FIA Race Discussion [Archive]

[Redneckchef]

Finished P9 behind Racinggrandpa.

C'mon man, I'm not that old yet

Did I really get to p8?

 

[05XR8]

C'mon man, I'm not that old yet

Did I really get to p8?

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My mistake. I'll edit the name.

 

[Redneckchef]

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My mistake. I'll edit the name.

Cool. Did better than I thought. Thanks for letting me through after I kept getting the exits wrong trying to line up to pass you. I would have been content to hang back till I got it right.👍

That was a good back and forth race all over the grid, and with tire strategy you really dont know who is where till the last lap so you really have to keep on it. I am not comfortable at all at Suzuka and was semi dreading the race, but one of my most fun and successful races in FIA. Highly recommend.

 

[05XR8]

Cool. Did better than I thought. Thanks for letting me through after I kept getting the exits wrong trying to line up to pass you. I would have been content to hang back till I got it right.👍

That was a good back and forth race all over the grid, and with tire strategy you really dont know who is where till the last lap so you really have to keep on it. I am not comfortable at all at Suzuka and was semi dreading the race, but one of my most fun and successful races in FIA. Highly recommend.

Yeah, other than that player holding us up, no major dramas. Hope other players can have a good room like that.

 

[Kermit_2142]

Sounds like this race could be a lot of fun 👍

 

[Hasnain282]

Have been all over the place in practice, so will just be happy to keep it on track for the duration

 

[watto79]

Please tell me I'm not the only UK based person to forget the race times have changed because of the end of BST?

 

[Redneckchef]

Please tell me I'm not the only UK based person to forget the race times have changed because of the end of BST?

I did it down here in NZ as well. Logged on in a rush thinking I had 5 minutes to.figure it out and instead it was an hour.

And on a cool note for me that steady drive in the good race I had last night got me enough points to take the best of the rest title for Jag in Oceania by 1 point.

P6 for this season. Ahead of me there is pretty much a 100 point gap for each spot. Pretty happy with that since I finished driving well for 2 races instead of like the idiot who drove middle portion of my season.

 

[stpatty]

I needed to beat 118 points to get my score for Nissan up. In my first 200 point lobby since I switched to a wheel almost a year ago I finished 11th and scored... 118 points. Fabulous.

 

[Sean YZF]

@watto79 aye, me too, decided to crack a beer while I waited

As for the race itself.
My DR is high C at the minute and I thought with a time of 2.09+ I might be placed up the field, no, door number 20 in a all C room.
Qualified 9th with 2.10. 3rd hot lap didn't go as I hoped.
P1 & 2 were .08's but I wasnt far off the rest.
Started on softs, lost two racers on lap 1 & a couple more in subsequent laps. P1 & 2 were gone, P3 was a possibility though. Kept the Aston steady until I pitted L8 while I was in P3 came out on softs again in 7th. Got held up for 3 laps by a TT driver but he did put one guy into the gravel, so there was another place for me. Squeezed past and had a good couple of hot laps before I pitted again on L16 for mediums, final lap on hards, crossed the line 6th, but got promoted to 4th, stupid tyre rules
Clean race bonus too 👍
Might go again but with a 9S 8M 1H tyre plan.

 

[kungtotte_]

Another one and done for me, and a great finish to the season.

Qualified P3 with a 2:08.6, with 0.5s up to P1, so I started on the softs and planning a S/S/M/H strategy based on @Mistah_MCA's videos and what others said in here.

The whole race was fairly drama free, I gained a position on lap 1 by someone overshooting T1, lost the position by overshooting T1 myself on the following lap but I managed to recover enough to stay in P3. So it was me against two Sciroccos in the lead with a fair gap down to P4.

Then on lap 4 the lead Scirocco went into the pits, while me and the other VW pushed on and we both pitted on lap 6 with a comfortable gap down to P3. After that it was a race between me and that Scirocco. I trailed him closely until pitting on lap 12, then when he went into pit much later I went into P1 and led the race for a few laps until pitting on lap 17 for hards with 5 seconds down to P2. He passed me easily, as expected, but I was able to keep up and even close the gap somewhat and crossed the finish line only 1.5 seconds behind P1.

