rFactor 2 Round 3 Linas Montlhery Full - Sun May 5, 2024

I could not miss the removed rev limiter, first time I tried to leave the garage the engine blew...
First I was not sure who was more silly, the track or myself but, I obviously won that. One stop strategy did not work (wrong place to try that, but probably Ed would have made it work). Got I drive trough because I was not focused enough. And I crashed again in the closing stages, but it made no difference. A lot of misfortune for the others enabled my result and of course the fact that I was able to finish.

 

Fun while it lasted. I just wanted to have fun and race and be with others around a track but it was not meant to be. Was racing with Toni and having fun. I used too much clutch and the Ford went boom. Oh well. Hope you guys liked my skin. Brought to you by The majestic painter, Gilles. Can't get over how nice everyone skins are. I really enjoy this series / mod.

Cheers,

 

Skin was super! When you joined server, was just following and admiring it.

 

A couple of things....

Why did the pitspeed have to be changed so dramatically from practice/qually and then in the race? Can't keep moving the goal posts every race.

The mod update has clearly made these cars very fragile. Yes it will stop people banging down the gears early and getting extra engine braking with blowing an engine. But clearly it's now even harder to get these cars off a standing start without it going pop.

10 finishers from 22 starters? I don't think I will be taking part in the rest of this series.

 

Randy, I don't disagree; however, the mistake i made took me wide and came to rest very gentilly against the barrier with no damage. All i did was put my foot back on the throttle with it in gear and it did a quick blurp of rpm before engaging the auto clutch and that was enough to blow the engine. That is not real. I have old V8's and they don't blow from that, of course it is a Ford so maybe it is real... You would have to sustain a ridiculous high rev to catastrophically blow an engine. I think there were a few cars that blew up. The mod needs to show signs of damage but not blow completely. That was an unwarranted end to a fun race. It will be a struggle at the other tracks for that car, but it will be fun.

 

It also wouldn't be real to rev them to almost 12k for 70 seconds straight. We all are playing with the same issue. It's not like just the one make has an issue.
The modder fixed the g motor issue that most people belly ached about the first 2 rounds(nobody has appreciated that yet) and they also addressed some other issues. Thank God they are working on the mod at all.
We are all in the same boat and I'm sorry you sent a piston into low earth orbit but that's how it goes sometimes. I am just happy that we don't have a g motor problem any longer or at least this race.

 

Didn't realise it had changed until my second stop and go

 

Good morning, question .... With 3 cars exploded on the grid, wasn't it possible to give a restart? How is it possible, one trains takes time then does not even start because he touches the limiter for 1second? It doesn't make much sense this, these things certainly don't make you want to continue .... Sorry but I didn't digest it

 

I know.... but why is it different from the other rounds?

 

How was anyone who put in any practice for this race caught out by this? The motors have been like this for over a week. You got to excited and made a mistake. You 100% used the equipment over its limits and now you are complaining about it. Drive the car to just below its limit. Is it the mods fault if you out break yourself and run straight off a corner? No because you drove the car over the limit.

 

Some people can only practice at the weekend and don't have endless time and energy to dedicate to doing lap after lap.

 

The last round of the v8 supercars championship we changed tracks 5 days before the race. This is way less of a hurdle. But you finished 5th.
So now that's you know about it it shouldn't be a problem right?

 

I didnt practice at all. was having a family holiday. Raceday 2 hours before event start joined server, had read forums and blew my engine many times.
I practiced start few times ( and had a really good one, there was just a Mustang blocking me ).
There was good info to keep that engine under 7600 rpm wasit so i did it.
Managed to do 2 timed laps before Q since even track was totally new to me.
There are bigger issues like faster cars not needing more fuel for bigger engine or heavier car using more tyres and so on.
But in the end cars look great and you get someone to race against someone allways and its a fresh gust of wind having cars that dont really need anything more than driving.

 

Stream VOD

Well.... that went well

I watched the replay and I revved at the start and hit 8-9000 rpm for the smallest moment....