2021 FIA Series Race Discussion

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Quick Question:

How much practice would you for the Manufacture races? As I said I had never before put in the time I did for the 1st race as mostly when I have time it would be spent on the daily races and I'm glad I decided to give them a miss for now as I recon I would have quit playing had I continued doing the daily races. I did about 15 races in the run up to the 1st race and had 3 main goals, learn a track I never liked, learn which tyres to run and what order and finally fuel-saving or usage depending on how hard I was pushing. Funny think was I mis-timed my pit exit for qualifying and was 3 seconds too late to get a second lap in but still had pole with 1.2sec slower that may fastest time, I never timed the outlap in practice. Is this the kind of detail people go to in practice.
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Thanks to everyone for the feedback and it was interesting to see how approaches differ. I know I did excessive practice for the last race, that was because I never learned to drive the track correctly over the years and it did pay off this time. The next race is on a track I know too well and I have only run 2 races lobbies and I'm done as like everyone else when you know the track so well it would just get boring. One thing I learned in the Porsche can go the distance without a stop with 1 lap of fuel left, the FF drivers in the races, some would stop for tyres and the others where struggling near the end but that might be down to driving style. Thanks again I enjoyed reading the replies and have taken a few points from them.
 
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Late, short and not very sweet!

I'm not great at Catalunya, but I'm better than I was the last time we raced there in FIA.

Qualy was very mediocre, the 42.6 I did in a practice lobby was obviously a bit of a unicorn, but as I rounded T9 a car ahead had a penalty and you just want them to get out the way. He didn't and although he wasn't close enough to physically affect my lap he was close enough to be a big distraction through the final sector and despite two very strong sectors at the start of the lap I bombed the third - crossing the line in 43.3 - and immediately had a brain fart and lifted rather than pushing for a second lap which might have been a tenth or two quicker. 10th

Decided to start on hards and work towards getting an undercut, the race was solid enough but, after pitting L9, the fact I was trying to baby the tyres with fuel maps and higher gears on entry just took too much away from my ultimate pace. The guy who started 9th did run a strat I'd considered (starting softs and going flat out), but we were eating him up on L14 before he crashed out so maybe the more reserved strategy was actually the best option for me

All felt a bit frustrating, but it was much better than my last race there

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Good luck to anyone racing today... bloody mentalists!
 
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5th in the second (third? not sure.) split. 152 points, not as much as I'd like. Never got into a great rhythm, was caught up in way too many battles for third place while the leaders got away. Definitely going again.

Gained 800 DR. Hopefully with a better result in the second slot, I'll have enough DR to make into the top split for the final one.

Update: Top split. 247 points up for grabs... no pressure!
 
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Went for my 1 Nations slot. Didnt double check and plan very well. Got released for qualifying and was running ok laps but didnt work to ensure I had some slipstream. Bad bad idea as I started p18, way back before the braking point for the hairpin at the tip of the hill.

Was matched with @Rangeraus @Erebus_9 and a couple other regulars who are all greatly faster than me. Also including a very hypnotic driver who is about my pace. Was 15 seconds off the lead by the time I crossed the start line and 1 second off the guy in front. Drove ok and was holding p14 or so when the hypnotist falls back after a wreck and a penalty.

We start racing and they decide to go inside into turn 1. Fine, I've done it there, I leave them room. But with slipstream they get just ahead. And so as we hit the braking zone they swerve directly in front of me. I cant slam on it fast enough and I bump them, but only enough that they just go a bit deep. 2 laps later they stay on my rear and launch me into the wall there. I lose 4 or 5 seconds.

Gather myself and am holding a solid p15 with gaps front and back, just working on counting down the laps. Until lap 20 when I catch the inside curb on the uphill left. Go spinning through the air, and due to the spin contact I get wall damage and 3 seconds for wall contact. Race over. I trickle around the last few laps just trying to avoid getting lapped when I clip a curb at the same spot (but not the sausage) and wreck again. Lapped and race mercifully over.

End crappy result was pretty much all my fault, but really sick of that punter. They were a wrecking ball on multiple occasions last season and took me out twice at Laguna Seca last round when I had no close racing with them until the hits. If this keeps up he is getting the barrier every race from here on out.

But it wasn't a bad race. Just make damn sure you start top 10 and it is about smooth consistency. Don't touch the curbs like I did.:dunce:

Good racing and good luck:cheers:
 
Raptor013
Anyone else having issues losing network connection right before being matched to a group for this race?
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No problems until now. Disco'd at the start of slot 3. The 175 points I got from slot 2 are gone. Gutted...

Edit: Never mind! Points still seem to be there because I disco'd just before matching started. Feel like I could've improved on the 175, but hey, maybe it's a sign I wasn't meant to go again :lol: Well, as long as the points stay there I'll do a write-up on the race soon.
 
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After a fairly average first race, I just barely squeezed into the top split for the second timeslot in Australia and New Zealand. Door number of 19 out of 19, and in the same room as @Rangeraus, @Suffused and @Redneckchef as well as quite a few others who are generally faster than myself. I was hoping for at least a top 10, but I certainly didn't expect to pull this off in qualifying!

