AC Rookies: Abarth 500 @ Spa - Wednesday 3 May 2017

[Daniel Vieira]

@_DERDER you are in man!

Thanks Paul

 

[Paul Jeffrey]

Both servers operational, have fun!

Thanks Eugene, top man!

 

[Paul Jeffrey]

Just a reminder to everyone to please ensure you are on TS for the race, and to ensure you get into the server as early as possible into the practice session please

Thanks and have fun everyone! I'll be on server in a minute or two....

 

[Deleted member 239150]

Just to clarify, although 2 servers may be up online, we are indeed only running a single server for this event (EU1). For you chaps in the reserves, please feel free to pop in TS in the last 5 - 6 mins of qualifying and ask if a place is available on the start grid. We are in practice at the minute and don't have a full 24 cars, so possibilities still exist to make it into the race

Thanks!

Btw I'm on server after this message so wont be able to read messages until the race is over. If you want to ask anything, please pop in TS

Cheers,

Paul

 

[Daniel Vieira]

Unfortunately connection problem finished my race with 15 minutes to go :/ good race everyone

 

[Lucanus69]

Awesome race guys! See the gaps - it was even in every position! And @Paul Glover - I really like to chase You in almost every race...
98.97% consistensy for both of us!

 

[BBKing212]

Great race. Started 17th, spun out and from 22nd got back to 16th.
Last lap was driving on fumes and a lot of coasting

 

[Paul Jeffrey]

Great race guys! Really enjoyed it as always, super tight with fuel at the end

Please get yourselves signed up early for next week... it's Austria baby!

Link - http://www.racedepartment.com/attachments/ac-rookies-race-abarth-500-red-bull-ring-jpg.189173/

 

[RasmusP]

What a race guys! To both Steves and Allan (and Tim in the last laps Oo) That fight in the last minutes was so awesome! Third Race for me and already TOP TEN. For years I cruised around in Singleplayer on my own, had nobody to race with.
THANK YOU ALL for giving me the joy of my life

 

[MHOLL]

Thank you all, apparently I still have a lot of practicing to do. Care to tell how most of you are able to take La Rouge apparently full out in 5 or 6? I always crash if I don't let up and go back to 4. It is not my stability problems, I ironed that out: now I am steering so smoothly that I can hear the gears of the FFB motor click one. by. One. Smooth enough? It must be something else. Maybe the trick is trying to go straight on top of the hump when the car is really light I don't know. And @Paul Jeffrey I would I swear you took the chicane after La Rouge so fast, your car was literally drifting, despite that front wheel drive cars do that really really rarely on dry tarmac so apparently I have some secrets to learn

 

[DeadHead24]

What a race guys! To both Steves and Allan (and Tim in the last laps Oo) That fight in the last minutes was so awesome! Third Race for me and already TOP TEN. For years I cruised around in Singleplayer on my own, had nobody to race with.
THANK YOU ALL for giving me the joy of my life

Yea that was awesome, very close race!

 

[Lucanus69]

BTW can someone explain me how to save replay from whole race? Everytime I end session and get a proper json file (with practice+quali+race) I click save replay and it always saves only 1-2 last laps.

 

[RasmusP]

Thank you all, apparently I still have a lot of practicing to do. Care to tell how most of you are able to take La Rouge apparently full out in 5 or 6? I always crash if I don't let up and go back to 4. It is not my stability problems, I ironed that out: now I am steering so smoothly that I can hear the gears of the FFB motor click one. by. One. Smooth enough? It must be something else. Maybe the trick is trying to go straight on top of the hump when the car is really light I don't know. And @Paul Jeffrey I would I swear you took the chicane after La Rouge so fast, your car was literally drifting, despite that front wheel drive cars do that really really rarely on dry tarmac so apparently I have some secrets to learn

First, it's Eau Rouge!
I was 1s behind the tops so I have to learn some secrets too, but:

- the line you take is the most important! Eau Rouge was 5th, flat out! Watch the replay to see our line It's all about using the full width of the track.

- if you hold the throttle slightly under braking you will have a smoother turn in and therefore you can be on a better line and be faster!

- you have to let go of the brakes really gentle while carefully turning in. This car has a very little, but good "sweet spot".

 

[RasmusP]

BTW can someone explain me how to save replay from whole race? Everytime I end session and get a proper json file (with practice+quali+race) I click save replay and it always saves only 1-2 last laps.

Options->replay size. Put it to 1000MB and the quality to the second highest. I have always half qualifying and full race on record

Oh I see no one linked the result page, so here: LINK

 

[Paul Jeffrey]

THANK YOU ALL for giving me the joy of my life

Awesome! That single sentence is the whole reason RD exists and we do what we do for people who love sim racing like we do Really glad you enjoyed yourself man, that's quite literally all the motivation we need to keep doing this thing! Brilliant

 

[MHOLL]

OK thanks @RasmusP next time I won't forget to save replay, I did not realize multiplayer has replays too.

 

[RasmusP]

OK thanks @RasmusP next time I won't forget to save replay, I did not realize multiplayer has replays too.

If anybody wants the replay I can upload the file for you

 

[Paul Jeffrey]

Don't forget to SIGN UP for the next one next Wednesday... places are very likely to go fast so please do get your name down quick

If we get 10+ reserves we will have a second server, so let's hurry and get at least server 1 and the first 10 for server 2 booked up tonight

 

[Eddy]

Was good at the start, great battle with Roberto and Rasmus and a few others testings each others nerves going through the fast bends and I had my best qualifying ever and was up to 10th in the race, until I got taken out from behind for going slightly wide, then I got screamed at for pulling out maybe a little close but nothing too extreme, apologies to Hubert/Paul, I could have waited another 2 seconds but in the heat after I had no apology from someone but instead pretty much got mocked for being a rookie for going wide so I was just pretty annoyed.

After all this is a 'novice' race so I felt highly punished by the whole situation and had to pull in after before I ended up getting more annoyed about it.

 

[Stig Bidstrup]

Was it only me who did a Pit stop at this race ?????