UKGPL Season 38 - CanAm Fun Races - Road America - Dec 27

[francesco]

No freeze here but anyway this cars are not easy.Is difficult to dosing the brakes.I noticed that many cars are without numbers.

[Enrique Farina]

not to much to say, funny races, for this bored day, :-9
   ,Gregory's return I tarnished it  in mod 71, I crash him car in lap 1 and destroy your race, so sorry greg,
  I enjoy the race, but some drivers need to drive clean, It is not allowed to change career lines more than twice, and some people do it so as not to give up the overtake, and thus generate accidents
  I hope in the championships, the handling is cleaner.
  cya next year guys and happy new year
 

[Phil Thornton]

I enjoy the race, but some drivers need to drive clean, It is not allowed to change career lines more than twice, and some people do it so as not to give up the overtake, and thus generate accidents

Agreed. We have a rule about changing lines too often. It just creates accidents. Drivers should make one defensive move and stick to it, no weaving it is dangerous.

[Phil Thornton]

No screen freeze in 71 race 

Managed a second place because of accidents ahead. I had just enough pace to keep a manageable distance in front of Fulvio. It is easy to succumb to the pressure and make a mistake in these cars.  I had good pace but nowhere near as quick as Lasse. He was too good tonight.

Well done Lasse, two great races for you. You are obviously "Works" material, if you consistently drive as good as that you'll be a championship contender this season!

The rolling starts worked well for me. I preferred the 66 start, the pace was a bit quicker.  In the 71 start it was a bit slower and less consistent, so we had a bit of bunching. I was worried about rear-ending the car ahead and getting punted from behind.

[GregT]

I got lucky the first time. , but it would have been fun to see if I could catch Phil and Lasse. It might have been possible if I had my gpu set correctly.

The second race was weird. I think I've forgotten how to drive these cars. It was one the mods I was fastest. It sure wasn't today.

Thanks for the fun guys.

[Rainier]

not to much to say, funny races, for this bored day, :-9
   ,Gregory's return I tarnished it  in mod 71, I crash him car in lap 1 and destroy your race, so sorry greg,
  I enjoy the race, but some drivers need to drive clean, It is not allowed to change career lines more than twice, and some people do it so as not to give up the overtake, and thus generate accidents
  I hope in the championships, the handling is cleaner.
  cya next year guys and happy new year
 

Enrique, remember for next season : "No chat during race and qually" !

[Pepe Higdon]

In the last week I managed to make peace with the CA66 cars during the week and began to enjoy them. In the race I took advantage of the usual attrition and finished fourth, behind Axel and ahead of Enrique, mainly by staying on the track. The rolling start was kind to me in that it didn't require trying to launch the two-gear Chaparral from a standing start.

[Lasse Albrecht]

Well done Lasse, two great races for you. You are obviously "Works" material, if you consistently drive as good as that you'll be a championship contender this season!

The rolling starts worked well for me. I preferred the 66 start, the pace was a bit quicker.  In the 71 start it was a bit slower and less consistent, so we had a bit of bunching. I was worried about rear-ending the car ahead and getting punted from behind.

Consistently... I went off 3 times at Moraine sweep in the second race alone, I definitely need some work in that regard.

After being told by Doni that the first start was too quick, I was tempted to make the second start slower by a fair bit which I did quite well I think; the inconsistency came when Pribluda showed me that there was quite a big gap between P4 and P5 which made me think that I might have put too much throttle on inbetween which caused this gap.

[Cookie]

Strange things happened with CANM66 - half the cars had no start numbers!?

So I had to add them manually...

Strange as the Riside66 import had no problems...

[Phil Thornton]

I agree the 66 start could have been a bit slower, but I think the important factor is a constant speed. Slowing down to let people catch up causes more problems than it solves.

However, I think we are being a bit over-critical. You did a great job in both races, we had 2 clean starts. So much better than the starts at Riverside.

[Pepe Higdon]

Thirty minutes before qualifying for the CA66 race I somehow managed to lose my CA71 driver. I'd boot the CA71 race and a few seconds later it would crash to desktop. Rebooting didn't help. I deleted everything associated with CA71 and recreated it from scratch. In my haste and irritation I also deleted the setups, so I guessed at what I'd created in the last few days. It appears that I didn't do a very good job of that.

I enjoy the race, but some drivers need to drive clean, It is not allowed to change career lines more than twice, and some people do it so as not to give up the overtake, and thus generate accidents.

This comment is directed at me, and I'll accept that my driving lines in the CA71 race were, given a hopeless setup, ill-suited to competition. I think all might have been well tonight if Enrique hadn't rear-ended Greg and put the two of them behind me on L1. I did my best not to interfere with anyone's overtaking, and no one managed to rear-end me but Enrique. The idea that I was deliberately blocking him is laughable. Anyone from oAo who knows me --- and Enrique was a teammate of mine in 2019 --- knows that I wouldn't block a determined fart. Maybe if he'd just find a way to qualify ahead of me and keep his car on the track, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

Now having said that, the fact that after retiring his car he took the trouble to send out a lengthy chat message during the race objecting to my driving has to rank as one of the rudest things I've ever seen in an online race.  

[Phil Thornton]

Strange things happened with CANM66 - half the cars had no start numbers!?

So I had to add them manually...

Strange as the Riside66 import had no problems...

Very odd. Thanks for the server Axel and a great job with the import. Overall I've really enjoyed the experiment with the Can Ams. I think you've shown that it would be possible to run a full championship with these cars. They are fun to drive but they require a slightly different driving style. Track selection would be a bit of a headache but with the right tracks the racing would be fun.

[JonnyO]

  I disconnected in race1 and then slept, woke up and race 2 was with 5 laps ... GRRRRRR

[francesco]

Strange things happened with CANM66 - half the cars had no start numbers!?

I noticed the same.I worked on these cars in 2011 than the mod was set aside for years.Than Tommie asked my permission to add the reflections(not allowed on metallic color) than Gianfranco and other have worked on the Genie and historic version.So ,after so many years and many hands ,i don't know if all is correct.I have my original folder and the cars are numbered from 1 to 20.We could ask to some expert in the repository if the number for online are right.

[Cookie]

Fran - it had worked last week at Riverside!