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Even better than I could've hoped for!​

Unfortunately, second place didn't last too long. Bowled a wide at the very first corner on Lap 1, allowing Rangeraus to get by on the back straight. The next few laps were uneventful, running in 3rd, just a little too far back to draft 2nd. On Lap 5, a bad run out of the first corner allowed MetalGear to get alongside into the esses. I didn't feel comfortable going two-wide that early in the race, so eased off the throttle and dropped to the back of the train into 6th.

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At the rear of the train, about to start Lap 6.​

I soon made my way back into 4th, but by this point MetalGear had checked out to join the leaders. And then... the mistakes started to happen.

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With all the lawn mowing, maybe I need to copy of one of the other FIA regulars and use John Deere liveries on all my cars!
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I went to mow the lawn on Lap 8 at the exit of the uphill left-hander, and dropped back once again into 6th. With dirt/grass on my tyres I dropped back by about a second, once again just out of drafting range. The gap fluctuated between 1 and 2 seconds until Laps 19 and 20, which brought two more mistakes. This time I went wide at the final corner, hitting that horrible yellow barrier at its exit, doing a full 360 and picking up a 1.5 second penalty for my efforts. After serving the penalty, and mowing the lawn once again for good measure, I was in 8th. At the start of lap 21, I was 4 seconds back from 6th and 7th.

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A sizeable gap to make up in 5 laps...
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Thankfully, they fought each other right until the end, while I put together a series of four solid laps. By the start of the back straight on the final lap, I'd caught up enough to regain the draft. 6th and 7th went side-by-side through the uphill left-hander, while I continued to stay in the draft.

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Nowhere to go!
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Unfortunately, this was as far as I got. I had to slow down in the middle of the corner to avoid any contact, putting me too far back to make a move into the final two corners. In the end, I finished 8th, with a result of 175 points. Not my best score, but I'll certainly take it given how the race went!

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Crossing the line in 8th. Could've done better, but certainly not a bad start to the season!​
 
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My race was shared with @stpatty and @AfraidRacer. My first quali lap put me on P2, which I spent almost the entire race fighting for with a German. The Spaniard who started on pole was extremely quick and managed to get away pretty quickly.

The German eventually dropped it coming out of the uphill left hander in sector 2 on one of the closing laps, so I finished P2 for 189 points. That's the second highest points result I've ever had and a far better start to the season than I could have hoped for so I'm definitely not risking it. That result has also propelled my DR to significantly higher than it has ever been at 41.6k. One and done! :cheers:

 
stpatty
Started 7th, finished 7th. Got sent into the grass at the big left hander at one point when in a group that should have been pushing to catch 2nd. Going again.
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Yeah man, good luck!
Zorz
My race was shared with @stpatty and @AfraidRacer. My first quali lap put me on P2, which I spent almost the entire race fighting for with a German. The Spaniard who started on pole was extremely quick and managed to get away pretty quickly.

The German eventually dropped it coming out of the uphill left hander in sector 2 on one of the closing laps, so I finished P2 for 189 points. That's the second highest points result I've ever had and a far better start to the season than I could have hoped for so I'm definitely not risking it. That result has also propelled my DR to significantly higher than it has ever been at 41.6k. One and done! :cheers:

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Nice one, you were on fire in that first stint! I almost caught up to you in the final laps, but then I got yeeted. P6 wasn't too bad, and I don't think I could improve much, so I'm not going again.
 
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Went again, qualifying did me in this time as I started 12th. Ended up in 6th with a French guy bump drafting me for lots of laps until we caught up to 5th. It was a three-way battle by the end but I ****ed my shifts going into the first corner on the last lap which cost me a chance of taking 5th, but even though I'm one position and 6 points better off than last time it feels like much less of a missed opportunity. Plus my wrists can't take another run in the karts.
 
Did my one and done too. Actually liked the carts as they need to be handeled with extreem caution. It was my first experience ever with them and I practiced them for an hour or two at the most.

Qualified 10th but that was overqualified. During the race my pace fell instead of increasing. So I lost a few positons. Ended 11th in a good final battle and that was ok.

At least I have a reserve if I'm not able to do 4 other Nations races.

Good night!

Seth
 
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Still kinda shaken after that race. Had some issues with the eventual pole sitter in qualifying, but a front row (okay, PD’s version of front row) start in P2. P3 was another driver I’d worked with in qualifying and the three of us just went to battle. 25 laps of the hardest racing I’ve ever done in this game. We seemed to be the only ones in the field who figured out to use the draft to our advantage and pulled a roughly 20 second gap by the finish.

And while I found myself 3rd starting the final lap, I knew a win was possible. Over a lap, I knew I was the better driver and while 1-2 took T1 side by side, they both had been a bit slow through that corner and this time both ran wide. So nabbed the lead and was able to get enough of a gap that no one could conceivably dive bomb the hairpin. My heart rate had to be 150 bpm.

