rF2 1.5h WEC (LMP & GT3) @ Daytona Road Course - Friday 6th March 2015

[Daiman Patel]

Struggling to get the new mod downloaded. 30 % in 20 min race against the clock

Still plenty of time before the race! Download them from the event thread if GetMod is slow.

 

[Pär Öqvist]

Which thread? I don´t see the BES cars in the first page here? Problem is I am not only downloading BES so dunno if I will make it

I have set the network settings to 255 kb would it go faster setting it at higher settings? I have 100 mb so it´s not my internet connection.

 

[Cosimo]

Same problem for me and can't find the BES mod link though...

 

[Pär Öqvist]

Well we can have a private race Cosimo lol.

 

[Cosimo]

It's a race to get to the race

 

[Pär Öqvist]

15 % left on bes download. Wonder how much all the rest is

 

[Pär Öqvist]

Hope the race to the finish line is this intense. I have now overtaken the Audi and am working frantically to overtake the other makes. Looks like 120 s per car

 

[Pär Öqvist]

No I am screwed the 430 is at 50 % after 5 minutes

 

[Pär Öqvist]

Did you make it Cosimo? I suppose you are all rolling now. Well what is a day at the ball

 

[PaulH]

Good race all, not a good race for me though, good qualy but couldnt run consistent during the race, too many mistakes and @Jim Brailsford sorry for taking you out, I thought you were slowing to let me through, my mistake
Them LMP's were like bullets coming up behind, scared me a few times

 

[jimortality]

Good race all, not a good race for me though, good qualy but couldnt run consistent during the race, too many mistakes and @Jim Brailsford sorry for taking you out, I thought you were slowing to let me through, my mistake
Them LMP's were like bullets coming up behind, scared me a few times

Absolutely no worries Paul, that first corner was causing me problems every time. Great race to watch after I'd finished and I've learnt a lot. Cheers guys.

 

[Tal]

That was fun despite no battles. I literally forgot about the strategy until warmup. I didn't know fuel consumption or tyre wear so I just went for it, full tank + one stop for 19 more laps of fuel. The start was interesting, but I made a couple of mistakes and the top three GT's ran away, So I was on my own for the rest of the stint. But after the pits, something switch on in my head, I just went for it trying to catch David, and it was working splendidly. But alas, I missed a braking point and He managed to get away again. I reckon I wouldn't have made that mistake it would have been a really awesome finish.

 

[Cosimo]

Did you make it Cosimo? I suppose you are all rolling now. Well what is a day at the ball

I did make it, yes. I downloaded the last cars externally, not through Getmod. I wouldn't have made it otherwise.

Thanks all for the race, I loved it

I improved my PB by 0.1s in Quali and race was almost flawless, a couple of excursions in the grass, first time Gijs took the opportunity to gain P1 and second spin Daiman unlapped himself.
I knew one stop strategy was feasible, so I just short-shifted my way around and was left with 6 litres of fuel at the end.

Attached are the quali (1:27.0) and race (1:28.7) setups I used.

 

[Tal]

XML of the race:

http://simresults.net/150306-5we

 

[PaulH]

Absolutely no worries Paul, that first corner was causing me problems every time. Great race to watch after I'd finished and I've learnt a lot. Cheers guys.

Top Man Jim!

 

[Joao Fernandes]

What a race. Those first 40min were pretty intense.
Close and fair racing with some position changes kept me busy in the first stint. Me Andreas and David had some fun.
With the LMP1s overtaking us slow GT3s it created some interesting situations with 3 wide on some occasions.

Second stint started the same way but then David lost it and i took advantage to gain some precious seconds. After that it was more relaxed trying to keep a good distance and avoiding the big mistakes.
Thanks for a great and clean race.

 

[Andreas Oehrlich]

Very unlucky race but also a lot of fun.

I reached second position on the grid in GT3 class just behind @Joao Fernandes. After some great fights with Joao I was on P1 but he and @David O'Reilly were too fast to open a gap.

On lap 12, suddenly I hit an invisible wall on start finsih line and flew about 50 meters. Damn that hurt.

...ready for take off? Nooo!

I had to drive one lap with a broken suspension and then there was a 77 sec repairtime very sad but everything on the car was fixed.
I filled the tank to its limit and luckily it was enough finishing the race. The tires were burned but it was drivable
After a long and fair battle with @Gabriel Sterr I reached P4 in the GT3 class.

But 3 laps before the end I had a disconnect .... rejoined and finally I was 5th in GT3 class.

That was my first multi class race ever and I loved it so much though.
The lapping was very well by all drivers.

Thx, and hopefully we will do such a race again soon.

 

[Gijs van Elderen]

Congrats @Cosimo , @Stefan Woudenberg and @Joao Fernandes !

Fuel consumption was my strategy killer. Doing a 45min with 1 fuel tank wasn't possible with the LMP ARX 90L fuel tank (and the setup i had). So i had to do 2 stops.

I was a bit surprised to see Cosimo still driving after +40min...

- first stop: stalled the engine just 1 m before the red square.
- 2nd stop: 62 sec to change tires. i guess my pit crew was ...

Anyway the SCES LMP's are fun to drive. I don't why SimHQ don't want to release their cars in general public. I found a small link on their forum. It's gone now.
It would be good publicity for their league if they did.

BTW: @Daiman Patel , Nice consistency!

BTW: @PaulH : it's scary to be in that bullet too.

 

[Gijs van Elderen]

@Andreas Oehrlich : you can upload pictures directly here on the forum.
- Click on "upload file" when you make a post. (1Mb size limit)

 

[Gijs van Elderen]

@Pär Öqvist ,

The GT3 cars are all together almost 1Gb. So that will take a while to download. It's to big to upload to the RD resource manager (300Mb limit)

BTW: all "get missing component" links are just direct links to dropbox. It's handled by html. Just like your internet browser They are not limited by the in-game 256kbs (simulation port). They will download as fast/slow via your browser as in game.

"Get mod" is a 107kb file that should download in a second from the server.