RRE Season 7 (2020) RRE GT4 - Ningbo - Oct 18

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Practice: 20:00 (30 mins)
Qual: 20:30 (15 mins)
Race: 20:45 (30mins)


Cars allowed: GT4

Time of Day Setting: 13:00
Weather: Dry

Start: Rolling start
Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: Normal
Pit-stops: none required

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 relevant Track Packs for this series
(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.
(6) Start procedure
*It will be the pole sitter's responsibility to complete the first lap at a pace that allows the rest of the grid to follow comfortably
*There should be no overtaking or hard accelerating/braking
*Drivers should avoid getting too far behind or too close to the driver in front
*Approximately 20 seconds before crossing the start line the pole sitter should slow down to a speed of no more than 50mph (80km/h)
*Each following driver shall close up directly behind the driver in front also maintaining a speed of no more than 50mph (80km/h)
*The pole sitter should maintain that speed until they cross the start line and then accelerate away to start the race (lap2)
*Each following driver should only accelerate when the driver directly ahead does (they do not have to wait until crossing the start line)
*No overtaking is allowed before crossing the start line at the completion of the formation lap
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[SRW]

Back to RRE this Sunday, practice server will be up later today

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Bought the track with the last of my current credit, Havent been a big fan of the M4 especially its gearbox so will give the lotus a try to see if its worth taking for this

[SRW]

Practice server is up for tonights race

[Glenn Richardson]

Ningbo has never been my favourite circuit as I don't think it flows but the BMW seemed to have a big advantage here if you can control tyre temperature. After 4 laps in practice I'd overheated the tyres so badly I couldn't keep the car pointing in the right direction, the setup menu showed my front right at 118°c and the front left and rear right weren't far behind.

Frex and Geoff seemed to run into troubles early on so I set one fastest lap and then looked after tyre temps. I was able to maintain a safe gap and three tyres went into yellow on the wear indicator on the last lap.

Well done Frex and Geoff on strong recoveries and unlucky Mark, presumably short fueled?

[Geoffers]

Agree with Glenn, no flow to this track, too many slow corners. The BMW seemed better suited to this track, it got off the slow corners better than the Lotus, which did not really have suitable gearing, several of the corners were too slow for 3rd gear & a little too fast for 2nd. Most I opted to take in 3rd to keep up the corner speed with the downside that it affected the acceleration off the corner.

Anyhow I messed up my race by running off track through the double right (T7/8) & got the tyres dirty with the consequence that I then spun the car exiting the following hairpin. Then compounded that by not being able to get the car facing the right way to carry on, every time I tried to spin the car around the right way the dirty tyres just allowed it to keep on turning & facing the wrong way again . Eventually worked my way up to 3rd at the finish but not without another spin at T3 near the end when I took too much kerb. The Evora does not seem to like kerbs too much.

Congrats to Glenn & Frex.  

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Took a while to find a line around here, sure it wasnt the right line!

Ermmm I ran out of fuel. Was a bit confused as i coasted to a stop, how I misjudged it. 10mins later I realised my brain defaulted to inputting 20mins into the calculator

[SRW]

I must agree the BMW/Ningbo combination didn't feel to good! . I think the Silhouettes would have gone well round this track. Managed to get a solid 0.75 hours of praccy on the night which was a luxury for me, but was way off the pace so just concentrated on getting more experience in the car. I managed to get faster in the slow twisty bits as the race went on.

[frex]

Not raced here before and I guess the many slow and tricky corners probably make it one of the better tracks for the KTM. However, didn't really know it well enough by racetime to take full advantage, and a spin at the last corner early on didn't help. Got back to P2 by the end, and wouldn't have bettered that anyway, so all good. Congrats Glenn, and Geoff in P3.