RACE 1

Practice: 19:45 BST ( 30 mins)
Qual: 20:15 ( 10 mins)
Race: 20:25 ~ 20 Mins

Cars allowed: NSU TT
Track: Mantorp
Time of Day Setting: 13:00
Weather: Dry

Start: Standing
Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: Normal
Pit-stops: None required

Password: see above

Server: Simracing.org.uk E3H

Championship Standings

Notes:
(1) It's best if all drivers can make sure they are connected before the Qualifying session as drivers on track during qualifying will not see
cars that join after they are on track until they go back to the garage.
(2) Please make sure you are fully aware of the SimRacing.org.uk Rules especially the
rules about in-game chat messages.
(3) You will need to install Race Room Racing Experience from Steam, and have the Euro and American Track Packs for this series (And maybe another
non pack track occasionally)
(4) Please exercise caution when pitting as some tracks have a speed limit.

(5) Please follow the SROUK guidelines for using kerbs etc. Please keep 2 wheels on the track surface (kerbs do not count as track surface)
Excessive cutting of corners will seen as cheating and the results may be altered to reflect this.

This game has be winding me up for weeks, cars harder to drive, not predictable blah blah. I tried the next bit of the TC challenge @ Brands earlier and the lack of feedback was doing my head in so I went in the the options and increased the settings. Great now got 2-3 FPS, not exactly driveable. Had to delete the controller preset and fumble around to create a new one. Eventually I got the game to recognise the pedals and allow me to assign then. Back to no real FFB again.

First race gentle understeer at T2 and rested against the tyre wall, no damage but a whole lap to get back out. Typical. Second race was better but when Geoff concentrated he was taking big chunks of time out of me, but he kept losing concentration nand giving it back. With about 5-6 mins to go I slowed and let him catch up. Had a bit of fun staying in front but the inevitable happened & he got passed on the last lap but then went wide himself at the end of the runway, sure it was in sympathy for me. Cheers Geoff

I need to find out how to improve the feel in the game back to where it was last July or I suspect I'll find something else to do on a Thursday evening. Sorry.

Geoffers wins the Championship  
Bill come second                      
Pete comes 3rd                       

I like R3E, I will continue to support it as long as people want. Personally I don't get to race with anyone much
as I am usually a little off the pace, so after a few laps I am just hotlapping, and I don't really do that.

I would welcome some fresh ideas. I have been doing this for years, and I think mostly I provide a good mix
of cars and tracks. But, I would welcome some one elses input. Some people have made suggestions, and I usually
have tried to accomodate them - Geoff suggested double headers for NSU, so we did, Gavino (I think) suggested a GT2
event, so we tried that, though I try to leave modern cars for Stephens Sunday events, I really don't care too much
what we run. Serious comment - if anyone fancies having a go at planning these events, some fresh blood with
fresh ideas may be a good thing. Just let me know, and you can maybe just plan a series and I will do the admind
(actually Tony is kind enough to create the series for me) or do the whole deal.

I agree for the Gr4, but we tried that and they fell flatter than a dover sole. The Porka that you raced when I tried
was a really nice drive that's why I included it. We have tried modern porkas before with mixed results, so I
don't have an issue running these particular ones.

Matt are you thinking of the GT4s (Lotus Evora, Porsche Cayman, KTM etc)? Yes, we had a poor turnout in these last time we tried them; the Group 4s however are different and we've never run these properly as the one race we did attempt was back when the Porsche 934 was the only car in the group. That is a tricky car to drive and (nearly!) everybody hated it.. Now however it has the BMW M1 to race against, which is a much easier drive and at least gives an alternative. We've never tried a race with these two cars together.

Having said that, I'm happy with anything chosen really, and I don't think there's anything wrong with the series picked or the way the races are run. Our problem is that apart from Riccardo and his chums I can't recall us attracting any new drivers in the last few years. Back when we had a core group of 7 or 8 regular starters that didn't matter too much, but understandably some of those have drifted away and now we're left with a very small grid for some of the races. Yes, the modern stuff is more popular, but that's not what we want here, and anyway there are still plenty of other groups getting bigger grids racing the historic stuff.

I would suggest trying to publicise our races on the community-races channel of the RaceRoom Discord server, as that's where the action seems to be these days: https://discordapp.com/channels/254906072748261376/255317957452890112

Either that or consider decamping to one of those other groups..