The pace car speed in rFactor is ridiculous.
Actually I thought it was really good. I managed to get good heat in the tyres (60-70) and brakes and never felt like I was in danger of having an off doing it.
The nonsense with the lack of green flags in races 2/3 would seem to be a track issue. Since the Protos have launch control a formation lap and standing start is probably the way to go. If only we could manually issue the green flag.
First race was sort of funny
I followed Gizmo through the dirt on the second to last turn on Lap 1 like a true noob sheep
and practically broke my car in two as I hit the barrier side on at speed. Waited for the whole field including PCCs to go past then spun turn only to find Gizmo doing the same and we span turn into each other. Was comical! I had assumed I was alone.
Spent a whole lap in the pits whilst the crew repaired me as well as they could, although when I left the pits my car still had yellow on the status display on every single panel, but the car felt ok. Managed to unlap and retake all the PCCs so ended up at the back of the Protos a lap down with Gizmo close behind.
I can't believe I tried to take that corner in 4th on the first lap, was never going to work and I was far too busy thinking about how to keep TT behind.
Top marks to all the Porsche drivers who, to a man, made life very simple when getting back past them.
I managed to compound my newbie mistake by being too busy faffing with the pit crew control panel going into the pits to actually put the limiter on. Realised straight away that I was going to get a stop and go and just took tyres and a small fuel adjustment and got straight back out, came back for me stop & go, and set off after Shark. Too much damage to the car though and whilst I could match Shark for pace I could never really close the gap.
Personally I thought that was a really fun combination of cars; the ProtoRacers are fast enough to be scarey but stable enough for me to push them and not fall off constantly. I also thought the speed gap between the PCC and Proto cars was perfect, enough to make it easy and safe to pass under power but not so much as to make it dangerous under braking and mid corner.
If we ran a once a month "Rolex Grand UK" type championship event I wonder if we'd get good turnouts.