Well, that was a race full of firsts to me and went well all things considered.I’ve to admit that as I don’t like the open wheel *suspension model* in Race07, so I avoid them all together.
I never raced a FBMW or until yesterday a F3000, yes, when I bought the game I tried them both over the Nordschleife in a practice session where I also tried as many cars as I could at the time.
I know Monza very well from WTCC and GT racing, so wasn’t all “against” me, the track in particular is a classic I like (well without those stop & go chicanes it would be better, and yes gives us the 50’s banking curve) but the SimBin version has those dread stop & go penalties problems. This last can be a real pain, sometimes you clearly deserve a stop & go, and don’t get one, others, one has 2 wheels well inside the track and gets penalized for riding a curb.
Arrived half way through practice session, loaded the default SimBin Monza setup, was impressed by the amount of setting options one could do and went for a few laps.
All the sessions before the race I was trying to adapt to the car, always circulating with 90L of fuel and only doing a few small modifications to the setup and above all, practicing as I didn’t want to be a liability to anyone on that race.
The race itself was of less importance, but here is a description from my point of view.Small note, from the start until the fast turn after the first chicane I had no FFB, any ideias anyone? (once I got this in a full server a few months ago after a start too, but this was only my 2nd time with this problem)
From deep in the greed, the start went well and to my astonishment ended up circulating in 7th right in front of Neil.
After a lap or two, went straight in the 1st chicane, and although I was slowing down and thinking on letting Neil go by, the game immediately gave me a stop & go. So since I had it, just hit full throttle and went to the pits to fulfill my 1st stop & go of the night.
Got back into the track at the back of the field, did a few clean laps without much mistakes and ended up climbing back to my initial racing group (with all the abandonment), they were at the time circulating about 6th to 9th.
As my car had too much fuel in (I raced with 20L more then I needed), with the pit-stops I noticed that at a certain time I was even circulating in 3rd :laugh2:
Did my pit-stop and got back on the track around 6th or near it.
Went straight 2 times at the 1st chicane, but got no stop & go (penalty or warning), did a few mistakes and one of them I clipped the track slightly outside and did full power slide into a protection barrier (thank god for bullet prove cars :laugh2:).
Coming the end of the race was happily catching 3rd and 4th (Matt) so was giving that little extra resulting in a warning followed by a stop & go at the quick chicane before the last turn.
After watching the replay, I could see when I got the stop and go, I had 2 wheels clearly inside the track, as a matter of fact I went through there quite a bit more outside of the track before, and got nothing, not even a warning, so conclusion, riding the curbs in Monza is no doubt a question of luck…
Did my 2nd stop & go of the race, got back on track still in 5th, where I come to finish a few laps later and 2 laps down from 1st.
Thanks for the race and congratulations to our podium finishers (mainly the winner).
After trying to follow 1st and 2nd at this race (the ones that gave me a lap), I could clearly see what I already suspected… on quick or mid speed turns, I lost no time or very little, but on slow and stop & go chicanes I lost an enormous amount of time (I was 4 secs slower/lap then the 1st).
This clearly shows I don’t know (I’m not used to it) how to hard brake in these cars. I usually do much brake & turn, wish I could do in fast/mid speed corners, but on slow ones, I would immediately start losing the rear.
It is my view (or perception) that, unless someone has much time in his hands to use this simulator in all its content, it will be hard to be very quick in these (light, low center of gravity) downforce full cars and at same time in GT or WTCC cars has the cornering speeds and braking points are much different. So my small advice for those of you fully going for this championship (I should be doing about 3 races only and if & when I get a place) is to avoid the very different “education” that is to drive WTCC cars for instance.
Regarding the skins:
They were nice, no problems whatsoever (just a very small problem with the flags at the end).
Regarding the lag:
No major problems, I had more in the other event we did with GT in Paul Ricard then here.
To new world racers I had about 200ms ping (+- 50ms) and the image “vibration” wasn’t that bad (to some I even didn’t have any).
To the old world racers, I’m not sure, but something strange was happening to a few with whom I had very low pings (10 to 20 ms), the cars of some of these were “jerky” and clearly with those pings they shouldn’t be (anyone tempering with communication rates between server and client?) .
Also there was someone with real controller problems as he couldn’t even in straight line keep the car steady on the tarmac. He kind of drove in 30° turns if I can make myself understood that way.
* Suspension model*
Do you guys notice that these kinds of cars are the best ones to go into the kitty litter?
Unlike the “high” WTCC and GT cars, they lose very little speed on the gravel traps. In real live they would most likely immediately break suspension harm (or at least bend it), not here in race07.
Also any one can go into YouTube and see in-car videos of laps at the Nord Loop with formulas; there is even a very good one with a Radical SR3 (wrongly named SR8). The flat downside of the car hits so many times and so violently the tarmac that the guy is constantly checking the safety belt mechanism for unwanted opening or miss adjustment.
So I basically I can get along with them doing 6.02 at the Nord in a single lap, but now doing 10 laps there and no suspension problems!? Too much for me… notice that the model is the same with GT and WTCC cars, but clearly on those, suspension damage isn’t that important (at least as it should be in open wheelers).
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