FIA GT1 Blancpain Irl Season 2 | We Have 10 Sign Ups for the Rolex 24Hrs of Daytona!!!

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I used to like Monaco...... until I put a Ford GT on it, and everthing I change on the car makes it slower!
I hate the track!
I hate its mom!
I hate your mom!
I hate her face!
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If all cars were the same it would probably be better to have a one make GTR series, or something, as every car doing the same thing would be boring,
its not that bad actually and creates very close racing
 
Yeh monaco does usually provide a close race , it is so hard to pass here therefore strategy and qualy are really important .
 
Yeh monaco does usually provide a close race , it is so hard to pass here therefore strategy and qualy are really important .

SkengD, you hit it right on the nose with this track. There are only a few slim opportunities to overtake someone here.
Guys, please have patients and extreme caution when trying to overtake at this Sunday's race. Use good sence racing here. 👍 :)
This is my worst problem with this track is the lack of patients. I had alot of it practicing with Joe last night. I finally hit a 30.8 and was hitting quite a few 30.9's. Through the first 2 sectors we were even faster, but kept slowing in sector 3. lol
 
Me & Tyler simulted a 2 vs 3 stop pit stradegy and both where equally promising. I'm not sure which stradegy I'm going to run yet but I will be using the pit window to get out of traffic. If everyone goes for the 3 stop I will stay out for track positioning, but if everyone stays out then ill come in early. 1 thing is for sure we are racing long enough for the last car on grid to still grab a podium. Check out Dirk Werner starting from 18th to take 2nd in the 2013 opening round of DTM. And they only race 192km, but they do get cautions which is something I would like to implement in this series if polarbear can teach me the technique?!,..
 
Cautions would be nice sometimes for the field to bunch up again. 👍

Polarbear did if 2 or 3 drivers typed caution then the field would bunch? I also don't remember how caution laps there were because he ran a open & closed pit entry too but I'm sure we could figure it out. This will create more interest for drivers that fall of pace to keep racing if there are potential cautions at play here.



Recent News:
For the Monaco Rd we will be doing a single file grid start to better insure that all drivers can make it thru turn 1 with the least amount of issues.
 
I am a fan of cautions but they kind of encourage people to drive dirty, which sucks, Maybe if we run with heavy damage so that cautions are for serious incidents only, stopping people from relying on cautions so they can behave like boneheads,
 
I am a fan of cautions but they kind of encourage people to drive dirty, which sucks, Maybe if we run with heavy damage so that cautions are for serious incidents only, stopping people from relying on cautions so they can behave like boneheads,

True that, I just hate how sensitive heavy damage is compared to light damage. They really need to switch the 2 imo, but we will test it out thanks for our opinion on this! 👍
 
Hahahahaha. Mate with the right people it is possible to race the Nurb 24 hr circuit, in the night, with full rain and heavy damage in the online 24 hours,

our team drove for over 9 hours ( 4 hours in full rain and 2 hours in the dark) before taking substancial damage,

I agree that the damage engine feels somewhat flawed and over sensitive, but I can assure you its not, when you wantch a replay of the moment of contact and view it from both cars, you do see usually the speed difference or 20 kph that causes the damage,

wheel damage and suspension damage is a lot less harsh when you use a wheel, you can somewhat drive around it, takes some getting used too,

The biggest issue is the unfairest issue of all, lag! if you get lag slammed the vehicle lagging usually doesn't take damage, yet your car is semi destroyed,

the way to solve this issue,
Have the field move off from the grid at 40mph, anyone jumping around or lagging they come to a stop not on the track,
They wait for the field to drive past, and resume at the back of the field,

this obviously isn't fair to that driver, but its fair to the rest of the field, sometimes it may take 5 minutes or so for their connection to establish itself correctly, so perhaps 2 pace laps may be required, but not recommended, as people get wrestless,
 
Looking forward to it we race 24 hrs of Nurburgring for Blancpain & Jstc on the same weekend. Can anyone say "Free Practice on Saturday". I'll be using my JSTC GT400 knowledge out of Nurburgring race 2 wks & Le Mans race in 4 wks time from now. Planned to perfection!!!

Recent News:
-The race lounge for tomorrow's Monaco Grand Prix will be open at 12pm Pst | 8pm Gmt' @ Joe's Lounge
 
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I'm in joes lounge at the moment if anyone happens to be on!
See you there tomorrow morning if not :)
 
JoRdY105
I'm in joes lounge at the moment if anyone happens to be on!
See you there tomorrow morning if not :)

The V8 Supercars Austin 400 from CotA is airing at the moment. Don't forget to catch that, but if you do forget or can't then you can catch it on Youtube commerical free' 👍
 
The V8 Supercars Austin 400 from CotA is airing at the moment. Don't forget to catch that, but if you do forget or can't then you can catch it on Youtube commerical free' 👍

Glad your getting into our racing on that side of the pond!!
I'll most likely catch it up tomorrow evening, I don't think out channels have it on live, they haven't advertised at all!
YouTube is a great thing!
 
The V8 Supercars Austin 400 from CotA is airing at the moment. Don't forget to catch that, but if you do forget or can't then you can catch it on Youtube commerical free' 👍

I had tickets but had to do some maintenance on the jag (shocker). I hope some other touring championships come to COTA.
 
I had tickets but had to do some maintenance on the jag (shocker). I hope some other touring championships come to COTA.

CotA is running everything there 2013 schedule is packed out! There's probably on Blancpain & FIA GT Series not running there yet.

Recent News:
-I'm opening the race room at 12pm Pst | 8pm Gmt in my lounge drivers!
 
nurb 24hr is on thats a good watch
TNt did you ever get the audi into the 30s

I got it to a 1:31.5, but haven't worked on it since the other night. The setup I have in it now is good but needs more to get you into the 30's.
 
I got it to a 1:31.5, but haven't worked on it since the other night. The setup I have in it now is good but needs more to get you into the 30's.
my quickest after an hour and a half is a 1.32.075 but tyres are shot after lap seven
 
joetruckv8
CotA is running everything there 2013 schedule is packed out! There's probably on Blancpain & FIA GT Series not running there yet.

Recent News:
-I'm opening the race room at 12pm Pst | 8pm Gmt in my lounge drivers!

The race still starts at 5 est right? I had to go into work to take care of something. So I might be a little late when it comes to qualifying.
 
The race still starts at 5 est right? I had to go into work to take care of something. So I might be a little late when it comes to qualifying.

You know we will wait for you Flyin. Don't be to long. :)

Willfred, I can send you my setup for it when I sign on. I know you sometimes have problems with mine or Joes setups. I hope it will help you buddy. :)
 
SkengD
You guys must have an agressive setup ?

How many pit stops you think ?

2 stop lap 20 40
3 stop lap 15 30 45
Not sure on your fuel consumption.

7 drivers on grid at the moment 1 hour to go to grn.
 
Calling Seth, Tyler, Jordy, SkengD, to the grid if you guys are available to make the 2pm race start.

11 Drivers on Grid!!!
 
I'm guessing I only get a spot if them guys don't show. It's a private lobby isn't it? I don't think I have anyone apart from Seth and FH on PSN.
 
I would like to say a big thank you to every one contributing to my loss of place and destroying my tyres.
i know it wasn't lag it was people not giving others room despite us discussing it earlier.
the r8s eat through tyres any way meaning i only have a 5/6 lap window where i can go for it before i have horrendous oversteer
so far in all 3 rounds i have been rammed into a wall of the track at least once.
This has got stop!
 

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