Mini 1310 Mod @ Sprints - Tues 28th July

[Stuart Thomson]

Servername: RACEDEPARTMENT.COM
Class: Mini 1310cc download
Track: Birmingham GP / Lime Rock Mountain / Mid Ohio Chicaned
Practice: 20 min
Qualification: 10 min
Race: 12 laps
Note1: Click here to read the password and golden rules!
Note2: The 1310 skinpack will be used - all participants should install this pack - download
Note3: IMPORTANT INFO
If you are using a default skin - ONLY USE CAR 2, CAR 4 or CAR 544.
Using either of the others makes the session go nuts and you show as driving the "GTL Safety Car" and it keeps loading and then crashing.

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Entrylist:

1. Stuart Thomson
2. Nigel Atkins
3. Hans Sneep
4. Warren Dawes
5. Glenn Morris (tentative)
6. Amir Margalit
7. Bert Van Waes
8. Kris Leeten
9. Ramon van Rijn (tentative)
10. Avi El
11. Matt Crouch
12. Luc Frachon
13. Driver
14. Driver
15. Driver
16. Driver
17. Driver
18. Driver
19. Driver
20. Driver
21. Driver
22. Driver
23. Driver
24. Driver
25. Driver
26. Driver
27. Driver
28. Driver
29. Driver
30. Driver

 

[Nigel Atkins]

stick me down pls Stewy :good:

 

[Stuart Thomson]

righto Nige :good:

I sent you a PM re the Marmite skins as well....

 

[Hans Sneep]

Signing up,also I am not a good Mini driver maybe the extra horse power will help?

Hans

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Sooooo, I just tried these bad boys out in earnest...

Oh.

Baby.

:good: :dance2:

That is all.

 

[Warren Dawes]

Sooooo, I just tried these bad boys out in earnest...

Oh.

Baby.

:good: :dance2:

That is all.

Quick little babys, aren't they. Somewhat more demanding to drive too, but still hang on like hell.

Better sign me up for this Stu. :aus:

 

[Stuart Thomson]

I had a few laps at Lime Rock & Birmingham.

Beat the top Cortina time @ Lime Rock, beat the top Alfa time @ B'ham.

These is rapid.

By the way, I've already done the 1310 Sprint Pack Skins, and all work perfectly . Link in the top post.

 

[Stuart Thomson]

By the way, I've already done the 1310 Sprint Pack Skins, and all work perfectly . Link in the top post.

See that? Right there?

Hubris, that is. :doh:

There was a problem in the 66 mini which caused a CTD. I'm Investigating the issue - I'll re-do the download when I've fixed it.

edit: turns out the 66 mini was my fault, but there are also CTD issues with some of the others which aren't my fault, and will need some further investigation and potential sneakiness to fix.

 

[Hans Sneep]

Did Birmingham and Lime Rock .a Blast to drive,maybe it will going better with
these beast's for me?

Have put some setups in the SU thread from No-Grip used BeepBeep's,works great.

Hans

 

[Glenn Morris]

Ha. Awesome!
If I'm around I'll come on in... bit like this fella here ---> :coffee2:

So tentative me at the moment Stu...

Oh, and you know how I like sideways?.... These are awesome to get the old skandanavian flick going.. :wink2:

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Chaps - there are some unusual skin problems with some of the sprint pack cars, even though they were all converted the same way as per the mod instructions.

To be fair, and to give me enough time to get it absolutely right, we'll go with default skins only for this race.

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Have put some setups in the SU thread from No-Grip used BeepBeep's,works great.

Hans

I had a try on both, Hans, and preferred BeepBeep's as well (I can't believe I just typed that). I went in to have a look at it, and the front wheels are @ 55 psi, which is about double the normal pressure.

I noticed on XD that, on a normally pressured set up, the middle was waaay lower than the outsides, suggesting too low a pressure, but 55 is mad high. Maybe that's how it needs to be, as I went up to 35 front & 32 rear and set the times I mention above.

Funnily enough, the rear tyres seemed to take all the battering when I was driving, the left rear tyre at both Lime Rock & Birmingham quickly going from cold to green to yellow to red inside 3 laps, which is a bit different.

Just something we'll eventually get used to I suppose.

But these Minis are real Alfa / Cortina contenders / beaters - they're brutally quick.

 

[Warren Dawes]

I have a setup or two I worked up for these suckers some time ago, so I'll dig them out and post them tomorrow, hopefully.
With this setup, I was easily able to beat the Alfa / Cortina / Falcon / Mustang around most tracks.

From memory, you have to be careful about the tyres overheating too quickly, or you will put in a couple of really quick times and then watch the tyres melt over a race distance. I've actually used my setup for an on-line enduro event of about one hour.

 

[Amir Margalit]

sign me up please:good:

 

[Warren Dawes]

I have posted a couple of 1310 Mini setups that I found lying about in my files. These are two that I have used for on-line races in these cars, one was a long race, the other was a sprint race.

I haven't tested them on the tracks listed here, so maybe they will need some modding, but they might be interesting as a starting point.

http://forum.racedepartment.com/gt-legends-setups/21121-mini-1310-a.html

 

[Bert Van Waes]

Wow, i'm in!!!!:tongue::laugh2:

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Server's up :good:

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Gents - I've got a build of the Sprint Pack skins that I'm very confident of - should we try it out on this event anyway, so everyone has their own mini?

Please let me know

 

[Amir Margalit]

Gents - I've got a build of the Sprint Pack skins that I'm very confident of - should we try it out on this event anyway, so everyone has their own mini?

Please let me know

sure. i don't see any reason why not. and again thank you for your work.:good: