PC2 Project Cars 2 Racing Club (merged)

[Bram Hengeveld]

Welcome to RaceDepartment's Racing Club for Project CARS! Project CARS can be played on various platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One and we'd like to facilitate and encourage our members to post challenging casual events for members by members.

Platform Prefixes
We now use Prefixes (which you will be required to select when creating a new race (thread).

Setting up a race
First of all start with a plan. Post a thread not at the final moment before you want to race but open it a couple of days in advance. Official RD events are always scheduled a week in advance for the highest change on success.

Secondly order your threads properly and try to make it as simple as possible. Not everybody wants to read a wall of text with requirements. Keep it simple, easy and friend.

Contents of a racing club thread

• Select a prefix for your platform of choice.
• Thread Title: Car Class @ Track - Date
• Thread Content: Use the template that will be posted soon.

Good luck and have tons of fun racing and we hope to see you on track soon!

 

[Dennis]

I think my first request might have been missed.

yup I missed your post, thanks for the reminder

 

[Rodent]

Make sure to set Spotter to "always" under gameplay so you get informations on cars next to you/how far behind etc. on authentic its only available for nascar i guess. 1 Click below is the arrow spotter app, kinda like AC Helicorsa.

Since there is no Fuel app to calculate, this is what i tested so far:
Acura: 2,5 liter/lap
Ferrari: 2,2 liter/lap

All good info though I prefer the Crew Chief app to the in-game spotter myself, just habit I guess. One thing to keep in mind when it comes to fuel calculations though is that we now have Rich/Normal/Lean fuel mixes that will throw a curve ball in any fuel calculations done. IE do not be like me and run out of fuel towards the end of your races because you forgot to check what fuel mix you were running.

 

[ionONE1]

Everyone should run max fuel mix since this is only 45 min, thats like 50 laps with a full tank.

 

[QWASZX]

@Dennis Great job man!
Thanks for taking the time to do this (hopefully first of many) event.

I am in...

 

[Arcon]

Juhuuuu I'm IN .... i hope you do not care to much about a rookie!?

 

[Mathias Nielsen]

Yy I'm in

 

[Luis Sa]

Sing me in Please
Luís Sá

 

[DaddelJunkie]

*sing* Here I go again on my own
Going down the only road I've ever known
Like a drifter, I was born to walk alone *sing*
sign me up please

 

[AndrewBo]

@DaddelJunkie

 

[bloozmahn]

In with the bmw z4!!

 

[bloozmahn]

I'm in with the NSX. (if there's a need to reserve a car on the server like in AC)

I find it pretty impressive how they managed to make the easiest GT3s to drive the most difficult, dear me those default setups are horrid. I wanted to drive the AMG GT3 but I can't even complete a clean lap.

i'm in total agreement... i just don't get how this escapes playtesting.

 

[Otune]

Sign me up please!

I'll buy the game this weekend

 

[Mondyrocks]

Yay!
Sign me up please!!
Roll on the banter and me giving Nielsen some stick!
Just like old times

 

[Schwud Nelsh]

if there is still a spot i'll sign up please

 

[bloozmahn]

*sing* Here I go again on my own
Going down the only road I've ever known
Like a drifter, I was born to walk alone *sing*
sign me up please

 

[Kurupt CDN]

Great turn out for this event guys!!!
The more I dig in this title the greater it gets...so many features and options.
On that note....if someone could help me out in regards to pit strategy....if I set tires changes based on weather will it actually change to say wets than back to hards if needed?
I could be mistaken but thought i read somewhere it wasnt working correctly before the latest patch in certain situations?
Hows the BoP in pc2? Ive tested a few cars for several hrs and they were running reasonable times of one another after tuning them, than i tried the ferrari 458 with base tune and my 1st lap was 2.5 secs faster than the others.
I realize this is just a fun shake down but maybe one of the faster guys could give that car a test and maybe play with the ingame BoP slider to make it a bit more even

 

[ionONE1]

Great turn out for this event guys!!!
The more I dig in this title the greater it gets...so many features and options.
On that note....if someone could help me out in regards to pit strategy....if I set tires changes based on weather will it actually change to say wets than back to hards if needed?
I could be mistaken but thought i read somewhere it wasnt working correctly before the latest patch in certain situations?
Hows the BoP in pc2? Ive tested a few cars for several hrs and they were running reasonable times of one another after tuning them, than i tried the ferrari 458 with base tune and my 1st lap was 2.5 secs faster than the others.
I realize this is just a fun shake down but maybe one of the faster guys could give that car a test and maybe play with the ingame BoP slider to make it a bit more even

Well i do prepare 2 pit strats 1 wet tires and incase tires melt hard too. I select the strat via the ICM menusimilar to the f1 games during the race.
Don´t think we should BoP game is out for 7 days, this is just a fun event for now not esport someone on r/simracing did benchmark the gtr3 cars if you wanna look at that.
https://www.reddit.com/r/simracing/comments/735rxp/which_is_the_fastest_gt3_car_in_project_cars_2/

 

[jacques delisle]

Sign me up with the Audi R8 LMS GT3

 

[Dennis]

TonyR did an interesting comparison as well, with a focus on top speeds, acceleration and car handling (skip to 3:10). As mentioned by @ionONE1 this is just a fun event though, so drive whatever car you like the most You can always give yourself a gentleman's handicap by applying a smaller air restrictor if you notice being a lot faster than everyone else after qualifying.

I will also manually create 2 pit strategies for wets and slicks, so that I know exactly what I'm getting. The crew chief sometimes made weird decisions in pcars1 when using automatic tire selection

 

[Mondyrocks]

TonyR did an interesting comparison as well, with a focus on top speeds, acceleration and car handling (skip to 3:10). As mentioned by @ionONE1 this is just a fun event though, so drive whatever car you like the most You can always give yourself a gentleman's handicap by applying a smaller air restrictor if you notice being a lot faster than everyone else after qualifying.

I will also manually create 2 pit strategies for wets and slicks, so that I know exactly what I'm getting. The crew chief sometimes made weird decisions in pcars1 when using automatic tire selection

Bloody hell Dennis, stop being awkward!
Let's have a nice sunny race for the first one with no pit stop!!