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

Hampus Andersson · Mar 3, 2013

Seeing three groups of two people each setting identical times i figured i won´t put them next to each other.

First one to set the time will stay ahead so when you set an identical time of someone you´ll be one step below in the list.

Requiem84 · Mar 3, 2013

Fernando Zart said:
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.

Hi Fernando, I'm not the same Requiem. In fact, I have never even touched a flightsimulator (unfortunately).

Like a poster said before me, even on pro mode ABS is by default enabled. You need to turn if off in game. However, I run with ABS (as the real car) and don't have any problems turning in. For me the car even has a slight liff off oversteer. When entering the short left hand kink before the hairpin, the rear always get's out of shape. The same goes for the fast right hander after the long straight, always battling the oversteer there!

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I am doing 22's quite stable now, and turned a 22,5 yesterday. Will try to improve on that tonight, to get closer to the Alien times.

Jorge Alves · Mar 3, 2013

Marcel Pfister said:
They changed the ffb dampening setting from 40% to 20% ...

Where did you get that numbers?

Arkadiusz Wawrzyniak · Mar 3, 2013

1,22,980. Tomorow it will be better (as every day). Now I am tired as ****. Who would know it can be that exhausting. But I am pretty proud of myself to get in to 1,22 club considering I have my wheel (g27) for 3 months now. Another 3 months and maybe I will be as good as you guys who did the low 1,22

Craig Booth · Mar 3, 2013

Hampus Andersson said:
Seeing three groups of two people each setting identical times i figured i won´t put them next to each other.

First one to set the time will stay ahead so when you set an identical time of someone you´ll be one step below in the list.

You just want to get rid of the 23 club, admit it!

Hampus Andersson · Mar 3, 2013

Craig Booth said:
You just want to get rid of the 23 club, admit it!

No it was actually so that we keep it a Top 30 list. With guys occupying the same spot it´s not a top 30 list anymore and i figured if things keep going like this we´ll have guys stacked next to each other throughout the whole list

Celtic Pharaoh · Mar 4, 2013

Hi Fernando. Don't be disheartened. The Lotus Elise is an odd car to drive. I've found that the main key to driving fast is to actually skid the car on entry into the corner. If you've played GPL, you'd know what I mean

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The main idea is to brake hard, and I mean, 100% brake pressure, and slowly release as you're turning into the corner. Doing this will give the front tyres a chance to have some lateral grip and then this will slowly nudge the car into the corner because the weight of the car has been thrown to the front, making the rear light, causing some oversteer. To make sure this is induced properly, it's VERY important to only turn the wheel about 30-45 degrees of lock upon entry into the corner. Any more than this and the fronts will scrub and you'll just end up with understeer and going wide.

After the initial oversteer, it's just a matter of balancing the car carefully to let it regain grip again. If you look at my lap on the previous page, you'll see me doing this quite clearly in T1 (it was quite scruffy though, I slid too much). Also, I'm nudging it on the brakes in the last 4 corners (except the last corner). In those last corners, that's exactly what I aspire to achieve to go into corners.

tHenOrthfACe · Mar 4, 2013

Another day another play... now i can do 1.22s fairly consitent.

Hampus Andersson · Mar 4, 2013

Nice,

Post full pictures from now on as well.

bumer1M · Mar 4, 2013

Jorge Alves said:
Where did you get that numbers?

Aristotelis said that in official support forum.

betterstranger · Mar 4, 2013

Finaly broke 1.26

1:25.692 and I was on my way for 1:25.2... just a little bit of sand stood in my way...

Well, I'm quite happy as I always drove sims offline for fun and pleasure of driving, I've been never hunting for lap times.

Hannes-Joshua Thor Barthel · Mar 4, 2013

I got a bit faster... the problem.. all you guys too lol.. managed a 1.23.716 ... it's getting realy realy hard to get into the top 30 again now.. and I think it won't get easier

.... getting exponentially harder with every tenth of a secont lol

Baldrick · Mar 4, 2013

Josefhead said:
I got a bit faster... the problem.. all you guys too lol.. managed a 1.23.716 ... it's getting realy realy hard to get into the top 30 again now.. and I think it won't get easier .... getting exponentially harder with every tenth of a secont lol

Yeh, 1:23.8 here. With growing interest we should campaign for a top 50

Luke Russell · Mar 4, 2013

1:22.272 - Luke Russell

Jacked up the tire pressures to 30PSI all around. I had much more grip during the first 2 sectors, but the car becomes very hard to drive on the edge during the last sector.

Hampus Andersson · Mar 4, 2013

Sucks that my loadcell broke, can´t even improve my time

CSP´s are literally in 100 pieces right now. (figured i´d do a proper restoration)

Requiem84 · Mar 5, 2013

Getting closer to the 21's...

William Levesque · Mar 5, 2013

Oh no ! People are catching me !

Will have to try and beat Martin at some point

Hampus Andersson · Mar 5, 2013

He´s just waiting for someone to beat him, he´s probably got a 20 in store for us

Majnu · Mar 5, 2013

Fernando Zart said:
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.

Same here, I'm not looking forward to multiplayer at all; I may not even buy AC

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This game is just too competitive if it doesn't have amateur drive modes or something like that. I'm very new to sim racing and thought buying a steering wheel (G27) would help me improve; but my lap times are consistent 1:28.

Compared to everyone else I'm crap and I won't find enjoyment coming last in every race that's for sure.