[B-Spec] 2016 World Sportscar Championship

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Lumi: "Say, Jack. Saw you stealing that tay-yucky thing Ayu likes. Aren't you afraid of weighing down the car from eating so much?"
Jack (in car 77): "Seriously!? It was just a couple of god 🤬 pieces Frank made!"

Ayu: "Uguu... alright, which one of you stole ALL of the taiyaki Frank made for me? Was it you, Emma?"
Emma: "Why does EVERYONE blame ME for their food problems!?"

(official start of the session)
Rena Hirose (in car 76): "I'm still wondering where the neural connectors are. Feels weird flailing my arms on a steering wheel and it (the car) somehow turning."
Jack: "Hey, just so you know - the neural connectors are in your 🤬, space cadet."
Hirose (still in car 76): "Informative as always, Acid-san."

Emma (in car 77): "Where's the idol placed so far in the session right now? I don't want to get beaten by an idol singer again..."
(Yayoi sets a lap)
Yayoi (in car 78): "Peek-a-boo! Right in front of you!"
Emma (still in car - to herself): "I said, I wasn't going to get beaten by an idol singer again!"
(several minutes later)
Emma: "There! Not so poppy now, are you!?"

Yayoi (in car): "No fair! Miku got loose on the final corner and nearly took me down with her! That's a move I don't think even Kuroi would pull!"
Jack: "That's nothing compared to the horse:censored: McKane would pull on me all the time, little March girl."

Ayu: "Uguu- so tired."
Frank (to himself): "This really is lookin' like a bad anime harem if I think about it. With little Ayu on the team now, we even got the one lil' sister."
Ayu: "Excuse me, Franki-sama! The 'little sister' happens to be 27 YEARS OLD, you know!"

(end of session)
Stefano: "Great job ladies and gentlemen."
(Emma, by some miracle, accidentally knocks over Stefano while backing the 77 up)
Stefano: "PLUH! Except for you, honey. You have to make dinner for the rest of the team now."
Emma: "Are you serious!? For 🤬 sake Stef, I am a race car driver! Do I have to do it while wearing that ridiculously skimpy maid outfit you bought for me last year, too!?"
(beat)
(beat)
Stefano: "Yes."
 
BKGlover
He's within a second of the class leader though. I went from within one to over two slower. This game defies what I think should be happening.
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Take a good look at the video and see if there are enough long straights to lower downforce, or if it's a spaghetti dinner track with twisty bits, use all of the downforce :dopey:

Usually, on Tilke tracks, I opt for the lower end of the downforce spectrum and harder springs.
 
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Suzumiya
I opted for harder spring rates for Bahrain. Take a good look at the video and see if there are enough long straights to lower downforce, or if it's a spaghetti dinner track with twisty bits, use all of the downforce :dopey:

Usually, on Tilke tracks, I opt for the lower end of the downforce spectrum and harder springs.
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The only race that I haven't used near max downforce on was Daytona, and I don't think anything was gonna work there.
 
BKGlover
He's within a second of the class leader though. I went from within one to over two slower. This game defies what I think should be happening.
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At least you will get an idea if your changes are working or not. I can throw everything including the kitchen sink at my cars and they still run the same lap times.
 
tbwhhs
At least you will get an idea if your changes are working or not. I can throw everything including the kitchen sink at my cars and they still run the same lap times.
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Try the bathtub. :P
 
tbwhhs
At least you will get an idea if your changes are working or not. I can throw everything including the kitchen sink at my cars and they still run the same lap times.
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Sounds like me in FBS. Problem is that there have been two changes during the season that have made things any better, I'm batting well below the Mendoza line at this point.
 
tbwhhs
At least you will get an idea if your changes are working or not. I can throw everything including the kitchen sink at my cars and they still run the same lap times.
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Same, I honestly am just considering giving up because nothing I do changes whether my cars finish at all or any better.
 
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Stefano di Fiorano: "Just when we had things turned around. We had that race won, and we got robbed for the second time. Our championship chances are truly over. We're going to be lucky if we even have the finances to qualify at Le Mans, never mind win there."

Emma Pergusa: "I just didn't have enough fuel to make it back one more time. I'm crushed, just absolutely crushed. Our entire team is a sobbing wreck right now."
 
What the 🤬 is the point of reliability upgrades, neither car even made it an hour. And it couldn't have happened when I was slow, it had to happen when I've finally found some 🤬 pace. I sound like :censored:B.K Glover right now.
 
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The race results and standings are confusing me.

Are you sure you uploaded the correct pictures?

Because possibly
Somehow, the Luigi strategy might have really worked this time
 
OK its fixed now

There were some big issues with the race,
the LMP Aston Martins ran into their fuel issue again, and AJHG1000's Ferraris finished the race on one less pit stop. I ran a full 6 hour simulation at Bahrain a few days ago. The Astons didnt have the fuel issue but I did see some GT cars making it on one less stop then the others. I reduced the fuel capacity of all GT cars by 1 liter but it seems it wasnt enough. As for the LMP Astons I'll reduce how aggressive they are with fuel mileage even further in hopes the problem goes away again, this time for good.

