Round 0: Pre-Season Qualification

Matheus Machado · May 31, 2015

Fred Locklear said:
screw it. I'll let my attempts stand. I think my second attempt was better than the first. My screw up was because I lost track of what gear I was in and downshifted into first and spun . I'll use the time to practice for the real racing .

random question: Is there any way to set the *tire wear* to a specific amount in the game? I'm not sure if setting track grip to (original track grip)*(tire grip/100) would be the same or not.

You can edit the .ini grip presets to suit you needs if im right.

Matheus Machado · May 31, 2015

Just completed my laps and I'm shocked with this car tire usage. Expecting some interesting strategy battles in the races!

Chris · Jun 1, 2015

Matheus Machado said:
Just completed my laps and I'm shocked with this car tire usage. Expecting some interesting strategy battles in the races!

Indeed. The more I drive it, the more I feel like making a pit stop will be a safer and faster method of completing each race. Certainly Silverstone, and potentially Spa should be quicker with a pitstop. I doubt you'll need to in Round 3 at Monza because it's such a low loading circuit.

But yeah, I'm really interested to see what strategies people try and go with.

zAmboni · Jun 1, 2015

Matheus Machado said:
You can edit the .ini grip presets to suit you needs if im right.

You're talking about the track grip.ini right? I might try to see if that works right. I've changed the "green" setting to 93% to practice for races. I'll give changing the track grip a try to see if it simulates it right....but 96% of 93% would be like 89%, and if I recall correctly 89% track grip is like worse than ice.

Yup going to be interesting to see how things go. I will try to avoid any Mercedes strategy screw ups though

Chris · Jun 1, 2015

If you set it to 93% and then set the Randomness to 0, then it's the same as having the default setting of a 95% with a 2% randomness.

When starting a new session, the randomness seems to always go to the worst possible scenario. So if you tell it to start at 95% with a randomness of 6, then it'll always begin a new session at 89%. Only if you "restart" the session will the randomness randomize the grip.

RenZ_ · Jun 1, 2015

I agree the tyres will be interesting over that distance and strategy will play a part, the grip-up of the track will throw a spanner in the works.

Personally I have done very little online racing in AC with the track grip not on Optimal (not by choice mind you) . I am looking forward to this aspect, crazy weather would be even cooler!

Niki Đaković · Jun 1, 2015

Front tires go off faster then rear tires, causing understeer until rear tires catch up with 96% grip too. We're most likely gonna drive races in 3 phases. New tires, understeery tires, old tires.

Matheus Machado · Jun 1, 2015

Niki Đaković said:
Front tires go off faster then rear tires, causing understeer until rear tires catch up with 96% grip too. We're most likely gonna drive races in 3 phases. New tires, understeery tires, old tires.

Glad to see i'm not the only to notice that

Aidan Keranen · Jun 2, 2015

reading that I can only feel I've been driving incorrectly...

RenZ_ · Jun 2, 2015

We are taĺking about Round 1 not the pre qual

Chris · Jun 2, 2015

Pre-Season Qualification Results:
*Note: Excel would only round to 1 decimal place unfortunately, so there are a number of drivers who have the same average time. The tie will be broken by the driver who completed the fastest time during their run.

1st: Sun Levi - 54.2
2nd: Niki Djakovic - 54.4
3rd: Ben Dowel - 54.4
4th: Chris Stacey - 54.5
5th: Noel Spence - 54.9
6th: Jamie Pyatt - 54.9
7th: Thomas Satherley - 55.0
8th: Fred Locklear - 55.0
9th: Evan Spall - 55.0
10th: Frank van Oeveren - 55.3
11th: Ashley Cowan - 55.4
12th: Justin Talent - 55.5
13th: Michael Stead - 55.6
14th: Tony Binelli - 55.7
15th: Phil Manning - 55.7
16th: Tobi Kederer - 55.7
17th: Jack Trooper - 55.7
18th: Matheus Machado - 55.8
19th: David Armstrong - 56.2
20th: Aidan Keranen - 56.4
21st: Matt Bailey - 56.6
22nd: Nick Milton - 57.0

Teams: