Fiat 500 Abarth @ Nordschleife Tourist - Wednesday July 6th 2011

Senad Subasic · Jul 1, 2011

Server name: RACEDEPARTMENT.COM
Class: Fiat 500 Abarth
Track: Nordschleife Tourist (RD Download, Alternate download)
Weather/Damage: Dry, 40% damage

Practice start time: 18:00 GMT
Qualification start time: 19:00 GMT
Race start time: 19:30 GMT
Race distance: 2 x 2 laps, 5 minute break between the races

Server password: click here
Racing rules: click here
Abarth skin pack: Download, extract to your nkpro folder

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Results here

Tibor Rózsahegyi · Jul 3, 2011

Hi Guys!
I am new in RD so this is my first event. Great car and track combination, but i think it will be a hard race (for me sure).
I dont know what is the good time, but i ran 8:28 today.

Senad Subasic · Jul 3, 2011

Hiya Tibor :welcome:

8 minutes? I thought it would be more than 10. Maybe the race length should be increased by a lap, 2 x 3?

Reint Jan Hoiting · Jul 3, 2011

Well , Nordschleide full is about 10 min , the short version is about 8:30

Tomas Torasen · Jul 3, 2011

Great, Senad.

My last suggestion is if we could increase qualy lenght from maybe even 19:00 or 19:10, so we can do a second lap. Otherwise many of us will have to accept our outlap as our qualy time.

Grid placement is really important here since it's a very hard track to pass safely on.

Senad Subasic · Jul 3, 2011

Ah, of course. It's a posting template, so I didn't even think of editing the times.

Quali will be from 19:00 - 19:30 GMT :good:

Péter Bártfai · Jul 4, 2011

Track works fine for me, I have the texture setting at 3rd , view distance around 4th I think, 2x antialiasing, nothing forced through driver. No stuttering at all. My video card is a 9600GT with a video ram issue, so it's definitely worse than a 8800GT now. Well I still need to see what is it like with cars on track, but I hope it'll be fine. I have the remote car details setting on middle.

BTW I like the track, very bumpy, challengeing, just very unusual as I'm used to the Simbin/SMS versions that are very similar to each other. I think I'll be very slow, but anyways it'll be fun driving on this track

Adam Farmer · Jul 4, 2011

Sadly, I can't guarantee I can race, and since the list is full I will pull out now. Senad, you should definitely race since you are organising it all. Have fun all, it will be amazing.

Sérgio Marques · Jul 4, 2011

Glad to see another full grid, great work Senad!

I will skip this one, I'm still traumatized by the Abarth experience in Falkenberg!

Senad Subasic · Jul 4, 2011

Adam Farmer said:
Sadly, I can't guarantee I can race, and since the list is full I will pull out now. Senad, you should definitely race since you are organising it all. Have fun all, it will be amazing.

I went to reserves just because there were so many sign-ups. Practice -> Quali -> Race switching will be done automatically, so no need for me there, and I don't know if I can run the track properly yet.

Sérgio Marques said:
Glad to see another full grid, great work Senad!

I will skip this one, I'm still traumatized by the Abarth experience in Falkenberg!

None of these is my doing really, it's Tomas' track that brought people in

Tibor Rózsahegyi · Jul 4, 2011

I don't see the RaceDepartment server on the list in the game. I see "SimRacing.es 2" server with Nordschleife Tourist but its not that i think.
My problem or the server is not running?

Senad Subasic · Jul 4, 2011

Tibor Rózsahegyi said:
I don't see the RaceDepartment server on the list in the game. I see "SimRacing.es 2" server with Nordschleife Tourist but its not that i think.
My problem or the server is not running?

Server not running. No ranking for this track, so didn't think it would be needed really. Will put it up now if you want.

Tibor Rózsahegyi · Jul 4, 2011

Senad Subasic said:
Server not running. No ranking for this track, so didn't think it would be needed really. Will put it up now if you want.

No, thanks. I go offline practise.

Redvaliant · Jul 4, 2011

the full motogp skins are out as of yesterday, at RSR as usual.
Funny seeing this little ####box on top gear last night, as normally i'd say it was the pick of the 3 hot hatches, but after driving it in netlkar....not so much.

Tomas Torasen · Jul 6, 2011

I cant enter the server now..

I get "connection refused, new clients not accepted" or something like that..

I get the same message if I forget to tick "accept new clients" when for example creating new sessions for my own server..

Senad Subasic · Jul 6, 2011

Accept new clients was unticked for Race 1. Changed now.

stefano.schivari · Jul 6, 2011

sorry guys i must quit from this event,i have to go away.sorry

Péter Bártfai · Jul 6, 2011

Am I the only one who can't download the Abarth skinpack?

Edit: now it's fine, don't know what was the problem.

Reint Jan Hoiting · Jul 6, 2011

Péter Bártfai said:
Am I the only one who can't download the Abarth skinpack?

it works for me

Péter Bártfai · Jul 6, 2011

Game crashed when dropping onto the grid.

Christian Grzybofski · Jul 6, 2011

First of all i must say sorry to the one behind me,i probably messed his race.When i was driving suddenly my fps are runned so low that i wasnt able to drive stable for some seconds,that caused me to oversteer and the guy behind me crashed on me.After that tryed to continue but the damage of my car was high so i retired to not cause any problems to anyone at the second race. Sorry again but was realy my pc problem for that.I will not run again on nordschleife!