Great to have the full races finally, commentary and race direction was great. Hope we can get to see qualifying and be able to have them live streamed at some point soon.
A few little mistakes in the commentary I wanted to mention:
1. Rolling starts aren't controlled by us. We start in auto drive and everyone goes at the same time.
2. The setups of the cars are fixed, so Fuvaros couldn't have adjusted the wing levels of his car.
3. Manufactures Cup has a 2 car per manufacture limit not 3.
4. Basically no one run traction control in these races since its slower for all the top driver (Except if there is a standing start where almost everyone will use it until 2nd gear)
Below is the predicted lineup for the next EMEA Manufactures race + some reserves
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Also completely off topic but it was cool to see you watching some of our 2 hour endurance race on sunday
Ok so
@Jimmy B time for the informations acquired after a few testing in open lobbies
This is dedicated to all the casters so pls guys feel free to add informations and tell me if i'm wrong somewhere.
First i quote
@Cuber Tom post because he is right about the expected entry list and the informations he gave in the 4 points of his post
Then it's time for some analysis about the track and the cars that will be used in the race, so, to begin with
track limits, in Monza,
kerbs are lava but you can still try to play with fire, that is to say that 1st and 2nd chicane can each reward you with 2 penalties if you go too far on the inside of each turn that form these chicanes, the other main part when it's "easy" to get penalised is the variante ascari, where going too much on the kerbs will also reward you with penalties (maybe there are other "critical penalty points", i'm asking other drivers to complete if they know more about it)
Following with the
best cars for the track and for the race : So for this track, looking at the entry list, i think everyone will agree with me that the 3 best manufacturers here should be
Nissan,
Ferrari, and
Jaguar
However, there are some cars that i consider as "best underdogs" that might be able to take good spots, these are the
Dodge,
Mercedes Benz,
Chevrolet, and probably derek's
Volkswagen as he runs the VGT
Next, let's talk about the
standing start, some cars are way better than others when it comes to this exercise,
Let's begin with the
best cars for standing starts, these are the
Citroën,
Honda, and
Ferrari, (maybe some other cars that i don't really know are good like the volkswagen or the mercedes but i don't want to say wrong things) so these cars should gain some positions right after the start before first turn (unless everyone keep it safe for first turn, thing that i would really appreciate
)
Now the cars that
really struggles on standing starts, these are the
Renaults and the
Nissan, it would honestly not be a surprise to see a Nissan on pole position but it would also not be a surprise to see that it already have dropped to something like P5 by the first turn of the race
For race strategy, i bet that everyone will know the number of laps that the race will last (remember that it's an endurance race of 25 minutes) so we should see everyone pitting on the same lap, fuel consumption management will be an interesting thing to watch, as it can help to win some time on pits.
For the race favourite, i would go with TRL_LIGHTNING, because the Nissan will be a really strong car at Monza, and we all know that he is already a monster even when the car isn't really at ease
That's all for me
@Jimmy B, i hope you'll appreciate and that these informations will be usefull (and don't give up with Wang, we all know Baku could be a difficult race
)
