, but with the default settings???
Suggestions please .......................
