rF2 F1 1979 @ Österreichring - Monday 29th April 2024

[Jimlaad43]

Historic racing is just a chance to explore what Motorsport used to be, and allows us to fully send it with classic cars on race tracks that don't exist any more. The fearsome Österreichring is one of those glorious circuits with high-speed corners, not much runoff and a hastily installed chicane that just screams 70's and 80's Formula 1. Who will tame the beasts?

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• F1 1979 - [STEAM]

Track: F1 1986 Historical Tracks - [STEAM]
Layout: 01-Österreichring, GP Austria 17 August

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Air Temperature: Weather
Fixed Setups: No
Start Type: Standing
Driving Assists: Auto Clutch, Auto Shifting
Time: Day
Weather: Forecast
ABS/TC: Low
Gimmicks: Different car performances

Schedule: (EU) Monday 29th April 2024
Practice: 18:00UTC | 19:00 BST | 20:00CEST (75 minutes)
Qualifying: 19:10UTC | 20:10 BST | 21:10CEST (15 minutes)
Warm-Up: 19:25UTC | 20:25 BST | 21:25CEST (5 minutes)
Race: 19:30UTC | 20:30 BST | 21:30CEST (26 Laps)

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Spoiler: Information & Basic Rules

• All of the standard Racing Club Rules still apply to this event.
• Custom liveries are both allowed and encouraged! Show off your Photoshop (or Google) skills and turn up with a unique car colour that we will all know is you on track!
• Discord is not mandatory, but is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Please use Push to Talk where possible.

DRIVER LIST
The cars have been sorted into Tiers based on their performance and ease of driving. A full breakdown of this is shown in the second post. Please sign up and indicate which car you would like to drive. If you are a quicker driver, please choose a lower Tiered car, as this is intended to balance us all out to make us similar pace. I will encourage only rookies new to the club to choose the S Tier cars, everyone else please be creative with your choices. I may ask you to drop down a tier if we have seen your pace in previous races. Only pick D Tier if you either really like that car or if you want to be a sadist, as they are truly terrible cars.

SIGNED UP RACERS: 6

S Tier
2: Albilad-Saudia Williams
- Alan Jones: Free Spot
- Clay Regazzoni: Free Spot

3: Ligier Gitanes
- Jacques Laffite: Free Spot
- Patrick Depailler: Free Spot

6: Renault Elf
- Jean-Pierre Jabouille (RS11): Free Spot
- Rene Arnoux (RS12): Free Spot

A Tier
8: Parmalat Brabham
- Niki Lauda: Michel vL
- Nelson Piquet: Kresh

9: Warsteiner Arrows
- Ricardo Patrese: Free Spot
- Jochen Mass: Free Spot

13: Olympus Wolf
- James Hunt: David Steinacher
- Keke Rosberg: Free Spot

B Tier
7: Marlboro McLaren
John Watson: Steve Le Gallez
- Patrick Tambay: Free Spot

14: Autodelta Alfa Romeo
- Bruno Giacomelli: Redvaliant
- Vittorio Brambilla: Free Spot

C Tier
5: Candy Tyrrell
- Didier Pironi: Jimlaad43
- Jean-Pierre Jarier: Free Spot

12: Fittipaldi Copersucar
- Emerson Fittipaldi: Free Spot

15: Ensign
- Derek Daly: Free Spot

16: Merzario
- Arturo Merzario: Free Spot

D Tier
1: Scuderia Ferrari
- Jody Scheckter: Free Spot
- Gilles Villeneuve: RockRacing77

4: Martini Lotus
- Mario Andretti: Free Spot
- Carlos Reutemann: Free Spot
- Hector Rebaque (Rebaque): Free Spot

10: Shadow
- Elio de Angelis (Interscope): Free Spot
- Jan Lammers (Samson): Lesley Buurlage

11: ATS
- Hans Stuck: Free Spot

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[Jimlaad43]

F1 1979 Car characteristics
All cars driven around Dijon-Prenois and compared. Reference laptimes show the time I could get using the same setup, fuel load and number of laps in the car to learn it. Use these as a reference, but of course take it with a pinch of salt as not every lap was perfect to the car. All laptimes are kept hidden, but a +X.X value is shown for how many seconds off the fastest car they were.

S Tier
2: Albilad-Saudia Williams (Cosworth DFV V8)
5 Gears (Ref laptime: +0.0s)
The car with the strongest front-end by a long shot. You can brake late and still chuck it into fast corners much later than any other car. Maybe doesn't have the greatest driveability off slow corners, but it makes up for that elsewhere.

