Eyeballpaul's Fortnightly Challenge

Holy hell, this bugger is a piece o' crap with an H-shifter
Well, not getting under 1:21 atm, and my god Magione has some serious road textures going on the straight. Just installed simvibe, and while other tracks are pretty dull, this is like ridding a bus in Nepal!
Yehaa!

 

Go the events tab in the RSR UI:
Look for the eyeballpauls community and click on it...there will be the different events (just the one right now) and click on the actual event to go to this page:


Use the start button there. Hope this helps everybody.

 

Works fine via the app, went a little bit quicker this time but still should be some time left as I cant get it to turn in at the end of the back straight at all pushes like hell. Funny as I am fighting loose everywhere else but setup options are quite limited in this thing maybe a Scandinavian flick will need to be used.

 

This car is the poster child for off throttle oversteer it seems.....as soon as I am out of the gas and put any wheel in the back is trying to outrun the front and the game begins of trying to control the beast. Meanwhile the front end will wash out (understeer) while in mid-corner......Just a very strange car that although fun, is very frustrating IMO. For me it doesn't really matter though, the perfect setup won't make it suddenly a second and half faster so I'm boned. I just hope I can pick up enough to stay top 5.

 

Started from the RSRLive Web UI, but on track the RSRLiveTime app keeps saying 'Connecting to the server'. So much delay to start driving.

EDIT: couple of minutes later, it then shows 'driver not recognized'. Don't think it will register w/o the RSR app, right?

 

That normally means you have an old app version, they generally update the app along with the latest game build which they would already have been testing at RSR.

 

Its a very different car to everything else, really likes the slow in fast out approach. Avoid getting it sideways as much as possible, setup wont do heaps but I will post one here in a day or 2 once I sort it out and you guys can try but it will likely be very loose and you just need to drive as if tip toeing around. Mostly its just driving well within yourself what feels slow will be quicker as the exit speeds are critical. If your spinning rears and going sideways your going to lose chunks of time. I tried less rear wing and had no more top speed maybe try even less, adding wing really kills the speed and just makes it want to push more.

I was driving the M3 gt2 around here lately and that is so different its not funny but you learn so much about certain tracks when you drive all sorts of cars on it. The GT2 I just throw around getting it on 2 wheel and all sorts of nasty angles but the 2 eleven just needs smooth and clean driving. Its very hard to do as I could spend hours just sliding it around.

 

I don't know what to make of this car sometimes. At times it seems like overdriving it is working, the car gets some nice four wheel drift going on, sometimes it feels effortless to power slide around corners and I think "now I am one with this car", then the next lap it's completely changed it's mind and won't do that anymore and understeers like a pig. Slow in/fast out works but I've gotten green sectors acting a bit wild as well.

Is it just very sensitive to tyre overheating?

 

Thanks mart. The site says the latest is 2.0.14, w/c I've installed some time ago. Unless their latest update is not in their site's download section?

 

If you've driven the rF2 Skip Barber, this is basically the same car and you have to drive it the same way. The Skip Barber video that has been posted around here a few times also explains it perfectly. You need to let it oversteer off throttle, and control it with small amounts of throttle rather than with the wheel. If you make setup changes to reduce this you'll end up stable but slow. On most corner exits 70% throttle is faster than full, since if you lose traction on the inside rear you'll just spin away all the power with the open diff. Turns 1 and 2 are fastest with a slight drift at the apex and gradually coming back on power to avoid understeer.

As for setup, I'm no expert but the changes I made was to lower front tire pressure and raise rear (22/26). I also maxed out front negative camber (-3.0) but I'm not sure this actually had any major effect except maybe raising temperatures a little. You need a minimum of 3 rear wing to keep it stable under braking on the back straight (I use 4).

The car uses about 1l of fuel per lap so only bring as many liters as you expect to do laps. Tires drop to 99% after 3 laps and 98% after 5-6, so there's not much use in trying more than 6 in a row if you're going for a PB. My time was on lap 6 and rear tires where at 98% towards the end and I lost heaps of time in S2 compared to my best.

 

[QUOTE="Turk, post: 115751, member: 3018"Is it just very sensitive to tyre overheating?[/QUOTE]

The rears can overheat pretty easily when giving it a good thrashing but trying to get temps into the fronts is quite a battle. I wish brake temps were properly implemented where you could do a warmup lap trying to cook the front brakes to pass some heat into the tyres but I just tried and didnt notice any change.

Theis track os always tricky to get anything but the softest slicks fully up to temp front and back. In the regular t125 its funny because the harder you push the more temp and faster you can go. Ease up just 2 corners and you lose all temp and its a wasted lap and a bit. This car has a bit of tyre wear so you cant really run a bunch of laps to get heat into them as by then they've already lost too much.

 

One of my favourite things bout rFactor 2 was the fact you could watch the skip barber video and put it into practice with the same car/track combo. I learned a lot with that combo on rFactor 2. I'd recommend rFactor 2 to anyone starting out just for that video/car/track tutorial.

 

Some people here know their stuff lol

 

The one thing I know is that I sadly can't do anything now since the last update. FPS dropped to 60 from 100 and is now undriveable.

 

Ouch. I'll hopefully get a shot at the weekend..... Maybe

 

Just to let you all know I've join the group (finally)... Sergio Tavares is the steam name.

Bottom spot on the time table is reserved gentlemen...

 

I'll be fighting you for that place

I used to love this car, just messing about sideways round the track, but now I have to try and keep it straight I hate it, so infuriating

 

Just a note chaps, I'm impressed with RSR - wasn't that difficult to get up and running with it, but now its integrated into AC, can see it always was definitely the way to go. Would definitely encourage everyone who was interested via the inbuilt app to migrate over. Cheers

 

I agree, @Berserker223, it has many good features. On the other hand, I noticed it seems to require good bandwidth. Many times when starting a lap, it takes so long to wait while it's 'Connecting to Server' even if already logged in RSR Live UI (and then sometimes 'Driver is not recognized'). Unfortunate for us with not much bandwidth.

 

Weird, the 'connecting to server' message usually lasts less than two or three seconds for me; I do have good internet though.