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Post by Thiago Canola on May 22, 2022 21:05:28 GMT
Great race! Checked the engine file first to see if I could use racecraft or or wear my lucky underwear. Great to have more reliable engines in the 50s than in the 80s. How cool is that!!
A lot of battles with so many drivers.
Amaral, Rubens, Bruno, Michael, Dave, Rocha, John, Adam. Thank you for the clean battles. They were really fun.
Congratulations to Tim, Juha and Lucas.
See you next race!!
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Post by Richard Wilks on May 22, 2022 21:12:29 GMT
Great race! Checked the engine file first to see if I could use racecraft or or wear my lucky underwear. Great to have more reliable engines in the 50s than in the 80s. How cool is that!! A lot of battles with so many drivers. Amaral, Rubens, Bruno, Michael, Dave, Rocha, John, Adam. Thank you for the clean battles. They were really fun. Congratulations to Tim, Juha and Lucas. See you next race!! They are not "more reliable" (i assume you are talking about the indycars). And i guess the number of retirements today proves that. The beauty of this is that the numbers themselves don't tell the whole story. Hence why engines blow, and people wonder why that happened. Or vice versa, and people were able to finish races in 86 when the numbers would say they would never make it. |
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Post by Juha Bos on May 22, 2022 21:37:31 GMT
First time of the season felt very well tuned with the car , qualy 6th Good pace to catch Juha Bos for 4th, then we had a spectacular fight.. till my engine last.. after 1h30 my gearbox failed to engage gears as ever.. bleah .. threw away another possible podium That was a very entertaining fight, really enjoyed it. It's a shame your engine gave up because after duelling for 5th, I managed to get away with 2nd place.
I qualified the car as well as it could, on the front row. Unfortunately my start wasn't great and I got swamped by the front engined brigade. After a very entertaining opening lap, I manage to free myself from the pack and set off after Brian, Anders and Tim. However, I didn't have the power to make an impression and gradually I got caught by more powerful equipment. Kayo first, until he blew up. Gabriele too, and it ended in the same way. By then I was miles behind so I settled into cruise mode, saving my engine and picking up any pieces along the way. Anders and Brian also dropped out, suddenly I was in 2nd. The gap to Tim was too big though. If I hadn't cruised that much, the gap would probably have been much smaller, but then again my engine might not have lived to see lap 75. I settled for a bag of useful points, looking forward to the Nürburgring which has more corners than straights, although I'm not sure how I'll keep all those red and green machines behind me at Döttinger Höhe. Can we install some chicanes? 
Well done to Tim on winning this one.
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Post by Michael Drechsler on May 22, 2022 21:59:37 GMT
Could kick myself in the posteriour for throwing away some almost secure points. Was just a matter of time until I would have fetched Dave for fifth, until I went off track. But lets start from the beginning.
Q started off pretty well and I held to sixth for quite a long time with just 4/100 behind Kayo, but some late efforts relegated me down to 9th. I didn't agree with that, remembered that the setup had at least 3/10s in the first sector, so I went back, put on a fresh set of tires and went for another try. Shaved off 95/100s and moved up to fifth, yay!  Best Q result this season!
I had a rather busy week and lacked a bit the time to put the laps down to sort the car out, and to add insult to injury, two long distance runs ended with a carbeque at lap 55 and 63. I am always a bit puzzled how much the mechanics will take. I decided to play save and went with a rather long ratio and set myself a pretty hard limit on upshifting, first thing of all is to finish the race, the rest, we'll see. Unfortunately, my gearing was probably to long by a land mile.
The green light came, reaction was okay, but I'm always a bit slow off the line. The clutch pedal just doesn't give me the linearity I desire and its always a fight between stalling and overrevving. I found myself being passed left and right and after a lap, I was in 13th  But that wasn't the end of my journey, I lost some more positions in the opening laps, and when someone spun in front of me and I took evasive action, two more cars went by, plus one I already had passed again, and there I was in 19th...
...racing down there was intense, though. I had a fun three-way battle with Bruno and a Maserati, with some BRMs and Lotus in my back. Bruno spun off, but I couldn't make any profit from it, because the next Cooper and the aforementioned rest of the British invasion didn't give me any rest. To bad the whole activity was at the wrong end of the field. Then another car spun off right in front of me, and attempting not to run into the car, I spun off as well. 19th, barnacles! Bruno was in front of me, and what followed was not very enjoyful, but rather frustrating. My car was about half a second faster than him, just not where it counted. My car was pretty quick through the corners, but having a rather long gearing, he would always win the drag race. We're talking about Bruno driving a Cooper and me a Vanwall!  He was constantly in my way where my car was superior, so I was stuck behind him. I could see the cars in front slowly pulling away. At one point, he hit the markers dividing the track from the pit lane entry, I almost hit him there. A few laps later, I had another attempt at him through Copse, unfortunately I hit him and sent him into a spin. There was my motivation! I waited for him to pass me again, that cost another 10 seconds. A few laps later, I finally got past him, and from there, I could relatively quickly pull away from him. A most characterbuilding fight, but I can't blame him for using his assets where he got them.
