Password: see above



Welcome to round 3 of the 1st UKAC GPL67 Series

We now go from a (relatively) long lap down to 45laps of high speeds and ditches at Watkins Glen. We had a fantastic time testing the track in Cobras' a few weeks back, now we get to go really fast!

Damage and fuel use:

100% damage
100% fuel use
0% Tire wear (This is actually far more accurate than the mods' built in wear rate and 'fixes' the BRM)
Drivers must complete 50% of each race to score.

With the above in mind you will want to treat the first lap or two very carefully while your tires warm up and you adapt to driving on a heavy fuel load.
The 1st lap will be moderated

As per the 1967 F1 scoring system, each driver will discard their worst 2 scores when the points are calculated at the end of the season (Done for you in LM2)

BoP will be as follows:

Lotus & Eagle = 40Kgs
Ferrari           = 30Kgs

There will be no success ballast.

Practice: 19:30 (45 mins)
Qual: 20:15 (15 mins)
Race: 20:30  (45 laps)


Track:
 Watkins Glen GP (1960's version)
https://sellfy.com/f3classictracks/p/watkins-glen-for-assetto-corsa/
This is a free track - either enter $0 or make a donation, your choice. If you really enjoy the track but didn't donate then consider buying one of the others - Rouen and Sandevort are amazing


Cars allowed:
3l 1967 F1 from the GPL67 mod.
I've put them on dropbox for now as the original download was apparently VERY slow:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o719sdx2kohk668/AC%20GPL67%20V2.20.rar?dl=0

Instructions on installing the carset can be found in the 2nd post of the registration thread - here: https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=24972.msg480312#msg480312
You MUST follow these instructions in order to install and use the mod:


Live Timing: here (Only available in the week up to the race)


Time of Day Setting: 13:30
Weather: Mid Clear
Start: Standing
Tyre wear: 0%
Fuel consumption: Normal
Pit-stops: Not required
Damage: 100%

Server track settings: (Stock FAST setting - temps are same as ever)
SESSION_START=98
RANDOMNESS=2
LAP_GAIN=0.007
SESSION_TRANSFER=80


(2) Driver lists can be found on the championship announcement page

On the bottom of the track picture it says which is which (Unless you're in CM in which case I have no idea how to tell).
But 3708m is the chicane version (I think that's called the GT course), we're on the 3700m one that we used for the Cobras as that is the GP layout - unless it's crashed already this should be running on the server

Is it going to be 98% grip with track collecting grip or 95% with track not collecting grip like last race was (checked on last lap that it was still 95%)?

No, last time it definitely didn't change. As I mentioned in that thread, it was 95 in practice, q, race start and race end.

45 is roughly 50 mins - it's heavy as I think you're at 100% throttle for nearly 90% of the lap
The bump in the 2nd 'S' bend on the hill is fantastic when you really nail it - and somewhat fiery when you don't

Maybe - maybe not, that setting includes a random factor of 2. So 96% is possible.
Lorenzo had 98.6%, Syd had 96.3% so it's doing it's thing by the look of the records.

It's the lap gain that might be doing odd things, but again that's set to a stock setting so anything it isn't doing is a Kunos problem.
Or maybe better to think of it as a real world problem, no-one knows what the track conditions will be 30 minutes after a race has started.....

Temperature settings also have randomness built in and those combined with weather should affect how the track does/doesn't grip up, I have to assume the server has a good reason when it doesn't alter anything or seems to change slowly (if you read the blurb for ACC it states quite clearly that all server settings are affected by weather/time, I'll be amazed if that isn't built on the original system from AC). To me this seems a far more likely reason why sometimes it doesn't seem to change when other times it does.

Looking at the Interlagos results in S-tracker the race started at 95.5% grip and ended at 95.8%, so as it was actually changing it has to have been following some logic.
@ 0.007 lap gain we needed to do ~142 laps between us to increase grip by 1%, we did more than that but had warm (verging on hot), totally clear weather (UV is surprisingly bad for grip), which might be why we saw only a .3 increase.

I'm with Tim I think, in one word : whatever ! The driver job is to adapt to conditions. And yes 100% grip isn't realistic at all. I'm all for some changing conditions as long as we can see the track well. The only con to me is that we can't compare our laptimes easily with others. Maybe we could set the server up with constant 100% grip for that purpose and then introduce a realistic setting only for the actual race server ? 

The problem with doing that is you'll be setting your car up for the 1 condition that is almost certain not to happen in race - which then removes the entire point of running a practice server in the first place as you'll need to do most of your work offline.

I don't think we need track parity in practice - if you're going slower than someone who was lapping at a higher track grip then you already know that they should be faster.
Any improvements you make chasing a (potentially) unreachable time will only benefit you in the race and might actually give you a faster car than your opponent/s on race day.


Starting back when we ran the Group C Porsches here, I've had my single player game permanantly set up to be colder and slippier than the Srou server on purpose - I try to reach and/or equal times recorded on the server in these slower conditions.
As we don't have real wet conditions to deal with in AC, most setups aimed at these conditions work (But better of course) when grip is added.

I even found a great setting that I'd like to trial one day here - that randomly introduces differing grip levels around the track (simulating fluid spills or dirt on the track essentially).
I'm not sure if these local spots clear over time or if they just stay but it certainly adds to realism in any classic or historic event where fluids are out of the cars nearly as much as in them