AC GT Mixed Class @ Spa-Francorchamps - Thursday, October 16th

[Joao Alves]

BMW Z4 GT3 quota now full

 

[Ryan Ogurek]

Now this is going to be a good race! I'm really looking forward to this one.

 

[Andrew Macpherson]

This looks great! Can I sign up to drive an MP4-12C GT3?

One issue though: Although I'm licensed, I haven't done any RD club races in several years. Am I supposed to have a password for the Teamspeak server?

edit: Nevermind, I found the post with the passwords!

 

[Joao Alves]

McLaren MP4-12C GT3 quota now full

 

[Tony Presutto]

Hey Joao, Can I still get in with a Ferrari 458 GT2

 

[Joao Alves]

Only the 6x Lotus cars and 2x 458 GT2s left!

 

[Joao Alves]

PM sent. Booking will be up in 15 minutes!

 

[Stereo]

Fun race, guys. It's nice having more people show up. I don't know how the top positions were 3+ seconds faster than me though...

 

[Chris]

Thanks @Joao Alves for a great event!
Had an epic battle with @Chris James for the entire race, battling for first position. Great stuff!

Cheers guys

 

[Chris James]

That was a blast! This sim has got potential. Great racing @Chris Stacey. Thanks guys.

 

[Justin]

Great fun guys.

Had a messy race to put it lightly. Highlight was the battle with @Ronny Nunez in the middle part of the race, and also my late race battle with @Paul Cantea while recovering from my massive crash with @Matt Horst at the top of the Raidillon hill, where he lost control in a position blind to me until the very last moment which I couldn't avoid. My car survived surprisingly with little damage outside of bodywork damage, so I luckily carried on and finished.

That crash, along with two silly mistakes causing spins into the barriers were the obvious lowlights, but I still had a lot of fun anyway.

I can sense the SLS GT3 will be a great car once I knuckle down and figure out a setup for it like @Chris Stacey has. A car sounding that good can never be that slow.

Thanks to @Joao Alves for the event!

 

[Simon Roberts]

Did any body get any footage from this?

 

[Justin]

Did any body get any footage from this?

I know @Ryan Ogurek has uploaded the full replay file somewhere, but I personally don't have the link for it unfortunately.

 

[Stereo]

My replay only covers the last 5 laps or so, then again the leaders were still this close at that point...

(lap 20 - Chris Stacey 1st in the Mercedes, Chris James 2nd in the McLaren, Ryan Ogurek in the Ferrari you can see... if you squint there's another Ferrari over by the chicane who I believe Ryan was battling for position.

Mine's not really good enough to do video from, other peoples' cars go sideways a lot due to lag.

 

[Michael Young]

I know @Ryan Ogurek has uploaded the full replay file somewhere, but I personally don't have the link for it unfortunately.

https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=4515...1014&ithint=file,zip&authkey=!AMGDN0np9eFQTtM

Here's the link he gave it to me.

 

[Antoine Sarracini]

Awesome race! Was my first race here and I was afraid I'd cause an accident or something but I held it together and finished 6th after qualifying 12th with red rear aero damage since lap 1 That was the most fun I've had in a while and I'll definitely be doing it often.

 

[Tony Presutto]

Great fun guys. I know my pace was slower than you guys. But had some good clean racing mid race with Keith and Nick. Made the whole race in the 458 running a stock setup with mediums @ 23PSI. I tried a few changes in practice but could not get it to feel better, so I ran stock. No damage to car but my tires had so many flat spots it felt like I was on the shoulder all the time. It was crazy how my SimVibe transducers were vibrating my feet and ass. Anyway, thanks for the fun, and hope to race (or run) with you guys again soon.

 

[Ryan Ogurek]

Great race guys! Probably one of the best this club has seen yet!

 

[zAmboni]

Great race guys!
Most of you probably already know, I ran into an interesting problem during qualifying. I think somewhere in the middle of qualifying I lost an information connection with the server. It never finished qualifying for me and the server didn't know I was actually racing.

I was a little bummed because I had actually thought I had pole because I had the fastest time before the info connection was lost! It was a good thing that we had a rolling start since I joined the rest of you in my qualifying position. The race for me was rather uneventful, I went with mediums and I was kinda cautious for the first lap or so because I didn't want to screw up and total my car with the new damage system! Dealing with the server problem also was in the back of my mind and I didn't really get my head into the race until maybe the third lap.

With my relatively slow start, Chris and Chris had a couple of second advantage by the end of the first lap and I noticed that I had a gap behind me by the 3rd or 4th lap. I got a bit cautious coming up on some back markers and didn't realize that they probably didn't know I was lapping them. Because of the server problem I think the server had me listed as running last. Next time I need to announce over TS a little bit earlier I'm about to lap someone (heh I usually don't get too many chances to lap anyone so I'm not used to it! ).

The gap behind me got smaller when I reached the slower cars, and eventually Ronny blew by me. For the rest of the race, it was just trying to maintain consistent lap times and to keep the car on the track. I wasn't going to catch the leaders, and it looked like I had a safe margin to those behind me.

The tire temp app I had running showed I had 97% tread on the front right, and 98% on the others....BUT I really don't think those numbers are accurate. I wasn't able to push hard with the tires towards the end. The tires seemed to have lost a lot of grip at that point, even though the track should have been rubbered in pretty well. The guy who is supporting the app has noticed this also ("the tyre wear is sometimes difficult to interpret (A value of 97% has quite a noticeable amount of grip loss already"). Hards was probably a better choice for the race, but we're all still trying to learn things with the new update .

Just want to say to all of you that it was nice to see a bunch of you hanging out on TS afterwards to chat a bit. Sometimes it is good to have a debrief from everyone and you get to learn new things. I'm not that knowledgeable about racing as many of you are, and I learn things just about every race just in the chat. Last night was no different.

I was surprised just how much faster the GT3 cars seemed compared to my GT2. Ronny just flew up and flew by me on the Kemmel Straight. It was mentioned in the chat that the GT3 cars have much better aero and have a faster top speed than many of the GT2 cars. I went with a relatively low downforce in my car because I thought the GT2 cars would have a higher top speed, but I was in a lose/lose situation here because I didn't have as much grip in the corners, and STILL didn't have higher speed even at lower rear wing. Going to have to go with more downforce next time .

Pardon my long post, I can tend to ramble along too much at times I posted on the AC forum about my server connection problem and they are looking into it. It may be a rare situation....I just hope it doesn't happen again .

 

[Danny Rosehr]

when can we expect the start of a season?