RDHGP S7 - Round 0 - Testing - Monza 70 / Hockenheim Nat - Thu 14 April 2011

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Stuart Thomson

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Welcome to the Pre-Season Testing event for Season 7 of the RaceDepartment Historic Grand Prix.

This will be a very cut down briefing compared to the actual race events, as the event is mostly a practice session - we will NOT be having a separate qualifying session, I'll roll straight to Race and just go with whatever the game gives us.

The breakdown of the events will be as follows:

Practice1: 19.00GMT - 40 minutes
Race1: 19.40GMT - 10 laps
Practice2: 20.10GMT - 40 minutes
Race2: 20.50 - 10 laps

We will be using RD CLUB RULES and CLUB PASSWORD for this event. If you take anyone off, or even if you think you might have, STOP AND WAIT FOR THEM. Failure to do so could jepoardise your place in the League.

This is a non-competitive event, merely for us to work any last minute kinks out of our setups, test the preliminary skin pack I'll be providing, make sure no-one has any problem connecting / staying in / viewing anyone elses skin. Don't go treating it like a League race.

Event 1 will be round Monza (70s layout) I will be rolling here @19.00GMT, irrespective of what track the server is currently on.

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Despite this being a familiar shape to all of us, the lack of any Variantes whatsoever - only 3 real turns, to be honest - means that this is a pure power circuit. This is here for people to work on their top speeds / gearings / tyre pressures / relative slipstream efficiency. The muscle cars in the pack will certainly dominate here, but the rest of us shouldn't get too depressed about it - this is almost a charicature of a power circuit, nothing in the League is this simple, nor this biased towards grunt and top speed.

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The Race Director has the following notes for Drivers:

T1R - Curva Grande - Very inviting, very high speed corner. Some cars will drift to the outside, some will try and take a tighter line. Be aware of both approaches, especially on colder tyres.

T2aR & T2bR - Lesmos - The first part is a pretty standard 90, people can drift off the outside easily. If you do, take care on rejoining the circuit. T2bR can be attacked a few ways, some cars need to throw their nose at the inside apex in a slide, some will track through true and take it slightly more sedately. Just be aware that your car may need to be handled differently to the ones around you, and adjust accordingly.

T4R - Parabolica - the only real thing to worry about here is outbraking yourself (again, be considerate on getting out of the gravel), or getting wobbly by over exuberant use of the loud pedal.


Event 2 will be at Hockenheimring National Layout

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Hockenheim National has a varied profile, there are a few decent length straights, some heavy braking sections, some parts where high speed stability is called for, some others where precision at lower speeds and traction out of corners is at a premium. It's not really a pure "handling" circuit, it's more a game of two halves.

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The Race Director has the following notes for Drivers:

T1R - Nordkurve - it's a nother tempting corner this, but there are cuts on the inside AND the outside overrun. People will be cutting across from wide of the corner - don't just park your car on a tight inside line and expect people to be able to a) see you, and b) avoid you.

T2R - Einfahrt Parabolika - Tight corner approached at high speed, there will be quite a large difference in braking distances here, so be aware of what and who is around you.

T3aR + T3bR - no-name double apex - Again, a high speed approach funnelling cars down to a very low speed for a couple of tight turns. The lighter, grippier cars will no doubt be having a go through here, so the heavier cars need to be aware of their lines.

T9R - Sudkurve - This is the only other real problem corner - everything between T3 & here is pretty well defined. People will try and sweep around this corner, but be aware there is a cut waiting on the outside if you take liberties on the run off area.


That just about wraps it up for now, I look forward to seeing some, if not most, of you there.

Current skinpack available and mandatory for this event: GTC-65 v2.2
 
thanks for that one guys. looks like i'll need a few rounds to get to speed. car feels fine, just got to make sure i time my downshifts better and maybe try to take a little more speed into the corner. it'll come. it's deffo an alive car and fun to race in! :)
 
Redoing the Escort made it work,arrived in a shambles and created a shambles at Monza,less of a shambles at Hock but i was getting very little returns for huge ammounts of effort being invested,should be interesting :).

All skins seemed to be working,disturbing lack of cars being displayed at Monza start #1 and then cars were "popping up" all along the way...spooky and distracting somewhat,i think it was normal when it was restarted,so i think good to go here.
 
Those long straights were even worse in the 131, especially when you forget to put the longest gears in it after a restart. In the end I just did a few Aaltonens on the backstraight just for fun when no one was behind me and exited as it was no use driving there. All seemed to work rather well though, so it's all good. The Abarth can be one aggressive beast when pushed (pity that "clip the apex, get the rear out on the exit" isn't the fastest way to tackle a corner :)), time to get some practice time before the real racing starts :).

And sorry to the Shelby that got alongside me in T2/3 on Hock when my rear got loose (it was my first or second lap around) and got swiped during the praccy. I just wanted to get a few quick laps and had to go, so haven't even stopped to say sorry for the incident.
 
All working well,it's great fun driving the Escort bud the speed difference is great all so lol,max speed on Monza 220/230 Km ?

On Monza the Escort's where not far apart in time,Bob was all most 2 sec faster ??

On Hockenheim had to work on the setup an just before the race I did my best laptime, in race having my usual problems but lots of fun chasing Norbert in his Corvette,the 10 laps where over in a wink.

I think it's gone bee a Fantastic sight, to see the full starting grid in the first race !!
 
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