iRacing Season 2 IndyCar - Brands Hatch (GP) - Feb 9

[popabawa]

BTW, I hope everyone has noted the password (at the top of the page) for this series is different to the Skippy races.

[Blunder]

Thanks Pops! 

Thanks Simon, I had to register on the 'Team Shark' site though!

Feel like I have sold my soul to the devil!

[Paul Richards]

Paul Richards has managed a 1:12.x and reckons 1:11's is do-able

  11s are possible but not by me tonight! I did a few 1.12s using my race setup without any fuel in it so thought there would be time to gain by making a dedicated qual. That hasn't really worked though and everything I have done to go faster in one area has comprimised another so I haven't gained any and generally I have just ended up with a car thats harder to drive. Had a quick go after doing a barber race late last night and could only do a 1.13.0.

Race pace I expect to be in the 14s to start and dropping into the 13s as the fuel drops but we will see I guess.

I have come across a bump at the bottom of the hill at T1 when staying tighter on exit by about half a car from the kerb and green cleating. Only in my qual setup that I was playing with though, I did a full full run with the race and it was fine. I do bottom out there slightly so raised the ride heights a bit. Thought that had cured it but came a cropper again some laps later. The rear gets a massive clout and jumps in the air which is then followed by a spin and trip to the tyres. 

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

The rear gets a massive clout and jumps in the air which is then followed by a spin and trip to the tyres. 

It may all have changed again with last night's new build...

[Simon Gymer]

I hope everyone will chip in their feelings/requests when we come to squabble over discuss S3.

He he. Don't worry I'm sure there will be plenty of opinion.

Thanks Simon, I had to register on the 'Team Shark' site though!

Feel like I have sold my soul to the devil!

LOL. Yeah sorry about that, as the website is fairly new I wanted to see how it went first before opening up Setups to the general public automated robots. That will probably change at some point soon so you don't need to register as I'm fairly happy with it so far.

Plus, ya never know, you might like swimming around in the system so much you start to develop fins and then it's only a matter of "just sign here" and you'll be driving for Team Shark.

It may all have changed again with last night's new build...

Oh for goodness sake. How are you ever supposed to develop setups and learn a car if they keep changing the damned physics every 5 minutes.

[Blunder]

Plus, ya never know, you might like swimming around in the system so much you start to develop fins and then it's only a matter of "just sign here" and you'll be driving for Team Shark.

At school, many many ... many years ago! I got the nickname 'fish' as I used to Swim 6 days a week!

[popabawa]

I don't think there will be any noticeable differences, affecting this race, with the changes from last night.

They've reverted back to the old tyre/track interaction model which was causing some issues with oval cars at some of the oval tracks.

I could be wrong but that's how I read it.

[spanner]

Oh great! I was just starting to get comfortable finally around here, managing a 15.7 last night but sadly consistency is lacking not just in me but the car as well as i could only manage 4 or 5 laps before i messed something up, typically into druids. Was needing a good few laps to get the tyres up and me up.

As an aside, I dont really see the mazda and dallara as being too different feel wise but with the dallara the speeds are higher and feels edgier so when it goes, it goes but find the mazda a lot easier to manage. Probably just a slicks and wings thing.

[mr_oily]

I'm amazed you Sharky people aren't keen on the Mazda - I can't get my head around the fact you don't think there's enough feeling, with the exception of when the aero sensation kicks in perhaps - as Ken says, really does show it's horses for courses.

I'm just becoming a proper fanboy of this sim in general, last night in the Dallara was just a slice of heaven - it's been soooo long since I've wanted to just keep on hotlapping like that. That combination of a fast, beautifully modelled car that sits right on the knife edge and just a simply stunning version of the track were just an absolute joy, even if I only completed about 30% of the laps I started. Anyway I'll stop before I start to well up, .

Grabbed Mr. Minton's setup as I'm aware he's not always a slouch and didn't actually touch anything on it all evening. Really enjoyed some suspect manoeuvrings with Spanner and the Oldie lads as per usual and a bit of a battle towards the end with Ade for hotlap honours. Dipped into the high'ish 14's but right at the end I started tweaking wings (mainly as I have no idea what the vast majority of it does) and realised what a massive difference that actually makes so I'll be looking to pay a bit more attention to setup in praccy this eve.

Amazing how quickly the tyres cool down, really need to be aware of that, not just in the early laps but if you have an off too. One little excursion on the grass can quickly turn into a sequence of cold tyre blunders.

Slightly nervous at the prospect of other road users and Paddock on lap 1 but I'm sure we'll be 'reet

[Paul968]

932 incidents ! How do you expect to race this thing?

[Don]

932 incidents ! How do you expect to race this thing?

who me? lol

[mr_oily]

On a wing and a prayer like every other race Paul   

[spanner]

Where did you get that figure from Paul?

[picnic]

I think he added everyone's points up from the session results

I only got 34  

[popabawa]

A couple of guys broke 'the ton'