iRacing Season 2 Skippy - Brands Hatch (Indy) - Mar 2

[mr_oily]

We had a great race though, thouroughly enjoyed it.

Yep was a good giggle Stu, felt as if we were on elastic for a while there....shame we didn't get the grandstand finish. Druids move was ambitious but unlike many of my moves in iR, that one I'm confident was going to stick .

Anyway no worries about bump, look forward to the next one....actually that's a lie....if a Dallara @ Infineon hasn't got trouble written all over it I don't know what has!!

[popabawa]

Please make sure you read this post

[Ken Murray]

Is it not just the subtle elevation change as you crest the ridge? Having never driven it for real I wouldn't know how accurate/innacurate it is.

I didn't notice it at all in my road car. In fact I don't ever remember seeing a car spin there in real life - usually if somebody is going to go off there it's because they are carrying too much speed and wash out wide.

Ah ha!: "An improvement has been made to areas where multiple pieces of track join up so that the seams may be less bumpy."

I can't feel any actual bump there, although Paul T mentions feeling something through his G25. I'd have to study the track map, but it is not just the same crest of the GP course where grip falls off, only your not travelling quite as fast on the Indy, but you are turning a tighter radius??

Regarding Zandvort, if it is imminent does that mean Oulton is next out of the sausage machine?? It will be great to get a proper rendition of OP, which is sadly missing from any of the other sims. GPL is the nearest, all those versions produced for rFactor and GTR/GTL etc are very poorly constructed as far as elevation mapping is concerned. I don't like criticising the hard work of track makers, but frankly they are comical.

[Ken Murray]

You go up, you go down. When you crest the rise you loose grip. Am I oversimplifying things here?
Elevation data from Google Earth.

[Paul968]

As I said though, how many people were losing it over that crest? I wasn't at all, it was much earlier where I might have had a problem.

[Ken Murray]

As I said though, how many people were losing it over that crest? I wasn't at all, it was much earlier where I might have had a problem.

Yes Paul, but I'm merely trying to explain why Dave finds a lack of feel/grip at that point. My line is to try to turn the car before the crest, so by the time I kiss the curb at the apex I am winding the wheel back out.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

As I said though, how many people were losing it over that crest? I wasn't at all, it was much earlier where I might have had a problem.

There seemed to be an awful lot of the slower cars who were suddenly jamming on the anchors there - I nearly ran into several and actually did run into the back of one there.

[Paul968]

OK Ken, I thought the discussion was about why there were so many incidents.

[popabawa]

Regarding Zandvort, if it is imminent does that mean Oulton is next out of the sausage machine??

Don't think so Ken...

Zandvoort will be available today by the looks of it (site is down for maintainance right now).

Steve Myers said something like "the next content update would be the V8's and so Philip island was on top of the track production list."

It's hard to tell exactly though, he wasn't 100% explicit.

[ginsters sponsored]

Steve Myers said something like "the next content update would be the V8's and so Philip island was on top of the track production list."

That would be the Aussie V8's then? Bathhurst then? Got a link for further details  Still not bitten by iR but those cars might just well swing it, I'll start saving my pennies :'(

[popabawa]

Yes, it's the Ford V8 Supercar;

http://www.iracing.com/news/ford-v8-supercar-and-phillip-island-grand-prix-circuit-to-join-iracing-com-service/

They haven't been able to do a deal with Bathurst;

"As for Bathurst, I am afraid to tell you that we have not been able to gather any interest from them in partnering with us."

As well as Philip island, the other track they scanned was Oran Park.

[Burtoner]

replay available?

[popabawa]

I have the replay but probably won't be able to upload it until Sunday as I'm away for the weekend. If no-one else can upload it I'll do it then.

[Ken Murray]

Regarding Zandvort, if it is imminent does that mean Oulton is next out of the sausage machine??

Don't think so Ken...

Zandvoort will be available today by the looks of it (site is down for maintainance right now).

Steve Myers said something like "the next content update would be the V8's and so Philip island was on top of the track production list."

It's hard to tell exactly though, he wasn't 100% explicit.

I thought they scanned Oulton when they scanned Brands, but it seems the scan order doesn't necessarily govern the track release order. PI is a mighty fine track too though, great action there last weekend with the World Supers.

[popabawa]

That's true Ken, they work on tracks in terms of importance (to the service) rather than strict chronological order.

I think Long Beach was scanned right at the very beginning but has been on hold waiting for the technology to catch up with the object complexity.