AC FWD vs RWD: Abarth500/Swift/MX5@Le Mancorchamps, Wed 20th March 2024

[HF2000]

Welcome to the RD Racing Club.

How about a race on the motorway of Belgium? A fictive track but very nice done with lots of high speed corners.

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• 20:00 CET, 19:00 GMT (19:00 UTC) | 60 minutes - Official Practice
• 21:05 CET, 20:05 GMT (20:05 UTC) | 20 minutes - Qualification
• 21:30 CET, 20:30 GMT (20:30 UTC) | 60 minutes - Race
• Practiceserver available during the week. Same password.

Event details:

• Cars: Abarth 500 Assetto Corse/Mazda MX5 Cup/Suzuki Swift R3 Sport
  • Country skins for Abarth
  • RaceDepartment skin for Abarth
  • F1 skins for MX5
  • Suzuki Swift mod
• Track: Le Mancorchamps, Belgium
• Pit stop: Mandatory (at least 1 liter of fuel)
• Tyre blankets: Yes
• Track Road temperature: 37 Celsius
• Track grip: 100%
• Track limits: No more than 2 wheels over the white/yellow line without a lift of the gas please. You will be penalized if you break this rule.
• Damage: 10%
• Fuel Consumption: 40%
• Tyre wear: 10%

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Entry list (tab entrants)

 

[Kek700]

the Mazda's will love this circuit, difficult'ish to learn to get the max out of the car, goes from easy to difficult when pushing. But I see Thomas and Allan flying here, not literally I hope.
As for out top alien visitors, well that is obvious.
PS. this circuit will bite, if you over do it.

 

[RS242]

Track has an amazing flow, really fun to drive!
And I agree with @Kek700 , with the right amount of skill you can chop seconds in each section!
See you Wednesday!

 

[KDiesel]

Race prediction for Abarth, dead last/DNF.

 

[Shed 17]

Hi Han, my Internet is down at the moment and not expected to be back until later this evening, so looks like I,ll miss tonight.

 

[RS242]

Race prediction for Abarth, dead last/DNF.

Why not use the opportunity to try the flying beehive?

 

[KDiesel]

Why not use the opportunity to try the flying beehive?

No way, somebody must fight for italians!

 

[Boukâh]

Results are in:

Result 240320-cD0 - lemancorchamps - Unknown or offline - Assetto Corsa - Simresults

Result 240320-cD0 - lemancorchamps - Unknown or offline - Assetto Corsa - Simresults - The results viewer for your favorite race sims.

simresults.net

 

[Boukâh]

Nice racing guys!

Had fun with every Ricardo I could find on the track and others as well. I just hit the green glue a little too often, but had fun anyway.

Thanks Han, congrats podium!

 

[HF2000]

Thanks all for racing! Congrats to the podium, especially for Ernie with a well deserved win.

Next week a real beauty: https://www.racedepartment.com/thre...eine-nordschleife-wed-27th-march-2024.270195/

 

[Kek700]

Well that track suited me, with a bit of luck thrown into the mix too.
No heavy braking, no technical corners, slow mid speed corners that match my slow old brain, I was in my element.
Felt for Kimi in the Abarth, practiced here in what i thought would be a difficult car to beat until i saw Allan's time. Nothing to report, saw no one for the whole race apart from Jose who kindly let me passed.
I am glad that these races are few and far between. i was a lonely 60 minuets

 

[Shed 17]

It looks like I missed a good one last night, my internet came back on just as the race was finishing, typical!
But well done to Ernie, the track certainly looked like the Suzuki would work well around the curves if you could get a clean lap.

Don't forget that tonight is round 3 of the F3 championship around the superb Melbourne circuit and with the FI race there this Sunday, a chance to find out what it's like in an open wheeler.

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And now for something completely different!
With the RD site being updated this Friday here is early notice of the race for next Thursday.

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Based on the Brazilian Stock Car series these big V8's sound great and drive well too, so get yourself in one( they are all the same underneath, just different bodies) and come and have some fun on the 28th.

 

[zn1zn2c]

That was one of the best races I've had in a while! Such a great track to get into the flow and just keep lapping. The only thing missing was more people contending.

Qualified 7th which I was OK with since I was a couple of seconds faster than the previous day. Got off to a pretty bad start though, touching the grass a little bit. Ended up at the back, but had a lot of fun trying to regain the positions.

Had some great battles with Steve, Bouke and Jason, swapping places a few times. At a certain point I was behind Ricardo, slowly gaining on him. He had to pit right when I was getting close, which was fortunate for my result but very unfortunate for the race. Hoped I could fight him a bit. I was actually surprised by the pace he gained during the race. At one point I think he was going faster than me. Really good job on that Ricardo! I've been noticing you're getting faster the last few races. Looks like all the practice is paying off, keep it up!

Btw @Twoddle, at one point you were right behind me when I got into the grass for a bit. I viewed the replay and your steering wheel was making some chaotic movements whilst you were trying to dodge me. Honestly looked a bit painful. Hope you're alright, considering your injury and all.

Congratulations to Ernie, Allan and Jason! Thanks Han for all the work. You've found a couple of gems lately. Next week is looking awesome as well! I signed up as soon as I saw what track we're racing at.

Hope to see you all again (and others!) next week!