ACC Endurance Series Round 7 @ Suzuka - Mon 13th March 2023

[tabletmctablet]

Race Day !!! Hi everyone, just wanted to give a little heads up. I lost my internet connection three times in two days due to electricity tripping out and restarting my entire house smh….the power company are working locally and there has been disruption to areas in and around my neighbourhood. Night times should be ok tho, so if I disappear it’s “Power Network UK” not Aliens. Looking forward to this one so they better finish whatever they doing today lol. See you on the grid guys .

Rishi needs to get the electricity to heat his pool from somewhere....

 

[McFlunch]

Hi guys !
No practice at all for me on this track, only one or two laps just once for "fun".
I will be able to practice approximatly one hour (before the "official" practice) and adjust my setup.
Any advices on this track ?

 

[SwannyUK]

Hi guys !
No practice at all for me on this track, only one or two laps just once for "fun".
I will be able to practice approximatly one hour (before the "official" practice) and adjust my setup.
Any advices on this track ?

Just take your time through the esses after T1. Feels like you can go faster but as soon as you do it's game over and a massive loss of lap time. Get your braking points nailed, when the sun comes up it's harder to see through the final sector.

 

[McFlunch]

Just take your time through the esses after T1. Feels like you can go faster but as soon as you do it's game over and a massive loss of lap time. Get your braking points nailed, when the sun comes up it's harder to see through the final sector.

Taking notes
Thanks Chris

 

[tabletmctablet]

Right. Race day. I didn't manage to even get online until last night.

1. I'm slow, the fastest time I managed was a low 2:11, so I *will* be very much a lapped backmarker again, look out for me, I'm the dark blue Porsche and I haven't got my braking points nailed yet, so be careful, whilst I will try and ensure I get out of the way as quickly and painlessly as possible, my rookie status means I am more far prone to making a mistake than you and I don't want to collect you and take you for a grandstand seat at the scene of my accident.
2. Hardie helped me a bunch last night by acting as a pace car for me so I could get used to the track/build up a bit of speed. Thank you bud, really appreciate the help!
3. The esses are fun, aren't they?
4. I haven't got my livery sorted just yet, so I'll be in a stock livery until next week
5. I finally took the time to setup the car, drive, listen to car, adjust, drive, listen to car etc, everytime I did what I thought to be correct (using the driver61 cheat sheet helped me tons here https://driver61.com/sim-racing/driver61s-complete-assetto-corsa-competizione-ultimate-setup-guide/) the car responded, pleasingly in a way I hoped for. Super pleased I've finally got round to learning a bit of this instead of just click the aggressive setup and hope method I've been using up until now. It definitely gave me more confidence in the car.
6. I haven't found the ray-bans button mapping in the controls menu yet. Damn that sun is bright.

Overall, really looking forward to pootling round at the back as usual, Suzuka really is a driver's course eh? I love it!

 

[Rich Green]

@mklengel @Hazzatron19 @Kischte @Taj Johal @Rich Green @Reefabus @Supersoulfighta @Douglas Aird @Cengiz Gencer

Tagging in case you are free

Racing at Suzuka as the sun comes up would have been great, but unfortunately, I’ve got early shifts this week. It’s the same next week, but I’ll be keeping an eye out for future championships on here.

Have fun

 

[McFlunch]

Here's the livery @bobbyD_

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Going with the R8 tonight

 

[SwannyUK]

Right. Race day. I didn't manage to even get online until last night.

1. I'm slow, the fastest time I managed was a low 2:11, so I *will* be very much a lapped backmarker again, look out for me, I'm the dark blue Porsche and I haven't got my braking points nailed yet, so be careful, whilst I will try and ensure I get out of the way as quickly and painlessly as possible, my rookie status means I am more far prone to making a mistake than you and I don't want to collect you and take you for a grandstand seat at the scene of my accident.
2. Hardie helped me a bunch last night by acting as a pace car for me so I could get used to the track/build up a bit of speed. Thank you bud, really appreciate the help!
3. The esses are fun, aren't they?
4. I haven't got my livery sorted just yet, so I'll be in a stock livery until next week
5. I finally took the time to setup the car, drive, listen to car, adjust, drive, listen to car etc, everytime I did what I thought to be correct (using the driver61 cheat sheet helped me tons here https://driver61.com/sim-racing/driver61s-complete-assetto-corsa-competizione-ultimate-setup-guide/) the car responded, pleasingly in a way I hoped for. Super pleased I've finally got round to learning a bit of this instead of just click the aggressive setup and hope method I've been using up until now. It definitely gave me more confidence in the car.
6. I haven't found the ray-bans button mapping in the controls menu yet. Damn that sun is bright.

Overall, really looking forward to pootling round at the back as usual, Suzuka really is a driver's course eh? I love it!

It's a tough one. Keep to the racing line through the esses, virtually impossible to safely let someone past there. Have you got indicators mapped just in case you find a spot to pull off line and lift?

 

[RicardoJorge92]

Unfurtunately, I have to throw in the towel for this one.
Got worse over the weekend, and don't want to put the heart through the pace for 1 hour+.

Tough decision, as I am loving this series and really wanted to have a go at suzuka.
Have a good one!

 

[rborowik]

Ill be on for this one, busy working up until the server goes live so no practice at all for me this week.

