Last night I tried a new race setup. My fastest is 1.37.440 as of now. But I am not happy with the consistency over a race distance.

So tonite anyone up for practice or race session? Hamachi got a new version, perhaps you guys should consider updating.

This post has been edited by PCcrazy: Dec 6 2006, 07:56 PM

That is really important update. I mean fresh soft tyres shouldn't take long to be at optimum. What say you guys, I think we should update. Afterall there is no change made to physics.



Evo, unintentionally we are like that.

This post has been edited by PCcrazy: Dec 6 2006, 07:59 PM

I vote to not lock any view. Although it's a sim it's also a game. If he is competitive with one view over the another so be it. I'm up for the challenge. I prefer cockpit view since I can control the car better from there.

Evo, If you pay the bills tomorrow in two or three hours the line will be up.

Guys, fastest lap will not win you a race. But pole of course la. The most important thing is to be consistent. Laps after laps. At first try to get into high 1m 39, then after few laps low 1m 39 then before pit stops try to get into low 1m 38.

Btw, I have tried few qualy setup for race distance, the fastest is 1m 37.040. Few tweaking might get me into mid 1m 36. The problem right now is to try conserve the car until the end of the race. My maserati kuat makan minyak. 100L last 15 laps. So I will be very heavy masa race nanti. The key is patience. I hope redline and evo can participate. I would love to race that quick lambo of redline. Balas dendam valencia, this time no sucky wieth 550 anymore....heheh.

edietd: my current setup will not last very long, lap25 blown engine already. Even when the rad is at 4. Guess I drop the gear too fast for the engine liking.

smokey this is my new setup for you as well. Ryugan this new setup is optimized for neutral balance, to be very easy on tyres as well as me (the driver). Smokey to get 1m 37 is very easy after maybe 10 laps of fuel burned. Anyway if you want to relax a bit, 1m 38 is confirmed, even on a slightly heavy load.

http://www.filefactory.com/file/922b50/

Smokey, if I can ask you a favor, can you check the setup against any reliability issues for 27 laps.

This post has been edited by PCcrazy: Dec 9 2006, 04:22 PM

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See ryugan I manage to do this in race trim. I can go faster but at the expense of tyre wear. I predicted perhaps maybe I could salvage another 0.5 of a second. What you need is to be easy on gas, very gentle I mean as the back end steps out quite easy on full throttle. But the setup overall is very stable. Perhaps you need tweaking a bit on rear camber and add a little anti roll bar, perhaps another 5N/mm.

Hey linkinstreet, you should consider joining us again then.

Btw, nice skin there. You really have the modding skills.

These few days I always got intermittent connection, I hope all is well tonight.

linkinstreet, are you joining us tonight?



It will be the days when my momo decided to gave up on me,

This post has been edited by PCcrazy: Dec 10 2006, 11:05 AM

are you sure the automatic clutch dah on?

I have no problem btw.

Anyway you can engage clucth put first gear and release clutch on the start. It will solve jerkiness when accelarting.

This post has been edited by PCcrazy: Dec 10 2006, 05:15 PM

Oh I have no idea why. Perhaps the keyboard has an F-key? like my logitech.

Thanks guys, btw what happen to alan, this was the second time I thought he finished second.

It must be the windows problem, try autopatcher to update to the latest pack. And then untick all of the security option, that may solve whatever bug that is there in the system hopefully.



I have no problem with the date, even a week gap is also no problem for me. At least I can release my weekday stress this way.

This post has been edited by PCcrazy: Dec 11 2006, 08:20 AM

Congratulation for making this race very healthy and clean. As for the pace I was just having a good setup here. My soft slicks can last until the end of the race.

In the beginning I was controlling the pace to alan, I didn't want to wear out my tyres. I prefer to wait until the fuel is very very light to have the final push. But alan made a mistake so the race strategy worked out for me quite well.

After the first pitstop I had this fear of blowing my engine for dropping gear too fast, so it was a conservative pace after that. Had alan made no mistake the result might be different.

Evo congrats on the consistency, thanks for caring so much for this league. We really in need of people like you, keep on. And last time I recall Brno, you are quick there. Looking forward to the challenge.

I'm dissapointed not to see ryugan pace as he has the potential to do something.

My philososphy is always = Pushing harder is not the way to drive fast, it's to apply speed and brake gradually and consistenly that makes the car happy and predictable hence faster. I believe we are all like that.

I would say I will follow majority. How about the qualy time then? Hopefully we don't drag it for too long. Because the race itself already 45 mins.

Perhaps 8 or 10 laps would suffice?

And hopefully we can have a login test session for those who fail to login last time.



The entry? You see until now I never had optimized my pit speed entry. I play safe all the time.

This post has been edited by PCcrazy: Dec 11 2006, 04:57 PM

Oh, yeah I agree. You see swinging the car to the left and right like the f1 drivers did will solve the problem. The temp I check last time already reached optimum. But I still feel not enough perhaps because we need time to get accustomed to track.

I will do the checking on motec to reconfirmed my findings.

Evo I've checked the motec and reconfirmed my findings. I'm partially right about heating up the tyres. The front end no problem, but the rear it's not up to temp that easily. I have to do several burnout. So maybe the effectiveness of 6 laps qualy is reduced to 50%. But that itself is a challenge of this format and I honestly quite like it.

Btw, as we know we can do several things like tweak the settings to used tyres effectively, but that requires time <--- hate it. It's what I did for the past two races. To work my tyres effectively. Hence reason I don't change tyres during pit stop.

I haven't tested my time yet. I will do so and will be glad to report it back. Yup 15 minutes unlimited run sounds like fun (more activity on track).

This post has been edited by PCcrazy: Dec 11 2006, 07:14 PM

Vista is damn buggy, even some unstable Linux distro is more stable IMO. It needs correct drivers so it will take time before everything is okay.

Tried that track, it was fun. But there is a bug where my car got stuck going into the banking. I LOL

Before you say that, do you use wheel in the first place? and if you use one, have you set it up appropriately? This is a priority number one.


Evo, my initial time for BRNO was mid 1m57 to low 1m58. But I think I can go faster with improved setups. I don't know yet. Because I didn't do many laps at BRNO in that MC12.



I would recommend the lambos alone instead of 575. To me, 575 is very nervous on throttle.

This post has been edited by PCcrazy: Dec 11 2006, 10:55 PM

You memorise the whole track in 4 laps? Then your memory must be really good. I just memorise certain section. My feeling is that the track is too tight for my liking. I prefer circuit like Spa or Lemans for example.



LOGI momo is very cheap you know. For RM300 you can already get one. I'm telling you the feel is very good. It's worth the money.

This post has been edited by PCcrazy: Dec 12 2006, 12:07 AM

oh yes GT4, it was still fun nevertheless. People has been too critical of GT series IMO, You know it helps promote sim racing and motorsports. Anyway I don't like fanboys, They potray exactly childish mentality -- you like to play gtr2 and rfactor is stupid, you like rfactor then LFS is arcadey <---- to me you pick what you like and shut up.