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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jul 13, 2018 23:02:34 GMT
Alrighty, is everyone else ok with a 5pm/6pm/11pm start time? Just for the 18th?
We could run the practice session or a slightly longer qualy session. We do have the pre-race westbound Azure Coast Cruise too, which is about 10-15 minutes. Just to give Y22 enough time to get home and actually get his foot in the door
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Post by Shneeb108 on Jul 14, 2018 12:03:58 GMT
Sounds like a plan !
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 14, 2018 13:04:04 GMT
As Y22 can't make the second week how about we push week 2 back a week to give him the chance to race as well. We could always run something else as a friendly fill-in fun run on that week.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jul 14, 2018 17:08:43 GMT
As Y22 can't make the second week how about we push week 2 back a week to give him the chance to race as well. We could always run something else as a friendly fill-in fun run on that week. Sounds good to me, I'll change the schedule. We could add like Willow Springs or Brands Hatch as a non-Championship event for that week if we don't just take off
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Mar 29, 2019 10:23:03 GMT
XRF Formula1 I guess with just two rounds of this current short season to run we should start talking about the next season of this series. April 24th see's us close out the Lotus 38 series so it would be good to get something else on the table soon.
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Post by niblips on Mar 29, 2019 12:46:35 GMT
I really enjoy these vintage cars. I've not had a good look at too many of them though. The only one's i've driven are what have been in these series.
On another note, i had some running in Germany last night in the 38. It's a bit of a handfull. Finding where to start braking and how much to brake is tricky. I didn't really get a full clean lap in. best time was 2:31.6
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Mar 29, 2019 13:01:34 GMT
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Mar 29, 2019 21:06:32 GMT
I've got some future seasons layed out but don't have the dates or number of laps yet. I'm really kinda leaning towards the 1970 season (Jochen Rindt) and the Lotus 49c Cosworth. I have a 1967 season layed out too if any of you really want to race the Vanilla 49 again. Let me know what you think:
F1 1970 (Loosely based on the real 1970 season) 1. Ruapuna Park GP (New Zealand GP) 2. Autodromo internacional Do Algarve (Portuguese GP) 3. Monaco no Nouvelle Chicane/ Original Turn 1 Sainte Devote (Monaco GP) 4. SPA Historic (Belgian GP) 5. Bannochbrae (Scottish GP) 6. Rouen Long (French GP) 7. Brands Hatch (British GP) 8. Hockenheimring Classic (German GP) 9. Red Bull (Austrian GP) 10. Monza Historic GP Only (Italian GP) 11. Le-Mans Classic (Le-Mans GP) 12. Watkins Glen Short no Innerloop (US GP) 13. Sportsland Sugo (Japanese GP)
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Mar 29, 2019 21:26:34 GMT
I'd prefer the 49c next rather than another season in the 49.
Looks good Tyler 👍
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Mar 31, 2019 18:29:43 GMT
I've got the F1 1970 in-game dates, the weather, and the Teams that SMS based their liveries after ready to go. The last thing left, and most time consuming, is testing out each track to determine the average lap times.✍
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Post by Uncle De4dly (Ian) on Apr 1, 2019 2:08:12 GMT
This will be sweet!
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Post by niblips on Apr 1, 2019 19:28:14 GMT
Looks good to me. I can help test lap times if you need....
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Apr 1, 2019 20:12:35 GMT
Looks good to me. I can help test lap times if you need.... Any help is greatly appreciated Karl but not necessary. You can post your times at your convenience and we can compare👍 I'll be beginning some testing out later tonight. We still need to test out your limitations on the Vanilla Xbox sometime. There might be some performance issues this season because of weather conditions changing during some of the sessions.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Apr 2, 2019 10:27:13 GMT
I'm happy to do a bit of testing around these tracks in the 49c too. It will just be default setups though but it will give a rough idea of lap times if we all do some.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Apr 2, 2019 20:48:26 GMT
I had my first run last night at Ruapuna. This car is so much fun! Average at 1:30 which would be 40 laps, we'll make it 41 laps because i'd imagine we can be faster.
It's really good to be driving this car, it's much easier than the 38 i'll tell you that!
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Apr 2, 2019 20:56:12 GMT
I had my first run last night at Ruapuna. This car is so much fun! Average at 1:30 which would be 40 laps, we'll make it 41 laps because i'd imagine we can be faster. It's really good to be driving this car, it's much easier than the 38 i'll tell you that! I like hard, the harder the challenge the better.. let's do a full season in the 38 😉
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Apr 2, 2019 21:01:33 GMT
I had my first run last night at Ruapuna. This car is so much fun! Average at 1:30 which would be 40 laps, we'll make it 41 laps because i'd imagine we can be faster. It's really good to be driving this car, it's much easier than the 38 i'll tell you that! What conditions did you run in Tyler? It was it in Time Trial?
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Apr 2, 2019 22:22:33 GMT
Did my first test here and not really sure yet what I think of this one. The car feels kind of disconnected from the track and I get no real feel for what it's doing through the wheel. My best lap was a 1:28.700 although I lost half a second in the final corner alone on that lap as I couldn't feel where the grip was so slid a bit wide and lost acceleration down the straight and the time just bled away. My potential best was a mid 1:26.
Average lap time was 1:29.
I was just using the stable default setup with a couple of clicks extra wing. Maybe a bit of tweaking of the FFB settings would help to find some feel. I'll look to see if the SimRacingGirl had anything dive for this car
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Apr 2, 2019 23:59:51 GMT
I ran it on March 7th, clear weather conditions, and in custom practice with 15 AI. One thing that helps stabilize the car is lower downforce on the rear (i.e. 9.00/8.00), and I use 19 for the volume in the FFB settings. I know what you mean though that it feels weird yet, probably because we're used to the 38.
The thing I like about it is using the clutch pedal and gear selector stick often.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Apr 3, 2019 8:12:26 GMT
I actually ran a couple of clicks extra downforce on both front and rear. The cars reasonably stable with that but it's just the lack of feel of when it's losing traction or locking up that is a bit off at the moment. Usually I can feel that and you can compensate as a result whereas at the moment with this car (and it may be track specific of course) it's all visual cues that you have to go by.
I am also using 19 on the volume as that's what the SimGirl uses for most of these Lotus cars and her settings have always been pretty good. I'll have to look at maybe increasing that and Fx to see if it brings anything more to the table in this car. I was getting quite a lumpy feel to the steering last night at times so not sure whether that's something with the wheel or this track. I switched everything off last night so when I get back for my next run out it will do it's auto-calibrate routine and maybe that will cure that problem. Used to happen with pCars 1 now and then but in a much worse way.
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