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Post by XRF Formula1 on Aug 21, 2019 19:30:08 GMT
Welcome welcome welcome Dave 👍
This will be an interesting race for me because I haven't been out on track for awhile.
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Post by XRF Lemarrrr on Aug 21, 2019 19:38:26 GMT
Welcome welcome welcome Dave 👍 This will be an interesting race for me because I haven't been out on track for awhile. Thanks Tyler, I’m looking forward to racing something a little different, I found a few little issues that maybe you can help with, the time it takes to get heat in the rear tyres and constant rear brake locking, I’ve tried moving the bias forward and softening the brake pressure but I still lock the rear in a number of corners 🤷🏻♂️
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Aug 21, 2019 20:12:36 GMT
Welcome welcome welcome Dave 👍 This will be an interesting race for me because I haven't been out on track for awhile. Thanks Tyler, I’m looking forward to racing something a little different, I found a few little issues that maybe you can help with, the time it takes to get heat in the rear tyres and constant rear brake locking, I’ve tried moving the bias forward and softening the brake pressure but I still lock the rear in a number of corners 🤷🏻♂️ Getting the vintage tyres up to temperature is always a problem because they are so hard. Not much you can do to speed that up tbh. With regard to the locking brakes, what bias and pressure are you using? You could also try moving the weight distribution more to the front to help alleviate the locking.
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Post by XRF Lemarrrr on Aug 21, 2019 20:17:00 GMT
Thanks Tyler, I’m looking forward to racing something a little different, I found a few little issues that maybe you can help with, the time it takes to get heat in the rear tyres and constant rear brake locking, I’ve tried moving the bias forward and softening the brake pressure but I still lock the rear in a number of corners 🤷🏻♂️ Getting the vintage tyres up to temperature is always a problem because they are so hard. Not much you can do to speed that up tbh. With regard to the locking brakes, what bias and pressure are you using? You could also try moving the weight distribution more to the front to help alleviate the locking. If I recall accurately the brake pressure is 78% and the bias is roughly 65/35, I’ll try moving the ballast and see what happens 👍🏻
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2019 20:28:17 GMT
Im too lazy to practice.
Also can we go back to 10pm since the rest of the #Murica lads don't turn up anymore
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Aug 21, 2019 20:45:51 GMT
Getting the vintage tyres up to temperature is always a problem because they are so hard. Not much you can do to speed that up tbh. With regard to the locking brakes, what bias and pressure are you using? You could also try moving the weight distribution more to the front to help alleviate the locking. If I recall accurately the brake pressure is 78% and the bias is roughly 65/35, I’ll try moving the ballast and see what happens 👍🏻 65 to the front is really high so are you sure it's the rears that are locking? I have mine set around 54/46 with the pressure at 85%.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Aug 21, 2019 21:18:10 GMT
Not sure i'll last the distance tonight, i'll do my best but it's been a tough weekend/week and i've barely been able to keep my eyes open watching the TV waiting for this one to start.
Boothy has a point about the start time seeing as we put it back to allow the GSR guys to take part but none have been seen since the start of the season.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Aug 21, 2019 23:16:04 GMT
Welcome welcome welcome Dave 👍 This will be an interesting race for me because I haven't been out on track for awhile. Thanks Tyler, I’m looking forward to racing something a little different, I found a few little issues that maybe you can help with, the time it takes to get heat in the rear tyres and constant rear brake locking, I’ve tried moving the bias forward and softening the brake pressure but I still lock the rear in a number of corners 🤷🏻♂️ Sorry Dave, I didn't see this until now... My brake pressure was 88%. I think I left the bias at default and my pressures were set to 1.23 in the front and 1.21 in the back. My rear brakes locked quite a bit during the race now that I think back, it is just something i've learned to deal with along with the sudden oversteer. Lowering the ride height seemed to help quite a bit with handling without affecting anything else. I was using 9/9 downforce and a higher final drive, not sure what that was. The best advice I have is to baby the car and take it slow, the speed seems to come naturally if you can find a consistent or what feels like a slow consistent pace. It was great having you join us and hope you can make it again Dave👍
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Aug 21, 2019 23:21:32 GMT
Did Matt or I win that one? What do you all think?
