UKAC Season 15 F1 1975 - Round 12 Osterreichring - Feb 26

[IbnSolmyr]

I usually keep set it to max : 1080° here. Note that I play with virtual steering wheel "on" and I quite dislike when I phisically turn my T500RS wheel 30° and the game shows, say 50° on the virtual wheel.. On a side note I'm probably one of the last AC users who don't use Content Manager. I'll need to try your tip Lesn and see if it keeps both wheels in accordance.

[vva_avv]

Content Manager?  

[LesN]

  Content Manager... essential stuff https://acstuff.ru/app/

Sol Mod... https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/sol.24914/

Shader Patch... https://acstuff.ru/patch/

[Fabri Fibra]

Content Manager?  

I'm like you.

[MaxVeloce]

Track link:- https://www.dropbox.com/s/vgiiizrnxc17o7f/oesterreichring1979.zip?dl=0

that link gives 404 error for me and that means no practice tonight...

[LesN]

Strange... here's a link to a copy of what I downloaded

http://www.mediafire.com/file/50nbwr8uvvncaf0/oesterreichring1979.zip/file

[Mark J]

Oh crap I removed the track from my Dropbox tonight when tidying it up, had assumed everyone would have downloaded it by now.  . If Les’s link works and he can get in server okay then use that.

Track link:- https://www.dropbox.com/s/vgiiizrnxc17o7f/oesterreichring1979.zip?dl=0

that link gives 404 error for me and that means no practice tonight...

[LesN]

It works for me

[MaxVeloce]

Strange... here's a link to a copy of what I downloaded

http://www.mediafire.com/file/50nbwr8uvvncaf0/oesterreichring1979.zip/file

Thanks Les 


Mark you are a plum 

[Mark J]

well who leaves it until the night before a race to download the track? when its been up all week!   so i think the plum is you sir  

ps...Race day folks

[goldtop]

Was hoping to join this one but looks like life getting in the way again. Like MJ, I really need to retire!

[Mark J]

Track Link in post 1 restored in case any other late johnnys want to download the track at the last minute   

[Stefan aka Postal]

Superb race! Although I could not match my earlier practice laptimes I had enough laps under my belt to have a good race. From the start I managed to get past Fabri in his 312T only to let him by after i ran wide on full fuel load.

I could see the guys in front for most of the race, but after another small mistake I found a fast Maxime on my case for the last laps.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB69EKONRa8

The car felt twitchy on low fuel so it was a matter of driving defensive lines for these laps.

Happy to see my teammate's name on P1 during the race and putting himself in runner-up spot in the championship. 
Also solid points for the team championship.

Bring on Monza!

[Mark J]

Whoohoo! very happy with my first win of the series (and for ages!)    Felt i had a win on the cards all through the championship but relentless Tim never faltered  

I knew i had decent pace here but practise and qually soon showed that so did at least 3-4 others.  Qualify was a proper qually session with 4 of us trading top times, at some points only a 100th separated 3 of us!    Finally vva pipped us all and i slipped into 2nd place on the grid  

My race starts have been fairly decent in these cars so knew i had a chance to outdrag vva off the line and i had the right side for the fast sweeping turn 1. VVA kept his nose level almost up to the turn but thankfully slotted in behind me with Tim in close attendance. I honestly thought i would have the pair of them all over me for the rest of the race, but apart from vva staying within a couple of secs for the first few laps, i gradually pulled out a 12 sec lead at one point,  to eventually finish about 9 secs ahead of anyone.    I actually had to coast on two of the straights as my fuel got lower,  as my 5th gear was one notch too low and i was worried about damaging the engine like at silverstone.

My car felt dialled in and i didnt put a wheel wrong for 45 mins so a contented feeling crossing the line for the win. Love this track for historics racing, one of the best 

Congrats also to vva and Fabri for the podium  

[vva_avv]

Good race for me either. I didn't want to make nice spectacular crash ahead in fast T1 so raised a pedal to let MJ pass by. Next few laps i felt like i was able to keep pace with Mark and even started evil planning about him. But i was stupid enough to brake too late, slided out and had a nice long scratch with barrier to make aero yellow. Bye, 1st place - FMG passed by.
Next was good fight with him. I managed to return to 2nd but my fast sections now weren't fast because of aero. So Tim was now faster and finally got behind my gearbox. After T1 i tried to get defensive position and even thought succeded. But second after i saw him attacking from right. Assuming there was little place for him i tried to avoid collision and turned left but it was useless in that place. He slided on grass, hit barriers brutally and went to pits. Mate sorry if i seemed to be too agressive, but i really didn't expect such furious attack
Now MJ was too far ahead. Fab was 3rd and started to get closer, but luckily for me race was over.
Very fast and demanding track!
Grats Mark and all finishers!
Glad for teammate Syd! Tyrrell power!