UKPnG Clubmans - Weather and Pitting Test - Oulton Park (GP 1954-72) - Jun 2

[BillThomas]

Choose Race Weekend from the main menu and you should get the race options page. You should then be able to set the weather with the second slider down on the right hand side. I usually uncheck the practice and quali sessions and go straight for a random grid position.

Thanks couldn't see for looking,  it's me age y'know.

Bill

[goldtop]

Anyone else got green spray

The rain is cool, but the spray is surreal man!

[Mark J]

finallly got half hour praccy in tonight, online with a few of the lads. Not ideal but it will have to do.

Only got as quick as 1:52 though in the E-type Coupe on a damp track. Should i be self demoting myself and taking a quicker car or is 1:52 in the damp respectable enough? I noticed a few doing 1:49s in the wet 

Great track layout for these cars, nice sweeping turns. Good call Legz and Tony 

[Legzy]

Only got as quick as 1:52 though in the E-type Coupe on a damp track. Should i be self demoting myself and taking a quicker car or is 1:52 in the damp respectable enough?

With a 1:52 on a damp track, you're two seconds a lap quicker then me MJ.
1:49 is the 'dry lap' target time (probably translating to around 1:52-54 in the damp ).

[Tim Robey]

I've managed to get a few laps in tonight, my best dry times are:

Cobra 289 Roadster - 1:49.2
Shelby 350 CASC - 1:49.2 - fun to drive, but the front tyres wear out too quickly
E-type lightweight 5 speed - 1:51.3 - struggled to find a fast setup, I think it was bottoming out in a few places, so raised the ride height and softened the suspension and laptimes were more consistent but slower 

And I tried a few laps in the wet with the Cobra Roadster (with a dry setup)

30% wet - 1:51.7
60% wet - 1:59.4

I really struggled to keep it on the track in the wet, so tomorrow I'll try and tweak the setup.

[Mark J]

With a 1:52 on a damp track, you're two seconds a lap quicker then me MJ.
1:49 is the 'dry lap' target time (probably translating to around 1:52-54 in the damp ).

ah okay, nay problemo. You better pull your socks up then son   

Will stick with the Jag Coupe even thought the lightweight Jag seemed to blow me into the reeds last night on track.

Also that means Ade and Lazlow need to take slower cars from what i saw of their laptimes in the wet last night 

[pribeiro]

Was in the server last night for 20 minutes. Tried the Falcon, E-Type Roadster and Healey.
The mood wasn't to good tho.  And the better i could done was 1.58 (i believe) with E-Type.
Never done a clean lap tho, lots of slides and a few seconds into the grass.
Yet i found the Healey quite driveable on the wet scenario.
If i can attend tonight, maybe i go for the Healey or a totally different car i have tried so far.
TBH my concerne is if i can attend. 

[Madd-RIP]

Tried a few laps last night in the Type roadster, managed to get to a high 1.48 in the dry and a high 1.51 in 30% rain with 60% rain yielding a 1.54.

[phspok]

Is hard to judge the times with the changeable weather, I got a high 49 in The Falcon, but then coudn't get under 52 in it later
which made me change setups lots 'till I realised that although the sun was shining, there was spray coming from other cars!
and it was actually quite slippy! and I was doing just fine compared to others.

[Legzy]

Is hard to judge the times with the changeable weather,

Tell me about it! 

[Blade3562]

hello, ive recently began playing PnG online and jsut happened to see your server so i was going to hop on and see what happens.

Well shoot it took me so lo to make sure all my files were right i missed the start haha.

[Mark J]

Unlucky Blade, catch us all next time 

I had an early exit here  Qualied a lowly 18th...oh how the mighty have fallen 

Made a great start at the lights and soon got myself upto 11th and chasing several ahead in the top 10 for first few laps in the rain.

However i came round a bend to find a disco'd frozen Davesheps car right on the racing line  thought it was him making a slow rejoin and tried to take avoiding action but the car went into a high speed 360 and stuck me into the tyre walls  :'(
I crawled around to the pits and had 2 minutes of repairs done and came out 1 or 2 laps behind the entire field except Geoffers and Tim Robey who i think suffered the same time as me with the discod car as saw them off at same corner.

Managed a few laps more in the wildly varying weather!...heatwave - rain !! but as i moved over down the straight with the big bumps to leave room for Tony the car just bounced off track into the armco at top speed and the engine gave out. 
Race over and probably for the best as i had the prospect of a race length of no one to race.

Cars looked and sounded superb as always    Great track too for these cars.    Legzy put me back down in my rightful place groupwise 

[Wiltshire Tony]

Top tip to all drivers.
Set your iTunes preferences to option 4 "Please do not inform me of important updates during a wet race at Oulton Park". I hadn't and it gave me the judders, then kicked me out of the game, paused for 4secs then let me back in the game again. Sorry if my out of control car caused anyone grief. I did continue but to be honest my car was all over the place with severe suspension damage and in the end I decided to quit out rather than hit someone.

Mark, hope I wasn't hogging the track? Noticed you'd disapeared.

Nice event Legzy. So I'm no longer a wet virgin. 

[goldtop]

Well that was great fun

Qualied in 3rd place, which for me is nothing short of a miracle.  For the race I was back to normal

Thanks for the help with sorting out my green mist; for info I had my game set to 16 bit instead of 32.

No real problems to report regarding the mod. It was fantastic seeing the weather changes, particularly when the wet track was bathed in sunshine. Just like a typical Brit summer! I did find the pits a little cramped and as I pulled in it looked like there was someone already in my box.

I've always loved PnG; far superior to the Rf Historics mod IMO. If it can be made to work reliably for everyone, I look forward to some great races.

[Alex vV]

Mighty sorry about the tap mr. Blunder. Should have know wet circuits have less grip 

Nice to have this variable weather. Keeps you re-assessing your breaking points all the time (at least I did).

Thanks for the splendid racing. Was not planning to enter this race but am glad I did.

ps. no technical problems here but when I race I reboot and switch off all services with msconfig.