UKPnG Season 5 Sprints - Silverstone (National) - Jan 27

[Geoffers]

Had a good run back though with some cracking duels especially with Geoffers as we swapped places several times before I was able to pull a gap towards the end. 

Had a good battle for a few laps there Goldie, your car (& others I was close too during the race) was a lot faster than mine on the straights.

Don't know if it is the way I set the cars up or if I have some controller setup issues, but it is something I have had several times recently in P&G with different cars. Anyone any idea what in the setup can affect acceleration (aside from gearing of course). As an example, a couple of weeks back we had an NG race at Reims, three of us were in the Total ATCC Mustang, only one gearing option for that track, highest, yet my car wouldn't accelerate as fast as the other two. If I was in front the others just drafted past on the straights, if I was behind they went away from me! Very frustrating.

[FullMetalGasket]

Sounds like you're not getting full throttle - I'd start by checking the throttle cable's not snagging on anything, then check the plugs, dizzy, and timing 

That or just go into the controls part of the menu and see if the bar completly fills when you stand on the loud pedal 

[Geoffers]

Sounds like you're not getting full throttle - I'd start by checking the throttle cable's not snagging on anything, then check the plugs, dizzy, and timing 

That or just go into the controls part of the menu and see if the bar completly fills when you stand on the loud pedal 

Could be the plugs, haven't changed them for ages! 

I have checked the controls settings & everything seems to work as it should. Maybe I should give the pedals a clean just to make sure.

I was wondering what difference things like diff & toe-in settings make to acceleration & straight line speed.

[FullMetalGasket]

Diff shouldn't effect speed at all, toe settings will however - if you run high + or - toe you'll loose top end 

[johnw]

Good race last night. Early pressure meant FMG nearly got a run on me when I went wide a couple of times but after that he was busy with Mike, so I was able to sneak away again and build up enough of a lead to be able to settle down and put in some good laps. Bit of a lonely race to the flag from then on but this track is short and challenging enough to keep it interesting.

I liked the quali format, not sure if it's better to go first or last though. In this case the pressure was off once I saw I was up at the first split, and knew I just needed to keep it nice and tidy for the rest of the lap. I expect things would have been a lot different if I wasn't last up.

Grats to Miguel and FMG.

Incidently, there are 3 different tyre makes for the RSR but the results only show Dunflops.

I wonder how different they actually are? Mine had Dunlops on but I had a go in one with Goodyears before quali and got identical speeds.

[spanner]

Surprisingly enjoyeable race that, mainly as the car didnt feel as bad as i thought it was going to be.  I'd tried a goodyear shod car the day before for only a few laps and struggled but as GT reminded me about the differing tyres i picked a dunlop tyred one and using exactly the same setup felt alot nicer. Though i realised i needed to reduce the rear arb and increase the front dampers a notch.

Benefit from those in front mainly in the race then had a quiet one with the gaps just getting bigger each way. Like the qually, i was getting very nervous leading up to it, having not done it before.