rF2 "We got Le Mans Ultimate at Home" - LMH, LMDh & GTE @ Newly Released Shanghai - Fri 01 March 2024

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

I am in with GTE.

Put me down for a GTE please Ole. Wife’s out for the evening, I’m not at work this week and it’ll give me an excuse to stop trying to get any fun out of LMU

gte for me please

GTE's it is!

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

the hypercar modes have horrible VR performance, I tested them a couple of weeks ago and it's quite unplayable when you add a couple of cars. Turning down car details doesn't help and I have a powerfull PC (3090ti)

Aww. That's too bad. Done some testing with the models in a private mod, together with VR-dudes that has no issues. Any ideas @Daniel R. @max1966i ?

 

[Daniel R.]

Aww. That's too bad. Done some testing with the models in a private mod, together with VR-dudes that has no issues. Any ideas @Daniel R. @max1966i ?

Nope, sorry

 

[Jasje]

I’ll try again later this week, maybe it’s ok if there’s only a couple of them

 

[Lesley Buurlage]

lmdh for me pls

 

[Smidgey]

Forgot how much I detest this track.

 

[Michael Rudolf]

Forgot how much I detest this track.

Yep, your'e not alone with that Tried to re-learn it the other day, now I know again why I usually avoid it

 

[Smidgey]

Yep, your'e not alone with that Tried to re-learn it the other day, now I know again why I usually avoid it

Decreasing radius off camber corner followed by tight turn the other way, followed by decreasing radius corner followed by off camber tight turn the other way followed by tight turn into decreasing radius corner the other way, followed by long straight, tight hairpin and obnoxious 90degree kink. I think that sums the track up nicely.

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

Oh. Le Server is indeed up!
I just forgot to write it when I put it up!

 

[Michael Rudolf]

I'll be on the server in a bit if anyone wants to join my struggle

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

SERVER IS UP AGAIN

After me somehow not spotting the Ferrari had been updated since we used it the first time. It's all good now though! I hope.

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

lmdh for me pls

Ooorah.

 

[Jimlaad43]

Wow, the LMDH's eat front tyres like crazy around here. Going to be an interesting race on that front

 

[Roy Magnes]

It is a long track, so there is still room for more cars

My efforts of trying to keep ahead of the GTEs wll be livestreamed, as usual:

 

[Lesley Buurlage]

It is a long track, so there is still room for more cars

My efforts of trying to keep ahead of the GTEs wll be livestreamed, as usual:

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oh i'm joining you, GTEs will be the only cars i'll pass with how much i'm struggling

 

[H_Belane]

That was a lot of fun. The M-M strategy could have worked if I had pushed harder in the first round. Added to this were the strict track limits. Two wheels over the white line and I had to slow down several times after the last corner. It's a shame, it would definitely have been exciting at the end.

And the M8 just looks awesome!

 

[Michael Rudolf]

Good race guys! That was more fun than I expected to be honest. Struggled to get a quali lap in and only finished one valid lap that luckily was enough.
Of course I had to make the usual braking mistake early on and created a huge slide. Luckily no one was hit. Caught back up with the leaders and realized I can stay on and still save a bit of fuel so it would be possible to go without stop so that was the strategy I settled with and tried to keep the tires as good as possible. Wasn't sure strategy everyone was on but my hopes that Ed and Lesley would go for a stop proved right so it was a matter of keeping Roy at a distance who seemed to have same plan as I had. Good fun overall.
@Jimlaad43 what happened that you DNFed?

 

[Jimlaad43]

Good race guys! That was more fun than I expected to be honest. Struggled to get a quali lap in and only finished one valid lap that luckily was enough.
Of course I had to make the usual braking mistake early on and created a huge slide. Luckily no one was hit. Caught back up with the leaders and realized I can stay on and still save a bit of fuel so it would be possible to go without stop so that was the strategy I settled with and tried to keep the tires as good as possible. Wasn't sure strategy everyone was on but my hopes that Ed and Lesley would go for a stop proved right so it was a matter of keeping Roy at a distance who seemed to have same plan as I had. Good fun overall.
@Jimlaad43 what happened that you DNFed?

Three drive through penalties for absolute nothing cuts was just not worth continuing

 

[Michael Rudolf]

Three drive through penalties for absolute nothing cuts was just not worth continuing

Yea some track limits were indeed very odd. Especially the inside of the hairpins or the pit exit. Most of the time I got an orange cut exiting pits without crossing any line whatsoever.

 

[Roy Magnes]

...so it was a matter of keeping Roy at a distance who seemed to have same plan as I had.

You had that plan. I set out to drive as long as I could on that full tank of fuel, and then do a splash. It was only towards the last few laps I realized that I might get all the way through without a stop