Having finally wrestled down Bruno, I was like 20 seconds away from the next car, another 10 of the one before, and already a lap down on the leader. But in clean air, I could finally get into a decent rhythm, and after a while, with some cars dropping out, I could make up a few positions, very slowly gain some time to the cars in front of me, and to my surprise, the distance up to sixth position (from meanwhile 12th) seemed pretty stable. A few more cars retired, David Sabre I think in the BRM got significantly slower and I could pass him for 7th. I could already see Dave Miller in the Lotus? in the distance. It was a matter of time until I would catch his exhaust pipe. Then Anders dropped out (what a heartbreak!) and I was sixth. A points result was in sight!
Before the race, I did another smallish setup change, which was just what the car needed. I was able to place the car exactly where I wanted it to be, and that allowed me to get into the right mood, maintain the right tension I need. It just lacked a bit the teeth on the straights, as I geared pretty long and strictly stuck to my self imposed rev limit. Oil temps never went beyond 100 deg, though. I just made a little mistake before the race: Because it was a little bit chilly in my appartment, I wore an extra sweater, a thin one, though, but it got increasingly warmer. By half time, I was already noticing the extra heat was taking its toll, and going into the last third, I was pretty huffing and puffing.
In lap 61, I was approaching Club corner, when my stamina left me. I had a good run from Stowe and could shift into fifth. It just slipped my mind I had to shift down two gears, when I was already a bit late on the brakes. Realising my mistake, I quickly went into third, but overbraked at the same time. Trying to make Club corner somehow, the car spun around and I slid off track backwards, hitting the bank pretty hard. I was able to roll back on track, but I immediately realised the car was bent beyond good, I rolled back to the pits, and had a 75 second repair, which allowed the remaining cars to pass me, so I was the last car running now. All that effort for nothing! I returned to track, the car was acting horribly, but as soon as I got accustomed to the behaviour, I was still able to do high 1:44s and even close slightly the gap to Bruno again. But I binned it before.
9th and last car running, that wasn't my plan for tonight, even more so I was so close to points. I'm not happy with this one. At least my engine held up, so I did at least something right, and once I could do my own rhythm, laptimes were actually pretty decent. But losing about a lap in the opening stages of the race is a bit too much...
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Post by Brian Janik on May 23, 2022 4:58:14 GMT
Great race! Checked the engine file first to see if I could use racecraft or or wear my lucky underwear. Great to have more reliable engines in the 50s than in the 80s. How cool is that!! A lot of battles with so many drivers. Amaral, Rubens, Bruno, Michael, Dave, Rocha, John, Adam. Thank you for the clean battles. They were really fun. Congratulations to Tim, Juha and Lucas. See you next race!! They are not "more reliable" (i assume you are talking about the indycars). And i guess the number of retirements today proves that. The beauty of this is that the numbers themselves don't tell the whole story. Hence why engines blow, and people wonder why that happened. Or vice versa, and people were able to finish races in 86 when the numbers would say they would never make it. Do you want to share "the whole story?" Silverstone, I threw the car in neutral and applied full throttle, it blew up. Human error! Indy, I kept the RPM and the oil temp low, but it blew up. Why? In reference to reliability in indycars vs F1 '58, the case of my retirements doesn't prove shit Perhaps you're suggesting that preparing/testing for races here is a complete waste of time? Anyway, thanks for chiming in and fanning the flames of frustration |
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Post by Michael Drechsler on May 23, 2022 6:15:05 GMT
While I don't mind having to look after my engine and not going flat out for hours, you definitely question what you are doing if you tune your car to complete uncompetitiveness, permanently keep an eye on revs and temps and still that thing still folds around 1/2 to 2/3 distance of cruising around. Indy this year, Pocono and Mexico last year.
