PITS 2-[Project International Touring Series 2]PS4

[barryf1fan]

For your enjoyment - and man! Look at that track, how close the armco is - not hardly any runoff... miss that era of F1

Spoiler: Spoiler

Gerhard won that race.

Did this kit almost 28 years ago now...

Just ordered another one off fleabay to do it up again.

 

[barryf1fan]

Watch his head too - man, they had no head and neck protection whatsoever back then. Now, from the side, you can barely see the top of the drivers' helmet.

Another thing, there are no buttons/dials/swirlies majiggies on the wheel... you set your car up during FP, and then qualified the bitch and raced it! I know the cars now are faster, have a ****-ton more down force, but I miss those cars from the late '80s early '90s. . .

Greatest F1 car ever... 1992 Williams FW14B - designed by Adrian Newey, and kicked the dog-poo out of everyone (until FiA rewrote the rule book).

 

[barryf1fan]

Who's ready for a Rumble in the Republic?!?!

@slthree
@Canita
@HazardLvL4
@Alex ONeill
@potvinsuks
@bigtimedave
@SGETI
@coltsjugg
@sgohsixthree
@davidt33
@ONESPACE
@yogi bear
@Stanc03
@CB_racer
@Mike Lobban
@Senna94f1
@swjaxon
@Hanable
@Luckymouse71

Just a quick reminder of the Hour of Power fun in the GTE cars at Brno GP circuit - Thursday, Jan 9th, 2020.
Had a great turnout last week, let's see if we can 1 (or 2) up it!! 👍👍

Here's the race particulars for tomorrow, y'know, in case you wanna get some laps in.

Race 2 : Brno
Weather : Clear --> Med Cloud --> Light Cloud
Race start : 8am
5x time progression

 

[davidt33]

Who's ready for a Rumble in the Republic?!?!

@slthree
@Canita
@HazardLvL4
@Alex ONeill
@potvinsuks
@bigtimedave
@SGETI
@coltsjugg
@sgohsixthree
@davidt33
@ONESPACE
@yogi bear
@Stanc03
@CB_racer
@Mike Lobban
@Senna94f1
@swjaxon
@Hanable
@Luckymouse71

Just a quick reminder of the Hour of Power fun in the GTE cars at Brno GP circuit - Thursday, Jan 9th, 2020.
Had a great turnout last week, let's see if we can 1 (or 2) up it!! 👍👍

Here's the race particulars for tomorrow, y'know, in case you wanna get some laps in.

Race 2 : Brno
Weather : Clear --> Med Cloud --> Light Cloud
Race start : 8am
5x time progression

I'm in.

 

[sgohsixthree]

Who's ready for a Rumble in the Republic?!?!

@slthree
@Canita
@HazardLvL4
@Alex ONeill
@potvinsuks
@bigtimedave
@SGETI
@coltsjugg
@sgohsixthree
@davidt33
@ONESPACE
@yogi bear
@Stanc03
@CB_racer
@Mike Lobban
@Senna94f1
@swjaxon
@Hanable
@Luckymouse71

Just a quick reminder of the Hour of Power fun in the GTE cars at Brno GP circuit - Thursday, Jan 9th, 2020.
Had a great turnout last week, let's see if we can 1 (or 2) up it!! 👍👍

Here's the race particulars for tomorrow, y'know, in case you wanna get some laps in.

Race 2 : Brno
Weather : Clear --> Med Cloud --> Light Cloud
Race start : 8am
5x time progression

Man, my Ferrari last week felt so planted in practice, not fast, but stable. I binned it 3 times during the race, a track I'm fairly comfortable at. I think a different GTE might be calling me.

 

[barryf1fan]

Man, my Ferrari last week felt so planted in practice, not fast, but stable. I binned it 3 times during the race, a track I'm fairly comfortable at. I think a different GTE might be calling me.

I hear'ya... The Ford GTLM GTE is stalking me at the moment. And it's Red, White, and Blue - because 'Merica!!

and, even though it's a Ford - it looks badass!!

 

[coltsjugg]

Another Porsche track...
We had a decent race in the BMWs testing, but I know the Porsche just laughs its way to the finish line on this track. Like its motorcycle or something.

 

[barryf1fan]

THAT'S RIGHT, IT'S RACE DAY ! ! !

60 minutes of GTE's @ Brno GP tonight.
I'll be in the Ford, Stance will probably be in the Prancing Pony again, looks as though @sgohsixthree may be in a Be Em Double U. . .
@coltsjugg will either be in the RSR or on a motorbike...

What'cha'll got? Hope to see you tonight.

