2021 FIA Series Race Discussion

[Kermit_2142]

Pit stops are really quick here. In my practice the 7M/7M/4H was faster than 9M/9H. If I have time I'll try 6M/6M/5M/1H tonight. The hards are manageable for several laps, but the mediums are much more fun to drive on .

Maybe a 5/6/6/1 is faster than a 6/6/5/1 as you’ll be running with less fuel later on.

 

[Pigems]

I know, I will one day, but I don't have the time this week unfortunately!

Use the Circuit Experience section, makes it way easier to learn a track. It takes you through it sector by sector. 👍 You’ll know it in less than an hour.




Edit: Just tested a 7/7/4 vs 9/9 in the Toyota, there isn’t much difference in it. I think I’ll go with a 2 stop in this case, I can push harder, or battle more if needed that way.

7M/7M/4H

9M/9H

 

[D_Dragline]

It depends on the car, most cars will have to do a 2 stop, some even a 3 stop. Toyota and Alfa can do a one stop, but it’s risky and probably not the best strategy. Try something like 7m/7m/4h, or similar.

After some testing I think the Vantage is a viable 1 stop. 8m/10h is my quickest strat so far. The last lap on each compound is a trifle sketchy but only around 0.8-1 sec slower than fresh rubber. I am hoping this will make up for the fact that the car is not very competitive on speed alone.

 

[FoRiZon]

Interesting that Mikail Hizal is now racing under Turkey flag instead of German.

 

[05XR8]

I'm going in fresh. No clue what strategy to run. The 86 was good at RBR, but only good once I put on a fast tyre for the last 1/3 of the race. Don't know if my race will be Big Willow Smith or The Weeping Willow.
Maybe someone else should race for me. This why we need B-Spec.

 

[PhlebMike]

After the horrendous display of driving crashmanship I saw at the nation's cup race on Saturday,I'm really not looking forward to the race tomorrow. This makes me upset, since I used to actually get excited to compete in these races. I feel like so many people just slam away and just ruin the race for everyone else. It saddens me so much, since I used to really love this.

 

[05XR8]

I think Nations is way different. Everyone in the same car and they all occupy the same space going the same speed. Manu, the cars all have different characteristics. Strengths and weaknesses are more in play.

Manu, is more strategic. Yes, there are knuckleheads in many races, but Manu gives players many chances to skip their weak combos. Nations is a one shot deal.

 

[PhlebMike]

I think Nations is way different. Everyone in the same car and they all occupy the same space going the same speed. Manu, the cars all have different characteristics. Strengths and weaknesses are more in play.

Manu, is more strategic. Yes, there are knuckleheads in many races, but Manu gives players many chances to skip their weak combos. Nations is a one shot deal.

Thank you the reminder.

 

[Redneckchef]

After the horrendous display of driving crashmanship I saw at the nation's cup race on Saturday,I'm really not looking forward to the race tomorrow. This makes me upset, since I used to actually get excited to compete in these races. I feel like so many people just slam away and just ruin the race for everyone else. It saddens me so much, since I used to really love this.

I am backing @05XR8 on this one. Nations seems to be out and out blood sport while Manu has mostly seemed more strategic and clean. I know things can tip up either way, but in the 4 Nations lobbies I have done it has been brutal racing and I have struggled even when driving well. Lots of pushing and shoving.
In Manu there has been more strategic racing, people waiting to take advantage of their strengths. Even in the back of the pack in a giant clump of cars I saw more patience and planning than the nasty stuff from Nations.

That isnt to say bad lobbies aren't out there, just think they're less common in Manu.

And on tonight I'm looking at a sketchy race. I am ok on tires here. Pretty comfortable with most of the track, but I am really lacking pace. Normally I am pretty good here but the jag isnt playing nice for me. Got some iffy understeer I'm not used to in the long balancing right handers. Which sucks since I dont remember the Gr3 jag having that problem. Oh well. Whatever happens it will be a race. Hopefully I don't end up wandering in the desert.

 

[fako]

Ok, tonight will be adrenaline night

I haven't yet decide if will do 1 or 2 stops with my Toyota. I'm slow in everycase I will try to have a race without incidents (and without desert safari), and with a constant pace.

Good Race at ALL!

 

[Raptor013]

I am backing @05XR8 on this one. Nations seems to be out and out blood sport while Manu has mostly seemed more strategic and clean. I know things can tip up either way, but in the 4 Nations lobbies I have done it has been brutal racing and I have struggled even when driving well. Lots of pushing and shoving.
In Manu there has been more strategic racing, people waiting to take advantage of their strengths. Even in the back of the pack in a giant clump of cars I saw more patience and planning than the nasty stuff from Nations.

