AC GT3 @ Imola - Sunday 1st November 2020

[HF2000]

Looking forward to seeing you all next week! Still not sure exactly where we'll be, maybe somewhere a little more relaxing after reading @HF2000's woes

Thanks everyone for coming out!

I forgot to mention that besides my problems, I had a lot of battles and fun. So thanks for organising, Chris.

 

[GEO147]

Another YouTube vid from my perspective for anyone interested in watching me make faces!!

 

[HF2000]

Still not sure exactly where we'll be, maybe somewhere a little more relaxing

We did LeMans not so long ago, so SVEG raceway maybe?

 

[Knut Mattheisen]

Another YouTube vid from my perspective for anyone interested in watching me make faces!!

George what FOV is this and what screen size?

 

[Chris Down]

Here's my VR onboard -- thanks everyone for the great race!

 

[Partick Eaton]

Great fun with a few elbows out. Hope I didn't cause anyone any grief.

John and had a little bump early on, thanks for waiting!

The last part of the race was a good scrap with Knut and Stephano. We traded places a few time.

Great finish all and thanks for hosting Chris!

 

[GEO147]

George what FOV is this and what screen size?

That's 30 fov on a 27inch Knut. I run triples.

 

[pattikins]

That's 30 fov on a 27inch Knut. I run triples.

It's been quite a few years since I ran triples & I never bothered calculating FOV, but that figure to me looks rather low.

 

[GEO147]

That's what an fov calculator spits out Pat

 

[pattikins]

In the second lap I was a bit surprised by @pattikins late breaking into Villeneuve so I had to go the long way over the grass to avoid contact.
Down to P10...

I've had a look @ the replay, & I can't see any obvious mistake on my part. I didn't seem to lose any ground to the car ahead (John/McLaren), going in or coming out of Villeneuve. The SCG is a great to drive but it's the slowest car on the grid around Imola (the quickest time @ RSR is still in the 1.43s). It's also worth bearing in mind that it's on the brakes, drinks more than Bill Werbeniuk (started the race with 59 litres) and has a grumpy/incorrigible driver behind the wheel that insists on right foot braking.

 

[pattikins]

That's what an fov calculator spits out Pat

I think that I had my FOV somewhere between 50-60.

Previous setups
23|29|23
24x3

Edit. I think I had my outer monitors set @ a 10-15 degree angle (I used head tracking so the those monitors were more for my peripheral vision). Is your FOV calculation based on a single monitor?

 

[Binhajri]

Do you guys race at 17 or 18 GMT? Or its fixed at 20? Because its after midnight in my time zone!

 

[pattikins]

Do you guys race at 17 or 18 GMT? Or its fixed at 20? Because its after midnight in my time zone!

I believe the 8pm GMT start time was set to accomodate people with families etc. Early evening/matinee events are rare. It might be worth taking a look @ simracing.gp/communities to see if there are races that start at a more social hour. If you own AMS2 or Raceroom, the club events appear to start @ 7pm..

 

[Kek700]

Do you guys race at 17 or 18 GMT? Or it's fixed at 20? Because it's after midnight in my time zone!

You were pretty handy around Imola for someone asleep.

 

[random2k4]

I've had a look @ the replay, & I can't see any obvious mistake on my part

Havn´t said you made a mistake. Only that my breaking point was different then yours and it took me a bit off guard seeing your rear end coming closer in the corner very fast
I know the SCG breaks are not the best and with the Z4 you can just break late and hard into the right kink. But its all good. I made a miscalculation but could recover quite fast from it in the race.

 

[Binhajri]

You were pretty handy around Imola for someone asleep.

Thanks .. i thought i was doing well until i saw the blue flag

 

[HF2000]

Thanks .. i thought i was doing well until i saw the blue flag

You did very well! Your defense on me was good and fair. In fact I planned to do the undercut to pass you but unfortunately (for me) you pitted in the same lap. And don't bother about the blue flag from Chris. He's not of this world.

 

[Binhajri]

You did very well! Your defense on me was good and fair. In fact I planned to do the undercut to pass you but unfortunately (for me) you pitted in the same lap. And don't bother about the blue flag from Chris. He's not of this world.

Thanks .. hope to see the whole middle pack next race it was so fun the first half of the race.. and nice racing with you so clean

 

[Reik Major]

Another YouTube vid from my perspective for anyone interested in watching me make faces!!

Nice video mate. I enjoyed our fight in the middle of the race even in the race and now watching it (from 37 mins in the vid). Did I see a smile at 38:09?

 

[Reik Major]

I'm very satisfied with my P3 result, because faster wasn't possible to me.

Grats to @Chris Down for another impressive victory, but especially huge congrats to @Raresch for your P2 result. You had great pace. Very nice improvement. I'll try to get you next time.

I qualified in P4 with a new PB (1:43:5xx), so I was happy with it. Start went well. I catched Rares and got in P3 but in the second chicane I had a huge moment, nearly throwing the car away in lap one. The R8 is hard to catch once you're having counter reactions.

Had a few nice battles with @Sheashant L and @Raresch , then settled in P3. Raresch was on the same strategy like me (2 stints on softs with 50 L) and not to hold this time. So to secure P3 I had to open a gap to Sheashant in 4th, because he was on meds with full fuel, doing a much shorter stop later on.

After the stop I had to overtake a few drivers doing their stop later. For two laps I had a nice fight with @GEO147 who defended hard but fair. When I got to overtake him, George drove into the pits.

Now in 4th I had Sheashant in front of me due to his shorter stop. Overtaking wasn't too hard, because of his worn medium tyres.

So I finished 3rd in an entertaining race.

Thanks for hosting Chris!