i6e Endurance Sundays Round Four - Spa-Franchorchamps Endurance - May 22

[Adam Parle]

As ever guys - please try not to discuss incidents on the forum, that's what the reporting system is for.

[Adam Parle]

... side by side through Pouhon, down the straight and half way though the chicane was awesome.

Yep - I was having to defend like crazy there, I'm guessing it'll look good on the replay.  I was hopeful I'd keep you behind, but I knew I was running on fumes.

Was a really fun race, just wish I'd had a bit more time with iRacing this week to let me set the car up properly.  I was really struggling through a few of the turns, moreso at the end of the stints.

[Simon Gymer]

Has anyone got a replay of the race, or the first 1/4 of it at least?  

[Adam Parle]

Has anyone got a replay of the race, or the first 1/4 of it at least?  

I can chuck it on dropbox when I get home.

[Simon Gymer]

I can chuck it on dropbox when I get home.

Ta.

[Mike Miller]

Maiden outing for me here. I'm still getting used to iR. I've run a handful of events and it is quite different than GTR2.

As Raimo said, he and I had a good tussle going for a number of laps early on. We probably would have been better served with him leading and me following because we were breaking away from the other Mustangs that way. Raimo was quicker and I was able to match his pace if he led. Once I got back in front, our pace fell.

At one point, I got loose Eau Rouge and ended up cutting the inside of Radillon. The stewards looked down on that and gave me a black flag and a "Slow Down". I experienced this once before in practice when going too deep in a brake zone and went over the grass and finally back onto the track. I had lost a lot of time and the system still wanted me to essentially stop to clear the black flag. I thought it was odd that it thought I was cutting the track when in fact I lost a lot of time for what I had down. Back to the race, I didn't know how long I had to clear the black flag nor did I really know the speed. I figured I just needed to slow down a bit to give back any theoretical advantage I may have gained. I pulled drivers right in the brake zone at the end of the Kemel straight to let Raimo by me feeling that would appease the stewards, but now. They continued to ask me to slow down. So I did, but by now, I'm getting close to the racing line and that incredibly tiny dot in my rear view is getting a little bigger. I thought I still have time to slow and then get going again, but the tiny dot got big really quick. The images in the rear view are very different than GTR2. They seem as if I were looking through a fish eye lense. Personnaly I do not like this. It is difficult to judge how close someone is to you. Can this be changed or is it fixed? By the way, I have a mirror in my real race car that has a much wider view, but does not create this fish eye view.

Simon drove right into the back of me because I was moving very slowly on the racing line. It was totally my fault. I later learned from Dave that the penalty can be served later. I'm not sure how late. Within 1 lap? Within 2 laps?

From there, I lost a ton of time to Raimo and no longer had my rabbit. I tried a desperate move by putting a bit less fuel than needed and hoping to stretch it, but that didn't work. I had to really coast into the turns and run around in 5th gear most of the last 2 laps just to make it home.

[Simon Gymer]

The images in the rear view are very different than GTR2. They seem as if I were looking through a fish eye lense. Personnaly I do not like this. It is difficult to judge how close someone is to you. Can this be changed or is it fixed? By the way, I have a mirror in my real race car that has a much wider view, but does not create this fish eye view.

Yes, you can change the mirror FOV in the game menus. I have mine on 70 degrees cause like you I hate the horrible fish eye thing. I'd rather see less at the side than see it all distorted because it's easier to judge then.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

I later learned from Dave that the penalty can be served later. I'm not sure how late. Within 1 lap? Within 2 laps?

I think it's 30 seconds or so. You do have to pretty much stop to serve it - if you don't you get a stop and go instead, which is obviously more costly, but generally still better than coming to a grinding halt on the racing line.

[Raimo Piiksi]

... The low turnout I have to say is really killing my motivation to keep running the series, but I'm still frustrated so maybe that viewpoint will change...

Frustration will hopefully wear off soon enough

But I have to agree with you on the low turnout viewpoint. I would rather race with a bunch off ppl for 10th place than 5 ppl for the win.
Let's hope Brands will bring the ppl back for racing