That isnt to say bad lobbies aren't out there, just think they're less common in Manu.

And on tonight I'm looking at a sketchy race. I am ok on tires here. Pretty comfortable with most of the track, but I am really lacking pace. Normally I am pretty good here but the jag isnt playing nice for me. Got some iffy understeer I'm not used to in the long balancing right handers. Which sucks since I dont remember the Gr3 jag having that problem. Oh well. Whatever happens it will be a race. Hopefully I don't end up wandering in the desert.

Yeah, have to agree. The Nations Cup seems to be a bit "Win It! or Bin It!" in the a lot of the groupings I get too.

Sometimes I manage to avoid it (either by being well ahead or so far back it doesn't matter), but it's annoying to no end.

As for your pace. You're 0.4 quicker than me in the M4 and only 0.1 off my personal best which I set in the TT back when this was the Daily Race.

 

[Redneckchef]

PD is smiling about the big Willow fear factor. The background for the loading screen was a safety car and Marshals.

 

[05XR8]

Was telling a work story to my visiting Step-Son. I said it'll be real quick as was leaving. Wound up taking a half hour and missed my race by 2 minutes. Cutting into my bedtime now.

 

[Raptor013]

2 stop strategy pays off.

Didn't get a good time in during Qualifying (over a second off my optimal best) so started P14.

Ran the Mediums to start, pitted on lap 6 from 8th. Rejoin in 13th. Ran the Hards to Lap 12, pit once more from 8th, rejoin in 11th. And hunt down the mid pack once more on Mediums to a P7 at the flag.

And a relatively clean lobby as a nice bonus.

 

[ShiftingGears]

McLaren felt very sluggish. Started 14th, finished 9th. Hot hatches ran away with it. Still, I'll take 136 points.

 

[Redneckchef]

Well. That went well. Had a stitch up on both qualifying laps. The second one is a real pucker factor move. Both were just mistakes.

Started p14 with door 9. Had a wild pack just exiting the first sweeping right
Managed to get past 2 cars there, another off somewhere. By lap 3 I am p9 and rising. Got a 1 second penalty when an Audi did a banzai pit exit and I didnt brake early enough
But drove clean and smooth after that. Kept it on track and kept the pace up with others constantly falling off. Ended p6. For 122 points. Way better than I thought I could pull when the lobby opened.

Went 7M/7M/4H. Should have been 6/6/6 as I had really fast pace on hards compared to guys in front. Good race, glad I am done for the night.

And some quick highlights. The pucker up wreck in front during qualifying. The lap 1 pack. The dodgy pit exit where I think we both could have handled it better. And the fun battle up the hill.

 

[D_Dragline]

Q4 in the Vantage after 2 flying laps in a clean qualifying session. Started behind a VW, Toyota and GT-R.

The race itself was surprisingly uneventful. The front 4 of us spent the first 6 laps building a gap to the field. At the end of lap 7 the GT-R pitted and the scirocco binned it coming into the SF straight and hit the pit wall. I came in on lap 8 as P2 and jumped back out in p3 just behind the GT-R. The 86 had built a gap on us and I had a viper running a 2 stop strat for company just behind. The remaining laps saw me sitting mostly 3rd with a couple of swaps with the Viper due to drafting.

On the final 2 laps a Porsche and another 86 caught us and there was a lap and a half of stressful defending/watching mirrors. I entered the final sweeping right in P3 and the Porsche decided to dive through a non-existent gap and tapped my right rear panel pushing me a bit wide and allowing both it and the 86 to run past me onto the straight. Incredibly, the penalty system worked for once and the Porsche copped a 1 sec penalty. I crossed the line 5th but the applied penalty saw me awarded 4th.

108 pts and one and done for me. A much better result in the Vantage than I had expected.

 

[05XR8]

Edit: Someone in a GT-R is ghosted at corner exit of the final turn as I'm beginning my hot lap with 20 seconds to go. Messed up my exit up the inside of the turn. Didn't know when it was going to unghost. Player should have aborted, but they kept going.

Edit: I think One stop would have got me the win. I ran 3RH/8RM/7RM. Got slightly held up by a matte GT-R after I made my stop. A 4C was just behind and we were patient. I passed the GT-R on the outside of T2 so easily. Was catching that RCZ, quickly, for the last 3 laps. Needed one more lap. No dramas for me all race. That CAyman was from the EMEA. Must have hit a car that launched at T2. At the line, the Cayman stopped and we all passed it.
Better points than last race.

 

[SmellMyCheese]

Ran the second slot to sacrifice some DR to boost my SR back up to 99 after Monza madness last week. Picked up about 20 points in that race!

