AC GT Championship Round 6 @ Sebring - Sunday 15th September 2024

[Interslice]

Welcome to the RD Assetto Corsa Racing Club. Next Sunday we're at Sebring for some GT4 action, in Round 6 of the GT Championship!!




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This is the place to be for relaxed, friendly racing and our events are open to everybody from rookies to the seasoned pros. You will always find people around your level to battle with, so jump on in!
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Welcome to the RD Racing Club GT Championship sign up. In addition to our normal club events on Sundays, the Ginetta GT4 cars will battle it out once a month to find this years GT champion. There will be 9 events on tracks from different corners of the globe. A race middle of the at the...

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• Server: RaceDepartment.com Server 10 (Practice server throughout the race week)
• 20:00 CEST, 1900 DST, 18:00 UTC | 80 minutes - Official Practice
• 21:20 CEST, 20:20, DST 19:20 UTC) | 20 minutes - Qualification
• 21:40 CEST, 20:40DST, 19:40 UTC) | 60 minutes - Race

Cars:

• Ginetta G55 GT4 2017 LHD
• Ginetta G55 GT4 2017 RHD

Event details:

• Track: Sebring
• Pit stop: MANDATORY STOP between 10 and 50 minutes.
• Track Condition: Clear, Light wind, Fast track.
• Track Temp: 33C
• Damage: 10%
• Assists: Factory TC and ABS
• Standing Start: Jump Start = Drive through penalty

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[Interslice]

A message to all Drivers

If you run off track, you must check to see that its clear before you re enter the track. Always try to re-enter the track parallel to the racing line. Stay off the racing line until you are up to race speed and do not block any fast approaching car.

When joining the track from the pits, remain inside the white line and stay off the racing line until you are up to speed.

During qualification, do not race on your out lap, let other drivers by.


Golden Rule

1. If you hit somebody, sending them off the track and carry on like nothing happened, you take the risk of being banned for 30 days.
2. Instead, you should always wait for the affected drivers, and that way you can be 100% sure you will not get a ban.

Track limits

1. You will get 2 warnings before a 10 second penalty for exceeding track limits to your advantage. Any warnings/penalties are displayed by the server in the chat window/top of the screen at the end of each lap.

Note: Please use your full real name in Discord and in game. Not doing so may result in you being kicked from the server if an admin cannot identify who you are.

Info on scoring/penalties here

 

[Interslice]

@eN1xes @johnny85ac @Twoddle @shugsgirls @Alfred Wayne @H_Belane @KDiesel @thom462 @stigs2cousin @Allan Ramsbottom @Programmer_Rich @Douglas Aird @Kek700 @robthesquare @Shed 17 @davejevons @JamKart22 @Jari Laakkonen

Long time! We're back with phase II of the championship. Great if you could all make it out

 

[robthesquare]

I've been doing some laps on the server. This seems to be a really good combo. Hopefully we get a pretty decent sized grid!

 

[Allan Ramsbottom]

@Interslice
Would love to,but Sundays are a bit hard for me at the mo..

 

[Alfred Wayne]

I'll be there Sunday's for the next few months are going to be hard for me to make consistently, but I have this series blocked out.

Really fun combo here at Sebring

 

[Douglas Aird]

Oooh, I almost forgot. I'll see if I can make it.

 

[davejevons]

Currently stationary on the m5. Motorway closed. Will try and make it if I can but it’s not looking good.

 

[Interslice]

Currently stationary on the m5. Motorway closed. Will try and make it if I can but it’s not looking good.

Hope the traffic clears. Don't think i'll be there either. Stomach bug going around the house. Not feeling well

 

[Shed 17]

Hope the traffic clears. Don't think i'll be there either. Stomach bug going around the house. Not feeling well

Hope you will both be there but if not I'm happy to do the usual Brian.

 

[johnny85ac]

good luck to both of you, hopefully you can make it. otherwise brian get well soon!
really looking forward to this race, gonna be a tough one I think

 

[Interslice]

Hope you will both be there but if not I'm happy to do the usual Brian.