But a victory does more than start the Nations season with a bang. Now onto Supras tomorrow.
 
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Karts always give me one of the best results of a season, and I managed to actually set a Top 10 FP time for only the 2nd time ever, so I was really looking forward to this race. When the room loaded, in addition to some familiar names like @Roman_GT23, I was surprised to actually see it was a "proper" top-split race. I was expecting a low turnout, like kart races usually are, but a ton of people I hadn't seen on the leaderboards were in it.

I knew if I could stay in the slipstream, I'd have a chance to grab over 300 points, and qualifying 5th gave me a good shot at doing just that. Unfortunately, I immediately lost the slipstream at T1 due to understeering on cold tires, but it was going to be almost impossible to stay in it when the game started me roughly 0.7s behind 4th already :rolleyes:. Anyway, fortunately the first 4 didn't get organized, and 6th was able to push me back into their slipstream after a few laps. I spent a large part of the race in 5th, then 6th, hanging on to the back of the lead train. Someone in the pack went off at the fast left-hander after the esses, and moved me up to 5th again. Unfortunately the kart in 3rd made some mistakes and kept defending until we lost the draft to the first 2. The same kart, now in 4th, dropped their tires in the grass in the T1 braking zone, which left a gap between me and 3rd and put me out of their slipstream as well. Ultimately I finished in 4th, less than 3 seconds away from the winner and 312 points. Still, 273 points is the most I've ever scored under this points system, and I even finished ahead of last season's Nation's champion in this race.
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I'm also really looking forward to the next Nation's round. One of my favorite classes at one of my favorite tracks should give me another good points haul, but I doubt I'm going to even come close to topping this score for the rest of the season.
 
OutlawQuadrnt
Decided to skip the karting and instead try to put together something a little different regarding the first Manu race of the season. Very crude but at least it's one of those things that really needs to be done to grow the series.

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It kinda works, but it's TV not a podcast. The name of the game is show and tell. Take note of Tidgney for example where there is always something moving on screen if that makes sense. So your not left looking at a calender of R1 while listening to what you're saying only.

Hope you don't mind some feedback.

Cheers,

Seth
 
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OutlawQuadrnt
Decided to skip the karting and instead try to put together something a little different regarding the first Manu race of the season. Very crude but at least it's one of those things that really needs to be done to grow the series.

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A bit more confidence/certainty in what you're saying, a bit more Rosberg explosions on the screen and a bit more of you in a GT-R and these will be wonderful. Keep at it.
 
That Kart race was quite fun, yet also frustrating with so many missed opportunities. Put in a good quali time compared to the day's practice sessions to start P9, and from then on it was a continuous cycle of battling for P10 all the way up to P4!

The frustration stemmed from at least 2-3 separate occasions where bump drafting to catch up would have worked, yet every single other driver either wasn't confident in doing it effectively, or didn't have the race sense to understand what needed to be done.

All in all, incredible flag to flag racing to bring it home P6! I know Sports tires wear completely differently, and it sparks up the whole "realism" debate, but I really wish they'd do longer races like this where tire wear and fuel aren't factors, just flat out racing. It's wayyyy more enjoyable (to me at least) to not have to worry about anything but what's happening in the moment on track for once! :lol::cheers:
 
Seth_Logan
It kinda works, but it's TV not a podcast. The name of the game is show and tell. Take note of Tidgney for example where there is always something moving on screen if that makes sense. So your not left looking at a calender of R1 while listening to what you're saying only.

Hope you don't mind some feedback.

Cheers,

Seth
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I realized rather quickly that the amount of editing work to even get close to what I was envisioning would take days and more skills than I currently have. Also, I didn't have actual replays to get better visuals and to have more talking points. If I try this again, I would have to focus on just one of the races.
stpatty
A bit more confidence/certainty in what you're saying, a bit more Rosberg explosions on the screen and a bit more of you in a GT-R and these will be wonderful. Keep at it.
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Showing me in the GT-R for that combo was not suitable for viewing. :lol:
 
Speaking of the GT-R, I'm running them this season. Did a Custom Race at Lago, to check fuel/tyre wear. Ran FL(1:29.508) on my last lap with 2.9 laps fuel remaining. My FP lap is a 1:27.9.

I think last time I saw this combo, I was using the Atenza and running at the back battling two GT-Rs.
The Nissan weighing in at just under 1500kg, it's going to be an uphill battle.
 
Raptor013
Anyone else having issues losing network connection right before being matched to a group for this race?
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Yes, I did. I got disco'd trying to enter slot 2 Oceania after about 5 minutes of matching. Slot 3 was almost as bad but I got in eventually. The race is another story but the cause of the lag was 2 fools with 2 bed bars ping that were not from our region. All Anzac's had 4 or 5 green bars. I watched a stream of the top split in slot 1 and there was some Dutch fool brat that everyone was ragging on. I wish Sony could do something with fools that are participating in a region that they do not live in just for an easier competition. :banghead:
 

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