anythingcanhappenfridays - Halloween Special - Oct 29

[ross.mcw]

I had a race at Mid Ohio last night in the Roadster too - absolutely mint, but I'm sure the size of the grids last night were also helping to make things fun.  SR's going to take a beating with these thought as they just demand a few taps here and there.

Cheers, Ross.

[picnic]

I tried all these out after the Race07 event, surprised the MX-5 isn't more oversteery. After half a dozen laps in each I did a 1:09.6 in the Cup and 1:10.2 in the Roadster. The F1 is much more bonkers, I might have done 10 laps with a best in the low 28's. Looking forward to a Friday in front of the PC again after missing the last dew due to being away/busy/not enough grid slots over the last few weeks.

[picnic]

BTW there is a fixed setup available for the F1 @ Silverstone, are we using this or are setups open?

[mr_oily]

Sorry chaps - haven't had chance to edit the poster or turn more than a few laps to be fair but just a quick one to answer those questions....

Mazda choice will be the Roadster this time out but yeah i think that's a good idea to fix the setups on the F1 car for it's debut Pete.

^{I was enjoying the mazda}.

Hahaha that's good enough for me Mark - I never thought i'd see the day but I'm glad you're getting some fun out of your investment finally!

I understand Silverstone's not the most interesting of layouts to hot lap but I've chosen it purely because it can throw up some great side by side racing. It might be turn out to be utterly poo.....I'm hoping not!

[Burtoner]

Just tried the Cup last night and came 2nd in my 1st race would of won it lol, and same with f1 at zandvoort won that race in my 1st go!  

Thing i have to ask whats difference between cup and the Roadster, I know one's left hand drive and other right hand...

What class are these cars, if rookie?, what happens to solstice and srf?

[Darren Seal]

Any reason why we are restricting the MX5 field to just the Roadster?

Go on, be brave, allow us the choice.

[Mike Wrightson]

Thing i have to ask whats difference between cup and the Roadster, I know one's left hand drive and other right hand...

Roadster is 5 speed, Cup is 6 speed, roadster allows some setup changes, Cup is fixed.  That's essentially it.

[spanner]

Otherway round, roadster is fixed, cup allows setup changes.

[popabawa]

Seems like there's a lot of praise from Miata owners attesting to the realism of the iRacing car which is great to see.

I just grabbed a bit of this post which highlights the differences between the Cup and the Roadster;

The 6spd Cup car is frighteningly similar to the MX-5 MS-R I autocrossed this year. It wants to push mid-corner off no matter what. In the real car we tried to loosen it up to get rid of that push but couldn't do it, and instead just made the car snap loose on entry. The iRacing MX-5 Cup car is the same for me so far. It has more advanced setup options. I played around with them for a while on the server and got the car loose enough on entry to start losing me time, and it still pushed middle to exit. This tells me iRacing's car/suspension modeling system is very good.

I tried the 5spd RHD Roadster afterwards. This it the car they race in Japan I guess. Right away I noticed the improved handling. It must have stiffer rear springs because this car was much better balanced, for me. Setup options are very limited, just camber/toe/pressure IIRC. Maybe caster. Around Brands Indy, the 5spd gearing actually worked better through the first half of the course, but fell flat on its face in the final corner, which is pretty important, so the times were similar. I was about a tenth faster in the 5spd and never quite got the last corner right (huge challenge in the 5spd) so I think it may be the quicker car here, at least for me. The 6spd will be great for folks to like to drive managing understeer.

It may come down to a gearing choice at most tracks. Shall be interesting to see.

[mr_oily]

Any reason why we are restricting the MX5 field to just the Roadster?

Hahaha I'd love to give in Darren but I figure the fun factor is likely to depend on how close we run so I want the chariots to be as similar as possible really. I know there's not much in it but if you don't mind I'm going to be a git and stick to just the Roadster tonight, we'll clearly be running these loads on Fridays so plenty of time to chuck them both in together. You'll have to become a regular won't ya .

BTW if anyone feels like sticking up a practice server tonight please feel free 

[popabawa]

C'mon Oily, I think there will be a decent turnout for this, run both cars!

[mr_oily]

Oooh you're a tough crowd - what's with wanting the Cup included then chaps? You want the ability to tweak setups?

[Paul968]

Yes, and the fact that you get used to the driving position.

[popabawa]

And the grid would look cool

[mr_oily]

Hahaha thanks for that Pops, that is of course the most important factor! I'll remember that next time we're sat in the barriers in our Williams's's'ssss's.

Anyway yep that sounds reasonable enough so I'll change it this once . Both cars it is!