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Post by XRF HammerPH on Mar 22, 2020 0:08:26 GMT
Add all your race reports,etc. here for COTA.
Well done everyone for persevering with tonight's race. Lots of issues which regrettably meant we didn't get the full grid we had available.
To our new drivers tonight was not representative of how things run usually. There's the odd issue as always with pCars but tonight was the first we've seen like that for long time.
Stick with us and hopefully you'll see that was not the norm.
Well done Sean on another strong run from flag to flag and to two of our new drivers LSRNate and LSROxy who both bit the podium 👍
Cheers.
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Post by Dale Rossi on Mar 22, 2020 0:20:34 GMT
Q 1
R 1
My qualifying was alright for 10 minutes. Saw Chris was in and had expected to have go turn a low 1:01.
The lobby etc was a mess. No two ways about it, but finally got the race off. Sucks Greg was out, but I get it, and it sucks for Chris with the pit penalty. Not having my teammate was a bummer, but it happens and I I forward to having him back. It's always fun pacing each other.
With the rain at Fuji, probably makes sense to limit it to 12 or 13. A supplemental race for extra reserves would be fine and it least it still gives everyone a chance to race in this format. I figured eventually we would have to do that at some point. For the big one off races with 16+ signups, the Le Mans style qualifying would really be cool and you could potentially have two 12 person races, or more
My race went well, just splashed gas at the end and finished on the same tires. Looking forward to having my teammate back to closeout the season.
COTA is a tricky track that can throw a car in just about every corner, so the field did a rally solid job finishing (*cough Joeri finished on his roof, I think?)
Great job Oxy and Nate on your podiums!
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Mar 22, 2020 0:42:41 GMT
We'll make a decision re Fuji in the next couple of days before I open up the sign-up thread. Limiting it makes sense but just need to work out the best and fairest way to do it.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Mar 22, 2020 1:06:10 GMT
Q: P11
R: P4
I didn't get a qualifying time in because of the issues and went to grab a quick snack and go to the bathroom when the lobby was finally stable.
I had some good battles at the beginning with Chris, micko, and Ian. Then once things settled down and I was alone, I saw Dave waaay up ahead and started to slowly catch him. Once I was a couple seconds behind him, he started to lap faster and faster and I had a tough time trying to keep up while also holding it as steady as possible.
Once he noticed me in his mirrors it was basically all over for him, jk lol. I know all too well that feeling when someone is right on your tail and that's when you use your mirrors/peripherals more and can't concentrate on the racing line as much. It also didn't help the fact that the tyres were becoming very worn at this point in the race.
Dave did a great job of holding me off under pressure for a few laps, but must have missed his braking point and went wide coming into turn 1, as that's when I was able to make it past him. That was great fun Dave, congratulations and well done on your best finish in this series yet.
After that I was all alone until the finish, Joeri actually finished ahead of me but he obtained a 30sec penalty for contact or something and it gave me 4th place in the end. Awesome job on the podium finishes to the new LSR guys, especially if I heard correctly that one of you used a controller!
I don't know Fuji so the next race will be a new experience for me, with rain expected it'll be another good one.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Mar 22, 2020 7:22:05 GMT
Here are the battles I had with Chris, micko and Ian during the first 3 laps, keep an eye out for my highlight video later on:
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Mar 22, 2020 7:33:07 GMT
Excellent videos Tyler, I could watch the whole race from that perspective. What distance is there between your wheel and screen.. looks like a perfect viewpoint 👌
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Post by XRF Lemarrrr on Mar 22, 2020 8:15:25 GMT
Q 8
R 6
Gents, thanks to everyone for your patience last night, for those that had issues and couldn’t compete I can only apologise and we’ll try to do things better in future events.
Qualifying has never been a strong point for me and I wasn’t pleased with starting in P8 after posting much quicker times in practice.
