rF2 Week 40: Marussia F1 @ Silverstone

[Dmitrij Bugaev]

ill be joining in i couple of minutes. I need some practice...badly

 

[Ian Franssen]

will be online in have an hour, didn't had time to practice beause of VWEC

 

[Dino Paolini]

will this be a 40min race like the forum says or a 30min race like the server has been set up for?

 

[Kari Oman]

I'll be popping in. I'll be the guy you all pass as I put my slow driving on display.

 

[Justin Swan]

Thought I'd give this a go for the experience but it appears the server is having other ideas. I'm beginning to think me a rF2 are never destined to be friends

 

[Dino Paolini]

Thought I'd give this a go for the experience but it appears the server is having other ideas. I'm beginning to think me a rF2 are never destined to be friends

I think the server was just replaced with the actual event server just now

 

[Ian Franssen]

will this be a 40min race like the forum says or a 30min race like the server has been set up for?

sorry I forgot to change the thread

 

[Dino Paolini]

Hm, my engine blew up after about 30mins ?? Very unusual, never happened to me before in rf2. I'm also not really sure why to be honest. Engine wasn't overheating or anything

 

[Ian Franssen]

Hm, my engine blew up after about 30mins ?? Very unusual, never happened to me before in rf2. I'm also not really sure why to be honest. Engine wasn't overheating or anything

Mechanical failure is set to time on the server I see, perhaps it's just a rondom blow-up, without you doing anything. Not sure though how that works, but that's my first guess. When we set the server next time I will check if another setting is more suited.

 

[William Geuze]

Well that was interesting.. I already figured that it wasn't my day :X

Start went really well actually, everybody came clean off the line. Until I was taken out from behind in T3. This damaged my front suspension so that was basically my race done right then and there, or so I thought. I kept on driving, rather coasting in the hope something would happen. This went along quite lonely and after not too long my tires were starting to go a bit, this kept going and going until they were really like wooden wheels but I didn't feel like losing even more time by going in and get fresh ones, since my suspension was still screwed up. Suddenly I found myself 3rd because something happened to Ian? Then to my shock indeed Dino had the blowout and found myself, stunned, 2nd! More coasting to be had until 3 minutes before the end I couldn't keep the car from sliding away in the final turn and headed into the barriers... By that time it felt I was driving on the rims really :X

Hm, my engine blew up after about 30mins ?? Very unusual, never happened to me before in rf2. I'm also not really sure why to be honest. Engine wasn't overheating or anything

If anybody didn't deserve that... thanks again for the setup, surprised I could keep the car going as long as I did with it

 

[Kari Oman]

I had fun. I was slow as I expected, but it was enjoyable none the less. Went through 3 sets of tyres, hahaha.

 

[Ian Franssen]

I had fun too, but should have practiced a bit more, Dino's setup was very unforgivable when over the edge, hard to catch, so barrier for me I started on hard and untill lap 9 my tyres were green and probably could last the distance, but I was very carefull everywhere with braking and cornering, think temps never went above 80.

 

[Dino Paolini]

I had fun too, but should have practiced a bit more, Dino's setup was very unforgivable when over the edge, hard to catch, so barrier for me I started on hard and untill lap 9 my tyres were green and probably could last the distance, but I was very carefull everywhere with braking and cornering, think temps never went above 80.

Funny thing is the setup was actually made for the purpose to be safe and make your tires last

 

[William Geuze]

Funny thing is the setup was actually made for the purpose to be safe and make your tires last

With my driving and suspension problems they certainly didn't last for long :X But it sure as heck is stable!

 

[Ian Franssen]

Funny thing is the setup was actually made for the purpose to be safe and make your tires last

It is a good setup for sure, it was more easy to drive than the default and tyres were fine, I liked it, but once over the edge I found it harder to catch the slide than the default setup that I was used too. I was just driving careful because I didn't knew the track very well and what the car/setup was capable of, and by going slow I had more chance of finishing, but wasn't to be

 

[Dino Paolini]

Just as an addition to the engine thing:

It seems the reason my engine blew was because it was actualy overheating. I think i read my HUD with the engine temps wrong. Yellow colour meant too hot I suppose

Don't want that to happen again so I had to test it.
I tried one click up (radiator 3) and it held up fine over 40mins with the same settings