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@ConRollins... I see you are signed up for reserve. I know you have a hard time making the beginning, but if by chance you are too late to get into the lounge by the time we start the road course you are welcome join the oval race. 👍 If you enter the lounge and the race or quali is underway just avoid using chat and feel free to observe. If you enter after road course qualification has begun you are welcome to race and start from the back. Qualifying will start at 7:00 PM Pacific sharp.
@Ren... How did you pull off that pretty 360 coming out of the final chicane on lap 20? I remember watching my mirror and seeing you spin and figuring you'd end up 15 seconds back and I could relax a little... but going down the straight after turn 2 I saw a triangle only about 5 seconds behind and I couldn't figure how that could be you. Turns out after watching the replay you perfected the Supra Pirouette.
IIRC, I hit pit the wall during the spin, which kept it on track and rotating, and just waited until I was pointing forward, then punched it. I was pretty annoyed with myself there, because my entire race plan was just to do the same steady laps over and over and hold on - and I changed it up there to try to get a run on you, or at least park on your bumper. Changing got me caught on the rumbles. Own foot successfully shot, but I was pleased with the recovery; should have just waited for your tires to fade a bit more first.
I only had the 25 minutes or so before the race to do all my online tuning and practice (and eat breakfast, 4:30am), so I was very leery of the rumbles, and very worried about braking points and grip when in draft - I was actually kind of relieved when I lost Shawn through being too tentative that way (especially 1+2, where I think you spotted you could capitalize later). I'm also glad you guys talked about the pit stops, because I had not the first clue about how long the tires would last. Both my setups adapted pretty well, I think; I'd share them if I had them. I had an entire car for the oval to swap in, because I wanted the three sheets on each.
The oval was nutty, but kinda fun; had no clue on tactics at all. More practice needed - but I avoid NASCAR rooms like the plague, because I don't want to screw up the experienced guys that tend to be in them. Also because driving bricks with 900hp, four gears and live axles is a bit weird.
Good luck today, guys!
EDIT:
If it helps anyone, What I remember of the oval tune was:
1. Take Blair's offline oval
tune with Kev's
gears. Bump the final down so that top speed increases by about 20kph - not sure about that figure. I had tweaked those further, but there would be very little in it. I hadn't balanced in-and-out of draft powerband before the race, either.
2. Change rear DF to max, RH to 0/0
3. Change LSD to 30/40/20
4. Camber and Toe were 3.0/0.0 and 0.00/-0.02. Less front camber might be better for wear, as Shawn said. I think I was experimenting with -.05 front toe offline, but I didn't have that today.
There were spring/damper changes, but I can't remember those. No crazy 1s on the back. I'd added rear DF back in, flattened RH and dropped the LSD Accel from 60 from my offline version, and lengthened the gears; I only had about 2 minutes to tweak the tune for online. Being too aggressive through 3-4 will murder the fronts in any case.
