rFactor 2 Round 1 Australia Albert Park - Sun Sep 17, 2023

Congrats to the winner whomever it is. My laptop froze or lagged out for a splitt second into T1, came back on and I was in the wall, race over. Gutted..

Apologies for the contact with @Daniel Kristow I think, got caught out with the speed difference with DRS and the tow, plus a back maker...

 

Good racing all. Congrats to the winner! Intense. I was sweating. Had computer issues. They just held me back. Whenever I'd make a gap, freeze would occur. Every single time someone would leave, half a second of lag. One time, it came when I was turning, came back and I was spinning. Crapamoly but that's rFactor. Had fun with Kostas. I froze up on him once. His car went through mine like a ghost. Racing was intense but fun. The DRS just pulls you back so we were pretty much just yo yo's for a large portion of the race. It got to the point I thought he was brake checking but I realized, his tire were just worn. Good racing. Had fun with Nick as well. I think his tires were a bit worn so I caught up. We connected side by side sadly. Couldn't continue. That was that. I guess this is how F1 drivers feel when they crash out? Without the paycheck of course. And also no girls in the stall. Also no Jet to fly around. Also... Anyways. Had fun. On to the next


Edit: Sadly, you weren't the only one @Robin Taylor. I understand.

I'm glad this didn't happen.

Johnny,

 

Strange but, neverthless, funny and hard race. Congs to the winner and podium.
I didn't quite "understand" (my sucessive) lap penalties during qualify. In my opinion at least in one or two corners the limit is too tight.
But, despite this awful qualy, starting from 17th and finishing 9th can't be bad...
And yet, my computer "froze" once and made me lose track (and hitting the wall)...
On the other hand, I think it is important that some drivers didn't keep going in 'SSS' (when they have to keep the same line or just do only one turn) on the straights, doing that to prevent overtakings (this is illegal) and also I suppose that when someone go out of the track...can't come back... ramming the pilot that comes on track. Without these "adventures", I might could have finished at 8th or 7th...

But, of course, keep learning...and ready for the next one.

 

Here's a video talking about lap top and gaming performance about half way into the video. Hoping this helps.

 

fun race, not the best start but managed to keep second, saw a gap and took the lead from tim only for game to freeze for 1 second after hitting the saussage kerb and when it unfroze I was in the wall with damage, was still driveable but off the pace so let my team mate through as did not want to hold him up as his pace was really good, pitted soon after as was loosing too much time, from then on it was a slog trying to do 48 laps on one set of tyres, I knew the guys ahead had to pit so focused on keeping the gap below 20s, I knew I would be a sitting duck when they came back out on new softs with a 30-35 lap tyre defect with my worn hards but was not going to make it easy for them, Kostas Kantzouras was just too fast and my braking performance was crap on the used tyres and ran wide after braking on the marbles defending.

Had a good battle with johnny and knew it would be tough to hold him off for 10 laps till the end, johnny tried the cut back on turn 3 which put him on the outside for turn 4, my right rear got interlocked with his left front and despite turning hard left to take the corner ended up going straight on which put us both in the wall, car was a total wreck but managed somehow to get it back to the pits and get back out again.

managed to pull a move around the outside going into the fast chicane to reclaim 5th place but that was all she wrote.

hopefully these freezes are just a track specific issue and not an issue with the mod.

 

Thanks bud. Will take a look.

 

Thank you for hosting @John vd Geest

Great race everyone, don't think I can remember enough to write a turn by turn report, pretty much 58 qualifying laps in a row risking track limits at a good two places each lap. These cars drop so much time if you back off even a fraction.

Did not think I'd qualify anywhere near pole so the car was set up for the straights which may have been the right call as I felt pretty safe from the DRS pass from @Daniel Kristow , less so through T14-15 which was overheating and over wearing the left front all through practice so thought it best to not push so hard on the full fuel tank. @Nick Westy thought otherwise and went full Verstappen on lap one (in my head this slingshot move will now always be called full Westy), was happy to follow but unfortunately he had a tech issue further around the next lap which put him into the barrier through no fault of his own. I was concentrating (and sweating) on being consistent from that point on and it seemed to work out, needed a bit of fuel saving over the last 15 laps as I hadn't factored in the car using around 5% more fuel when not using DRS.

Thank you everyone for racing fair and although the attrition was quite high, these cars are awesome to drive.

 

Not a great evenings racing for myself personally.

Quali started off by someone racing to overtake me on the out lap even though there's someone directly in front of me, so I give them room and start my lap, they then go off track and mess up their lap and then rejoin right in front of me causing a massive crash.

Then for the race, the damage I got from a lunge up the inside, smashed in the rear by the guy behind, and totally wiped out by a back marker wrecked the aero and made the car hard to drive, and then for some reason about 10 laps from the end a heavily damaged car completly slows to let the car in front pass and then decides to practically stop on the apex when I get there, that final damage killed any chance I had of catching P1 and my laptimes started droping off, from there I had to just try and get the car home with the guy behind catching about a second a lap, it wasn't until the final lap of the race I figured out how to drive around the damage.

And for some reason blue flags is not a thing here? I counted one guy ignoring 9 flags.

Hoping for a better experience next time.

No problem @Robin Taylor. I think it was more the back marker trying to race us that caused that.

Well done @Tim Cartwright I could get really close in the last couple of slow corners but the loss of front downforce in that final corner meant I was understeering badly when trying to get the power down making it difficult for any kind of challenge down the straight.
That was a good quali time too.

 

Now if only F1 cars were fitted with horns and lights
i'm guessing rfactor does not start giving drive throughs if you completely ignore them unlike track limits.

 

@John vd Geest It's in the RFM file.
BlueFlags = 1 // 0=no blue flags, 1=show but never penalize, 2=show and penalize if necessary for vehicles within 0.3 seconds, 3=0.5 seconds, 4=0.7 seconds, 5=0.9 seconds, 6=1.1 seconds
0.3 seconds is good otherwise it's forces the driver to slow down to much.

 

I can't remember to be honest it's been so long, I think it's 3 blue flags and a penalty at the 4th, you get a message in the display to say let them through or get a penalty and if you use crewchief he will warn you to give the place.

 

Bu hafta cenazem var, katılamayacağım, üzgünüm But I want to continue other races