AC - Road America - Lola T70 MarkII - SRO Round 2

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Mar 17, 2021 at 12:30 AM
Posted By Jos Ogos

Quite an intense and competitive race yesterday.
I managed to break to the 2:13s in practice (showing the way to the other top runners) and repeated it again in the early stages of qualy. Unfortunately, I didn't time well my first stint in qualy and ran out of fuel so had to spend the last 5mins in pits seeing how I was relegated to 4th in the grid.
The first few laps in the race were hectic. Managed an overtake on Laurent when he was punted by Davide on T5 and kept P3 for a while, challenging Matteo for P2 at times and later on engaging in a fantastic defensive battle with Filip and Laurent to maintain P3.
Filip consolidated the overtake but Laurent and I were exchanging P4 and P5 in different parts of the track. That fighting couldn't be good for our wider battle with Matteo, Philip and Filip, so I decided to pit early and clear the way to, hopefully, not lose much time on our dog fight...
A few of the front runners lost quite a lot of time during the pit stop. Filip made the 'rookie' mistake of not preparing for the fuel strategy before the race (I'm sure this won't happen again), but having timed Matteo's pit stop and compared it with mine, I can see we are exactly the same time (11 secs) actually stopped changing tires and refueling. The big difference (2.5 secs) on the overall pit entry is due to Matteo's clever strategy to use AC's benevolent take on those dive-bombing into pits at maximum speed. If you do that in almost any other sim, you get a massive penalty including a 10 secs Stop & Go... I suppose we could all dive-bomb into pits but it might be more proper to enter the pit without killing 3 entire crew teams on your way...
There is an issue that I believe we should investigate before the next races. It happened in Zandvoort and massively more in Road America... The brutal lag moments (I'm not sure what caused them but it wasn't only me, Maddie... I think it was a server issue) impacted heavily the race yesterday. For starters, the initial spin from Maddie when Filip, her, and I were approaching the real T2, wasn't just me lagging. You can see in Caitlin's replay that her system was also affected. I saw several instances of the server ping going all the way to 2480!! I'm not sure if this is caused by the server, the car, or the tracks that we are using, but something is going on and it is worrying because it's having a real effect on the races. In Zandvoort, Csaba and Mark had a massive wreck of their races without fault by any of them. Yesterday, I could see cars' relative distance shortening and increase due to netcode issues that gave you no confidence to get any closer to your opponents. John, not sure what can be done about this but something is going on...
I'm not even sure if the 7.5 secs difference between front runners after pitting between Matteo/Laurent and Philip/I which Caitlin rightly pointed out during her stream, could have also been partially the effect of the server losing net data (leaving aside dive-bombing technics...)
After pitting and more collective lags, I overtook Philip and Lorenzo for P3 and the final battle with Philip was unleashed in the last 15mins of the race. This finished earlier than expected with an incident that will be under investigation so I won't comment on it here. History repeated again after Zandvoort and I found myself ending in 5th after giving a good fight for the whole race. Congrats to Matteo, Laurent, and Maddie for the podiums.

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AC - Road America - Lola T70 MarkII - SRO Round 2