Lotus 49 Available for download

[Jay Adgie]

Just had a few runs out in the 49, she's a bit of a handful . There is a new build out with a new track as well.

The Season 3 Build boasts new tracks, enhancements to existing tracks, the long-awaited Lotus 49 and a host of new and improved features for league administrators and teams.

The new tracks include Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, home of the Canadian Grand Prix, and Long Beach, home of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Circuit Gilles Villeneuve joins Spa-Francorchamps, Interlagos, Silverstone and Suzuka on the list of iRacing’s current F1 tracks, while Long Beach is the first in a line of technical tracks that are driveable but not scheduled for official races. Enhancements to existing tracks include night racing at South Boston and Lanier National Speedway and . . . drum roll . . . iRacing’s first true Figure 8 configuration at Irwindale.

The Lotus 49 is also included in the build and forms the nucleus of the new Grand Prix Legends series.

New and enhanced features include the ability for league administrators to pre-configure race grids (independent of qualifying) and control certain weather parameters (but not rain) in hosted sessions and off-line testing. Also included in the build is a new chief mechanic function enabling a designated teammate to assist with car setup in the garage, as well as a cool feature enabling you to race against your own lap replays (often referred to as ghost racing) in time trial or testing mode.

 

[William Levesque]

Which are the 3 cars using the NTMv5? Haven't touched iRacing for a while but I am always hopeful so I should try these 3 I guess

Lotus 49, Skip Barber and Street Stock.

 

[Bakkster]

The Vette is still quickest on the first lap, but the slow outlap is not as important it seems.

Are you still setting fast sectors on the outlap?

 

[Bakkster]

Wear - Akin to, as my friend explained it to me, when you're using an eraser to rub off some pencil marks on paper. Friction causes some rubber to go off the tyre; so it's literally the tyre "running out" of rubber; For example if the tyre had a 1cm layer of rubber on it, it would wear down to, for example, 7mm. The physical amount of rubber

Degradation - It's when the rubber "degrades" chemically for lack of a better word, due to so many stresses and heat cycles being put through it.​

That's a good description. Wear is when the eraser gets smaller from being rubbed off, degradation is when it gets harder and doesn't work as well. You can wear away a fully functional eraser, or you can have a full sized eraser whose rubber has degraded and is useless.

Not that the two terms can't technically be interchangeable according to the dictionary (most drivers and teams just say 'wear' referring to both), but it does cause confusion and lead to the misunderstanding that tread depth loss is the reason for reduced grip.

 

[Jake Cooper]

For example,

Whilst this all makes sense the application of the word doesn't define it, either way both wear and degradation are the effects of kinetic, frictional and thermal applications whether you believe them to mean two different things or not, they both are achieved by the same laws of science.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Whilst this all makes sense the application of the word doesn't define it, either way both wear and degradation are the effects of kinetic, frictional and thermal applications whether you believe them to mean two different things or not, they both are achieved by the same laws of science.

It´s not my belief. When you are discussing tires, whether it´s degradation or wear it´s important to separate them both.

Both achieved by the same laws of science....depends, if you zoom out you can say that yes the load on the tire ultimately causes these problems but it also causes blistering, flat tires and graining although we would all agree these are different effects and should be separated, just like degradation and wear.

There isn't any tyre wear in iRacing..... They just have the same model they did in GPL which is > heat = bad and slow.

You are actually correct here.

No wear, just degradation. In this case, thermal.

 

[William Levesque]

Are you still setting fast sectors on the outlap?

Not that much I don't think... It drops more after two laps, as opposed to one. So one fast-ish outlap and one lap. Then the second flying lap will be a bit slower.

 

[Bakkster]

Not that much I don't think... It drops more after two laps, as opposed to one. So one fast-ish outlap and one lap. Then the second flying lap will be a bit slower.

Well that's not bad, then. Gentle outlap to get the tires warm, then one flier. Similar to what we did on OTM for a lot of cars then.

Hopefully means people stop crawling on their outlaps.

 

[William Levesque]

Spa was a torture last season, LOL

 

[Bakkster]

Spa was a torture last season, LOL

I barely bother with qualifying in the first place. I just ran a conservative outlap and accepted I might need to pass someone if they ran slowly. I race to have fun, can't be bothered to be bored to death qualifying.

 

[William Levesque]

I barely bother with qualifying in the first place. I just ran a conservative outlap and accepted I might need to pass someone if they ran slowly. I race to have fun, can't be bothered to be bored to death qualifying.

Yeah, we don't have the same motivations then ! I'm running for the championship in Proto/GT so... Won it last season.

 

[traind]

The drivers in the 1960's were Playboys more than anything, with about a quarter of them showing up to practice a little buzzed or hungover.. If THEY were able to get the cars around places like Monaco or the Nurburgring with only one driver dying all season, how is it that some of the most talented road drivers on iRacing cannot even get the car out of the pits without flipping over the barrier?

I knew sim racers were better than F1 drivers!!

 

[Emerson Meyer]

lol

 

[Phildawg]

woqw