Anyone noticed the use of skipping out lap on Nordscheilfe by going out of the pit lane the wrong way?
lol, when I came from my
GTR2 past and its
24h SPA races (vs. the
AI), I also was shocked with that for a few minutes… then all explained itself.
It is very common as a lap at the
Nord is very long, and on a
GTP class car, it takes about 6.30 minutes (
or 6.40 to 7.10 with the other GT classes, or yet, about 7.20 with the wtcc classes). If one would do a 2 lap qualifying in there, 1 slow lap when exiting the box (
8 to 9 minutes) plus the qualifying lap itself, roughly around 7 minutes (t
aking into account every class), one would take about 15 minutes just to do a timed lap (
counting it went well). Wish for a qualifying session on the average public server (
duration between 30 - 45 minutes) gives you the chance of doing 2 to 3 laps (
admitting you were there since the beginning) wish is tight...
Also, following your way of thinking, one must do also the slow down lap (
so for every Q lap, one should do 3) wish takes the time for about 21 minutes on average just to do 1 timed lap, and we are now talking about 1 to 2 max Q laps in the
Nord 
Notice that when you race the
Endurance Nurburgring, you can exit the box, do a “Shortened” GP lap, go through the line and then do a timed lap on the full track.
I was online last ight and just watching few people on monitor to see people's racing lines and techniques, saw 2 people going out of the pit lane wrong way to start there timed lap…
Server rules, what were the server rules? What was the server’s name?
If it was a public server, I know of 2 who are the most successful (
this successful is regarding the number of people who virtual race there), one of them is even my favorite “
Nord” server, and in any of them, doing a “1 lap Q”
isn’t against the server rules.
Actually only newbie’s don’t do it, or when one is testing specific setup changes who don’t need a clock, or yet, when (there is less then
x time to do a lap and) one is only warming up.
I’ve also done a few “closed” 120 minuts events (
with practice, qualifying and so on) at the
Nord, and that behavior was also accepted, actually,
everyone did it…
Just wondering how dodgy this could be for qualifying if a lot of people on the server
No problem, regularly we have 25 even 30 racers there… it’s very rare to have someone crap others Q lap while exiting the box. My advice is obviously to
race with name tags (so you can see the others approaching
Tiergarten) or even with the mini-map on…
Btw, I assume you know
collisions aren’t possible in box or near its exit…
lol, you are both joking, right? I don’t see the “lol” or anything of the type… but I assume you are both joking.
Anyway, just for example and to crunch some numbers, with the
C6R I do 30 with fuel for one lap (
the ”big advantage” of going backwards in pit lane) wish is less 5 to 7 seconds then when I’m racing with 100L onboard… my guess is that with 25L my time should be about 32 (
more 2 seconds), with 34L (
fuel for 3 laps) the time is about 34 wish isn’t bad taking into accout you are talking about a 6 ½ minutes lap. I don’t do them, but if I did a “time attack”, where there is no tire degradation and the driver is “droped” on the track before
tiergarten, my guess the time could come down to 29 or 28, who knows…
Anyway, grid position is only “important” for Sprint racing, as on contrary to "popular” believe, there are very few overtaking points on the
Nord. With endurance race, the main reason behind the
GTP class, a race setup is by far much, much more important
Sorry , another long post…
