AC GT3 @ Monza - Sunday 7th February 2021

[RasmusP]

OK guys, let's see who's fast. I only ran 3 laps, half tank, and no other setup options. Now beat this:

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[RasmusP]

@Chris Down did the list for you since I caused quite some of the off-topic posts

I'll take the 650s again (already signed up, car on TBD)

I was prepping for Le Mans, but I'll be happy to visit Monza. AMG for me. Thanks Chris!

i'm in car tbd

It's been a while since I raced with you guys
I'll take the Audi

I should be able to make it this weekend, so sign me up in the GTR please Chris

sign me up plz !! for the car I've got to try first

UPDATE



I'll get the Z4 as usual as it fits my style more than the other cars. I'd rather keep a steady car than a faster car that spin me around every corners lol

I'll go for a "try not to spin it" Lamborghini GT3 please @Chris Down

Wiiihiiiii
Count me in for now
McNissan 650GTR

I´m in GTR

@Chris Down 650s for me again pls

650 for me please. Thank you.

In with the Z4 please!

@Chris Down please sign me up with the R8. (Negotiations with my wife have been succesfull)

Now I hope to get some practice laps in...

I would like to join this race. This will be my first online race and im sooo exited! Im not sure what car i will use. Do i have to decide on a car before the race?

Count me in, 650S

me to Please porsche 911 Thanks

On monza the GT-R and the Lambo are the fastest right? I might be going for the challenge of driving a different car on this event because I might have some time to practise...

Sign me up, I will try out the Mclaren this time please @Chris Down.

Looks like upcoming Sunday will be the first one I'll be at home since long time. One Lambo pls It will also be my first race with my new VR headset. Pretty exited I am.

 

[Interslice]

PS: Reading through this thread made me feel with Chris, because he has to find the sign ups in between. Maybe some technical stuff is worth an own thread.

It got out of hand! Sorry chris!

 

[Goblin616]

Here's an old story:

I started practicing offline. It took some time, but I got that AMG dialled in pretty well I thought. Super stable, quick through corners, no spins, totally comfortable. Good times, little faster each lap. Then I go online... everybody is 3, 3.5s faster than I am.

It's disheartening.

 

[Marko77]

Here's an old story:

I started practicing offline. It took some time, but I got that AMG dialled in pretty well I thought. Super stable, quick through corners, no spins, totally comfortable. Good times, little faster each lap. Then I go online... everybody is 3, 3.5s faster than I am.

It's disheartening.

Here's an old story:

I started practicing offline. It took some time, but I got that AMG dialled in pretty well I thought. Super stable, quick through corners, no spins, totally comfortable. Good times, little faster each lap. Then I go online... everybody is 3, 3.5s faster than I am.

It's disheartening.

Not an unfamiliar experience. 3 sec behind some of the fast people is doing fairly well. The last 3 sec is hard to crack. Many are getting better together each week too. Keeping the challenge fun counts too.

 

[RasmusP]

Here's an old story:

I started practicing offline. It took some time, but I got that AMG dialled in pretty well I thought. Super stable, quick through corners, no spins, totally comfortable. Good times, little faster each lap. Then I go online... everybody is 3, 3.5s faster than I am.

It's disheartening.

Don't be let down. Just wait for the race and you won't be alone with your pace!

Monza is a track with lots of straights and very slow corners.
If you don't get one of these corners perfectly, 0.5-1.0s are easily lost.
So 3.5s is totally fine!

Last time at Monza the difference between the best race lap of the fastest driver and the best race lap of the slowest driver was 4.473s!

 

[Interslice]

Here's an old story:

I started practicing offline. It took some time, but I got that AMG dialled in pretty well I thought. Super stable, quick through corners, no spins, totally comfortable. Good times, little faster each lap. Then I go online... everybody is 3, 3.5s faster than I am.

It's disheartening.

My times first time out at this track were same as yours were tonight. I said it the other week, forget about other peoples times and set other goals. My only goal week in week out is to finish same or better than i qualify. The only times I'm worried about beating are my own pb's.

