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I didn't bring up individual incidents to put the blame on anyone but now I kind of have to leave this here to show I'm not really being unreasonable.

Nice gap to the curb, nice car angle. Where is he going exactly? He's actually hugging the curb few cars lengths before. Now you can almost fit another car on his inside. These are not GT3s, we can almost take this corner 3 wide flatout without issues. I get in the corner 50cm away from having fully cleared him and then maybe I should leave him 2.5 cars width instead of 1.5? It's almost actually funny because if he backs off he probably gets me on the draft up to Les Combes. You know what ? Same situation against a good driver, I don't even leave any room, it's my corner and he knows it, I have full trust he backs off because it's just what has to be done there.


The cars are probably the most easily raceable things there is in AC and the field can't get to eau rouge without a 1998 F1 style pile up. SRS overall is working great and I do hope it keeps growing and eventually can afford to filter out people who can't race in the more serious championships.

 

Did some testing: I will definately drive a lot better and quicker as in the first event. That 'trick' with the right front wheel's lower camber in Phil's setup mainly does the -a stabilising- job.
Spa is finally a track to be able to finetune everything a lot better / easier, I wanted to say in first instance. But Jaap, and also Fluvio, etc. is out of reach .

 

That setup was special case for Donington national layout because only last bend was non-flatout left-hander. I wouldn't use such camber at Spa, makes you lose a lot of time around Pouhon..

 

Just a quick heads-up.

Last night at Spa I was put in the first pitbox slot. As soon as qualifying started I headed out and did a fast outlap. It recorded a 2m14s4, but this was straight from the pitlane and should therefore not count for Q.

Looks like a bug in AC, which is made possible due to the short pitlane & tight La Source corner.

So, if you're near the front of the pitlane, make sure to wait a little when qualifying starts or slow a little bit in your outlap.

PS: I recorded a 2m14s5 in the final lap of Q, which would've secured pole anyway, but I thought I'd still report it here.

 

Hmm that is a funny one! Great time though with the .5

I managed a .6 earlier but comparing our splits I see you are running 6 tenths faster in sector 2 haha -



Let me know if you want to swap set's

 

It seems that the results of the Porsche cup race yesterday at 14:00 GMT are missing. Was hoping to get points for that round

 

Love the league so far.
Had some good battles and worn tyres
And things only can get better, just keep focusing on fair racing and open conversation, we all make mistakes.
Hope to find a good setup for Spa.

 

Other than that more positive front right camber it differs anyway. When I put it around the same level as the left front, I would lose the car in quick right handers like Eau Rouge (because the left side of the car 'overtakes' -more grip- the right side of the car then) at a high FW around 30+. That's the only reason I still use that front right camber .

 

Ferito l.c. tracker still works btw., worked at Spa. It was just that on the community track Donington it was not working correctly.

 

Ok -you're right, also at this car-, I tried again with adding some negative camber. Lowered the rear 10mm, put less FW. Now it works. Not losing the car's rear (anymore with now ~normal camber values) and still quick (and almost quicker throughout the track, and through Pouhon), despite less FW. PB high 1:16 Min. atm., but that would be difficult to repeat in a server session with many cars, which PC performance wise always takes away some of the flowability that is needed to get the best out of it. (I'm kinda storytelling chatting too much here. )

 

Spa low downforce base setup to maybe help bunch up the field. The setup does low 2.15s @ 26°C and high 2.14s @ 21°C. Imo, you shouldn't really be touching it until you are doing mid 2.15s. When you do get there, increase front wing one click at a time and see if you can still keep it on track, each click should be 1-2 tenths faster.

The pros can straight away go to 29 front wing and aim for mid 2.14s @ 26°C and low 2.14s @ 21°C

 

Thanks for sharing Phillipe. Will definately give it a go.

Something else i want to mention that i noticed in yesterday's race. I got hit by a car on lap 1 at Les Combes and went hard right into the wall (can happen, no hard feelings) but the car in question finished the race with 0 incidents?! Don't know if it's something in AC or in the F3 mod, but seems strange.

Sorry to the guys ( i believe Eero and Thomasz) i hit on Kemmelstraight afterwards. My over enthousiastic mistake to recover.....

 

You can go for higher tire pressures than 24 psi (heated up) here, to gain some km/h topspeed. They just do still have to get up to temp around 70°C-80°C, so too high pressures will not work, but a little plus of it will still work.
Just noticed one or two drivers in the race with a higher topspeed than 234km/h on first straight, must've been their tire pressure and slipstream of course.

 

Sry, for contact (with Dan) in lap1 after the first straight. Thought I 'own' the corner because of coming from outside into it, but ' were still side by side so I decided to left it out for safety reasons and came back a little too quick or sharp/soon getting in your racing line and we touched + a spin. Will be more patient also next time. But that was nothing comp. to some other pileups -watching the stream- further back, it seems .

 

Was a good race! I managed to get away with a good start and turn 1, Fulvio kept the pressure on until lap 5/6 but made a little mistake at curve Paul.

I'll share the setup when I get back to pc, the original was Phil's but I've changed it up a bit. Ran a 14.4 offline today with it

 

Setup

 

The only problem I've seen so far apart from bad drivers is the camera on live stream.

It switches at some terrible moments eg- when an overtake is about to happen or some tight racing is happening! Is it auto by any chance?

 

That was my first impression too, but in almost every overtaking situation it keeps on focussing on the current battle. Just another camera then.
It barely misses out any overtaking attempt, that's a huge plus for the person(s) who are live streaming all this in a live environment. Even better than on RD in that regards .


On RD there were races or situations, where they kept this boring zoomed-in TV camera on each car. That was "stupid", because noone wants too see the car in the full picture all the time and getting nothing recognized from the actual track around and sense of speed. At least not me.
That's a lot bettter in SRS live streams, since they are using the farer away cameras (which are catching more cars at once in one picture, also) and not the -for live streaming a race- usless ones.
But they did a great job also for sure in their special/other areas on RD as well, no question.

 

By the way, sorry Marco for the touch at la Source at lap 2 yesterday. I really misjudged reacceleration (I was overly confident, as first lap was much cleaner that previous days ).

 

As far as I know, BCast app is used. It's automatically switching cameras to focus on duels. I agree with you, it's switching away from the action a bit too early. On the plus side, is always focusing on something nice to look at, making at least the broadcast interesting to look at. Maybe not always the most relevant battles, but still, it's not bad at all for something automatic.


I really enjoyed my race yesterday. Great battles on track, with drivers giving just enough space. Well done guys. Nice to race like this!