RD iRacing Oval Series

Yoeri Gijsen · Apr 27, 2012

RaceDepartment Indy 500 2012 (RDINDY'12) | Intro & Info

Introduction

Welcome to the the second running of the RaceDepartment Indy 500 in iRacing. Last season saw a huge turn-out of drivers that gathered to pick up the virtual bottle of milk. Lots of crashes painted the picture of the first half of the race; close fighting dominated the second half. This year we're looking to go bigger and better than last year, so go get that FREE RaceDepartment Licensed Membership and sign-up for this annual high-speed thrill!

OFFICIAL RESULTS
REPLAY - Complete
REPLAY - Part 1
REPLAY - Part 2
Event schedule

Date: Sunday 20 May 2012
Open practice: 15:00 GMT (80 minutes)
Qualification: 16:20 GMT, 1 lap, lone qualifyer (10 minutes)
Race: 16:30 GMT, 200 laps, 500 miles (270 minutes)
Car: Dallara IndyCar
Track: Indianapolis Motor Speedway - Indy Oval
Server farm: NL-Ams
Starting type: standing
Fast tows: Unlimited
Cautions: full course cautions on
Restarts: single file
Racers/server: 33 (possibly extended to 55)
Hardcore level: Disable all driving aids (but clutch assist ok)

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Eckhart von Glan · Jul 6, 2012

agree with Chris, with 16 on the grid about two-third of all cautions won't happen. Which is a pity for a slow guy like me, cautions are the backmarkers very best friend in oval racing. I once moved from 19 to 4 in a Silverado fixed event just by taking it easy and collecting positions, only ever did one overtake and that was a guy racing with a seriously damaged car ...

Eckhart von Glan · Jul 6, 2012

a query about quali in the oval series: it says 10 mins on the schedule. Is it like super pole in race07 then, you have the track alone to do your 4 laps? also, does it count the best lap or a split of all 4?

Yoeri Gijsen · Jul 6, 2012

You have 10 minutes to drive those 4 laps superpole and then go to the bathroom to release the pressure and get ready for the race.

Eric Estes · Jul 6, 2012

... and best lap of the 4

Rob Cuss · Jul 6, 2012

Is this being streamed??

Eckhart von Glan · Jul 6, 2012

so, tested the sets another 20-40 laps or so each and saw the light with regards to Yoeri's and Philip's set shared a few days ago, especially philip's is great, easier to handle coming out of the final banked turn, but it blows up after 8-10 laps? Did a low 30.3 before the blowup. Yoeri's is awesome, too, I just needed to take a different approach to every turn compared to the fixed set iRacing provides. I still tend to lose the car with this set every 15 laps or so, so might not be a good choice for the 100plus lap event. Mmmmh what to do? gonna mull this over till tomorrow. Do I overlook where to actually set fuel intake before race or can you only start with full tank?

Chris Preston · Jul 7, 2012

I just ran a 45 lap stint so I'll fill in some people on stats:

Fuel: About 55-60 laps depending on how long you coast in corners/brake.
Times: 30.15 was my first lap and lap 44 was 31.25 and maybe could improve that a little
I was also getting roughly 31.00 from lap 5-15 until the tyres went off a little there.
Tyres: Felt good the whole time, didn't feel like they were getting wore, just some understeer close to the end of the run which is to be expected, however if you know how to adjust your marks they're very driveable.
Temperature: iRacing claimed all my tyres were 105F (roughly 37C) after 45 laps and had no wear on them, so I'm calling B.S. on that lol.

To be honest I don't know that pitting for tyres only on a green flag is necessary, I was able to keep my times at 31.2-31.5 from lap 20-45 so if there's a long green flag run don't be quick to jump into the pits. They also don't become "greasy" to quote iRacing after longer stints anymore since they don't overheat as much. I also scraped (0x barely touched) the wall twice around lap 20-30 so times near the end might be able to improve by half a tenth or so.

Qualifying I haven't spent too much time on, but from they 5 clean laps or so I hit in the practice sessions 29.8 will be decent maybe very low 30s to be mid pack, and I expect pole to be 29.6-29.7. Qualifying won't play a major role in this race though, overtaking isn't too difficult because the higher line is easy to run. Since there's 4 laps to run if you hit the first lap the way you want I almost recommend pitting for new tyres because the drop off after one lap is a tenth or two, so getting rid of one lap to try to hit a faster time is worth it.