I'll try and get the room open by 7:30 EST for a 30 minute practice session, then we'll jump into Quali and then the race.
[if anyone wants a longer quali session, to do a little setup to a new car you've picked, just let me know and we can adjust that so everyone has some time to fiddle . . . ]

@slthree
@Canita
@HazardLvL4
@Alex ONeill
@potvinsuks
@bigtimedave
@SGETI
@coltsjugg
@sgohsixthree
@davidt33
@ONESPACE
@yogi bear
@Stanc03
@CB_racer
@Mike Lobban
@Senna94f1
@swjaxon
@Hanable
@Luckymouse71

 

[Stanc03]

Anyone wanna run sum brno practice

THAT'S RIGHT, IT'S RACE DAY ! ! !

60 minutes of GTE's @ Brno GP tonight.
I'll be in the Ford, Stance will probably be in the Prancing Pony again, looks as though @sgohsixthree may be in a Be Em Double U. . .
@coltsjugg will either be in the RSR or on a motorbike...

What'cha'll got? Hope to see you tonight.

I'll try and get the room open by 7:30 EST for a 30 minute practice session, then we'll jump into Quali and then the race.
[if anyone wants a longer quali session, to do a little setup to a new car you've picked, just let me know and we can adjust that so everyone has some time to fiddle . . . ]

@slthree
@Canita
@HazardLvL4
@Alex ONeill
@potvinsuks
@bigtimedave
@SGETI
@coltsjugg
@sgohsixthree
@davidt33
@ONESPACE
@yogi bear
@Stanc03
@CB_racer
@Mike Lobban
@Senna94f1
@swjaxon
@Hanable
@Luckymouse71

Lmk if your gonna be taking over hosting too buddy that, way I'll take. My time getting home lol

 

[barryf1fan]

Lmk if your gonna be taking over hosting too buddy that, way I'll take. My time getting home lol

Nope, I just thought you said last week that it was gonna be a struggle for you to get home in time for the next couple of weeks... that's all. It doesn't matter to me - I'd prefer you do it... I'm still a boob at it, like the other day when I had track limits "on" for our practice session. I didn't even look at that and was glad I could adjust it before we started Quali and race.

 

[HazardLvL4]

Nope, I just thought you said last week that it was gonna be a struggle for you to get home in time for the next couple of weeks... that's all. It doesn't matter to me - I'd prefer you do it... I'm still a boob at it, like the other day when I had track limits "on" for our practice session. I didn't even look at that and was glad I could adjust it before we started Quali and race.

I can host if needed.

 

[Stanc03]

I can host if needed.

What area of left field did you come from I should be home. By 715 I think so if we need u hazard or @barryf1fan I'll lyk you guys know ok

 

[bigtimedave]

Round 1 Points for Season 17 - PITs GTE Cup Series

Results:

Standings:

Let me know what you guys think of this new spreadsheet... the r

THAT'S RIGHT, IT'S RACE DAY ! ! !

60 minutes of GTE's @ Brno GP tonight.
I'll be in the Ford, Stance will probably be in the Prancing Pony again, looks as though @sgohsixthree may be in a Be Em Double U. . .
@coltsjugg will either be in the RSR or on a motorbike...

What'cha'll got? Hope to see you tonight.

I'll try and get the room open by 7:30 EST for a 30 minute practice session, then we'll jump into Quali and then the race.
[if anyone wants a longer quali session, to do a little setup to a new car you've picked, just let me know and we can adjust that so everyone has some time to fiddle . . . ]

@slthree
@Canita
@HazardLvL4
@Alex ONeill
@potvinsuks
@bigtimedave
@SGETI
@coltsjugg
@sgohsixthree
@davidt33
@ONESPACE
@yogi bear
@Stanc03
@CB_racer
@Mike Lobban
@Senna94f1
@swjaxon
@Hanable
@Luckymouse71

I could see myself driving the Corvette/Ferrari tonight.

 

[ONESPACE]

Sorry guys can't make it this week. Have fun.

 

[SGETI]

here is the video we talked about @yogi bear

 

[Stanc03]

Streams up

 

[HazardLvL4]

I don't understand what happened...

 

[barryf1fan]

Good racing tonight guys - Thanks to all who showed up, and the fact that we had so many different manufacturer's represented too!! Very Cool! I think we had all 6 cars present tonight. I'll get the results/points up in the morning.

Here's my stream:

 

[Stanc03]

Well good racing tonight guys battles were fun cars and the track brought some interesting racing s.o to @barryf1fan @HazardLvL4 @Luckymouse71 for making it a all American podium.

@SGETI I'll just go back to retraining lol
@sgohsixthree good. Job on brining home. The bimmy in 5th I knew that car had potential


Race 1 Laguna Seca
Weather vercast, Med cloud, Clear
Race start 3pm
10x Time progression.