3: Ligier Gitanes (Cosworth DFV V8)
6 Gears (Ref laptime: +0.0s)
What a car! So much grip in the corners, with low ratios means you can be a gear higher than any other car in all the corners. Pitiful straight-line speed is the only downside of this supremely quick car.

6: Renault Elf (Renault V6t)
6 Gears (Ref laptime: +0.0s)
This car is crazy fast. 5mph up in the speed traps on all the other cars, balanced through the high and low speed corners, and once you are out of the turn, the Turbo spools in and blasts you towards the next braking point. Struggles out of slow corners because of Turbo Lag, but that's it. RS11 and RS12 are exactly the same car.

A Tier
8: Parmalat Brabham (Alfa-Romeo V12)
6 Gears (Ref laptime: +0.6s)
A strong engine that accelerates faster than the Cosworth DFVs, this car doesn't have the downforce to properly compete in high-speed corners, but once it gets the power down it can just rev higher and reach the next braking point really soon.

9: Warsteiner Arrows (Cosworth DFV V8)
5 Gears (Ref laptime: +0.4s)
While slightly weak in slow-speed corners, this Arrows is a monster in the high-speed corners. May struggle in medium-speed to deal with entry speed other cars can carry, but in 4th or 5th gear corners, nothing else is as fast or balanced through there.

13: Olympus Wolf (Cosworth DFV V8)
5 Gears (Ref laptime: +0.6s)
An absolute joy to drive, the Wolf is surprisingly quick and forgiving. You can slide the rear a bit and keep the speed up. Not quite ultimate downforce, so will always lose some time in the faster corners, but massively driveable and good fun.

B Tier
7: Marlboro McLaren (Cosworth DFV V8)
6 Gears (Ref laptime: +1.2s)
Very balanced in high-speed sections, including throttle pickup. Tail-happy in the slow-speed corners makes it difficult to work out how to best take them, and time slips away easily there.

14: Autodelta Alfa Romeo (Alfa Romeo V12)
6 Gears (Ref laptime: +0.8s)
High top speed in this Alfa makes it good down the straights, with the long gearing helping on the exit of fast corners. Horrible understeer though which takes time to get used to, and is made up for with the Torquey engine. Understeer and long braking zones transition to oversteer unpredictably in slow-speed corners.

C Tier
5: Candy Tyrrell (Cosworth DFV V8)
5 Gears (Ref laptime: +1.1s)
An almost-forgiving oversteery car, the Tyrrell will kick out the rear a bit in the high-speed sections, but be very strong in the slower corners. Good top speed makes this a very racy, if slidy, car.

12: Fittipaldi Copersucar (Cosworth DFV V8)
5 Gears (Ref laptime: +1.3s)
What initially feels like a horribly understeery car is actually just a balanced car with no grip. Balanced but slow through all corners, this is actually a decent car to drive if you're not worried about overall laptimes.

15: Ensign (Cosworth DFV V8)
5 Gears (Ref laptime: +1.3s)
A slow car, but one that is easy to drive and pretty controllable. Struggles with overall downforce in the high-speed corners, but is pretty settled in the slower ones and doesn't feel particularly over or understeery.

16: Merzario (Cosworth DFV V8)
5 Gears (Ref laptime: +1.2s)
This car is pretty driveable and not too slow. Struggles with high-speed turn in, but seems relaxed at the slow speed corners and drives out well.

D Tier
1: Scuderia Ferrari (Ferrari F12)
5 Gears (Ref laptime: +1.3s)
For the championship winning car, this is a difficult and slow one to drive. Comfortably the slowest car in a straight line, the Ferrari has a very snappy rear end, so there's a lot of oversteer. At a certain point the rear will just lose all grip and snap you the other way as you are counter steering. This probably needs a lot of setup work to get it quick because it was not happy or fast at all.

4: Martini Lotus (Cosworth DFV V8)
5 Gears (Ref laptime: +1.7s)
Wow this car is awful. This car was the 1978 dominant champion, but it was only because Lotus were the first to crack Ground Effect. They stood still while everyone else refined it and made it much more potent because it is really slow here. Crazy oversteer in high and low speed corners which just makes it impossible to push.

10: Shadow (Cosworth DFV V8)
5 Gears (Ref laptime: +1.7s)
This car is just unrefined and slow. Doesn't feel like I could extract much more out of it. Understeer and Oversteer are pretty random and massively time sapping.

