AC DRIVE TO SURVIVE@RedBullRing, Thu 7th July 2022

HF2000 · Jul 1, 2022

Welcome to the RD Racing Club.

This week the RedBullRing in Austria. A track with a very nice flow if you can master the off cambercorners. But will the tyres last??

STILL SPOTS AVAILABLE! JUST SEND ME A PM AND I'LL ADD YOU!

If you didn't sign up for this all season championship, go here and post a request to enter.

https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/drive-to-survive-formula-l-championship-f1-simulation.222638/

Server information:

Practice Server: #04 (Available throughout the race week) Password: dunlop
Race server: S.GP Password: dunlop
20:00 CEST, 19:00 BST (18:00 UTC) | 12 minutes - Official Practice
20:15 CEST, 19:15 BST (18:15 UTC) | 12 minutes - Qualification
20:30 CEST, 19:30 BST (18:30 UTC) | 30 minutes - Race

Event details:

Cars: Ligier JS8 S1
Track: GPK Red Bull Ring, Austria
Pit stop: Mandatory
Tyre blankets: Yes
Track Temps: 23C air/34C track
Track Condition: Clear
Track grip: 96% increasing to 100% after about 10 minutes.
Damage: 10%
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HF2000 · Jul 1, 2022

Practice server is up!

RasmusP · Jul 1, 2022

Can't wait to go 3 wide into T1. I don't think that would end well, but it would sure be a lot of fun!

HF2000 · Jul 1, 2022

Warning: Today the track is updated to version 1.1
So is the practice server now!

RasmusP · Jul 1, 2022

HF2000 said:
Warning: Today the track is updated to version 1.1
So is the practice server now!

My gif is from the updated version! With the older, bumpier T1, there wasn't a chance flying through it like that

HeShines · Jul 6, 2022

Sadly can't attend on thursday. Can you take me off the event list since I can't do it myself?

HF2000 · Jul 6, 2022

HeShines said:
Sadly can't attend on thursday. Can you take me off the event list since I can't do it myself?

Is it only for this race or for the whole championship?

HeShines · Jul 6, 2022

HF2000 said:
Is it only for this race or for the whole championship?

This race

HF2000 · Jul 6, 2022

HeShines said:
This race

Then there's no need to withdraw. You will just get no points.

thom462 · Jul 7, 2022

Damn it, internet connection is gone since ten minutes. Was looking forward to this. Maybe it gets back next ten minutes but I doubt it. Have fun.

eN1xes · Jul 7, 2022

like 10x barrel roll :'D dont worry about the contact i saw u was trying to hold the car Sander congratz on the first half of the race Rasmus ur pace was very good really hard to catch u

RasmusP · Jul 7, 2022

Well, that was one way to win a race, lol!

Look at these beautiful shadows from the fence with TAA and GrassFX!

But AC physics never disappoint, so look at this video of the crash!

Meanwhile, I was casually cruising to the win in motorcycle-style

(that emojie fits so well, lol!)

eN1xes · Jul 7, 2022

in the end i got really lucky i was able to continue the race car was like possessed

RasmusP · Jul 7, 2022

eN1xes said:
in the end i got really lucky i was able to continue the race car was like possessed

Indeed.. When I did something similar during practice for Barcelona, my suspension was completely inverted and I was teleported to the pits

Shed 17 · Jul 7, 2022

A weird thing happened at the start, my camera position changed to a view from behind the car. I didn’t realise and thought that I was following another car but It was actually me I was following into T1. By the time I realised, Fulvio and Sandor had got by but after overtaking myself

I went off after Sandor.
It took a couple of laps to get by and then I had Ernie for company.
This battle went on all race long as we pitted at the same time but I managed to hang on to lead a four car train into P3 as best of the rest behind the super quick Rasmus and Fulvio.
Thanks Han for setting this up and well done all for making a race of it.

HF2000 · Jul 7, 2022

Thanks all for racing. It was fun again although my jumpstart with 20s penalty ruined my chances on a podium.

For those who want some more close racing fun: https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/estonia3-highlands-short-tue-12th-july-2022.241391/

thom462 · Jul 8, 2022

RasmusP said:
Well, that was one way to win a race, lol!

Look at these beautiful shadows from the fence with TAA and GrassFX!
View attachment 580227

But AC physics never disappoint, so look at this video of the crash!

Meanwhile, I was casually cruising to the win in motorcycle-style (that emojie fits so well, lol!)
View attachment 580230

Seems you guys had fun which is great, pity I missed it due to internet problems. In training could do low 1.16 times, high 1.15 is indeed fast. Oh, just got connected again after nearly a whole day. Thx Vodafone.......

