rF2 2.5h WEC @ Silverstone - Sat 17th May

Jason Lancett · May 9, 2014

cancel me off this one guys... gotta go work away..grrr

Davy Lauwereys · May 9, 2014

@David O'Reilly as Cristian said, Balance of Performance...

It's just that i had done a fair few laps in the Porsche, when for shits and giggles i figured i'd give the other cars a go and found that the Porsche (according the setup menu) is about 6 or 7 laps down on fuel on the other 2. then when i took the 458 round i hit my best time in the Porsche, on my 2nd hot lap... in the rain... :s so, was a little bit confused lol

But ok, if everyone else is happy, it must be me then lol, no worries

i'll pop along in the 458 then

as a totally unrelated sidenote , the V8 vantage howling like a V12 DBR9 is very offputting lol... might i suggest next time you use these for an event, to replace the sounds with say the stock ISI corvette sounds?

David O'Reilly · May 9, 2014

My feedback is that on the other BES Gt3 Mod the 911 is a real handful and the mid engine cars pussycats. I did best time on say lap 3 in 430, Gallardo, R8. I endured the 911 because it was so hard, really wanting to swap ends under brakes, easy to provoke oversteer which was a joy to control on throttle.
By contrast the BES GTE 911 has incredible rear grip. All the steps I took in setup to tame the rear end could be unwound and then some.
Almost impossible to get the rear to slide, its understeer city and that all you have to manage. Ive maxed the front grip and the rear looks after itself. I'm fast in it but its a lot easier.

Davy Lauwereys · May 9, 2014

The team was at Silverstone today, shaking down the cars it has entered, as luck would have it, they were already dressed up in the liveries for the race. Since Stevens birthday is coming up, we wanted to run an American themed liverie for a change, so i did 2 liveries inspired on the Extreme Speed Motorsports team competing in TUSC.

Ricardo Edelmann · May 10, 2014

@Davy Lauwereys i noticed the fuel usage too it seems like it's higher than the usage of the other cars. But i much faster with the porsche then with the other cars... and the sound: yeah you're right

if it's a V8 it should also sound like one

@David O'Reilly
I noticed that the porsche is very understeery too. But i managed it to make it more oversteery without many adjustments... the back of the car steps out if you want it but it's very stable. Just like a porsche should drive...

Cheers
Rico

David O'Reilly · May 10, 2014

Ricardo Edelmann said:
[USER=59832]@David O'Reilly
I noticed that the porsche is very understeery too. But i managed it to make it more oversteery without many adjustments... the back of the car steps out if you want it but it's very stable. Just like a porsche should drive...

Cheers
Rico[/USER]

I also checked the lap times with the 6 hrs of Silverstone and the 911 GT3 best laps were correlated closely with in-game.
But a 911 in real life will bite if you lift mid corner much more than this one. Any braking with the wheel turned will cause the engine to want to overtake the headlights.

Ricardo Edelmann · May 10, 2014

David O'Reilly said:
I also checked the lap times with the 6 hrs of Silverstone and the 911 GT3 best laps were correlated closely with in-game.
But a 911 in real life will bite if you lift mid corner much more than this one. Any braking with the wheel turned will cause the engine to want to overtake the headlights.

I totally agree with you and i have a setup what does that.
If i hit the gas a bit too much the back steps out. Same is with lifting.
I could share it with you if you want to try it. But i'm on a business trip 'til this evening.

Daniel Benefield · May 11, 2014

Since Jason is not able to make it, I won't race this as I will not be able to do it on my own.

Gijs van Elderen · May 11, 2014

Daniel Benefield said:
Since Jason is not able to make it, I won't race this as I will not be able to do it on my own.

Maybe someone else has the same issue and wants to team up with you.

Dennis · May 11, 2014

@Daniel Benefield Yeah @Damir Dubarič was looking for another driver in GTE

Daniel Benefield · May 11, 2014

I'm willing to drive with @Damir Dubarič if he's ok with me starting the race.

Damir Dubarič · May 11, 2014

Daniel I'm Ok with you starting the race. Sing us in then.

Edmund Trevelyan-Johnson · May 11, 2014

I'm afraid I have to withdraw my entry as neither I or my co-driver can make the race. LMP1 class.

Damir Dubarič · May 12, 2014

Can someone explain how it goes when two drivers drives one car. How to log on, how switch between drivers goes,....

Simon Christmann · May 12, 2014

Driver Swap Tutorial

@Dennis Coufal maybe you can add this information in the first post.

Dennis · May 12, 2014

Added a paragraph about the starting procedure as well as some extra information.

If you haven't seen already, we also set up some practise races:

Since "Faster cars may flash their headlights to indicate that they are about to make a pass", here is a little script to repeatedly flash like in real life using AutoHotKey:

Code:

SendFancy(key)
{
Send {%key% down}
sleep, 20
send {%key% up}
Sleep, 20
}

Joy10::
Loop, 12
{
SendFancy("l")
Sleep, 120
}
return

Joy13::SendFancy("l")

(Map headlights ingame to the L-Key and use Joy10 to flash and Joy13 to toggle headlights