I agree with Matt that we should move back to 5pm/10pm continuing foward because those GSR dudes vanished and were the reason we did 5:30/10:30pm in the first place.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Aug 22, 2019 9:44:40 GMT
Did Matt or I win that one? What do you all think? I agree with Matt that we should move back to 5pm/10pm continuing foward because those GSR dudes vanished and were the reason we did 5:30/10:30pm in the first place. My opinion is that as the game kind of deceived you into thinking you had to pit again that the result should be logged as you winning with Matt second. It is weird why the game thought you hadn't pitted. Was there anything unusual about your pit stop? Did you come to a complete stop for instance? That's the only thing I can think of that might make the game think you had not stopped. I think that's the first time we've seen that issue but there were a few oddities about the race last night.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2019 13:04:50 GMT
Did Matt or I win that one? What do you all think? I agree with Matt that we should move back to 5pm/10pm continuing foward because those GSR dudes vanished and were the reason we did 5:30/10:30pm in the first place. My opinion is that as the game kind of deceived you into thinking you had to pit again that the result should be logged as you winning with Matt second. It is weird why the game thought you hadn't pitted. Was there anything unusual about your pit stop? Did you come to a complete stop for instance? That's the only thing I can think of that might make the game think you had not stopped. I think that's the first time we've seen that issue but there were a few oddities about the race last night. I thought it was suspect at the time cos he only lost 15 seconds and even with the worlds quickest pitstop id have thought it would of been longer tbh considering the entry & exit. I guess it depends what he changed cos i changed tyres cos overheating
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Post by hurtmagurt on Aug 22, 2019 15:11:27 GMT
My opinion is that as the game kind of deceived you into thinking you had to pit again that the result should be logged as you winning with Matt second. It is weird why the game thought you hadn't pitted. Was there anything unusual about your pit stop? Did you come to a complete stop for instance? That's the only thing I can think of that might make the game think you had not stopped. I think that's the first time we've seen that issue but there were a few oddities about the race last night. I thought it was suspect at the time cos he only lost 15 seconds and even with the worlds quickest pitstop id have thought it would of been longer tbh considering the entry & exit. I guess it depends what he changed cos i changed tyres cos overheating I just checked my lap data and my pit stop only cost me 18 seconds. I stopped in the box but did not add fuel or change tires. As long as Tyler stopped he should be ok.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Aug 22, 2019 15:25:06 GMT
My opinion is that as the game kind of deceived you into thinking you had to pit again that the result should be logged as you winning with Matt second. It is weird why the game thought you hadn't pitted. Was there anything unusual about your pit stop? Did you come to a complete stop for instance? That's the only thing I can think of that might make the game think you had not stopped. I think that's the first time we've seen that issue but there were a few oddities about the race last night. I thought it was suspect at the time cos he only lost 15 seconds and even with the worlds quickest pitstop id have thought it would of been longer tbh considering the entry & exit. I guess it depends what he changed cos i changed tyres cos overheating I doubt he changed anything tbh Boothy. I never have to change tyres in this series so my stops are either do nothing or repair damage.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2019 15:28:17 GMT
I thought it was suspect at the time cos he only lost 15 seconds and even with the worlds quickest pitstop id have thought it would of been longer tbh considering the entry & exit. I guess it depends what he changed cos i changed tyres cos overheating I doubt he changed anything tbh Boothy. I never have to change tyres in this series so my stops are either do nothing or repair damage. There's no point to mandatory pitstops if we aren't have to change anything. Seems rather pointless tbh.
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Post by hurtmagurt on Aug 22, 2019 16:02:38 GMT
We would have to put tire wear on 4X or more to make it effective. I had a MAX 7% wear on my right front. All others were less than that.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Aug 22, 2019 21:17:19 GMT
I didn't change or fix anything during my stops. They wanted me to fix that suspension damage I acquired earlier on in the race so that's what I did. As soon as I got my 2% damage it kept the pit-in for damage indicator on my screen for the remainder of the race.
I'm guessing I would have been DQ'd like Dave was if I didn't pit again so that's what I did. Doesn't matter to me who won, I just want to know so I can update my score board.
We could get rid of the pitstops if you want, I have a mandatory pitstop set so it changes things up a bit strategy wise.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Aug 22, 2019 21:27:14 GMT
I didn't change or fix anything during my stops. They wanted me to fix that suspension damage I acquired earlier on in the race so that's what I did. As soon as I got my 2% damage it kept the pit-in for damage indicator on my screen for the remainder of the race. I'm guessing I would have been DQ'd like Dave was if I didn't pit again so that's what I did. Doesn't matter to me who won, I just want to know so I can update my score board. We could get rid of the pitstops if you want, I have a mandatory pitstop set so it changes things up a bit strategy wise. Ah that solves it then.. the game didn't make you pit for the mandatory stop but just gave you the pit in message due to your damage. That is then your choice whether to come in or not. Thats the issue I mentioned earlier in the race about when that message pops up and you have no way of getting rid of it even if you don't want to repair the damage. It does change my perspective on the result that being the case because there would have been no DSQ if you had simply stayed out.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Aug 22, 2019 21:29:07 GMT
I'm happy to keep the mandatory pit stop in as I agree that it does add that strategic element to the races.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2019 21:34:24 GMT
I'm happy to keep the mandatory pit stop in as I agree that it does add that strategic element to the races. I always assumed that pitstop meant you had to change/add something but from now on it's going to be a Lap 1 job if don't need to change stuff. It seems rather odd to have a pitstop and not do anything but go in the box then drive back out 0o
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Aug 22, 2019 21:35:11 GMT
Okay, so you're saying Boothy won then? Again, it doesn't matter to me who did and it's nice to see Matt finish especially in 1st
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