Round 2 | Le Mans

Qualy : This didn't go well for me. Only just got a flying lap in and I was on a better lap when a mistake at Indianapolis put paid to that. So 9th in class was all I could do.

Race: Sitting on the grid it looked like the rain had stopped and the track was dry. Did I miss something? So I started on a set of dry tyres. As soon as we started however the rain suddenly started. So I had to pit on the formation lap to put wet tyres on. So flat last. The race didn't get any better. I pitted 6 times. At one point I span at Indianapolis and on re-joining the track I got a Stop/Go penalty just to kick me whilst I was down. Served the penalty and for some reason I got another Stop/Go penalty or the first one didn't clear. Not sure why maybe a bug but this meant my mood took a turn for the worst. That escape button never felt more tempting. Kept with it and I span and span again then span and span some more. Lost count on how many spins I did. Why didn't I press the Escape button. By the time I finished my body was screaming with pain (I suffer from Fibromyalgia), this race was too long for me I could barely walk afterwards. Can't say I enjoyed this race. Had very little practice because I had to rebuild my rig during the week (driver excuse #34) so not really surprised that I was not prepared for the rain. I think S397 has to do a lot of work to improve the rain effects in this game. Some reflections were really weird. At one point I was convinced there was a car just ahead of me in the spray and I slowed as it was in the middle of the track. Turned out to be the reflection of the advertising signs that stretch over the track. After all that I finished 9th in class. Where did I start oh! 9th. All that to get nowhere. Still at least I finished one of the most difficult races I've ever driven in

Congratulations to the winners a very well deserved victory
Congratulations to everyone who finished
Commiserations to those that didn't finish

 

Im running A10 with integrated graohics so getting around the track with that is a survival and having half a race damaged front that made car snappy soecially on wet made it difficult.

Q was flying on last try but hit traffic.
R wrong tyres ay start..damaged car..fuel too little filled at last stop.
Considering those..4th not too bad. Gutted a bit by losing podium for 8 liters of fuel.

And John...no probleemo

 

Lap 1: Drive Through.
Lap 2: Disconnect.
Lap 3: Game Crash.
Lap 17?: Game Crash.
Lap 17: Out of fuel after running the entire lap on pit limiter and coasting for most of it, to end up just 1 turn away from pits.

I tried to keep racing, but in the end, the game had enough of me.

 

How, that was one of those races.
@Paul Anstey are u sure you didnt enter the pit exceeding velocity limits? And u know if u get a penalty, if you go to pits and do a pitstop (for tires or fuel) it doesnt count as penalty pit? But im sure theres someone here beter then me to help you ;-)

Qualify not so bad.
Race what a journey. Nice start but then i hit the wall and damage car. The wheel got sideways but i decide to continue that way. Driving in those conditions and with rain and soon soon i was at the back of the pack.
Fortunatly it stoped ranining so did pit and took care of damage. Everything good now. Hit the gas and did a good pace race.
Later on, while beeing undertaken by LMP, a lose control and slide it to the wall again (my fault, despite some LMP´s had some agressive attitudes, nothing too bad ok?), and there it was the wheel again
Last laps were counting fuel as racing was coming to the end.
Then last lap and i needed 6 more liters of fuel.... lost one position pitting.
Great fun, althoug the mistakes.
Sorry to those that i scared but rain and wheel damage is not a good combo.
Grats to winner and all that manage to finish
Can we race next sunday again???? 15 days is too looooong till next race )))

 

Still no video available from the stream.
Was there a stream with commentators actually?

 

John, no issues with rain in car for me in oculus.

 

Very strange. Thanks for the info.

 

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I only got the one message telling me about the Stop/Go Penalty for cutting the track. As I understand it if I pit when I have a penalty then I serve the penalty and that what happened. I stopped for a 10 second stop with no fuel added and no tyres changed. Not sure whether you have the option to say don't serve the penalty I want fuel and tyres and then serve the penalty on a subsequent lap. I will have to have a look at the log of the race and see whether I missed the message about the penalty. It's possible as you say I got it for speeding in the pitlane

 

The start of race was very interesting. It thought I made the wrong call going out on Meds to start the race. I had nothing for the other guys the first 3 or 4 laps. Fell back to 3rd and was lucky to be there. Once the dry line came everything flipped around. Good clean driving and the lapped traffic was very respectful to lapping cars. I hope no one got involved with my car when I went dark. I still had sound for about 10 sec and sounded like a bad accident but I was going into chicane so I figured I hit the tires.

 

I'll have a hunt around on the S397 blogs but the whole "rain getting into the cockpit" problem was I believe an issue with the RF2 graphics engine and the team had to figure out a way to get round it.

They completely reworked the rain effects and redid the wet weather physics.

I believe on the official content they put false mesh layers within the models as a way of stopping the spray being visible.

Not sure if these posts will help anyone.

https://forum.studio-397.com/index.php?threads/rain-update-solved.58867/

https://forum.studio-397.com/index.php?threads/latest-release-1109-rain-effects-and-more.58675/

 

Ken/Nigel/Mark, for the rejoin setting on the server, how is it setup here at SRO?
I believe there are 2 options, "fresh car" or "same state", wanted to check what it is for SRO servers.
I reported my issue at s397 forum and wanted to check how the SRO server have that setting.

 

I believe same state, which is why I had the fuel issues after my game crash. I had enough fuel to complete the final lap , but with the resetting me back to pit lane, I then failed to have enough fuel to head around a full lap.

I also had retained the damage I had picked up.

 

Thx Ken. I'm wondering if it should be changed to 2 instead. With 3, I wasn't able to change fuel or wing settings for my next pit stop. Which seems counter productive.

When you rejoin, you lose the lap you were driving when disco. Then it usually takes a couple minutes to rejoin. So by the time you are back on the server you've lost at least 2 laps.

To then prevent setup changes as well on top of that seems wrong.

Also the problem with 3 is that it doesn't bring you back with the setup that was on the car at the time of disco. It loads the default setup you have set for the track. That seems like a bug and I have reported that with s397.

 

I don't get spray inside the cockpit of the 911 and I also use Oculus

 

Yea I figured that it is some bug on my end, however no one is able to tell me how to fix it. I will try to reinstall the cars again when I have time.