Assetto Corsa Round 1 Chang International

Not a bad first race from me, first time in AC for a few years and first time in this car.

Decent qualifying but I lost out on a one second improvement by having a silly half spin. No problem though.

I tried something different for the race and put on a bit more downforce and it worked pretty well.

I messed up at the start, shift protection kicked in into turn two and couldn’t get the car slowed down, then went around as I straightened the car up, back to last. Arrrghh. lol.

anyway, from there my race was half decent, the slightly higher downforce worked well and I could lap in the mid 27’s which felt good.

I only messed up at the end, I got very sideways letting through a leader and my rear tyres just went into very high temperatures. For almost half a lap the car was ver nervous and I was spinning under braking, which let one car through. Learnt from it anyway.

Nice track to start on, Fuji is going to be a long lap and very high speeds. Will be interesting to see what it’s like.

Well done to the podium, and to all those that made the finish.

 

Well was about 15 laps late but have to say, mod feels good!

 

I saw your name on the timing strip, odd for Toni to have a tough race I thought. Didn’t realise you were 15 laps behind!

Yeah it’s a good mod, you can lean on the car quite hard before it snaps. I just need to get used to the braking a bit more. I know I can brake a bit deeper into the corners.

 

Thanks, but it wasn't planned. You just went a little deeper
Unfortunately I didn't have that much time to practice, so I had pressures that were too high in the race and the car oversteered too much for my liking. I guess track temp and grip were too high for my tire pressures. Maybe the fact that Roy was stuck in my gearbox the whole time didn't help either

A cool car, thanks Ken! Just next time when the car has so many setup options, maybe try fixed setup? Just hop in and get on with it. That will be nice

 

Return to racing after almost half a year break ended with success. Third place on the podium, maybe a bit lucky, but the result is out in the world.
Not being confident and not wanting to disturb anyone, I chose the safest option: starting from the back, hard tires - i.e. slowly to the finish line. In fact, that's how I could describe my entire race.
One overtaking in 40 minutes and a short exchange of words with Kiril at the end of the competition, for a moment I was in P2 The greatest emotions on the last lap, a few hundred meters before the last corner I ran out of fuel, I rolled to the finish line by momentum. Ken, are you sure you counted everything correctly?

PS. One more thing, DRS was supposed to help with overtaking, not defending the position. When I was riding alone, sometimes I forgot to activate it, because it's unnatural.

Best regards and see you next time

 

Ken, in my opinion, feel free to turn off the DRS. There is no point of using it if everyone, everywhere can turn it on anyway. Just extra work in the cockpit.

 

I quote
NOTE - The races in this series will be for 40 mins only to avoid a fuel pit stop being needed.

 

I think what Micheal is getting at is if you drive hard you may still run out of fuel.
Like I did

 

To be fair to Ken, Even I didn't expect to do 29 laps. I only had enough fuel because of the laps I was behind Kiril. While behind him on certain corners I had to lift and coast to lower the chance of running into him. That gave me the fuel to do the extra lap.
I should have slowed on lap 28. If I had done that Phil would have been 2nd and not have a DNF. He deserved that 2nd place.

Fuel on Fuji won't be an issue. That is the version with the chicane. Race will be 27 laps. Full fuel in the car is good for 29 laps.