2018 RD Bathurst 1000GT Information & Sign Up

[Chris Down]

Late entry, but I'm looking for a team. I'm generally fairly fast and spend the time to practise (just ask ACRL folks about my 1000km of practice total for Donington GP last year ).

 

[Bobby Pennington]

Late entry, but I'm looking for a team. I'm generally fairly fast and spend the time to practise (just ask ACRL folks about my 1000km of practice total for Donington GP last year ).

I can vouch for him, his work ethic and speed plus he's a great guy. Would make an awesome teammate and we'd nab him if we didn't already have 4

 

[Bobby Pennington]

Hey guys, for 3 of us, this is our first ever race in rF2 and we're really looking forward to it. Is there anyway we can do a driver swap in the practice server? I've now got 100 hrs in the sim, but as you guys know, that's not much time in a sim. Anything you guys can offer to help us be a safer team to race with will really help us out.

Cheers

 

[Christian Moreau]

Hey guys, for 3 of us, this is our first ever race in rF2 and we're really looking forward to it. Is there anyway we can do a driver swap in the practice server? I've now got 100 hrs in the sim, but as you guys know, that's not much time in a sim. Anything you guys can offer to help us be a safer team to race with will really help us out.

Cheers

Here are the steps:

1. Incoming driver connects to server from the launcher
2. Incoming driver sets Spectate to "On" in the Network Settings (bottom of your screen in the Menu)
3. Incoming driver clicks "Race" and loads up
4. Once the incoming driver has finished loading all the cars and is spectating, they click the name of the current driver in the standings and press "P", or whatever you've bound your passenger key to, and then click "Race" (You'll see a message that says "You are now riding with 'current driver name')
5. Current driver requests pit stop and sets the "Driver" setting to the name of the incoming driver
6. Current driver pits, you'll see a message that says "Losing control in x seconds", as the current driver, do not ESC out of the car until the new driver has taken over

***Note: You'll only be able to select the incoming driver from the pit menu once they've pressed "P" and clicked "Race" for good measure. You're going to want to give yourself at least 5 minutes to run through this, as different people have different loading times. All depends on PC specs and connection speeds.

***Also, I'd recommend setting your network settings to at least 4 mbps downstream/1 mbps upstream, don't go below 512 kbps because you'll become at risk of having a failed driver swap. Any significant drop during the data transfer will cause the swap to fail and give the car to the AI or send it to the garage. As long as you have your network settings set up correctly and aren't running any plugins that could affect the transfer, you should be safe. We've done countless swaps in rF2 and have only have issues twice, both times due to swapping to a driver that was not running the same plugin as the outgoing driver.

 

[Bobby Pennington]

Here are the steps:

Christian, thank you so much. We'll get to working on it. Have a great weekend man.

 

[RustyDriver00]

Christian, thank you so much. We'll get to working on it. Have a great weekend man.

Just to confirm as well, you can do driver swaps during a practice session.

 

[Daiman Patel]

Late entry, but I'm looking for a team. I'm generally fairly fast and spend the time to practise (just ask ACRL folks about my 1000km of practice total for Donington GP last year ).

Can we have a quick chat on TeamSpeak during tonight's club event? It would be great to have you on board, especially now that I am struggling for drivers due to various circumstances, but I fear that my pace (compared to yours) will be somewhat lacking... That being said, I will be happy to put in the practice to ensure that my times are at least reasonable and consistent.

On that note, @Matt Le Gallez, unfortunately RedShift Racing (#85) shall be withdrawing their entry due to a lack of drivers, but BlueShift Racing (#86) should still be good to run in this event albeit with a different line-up. I shall provide an updated list of drivers in due course, once everything is confirmed at our end. I am terribly sorry about this - I do not want to pull out one of our cars, especially at such short notice, because I appreciate that we committed to taking part. This decision has not been taken lightly, but unforeseen situations have sadly left us in a position where we may only have enough drivers for a single car.

