rFactor 2 Daytona Road Course 2.4 Hours Special Event

thank you

 

pffff....

 

Clarification on start procedure please. "Green flag for the overall pole sitter when crossing the start / finish line."

Green for all when the LMP2 goes? Or green for each class when that class pole sitter goes at the start / finish line (which is how i interpret the Buddh procedure for tomorrow)?

 

Something came up that will have me away from the computer for a while. Hoping to make it back before practice ends so I can give it a try.

 

I love the way the 488 drives, but it sounds like a broken vacuum cleaner. I think i would slit my wrists having to listen to that for 2.4 hours

 

Are custom skins allowed on server? Just wondering before I go in, was going to add mine if so.
TIA...looking forward to this

 

I'm sorry I'm trying to unregister but I assume there's a time lock in place as I can't remove my name.

I've been unable to have any meaningful practice for this event and since S397 did the changes to the Oreca I'm really struggling in it. To go from winning in this car to having trouble just completing five laps without crashing is just a horrible feeling and I need to take a step back and start all over again with this one.

I've gone from lapping in the 33's around here to lapping in the 42's. What was my favourite race car ever in a sim is now a pain in the backside! lol.

Anyway, good luck to all those that are taking part

 

Just got DQ's from 3rd place for what I think was I did not turn my headlights on fast enough. Huge bummer! That sucks

 

What a bunch of horseshit. DQ'd for not turning on the headlights soon enough in broad daylight. I was following another car so didn't notice the warning and when I did see the message I was going to wait just a few seconds until I was through the chicane before turning them on. Broad daylight!!! I don't appreciate having my time wasted on crap like this.

 

Same here !
Saw the message, waited to go through the chicane, pressed the wiper button instead by error, pressed the headlights button but it was too late and got warped back to the pits. That really sucks. And it was not even dark!
Off to bed and will go and cry to the Misses. and maybe get a bit of comforting

 

Hilarious. My wife told me to let it go. hope you had better luck

 

Yeah, that sucks big time. Happened to me once at Le Mans during the R2P days and i've been hyper aware about getting my lights on early ever since. I don't think i even saw the message because mine were already on after a few laps. Don't think there's anything the admins can do about it. Maybe schedule transition races to start at night?

Fun race for me. Thought i'd lost my chance when i didn't quite get enough car into the pit box when trying to squeeze between a couple retirees. Not sure why the track leaves them in the pit box, but that sucks too. Lost a few seconds and came out about that much behind Carl. Unfortunately, Carl appeared to suffer the same snap spin in T1 that i'd been struggling with since the car updates.

Still, fun racing with several people!

 

Had good fun with Neil in first stint. Didn't have enough top speed to match the 2 Astons. So I would close way up in infield, then just get out dragged coming out of sector 1 onto the banking haha.

I would like to make a suggestion for whoever is setting up the server. You need to load up like 15 AI and let them run for 20min and build up a real road file. Then use that real road file for the race. The first stint was like driving on ice in the infield. Having rubbered in real road for race will help the racing in the first stint when everyone is close together, it will make for better racing. I wasn't matching my offline practice times until the 3rd stint today, when there was finally some decent rubber laid down on the track and I could finally take advantage of the 911s braking and cornering speed.

Also, not sure if anyone else expericenced it, but I had massive freeze when Larry and Rob left the server. Like a good 4 sec each time it. Not sure what is going on there ... Haven't had that happen in my other league I race in, we had 30+ cars on the server with people leaving mid race as well ...

 

Another way is make sure the practice session is started so it ends (or close to) when qualy is to start, then the grip built up by the drivers is used. In this session is was unfortunate that the weekend was restarted 15 minutes prior to qualify. I had not the lag you mention by the way, but some drop in FPS at T3 (or T2 depends how you count T1) during night.


It was an good race, surprisingly qualified 2nd and close action with several drivers until the last 35 minutes. In the last pit stop I mange to de-activate the pit limiter, got an s/g penalty, on my way to that I got an d/t for cut and then damage at pit exit to repair after that (was way to unstable under braking)... That blow away any chance to podium, but still manage to end P4 so satisfied with that


Regarding the headlight, easy fix if you know it's an night race, just put them on during formation or 1st lap and forget them after that.