Best result of the season. P2, 99 points. Happy with that

 

[stpatty]

I started today in 9th place for Nissan in EMEA. I was 20 points ahead of 10th but with a worst score of 118 to his 12-something, and two aliens (JL and Dofrer) in 11th and 12th, with one result for either of them able to put them in the top 10. After a 118 for 11th place in the first slot I went again, where 10th place was now worth 118. I qualified 13th (again) despite going faster, less than a tenth away from 9th place. I spent most of the first half of the race behind a pair of duelling BMWs and getting stuck with a useless Brit in a Mercedes. I got stuck behind him after I pitted for my first soft stint (1H/5M/6S/6S) and was in the exact same place the second time, except he quit after he went off at the first corner.

Then this happened:



I will not be playing for a while. Bye.

 

[05XR8]

Ah, the worse was last night. I was catching the car ahead on worn tyres. The player ahead of him was going into the PZ. That player moved left to serve the penalty. Player ahead of me moved left so I wouldn't get the inside for the slipstream. I didn't care, I stayed far right away from the penalty player.
Sure enough, the player ahead of me gets baulked, while in the ghost of the penalty server. I was gone.

 

[Tidgney]

Last race for Subaru !

 

[MCL1974]

I really love Suzuka, I always seem to get in a flow while drving it...

midd B lobby, door number 16.

My second qualifing lap was an 2.08.6, and this was a pleasant surprise as in my practice my best qualifying lap was a 2.09.1. I ended up in seventh place. (first lap of qaulifying was a 2.09.6 which would have given me about 14th place

my strategy would be 5 or 6 laps on softs, then change to S or M, then 1 lap hard and finish the race on M or S.
Race start went okay for me, no pressure from behind. Two drivers ahead of me, a Peugeot and a Megane missed turn 1 so i was fifth behind a Ferrari and build up a lead of app 4 seconds on the Megane in sixth. After 4 laps my tyres started to decrease and the Megane started to catch me and was right on my tail after six laps so decided to switch tyres.
And as i could see i was well in front of the pack i decided to get the mediums on first so that i could end with the softs. Came out in nomansland and cruised till lap 11, switched to hards and was about 4 seconds in front of a Swiss Cayman with a rather cool livery.
Lap 12 i went back into the pits and put on softs again and was then 4 seconds behind the Cayman. Within two laps i was already right behind the Cayman and i had to do the thing I am not very comfortable with... overtaking.
I made my move at the chicane after going under the bridge and got in front of him and expected to go well ahead as i had so much more pace till then. But the Cayman managed to stay right behind me till the final lap so had no time to relax. I managed to keep on doing steady laps and finished 5th and got my highest number of points ever. Very pleased with the result, my qualifying lap was one of my best ever and all my racelaps were solid and consistent.

I think most drivers did a two stop strategy and i was one of the few or even the only one doing a three stopper. The Ferrari starting in 5th won and I am now sure the only reason i could keep up with him the first laps was because he started on mediums....

 

[Zorz]

Manufacturer Series Round 10
When your season goal is to try squeeze into the top 10 for an uncommon manufacturer and earn S rank for the first time, it's somewhat motivating when you're going into the final round like this:

I normally get nervous at the start of FIA races, but tonight it's just pure adrenaline focus the whole damn way. I'm probably going to be a bit drained tomorrow.

The Mitsubishi feels like a complete dead weight here at Suzuka though. Even the best qualifying laps pale in comparison to other manufacturers, and the race pace feels non-existent too. Attempting to overtake feels almost impossible - I routinely had people accelerating away from me whilst in their slipstreams. I guess that's a good thing under the circumstances since that should theoretically mean it's very difficult for the other Mitsubishis on the leaderboard, but it hasn't half made me worry that someone's going to get a good race and pip me to the Top 10 post. This is easily the closest I've ever been to getting this.

Attempt 1
My first attempt of the day was in slot 2, since the clocks changing in the UK means slot 1 now clashes with work.

I started P10 with a 2:08.451 and intended to go 8M/3H/7S. Turn 1 was a bit of a disaster, as I overshot it on the cold tyres. That then meant I lost some positions and had an Aston right up my rear bumper through sector 1. Nothing like cold dirty tyres for a heavy handling section in a car with handling that's nothing to write home about.

The whole race was basically just trying to survive, letting people past when safe if they got right up close because I simply couldn't challenge them. There were some mishaps on the way too. I managed to pass the Audi that had started on pole going through sector 2 on one of the later laps (he must have made a big mistake or had a collision), only for him to then punt me off at the hairpin...

End result, P14 and 79 points. I need 120 or more to improve my overall score...




Attempt 2
Apparently Mitsubishis are like buses. You can go the whole season and hardly see another one, then BOOM there are 3 all at once. Thankfully, the two I was grouped up with are not threats on the leaderboard! Even if they were to win, they wouldn't get above me.