Managed to keep tyre temps up on the formation lap and got a great start and made up 3 places going into the Esses, found a good rhythm quickly and tried to keep up with the top 4, although I wasn’t reeling in Joe in P4 in I was keeping in touch until I had a half spin into T12 at the end of the straight, kept the engine running and just stayed in front of the chasing pack and after a few laps I began to pull away from them. I began to see Chris coming towards me and despite my best efforts I realised that he was much faster and I decided not to fight too hard and Chris got past me when I ran slightly wide in T15. At this point I had a comfortable gap back to Tyler and I began to maintain that gap with some quick laps, the hard tyre compound was definitely the right decision and they gave me great grip throughout the stint, Tyler slowly closed the gap and as the stint progressed he closed in from 5 seconds to less than half a second, I was concentrating too much on my mirrors rather than what was in front of me and after a great battle Tyler went into P5, I tried to stay with him but he was too fast and Karl was between us but a lap down, I couldn’t make my way past Karl as he was just that bit too quick. By this time people were starting to pit and I pushed to make my long 1st stint work, my engine damage was slowly worsening but not affecting my performance but by this time the tyres were way past their best and I boxed with 25 mins left, I was hoping to get back on terms with Tyler with a shorter 2nd stint on the soft tyres but the engine damage was repaired resulting in a 60 second stop, in testing I’d run the soft tyre in the evening and found the cooler track temps helped the tyres stay in their operating window, but I’d pitted slightly earlier than in the practice sessions I’d done and the temps weren’t quite as good as they should have been resulting in a half spin in T18. Got my head back together and pushed hard to close the gap and got past a few drivers who had to splash and dash at the end of the race and broke by PB with a 2:05.9.
Finished in P6 on the lead lap which is my best performance of this season, but for that lengthy Pitstop I could have challenged Tyler and Joe but shoulda, coulda, woulda 😂 great racing and well done to Sean for another awesome win and congratulations to Nate and Tyler (the other 1😂) for your podium on your debut in our series.
Looking forward to Fuji and we’ll discuss how to run that event in the coming week.
Cheers
Dave
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Post by lsrnate on Mar 22, 2020 9:02:32 GMT
Q 3
R 2
First and foremost a massive thankyou to all for having both myself and Oxy into your series, i know letting in "newbies" so to speak may be a little unsettling for some being wary of our racecraft and so forth but it was a pleasure to be apart of.
With a somewhat frantic 10 min Quali for me, I somehow got the car to the 2nd row, not my best lap that's for sure, but solid hence the circumstances.
Race started and I seemed to get a run on Joeri into T1 up the inside, putting me into P2, knowing that if I had any chance of winning I needed to stick with Sean, and give it my all, well by lap 2 I knew that was no chance. Myself and Joeri were pretty much dead on pace with eachother for the first 20 mins, alternating positions once or twice till what must have been an unfortunate spin by Joeri.
Halfway point of the race, and the impending doom of my teammate catching me cause me to pretty much kill my left side tyres (hards), and force me to pit 2-3 laps early.
Once all said and done, the race was on between myself and Joeri cause I knew I had to beat him when he pitted to stand a chance going into the last 20 mins. The gap was maintained till the end until an unfortunate spin for Joeri in sector 3 at the end, which unfortunately gave me a relatively unchallenged P2.
We've all been there mate and it's unfortunate, but keep your head held high and can't wait to battle again at Fuji if we can!
Congratulations Sean on the win mate, well deserved, and my fellow teammate for P3. Again massive thankyous to everyone and look forward to racing again!
P.S: I think it was XRF Lemarrr that mentioned one of us LSR guys playing on controller, and I can confirm both of us are using controllers. Wheels are on the way!
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Post by Joeri on Mar 22, 2020 9:40:34 GMT
Q2 R5 To start with, still feel shit about my last round at COTA. As mentioned I really do have a love/hate relationship with this track, because it does not give you a second to breath.You can't take a single turn wrong or you are a passenger of your own car. Once again, I am really sorry Karl that I hit you on the second to last corner of the race, taking turns 17/18 wrong and tried to overcorrect the car. Qualify, I was aiming for a top5 position, based on practice laps before and knowing some of the cars drive 'alien' times on this track. I was very fortunate to find myself on P2, but it was all because of the DSQ of Christophe and some guys dropping out. 2 seconds of Sean on P1 says enough  The start of the race, I knew I was on the wrong side of turn1 and left as much space as possible on the inside to not make a huge crash. All went well and found myself on p3 just behind Nate and Oxy on 2.5 seconds behind me. We got a great fight going on and like always, it's easier to drive behind someone than dictating the pace with guys breathing down your neck. After some 15/20 minutes, concentration dropped for a second at turn19, took too much speed into the corner and found myself looking in the wrong direction. No damage and dropped about 4seconds behind Oxy. With little pace difference between the 3 of us, I knew it was all about pit strategy and I knew the correct time of pitting will be crucial for the end result. I did a test twice on full distance and knew pitting after 55/60 min would overheat the soft tires too much, kept the car out as long as possible altough the temps on the hard where dropping like crazy. Saw Oxy coming in 2 laps earlier than my strategy and passed him at my pitstop with a 7 seconds lead and P3 due to Christophe misfortune. Don't know how or why but something went wrong on my fuel at the pitstop because I only got 20 liters into my tank, while I had it set at 28 liters for the last stint. This ment I needed to do a lot of fuel saving, turned my engine down to lean and started to brake early for every corner. All in all, last round still had a safe margin to Oxy by about 4,5 seconds but with only 2.2liters of fuel left for the last lap (which takes about 2.1-2.2 liters). Really went slow into the last part of the round, blinked to much and found the car sliding trough the long right handers of turn 17/18. (shall we call this the Dutch corner from now?  ) Hit Karl when I wanted to try to get the car straight and got a 30seconds penalty for the error. This meant P5 instead of P3, which could have been a great fight with Nate on my last stint if not for the fuel error. Thank you all guys again for a great race and congrats to Oxy and Nate for their podiums. Great race from you both, without a single error! Also congrats to Sean, you where out of reach for the entire race. Unlucky for Chritophe with the pit issue, otherwise it would have been a great fight for the win! Next race I will take a beauty nap midday, because I felt my concentration was not 100% anymore when it went past midnight. |
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Post by CPRacing on Mar 22, 2020 10:44:42 GMT
Q: DQ - start last - no time set
R: DQ
So last night was not easy. When we finally get qualy going.... as my speed limiter was on.... I got directly disqualified for speeding in the pit.... I don't understand....