Race 2 Brno
Weather : Clear, med cloud, light cloud
Race start 8am
5x time progression

Race 3 Imola
Weather : light cloud, light rain, clear, clear
Race start 1pm
10x Time progression

Race 4 Azure circuit ( Monaco)
Weather : Clear
Race start 12pm
15x Time progression

Race 5 Nurburgring combined
Weather : light cloud, light cloud, random, overcast
Race start 10am
20x Time Progression

 

[barryf1fan]

btw, you guys like that midnight practice session I set up?!?

 

[HazardLvL4]

Motorsport of 2020, COMMENCE!

 

[barryf1fan]

Here are the Points Total through ROUND 2 - Brno GP

RESULTS :

STANDINGS :

Look forward to next week already, Imola should be a good, fast time!! Kudos to @Stanc03 again for picking some good tracks paired with fun and quick cars. And again, good racing last night, guys. See y'all next week, have a great Friday and weekend.

 

[sgohsixthree]

Thanks @Stanc03 and @barryf1fan for putting on the race last night! Brno is not one of my favorites, but I found a fun groove in the Bimmer. Didn't mean I didn't still spin out, but with minimal damage.

Great racing early behind @yogi bear and late behind @bigtimedave . I almost caught both of them but pushed too hard. Still happy that I was consistent enough to take advantage of the Italian/German incident. Can we call that the Apex of Evil? Instead of you know, the Axis... I'll show myself out.

 

[barryf1fan]

Found a vide of @Stanc03, after the "incident". Guess he really did feel bad @SGETI

(I'm just glad I wasn't involved in that, usually I'm the one having to apologize )

 

[yogi bear]

here is the video we talked about @yogi bear

Yeah, I don't think this old bear can master that. I think the car would need to be set up for trail braking..
I tried it, and wound up spinning. It almost felt like front wheel drive. I was 8 seconds slower.
I usually put my brake pressure to about 60 percent, stomp hard at first and ease up on the pressure as my speed diminishes. Enter the corner with slight pressure on the gas, feeding it harder as I go through the corner and usually to the boards coming out of the corner. Slower entry, but fast exit.
Progressively tighter corners messes me up tho, so I've found braking deep and then letting the car over steer, then milking the throttle to correct it works for me.. hard on the tires, but trail braking I wound up locking the tires up anyway.
But thanks for posting

 

[Stanc03]

Good racing tonight guys - Thanks to all who showed up, and the fact that we had so many different manufacturer's represented too!! Very Cool! I think we had all 6 cars present tonight. I'll get the results/points up in the morning.

Here's my stream:

SO at 44:25 is were the choas took place you had a front row seat lol
I see how sgeti and I ended up where we did

 

[barryf1fan]

Figured I would post this here... I got a new rig and wheel/pedal setup (Yea, Merry Christmas me )

Old kicks: Ricmotech RS500 diy / Thrustmaster T300 w/F1 rim and T3PA pedals.

Shot with the 37" tv from when I first put it in the "man-cave"

Today, before I started the switha-roo - tv removed. You can see the F1 rim (which I really like).

And here is the GI-freaking-normous RSeat, up to 65" monitor stand ( I got a new Samsung 55" 4K UHD tv for it 👍 )

Ret to go ! ! !

Now that the picture show is over... I do have a quick ? for you guys that are running the Fanatec V3 pedals. After using them they are a very different animal than the T3PA's, question is, how do you adjust them? I was really struggling with them - I did get a bit better, but they seem inconsistent. Is there a trick to "setting" them up? I printed the manual off at work yesterday and read through it, but I don't see (other then "buying" upgrades) where there are adjustment points. Don't get me wrong, there aren't any for the T3PA's either, and after about an hour I was about a second off my quick lap in the Caddy GT3 at Spa (so that's good). I do like the wheel base and the throttle pedal, it doesn't feel like a toy. I'll probably end up ordering an F1 style rim for the CSL Elite base though, as the Thrustmaster Alcantara wheel is nicer than the standard CSL Elite rim...

I have setup two profiles in the wheel/base menu ( I like that a lot ), one for PCars 2 and one for F1 2019...

Anyhoo, any tips or tricks/advice would be appreciated... and thanks for looking, hope you all are having a good weekend!!

 

[davidt33]

Figured I would post this here... I got a new rig and wheel/pedal setup (Yea, Merry Christmas me )

Old kicks: Ricmotech RS500 diy / Thrustmaster T300 w/F1 rim and T3PA pedals.

Shot with the 37" tv from when I first put it in the "man-cave"

Today, before I started the switha-roo - tv removed. You can see the F1 rim (which I really like).

And here is the GI-freaking-normous RSeat, up to 65" monitor stand ( I got a new Samsung 55" 4K UHD tv for it 👍 )

Ret to go ! ! !

