AC SUV-battle@Highlands Drift, Tue 1st November 2022

[HF2000]

Welcome to the RD Racing Club.

As a nice interlude to the classic Fat-Alfie events, we take road cars to the Scottish Highlands. No ordinary road cars but the huge SUVs available on S.GP. Now that we are used to the understeer of the 250GTO and the Griffith, this won't be a problem for us.

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IF THE KNOWN S.GP BUG APPEARS (all cars disappear when the lights go out), please don't do anything. The host will restart the session in a few minutes. DO NOT LEAVE THE GAME.

SITUATIONAL AWARENESS is essential for clean and respectful driving in our community. You should therefore use tools like Helicorsa or CarRadar and CrewChief. The links for these apps are on the bottom of this post.

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Server information:

• Practice Server: #02 (Available throughout the race week) Password: The same as last week. If you don't know, send me a PM.
• Race server: S.GP Password: The same as last week. If you don't know, send me a PM.
• 20:00 CEST, 19:00 BST (18:00 UTC) | 60 minutes - Official Practice
• 21:05 CEST, 20:05 BST (19:05 UTC) | 20 minutes - Qualification
• 21:30 CEST, 20:30 BST (19:30 UTC) | 60 minutes - Race

Event details:

• Cars:
  • Maserati Levante S
  • Porsche Macan Turbo
  • Porsche Cayenne Turbo S
• Track: Highlands Drift, Fantasy track in Scotland.
• Pit stop: Optional
• Tyre blankets: Yes
• Track Road temperature: 30 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: 100%
• Tyre wear: 100%
• Further info on simracing.gp

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• Incident Reporting: click here

 

[eN1xes]

D: already done on sgp

 

[KDiesel]

Always wanted to race with these, gotta check out how they drive and make car choice ( it will be Maserati anyway).

 

[RasmusP]

This will be fun! Hopefully going a bit off-road won't be a big problem with SUVs

 

[eN1xes]

Have done a race before on sgp with suv nords 45min and was boring af cant imagine 60min

 

[HF2000]

Have done a race before on sgp with suv nords 45min and was boring af cant imagine 60min

Do you suggest a shorter track?

 

[RasmusP]

Or 2 races over 2 laps

 

[eN1xes]

i suggest another track with something more like euronascar or kart track with karts if they have a good mod

 

[KDiesel]

i suggest another track with something more like euronascar or kart track with karts if they have a good mod

How about Monza ´66 , with oval ofc....

 

[HF2000]

i suggest another track with something more like euronascar or kart track with karts if they have a good mod

Well we had a long time ago a race with the SUV's on Fonteny Reverse which was fun because nobody knew the track. I promised to use the SUV's again sometime.
I think you might be right that a long track like the Nordschleife can be a lonely race for a lot of drivers.

I have a shorter alternative in mind, namely the Highlands layout of 5.1km.

So please everyone who read this, post here if you want the Nordschleife or Highlands.

 

[HF2000]

How about Monza ´66 , with oval ofc....

Monza '66 with oval will be in the Group C championship starting in January 2023.

 

[eN1xes]

what about assen or something similiar with suv if we hv to play Sport Utility Vehicles

 

[HF2000]

what about assen or something similiar with suv if we hv to play Sport Utility Vehicles

I'd like to use street cars on road tracks. We did once a race on this Highlands layout with the Audi S1 and the Toyota GT86 and it was great fun!

And I'm going with our multiclass to Assen shortly.

 

[ltnordb]

Love Nords, hate SUV's

Tough choice

 

[HF2000]

PRACTICE SERVER IS UP!

 

[Shed 17]

Nords will be a challenge but with the numbers you are likely to get I think Nords will be too long and spread out making it boring.
Highlands Drift suits these cars better in my opinion so would get my vote of the two.

 

[HF2000]

Nords will be a challenge but with the numbers you are likely to get I think Nords will be too long and spread out making it boring.
Highlands Drift suits these cars better in my opinion so would get my vote of the two.

Yes, and the numbers are disappointing up till now. I had to decide today because of the announcement on RaceDepartment Weekly Races.
So I've swapped to Highlands Drift.

 

[Shed 17]

Yes, and the numbers are disappointing up till now. I had to decide today because of the announcement on RaceDepartment Weekly Races.
So I've swapped to Highlands Drift.

Practice server needs changing as well Han.

 

[HF2000]

Practice server needs changing as well Han.

Will do after work. Thanks for the reminder!

 

[HF2000]

Ok, I've been cheating. I have been practicing for 4 years now for this race: