UKGTL Season 6 GT Classics Cup - Oulton Park (Island) - Aug 21

[psuedo]

The ingame cut detection at this track...and especially at the chicane are non-existent.

However, the general Spirit and Conduct of drivers here will mean nobody would even dream of taking too much grass and bending the rule of keeping two wheels on the tarmac......WONT IT? 

[mr_oily]

Of course dude - best behaviour  Can't wait, it's going to be hectic as hell based on the squabbling going down last night 

I remember the instructors on that VXR day thing had us keeping well to the left on the exit of the chicane, ready to take the easy right for a good run up the hill - seems very tricky to do in the game unless you cut the speed right down to the point it can't be faster than crashing through sideways while mowing the grass lol.

The Cortina's doing it for me once again so reckon i'll stick with it - feel free to use all the rubber you like in the tanks lads, i'll see you about lap 6

[Legzy]

I was going to run with the Falcon but just felt I was making no progression with the car the more I practised it  Was going backwards if anything!

  So I ran last night in the Tina & it is slower (with me driving) but not too much & like Oily says, it might come good as the race goes on.
After last nights multi-driver practice, tonight's going to be a tough race on a narrow track filled with some  . Carnage.

[Geoffers]

I've been pretty conservative taking grass on the left of the chicane, take another foot or so and your left wheel bangs the kerb and launches the car onto its right wheels, both Tony and I did that online last night, amusing, but not fast.  The high grip also causes the front right to stick and you end up on your nose then your roof.  I reckon there are better ways.  Unless we are going to award time bonuses for style?

The question is whether you can keep the right tyres on the tarmac whilst totally straddling the left hand kerb and therefore not getting launched, experimentation needed.

I found the less risky option is to take a lot of grass on the right on the way in & stay completely on the track for the LH bit. Taking it a bit slower means you can get a better drive out towards Clay Hill. Now having said that I'm bound to flip it at the chicane 

[mr_oily]

I hear you dude, got to a semi-respectable time in it and then quickly just couldn't extract any more - despite it being a lot of fun!

Usually when that happens I suddenly realise my knuckles are going white and i'm tensed up trying to magically enter corners much quicker than the last time, in actual fact if I stop and relax a bit - tidy up the lines a little there's more to be gained. That's the theory, doesn't work often lol  

Taking it a bit slower means you can get a better drive out towards Clay Hill.

Yeah I'm sure that's the quickest way Geoffers, a bit of discipline needed me thinks, will give it another bash tonight!

[Steve Holmes]

I've been pretty conservative taking grass on the left of the chicane, take another foot or so and your left wheel bangs the kerb and launches the car onto its right wheels, both Tony and I did that online last night, amusing, but not fast.  The high grip also causes the front right to stick and you end up on your nose then your roof.  I reckon there are better ways.  Unless we are going to award time bonuses for style?

The question is whether you can keep the right tyres on the tarmac whilst totally straddling the left hand kerb and therefore not getting launched, experimentation needed.

I found the less risky option is to take a lot of grass on the right on the way in & stay completely on the track for the LH bit. Taking it a bit slower means you can get a better drive out towards Clay Hill. Now having said that I'm bound to flip it at the chicane 

Yeah, I think I agree with you (and Oily's VXR instructor), that's closer to what I've been trying, just want to try the alternative monstering-the-kerbs approach too.   

[mr_oily]

It's great fun going through there feeling just that little bit out of control isn't it!

A little inspiration - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYQKKlir6sY&feature=related

[phspok]

Nowthen

We had some discussions about the grass in the chicane last night when SBG arrived
I had been straddling the left kerb in the middle part of the chicane, and was getting
some respectable times. I had to either keep to the right of the middle kerb so as
to avoid being tipped over. or I had to completely straddle it, while keeping the
right two wheels on tarmac of course. It was felt that The completely straddle option
was not acceptable. So I've been trying to drive right round it.. so far I am
a second slower, and I tipped the car on it's end twice!
Chortle.
I don't really mind how I take the chicane as long as all are doing the same.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Perhaps the moderators could issue a defining statement on what kind of "straddle" is acceptable and what sort of penalty offenders could expect?

[Steve Holmes]

I'm readying the red hot poker for any offenders.  Perhaps I should leave it up to Jeff, that seems more his thing.   

Tricky judgement - I'm assuming everyone is happy using the tyre barrier as the definition of the chicane entry?  Skimming the tyres involves being 2/3 off the track. Using the 2 tyres on the tarmac rule I'd have thought straddling the kerb on the left was fine, but since I haven't  fully tried it, I don't mind if its banned. 

[Jeffrey]

I'm readying the red hot poker for any offenders.  Perhaps I should leave it up to Jeff, that seems more his thing.   

Nah, too many guys around here . Call me when it's ladies night .

[psuedo]

Definitive statement.

KEEP TWO WHEELS ON THE TARMAC AT ALL TIMES.

the rest is up to you.

[Legzy]

Definitive statement.

KEEP TWO WHEELS ON THE TARMAC AT ALL TIMES.

the rest is up to you.

So if I make a mistake & screw up the chicane, know I had all four wheels on the grass at the same time.... I should send myself into the pits for a self imposed drive through? Seems logical. 

[psuedo]

Nahhhhh.....If you make a mistake and get it wrong and end up with four wheels on the grass....forget it...no problem.

But if you DONT make a mistake, and regularly end up with four wheels on the grass...or basically take an unfair advantage of any description....then expect a bolt of lightening to appear and strike you in the gearbox.

[ginsters sponsored]

Quote from rules - "Drivers are strongly discouraged from the deliberate placing of one or more wheels on areas of grass, gravel and sand." Therefore I would consider deliberately putting two wheel on the grass, through the left bit of chicane as naughty and to be discouraged. Especially as you can gain much time by doing it.

I'm more worried about crashing there than any cutting to be honest