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- Oct 22, 2018
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Sorted, so I will be 'racing' tonight. What a bland track with the pancake flat kerbs that spit you off in an instant. See you at the back.
Oi stop posting replays lol steeling my thunder lol...was cracking raceGreat Season, mega last round. The track is fun racing! P2 twice, couldn't be happier with the result seeing that I had no practice this time Only I once did a GTE-ish race on this track.
Race1: Mega overtaking from P7 to P3, was offered P2 few laps later and drove that home.
Race2: Nice Touring Car racing with @FuBii in the beginning!
The car is a challenge for sure (though this track has more to do with it). Top line speed is affected by radiator, brake ducts and gear ratios (fairly obvious), and other less obvious factors such as camber, toe in/out, even power ramp coming out of a corner. For a track with lots of straight line and slow (near stop) corners like this one, turning the car for straight line speed can be advantageous (though needs to balance the needs of the track overall). Look there for the extra 10-15mph.Getting lapped by the top 9 drivers in a field of 11 drivers in a 30 minute race must be the most embarrassing race completed on RSR/PC2.
What a horrible horrible horrible car to drive. For about 10% of a lap it felt fun, then it was just 30 minutes trying not to spin. Absolutely no idea how you guys are so fast in this car. Everyone seemed about 10-15mph faster on the straights too.
Congrats to the winners!
@FuBii man you were a beast this season. Gutted you got kicked from a pole position. Great racing, really bringing it up a notch.So having never touched the merc before this season.... Some interesting facts:
Overall, I drove some 4756.43km in this car. To put that into context, that equated to a full 42 hours 17 minutes.
Outside of RSR's leagues, I play pCars2 to drive the BAC Mono, I've "only" done 5628km in that car...
A fantastic car choice for me personally loved racing the wheels off that thing. Downforce was minimal, feeling the car balance change/move around was excellent. You can tell who got on top of that & those that struggled with it.
A great season racing with you all. Just a shame that some 32 people signed up for this & the average turn out was like 14 across the season
Massive shoutout to @steveg200, you secret Alien hahaha.
Really need to get some dollar for a wheel & pedals
*Cough*cough* Shall i do IT again?Really need to get some dollar for a wheel & pedals
What happened in that first race man?I may not be Puffi fast, but pretty sure i could beat, say, Jacques Villeneuve with my controller
The car is a challenge for sure (though this track has more to do with it). Top line speed is affected by radiator, brake ducts and gear ratios (fairly obvious), and other less obvious factors such as camber, toe in/out, even power ramp coming out of a corner. For a track with lots of straight line and slow (near stop) corners like this one, turning the car for straight line speed can be advantageous (though needs to balance the needs of the track overall). Look there for the extra 10-15mph.
Not spinning is a delicate balance in this car. under heavy braking the car moves forward, taking weight off the rear. This car has a lot of torque, it seems so its easy to go into power oversteer. Moving weight towards the rear, and looking at the mysterious world of slow bump/rebound can help you to get the car to move weight backward quicker (for rear grip) or slower (for longer turn in). Also, gentle application of throttle is very much a requirement. Thunderfoot = death (like my spin to give away third )
This car is a challenge for sure, but there is science behind the magic. Nighttiger's setup guide is awesome,though you do need to spend some time considering the physics of car movement to "get it".
Never give up, never surrender
EDIT: Sadly my VR headset crashed heading into race 2. Needed a full PC restart and ofc windows decided to update. I missed the cutoff on qualifying . A real shame as I intended NOT to ram @CatchAGlimpse in the second race ). Grats to winners. A good if challenging car this season.
Real life got in the way - mixed with a lazy gfWhat happened in that first race man?
I've really missed having commentary, good job @Jonno .in case anyone wants to catch up on yesterdays race hears my stream with errmmm some kind of commentary lol