My qualifying this time was almost identical to before, putting in a 2:08.428 this time for P11. Same strategy, except this time without overshooting turn 1! 👍

I actually managed to have some battles this race... with the other Mitsubishis. (Thanks RNG for grouping me with people who are also driving this piece of 🤬.)

No incidents to speak of this time, other than having to go off a bit at Spoon to avoid hitting a Lexus who was really, really struggling. No way I was getting past him though unless it was through a bend - he could accelerate away from me even with a bad exit and me in his slipstream...

This time I finished P10 for 106 points. Still not enough...




I'm still debating whether to do the final slot. The amount of effort to try keep up here is exhausting, and I need at least P8 to have any hope of improving my standings. I might just have to hope I've accrued enough points going into this to hold it.

 

[KosmoKazi]

I don’t know what they’ve done with the tune/BoP on the Cayman, but a car I’ve driven maybe more than any, and had some success with now seems all but undriveable. It wants to lose the rear end six ways to Sunday. Casio is impossible to be consistent in. Degner is a crapshoot every lap. I’ve gone from marking this event (Suzuka has been one of my best tracks) as a sure top 5 FIA points score and boost to my standings, to debating whether to run it. I’m at a loss for what is going on.

 

[neil_1980]

Please tell me I'm not the only UK based person to forget the race times have changed because of the end of BST?

Well I did two races tonight and didn't notice till I just read that... could have put myself out my misery earlier if I'd known

 

[Zorz]

Please tell me I'm not the only UK based person to forget the race times have changed because of the end of BST?

You're not the only one. I forgot too, but noticed when I snuck on to do some more Suzuka practice over lunch.

 

[D_Dragline]

I don’t know what they’ve done with the tune/BoP on the Cayman, but a car I’ve driven maybe more than any, and had some success with now seems all but undriveable. It wants to lose the rear end six ways to Sunday. Casio is impossible to be consistent in. Degner is a crapshoot every lap. I’ve gone from marking this event (Suzuka has been one of my best tracks) as a sure top 5 FIA points score and boost to my standings, to debating whether to run it. I’m at a loss for what is going on.

Thank god it’s not just me. I was so uncompetitive because I just could not get any consistency in this car. It felt so unstable everywhere.

 

[KosmoKazi]

Thank god it’s not just me. I was so uncompetitive because I just could not get any consistency in this car. It felt so unstable everywhere.

It's always been finicky on the Softs... so rather than have all the extra grip you want, that translates to added speed, the balance goes to h#$% and you struggle to get any further pace, while all the other cars in the class get a free second per lap in lower times.

You really need to work the Soft tires to get the pace up, and the car doesn't like to work tires. It porpoises around it's center with any transition from throttle to brake, and it get unsettled so easily on the curbs, but only when you've already climbed them (it doesn't kick-off them, it goes oversteer once you're up there... so it's hell to manage if you take a bit too much apex... so frustrating..) All this adds up to murder getting that last 10% out of the car on those Softs.

I finally came to grips with it in another FP session (sort of... just a respectable but not fast time), but I'm really hoping that the car is more competitive over the long haul and within the range of strategies that must come into play at the season finale at Suzuka. I need a good result!

 

[cactus0]

Please tell me I'm not the only UK based person to forget the race times have changed because of the end of BST?

nope :-)

tonight was something of a disaster.

missed slot one because work, and slot two because, as just noted, i'd forgotten about the clocks going back and could have made it on.

Slot three disconnected before the warm up.

Slot four, did NOT cover myself in glory! quali was an absolute joke, I think everyone thought they were playing wreckfest. I managed one decent run which was going great until I was rear ended in the braking zone for casio triangle so, never mind then. qualified 17th. Started on the hards to get them out of the way. some sort of glitch at the start meant that 16th-20th sort of ground to a halt until the countdown ended, so 15th was about 4 seconds ahead at turn one. I got nudged wide at turn one, on cold hard tyres, guess what happened. crawled back on the tarmacdead last and 20 seconds down, limped round and pitted for mediums, solid 5 laps on the mediums and was catching the group in front. Pitted for softs, total brain fart and went on to hards! went wide turn one because I wsa still fuming with myself. First rage quit in a long time!

Slot five. Better qualifying meant I started 5th, good few laps at the beginning with some great fair scraps for position until I got on the loud pedal too early coming out of spoon and spun. pitted for mediums and then a lap on hards so I was finishing n the softs. Came out p.9, rapidly started catching p.7 and p.8 who were having a ding-dong ahead. Got a great run out of spoon and took 8th on the straight, into casio triangle, same line and power as every other lap (or so I thought) and, flung off the track to the right onto the escape road, by the time i'd got back to the track I was 13th and finished 12th (someone must have quit)

I needed more than 22 points to improve my score. I got 23 points.

So not a TOTAL waste!

 

[05XR8]

I shouldn't have played ACC at Nurburgring GP just then. It was a GT4 race, but I'm speaking about the circuit. A two second fix by PD, could resolve the nonsense that is the current final chicane. The Daily Race the other day was okay, but I don't feel I have the patience for this last Nations. If it were DTG, Autopolis,.... heck, I'd do Brands Hatch.

 

[HaydenFan69]

That Mazda just couldn’t do it @ Suzuka, especially with the Hello Kitty special livery.

16th after qualifying 18th. Nothing otherwise special to report.

But was good to see GTP in full force. @afc5150, @roamingbard13, and @CurbHog .

 

[roamingbard13]

Raced for ***** and giggles tonight since I only had 2 manu scores banked. Put about an hour of practice in today, and figured I’d take it easy and just enjoy the race.

I got matched with @HaydenFan69 , @CurbHog , and @afc5150.

I started P9 on mediums with the plan to go 9m/1h/8s. The first few laps were good. @CurbHog and @afc5150 both caught me and I didn’t fight much since I figured they were on softs and I didn’t want to hold them up. Things were pretty smooth until the 9th lap for me where I caught the curb at 140R and neatly spun. I hit the pits after for a lap on hards, and then pit again...and accidentally hit mediums instead of softs. I just went with it since the pit loss if I pit again would kill the advantage of the softs. I figure I lost probably 8-9 seconds as a result. Maybe I fight for a top 5 position if I had them. Maybe not.

Either way, I finished P8 after doing the last 8 laps on my own. Not too shabby considering the lack of practice, the spin, and the pitting mistake.

 

[PhlebMike]

I'm not sure I understand this point system. Got my first manu win tonight, but only got 7 points? As did P2 and P3. Started P5 in an Aston, finished P1 with no penalties. Granted it was a D S lobby, but the podium all got the same points? Is there some explanation?

 

[roamingbard13]

I'm not sure I understand this point system. Got my first manu win tonight, but only got 7 points? As did P2 and P3. Started P5 in an Aston, finished P1 with no penalties. Granted it was a D S lobby, but the podium all got the same points? Is there some explanation?

I’m going to guess a weird algorithm quirk at that DR level. 20 spots in the race, only 7 total points means that not everyone can have a different score.

 

[PhlebMike]

I’m going to guess a weird algorithm quirk at that DR level. 20 spots in the race, only 7 total points means that not everyone can have a different score.

Okay.....not really a good way to keep newer racers. Practice and drive clean and hard and get pissed on at the end of the race.....Might not be worth the time invested.

 

[roamingbard13]

Okay.....not really a good way to keep newer racers. Practice and drive clean and hard and get pissed on at the end of the race.....Might not be worth the time invested.

It is too bad that’s the way you feel. Keep practicing. Gain some speed and some DR. Have fun. The points should just be gravy on top of that. I don’t even know how many I scored tonight lol

 

[csmirnoff]

NA Slot 2 with my McLaren 650S. Just a few laps practice which showed my pace wasn't too strong, so I didn't have high hopes. To make things worse, a 233-point lobby with 8 A+ drivers including @GTWolverine and @Winnie847, door #17 and a way too high lobby for the pace I had. Which split was it?

Qualified P16. Didn't hook up my best sectors in one lap, but I would only have been a couple spots ahead if I did. Top 11 in 4 tenths, crazy...

Went with the counter strategy, starting on hards and pitting at the end of the first lap. Went slightly wide into 130R on the cold hard tyres, which got my tyres dirty, causing me to miss the apex on the Casio Triangle, but didn't lose that much time. Took mediums and pitted again at the end of lap 4.

Once on softs, I managed to extend the gap to the few cars I had behind and close the gap to the cars ahead by many seconds. Went for my last stop on lap 11, going for another set of softs. Came out in traffic but was able to overtake the Corvette into turn 1 the following lap, so it didn't cost me too much time.

Managed to pass a few more cars as they exited the pits and managed to just keep them away from my slipstream until the checkered flag.

Other than the lap 1 mistake, an almost perfect race, lapping very consistently... to finish P12. I don't think I've ever had to work so hard to finish there. At least, due to finishing ahead of a couple of A+ drivers, I conserved my DR despite finishing outside the top 10.