Assetto Corsa Comp FKR Prep Series Round 2 Barcelona

This was an overtake practice race for me

Going into Repsol corner a car goes for the inside. I had no problem with that, i left enough room for the inside line but the car shoots a little straight, small contact at that point but then an Audi taps my back and sends me with the nose against the barrier. I have to wait for the field to pass. I then go into reverse (nothing else I could do really) .. and an Aston collects me at full speed, luckily there is no damage in ACC. The car must have been involved in a prior incident .. That sends me spinning the wrong way. Now I'm surely completely at the back. From there on it was a recovery race..

Sorry @Rob Milliken for the pass in the chicane, I forced it a bit more than I would have liked there.

 

Here is part of the first lap from my point of view. Also shows the incident Mark showed earlier happen in front.

 

that was a cracking race for me, my best yet in terms of performance and pure adrenalin rush from the racing. I loved the slightly moody lighting too with brake lights glowing
Was still off the pace in qually (16th I think) but soon made up places at the front as several guys had incidents or got out of shape. First complaint however...start procedure was pretty rubbish. The top 15 lead off in formation but everyone behind me dropped back about 300m !? and then as the top group formed for the green light we suddenly had guys approaching the back from behind at full speed! whilst we were only steadily accelerating. That's what caused some of the initial chaos and contacts from what I saw. So can you make a firm request that everyone stays bunched up at the same speeds? There was also some argy bargy up ahead into turns 2 & 3 with cars jostling rather than being a bit patient and I narrowly avoided contact several times as cars got span around.
Once free of that though and now in 11th place I joined a fast 4 car train that was brilliant action and I really enjoyed chasing John vd Geest for many laps glued to his derrier. Eventually he ran a little wide on entry to the long straight and I got past in my Aston (new paintjob - thanks for the tip about the editor!) and then I was close on the heels of the few cars ahead. Two of them lost control under pressure over a few laps and I was then chasing Dean Urquhart for ages for 7th in a cracking battle whilst Malli? in a Ferrari chased me hard. The Aston still seems slow down long straights (I had dropped wing to 6 but maybe needs lower still?) and the Ferrari got past me in the tow. But I chased Dean until the very end very closely, except the race went 1 lap longer than I expected and I had to ease off to the end literally running out of fuel 50m from the finish line but coasted over the line
Finished 10th I think good improvement for only my 3rd proper ACC race and was pleasing that my few setup tweaks actually improved the car over default 'agressive'.
In contrast to sundays race I had no stutters whasoever despite still using my Rift S. Two changes I made to gfx were 'visible opponents' reduced to 15 and turning off the auto sharpness whilst setting manual sharpness to 200%. I had also updated my nvidia drivers. FPS was noticeably better.

 

Good news, must have been netflix then maybe I tried sharpness at 200% but didn't see that much difference and went back to sharpness 80%, well default epic settings really. I'd like to see cars further away in my rear view mirrors though, that bugs me a bit. Seems like nobody follows since I only see them when they get close. Increasing the distance eats too much FPS I think.

 

yes it was me that tapped you, tried to slam on the brakes but i think some hit me too. any how just in case i did a drive through as penance. not the race i wanted either
Roger

 

Have read, but not tried, that the distance does not have a lot of effect on the FPS. It is the mirror resolution that has a very large impact.

 

the main gripe I have with the graphics is they look too 'soft' in my Rift S. That's why I ramped up the sharpness after reading about it in the RD thread but overall the image still looks too soft, I want more definition. Any ideas? Seems maybe like an AA thing. (using a 1080GTX card). I would like to increase car LODs as well, only got them at 60% at present. The graphics look stunning on my triples so would like a bit more of that in VR.

 

I am so sorry I should have race last night, but I thought it was tonight my mistake

 

Your posted replay images look so nice, maybe you catch my green mamba once

 

At 2:09,you really thought you gonna make that pass work?Look how far back you were,first lap,cold tires...I meant,be honest.Please,be more careful next time.
Anyway,I was thinking doing some races here to improve my safety rating but, I don´t know.Some guys were banging wheels at the start on the straight and continuing after,really disapointed.I guess,is just better stay off it.

 

Sometimes you see a chance and go for it, then realise it was a mistake. It was good of Frans to give back the position snd so far I have found SRO drivers to be quite disciplined like that. If he was opportunistic, he would have just run away.

As for the first turn incident, three wide into turn one was never going to work. Someone should have backed out but nobody wanted to.

 

He didn´t give back the position...that wasn´t me,man.

 

Generally yes. But in this case not really. Could have been an error but ...

Have to disagree again. You do find clean racing here at SRO and on other leagues.

 

@Frans van der Linden
I am wondering about your setup? Is this 65'' TV screen and you are sitting just 1m away in front of it? I have the feeling that its quite immersive and your FoV is obviously really nice.
Although i have 30'' Display i am quite far away when getting into the playseat, so i think changing to a different setup with a different FoV like you. I am pretty surre this makes some differnences also for consistency in driving.
Thats why i am interested what you are using there - looks really nice

 

"is misleading and basically telling us we all suck"

If the hat fits...But,no man just kidding.You don´t know me,but I race several years at Race2Play with John,Nigel,Ken and others.So I think I know where I coming from.No hate,its all good.