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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 27, 2018 12:12:36 GMT
ROUND 2 BELGIUM GRANDPRIX - 14 LAPS Spa-Francorchamps Historic - August 1st, 2018
FINAL FORECAST: TBC HERE IS THE LINK TO THE RULES & REGULATIONS:
consoleracing.boards.net/thread/405/league-format-rules
Please sign in with your name, GamerTag and chosen livery!
CONFIRMED 1. Peter Hooper (Hammerpgh), #4 Team Lotus 2. Greg Williams - Hurt MaGurt - #25 Scuderia Ferrari 3. Tyler Dean (Sgt Formula 1), #1 Brabham
4. Robert R. (Y22 Rydr), #22 Scirocco Powell Racing Cars 5. Matthew Booth, Boothy116 #7 Lola 6.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 27, 2018 12:14:52 GMT
Peter Hooper (Hammerpgh), #4 Team Lotus
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Post by hurtmagurt on Jul 27, 2018 14:26:16 GMT
In Greg Williams - Hurt MaGurt - #25 Scuderia Ferrari
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Post by Shneeb108 on Jul 27, 2018 15:36:22 GMT
IN - Peter S. - GT: Shneeb108 - #12 Honda racing
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jul 27, 2018 19:04:12 GMT
Tyler Dean (Sgt Formula 1), #1 Brabham
Thanks! I was just about to post the sign up. So far the weather looks like scattered showers at 1pm but by 3 it's sunny with part cloud cover (Google Weather forecast).
I currently say 2 weather slots and sync to race, light rain, followed by medium or light clouds
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Post by y22rydr on Jul 28, 2018 12:33:04 GMT
Robert R. (Y22 Rydr), #22 Scirocco Powell Racing Cars
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jul 30, 2018 1:13:15 GMT
FORECAST UPDATE:
Heavy clouds, 1 slot
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 30, 2018 8:09:06 GMT
Has anybody had any practice here yet? I've still to get my car to Belgium following some port authority issues in Monaco I'm hoping to have my car reach Spa early evening and maybe will get the chance to take her for a first spin. Any clues on the predicted lap times to aim for here?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2018 19:02:20 GMT
Matthew Booth Boothy116 #7
Done minimal practice haven't actually finished a lap yet haha
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Post by y22rydr on Jul 30, 2018 21:05:38 GMT
No practice for this guy yet. I am assuming that my car was repaired from the last race and I need to check with my engineer to see if it ready to turn to some laps.
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Post by y22rydr on Jul 30, 2018 23:50:47 GMT
Managed a clean 4:17.924. I have other laps which I am about 5 seconds faster in pace but I manage to clip a wall. I need to back off on pushing the car so hard, but this car/track combo wants me to test my invincibility.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 31, 2018 12:12:10 GMT
Managed a clean 4:17.924. I have other laps which I am about 5 seconds faster in pace but I manage to clip a wall. I need to back off on pushing the car so hard, but this car/track combo wants me to test my invincibility. Did you check what tyres you were on for these laps Rob? I just had a few laps on my lunch break and on the vintage tyre i'm a country mile away from that sort of time. On the automatic (track) tyre I can get that but not the vintage.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jul 31, 2018 18:10:55 GMT
I need to turn in some laps here tonight. I think my average time was around 4:15 back when I was getting the # of laps down. However that was with clear weather and tmrw the forecast is different:
The (i guess current) FINAL FORECAST will be:
1 slot, heavy cloud cover all the way through. Weather set to real time
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Post by niblips on Jul 31, 2018 18:23:51 GMT
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jul 31, 2018 19:02:47 GMT
If we want the weather to be more accurate maybe Peter & Matt could keep an eye on the forecast at 1 or 2pm for us. It'll be like 6 or 7am for me lol. I believe i'm 7 hours behind Belgian time
What time do they usually start the Begian GPs in local Francorchamps time, 1 or 2?
EDIT: Forgot to add that the ingame date should be set to June 9th, 1963 (it will glitch to 1970)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2018 19:35:25 GMT
If we want the weather to be more accurate maybe Peter & Matt could keep an eye on the forecast at 1 or 2pm for us. It'll be like 6 or 7am for me lol. I believe i'm 7 hours behind Belgian time What time do they usually start the Begian GPs in local Francorchamps time, 1 or 2? EDIT: Forgot to add that the ingame date should be set to June 9th, 1963 (it will glitch to 1970) I mean the forcast for tomorrow at Spa between 1-4pm is isolated thunderstorms
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 31, 2018 20:50:06 GMT
Well with both Karl and Tyler both confirming times around the 4:15 mark it seems something is extremely screwy for me as I was about 20 seconds adrift of that. Never been that far of.. ever lol Im usually right up towards the top of the times in these vintage cars so I'm very confused right now. Not sure I'll have any time now to check things out before the race so I might have to abandon this one, no way I fancy racing at a 20 second loss per lap 😧
I'll update once I know for sure, if I can get on and identify what's causing the problem I'll let you know.
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Post by y22rydr on Jul 31, 2018 21:00:30 GMT
Managed a clean 4:17.924. I have other laps which I am about 5 seconds faster in pace but I manage to clip a wall. I need to back off on pushing the car so hard, but this car/track combo wants me to test my invincibility. Did you check what tyres you were on for these laps Rob? I just had a few laps on my lunch break and on the vintage tyre i'm a country mile away from that sort of time. On the automatic (track) tyre I can get that but not the vintage. I was running vintage. If you go to the time trials you should be able to pull my tune down from the leaderboard.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2018 21:57:55 GMT
Im running 4.14.8 on the rare occasion i get around successfully. Killing the engine though this place does cos close to on the rev limiter alot on these straights
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Aug 1, 2018 10:25:40 GMT
So, I did manage to get back on pCars 2 last night for a quick test to try to see what was going on and I loaded up my Monaco setup with just some gearing changes and things were much better with my pace. It's weird because the car didn't feel that different and my top speed was pretty much where it was previously but the lap time was much closer to what you guys are hitting here. I had all laps in the 4:17 > 4:22 range so am much happier with that and can live with the difference especially as the race will likely be dictated by incidents and who keeps it the cleanest lol. I still have some work to do on the gearing for this track, that long straight really stretches it out.
Still not sure what the issue was previously but thankfully it seems to be ok so maybe just something in the setup that went screwy. I was using the base loose setup with a couple of adjustments to the gearing.
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