Now that the picture show is over... I do have a quick ? for you guys that are running the Fanatec V3 pedals. After using them they are a very different animal than the T3PA's, question is, how do you adjust them? I was really struggling with them - I did get a bit better, but they seem inconsistent. Is there a trick to "setting" them up? I printed the manual off at work yesterday and read through it, but I don't see (other then "buying" upgrades) where there are adjustment points. Don't get me wrong, there aren't any for the T3PA's either, and after about an hour I was about a second off my quick lap in the Caddy GT3 at Spa (so that's good). I do like the wheel base and the throttle pedal, it doesn't feel like a toy. I'll probably end up ordering an F1 style rim for the CSL Elite base though, as the Thrustmaster Alcantara wheel is nicer than the standard CSL Elite rim...

I have setup two profiles in the wheel/base menu ( I like that a lot ), one for PCars 2 and one for F1 2019...

Anyhoo, any tips or tricks/advice would be appreciated... and thanks for looking, hope you all are having a good weekend!!

Sweet. Must have cost quite a bundle. Also I see you upgraded to Fanatec eh? Cheers.
The base. Is it the CSL Elite standard or the CSL Elite +
The pedals. Is the brake the standard or the load cell brake?

 

[barryf1fan]

Sweet. Must have cost quite a bundle. Also I see you upgraded to Fanatec eh? Cheers.
The base. Is it the CSL Elite standard or the CSL Elite +
The pedals. Is the brake the standard or the load cell brake?

Those two points I'm not real sure about, David. I bought it all used from a guy in Houston... it's all in pretty good nick though, doesn't look as though he used it much, if at all. Nice guy though and so far everything is working great.

I will say that the Fanatec brake pedal works more like a real car... can't quite explain it but lifting a little takes away the braking until you press down again - like in a real car. If you press the brake pedal down you will slow, if you release, but not fully, you will stop slowing down until you "re-apply" the braking pressure. It's taking a lot to get used to. And even though it's more natural and real it's not how the Thrustmaster brake pedal works. You could push it down and then release a little and you still get braking force (which isn't realistic in a real car)... ie., in a real car you press the brake pedal down 70% of "as hard as you can" and the car will brake hard - if you release it about 40% you will no longer be braking because the pressure has been released off the braking surfaces. There may be a tiny bit of drag on the rotors but the mass of the car will keep it going and you won't really experience braking, per se.

With the T3PA pedals you can do the above and you get 70% braking "force" and if you release the pedal 40% you would still have braking force at 30% - that's not realistic. But, unfortunately it's what I'm used to after using these for over a year.

Will say though that as much as I really like the Thrustmaster T300, the Fanatec does seem to be a step up in quality. I've made no changes to anything in the FF or any other wheel setting and the wheel "FEELS" more like driving a real car (can't imagine how good a DD wheel base would be) and seems more connected to the car I'm driving. Really, the only thing I'm not real crazy about is the CSL wheel rim... and the fact that I'm just not as fast (fast for me, I know I'm not fast - don't need a whole bunch of meme's ) as I am with the T300/T3PA's.

 

[Stanc03]

Figured I would post this here... I got a new rig and wheel/pedal setup (Yea, Merry Christmas me )

Old kicks: Ricmotech RS500 diy / Thrustmaster T300 w/F1 rim and T3PA pedals.

Shot with the 37" tv from when I first put it in the "man-cave"

Today, before I started the switha-roo - tv removed. You can see the F1 rim (which I really like).

And here is the GI-freaking-normous RSeat, up to 65" monitor stand ( I got a new Samsung 55" 4K UHD tv for it 👍 )

Ret to go ! ! !

Now that the picture show is over... I do have a quick ? for you guys that are running the Fanatec V3 pedals. After using them they are a very different animal than the T3PA's, question is, how do you adjust them? I was really struggling with them - I did get a bit better, but they seem inconsistent. Is there a trick to "setting" them up? I printed the manual off at work yesterday and read through it, but I don't see (other then "buying" upgrades) where there are adjustment points. Don't get me wrong, there aren't any for the T3PA's either, and after about an hour I was about a second off my quick lap in the Caddy GT3 at Spa (so that's good). I do like the wheel base and the throttle pedal, it doesn't feel like a toy. I'll probably end up ordering an F1 style rim for the CSL Elite base though, as the Thrustmaster Alcantara wheel is nicer than the standard CSL Elite rim...

I have setup two profiles in the wheel/base menu ( I like that a lot ), one for PCars 2 and one for F1 2019...

Anyhoo, any tips or tricks/advice would be appreciated... and thanks for looking, hope you all are having a good weekend!!

That's a pretty setup bro can't wait to see where the pc is going