TPC Presents: Lancia Stratos Rallycross @ Catalunya, Sunday November 15th

[MaxAttack]

I don’t see this last more than an hour.

Most likely not. A 4 lap race should be about 4-5 minutes. There will be a fair amount of downtime as people get to the grid etc.

 

[R_Goldstreiff]

As the lobby is late for me, I am happy about a shorter one Yes, maybe we could do an all-out race together at the end

 

[MaxAttack]

As the lobby is late for me, I am happy about a shorter one Yes, maybe we could do an all-out race together at the end

I'll be up at 6:30 for work tomorrow so definitely won't be running too late.

 

[Harsk100]

Where is the lobby?

 

[MaxAttack]

Lobby will open ~ 21:45 (in 13 minutes or so)

Try to be punctual chaps as we will need everyone there before barriers can be moved.

 

[MaxAttack]

The race lobby is now open for action!

Using a spinny wheel thingy I've got us a random grouping for the heats;

Heat 1 will be; @R_Goldstreiff , @Pigems , @ILLEAGLE_34 , @Harsk100 , @Kermit_2142

The lucky remainders will join me in Heat 2

Will now try to navigate the party system. Good luck out there guys!

 

[MaxAttack]

Thankyou all for coming out, a bit of a slapdash affair as organisation goes but I hope everyone had as much fun as I did!

Tonight's champion is @Harsk100 who dominated the latter half of proceedings with some excellent drives... Or maybe he didn't, I couldn't really see to be honest!

Congratulations also to @HaydenFan69 and @Drex124 who round out tonight's podium.

Excellent action from everyone and I particularly appreciated your patience with my erratic organisation style.

This was an experiment I couldn't have done without you all so thankyou!

I hope I see you all at my next stupid idea of a race!

 

[HaydenFan69]

I want to thank @Pigems for eating all the barrier on the last lap.

Thought the second to last lap in the last chance race was the last. Why I smashed into one of the Maxs as hard as I did. But luckily whoever that was, was slow enough for me to pull the same move a lap later.

 

[Pigems]

That’s was a lot of fun, great racing today fellas! Special thanks to @MaxAttack fornsetting this up and hosting!

 

[Harsk100]

Thank you guys for letting me in.
The race was awesome!

 

[R_Goldstreiff]

Yes, thanks for the event @MaxAttack! It was great fun. Happy to have won my semi-finals heat, small mistakes kept me from the podium in the final and the über-final with everybody at the end (spinning on the last corner, oh boi) . But I think this was more about fun than results. Really liked it, only sad part is, that there is no replay to make photos out of. Maybe the next challenge will be to find a full lap around a track with rallycross elements ^^ But this weird section around the complex at Catalunya was definetly a gem and felt like a perfect rallycross layout.

 

[HaydenFan69]

@R_Goldstreiff it is technically an actual Rallycross course



I can’t think of anything Rallycross at the top of my head, but I’d be interested in running more dirt races at the circuits in the game. Or another go in Catalyuna with another car (classic Minis).

 

[R_Goldstreiff]

Thx @HaydenFan69, that explains why all this dirt road is there in the first place ^^ Maybe at Brands Hatch Indy one could simply go over the grass at the last section? I thought a "Rallycross" style could be to simply put off penalties and allow any way around a track which seems fastest, while still being clean with each other. If we'd put grip reduction to weak this might help in the regard of encouraging alternative track paths but would make the feel less realistic (btw, is this even true or is weak grip reduction the same hoax as "weak" slip, were that one is actually stronger than the realistic slip setting?). And yes, more different class races on the Catalunya layout would be cool as well! I think the system worked really well yesterday.

 

[MaxAttack]

Thx @HaydenFan69, that explains why all this dirt road is there in the first place ^^ Maybe at Brands Hatch Indy one could simply go over the grass at the last section? I thought a "Rallycross" style could be to simply put off penalties and allow any way around a track which seems fastest, while still being clean with each other. If we'd put grip reduction to weak this might help in the regard of encouraging alternative track paths but would make the feel less realistic (btw, is this even true or is weak grip reduction the same hoax as "weak" slip, were that one is actually stronger than the realistic slip setting?). And yes, more different class races on the Catalunya layout would be cool as well! I think the system worked really well yesterday.

Weak grip will be more grip than the real setting, because PD logic.

Since everyone seemed to have fun I'll definitely be taking another few free runs around to see if I can find another track that supports this format. In preparation for this event I did visit a few tracks but nothing yielded as surefire a RX track as Catalunya. The next closest is probably Horse Thief Mile which has some dirt sliproads.

If you do want to see some footage from last night, obviously we couldn't get official replays, but @Pigems did record a couple, from spectate and from his POV, which you can check out on his YouTube (also called Pigems)

Again, I had a blast so if you're interested in more keep an eye out - I will tag you when I come up with something.