Grats to the podiums and class winners. I do enjoy these multi class battles with vastly different cars and last night's hostilities were no exception.
First, thanks to Hristo for his advice regarding my steering problems in GTL in a spell of unofficial practice on Tuesday . All of which did nothing to improve my lap times. H was offering driving advice/tips regarding technique with the lumbering Jag and could see that I was fighting the car.
I had been suffering/struggling with snap oversteer/instability under braking and then understeer mid corner. In my attempts to dial in correction for all of this I had been actually going in totally the wrong direction and it was Hristo's observation about my wheel rotation vs the setup wheel ratio that opened the door to a more stable car.......thanks H.
You're welcome, Clive, but the numbers I suggested for in-game setup were maybe a bit too low, now that I'm thinking about it. It turns out I'm using 362 degrees of rotation, not 460 as I thought, and usually between 19:1 and 22:1 ratio in garage setup window.
If I remember correctly, you said you are using 290 degrees of rotation, so the 22:1 on my end would translate to about 17-18 on yours. So anything between 16-18 should be OK. It's a personal preference of course, depending whether you like to turn the wheel more or not.
It's probably your lack of (well) functioning FFB that prevents you from feeling how much steering is necessary to reach the limit but not go over it? I have no idea why it keeps getting disabled for some sessions though, what a mystery...
As for my race, I tried my best in race 1 to fight off the quicker (on the straights) Minis of Geoffers and AGM, after making a great start to take the lead. I lost the lead temporarily a few times, only to regain it by braking earlier and take a better line through the next corner. It was a matter of time though, before both of them overtook me and started pulling away. Only a mistake from either of them would've given me a chance and what do you know - it's exactly what happened when they made contact and I was through into first again. I wish Geoffers didn't wait for AGM, so we would have a fight for the victory, but I understand why he did it. From there on it was just 3-4 laps until the finish and I just cruised to take the win.
In race 2 it was impossible to challenge the Falcons with the Cortina, but making it through a melee that happened ahead on lap 1 moved me up to 4th, which I kept for most of the race, until AGM finally caught up to me and overtook me effortlessly. 5th was pretty much the best possible I could hope for.
Congrats to Daz for the win in the 2nd race and all the rest for bringing it home!
Overall very enjoyable races at one of my favorite little tracks, which I have fond memories of from my GPL days. One thing I don't get for this championship is why I still have 2 unused Jaguars, even though I drove them twice at Aintree. Did we start with 4 car uses in that class?