As for reliability, it seems the worse case scenarios keep happening in the official race, because in the 6 hour simulation I ran earlier 36 cars finished the race (76% if the field) but in the real race 5 cars were out after an hour. I cant help but question myself now and whether I truly understand the mechanics of how reliability works in this game. But in the end its still based on chance and you will never get the exact same results over and over again. Even if a team has 85% reliability theres still a 15% chance the cars break down. I didnt want to make it 95% or something similar because then wheres the fun in that.
 
"Into The Unknown" - Perry Brown

Porsche Sport Pezzarinho and the #16 machine claimed their 3rd win of the season in Bahrain, after a race long fight with the Team Jahgee Audi R18's. The mood within the team was divided however by the retirements of both the #17 and #18 cars from promising positions once again.

The #18 embarrassingly retired on lap 1 after reporting some strange behavior from the rear suspension. The driver line-up has been specifically aimed at providing experience to Vandoorne and Hulkenberg after migrating from single seaters, and alongside Webber who has completed his transition only 2 years ago. Despite the lack of experience, previous results have been positive and they will have been looking to get a lot more from this race.

The early part of the race then saw the remaining Pezzarinho entries battle with the Aston Martin's of Allstar Racing for the race lead. Both Aston Martin's fell into unreliability of their own however, retiring within a lap of one another. This left the Porsche Sport Pezzarinho machines first and second and looking unopposed. The Team Jahgee Audi's were on a charge however, with the #12 able to close the gap to the front before taking the overall lead.

The #17 has suffered a torrid season of unreliability, and that continued with their 5th retirement from 5 races with gearbox troubles. With only 3 races left, the team are still trying to hunt down the cause of the gremlins and see the car finish at least 1 race in 2016.

The #16 battled the #11 Team Jahgee Audi, both Championship contenders. The #12 continued to lead with a gap of around 12 seconds, but the #16 reeled this gap in during the final stint before retaking the lead with only 25 minutes of the race remaining.

In a season filled with headlines to be happy about, it was a somber Perry Brown that we interviewed following the race.

"I honestly don't know where todays result has come from, but finishing second would have been a large blow to our championship aspirations. Taking the win puts us in the best position on an individual basis of course, but we are into the unknown now on whether we can maintain the challenge right to the end."

Asked to elaborate on the comment, Brown added, "I am yet again having to apologise to my other 6 drivers after yet more poor reliability. We have won 3 out of 5 races despite having the least reliable car out there, and it is starting to strain this team getting to the bottom of that poor reliability. Porsche are putting pressure on us as well as the lead entry, so we really need 3 cars getting onto the podium and securing both points and money to help develop the car and team.

"The teams around us are securing more prize money and the lead we once enjoyed at the front of the field has disappeared. It may time for a rethink ready for next season. It seems strange saying that with 1 car leading the championship, but it is one reliability upset of it's own to remove that advantage from us as well. There is an awful lot of pressure around, so we hope we can deliver a home result at Silverstone and give our team something definitive to be upbeat about.

"The real frustrations regarding the car is that we know what it can do. We have tested the car over a distance 5 times that of these races without problems, and yet we had 2 cars out before reaching even 2 hours."
 
Kyle Busch, #43 driver: "I've had enough of the rag-tag engines that Aston Martin provides us. It's utterly ridiculous--we had a lot of pace during practice and qualifying, only to get sabotaged by our own car during the race. It's getting really REALLY old."

Suzuka Tsuchigami, #44 driver: "Well, that could have gone a lot better... An 8th place is kind of respectable, but our poor strategy forced us to pit really late into the race. We were simply outwitted by the Alitalia team, no excuses there unfortunately."

Faisal Mahmoud, #45 driver: "It feel very fantastic being back in the car, again. I cannot thank the team enough for this opportunity, it is a great honor to finally be back on the track, and it is very good to be beating my former team, haha. Fantastic, again!"

 
Ukyo Katayama, Chief Engineer: "During the time between Bahrain and Silverstone, we worked on a new cooling system that will improve the chances of us finishing the races. This time, the car's engine won't give in at all during the race. Hopefully, the fans will get to see us succeed and take the checkered flag! Our practice result is excellent, and we hope to carry our performance over to the qualifying session! We've come a long way, but we still need to worry about the Alitalia Ferrari team who has just classified in 4th behind us."

Satone Shichimiya, #45 driver and Project Gran Forza 2016 Academy Champion: "WOW! I'm am super-mega-ultra glad about this result! I was given the honor, the glory, the blessed task of taking the magical V8 fire breathing monster out on the racing circuit, and I tamed the beast with all of my might! It was soooo fun!~ Ahahahah! It wasn't as scary as I thought it would be; it was very fun! I have to thank Peter Lamb--oh, Pedro Lamy for training me while we were in waiting for the car to be officially entered in the series, it has totally paid off! I'm too excited! I'm shaking so much!!! It went from playing that dumb game every night to try and beat those pesky GFPlanet Monthly Race Series aliens to beating real aliens on the track!"



Personal Thoughts: It's going to be really hard to top the efforts of @GTracerEHTeam, he came out to play. It's also gonna be challenging to try and defeat @AJHG1000's masterful Luigi strategy... 32 point deficit is nothing for me, though!
 
Close at the top again! I don't care if I finish dead last now though, I just want the #17 to finish 1 race this season!!!
 

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