rFactor 2 Round 1 Monza SRE

unfortunately i'm going top miss a few rounds of this series with real world stuff

 

I just bought rfactor 2 on steam summer sale yesterday, and last night I tried a few laps at Monza, online, on the server. No offline practice for me . Anybody willing to share a base setup for this car?

 

There is DRS? Is it manual activation? Is that the reason I saw others have 20+kph higher top speed than me?

 

I noticed that after I lock my wheels under braking a couple of time, I get a lot of vibration in my wheel(fanatec csl). Am I flat spotting my tires? Vibrations get pretty bad, I'm not sure if it might even damage the wheel if I keep driving like that. And still haven't learned how to do a pitstop to change tires

 

I stand on the brakes at the braking marker and as I start slowing, I start easing off the brakes. As you start slowing, downforce starts dissipating, and the lock up occurs. Seen you on track Syd. Shared my setup with everyone on the server but of course, the setup wasn't complete at that time but it never is haha.

DRS zone. This means we have to be within say 5 minutes of the car in front to be able to activate DRS? I see DRS detection on the track map you posted Ken. In practice, you hit the switch and it activates. Race, we have to be at close range to the car in front to activate it? Excuse my ignorance about these flying objects haha.

 

Ohh, I see. Thanks Ken. . You say within 1min. That's a huge gap. Maybe it's within 1 second of the car ahead at the specified detection point?

 

Congrats Rui! You were in a class of your own. Grats to all racers and finishers. Their a handful.

 

Well that was going well until the pitstop. I was 9th, about 3 seconds behind 8th. I could feel my tires going away, especially through the Lesmos corners, and after I saw leader pitting (he lapped me just before pitting), I decided to pit myself. But I didn't slow down in time, and got a penalty. Next time around I go in to serve the penalty, but another car goes in at the same time, and stops right where the arrow is pointing me to stop. Only one place to serve penalties? I don't know what was going on. This is also when I discovered, that unlike AC, other cars in the pits are solid. When I tried to stop in the place where the arrow was pointing and another car was already there, there was contact. I was moving slowly, so I don't think there was much damage from that contact. So I just go out without serving the penalty, and next lap I go in to try again. This time there was nobody in my spot, I serve the penalty, but I start to leave without the pit limiter, and I get another penalty. Next lap I'm going in for the 4th stop, careful on the way in, keeping the speed at 60 manually on the way out and finally I'm clear of the pits with no penalty. But of course by this point I lost more than a lap and was down in 12th, where I eventually finished.
I believe I was fighting for 11th when I had a moment coming out of Ascari, went sideways and someone collected me at pretty much full speed. I didn't think the car would keep going but it did.
Thanks to Ken as well, for pointing me to downforce packages and how to select them. Seems I wasn't as far off the pace, cause I was using high downforce, which at Monza, wrong.
I changed it to medium and was able to set 1.36 in practice. I got 1.37.6 or something like it in the race with badly flat spotted tires. Thanks to Johnny Gutierrez as well for the setup, I used in the race.
I had to reduce force feedback to 25% to drive with flat spotted tires. Anything more and the wheel was shaking too violently, risking some actual real world damage. Any better solutions that this? With ff at 25% wheel just feels too light, no feeling in it.

 

Tuff race !!! I did good start , jump in to p4 and keep pushing , due to my friends mistakes i climb until P2 tuff but fair battle with Brites , but I think he has more speed …..then I run out of fuel and lost my 2nd place …p3 was a good start , thank yOU SRO

Ps -I think next events everyone need to pit ))) my tyres was good but I think monza is tyres friendly )))

 

Damn it!

Disappointing race from me, however a decent result so not too disheartened.

I haven't raced a single seater in a long time so I've spent about an hour in the car every night for about three weeks. Getting used to it's style, trying different setup ideas and so on.

Did a few 45 minute races against AI as well.

I was in the 36's and 35's, and happy with that. Medium downforce worked for me as low downforce was ok but was causing the tyres to suffer more and I didn't want to stop.

Maybe it was because I rushed slightly (my Dad was using my Tv to watch the Wimbledon final) or just because I haven't raced online in a few months, but I just couldn't get into the right frame of mind and I was nervous. I was braking in the wrong places, overshooting corners, hitting kerbs. It was a disaster. Was the track green maybe?

I thought for a moment I'd loaded the wrong setup! lol

So qualifying was a disaster, I reckon I could be top 6 maybe (I was 2 seconds up on my second run) again, braked all wrong, overshot the corner and messed up. Ended up in 15th.

At the start I got bumped a few times into the first corner (expected) then involved in a huge accident on the exit of Lesmo 2 (cars in the air and crashing into one another), pitted for repairs and then got involved in someone else's accident two laps later, so pitted again for repairs and tyres. All my own fault as I shouldn't have been where I was anyway.

I then just tried to carry on, took me about ten laps to calm down and finally I was able to lap in the 37's and 36's. Fought my way up to 10th, unlapped myself from cars in the top 10 so I definitely had some good pace. So annoying.

I know I changed them after a few laps but my tyres were perfect, still had good amounts of grip left and I was getting quicker.

Oh well, I got some points but I need to make sure I'm on the server the hour before next time so I can get myself nice and calm! haha.

Well done to the podium finishers.

I did some laps on the Le Mans Bugatti circuit, definitely a High Downforce track, very little in the way of passing around here and the track mesh is very bumpy in places. If you practise make sure you pick late afternoon as it's a DX9 track and it'll blind you! haha.

See you all next time and @Caitlin Penny thanks for the comment about the livery, suits the Renault pretty well