 

[Crashhard Banger]

@Bobby Pennington - I practiced driver swapping with teamie Pauli on the server last nite. It was our first time too - eventually we worked it out. It's quite straight forward when you know the drill. Something to note: altho you have to run the same set-up, you can change wing settings and tyre compound/pressures (if desired) - but has to be done in the pit menu before the swap takes place. You'll def need to practice it a few times so you're not taking your eyes off the road or slowing down too much while fiddling with the pit menu.

 

[Chris Down]

Can we have a quick chat on TeamSpeak during tonight's club event? It would be great to have you on board, especially now that I am struggling for drivers due to various circumstances, but I fear that my pace (compared to yours) will be somewhat lacking... That being said, I will be happy to put in the practice to ensure that my times are at least reasonable and consistent.

Sure, let's talk tonight.

 

[Daiman Patel]

@Bobby Pennington - I practiced driver swapping with teamie Pauli on the server last nite. It was our first time too - eventually we worked it out. It's quite straight forward when you know the drill. Something to note: altho you have to run the same set-up, you can change wing settings and tyre compound/pressures (if desired) - but has to be done in the pit menu before the swap takes place. You'll def need to practice it a few times so you're not taking your eyes off the road or slowing down too much while fiddling with the pit menu.

In addition to this, the driver who is due to enter the car can also make limited changes to their setup before selecting the "Race" button. The steering ratio, brake bias, and brake pressure (only if it is enabled for the car) are a few of the settings that can be altered by each driver, before entering the car; unfortunately I cannot remember the full list of these adjustable, per driver settings, but I believe that there are a few more.

 

[RustyDriver00]

Team name: SpeedyMite Racing Beta
Team owner*: Shawn Jacobs
Team owner forum name*: @Shawn Jacobs
Car of choice: Ferrari
Driver 1*: Ethan Haywood @NoseyGuyy
Driver 2*: Luka Berk @LUkAa996
Driver 3:Max Sennewald @Stnry
Driver 4:
I shall ensure all drivers are Premium Members for this event: YES

@Matt Le Gallez sorry mate, we have to pull this entry. Others will still be there all strong.

 

[Daiman Patel]

ANNOUNCEMENT

The 'hot-lap tracker' and 'track map' will be unavailable from the time of this post until tomorrow to allow for testing to be carried out prior to next week's event. We shall try to ensure that it is available again as soon as possible. Apologies for any inconvenience that this may cause.

 

[Bobby Pennington]

Ok, after a little research I've found out that the TV Helicopter Pilot has a day job.........and he acts the same way. I'm going to kill him if he doesn't kill me first.

Notice he's got more altitude here than he does at Griffin's Mount

 

[Daiman Patel]

Ok, after a little research I've found out that the TV Helicopter Pilot has a day job.........and he acts the same way. I'm going to kill him if he doesn't kill me first.

Notice he's got more altitude here than he does at Griffin's Mount

The helicopter should hopefully be removed in time for next week's event!

 

[Joseph Wright]

The helicopter should hopefully be removed in time for next week's event!

I thought we were using it as a "WAKE UP" call for the drivers about 100 laps into the race

Edit: I must say the TV cams of that thing would be awesome for the broadcast

 

[Bobby Pennington]

The helicopter should hopefully be removed in time for next week's event!

No worries, we're ready for his butt now

 

[ARG1980]

@Daiman Patel I hope you can help me. I cant join the server, after a fresh install of rfactor2. I have subscribed to the mod and when I join the server it says, checking server for missing componenets and the datatransfer timeout

 

[ARG1980]

Solved the problem - antivirus!!

 

[Case_]

@ARG1980 BTW, you were showing in the game as ARG1980. Just in case you're not aware of it.

 

[Enzo Fazzi]

Team name: Backstraight Boys #69
Team owner*: Enzo Fazzi
Team owner forum name*: @Enzo Fazzi
Car of choice: Ferrari
Driver 1*: Enzo Fazzi, @Enzo Fazzi
Driver 2*: João Martins, @JoãoBessaM
Driver 3:
Driver 4:
I shall ensure all drivers are Premium Members for this event: YES