So I started the race last and was very conservative on the first 2 laps. I slowly moved up the field but when I took P5 to finally found a clearer track, the leader was already 30 sec ahead.... At the half way mark, I was P2 and 16 sec off Sean and decided to pit to put new tyres on for the last 40 min.... came into pit, pit limiter on... stop in my spot to realise that they won't change my tyres.... my pit strategies were ready, I made them in the afternoon, and check everything again during the pre-race 2 min... I don't undertand.... I though, well I will have to pit again and it will not be possible to catch Sean... then taking off my spot, as my screen was showing pit limiter ON (as it was on when I came in, it's normaly on after the stop).... my car was moving at speed limit and I got the message exceding speed limit... and got disqualified....
That's a shame, I was running well, starting last I had a very fun first half of the race, made some nice moves...
I tried to speak when passing other cars but sometime the door was suddenly opening, and I did not have time to speak... but all went very clean...
It is about 1 year I am racing on PC2... I always have trouble time to time... but it seems that the last few races with the group were a climax... Silverstone : did not load setup in qualy - start last... Spa : Disqualified from qualy, 2 places penalty - made it hard to come back on leaders... Le Mans: put me on stock set up for the race....
Well I can't wait to see what Fuji will bring to me !!!!!!
Thank a lot yo all for the clean racing... and as well for all the efforts to have it running last night and everybody patience ... See you in the shade of the Volcano !!!!!
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Mar 22, 2020 11:35:56 GMT
Excellent videos Tyler, I could watch the whole race from that perspective. What distance is there between your wheel and screen.. looks like a perfect viewpoint 👌 Thanks Peter👍 i'd say about 2-3 inches at most, it's as close as I can get using the F-GT cockpit TV mount |
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Mar 22, 2020 12:09:45 GMT
Q: DQ - start last - no time set R: DQ So last night was not easy. When we finally get qualy going.... as my speed limiter was on.... I got directly disqualified for speeding in the pit.... I don't understand.... So I started the race last and was very conservative on the first 2 laps. I slowly moved up the field but when I took P5 to finally found a clearer track, the leader was already 30 sec ahead.... At the half way mark, I was P2 and 16 sec off Sean and decided to pit to put new tyres on for the last 40 min.... came into pit, pit limiter on... stop in my spot to realise that they won't change my tyres.... my pit strategies were ready, I made them in the afternoon, and check everything again during the pre-race 2 min... I don't undertand.... I though, well I will have to pit again and it will not be possible to catch Sean... then taking off my spot, as my screen was showing pit limiter ON (as it was on when I came in, it's normaly on after the stop).... my car was moving at speed limit and I got the message exceding speed limit... and got disqualified.... That's a shame, I was running well, starting last I had a very fun first half of the race, made some nice moves... I tried to speak when passing other cars but sometime the door was suddenly opening, and I did not have time to speak... but all went very clean... It is about 1 year I am racing on PC2... I always have trouble time to time... but it seems that the last few races with the group were a climax... Silverstone : did not load setup in qualy - start last... Spa : Disqualified from qualy, 2 places penalty - made it hard to come back on leaders... Le Mans: put me on stock set up for the race.... Well I can't wait to see what Fuji will bring to me !!!!!! Thank a lot yo all for the clean racing... and as well for all the efforts to have it running last night and everybody patience ... See you in the shade of the Volcano !!!!! Tough one Christophe. The pit limiter I can't understand but I've had similar issues with that before as well. On the strategy problem just make sure you have the tyres set to change and not have it on 'recommended' because on the hards that definitely wouldn't change them because they don't wear much at all. I never use recommended as that leaves whether they change them or not up to the game and takes the decision away from you. |
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Post by liamatkin on Mar 22, 2020 13:56:38 GMT
Gutted I couldn’t take part in the end, no idea what was going on my end. Wheel was clunky as hell and the car even with my setup loaded was spinning in a straight line in 3rd gear and impossible to drive. Actually felt comfortable around this track to, hope you all had a good race look forward to see the full videos and being back on the grid in Fuji.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Mar 22, 2020 16:47:41 GMT
That's frustrating as hell mate 👎 such a shame but you were not alone unfortunately. A strange night and it does make me wonder whether this staying indoors that everyone is being asked to do was part of it, causing more of a strain on the networks.
