Friendly Development Series

[Ricky Willox]

With the up and coming restart of the Friendly Development series.
There has been a rise in the number of cars spotted on our tracks sporting a unique new livery as the pictures from an undisclosed source prove.
Could these be the stars of the future?

 

[Dennis Phelan]

Those are two great instructors!

 

[Marco Bijl]

I know Dennis And I am proud of them to be present.

I will be there as well, driving along trying to learn something from them as well Really looking forward to it.

 

[April Dillon]

I think my level of experience is beyond the scope of this session, but I think it's a terrific idea, and I know some people who will be very interested. I'll be sure to spread the word.

 

[Marco Bijl]

Sow, the first event is up. I still need more instructors for future races, so if anyone has anyone in mind, let me know ok?

 

[Marco Bijl]

Signups are open!

@Marcus
There will be other events to follow. The level of topics which are addressed should vary, so keep an eye out for the following events!

 

[Szymon Olizarowicz]

Unfortunately, I have too much work to do. I just planned my week activities so that I can participate in Porsche SuperCup (already missed Silverstone this Sunday) every week and RDGTC, when it starts. I will now try to squise RDFDS into my callendar but there is very little hope I will have time for it. Certainly not in the first two weeks but after that I should have more time. In the mean time I wish you all fun.

 

[Marco Bijl]

There will be more events coming soon Szymon, so your turn will come

 

[Rupe Wilson]

As ive signed up for help in my driving. I will help in future events to pass on the info if required,

 

[Marco Bijl]

Thanks Rupe. I appreciate the offer! Will keep it in my mind

 

[Marian Zelenka]

"19:00 GMT: Practice
20:00 GMT: RDFDS Session (2 hours )"

What does it mean? Why 3 hours and how it will work?

 

[Stuart Rinck]

This sounds very good for me. I will try to fit this into my schedule. I'ts just what I need.

 

[Stuart Rinck]

please delete

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

"19:00 GMT: Practice
20:00 GMT: RDFDS Session (2 hours )"

What does it mean? Why 3 hours and how it will work?

We will guide new drivers or the less experienced on the track. It will take at least two hours to do the proper training in understanding every aspect of how to race online and how to control your car. In this case a rear wheel driven BMW E90 that most people never use because they don't know how to drive it.

Points of attention:
- how to accelerate
- how to brake
- how to corner
- understeer
- oversteer
- overtaking
- driving in a group
- setup understanding
- etc
- etc

Previous events have proven to be very successful with drivers gaining a lot of self confidence and skills in little over two hours. I have seen people improving their laptimes with 3 to 5 seconds after a FD session.

Thanks Marco for the invite and I am glad to join this Saturday

Time to put the FWD pussycars aside and take the beemer for a spin

 

[Von Butters]

Hi Bram, looking forward to this. Just a little question.
How do you get the custom skins to show up? Ive already downloaded them into the right folder and looked for them as ive had a recce around the Brno track. The normail colours show on the Beema.
Do they come automatic when we log into the server, or have i missed something?

 

[Marco Bijl]

Christopher,

Extract the file to the C:\Documents and Settings\YOURNAME\My Documents\SimBin\RACE 07\CustomSkins.

Make sure that the folder Friendly development is under that location, and then it should be available at your local game. Just choose the track, WTCC07, and BMW. It should be there as FD trainer yellow, FD trainer white etc.

 

[Von Butters]

yup, thats what i'd done, only it didnt work. for some reason, everytime ive installed windows on my machine, then installed steam, it puts the USER FILES under a file of install 1, 2, 3, ect.

Problem with that, it uses differnt installs now to look/hold files. to counter that, ive pasted and copied it into every install custom skins, hey, its working now, so im good to go!

 

[Kennett Ylitalo]

Easiest way to handle that is that you backup your Customskins and Userdata folders to some where safe, delete the SimBin/Race07 (that means the 1,2 and 3 etc. folders too) and start the game. After it has started, close the game and you should have only one Race07 folder. Paste the backupped folders back to SimBin/Race07 folder, confirm overwrite.

I suggests that you do this after the event if everythings good to go at the moment...Wouldn't like to increase frustration just before start, it's only one day anymore.

 

[Marian Zelenka]

In this case a rear wheel driven BMW E90 that most people never use because they don't know how to drive it. Time to put the FWD pussycars aside and take the beemer for a spin

Funny thing is that I never drive FWD in Race07. I tried FWD cars for the first time today.

Actually, what I wanted to know was if there will be some break or something or just 2h of driving without a pause.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Nothing is mandatory and we are not at school But history shows that most drivers stick around to the end as its good fun

 

[Von Butters]

Its always the same for this level of driving, its all about having a good time while simming.
Im sure more people will feel better if they know how to drive better, getting more out of the sim, and surely that can only be a good thing?