2015 RD Touring Car Championship (Stock Car Extreme)

Vimal Ana · Oct 5, 2015

~~Can't participate this coming weekend due to work( should be back for round 3 though~~
Take that back. I can participate!

Remco de Wildt · Oct 5, 2015

Appears to be some changes in the club, racing marcas on monday and a bit later timewise.
Anybody some practice tonight?

http://www.racedepartment.com/threa...gua-curva-sul-monday-october-5th-2015.111620/

quicksilver384 · Oct 5, 2015

@Bram are we to use the custom skin for this race on server 2?? I know there were issues last time while using them.

Thanks.

Bram Hengeveld · Oct 5, 2015

Absolutely @quicksilver384

Last time we had to move the second room to a different server and didn't have enough time anymore to install the pack.

Lets enjoy all the color combos this time

quicksilver384 · Oct 5, 2015

ahh cool chears

Yay time to unleash the ginger among us. although the wig may have adverse aerodynamic effects.

Tume · Oct 5, 2015

Andrew just made it in...

Antmerino · Oct 5, 2015

Thanks God, I will be able to see the amazing skin of @Enzo Fazzi in the race

Bram said:
Absolutely @quicksilver384 Last time we had to move the second room to a different server and didn't have enough time anymore to install the pack.

Lets enjoy all the color combos this time

Lorenzo Bonder · Oct 5, 2015

Time to start to put some laps in this week. 40 laps per day should be enough right?

Enzo Fazzi · Oct 5, 2015

Antmerino said:
Thanks God, I will be able to see the amazing skin of @Enzo Fazzi in the race

Such a shame you'll only see the rear end.

#LetTheTrashTalkBegin

Lorenzo Bonder · Oct 5, 2015

If so it begins, I've heard some folks are doing 1.14s around the track (JUST HEARD SOMEWHERE AND I'LL STOP HERE).

#AndSoItBeginsAndSoItEnds

Ole Marius Myrvold · Oct 5, 2015

I'm ready to race this time!

@Roy Magnes you are in for a real beating here! No more being the best Norwegian for you!

Maverick24 · Oct 6, 2015

hi all
present for the reserve

Arne Dopudja · Oct 6, 2015

Does it pay off in any way to drive with the ABS? GT3 cars are built to use abs and tc, so it makes sense, but i have never driven normal tourers with abs in any game. I am not very familiar with this engine, so id like to get peoples opinion on abs.

Personally i prefer the raw brake input, but is it faster with abs?

Tero Dahlberg · Oct 6, 2015

Arne Dopudja said:
Does it pay off in any way to drive with the ABS? GT3 cars are built to use abs and tc, so it makes sense, but i have never driven normal tourers with abs in any game. I am not very familiar with this engine, so id like to get peoples opinion on abs.

Personally i prefer the raw brake input, but is it faster with abs?

Story time!

I tend to run without any "aids" by default. But I know TC and ABS have their uses and advantages when done right. iRacing so far tends to be a sim that does them really well. Instead of being considered and treated as driver aids, like most sims tend to do, they've implemented "racing TC" and "racing ABS". The difference being that instead of TC and ABS being incredibly intrusive even on the lowest setting, often on purpose to make people using them slower, the way iR does it is very subtle and thus also beneficial. They add consistency and save tyres.

After Cascavel races I took a look at qualy times using Simresult and noticed that practically everyone was running with ABS on (low, server/league doesn't allow higher), or at least had toggled ABS off/low at some point. So I tried it myself and I think it's beneficial to have enabled.

Thomas Hinss · Oct 6, 2015

Tero explained it better than I ever could above but here's my two cents worth

Personally I find on low it does indeed help. They aid in avoiding lock ups (in the case of ABS) and sliding the car around (in the case of TC) without taking too much speed away in doing so. Basically, they give you a little assist when needed, without going too far and slowing you down like I suspect having them on high or full settings would do (though I could be wrong there to be fair, just what I assume)

Tero Dahlberg · Oct 6, 2015

I should add that I think Reiza might (seem to) have a similar philosophy and approach to TC and ABS as iRacing does, and have thus implemented them differently, if that's possible with the now fairly old engine that no doubt was built to have them as "intrusive driver aids".

I'm fairly new to SCE and their cars but have had lots and lots of laps in rF1 and TC and ABS were never something you wanted to use as those just made you slower. Well, in my experience anyway.

Arne Dopudja · Oct 6, 2015

I guess low it is then. I always had it on low in this league so far, but just wanted to know if it isnt a handicap. Thanks for the answers!

Tero Dahlberg · Oct 6, 2015

Arne Dopudja said:
I guess low it is then. I always had it on low in this league so far, but just wanted to know if it isnt a handicap. Thanks for the answers!

Obviously you should test and see which fits you better