 

[adie_the_badie]

very slow corners.

An hour-long lesson on this tonight. Identical spins in literally the same places in T-7 and T-9.
*Slow is smooth, smooth is fast*

My only goal week in week out is to finish same or better than i qualify.

+1 for this. Seeing as we only last raced here in November, I'd like to beat my consistency percentage. Does not matter if that's 0.1%, it's still an improvement.

 

[HF2000]

Here's an old story:

I started practicing offline. It took some time, but I got that AMG dialled in pretty well I thought. Super stable, quick through corners, no spins, totally comfortable. Good times, little faster each lap. Then I go online... everybody is 3, 3.5s faster than I am.

It's disheartening.

I've been there. It's quite normal unless you're have a really great talent. I advice you first to focus on keeping the car on track and enjoy that you will not finish last. Then set your goal on not being lapped by non aliens. You will be a midfielder then. Next goal is not being lapped by Chris. Now that is hard especially on short tracks. After two years I'm in that fase if I can keep my car on track. But as Mark said, the last seconds are the hardest to achieve and to be honest, I won't get there but as long as I have fun with battles with guys of similar pace, I will keep doing this. But if you put the bar too high for yourself, it will get frustrating and you will loose the fun in it.

And still there will be frustrating moments. Spinning 5 times on BrandsHatch for instance a couple of races ago. But also last Tuesday in which I joined a 3x3laps short championship with DTM cars on the Nordschleife. I did quite some practising for that and I was happy with my lap times. But then my son Enzo joined and in his first timed lap he was 12 s faster. I sure wanted to cancel but didn't because I love driving the Nordschleife. And see: he finished first but I managed 3rd (of 15 participants) and with laptimes only 7s slower. Well, I'd better stop now before I replace @Kek700 as the waffle-king.

 

[maxilogan]

Here's an old story:

I started practicing offline. It took some time, but I got that AMG dialled in pretty well I thought. Super stable, quick through corners, no spins, totally comfortable. Good times, little faster each lap. Then I go online... everybody is 3, 3.5s faster than I am.

It's disheartening.

Keep practicing mate! Yesterday I had a terrible headache and couldn't connect, I'll try to be there today or tomorrow

 

[doof205]

Yeah, that's why I tend to stick with my old black momo, because there's no problem with it.

PS: Reading through this thread made me feel with Chris, because he has to find the sign ups in between. Maybe some technical stuff is worth an own thread.

Should we maybe tag him if choosing cars?

 

[doof205]

My times first time out at this track were same as yours were tonight. I said it the other week, forget about other peoples times and set other goals. My only goal week in week out is to finish same or better than i qualify. The only times I'm worried about beating are my own pb's.

It's all about finding people of similar pace and enjoying racing them. I now look forward to battling against the likes of GeekyDeaks, Dean Solomon, Partick Eaton, yourself and other midfield racers. Maybe one day I'll manage a P10, it'll feel like a podium if I do. A P5 would definitely feel like a race win

 

[Kek700]

@Goblin616

Tried all the cars in the past for Monza, I found the Mercedes was
the safest and by far the easiest to drive here. Especially through all the “S” curves.
This circuit really punishes you for coming off due to the high speeds involved,
Come off three times in this race can easily cost you 30 seconds.

That’s one of your three seconds.

purposely a low waffle write up.

The reason I go for the Lamborghini, it ride the kerbs well here, I normally always look to a cars strengths and apply that to a circuit, I am never going to beat the faster drivers, but I can do my best to match those who are around my pace.

That is what you should be looking to do, where ever you race in a race.

Unfortunatly because AC is a very unstable platform when it comes to having the slightest touch ( quite often come off with the the smallest of taps from another car ) it makes strategy a very haphazard thing to pull off.
I have quite often on some circuits had good pace, but one off destroys that,
But I alway plug away, because you never never know what can happen in any race, especially with a 60 min race. Quite often wish it was a 120min race so I could average out all the mistakes,. Often I am glad it is 60 minutes too.