Really looking forward to the race tomorrow, hopefully I don't mess up my quali run

Eckhart von Glan · Jul 7, 2012

Chris Preston said:
hopefully I don't mess up my quali run

but then again, as you say a couple lines before, it's a long race and it is quite easy to go two wide, cu tnight

Morgan McColl · Jul 7, 2012

Gents can we share sets or are we all on our own here.Dont worry THX found them

Morgan

Chris Preston · Jul 7, 2012

Eckhart von Glan said:
but then again, as you say a couple lines before, it's a long race and it is quite easy to go two wide, cu tnight

I know, but with tape on my setup is surprisingly mid turn so I don't want to crash twice and end up starting last lol.

Besides it's always a good feeling right before a race to know you hit a good fast lap.

And yeah Morgan I know Yoeri's setup is on the forums in the "Setups" thread, I think the one I use is up there I can't remember.

Morgan McColl · Jul 7, 2012

By the way , I been practicing on test sessions. Will we find the practice server on the hosted list ??

Eric Estes · Jul 7, 2012

Morgan, yes it is up now.

Paint is uploaded on ileaguerace.

Yoeri Gijsen · Jul 7, 2012

The server is up. I'll be joining after dinner.

Eckhart von Glan · Jul 7, 2012

quali starting now, good luck all!

Yoeri Gijsen · Jul 7, 2012

Awesome race! Will write my report later.

Chris Preston · Jul 7, 2012

It was a good race all things considered, my setup was a little wonkier than I expected it to be... Started off 2 tenths faster than anyone, 5 laps later I was 5 tenths slower, after about 20 laps I was faster than the pace, after 25 laps I was a tenth slower. If there would have been a yellow with 5 laps left (like I told you to cause Yoeri

) than I would have had half a chance to at least make top 3, but I'm not too upset with 6th.

My set was pretty fast for practice and quali though ending fastest in both so I expected more in the race, but it just wasn't there. May or may not be due to the fact I kissed a wall around lap 2, and lap 10, and about 3 times near the end of the race.

Anyways the race was good fun, even though there isn't 43 drivers like some of you may have liked I think having 23 good guys to drive with is a lot better and the fact that there isn't one guy that was miles ahead of anyone is even better. I also don't have Iowa nor care much for the track so I'm going to get an early start on practicing for Texas and hopefully can get you guys some long-term stats for fuel, tyres, temps etc. Also I told Joel I'd help him out by uploading my replays from my fastest race trim lap, and quali trim lap.

Qualifying - http://www.mediafire.com/?vgg2uw6060hvc88
Race - http://www.mediafire.com/?2zf3exp9xee33ma

Yoeri Gijsen · Jul 7, 2012

Results uploaded!

Rob Cuss · Jul 7, 2012

Awesome fun, loved it.... Stoked with 5th

David Ross · Jul 7, 2012

Even though i finished well down and 32 laps behind i still enjoyed the race, it was my first long race and my first proper race in the trucks, which i must admit are fun to drive but i definitely need more practice

Sorry about causing one of the wrecks

thanks to Yoeri for organising and hosting the race.

Eckhart von Glan · Jul 7, 2012

quick report.
arrived just in time for quali and surprised myself with a 30.114, 8th. Don't think I ever qualified so well in 5 years at RD

race: decided to quickly drop to last and see how things developped. This was ok until we first had a slightly longer stretch of green and I noticed I should probably pass the guys in front if I wanted to stay in lead lap as long as possible, so I edged closer and was then caught up in a big one in the last turn, no place to go. pitted without fast tow and did the needed repairs which left me with 8mins of more repairs and a pretty slow car. Used every new yellow to get those eight minutes down to 5 min of extra repair needed and a car only 1 sec or so slower than before.
I was then caught up in an incident when I was lapped by philip and mark coming out of the last banked turn. I just watched the replay: philip tried to pass me on the inside and must have hit a bump there because I stay on the outside and without touching me, he loses it slightly, corrects and then loses it big time, going on the grass and spinning out. It seems I may have unfortunately helped decide the race through no fault I am aware of.
Finished 10th, 8 laps down to lead and 2 laps to 9th, Linus.

Once we had settled down a bit it was fun, the first thirty laps or so should better be forgotten quickly.

Big thx to all who were there and of course Yoeri and Niel (?) his co- admin (or did I get this wrong?)