Back into a better lobby for the last slot, door
No.14 qualifying 14th! Ran 6H/6M/6M and just concentrated on keeping it on the tarmac paid off nicely capitalising on other people flying off including 2 on the last corner of the last lap

Ended the night throwing in the current 2nd fastest lap for Blue Moon too!

 

[fehpat]

Hello!

It's been a week since my last post, but I had almost nothing to tell.

As I expected, my Monza race with the Audi R8 LMS was horrific: finished last, one and done with a spin in Curva Grande lap 1. Did not want to go again, because of the risk of losing all the DR.

I missed the Subaru/Mitsubishi battle, but today I'm back! Still practicing, I was not at home in the last two days so maybe I skip the first slot in favour of practice.

 

[Pigems]

How is Toyota doing in everyone’s races so far??

 

[Rangeraus]

How is Toyota doing in everyone’s races so far??

It's very fast here despite lacking power, nearly took 40 points in OCE

 

[stpatty]

A 6/5/7 coming up for the woefully unsuited GT-R. It's going to be a disaster.

 

[SUPRASTAR0003]

My race was very interesting at Willow Springs tonight. I encountered this person who was very aggressive and showed no remorse like many other dirty drivers.

Opening lap she makes a successful "clean" dive bomb attempt snatching 6th place (48:16). She cops a 1s penalty for kissing some Jaguar driver right off the track on lap 2 (48:35), then when she serves the penalty, she tries blocking me and serves another penalty. Thank god for the justice (48:55). I pit in on lap 8 and when I came out, I thought she would be back of the pack so I decided to let her pass cos I didn't know what her next move was gonna be (50:28).

Half way into the race, I copped a 2s penalty for being side by side with a Scirocco, ugh so be it (51:04). By the time I serve my penalty down the main straight and then regain momentum, she's back! And just for a laugh, I decided to give her a bit of a punt (51:53), of course she takes me out after (52:03) but cops another penalty and stops to push me right off the track. Thank god for the justice again. I thought I would rejoin the track safely but I end up airborne across the track, sparks sent flying (52:12). She deserved it, hehe .

Anyway that was that race, I didn't care that my race was ruined cos the points weren't big and there were hardly any pros racing in the final session and I wasn't excited for Big Willow.

 

[adam46]

Performing my usual on the fly strategy, and possibly taking a couple of stabs at the race this time around.

I'm a fan of Willow, so hopefully I can do my retro-liveried Viper proud! Viva la Force One Festina... If you know what that is please be my friend!

 

[RX8 Racer]

I’m never driving at Big Willow ever again. I kept getting shoved off by someone throwing one up the inside and dying to the final corner. I ended up shoving off someone else by accident at the final corner in the last race and ruining their race too. I conceded my position to them after going off at the final corner myself and apologised afterwards. 3.8k DR down and a total waste of my night.

 

[kungtotte_]

Yeah it'll be a long time before I bother with Big Willow again. I really dislike this track, no redeeming qualities at all in my eyes and I'm not having fun a single second of racing here.

 

[Adam Barber]

Started on the hard tyre and effectively dropped to 14th on lap 4 when I pitted for mediums. I then pitted again lap 11 and was stuck behind an NSX for two laps until I made a pass into T1 on lap 14. came home 8th. Also a couple of close calls with the sand realm that last lap. Two stop definitely felt like the way to go. Glad I started on the hard tyre as well as I got to hold us some medium runners with it. One and done for me, good luck everyone

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• Dec 9, 2020

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• Adam Barber
• Dec 9, 2020

 

[xxPinkyKissxx]

Well, after the highs of last week, this race was disappointing and laborious. Could only qualify 15th with a 1:18 dead and it turned out I was still the fastest Jag out of 3 so I’m going to blame the car!

Started on Hards for a 2 stop and spent most the race sat in 16th after being passed by a Porsche early on. Running Mediums for last stint helped me pass a few strugglers and I was briefly in12th on the last lap but got passed by a Ferrari. Sort of wish I hadn’t bothered entering but just wanted to race! On to Blue Moon we go!

 

[DuNord]

Decent race in the Mazda. 2 stopper for me Med to Hard because traffic back to Med. Qualified p10 ended up finishing p12 because a French fella with "no tyres" his words not mine (Although I knew that as he was defending for his life L18 and I managed to get by cutting him back up the hill), decided to dive bomb on the fast final right hander sending me off into the desert on a horse with no name. Should have been a p9, but it is what it is. No penalty means it was clean right?

I think what really irks me about this situation is that the lad knew his tyres were gone, it was L18 I patiently waited for an opportunity to cleanly pass him even though he was far slower around T1, 2 and 3. Then it's a good idea to divebomb on the fast right hander, with or without tyres. Frustrating but the other 17 laps were full of some good racing so all in all it was some fun and managed 87 points.