Think of a strategy, practice for that, never worry overly about your lap times,
Try your best to pull that off, if it goes wrong, it invariably will, still stick to it.
You will be sometimes amazed how it comes back to you over 60 minuets of racing.

The thing I find so interesting about racing is all the drama of it all, I never really enjoy races when I have been up the pointy end, nothing much happens. But when I have started from back to-mid field , I have a hoot, plus I can have a moan too, at my age all you have left is moaning.

I think if you magically tapped me on my “empty” head, and I went quicker, I would soon loose interest in all of this.

This is what I want to convey to starters, this this the best time, trying to make yourself more competitive. This is where all the fun is.

Had to pointlessly waffle on.

could not not let Han out waffle me.

 

[Interslice]

@Chris Down Can I switch to Lambo please? And thanks for putting up with us


.....

Haha, the race isn't for 3 or 4 days and we have nearly 100 posts containing a fine mix of sign ups, waffle, technical jargon, sim racing based life lessons and the occasional golden nugget that makes you faster on track!

@RasmusP I have returned to the mighty no clip but stonger! As an analogy it reminds me of an interview with a race engineer i heard years and years ago that stuck with me.. He was saying drivers always have a moan after practice and ask for softer suspension setups, even though it will make them slower.

 

[Chris Down]

I was prepping for Le Mans, but I'll be happy to visit Monza. AMG for me. Thanks Chris!

i'm in car tbd

It's been a while since I raced with you guys
I'll take the Audi

I should be able to make it this weekend, so sign me up in the GTR please Chris

sign me up plz !! for the car I've got to try first

I'll go for a "try not to spin it" Lamborghini GT3 please @Chris Down

Wiiihiiiii
Count me in for now
McNissan 650GTR

I´m in GTR

@Chris Down 650s for me again pls

650 for me please. Thank you.

In with the Z4 please!

@Chris Down please sign me up with the R8. (Negotiations with my wife have been succesfull)

Now I hope to get some practice laps in...

I would like to join this race. This will be my first online race and im sooo exited! Im not sure what car i will use. Do i have to decide on a car before the race?

Count me in, 650S

me to Please porsche 911 Thanks

On monza the GT-R and the Lambo are the fastest right? I might be going for the challenge of driving a different car on this event because I might have some time to practise...

Sign me up, I will try out the Mclaren this time please @Chris Down.

Looks like upcoming Sunday will be the first one I'll be at home since long time. One Lambo pls It will also be my first race with my new VR headset. Pretty exited I am.

Welcome lads!

 

[Bertje]

I will pick the Italian one of the two.. Seems like it just belongs on an Italian track. Switch my TBD to a Lambo please Chris

 

[Chris Down]

@Chris Down did the list for you since I caused quite some of the off-topic posts

Hah, just saw this -- no worries mate. Usually I look at the sign up thread once a day and add the new signups, but my mind has been consumed with final polishing on some patches this last couple of days. Now that the main one is upstream (praise the lord!) I can tend to this thread again

 

[Medilloni]

Hah, just saw this -- no worries mate. Usually I look at the sign up thread once a day and add the new signups, but my mind has been consumed with final polishing on some patches this last couple of days. Now that the main one is upstream (praise the lord!) I can tend to this thread again

Being a nosey git, I clicked your link Chris, now I'm, er...

 

[640er]

Here's an old story:

I started practicing offline. It took some time, but I got that AMG dialled in pretty well I thought. Super stable, quick through corners, no spins, totally comfortable. Good times, little faster each lap. Then I go online... everybody is 3, 3.5s faster than I am.

It's disheartening.

The Merc feels good, sounds good, drives good but is just slow. I have no explanation for this, but because of its behaviour I think it's definitely a good car to start with. It gives you enough freedom in your head to focus on the important things like driving technique

It took me nearly a 7-8 months to claim my first podium here at RD so don't get frustrated in the beginning. And my first GT3 victory may be another 7-8 months away or maybe even will happen never

 

[pattikins]

Being a nosey git, I clicked your link Chris, now I'm, er...
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