rFactor 2 Round 2 Hockenheim Classic - Sat Jan 31, 2026

The pit window thing was a little confusing for me... I think it caught a few people out tonight too!

 

Confusing cos numbers

Those of you that couldn't serve penalties.... did you make sure you had the penalty selected in your MFD before coming in? Also did you make sure you didn't get another penalty while you pitted which meant it didn't clear.

 

WoW! I've been using this sim for 13 years and had no idea you could do that!
Thanks for the heads-up Very much appreciated.
(Not that I'm ever likely to get a penalty . . )

 

OK !!!! I had no idea I had to select the penalty before coming in
It's basically the first online races I do in Rfactor 2 and I never did that yet
I'll know for the next time (I hope not to have penalties so often )

 

Think that's only for Stop and gos. Drive throughs should clear if you don't pit? It's been a while since I had a penalty so I don't know. All I know if you usually have 3 laps to serve them.

Test it offline just to make sure I am not telling fibs and getting rF2 and LMU mixed up.

 

STILL no Lancia M2s.... gotta drive em some time lads!

3 rounds to go and it's gonna be a Porsche and Lancia fest!!

 

Hello everyone,

This Round 2 was very eventful. Well done to those who made it to the end, and congratulations to Maxime.

After testing the pit stops, I’d like to share a personal opinion. This reflects only my own experience and is not a criticism of the work done by everyone to organize these races. I actually found the idea of having mandatory pit stops quite interesting.

However, during the race I ran into two issues:

1. Pit stops are not handled very well by the game. In my case, the car ahead of me had to pit between my car and another one. To reach its pit box, it ended up hitting my front end because there wasn’t enough space for it to pass between the two cars.


2. The second issue was just bad luck, but it completely ruined my race experience. My pit crew never changed my tires. The first time I came in, I noticed the tires were not being changed. I went back out and saw on the display that tire changes were disabled. I tried to fix this using the directional arrows, but nothing worked and I couldn’t change the setting. I stayed stopped for 68 seconds to simulate the tire change anyway, but in the end I had to pit twice and still kept worn tires.



On top of these execution issues, pit stops also remove the “tire management” aspect of the race, which I personally find quite fun.

In any case, well done to everyone. It was a good idea to try this, but I found it frustrating to have my entire race compromised by pit stop problems.

 

The M1 smokes even if the radiator opening is at 4/4. I don't know for other cars. Personnaly the smoke is not a big deal on my screen, but maybe it is because of low resolution details because of my setup

 

I used it on Norisring, radiator 4/4 and i was flirting with 120°C oil on each straight. It's up to you !

 

I had no idea there was a pit window, seems I was lucky that following Phil into the pits was just right. Watched the FE race for this and was somehow really tired (not the fault of FE). Needed a while to get fully awake, just as Antonis appeared in my mirror I was fully awake. I had to push a lot to stay in front, until I made an error taking turn one. I thought this was it, but I passed him back because he presumably had to slow down to avoid a cut penalty in the Ostkurve chicane. Well and then that last lap, broadcast missed how the collision in the Ostkurve ended (I guess Neil is having a word with the director, anyway great job). After watching the replay I understand what happened, Antonis came into hot and would probably have hit the tyres, but I turned in and pushed him to avoid the tyres while I hit them.
As I was not fully sure what happened, my initial thought was this is my fault. Thanks for admitting it was not. Maybe the corner before was questionable from me, because it was really not much room for you. Anyway, no damage done, good battle - enjoyed it.

I used 3/4 in this one, in the last ten minutes the smoke sometimes but of course if you are driving more aggressive then I would expect that it will appear even with 4/4.

Regarding the mandatory pit stops, I understand the frustration about the blocked pit stall, that is one of rf2s weaknesses, because for me that makes only sense in a F1 scenario with a pit crew per team.
But ok, you can deal with that also with the rest. What I don't really get is the pit window, because when you force everybody in at the same time then something like this is more likely.

Anyway, it is as it is and it might be worth to consider, to do something different than the guys in front of you.

 

A nervous race for me. A very fast track/car combo (Capri) with some nasty surprises.
Firstly, I apologise to Mitchell. I let him pass as he was faster than me, then hit him hard when I missed my braking point. I was undamaged but Mitchell retired. Entirely my fault.
Had a nasty crash (solo) by missing a chicane and hitting the barriers. Smashed my steering but fortunately limped around to coincide with the open pit window. Long wait for repairs, but I kept going.
Drove much better after pitting, glad to safely keep out of the way of the lappers.
Thank you for explaining the smoking cars! That was strange.