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Lol an theres me with my 2.13 yey gunna be racing loads ill be hot lapping and the occasional move out the way to let leader pass lol..
erm, I might have just accidentally set a 2m03.5 lap at night in the server Pam and Corbs were in . That was with a quali fuel load on the 3rd of 5 possible laps.
Race pace is hard to judge, as I joined that server as the sun was going down. Low 2m05 laps were with a full tank of fuel and gradually dropping to mid 2m04s laps after 4 or 5 laps.
BUT
That sort of pace eats tyres for breakfast, lunch and dinner. For a month. If I ran the equivalent of hotlap/quali/timetrial pace then the tyres started going off by lap 8 (only costing about 0.2s a lap at that point) but then dropping off quite sharply by lap 10/11.
Also worth noting that my laps used an average of 4.4L of fuel per lap. That pushes it into splash and dash territory if I'm not careful . I've got to decide whether or not I can reign my pace in a little to get a bit more life out of the tyres or just go for it. I suspect that all depends on where I qualify and where I am out of the first corner.
Not really. It's going to take between 4½ and 5 in-game hours, which means a finish sometime between 18:00 and 18:30. Given that the race is at the start of summer for Oz, it's still going to be light at the finish, with sunset at least an hour (in game minutes) away .I only realized we will be racing in the night as well......... After the F1 race finishes, I need to do some more practising and some pit stop strategies.
I heard some chat in TS on the first lap. It's a shame, we did try to highlight the issues with this track and hoped we'd not have a first lap incident, so sorry your race got messed up. If you'd like a stewards opinion on the incident feel free to post in the stewards area. Hope you have better luck next time.I lost interest after lap one, was hit from behind going up the mountain which put me in the wall, fair enough, racing incident. Then I pitted and choose my 'Fix' setup option, but forgot to select what I wanted fixing so had to go around and pit again, what a 'clutz'. Practicing at home I had done a 26 lap stint no problem, but I had to pit again with 8 to go because I just couldn't keep the car on track and spun at the top of the mountain, had a cup of coffee whilst I waited for Kman to assist me turning around as I was facing the wrong way (only joking mate ). So all in all one to forget, I continued to push hoping to make up some places, but I had already done the damage to myself.
That is a crazy lap cluck. Such good pace over the mountain section, and one hell of a save through forrest's Elbow coming onto the conrod straight.For what it's worth, this was my less-than-stellar quali lap