Project Cars 2 Round 1 COTA

The race server will be setup at 13:00 GMT on Sunday.

 

My first real experience with PC2 other than running a few odd laps here and there and it looks like it will be quite a challenge in many areas. I'm still not sure I've got my wheel setup right and I didn't get on well with the default setup for the LMP900 BMW, which needed a lot of changes for it to get anywhere drive-able for both me and this track.
Oddly the Ford GTE felt pretty good out of the box, which makes it more puzzling.

 

For this series we will be using the SRO TeamSpeak PC2 channel if you want to join us.

 

Yes it is. see the race page for the server name https://www.simracingonline.co.uk/racing/eventinfo/903

 

Sorry my mistake the server name is SR Classic

 

https://www.simracingonline.co.uk/forums/teamspeak-servers.119/

 

The race is now only 60 mins due to low turnout.

 

Did you click on READY when in Warmup?

 

So this was my first Voyage of Discovery with PC2 as an Admin, so apologies for any issues that arose out of my unfamiliarity at this stage.

With only five of the entries turning up and me being the only one in LMP900 5 mins before Qualifying, I elected to switch to the GTE class and with everyone's agreement the race distance was reduced to 60 mins. I saw Andre join when Qualifying had just started, so he hadn't been involved in the pre-race chat about switching classes. Let this be an example for all to not turn up that late in future.

Having only done a few laps in GTE I expected to be running at the back, but was ok with that as it was my first experience in a PC2 race. Surprisingly I improved my previous PB by 2.5 secs and grabbed 2nd which was very lucky with Ed & Roger not reaching their own previous PB's of 1.08's. The inbuilt Rolling Start was another new experience, but again it all adds to the bank of information about the sim and how it works. I seemed to be very slowly edging away from Ed/Roger until the first kerb in the esses decided to teach me a lesson and swung me into the barriers, damaging the steering and dropping me behind both of them. I thought about stopping to fix the now very off-centre steering wheel, but figured as I was at the back anyway, I might as well continue and gain some knowledge of how the car behaved in that condition. I was 3+ secs of my typical lap times, but got used to the asymmetric handling between left/right turns, so plugged on to the bitter end.

An interesting first race and one which I'm happy to continue with. A shame 4-5 didn't turn up or unregister but that's par for the course I suppose. Grats to Taner on his strong performance and win.

 

The results for the race have now finally been posted, but apologies for them not showing any lap times. This was due to my error in the way I setup the server which shouldn't happen in future.