Technology Preview - Time Attack - Top 30 Leaderboard

Hampus Andersson · Feb 22, 2013

So... to kill some time i decided to make a Top 30 board for all RD members.
To get your time official you need to make a post and post a screenshot/video of the time.

Car - Lotus Elise SC
Track - Magione

edit: nevermind, people will never learn.

1.23.456 - Hampus Andersson
*picture or video*

Do not edit your own post telling me you have updated it with a new time, make a new post.

1.21.813 - William Levesque
1.21.942 - Martin Kroenke
1.22.203 - Luca Sodano
1.22.248 - Requiem84
1.22.272 - Luke Russell
1.22.320 - Tariq Gamil
1.22.434 - Aleksi Elomaa
1.22.482 - tHenOrthfACe
1.22.536 - Jan Coomans
1.22.536 - Arkadiusz Wawrzyniak
1.22.557 - 6e66o
1.22.563 - Hampus Andersson
1.22.602 - Graham Byford
1.22.647 - Maciej Dolinski
1.22.779 - Mitja Bonca
1.22.785 - TLiivo
1.22.824 - Pablo Lopez
1.22.872 - BaldApe
1.22.938 - nijeat
1.22.974 - Lee Ross
1.22.974 - Craig Booth
1.23.052 - Salajutsu
1.23.082 - Dino Paolini
1.23.145 - Marcel Pfister
1.23.199 - Tony Rickard
1.23.232 - JvMr
1.23.256 - Michael Hornbuckle
1.23.301 - Jack Sargent
1.23.304 - Maciej Dolinski (with aids)
1.23.310 - Manuel Darin

Kevin Kientopp · Mar 2, 2013

I can only hit 1:25 one-tenth of the time. Can only consistently hit 1:26. Ugh.

William Levesque · Mar 2, 2013

Well, low 22's aren't too hard now, just need to get in the 21's !

William Levesque · Mar 2, 2013

Small improvement, getting there !

Marcel Pfister · Mar 2, 2013

Marcel Pfister 1:23.637

17laps under 1:26 and then I slided in the gras after T1
After 10 laps the car feels like chewing gum...

Arkadiusz Wawrzyniak · Mar 2, 2013

I don't know what they changed, but now I am able to to do pretty even laps.
1,23,070 is the best I could acomplish today, but I can make at least 0,5 sek better time.

Marcel Pfister · Mar 2, 2013

arekdbz said:
I don't know what they changed, but now I am able to to do pretty even laps.
1,23,070 is the best I could acomplish today, but I can make at least 0,5 sek better time.

They changed the ffb dampening setting from 40% to 20% ... now i´m faster too

William Levesque · Mar 2, 2013

arekdbz said:
I don't know what they changed, but now I am able to to do pretty even laps.
1,23,070 is the best I could acomplish today, but I can make at least 0,5 sek better time.

There's a helluva difference between a 23.0 and a 22.5, that's where it does start to be very difficult to improve

Arkadiusz Wawrzyniak · Mar 2, 2013

There's a helluva difference between a 23.0 and a 22.5, that's where it does start to be very difficult to improve

Yes, I know. But I constantly get 0,300-0,400 sek advantege after first 4 corners and then I screew things up on the corner before the long straight. I don't know how I did that corner so good when I did my 1,23.070. Then I catch up in last sector but it is always I littlebit slower... like 1,23,090 or so. So I know I am able to do something like 1,22,6xx if I only get this corner right one more time ;p

Craig Booth · Mar 2, 2013

1:23:496 Craig Booth

Stereo · Mar 2, 2013

arekdbz said:
Yes, I know. But I constantly get 0,300-0,400 sek advantege after first 4 corners

The laptime difference isn't always reliable if you try different lines, I noticed especially in the 4th corner that depending where I hit the apex I see a big jump in times that disappears again by the time I'm on the long straight. Although yeah, that 5th corner is very important, you need to get on the throttle fast or you lose time all the way down the straight.

Kevin Kientopp · Mar 3, 2013

0:28:335 Kevko

Crossed start line, turned around and crossed it a 2nd time. Reported the glitch on the official bug forum.

LazyBug · Mar 3, 2013

Thats why i usually not that convince with lap time that show using screen shot.

Sergio Goncalves · Mar 3, 2013

1:23:328

Craig Booth · Mar 3, 2013

Stefan Mizzi said:
1.23.430 ...not a great lap, but getting there...

PS: At least I beat Craig

Not any longer my friend

1:22:974 Craig Booth

This will be my last attempt at the time attack, glad to be finally in the 22 club. The best I can do is 1:22:8XX, but I must get on with the rest of my life

Michael Hornbuckle · Mar 3, 2013

I'm so jealous of you guys that have picked up speed....don't know why but since the new build I can't even get into the 23's anymore....car feels better yet my times are slower, go figure.

Fernando Zart · Mar 3, 2013

I'm really impressed by the times shown here. Kudos for the drivers. Looking at some videos, what impresses me most is how the drivers manage to get the car under control when turning the wheel and fully pressing the breaks all the way at the same time - and the car responds!
If I even *think* to do something like that, my car just goes ballistic, with the front tires loosing all grip and going straight ahead.
Tried several times to enter some curves at the same speed shown on videos, trying to exactly reproduce the pedals as shown, and the same results happen: *massive* understeer and wiiiide open curves or gravel!
Tried inducing oversteer tapping brakes when cornering and accelerating, tried late braking, tried left braking, everything I can think of, to no avail. Always understeer, and tire superfastoverheating as a result.
So far, my best time was around 1:24:<almost 1:25>, but this was only once - most common time for me is in the 1:25s during "normal racing conditions".

I'm running in PRO mode, using H-shifter-clutch--heel-toe (as real as it gets).
One thing is for sure: I'll have my ass kicked in multiplayer, real fast. LOL.

Requiem84 · Mar 3, 2013

If you want to have a snappier car while entering the corner on the brakes, disable ABS (ctrl+A ingame).

It will be pretty hard to control the oversteer on entry!

Fernando Zart · Mar 3, 2013

Requiem84 said:
If you want to have a snappier car while entering the corner on the brakes, disable ABS (ctrl+A ingame).

It will be pretty hard to control the oversteer on entry!

Thanks for the tip, Requiem. (Are you the Requiem from Rise of Flight tutorials?)
In fact, I always run without any kind of assistance, and only cockpit view. As I mentioned above, I'm running in PRO mode, so I guess that ABS and everything else is all off.
So far, what I've done to help the car entering the turn is to briefly tap the brakes at the entry point, giving front tires a little bit more grip due to the weight transfer. Sometimes doing it "rally style" also helps.
Perhaps I should try with something less than 900 degrees at the wheel, allowing me to correct faster, but then you loose "precision". Other than that, I think that overdriving the rear tires all the way round the track is enough to ruin them in the first lap (the tires overheat pretty fast), turning this unsuitable for races.
Anyway, will wait for the final release and tweak the car to my driving style. I'm more at home in faster circuits.

Arkadiusz Wawrzyniak · Mar 3, 2013

As I mentioned above, I'm running in PRO mode, so I guess that ABS and everything else is all off.

No. Abs is enabled by default and setting a pro mode doesn't actually disable it. The only way to do that is pressing ctrl+A in game. But Lotus has ABS and you can't really disable it in real life just like that. So I don't recommend it.