AC BTCC Round 7 @ Castle Combe - Sunday 31st March 2024

[Interslice]

Welcome to the RD Assetto Corsa Racing Club. Next Sunday we're at Castle Combe, for Round 7 of the '90s BTCC Season.




Join us!

Need a warm-up or want to start online racing at a gentler pace? There is an MX-5 + 1 event earlier in the week . We also run a practice server all week for all events.

Castle Combe

Castle Combe, known as the 'friendly circuit' to many, has a long history which has been somewhat blighted by planning and noise wrangles over its lifespan, contributing to keeping the venue as a home for club racing but limiting any higher use.

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• Practice Server: RaceDepartment.com #9 (Available throughout the race week)
• Race server: RaceDepartment.com #9 - Netherlands
• 20:00 CEST, 19:00 DST | 80 minutes - Official Practice
• 21:20 CEST, 20:20 DST | 20 minutes - Qualification
• 21:40 CEST, 20:40 DST) | 2 x 25 minute - Race
• Qualification determines both R1 and R2 grid positions.

Cars (Ballast/Restrictor)

• Volvo S40 BTCC - (25kg/25%)
• BMW 320i STW BTCC - (N/A)
• Nissan Primera BTCC - (0kg/15%)

Event details:

• Track: Castle Combe (with Chicanes)
• Pit stop: Optional
• Track Temps: 18C air/24C track
• Track Condition: Clear, Light wind, Optimum grip.
• Damage: 10%
• Assists: Factory
• Standing Start: Jump Start = Drive through penalty
• Fuel Rate - 70%

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[Interslice]

A message to all Drivers

If you run off track, you must check to see that its clear before you re enter the track. Always try to re-enter the track parallel to the racing line. Stay off the racing line until you are up to race speed and do not block any fast approaching car.

When joining the track from the pits, remain inside the white line and stay off the racing line until you are up to speed.

During qualification, do not race on your out lap, let other drivers by.


Golden Rule

1. If you hit somebody, sending them off the track and carry on like nothing happened, you take the risk of being banned for 30 days.
2. Instead, you should always wait for the affected drivers, and that way you can be 100% sure you will not get a ban.

Track limits

1. You will get 2 warnings before a 10 second penalty for exceeding track limits to your advantage. Any warnings/penalties are displayed in the chat window at the end of each lap.

Note: Please use your full real name in Discord and in game. Not doing so may result in you being kicked from the server if an admin cannot identify who you are.

Info on scoring/penalties here

 

[Interslice]

Practice Server is up!!

 

[Reik Major]

Practice Server is up!!

Have given it a go already. This track is crazy!

 

[Kek700]

Remove the stupid chicanes.

 

[Interslice]

Remove the stupid chicanes.

Need to add this to your sig, Ernie

 

[Medilloni]

Remove the stupid chicanes.

The chicanes are fine, just the effing track limits at them... there's massive bollards, who needs limits

 

[Kek700]

As much as it annoys me to say it, the chicanes are ok, as john said, just track limits and bleeding sausages.
I am surprise they did not add strategically placed land mines there too.
Its a race circuit not a bleeding obstacle course.

 

[Alfred Wayne]

I knew those chicanes were calling for a fwd car when we took the ginetta out here Fun track in the nissan.

 

[Carlos Basto]

Sorry guys, i am not going to be able to do this race. Have fun!

 

[stigs2cousin]

As much as it annoys me to say it, the chicanes are ok, as john said, just track limits and bleeding sausages.
I am surprise they did not add strategically placed land mines there too.
Its a race circuit not a bleeding obstacle course.

Of course a contractor could always blame his materials.
Or the weather.
Or his b..... wife.

But if he wouldn´t, what would we talk about in the pub??

 

[H_Belane]

Ok, an evening to quickly forget. Involved in an accident in the first race, then at the end of the field. As the race continued, the steering wheel misfired and I crashed into the wall, so I think back to the pits and save my energy for the second race. This was going quite well until an internet connection problem

I quickly forget the whole thing today.

 

[Medilloni]

Thanks for organising tonight tonight lads

@Alfred Wayne really sorry about our coming together Robert, I was so far alongside (on your left) I was hoping you'd seen me but had no room left to back out

 

[Reik Major]

Here's what I was talking about after driving the same time as Henri in practice...

 

[Kek700]

It was as bad as I thought it was going to be, in the end I just could not take anymore chicanery and sausagury.
Mange one and two thirds of a race, then had enough.

 

[Alfred Wayne]

Thanks for organising tonight tonight lads

@Alfred Wayne really sorry about our coming together Robert, I was so far alongside (on your left) I was hoping you'd seen me but had no room left to back out

it happens when racing close. I had seen you on radar inching up on my left bumper, but I'm only on a single screen, so that was my "blind spot". I planned to keep it tight, but I guess I ran a tiny bit wide and once we touched I was just a passenger. Good racing before that (and after that for me with others on the grid

 

[Medilloni]

It was as bad as I thought it was going to be, in the end I just could not take anymore chicanery and sausagury.
Mange one and two thirds of a race, then had enough.
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I admire all you guys using the Nissan, but I simply can't dial out the 'pendulum' effect. It's a problem for the Volvoists, it being so damn quick on the straights

 

[Medilloni]

it happens when racing close. I had seen you on radar inching up on my left bumper, but I'm only on a single screen, so that was my "blind spot". I planned to keep it tight, but I guess I ran a tiny bit wide and once we touched I was just a passenger. Good racing before that (and after that for me with others on the grid

Thanks Robert, though I just watched the replay, and from every angle I can't see us actually touching... weird, net code thing, replay not accurate??
I'm a single screen user too, would love to have triples

 

[Kek700]

Funny you should say that John, I have it setup very well, I can mostly run it okay, what I find difficult is the obstacles that these types of circuit Chuck at it. Sausages and chicanes , and worst of all tight chicane with sausages can and do upset it too much. I know some of it is me being an old git.

( for me it is a difficult car, but I can really set it up to go some way into subduing it )

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I struggle with the brakes and subtlety of brake and accelerator application so I become vunrable in the situation like tight sausage chicanes. I’m not alone with this, the circuit choice is aimed solely at the more skilful driver, giving us old folk to try and deal with stupid obstacles, when we are ill equipped “mostly”.
I don’t expect to be any better, just have a race, not twice a lap wondering if I am going to make this chicane instead of enjoying a race and a battle with those around me.

But when we , if we ever do get a clean circuit, I can set “usually” up well, I can get it to work very well for me at least.
This is a great circuit, but the chicanes are totally stupid and worst of all completely pointless.

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