AMS2 The Great Race: Bathurst 1 hour, V8 Supercars, Wednesday 4th October 2023.

[Redvaliant]

Count me in Daniel!

Hi Casper, added.

I might be late joining tonight or may miss it completely as my grandkids are visiting today.

No problem Steve. You could let the kids drive for you...what could go wrong?

 

[Redvaliant]

I'll be going on early to sort out a set up if any one wants to join and practice - there were a few on yesterday and some of the laptimes were seriously fast.
Also, there are plenty of skins, so if everyone could choose a unique skin for the race that'd be cool.

 

[akephoe]

I would take the "Truck Assist" Livery

 

[Redvaliant]

I'll take the Mobil 1 Appliances Online car. There are even yellow cars for people that have taken a knock to the head and like such things.

 

[joecronk]

Can i use the Coke Cola skin

 

[Daniel R.]

I don’t get on the discord server. Although account being synchronised.
So no German jokes tonight

 

[Lloyd Johnston]

 

[Pedro Faisca]

Nice race guys! Thank You!

 

[akephoe]

Thanks for the event, awesome combo, i had so much fun.
Congrats to the winner and podium, outstanding pace in front.

I made a mistake at the start when i forgot to add the racefuel. Also i went for the hard tyres what was totally wrong i saw later. Had to pit for the racefuel after 3-4 laps and made another mistake by not changing to soft tyres. So i had a long 2nd stint until 16min before the end where i made the 2nd stop for a bit of fuel and fresh soft tyres.

But i really enjoyed the race, nice and fair driving, thank you all!

 

[Chris Bloom]

Really enjoyed my first RD race. Great race there Steve, I was lucky to get back past and lucky you spun a corner before i also spun on the penultimate lap. Looking forward to many more races here.

(Just had a look at the Wiki page for the real 2022 race and the fastest practice laps were 2:04's so I guess the AMS2 cars are pretty accurate)

 

[Redvaliant]

Results: https://simresults.net/231004-e9s

Had a shocker, have taken game out back and set it on fire.

 

[Jan Larsen]

That was great, finally a race with good attendance

When I entered the server I saw steve rocking 2:04's and knew I had to step up since my fastest lap until then was a 2:06. So I edited the setup for more front end and also figured out the car and track more and eventually got down into the competitive times.

Qually went well although I was slightly dissapointed to see Steve go faster, so I knew I had the work cut out for me in the race.

In the race me and Steve was near eachother most of the race, both making small mistakes here and there, even after the pitstops we were near. Then I hit a backmarker at the top of the mountain (sorry again) which gave steve a 6-7 second lead. I managed to claw away until I was near his rear end again when he came on the radio to announce he didnt have enough fuel.
It was an anticlimatic end to an otherwise great battle in a hard to drive car

 

[Eric S]

Omg guys, I thougt it was on Thursday as usual! I missed the race. Stupid of me!

 

[The Almighty Snark]

I had a coolant leak and then the engine went bang. I suspect the coolant system got damaged in a spin at turn 1. It's a fun sort of failure all in all, not just some random ticker that goes to 100% but a chain of actions > consequences. Shame I missed most of the race though.

 

[Redvaliant]

Yeah, this is mechanical damage in action. It's not random - though there is an actual setting for that - it has to be induced. Usually for me, it's redlining downchanges in H pattern cars and blowing engines. I think you may have had your radiator too closed off or damaged. If you go above about 130 degrees in the engine temp this leak will begin to appear and then it goes boom.

 

[Hartmut2]

Had a lot of fun and it was a great race. Thanks for the event! Hopefully next time i will make less mistakes.

Looking forward for another v8 race

@Jan: what do you mean with more Front end? (Hopefully this is not a stupid question)

 

[Lloyd Johnston]

Hey @Hartmut2 we were very close at the end , sorry I hit your car but I had terrible flat spots and not as much car control because of it.

 

[The Almighty Snark]

I think you may have had your radiator too closed off or damaged. If you go above about 130 degrees in the engine temp this leak will begin to appear and then it goes boom.

Must have been damage, I was on default setup and had just spun out in corner one and gave the wall a lovely kiss.