 

[SwannyUK]

Unfurtunately, I have to throw in the towel for this one.
Got worse over the weekend, and don't want to put the heart through the pace for 1 hour+.

Tough decision, as I am loving this series and really wanted to have a go at suzuka.
Have a good one!

Rest up fella, I'm sure you'll come back swinging at Spa!

 

[JohannS]

Round 7 Suzuka Livery Pack: Download
Installation: Simply unpack the archive into 'C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Documents\Assetto Corsa Competizione\Customs', should Windows detect a duplicate, simply overwrite the files, since some liveries have been updated (Last change today 19:04).
Enjoy!

 

[akephoe]

i have to say at first sorry to Jay, i thought you leave room and let me pass in the hairpin, my fault, sorry mate.

About the rest i don't want to talk to much.
Had a good pace in quali and race, happy with the car.
But my error on the start being to far ahead? killed my race with the penalty.
the drive through was 28sec, waiting on jay another 15, so race over after 5 laps.

Will see if i show up next week, a bit frustrating currently.

Congrats to Andrew for the win and to the podium.
Thanks to Chris for organizing and Johann for the work with the livery

 

[JohannS]

A frustrating one, not gonna lie. Had a good quali lap, managed to get P2. Forgot to select fresh tyres and started on my quali tyres. Then I missed my pit marker and forgot to kill the engine, which pushed me back even further. After the pit stop, I had decent pace and managed to reduce the gap to Robert, but couldn't get in fighting range. GG to everybody, congrats to the podiums, and a big shoutout to Chris for organizing
See you all in Spa.

 

[Jay Clarke 66]

i have to say at first sorry to Jay, i thought you leave room and let me pass in the hairpin, my fault, sorry mate.

About the rest i don't want to talk much.
Had a good pace in quali and race.
But my error on the start being to far ahead? killed my race with the penalty.
the drive through was 28sec, waiting on jay another 15, so race over after 5 laps.

Will see if i show up next week, a bit frustrating currently.

Congrats to Andrew for the win and to the podium.
Thanks to Chris for organizing and Johann for the work with the livery

no problem, if it was a misleading race line then i apologise, was not intentional to confuse car behind, i had track position so i tried to stick to my usual race line at the hairpin, i assumed you would catch and pass me in the next fast sector and straight, you had a rough first few laps its unfortunate that i didnt help.

 

[tabletmctablet]

duplicate post see https://www.racedepartment.com/thre...uzuka-mon-13th-march-2023.256263/post-3652091
(edited by Chris)

 

[SwannyUK]

Well that was awesome fun!

I really enjoyed watching cars in front of me going through the esses, got me much faster, and I felt I had a nice consistent race. It helped me see how to go flat out thru the turn before the last chicane too.

Didnt make too much of a mess of the pitstop, and got away, somehow in front of JClarke? I don't know how that happened. Anyway, couple of laps later, order was restored as he went past me again. 12 minutes to go, not lapped yet, all looking good, can see leader a few corners back catching me, start prepping for a pass....

Then it happened.

My throttle suddenly went nuts, propelling me straight into the wall on the right, off, across the track, hit the left wall back across etc, it was just jammed on and there was nothing I could do.

So I bumped along the left barrier, while my brain figured out what the crap was going on, just as the leader flew past, phew, I was out of the way, throttle still nuts, only thing I could think of was to kill the power to my pc before I could possibly start causing real chaos.

Turns out a short coming out of my throttle where it meets the pins on the controller board means it was reading 5v constantly.

Oops.

Still, at least I didn't hit anyone.

On to Spa.

I just caught that on the replay, looked terrifying! Well done for getting it out of harms way. Have you got a button mapped for ignition? Could kill it that way.

 

[SwannyUK]

Results

https://simresults.net/230313-9uh

Me after that race:

 

[tabletmctablet]

Well that was awesome fun!

I really enjoyed watching cars in front of me going through the esses, got me much faster, and I felt I had a nice consistent race. It helped me see how to go flat out thru the turn before the last chicane too.

Didnt make too much of a mess of the pitstop, and got away, somehow in front of JClarke? I don't know how that happened. Anyway, couple of laps later, order was restored as he went past me again. 12 minutes to go, not lapped yet, all looking good, can see leader a few corners back catching me start prepping for a pass....

Then it happened.

My throttle suddenly went nuts, propelling me straight into the wall on the right, off, across the track, hit the left wall back across etc, it was just jammed on and there was nothing I could do.

So I bumped along the left barrier, while my brain figured out what the crap was going on, just as the leader flew past, phew, I was out of the way, throttle still nuts, only thing I could think of was to kill the power to my pc before I could possibly start causing real chaos.

Turns out a short coming out of my throttle where it meets the pins on the controller board means it was reading 5v constantly.

Oops.

Still, at least I didn't hit anyone.

On to Spa.

I just caught that on the replay, looked terrifying! Well done for getting it out of harms way. Have you got a button mapped for ignition? Could kill it that way.

Yes, I have, tbh my brain was supet panicky about causing a huge pile up, and cutting the power was the first thing it came up with...

Ive got an ignition button mapped, yes, if Id thought about it a bit more Id have probably got there in the end...

Phew. That was mad from the cockpit.

 

[tabletmctablet]

Oops. I dont know how I posted that again. Sorry.