Round 8 - Norton 250 [Jul 12th]

PATCH 1.5 INFO:

The most important changes are:

Tires: This patch comes with the latest evolution of Wilk's tires. Cars are now quite lively and you can lose the rear easily if you are not careful.

Aero: The rear wing has more grip when the cars are raked downwards because the it sits higher and gets more clean air, however the whole car has also more drag and way less efficiency. For slow tracks where drag is not a consideration jacking it up from the rear will give extra grip, as seen in pictures of the cars at Milwaukee, but there is a compromise needed as rising the CoG will be excessive at some point. At the quickest tracks you will want to have the car as horizontal as possible at speed, so the whole setup has to be focused on that.

Engine: Three boost settings are now available. Minimum is for economy when you need it and also makes the car very gentle to drive. Standard is the normal race boost, and maximum is for qualy, overtaking or sprinting to catch up. It will however use way more fuel (About 7,5% more per setting) and stress the engine a lot with the temperature skyrocketing. Trying to run a long stint or a full race on it is gambling big time, as the engine could last even only 20 minutes. In fact even the lowest boost setting will get the engine to overheat if you overdrive it, although the chances of blowing it with low or normal boost are way lower.

Dammit, my wife organised a vacation, starting strangely on Sunday. My car is free

A small glitch was found in the Riley Offenhauser (Was using Goodyears instead of Firestones and had a wrong drag value in the rear wing increments), this only affects Bruno's car which is unique and therefore nobody else needs it. But just in case someone wants to try the car and/or help Bruno, the fix is here: 51.77.116.8/Automobilista/Mods/2020/USAC74/RileyFix.7z

Min boost + longest gear possible with 25deg ambient temperature. Water temperature went to 95 and oil 104....I hope the engine lasts.

My issue is that my dad is over and we will watch the Indycar race tonight. I'll join the server, but will start from the pits whenever the Indycar race is finished.