AC Abarth 500 S1 @ Silverstone National - Mon October 12th, 2015

Ricoow · Oct 12, 2015

Herbie said:
You're welcome @John Dalton, good to have you around
Last race was awesome, this was terrible
Trained yesterday and had a good feeling. Immediately could top my last time from the nice race with @Tobias Röhner So I was optimistic for the race But as Tobias was even quicker than last time, I lost feeling in race completely once more
Felt like i was driving on raw eggs!
Had contact with @James Hemp in first corner cause I ran wide
Shortly after I wanted to overtake @James Wilson but he closed the door and left track and spun (my fault, too ambitous).
Could once more fight back to the field but then I couldn't avoid @James Wilson spinning in the big S (nobodies fault).
Poor him went wide on first corner last lap so he inherited last place
In last corner I was back at the field but too late

That is a shame, I had a blast up front, fighting off @Matheus Machado @Enzo Fazzi @rastaqki and @Ricardo Edelmann :o

Geof · Oct 12, 2015

A good one for me... obviously

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Here is the REPLAY for whoever wanted to take a look back at the race.
And my setup.
Thx for the race everybody!
See you next.
Cheers.

rastaqki · Oct 12, 2015

Yeah those fights were nice

Had to emergency brake on first corner coz of contact and spin in front of me... was close ;p

Herbie · Oct 12, 2015

It's fine @Ricardo, I calmed down already

Actually there were only very few races were I was "good"

so I am used to that

Time to drive is very limited and my talent as well

Thanks @Geof for the setup

What's up next week??

zAmboni · Oct 12, 2015

That was a fun race!

Did well in practice, but couldn't step it up for qualifying though

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The first half of the race was fantastic. There was a group of us switching places back and forth and then I had a nice battle with @Enzo Fazzi that he got the better of. Then going into T1, the car decided it wanted to oversteer and didn't come back for me like it did on EVERY OTHER LAP! That knocked me back and away from the nice group battle.

I really like these types of races with smaller cars on shorter tracks. You get to try different things to try and get by the guy in front, and if it fails, you don't lose that much space so you can try again a little bit later.

Thanks @Ricardo for setting things up!

Knightly_ · Oct 12, 2015

It was fun as always, thanks to all for the race. I just watched a few laps of Geof and Tobias and I am amazed how much you gain by a good racing line and smooth driving.

Congratz to Goef for 1st place.

Anthemius · Oct 12, 2015

Geof said:
A good one for me... obviously .
Here is the REPLAY for whoever wanted to take a look back at the race.
And my setup.
Thx for the race everybody!
See you next.
Cheers.

Congratulations @Geof Your laps consistency is amazing!

I would like to test your setup! Unfortunately the link does not work

Could you please check the link and re-post it?

Another great race with the abarth! I don't know if it is the placebo effect, but with the new tyre model I believe that I can drive more aggressively without loosing control like @Fred Locklear did. Are you sure that you upgraded to v 1.3?

Geof · Oct 12, 2015

Thx @Anthemius,
I must have spendt too many hours on this game

... sooo adictive.

Here is the link for my setup, and as @Knightly_ mentionned, it's all about smoothness.

Adrianhettich · Oct 12, 2015

it was fun indeed, alltho i had very few little battles where was better to lift and be safe. Thanks a lot guys!!!

mancSLO · Oct 12, 2015

Suggestion for the future: Alfa GTA vs Abarth 500S1 vs Giulietta qv 2014...

zAmboni · Oct 12, 2015

Anthemius said:
I don't know if it is the placebo effect, but with the new tyre model I believe that I can drive more aggressively without loosing control like @Fred Locklear did. Are you sure that you upgraded to v 1.3?

I'm better than I was previous to 1.3, but I think my real improvement was changing MAXIMUM_FRAME_LATENCY=0 to 1 in the video.ini file. I think I was getting input lag. I need to become more of a machine like @Geof though. I keep forgetting lines and brake points during races. On the other hand ppl like Geoffroy can race their optimal lines because they are always in the lead

James Wilson · Oct 13, 2015

Herbie said:
You're welcome @John Dalton, good to have you around
Last race was awesome, this was terrible
Trained yesterday and had a good feeling. Immediately could top my last time from the nice race with @Tobias Röhner So I was optimistic for the race But as Tobias was even quicker than last time, I lost feeling in race completely once more
Felt like i was driving on raw eggs!
Had contact with @James Hemp in first corner cause I ran wide
Shortly after I wanted to overtake @Jamie Wilson but he closed the door and left track and spun (my fault, too ambitous).
Could once more fight back to the field but then I couldn't avoid @Jamie Wilson spinning in the big S (nobodies fault).
Poor him went wide on first corner last lap so he inherited last place
In last corner I was back at the field but too late

Lol why have i been tagged in this?

Herbie · Oct 13, 2015

James Wilson said:
Lol why have i been tagged in this?

Lol sorry! Wanted to tag Jamie Wilson

I'm no good with names

xnorb · Oct 13, 2015

As to be expected, i had some major issues with the track.
Was doing fairly well, but lost loads of time in 2 corners (last turn and the "S" following the turn 1) and when you're beating your qualifying time by 6 tenths in race, then you know you have not had enough pracitce

All was going smooth, then i remembered i forgot to inform my g/f and tried typing a WhatsApp message - which led to me crashing into the pitwall, losing position after position as the wrecked car couldn't get to top speed anymore.

Had to drop out so rapidly after race as i was already late and had to literally jump from the PC once i crossed the finishline

Another race finished under odd circumstances, but at least i finished .)

Enzo Fazzi · Oct 13, 2015

Geof said:
A good one for me... obviously .
Here is the REPLAY for whoever wanted to take a look back at the race.
And my setup.
Thx for the race everybody!
See you next.
Cheers.

The link to the replay doesn't seem to work for me.

Ricoow · Oct 13, 2015

Enzo Fazzi said:
The link to the replay doesn't seem to work for me.

Remove the leading space in the URL

(or the %20, whichever appears in your URL)

Enzo Fazzi · Oct 13, 2015

Ricardo said:
Remove the leading space in the URL (or the %20, whichever appears in your URL)

Tried that already, it directs me to some weird 'you're the 1000000th visitor' kinda thing.
Just got it working though, after removing, I had to add a : after the https

And now I'm left without a password...

Geof · Oct 14, 2015

Enzo Fazzi said:
Tried that already, it directs me to some weird 'you're the 1000000th visitor' kinda thing.
Just got it working though, after removing, I had to add a : after the https

And now I'm left without a password...

Sorry about the link, posted it too fast. Try again.