Round 1 Sao Paulo - Sun Jan 19, 2020

I'm only joking around but looking at the times on the server....did the track change or are some of you missing out corners!? lol

Admittedly I haven't run any laps yet, I've been trying to get rid of my bronchitis and it was making me difficult to concentrate without coughing every ten seconds. So I know these cars had qualifying tyres, however you are nearly ten seconds faster than the lap times at the time. haha.

I'm just trying to think of any corners that were changed since the mid 90's but in any case, well done as those are great times

1990 Brazilian Grand Prix
Fastest Lap Qualifying
Ayrton Senna (McLaren-Honda) 1:17.277
Fastest lap Race
Gerhard Berger (McLaren-Honda) 1:19.899

1991 Brazilian Grand Prix
Fastest Lap Qualifying
Ayrton Senna (McLaren-Honda) 1:16.392
Fastest lap Race
Nigel Mansell (Williams-Renault) 1:20.436

1992 Brazilian Grand Prix
Fastest Lap Qualifying
Nigel Mansell (Williams-Renault) 1:15.703
Fastest lap Race
Riccardo Patrese (Williams-Renault) 1:19.490

 

Thanks for the info Ken, yeah not a complaint in any way at all. These cars are a blast.

Well I did a few hours in the LMP3 Ligier last night (that thing has an evil torque curve! lol) and then did a quick twenty minutes in the Ferrari on the server.

These cars have huge amounts of grip, the Ligier LMP3 feels like a bunking bronco in comparison! haha. You can hammer the throttle pretty much anywhere and the thing just sticks.

I'm not quick (I'm in the 12's if I remember) but the car is a lot of fun and reminds me so much of my races in the original Grand Prix game.

I'll do a bit of work on setup but @John vd Geest is spot on, the default setup is pretty nice. Just need to play with gear and wing levels for each circuit I think.

I would imagine the area where I'm losing time is probably under braking. I guess I'm not braking late enough and hard enough. I've always driven where I brake slightly earlier and try and carry the speed through the corner, which doesn't always work with cars like this.

No worries though, a great fun car and if I finish I'll be happy with that

 

If someone kind would tell me how long soft tires will last? Is it 2 or 3 stops or more? If more I think to race with hard tires. I am too lazy to practice so much to get tire tests done.

 

Look, John, wouldn't be better to set the race to 71 laps, like the real thing, instead of 90 minutes?
Based on what I've seen in the server, at the current pace, we'll do like 75 laps...

 

I was running lap times in the 1:12 and thought to myself, "Dang i'm fast!" Then I looked at the people running in the 08's. Now it's, dang I'm slow but I feel so fast haha. We'll see how this race goes.

 

Sorry mates. Sunday ill be outside city and cant race. Next race ill be in

 

Im sorry for my stupidity, but i cant find how i can register to seria but unregister for race, so ill just be off for Brazilia. Sorry

 

Well, these races will be a learning curve for me..
To add to the difficulties you just pointed out, my brother while racing in some league, our t300rs made a loud noise and since then i noticed that it has almost no forcefeedback in the middle..
I take the opportunity to ask if this ever happened to any of you guys

Back to the subject..
Never ran more than 10m with the car, but i'll try to do a 30minutes stint to see what happens

John: when you broke your engine, how much boost were you using? Will boost 8 last? Will one have to use boost 5 or less so that the engine lasts all 90m?

 

Anyone have any setup tips for this track or even a base setup? Struggling to find any more time but the car feels pretty good.

 

Sorry guys, can't race today.