AC LMP1/GTE @ Mugello - Sunday 26th February 2023

[The Almighty Snark]

A Audi for me!

 

[Interslice]

i have not a clue about driver swap, but it sounds like a great idea, I can make a cup of tea, go for a pee, and watch my team mate racing during his stint, What is there not to like?

PS it will not bother me one bit, if you are really not an alien, I will take the first stint, starting can be a bit stressful, does not mean I will not mess it up though.

does anyone know if this is doable?

From what I read the threads it is possible in this championship. @Interslice can we still change it to drive as a team?

Yep, we can make this happen! You are taking about the sundays race at mugello i guess?

 

[t6mek]

Yep, we can make this happen! You are taking about the sundays race at mugello i guess?

Yeah, we mean mugello one this Sunday. I doubt Ernie would want to finish whole championship THAT low .





Assuming he doesn't hang himself watching me drive second stint

 

[Interslice]

Yeah, we mean mugello one this Sunday. I doubt Ernie would want to finish whole championship THAT low .





Assuming he doesn't hang himself watching me drive second stint

Ok I have skooched the driver swap stuff to the Mugello thread.

I will add you both to the one car now. If you both want to be prepared, i can setup a test race beforehand so you can see how it all goes works in advance.

 

[t6mek]

Ok I have skooched the driver swap stuff to the Mugello thread.

I will add you both to the one car now. If you both want to be prepared, i can setup a test race beforehand so you can see how it all goes works in advance.

Would be nice, just need Ernie to confirm he has time for that

 

[Interslice]

Would be nice, just need Ernie to confirm he has time for that

It's setup now on the practice server. Just nee a restart. Maybe try and join that together for a start. Maybe it only works for the race, not sure.

 

[Interslice]

A Audi for me!

You're in Casper!

 

[Kek700]

I was racing to night Brain and getting somewhat frazzled by CM.
I am up for it, Tomek is at present about my speed, so we should go well together until he finds his feet in our racedepartment.

what do we need to do?

 

[Interslice]

I was racing to night Brain and getting somewhat frazzled by CM.
I am up for it, Tomek is at present about my speed, so we should go well together until he finds his feet in our racedepartment.

what do we need to do?

Server is restarted now and it's showing you both in the same car. It looks like you should be able to driver swap in the practice server.

The driver needs to stop the car in the pit box and exit the game. When he is fully out/disconnected the other driver car connect.
That's it really. How the setup, fuel refill and tyre change all work out, I'm not sure. It looks like the second driver just loads his setup and drives.

There is a Mercedes GT3 on the server. Select that to join as a spectator. You will need to change to the spectator password. I'll send you both that by pm.

 

[Jimlaad43]

I've done some laps with the Toyota last night and twiddled with the setups, but all I'm getting is crazy oversteer in the high corners. I put it to 3/8 front and rear Downforce and reduced the rear ARB a lot, but the two fast rights are a nightmare as the rear just wants to overtake me. Any setup advice?

 

[cerebralvortex]

I've done some laps with the Toyota last night and twiddled with the setups, but all I'm getting is crazy oversteer in the high corners. I put it to 3/8 front and rear Downforce and reduced the rear ARB a lot, but the two fast rights are a nightmare as the rear just wants to overtake me. Any setup advice?

I haven't done much tweaking to the setup myself as I pretty much suck at it.. Did you check the tire temps? I'm on default aero settings too. Maybe someone else can help with setup advice..

 

[Shed 17]

For this series I am thinking to introduce the above rule in yellow to try have a higher margin of safety when the prototypes are out braking/overtaking up the inside of GT cars. It will mean, coming up to the braking zone, the prototypes have to get that bit closer to the gt cars before they can make an over take.


For the race this weekend please report any near misses or collisions involving the different classes. This is mainly so i can see if the above works ok.

See you Sunday!

Good idea Brian, we want to avoid this sort of thing if possible...............

 

[Interslice]

I've done some laps with the Toyota last night and twiddled with the setups, but all I'm getting is crazy oversteer in the high corners. I put it to 3/8 front and rear Downforce and reduced the rear ARB a lot, but the two fast rights are a nightmare as the rear just wants to overtake me. Any setup advice?

Generally not possible to run softs at mugello. Up there in the top 5 tyre melting circuits! You might be able to work it to do one flying lap on low fuel and gain some advantage. Not sure. Anything over 105-115c on the tyre app will make the soft tyre feel like butter!

 

[Interslice]

Practice server is reset now Dominic.

 

[dbx71]

Practice server is reset now Dominic.

excellent. i'll check it a bit later. got a ton of work to get thru today... thx!

 

[Kek700]

It is very unusual that I put much effort into setting a car up, ironically it was the 911 GT3 , and ironically at this circuit too.
I have tried my best to squeeze as much pace as I can from the car and I am now down to the confusion between my inputs and the cars, so I am scrabbling for the odd tenths.
I had this with the CR7 when I set it up here, in fact I also put all my efforts into trying to get rid of an Achilles heel that bugs the 911 and the cR7, probably the Ferrari too.
It will on sharp heavy braking zone, low speed entry, sometime just break away at the back.
I think it is, probably certain it is, just an overloaded rear tyre that cannot sustain the loads applied to it.
At the moment I am in a quandary to know what to do about it, or more importantly what is the actual cause.
I need to know before I waste any more time perusing the unpersuable.

 

[Enzo Fazzi]

It will on sharp heavy braking zone, low speed entry, sometime just break away at the back.

Is this towards the end of the braking zone, as you're coming off the brakes?

 

[Kek700]

No, i am off the brakes at the end of my trail braking, and it is the last part of my turn just in the exit part of the corner Enzo.
But with what you have told me, I will use MoTeC now to try and confirm what you have
said.
But it does not mean my brake foot, unknown to me, is still on the brakes.

 

[Enzo Fazzi]

Ahh I see.

I think it is, probably certain it is, just an overloaded rear tyre that cannot sustain the loads applied to it.

Either way, if this is indeed what's happening, then you could try more front bump damping and if that doesn't work, reduce front rebound a bit, but around Mugello, less front rebound might make the car understeery.

 

[Kek700]

in fact, just looked, I am just coming onto the throttle, so it maybe i am too eager to apply the throttle. I am at about 20% throttle, and it then on all four tyres generates a massive slip angle, ( 15 Deg ). All other parameters are calm and look okay.