ROUND 3 - MONACO GP - COMPLETE

Peter Hooper / Hammerpgh / Lotus #3

I'll make a video of it. Those speed bumps and rumble strips can be driven over.

Basically, anywhere you can drive the car on the track, do it.

Also, the 'large bumps'😜 don't affect the car whatsoever and the Sleeping Policemen have been pacified. Best of 1:35.7

I take it at full speed (well, as fast as the corner allows). The 49C isn't affected whatsoever from what I could tell. I could feel the wheels go over it and is like when you go over the bricks at the Indy Start/Finish.

Right, i've tidied up some of that extraneous crap that was messing up some of the posts in this thread. No idea what does it but it's annoying as hell lol.

Had my first run out here last night. Just got in about 20 laps to get a feel for things and can confirm as TYler said that cutting those corners and going over the rumble strips has no effect on the car. Biggest issue is that it's pretty much impossible to race the AI as unlike Watkins Glen where you can avoid them easily when not using the chicane here they get badly in the way as they brake early for Ste Devote, Nouvelle and the Swimming Pool exit and therefore ruin your lap. I'll probably run my next session alone just so I can get some consistent running in as last night I only got in a handful of laps that were not compromised by AI at those places. Best in those was a 1:36.1 which is just a tad slower what Tyler managed so it looks like another where there could be some close times.

Hardest part of the track for me is Tabac which we are so used to running very fast in the modern cars but so far I have found you have to brake and take it in third or second to avoid drifting into that outside wall. That will be the main area of work for me in the next session.

There's going to be a lot of damaged cars around here I suspect so get used to running with suspension less than optimal lol.

Are we going to race today or should we postpone the Championship until Pete is back in the game and we can try and fill some more grid spots?

We could do some one time events or something in the meantime

i should be free later but not entirely sure yet

I've not managed much track time since my first practice, just a handful of laps on a couple of occasions and the best I managed was a mid 1:37 in those which was over a second shy of where I was in that first practice. But it's been a real struggle getting any number of laps in without incident. I've had less than 30 laps and I reckon less than half of those have been clean. Tabac is still the main place where I struggle... and sometimes the kink in the tunnel sends my car screwy and the backend just loses it there.

Guys I hate to do this so late but I only got a couple hours sleep last night. I've got half a day of work left and I'm exhausted. It's doubtful I'll be on for this one.