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Cars: '92 Ford Escort RS

Track: Silverstone (National Sprint)

RACE ONE
Practice: ~19:20 (60 mins)
Qualifying: 20:20 (10 mins)
Race: 20:30 (20 laps)

Bonus points: 1 point for fastest lap in race.

RACE TWO will follow, with same rules as for Race One except that, Race One podiums will not take part in Race Two qualification.

Time of Day Setting: 14:00
Start: STANDING
Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: Normal
Pit stops: Not required

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: Driver's must complete over 50% race distance to score points.

Windows update and loss of my GTL profile settings (could be restored) spoiled my participation yesterday due to missing practice opportunities
(using my Windows desktop computer now only for online racing - everything else with a Linux computer or a Raspberry PI).

Thus rather a short and non-competitive story.

Maybe I should try to run GTL on Linux - there is a thread here, but looks very complicated.

Results now posted.

However, we have not been able to retrieve a useable replay file. So, consequently, no replay is currently available.

I think that was just me being safe with the fuel from another track Clive, I reduced it to 25 laps before qualifying last night, and that was my race fuel load. Generally speaking, I do always run with a touch too much fuel in the car as it feels more comfortable to me most of the time.

To answer your question on the rev light, I was changing up not long after the red light illuminated on the mini hud readout I have in GTL, and I am not sure if that truly corresponded with the dash light or not. Most of the time with these turbo cars making sure that you thrash the living daylights out of them is the way to be quickest, hence my punches on the throttle in the longer slow turns, I am trying to keep the revs a bit higher and the boost on. No idea if the boost is mapped properly in GTL but it seems to work for me from time to time.

If you send me your email, I'll post them to you.

Two very similar races with first lap incidents dropping me way behind the field followed by a series of qually laps to recover as many places as possible.
The first race I engineered my own downfall on lap 1 by forgetting that the brakes don't work very well on these until they are warmed resulting in me heading out onto the GP track instead of turning right onto the National one. From then on it was flat out all the way, can't exactly remember how I passed everyone but seem to recall I was able to get on the power out of Luffield much earlier than others & made a several passes down the S/F straight. Very relieved to recover to 2nd at the finish, was never going to catch Daz though.
Race 2s first lap incident was just one of those that occur in sim racing because you can't see all around you. I was on the right of the track after Copse & Erling was on the left & just ahead, he moved right to take his line into Maggots not realising I was there & squeezed me onto the grass, resulting in me spinning out. So once again it was a case of driving as hard as possible to the finish. This time I didn't have to make so many on track passes as most of my position gains came from others off track escapades. So very pleased with 2nd again & at my general pace in the car here, much more competitive than at previous tracks in this car.

Congrats to Daz & Erling on their wins. 

Not around next week as I will be travelling back from Le Mans, so see you all at Silverstone (again).

And YGM 

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