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Congrats Cookie, Andreas and Tristan!

Good race, fun track and beautiful countryside

I had to use one shift R. I am lucky that I did not need more.

I chose the BT7 because I hoped that it would be more forgiving for all of my mistakes.

It really was rewarding once I learned the track.

I had the same feelings as Phil regarding this track and it took me 5-6 laps to "dial" myself in and find the right gears/line in the BT7.
Axel and Tris were posting some impressive times at the front of quali around 8 secs faster than anyone else, so it looked like being a two class race.

As expected at the start the front row vanished over the horizon as I sat on Andreas's tail and waited for the tyres to warm up. Then we came across the two leaders recovering from some off road action and suddenly we were running 1st and 2nd. I was in no hurry to force a pass on Andreas, in fact I was hoping that by sitting 50 mtrs back it would allow him to go a little faster and drag us both further ahead of the chasing pack, who it appeared had got involved in the rejoin of the early leaders?
After a lap of following Andreas at a respectful distance I figured that he was driving in "safe" mode and not pushing hard enough  . I could see on Prib that Axel and Tris had started to recover and I knew with t
heir pace advantage they would soon close the gap. So I closed up onto the gearbox of Andreas and almost pushed him to speed up. With the BT7 I needed the slipstream on the fast sections to get fast lap times and the lack of grunt out of corners against the Lotus would make taking the lead position difficult to defend, so I sat back and watched Axel's BRM get ever closer.
I did not exactly give Axel a free pass when he caught us, but when he made his move on a fast section I had no defence anyway. Then Axel had a brain fart after clipping the fence and did a good impression of a bowling ball that left Andreas and me get back to our battle !!

I made a couple of mistakes but each time I was able to easily close the gap to Andreas and started to think that it was time to challenge for the lead before Axel caught us again. I did briefly take 1st spot but got distracted by Prib and the gap back to Axel, so missed a downshift and ran wide. Again I caught Axel and Andreas in time to see Axel do it again, and blow his engine. He was not having a good race  

Last lap and Axel had chased us down again, Tris was closing in and I could see a very crowded finishing line developing.............until I missed the same gear at the same spot and allowed the podium places to be decided without me  

I don't think there was ever more than 2 secs between Andreas and myself for the whole race and Axel and Tris managed to dangle the chance of a win for us right up until the final few kilometres.
A truly "fun" race for me.

If you had prevously saved your GEM controls settings as a profile,  look for a .gcs  file  (could have previously saved at C:\Users\Public\Documents\GEM+\Profiles)


This may be totally bonkers now  but I found the following on SimHQ many years ago related to GEM settings for G25 & have been using them since:

Force Feedback Latency:  .055
Force Feedback Damping:  240
Force Feedback Maximum Force: 145

Of course, there may then be some further wheel-related FFB settings.  I don't think I was using the Logitech Gaming / LGS software.

Thanks for the Info chaps  , I am sure that will help sort things out .