11: ATS (Cosworth DFV V8)
5 Gears (Ref laptime: +1.9s)
Very oversteery car in any corner 3rd Gear or above. Struggles to carry speed into these and cannot be driven with sharp steering inputs for fear of major oversteer moments. Deal with this and you can get laptime out of it though, may need setup changes to make it work.

Tier List
This ranking is based on not just overall laptime and pace, but also driveability and overall feelings to drive and race with the car.
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[David Steinacher]

I would like to reserve a spot in any S tier car

 

[Jimlaad43]

I would like to reserve a spot in any S tier car

I am reserving S Tier for new drivers, we want to balance this out. Please choose an A or B Tier at highest.

I will be doing this to everyone, it'll create a closer race in the end.

 

[David Steinacher]

alright fine for me will do so

 

[Jimlaad43]

Alrighty, let's get the rFactor 2 club back up in numbers! Come along for this fantastic race and let's have some fun. Please be realistic of your usual skill level in these club races when choosing your car. If you're usually at the front, please pick a lower tiered car, if you're usually mid-pack, please pick A or B tier. If you are new to the club or feel less confident usually, then pick an S-Tier car, as the are the easiest to drive and learn these cars with.
@akephoe @AlB_3010 @Andrew Sebastian @Bob Luneski @Chark @Chucky61 @Colin Peach @Cosimo @Craig Dunkley @Daniel R. @dbx71 @Dean Maković @Denis Betty @eN1xes @groy1980 @Hartmut2 @Herlev @H_Belane @Ingemar Petersson @Interslice @Jack Smith @Jan Larsen @Jasje @Jim Carvalho @joecronk @jubes1971 @Julian Strasser @Kamran Khan @Kresh @Lesley Buurlage @Luca Ciarfella @Maciej Strzeboński @max1966i @Michael Rudolf @Michel vL @Monkey T @Ole Marius Myrvold @Oliver Bunz @pattikins @Paul_V @Peevee88 @PurgerUK @Rafnix @Redvaliant @Rich Green @RockRacing77 @Ronny van Rooij @Ross McGregor @Roy Magnes @Sanbone @SimApprentice21 @sisco55 @soulfaster @Stammeleer @Stefan Hiller @Steve Le Gallez @SwannyUK @The Almighty Snark @thegreatradish @Thomas Hoelzl @ThreeLionz @Xalfy @Yves Larose

 

[Lesley Buurlage]

lammers's Shadow pls

 

[akephoe]

Sorry Jim, but Mondays clashes always with the ACC Club races.

 

[Michel vL]

I think I'll go with Lauda's Brabham (again )

 

[Kresh]

I haven't tried these cars, but I will blindly choose the Brabham please.

 

[Redvaliant]

I'm in. probably the Alfa as I don't ever learn lessons.

 

[RockRacing77]

Gilles Ferrari for me please

 

[Steve Le Gallez]

7 McLaren for me please
John Watson

 

[RockRacing77]

Alrighty, let's get the rFactor 2 club back up in numbers! Come along for this fantastic race and let's have some fun. Please be realistic of your usual skill level in these club races when choosing your car. If you're usually at the front, please pick a lower tiered car, if you're usually mid-pack, please pick A or B tier. If you are new to the club or feel less confident usually, then pick an S-Tier car, as the are the easiest to drive and learn these cars with.
@akephoe @AlB_3010 @Andrew Sebastian @Bob Luneski @Chark @Chucky61 @Colin Peach @Cosimo @Craig Dunkley @Daniel R. @dbx71 @Dean Maković @Denis Betty @eN1xes @groy1980 @Hartmut2 @Herlev @H_Belane @Ingemar Petersson @Interslice @Jack Smith @Jan Larsen @Jasje @Jim Carvalho @joecronk @jubes1971 @Julian Strasser @Kamran Khan @Kresh @Lesley Buurlage @Luca Ciarfella @Maciej Strzeboński @max1966i @Michael Rudolf @Michel vL @Monkey T @Ole Marius Myrvold @Oliver Bunz @pattikins @Paul_V @Peevee88 @PurgerUK @Rafnix @Redvaliant @Rich Green @RockRacing77 @Ronny van Rooij @Ross McGregor @Roy Magnes @Sanbone @SimApprentice21 @sisco55 @soulfaster @Stammeleer @Stefan Hiller @Steve Le Gallez @SwannyUK @The Almighty Snark @thegreatradish @Thomas Hoelzl @ThreeLionz @Xalfy @Yves Larose

Not ready in time , therefore can't make it

 

[Lesley Buurlage]

Glad to finally get a win in these cars, even though i missed my renault these are still so fun to drive. Some great battling with the Brabham boys at the start too