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Car/Track download available by pm to WT

Track: Silverstone GP (1988)

Car restrictions: Check your car allowance here

Practice: ~19:20 (60 mins)
Qualifying: 20:20 (20 mins) Drivers must not leave qualifying to change car make.
Race: 20:40 (32 laps)

Time of Day Setting: 14:00
Start: STANDING
Tyre wear: 2x
Fuel consumption: 2x
Pit stops required: YES

Server: simracing.org.uk Monday
Password: see above

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.
(3) The AI control should be turned off so that you have control of the car at all times, including pitting. Your player file should therefore read
Autopit="0"
Force Autopit Off="1" // Forces autopit always off
No AI Control="1" // AI never has control over car
If you still finding pitting problematic, experience tells us that its less to do with positioning and more to do with approach speed. A slow approach to pit crew chief has proved most reliable.

Special Notes: Drivers must complete over 75% of the published race distance in order to score points.

also the BMW has more setup options than normal

@ Paul, do you mean you have 2 pages of setup rather than 1?

If so I may have inadvertantly upgraded your install with the patch I gave you.

No, everyone has two pages

Results and replay now posted.

@PaulV, as your car didn't appear on the start grid your drive has not been counted in the car drive roster.

@PaulSS, please will you fill in your Country in Profile/Driver Details.

Tough race.  Daz immediately buggered off to do his own thing, and my fight of course wasn't with him, but rather with Ziu.  We were very close through the entire first stint.  What I gained on the full-throttle bits, he would reclaim under braking and through the non-full-throttle curvy bits.

Late in the stint, a mistake on worn tyres saw me run wide onto the grass, giving Ziu a long awaited oppotunity to get past. My turn to chase him over a couple of laps, before he went for the pits at the end of L15.  Suprised me, as my Beemer testing had shown that I could do 16 laps on a full tank - only just, leaving me with a pit window of L16 and no alternatives. Apparently he was getting better mileage than me.

Pit myself at the end of L16, for tyres & fuel.  Must have been quicker through the pits, as I exited just in front of Ziu, and we could continue like in the first stint.  Difference now was that I could slowly stretch the gap - the effect of my lighter car perhaps?  I had started on a full fuel load, but only refilled partially, with enough to get to the finish.

Grats to Daz & Ziu, and to the class winners & podiums.

Installed a bit of a tweak to my home setup this week, Samsung G9 Odyssey monitor. Only got it all bolted onto the stand at about 11 o'clock Tuesday night, ran a replay fron GTL to make sure it worked, and all seemed OK, great.

Not so good come race day, went to cockpit and it all looked wrong. A bit of flapping later and I got it sorted, and managed a couple of practise laps to get my eye in, very different to what I had before!

Race went well, and as Erling said I did bugger off a bit after a bit of a tardy launch off the line. All was going swimmingly until the pitstops.....

The new monitor is 49 inches, and has gone onto a separate stand. I am at some point going to have a proper profile rig to match with it, been after one for years.....but at the moment it is just monitor-wheelstand-chair, which I hadn't figured out the pitfalls of. Entered the pits, realised I needed the keyboard, reached down for it as it was on the floor next to the chair, and managed to press a button in doing so. Game minimised, music library opened, slight panic set in. Now I needed the mouse as well, so had to grab that. In the meantime the car was at a halt and stalled as I had hit the brakes so as not to get a stop/go for speeding. Closed music library, opened game, drove to pit, hit the right buttons for fuel and tires, and then put keyboard and mouse back. Realised I wanted the pit limiter, so picked up the keyboard again, and then thought about the fuel I had selected, realised I had got the sums a bit wrong and it was likely to be tight, really tight.

Eventually got back on track after what felt like a mammoth stop, and the lead had been halved or so, but was still 13 seconds. Checked fuel over the next lap, and I was about half a lap short, so ran lower on revs for most of the stint just to save enough to get to the end. Job done.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xZnkzG4-cu600zDZhc41gkEA1PTxJK1j/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tPEk3m3EA-KrCbxsYePYNmwJy1wIPNpX/view?usp=sharing

Photos attached of the current setup.....

Quite the setup Daz; maybe we can't complain about being beaten all the time, when this is what we're up against 

The widescreen stretching would drive me bonkers though