Unfortunately there were no streams last night although TBF I'm not sure anyone was streaming anyway when the problems were being experienced. I certainly hadn't started mine at that point.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Mar 22, 2020 17:15:48 GMT
Highlight vid:
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Post by iang0355 on Mar 22, 2020 21:37:44 GMT
Q- 9th or 10th, can't quite remember
R- DNF
Oof, where to begin here...
Managed to hang on through all the connection problems and get into qually. Put a decent high-midfield time in during our first attempt and then everything went off. Once we got it all sorted and started the 10 minute session, I forgot to double check my setup and went out on what I'll assume was one of the default setups (the game said in the menu before I left the pits that it was my qually setup so I didn't even think twice about it until my first lockup) and lost about 3 or 4 minutes of qually. Once I got going, something in my head shut off and I forgot how to drive or get heat into my tires and spun on my hotlap. Twitched in the esses, overcorrected and the car did some crazy flip and that was all she wrote for qualifying. The flip was good foreshadowing for the race...
Once the race started, things seemed okay. Kept good heat in my tires during the formation lap, and the start was okay. Think me and micko touched (more foreshadowing... I'll get there in a moment) on the exit but it was clean otherwise. I made some mistake and fell back behind the group in Tyler's videos, and much like the Glen I lost the heat in my front tires and started plowing like mad. Once I got them back to something manageable I tried to fight back some, had a good fight with Tyler going and got a run on him up to T1 on lap 4... Locked the tears amd slid like a twat right into micko. I called it out and he took some evasive action but I still cost him a position. I'm really sorry about that, it was too early to fight for a spot so aggressively like that and i should've known better. A few laps later I had another moment in the esses, did another pirhouette and landed on my lid, really smashed the car up good. Went in, fixed it and filled up for the race and went into fuel saver mode to try and ride it out for practice and in the hopes that I might be able to catch some people on strategy.
Then I disconnected from the session... I use one of those mobile hotspots you get from Verizon for my internet. Where i live in the boondocks, we can't get cable and satellite isn't very good, so hotspots like that are our best option. When we all did the mac reset thing and tried to start up again, I unplugged and restarted my hotspot as well just to try and help with connection. The battery in my hotspot is trash, and I'm sure you can see where this is going... Around halfway in it died and I disconnected.
Definitely a tough one for everyone this week considering the circumstances in the world and with the connection. Hopefully Fuji goes better for everyone, I'm definitely looking forward to it!
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Post by Dale Rossi on Mar 23, 2020 19:54:53 GMT
Fuji thread is locked..what are the Official Weather slots?
Looks like:
Q:
Light Rain
Race:
Light Rain
Rain
Rain
Light Rain
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Mar 23, 2020 20:12:20 GMT
Fuji thread is locked..what are the Official Weather slots? Looks like: Q: Light Rain Race: Light Rain Rain Rain Light Rain It's going to be opened up in the next couple of days once everything is finalised. That's what I found re the weather too. |
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Post by CPRacing on Mar 24, 2020 1:55:59 GMT
I was in Fuji in 2017. I was light rain /rain, but mainly fog, quiet thick at some point... The race was red flagged twice, the second one ending it as 70% of it was done... Hopefully, we will race the full lenght...  |
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Post by micko39 on Mar 25, 2020 10:58:39 GMT
Love your footage Tyler great viewing. I was unable to save the replay as I hadn't cleared my previous replays (dummy).
That was a real Dive-Bomb on me from Ian #44 on first corner, thought I was well in front but "heho" things happen.
Looking forward to Fugi.
Peter / Dave as the popularity of this series is growing and you have intermated that we could split into two groups.
Have you thought about doing an ala Lemans type qually in the week leading up to the race to allow all interested parties to race in 2 lobbies based on qually times?
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