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Post by Christian Dauger on May 23, 2022 7:04:50 GMT
What a failure for this first race!!  Gear shifted too quickly, engine exploded (like many!!) Next is the Nurburgring...i hate it, it will be even harder, both to keep the engine and the car on the track  |
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Post by Alberto Ibanez on May 23, 2022 7:14:57 GMT
Do you want to share "the whole story?" Silverstone, I threw the car in neutral and applied full throttle, it blew up. Human error! Indy, I kept the RPM and the oil temp low, but it blew up. Why? In reference to reliability in indycars vs F1 '58, the case of my retirements doesn't prove shit Perhaps you're suggesting that preparing/testing for races here is a complete waste of time? Anyway, thanks for chiming in and fanning the flames of frustration Wilks will elaborate more, but it seems that as long as the engines are not bulletproof and can break, you might get lucky and have one that will endure a lot of abuse, or you can have one that no matter how much you care will never last the race distance. And it is random, hardcoded, and can't be adjusted by us. So preparing and testing is always good from the point of view of chassis setup, driving, fuel and temps use, etc, but it will never guarantee you the same results in the race (In terms of engine life vs. full race distance), because once the game throws the dice of your engine, that is what you get. Of course, what you do in the race still has an effect, so if your engine is in the grey area (Which is what you get most of the time) you will survive the race if you take care of it, and blow it up if you abuse it. Also, even if you are lucky to get a very good one, it won't still accept ridiculous use. |
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Post by Richard Wilks on May 23, 2022 9:27:34 GMT
They are not "more reliable" (i assume you are talking about the indycars). And i guess the number of retirements today proves that. The beauty of this is that the numbers themselves don't tell the whole story. Hence why engines blow, and people wonder why that happened. Or vice versa, and people were able to finish races in 86 when the numbers would say they would never make it. Do you want to share "the whole story?" Silverstone, I threw the car in neutral and applied full throttle, it blew up. Human error! Indy, I kept the RPM and the oil temp low, but it blew up. Why? In reference to reliability in indycars vs F1 '58, the case of my retirements doesn't prove shit Perhaps you're suggesting that preparing/testing for races here is a complete waste of time? Anyway, thanks for chiming in and fanning the flames of frustration Alberto already explained most of it. I can decide how much of the lottery is there to a degree, but even then the game can decide that you are out of luck in a hurry, or that you will win the 24h race. As for the retirement list, it does prove something yes, certainly more than what you or others can infer by just looking at files, a pointless exercise because i give all the necessary indications for every mod, and beyond that its all up to what roll of the dice you got. So no, there is no 100% way to garantee that you finish every race, as i explained already many, many times. |
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Post by Bruno Chacon on May 23, 2022 10:07:07 GMT
It was a race from hell for me after driving for 400km on a hit and back trip and arriving at the race in without participating in qualifying.
My goal was to not go over 6000 rpm and keep the oil temperature below 100 no matter what was going on, the rest would be profit.
I made a good start overtaking some cars and with great battles where we often made a line of 3 in the dispute.
I was conquering positions until I reached 15th place and made a small mistake turning the car and falling to 19th position.
Excellent fight at that moment with Michael who I knew was much faster than me, until he spun me around. But Michael is a gentleman and I knew he would give me back the position (there are few like that here) and as expected, after a few laps, he passed me and disappeared on my horizon.
But then Adam came and we had a fierce and clean dispute, but fatigue was already charging me with concentration and I missed a gear turning the engine at heights and to make matters worse, but a loss of concentration took me off the track without causing damage to the car .
Towards the end of the race, a cat and mouse fight with Adam for 7th place led me to make another mistake and Michael was very far away. Cramps and numbness in the legs, hands with difficulty opening, age taking a heavy toll on me but I remained firm in one of the most difficult races I participated.
In the end, the prize for finishing in 8th place starting from 23rd place and having managed to take Cooper to the finish in one piece and without damage.
A memorable race to keep in my memory.
Congratulations to the winners and thanks to ISO for making my life happy with spectacular mods that are only found here.
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Post by Tim Hille on May 23, 2022 15:44:39 GMT
I had an average Quali but still achieved my goal, put the car somewhere in the front two rows. Start was good, went from 4th to 1st after the first turn, however faster cars were passing me again and after a few laps I had a fight with Juha for P4. Once I finally found my rhythm, I decided to push the car and pull a gap on Juha.
From then on I drove a controlled race, I pushed when needed and when I did not need to push, I took it easy on the car.
At lap 63 I found myself in P1 with a 50 second gap to Juha. From then on I drove like a turtle, I did not want to stress the car at all and even let other cars unlap themselves, I did not care. The last 13 laps felt like the longest 13 laps ever. At the end I saw the chequered flag and took my first win in my simracing career.
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Post by Gabriele Del Piccolo on May 23, 2022 16:39:26 GMT
Great race! Checked the engine file first to see if I could use racecraft or or wear my lucky underwear. Great to have more reliable engines in the 50s than in the 80s. How cool is that!! I never blew the turbo BMW last year, i never crossed the finish line on Maserati..  |
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Post by Juha Bos on May 23, 2022 17:02:10 GMT
Great race! Checked the engine file first to see if I could use racecraft or or wear my lucky underwear. Great to have more reliable engines in the 50s than in the 80s. How cool is that!! I never blew the turbo BMW last year, i never crossed the finish line on Maserati..  I never blew my Cooper's engine in the 4 GP's I finished, yet I killed two BMW engines in 40 minute sprints. Bad luck.  |
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Best Q result this season!
But that wasn't the end of my journey, I lost some more positions in the opening laps, and when someone spun in front of me and I took evasive action, two more cars went by, plus one I already had passed again, and there I was in 19th...
He was constantly in my way where my car was superior, so I was stuck behind him. I could see the cars in front slowly pulling away. At one point, he hit the markers dividing the track from the pit lane entry, I almost hit him there. A few laps later, I had another attempt at him through Copse, unfortunately I hit him and sent him into a spin. There was my motivation! I waited for him to pass me again, that cost another 10 seconds. A few laps later, I finally got past him, and from there, I could relatively quickly pull away from him. A most characterbuilding fight, but I can't blame him for using his assets where he got them. 