Thanks Paul. Much appreciated. Going to sit this one out.

 

[Medilloni]

My apologies to those around me at the start, I made a right pig's ear of it and probably hindered some of you

Jumped the start
Had a shoelace stuck on the clutch pedal
Pitted for the drive through.... but went to pit instead, so it didn't count (but freed shoelace lol)
With another stop for the drive through and a car filled to the brim thought it best to give you guys some peace

Have fun chaps

 

[Shed 17]

Well done everyone, some full on proper racing and strategies going on there but all very well behaved.

Hopefully Brian will be back for the next round in this series, get well soon Brian, we missed you tonight!

 

[johnny85ac]

Oh man, where to start... such a frustrating race for me...

First of all sorry @Twoddle Jason, I completely lost my rear at that last corner where I hit you like a rocket. I didn't even want to attack you, I just slightly missed my line and completely lost the rear. Made our both races really difficult. what a shame! such a rookie-like mistake

It didn't start well at all, already slided all over in the first corner, although I had practised one start to find my breaking point. but this time it went completely wrong. Nevertheless I was motivated behind jason to catch him somewhen during the race, as I new I had a strong pace in practise, where I was even one second faster than in Q. But again, as so often, I couldn't replicate it during the race... and wasn't consistent enough...

Later I crashed again when I tried to break a bit more in the last corner to get the pit entry. Fulvio was behind and I wanted to take it super-safe... the opposite happend... Lost another 10-15s or so...

Again sorry Jason, you deserved the podium and to catch up in the championship.
Of course a big compliment to you, fulvio, I'm sure you didn't have nearly as much practise as I, but again you domineted.

thanks guy, see you next time!

 

[Douglas Aird]

Great racing with you all again. I was pleasantly surprised to find I was not completely off the pace.

 

[johnny85ac]

Great racing with you all again. I was pleasantly surprised to find I was not completely off the pace.

yeah, you had a good pace and nice defending as well

 

[johnny85ac]

For me clearly the most critical corner on this track is the last one. There are so many lines you can take and none of them really feels right. As long as you are alone on the track it doesn't seem to be a big problem, but with traffic it's getting really difficult. Trying to follow your front man's line is not a good idea if you are not used to his line yourself, as well it's risky to take a completely different line.
My rear was very loose there when I didn't break into the corner in a straigt line.

 

[Partick Eaton]

I really enjoyed the race. Very close with Thomas for most of the laps. It was good to have a competitive car for once!

Thanks all, see you next round.

 

[davejevons]

I made it, although by the skin of my teeth and thanks to an understanding family who let me jump from transit van to (virtual) Ginetta.

I did alright in quali and had a good start which meant I was fighting with Doug and Paul. I was settling into
a rhythm and starting to think about how to make an overtake. Maybe I had a better exit than Doug from Sunset and could pass on the subsequent straight?

For me clearly the most critical corner on this track is the last one. There are so many lines you can take and none of them really feels right. As long as you are alone on the track it doesn't seem to be a big problem, but with traffic it's getting really difficult. Trying to follow your front man's line is not a good idea if you are not used to his line yourself, as well it's risky to take a completely different line.
My rear was very loose there when I didn't break into the corner in a straigt line.

Yep, exactly that. So much opportunity, so many lines, so much peril Brake, turn in, nice small drift, a bit more power…. front into the wall I had to wait for the entire field to pass to be able to reverse out. Obviously forgetting the Ginetta’s thing of needing revs in neutral then dumping the clutch to get it moving.

After that I had fun fighting Doug when he pitted early, dicing back and forth probably cost us time but was fun until I had to pit I was 20seconds off Richard and that stayed pretty constant until the end.

Yesterday I managed to came last in two races - one cyclocross, one sim race. However, I enjoyed the sim racing much more and was mostly pleased with how I drove. The lesson was very much it’s not where you finish but how you get there.