RasmusP · Jul 8, 2022

thom462 said:
Seems you guys had fun which is great, pity I missed it due to internet problems. In training could do low 1.16 times, high 1.15 is indeed fast. Oh, just got connected again after nearly a whole day. Thx Vodafone.......

Yeah we would've loved to have you in the mix!
Laptimes highly vary with grip, wind and temps! I didn't look at them due to this.

Btw Han: could we increase the laps needed to improve by 20% but make the session translation to 99% or so?
Currently it's qualy with 96-98% grip and then race with 96 again and just barely reaching 100% on longer tracks.

Would be cool to get qualy to 99 or 100 at the end and then start the race with 98 or 99 and getting full grip after 10 minutes.

Might make tyre change yes/no more difficult to judge too.
Currently the lower grip with increased slip shreds through the first set of rears

RasmusP · Jul 9, 2022

I didn't check the config before to be honest... but now had some thinking.

So we have:

Start value = 96
Randomness = 0
Transferred grip = 0
Laps to improve grip = 20

Practice beginning: 96%
Laps in practice: 33 -> 97% grip

Qualy beginning: 96% again
Qualy laps: 42 -> 98% grip for the last 2 laps that were done

Race beginning: 96%
Race laps: 172

96% -> 100% needs 80 laps, so around halfway through the race we got to full grip.

My example calculation that I would personally like:

Start value = 96%
Randomness = 0
Transferred grip = 75
Laps to improve = 22

Would've went like this then:
Practice beginning: 96%
Laps in practice: 33 -> 97% grip

Qualy beginning: 96 or 97%, not sure? But afaik it's saved with decimals...
Qualy laps: 42 -> so safely 98% for a few last laps I'd guess.

Race beginning: 97-98%
Race laps: 172
-->> 100% after 40 laps, meaning after around 7 minutes but definitely full grip for the second stint, making shredded tyres less slippery and fresh tyres grip a bit more.

My hope would be that the cliff at the end of the tyres would come a bit later. Right now it gets really uncontrollable towards the last 8 minutes. Monaco was fine but when I tested with x5 tyre-wear at Baku, I couldn't even roll through corners anymore without risking to spin

At Paul Ricard, the lap times will be around 1:50'ish. Taking RBR as a baseline, that would roughly mean:
20 laps in practice
30 laps in qualy
120 laps in the race

I guess the "laps to improve" could be set to 15-20 or the transferred grip set to 90-100

(or both?)

Just some input, I'm fine with whatever you decide Han, or the rest would like! For me, the sliding is fun, but i find these cars to be the most fun to drive with full grip.

HF2000 · Jul 9, 2022

RasmusP said:
I didn't check the config before to be honest... but now had some thinking.

So we have:

Start value = 96
Randomness = 0
Transferred grip = 0
Laps to improve grip = 20

Practice beginning: 96%
Laps in practice: 33 -> 97% grip

Qualy beginning: 96% again
Qualy laps: 42 -> 98% grip for the last 2 laps that were done

Race beginning: 96%
Race laps: 172
96% -> 100% needs 80 laps, so around halfway through the race we got to full grip.

My example calculation that I would personally like:

Start value = 96%
Randomness = 0
Transferred grip = 75
Laps to improve = 22

Would've went like this then:
Practice beginning: 96%
Laps in practice: 33 -> 97% grip

Qualy beginning: 96 or 97%, not sure? But afaik it's saved with decimals...
Qualy laps: 42 -> so safely 98% for a few last laps I'd guess.

Race beginning: 97-98%
Race laps: 172
-->> 100% after 40 laps, meaning after around 7 minutes but definitely full grip for the second stint, making shredded tyres less slippery and fresh tyres grip a bit more.

My hope would be that the cliff at the end of the tyres would come a bit later. Right now it gets really uncontrollable towards the last 8 minutes. Monaco was fine but when I tested with x5 tyre-wear at Baku, I couldn't even roll through corners anymore without risking to spin

At Paul Ricard, the lap times will be around 1:50'ish. Taking RBR as a baseline, that would roughly mean:
20 laps in practice
30 laps in qualy
120 laps in the race

I guess the "laps to improve" could be set to 15-20 or the transferred grip set to 90-100 (or both?)

Just some input, I'm fine with whatever you decide Han, or the rest would like! For me, the sliding is fun, but i find these cars to be the most fun to drive with full grip.

I had set the laps to improve grip for 15+ participants. With only 7 drivers it will take twice as long.
But from my experience now I don't think the lower grip contributes to the fun so I will set it to 100 for the next races.