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Thursday S5R1: May 14 Blackwood Reloaded Chat.
« on: May 08, 2015, 09:29:48 AM »
Round 1 May 14, Blackwood Reloaded Track Download
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Start Times All times are EASTERN  STATE time.

Practice: 7:00pm
Qualifying: 8:15 pm
Race: 8:30 pm


Grid at present:
01. Flattop #13
02. Bird #14
03. Grubbet
04. Wally
05. Dave O
06. Dick Forest
07. Guybrush Threepwood
08. Gratulin
09. <Round one Spare Slot>
10. Krahl
11. GORGAK
12. rob
13. Bacchulum
14. Imperious
15. Wobblyone
16. Bafs17
17. Joe
18. GWYAR
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Re: Thursday S5R1: May 14 Blackwood Reloaded Chat.
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2015, 03:36:38 PM »
Practice server is up with all on the list except Joe... I will look/get your GUID.
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Re: Thursday S5R1: May 14 Blackwood Reloaded Chat.
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2015, 05:21:50 PM »
Flattop, I'm away for 2 weeks so will miss this race. Will be very interested to see feedback on the new Blackwood version. Feels really good to me - a more closed in, intimate feel to it with lots of "stuff" around the circuit.

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Re: Thursday S5R1: May 14 Blackwood Reloaded Chat.
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2015, 06:18:47 PM »
 Looks like I may end up the finish list by one for the next 2 weeks.
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Re: Thursday S5R1: May 14 Blackwood Reloaded Chat.
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2015, 07:07:09 PM »
If people are looking for their Dick skins to download....

Just unzip into your /assettocorsa directory!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/g4lkmgzbefiyjn2/seven%20skins%20Alfa%20GTA.zip?dl=0
There are 7 skins in that .zip

They are skins for: (alfa GTA)
Bacchulum's
Bird's
Dick's
Flattop's
Guybrush's
Krahl's
Marty's

If anyone want's a skin job, Just ask Marty. He's got 2 weeks to kill...

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Re: Thursday S5R1: May 14 Blackwood Reloaded Chat.
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2015, 07:33:01 PM »
If people are looking for their Dick skins to download....

Just unzip into your /assettocorsa directory!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/g4lkmgzbefiyjn2/seven%20skins%20Alfa%20GTA.zip?dl=0
There are 7 skins in that .zip

They are skins for: (alfa GTA)
Bacchulum's
Bird's
Dick's
Flattop's
Guybrush's
Krahl's
Marty's

If anyone want's a skin job, Just ask Marty. He's got 2 weeks to kill...

Hey Dick, Could you please assign one of your skins to me for next week please? I dont mind which one. They are all glorious ;)

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Re: Thursday S5R1: May 14 Blackwood Reloaded Chat.
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2015, 09:41:29 PM »
If people are looking for their Dick skins to download....

Just unzip into your /assettocorsa directory!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/g4lkmgzbefiyjn2/seven%20skins%20Alfa%20GTA.zip?dl=0
There are 7 skins in that .zip

They are skins for: (alfa GTA)
Bacchulum's
Bird's
Dick's
Flattop's
Guybrush's
Krahl's
Marty's

If anyone want's a skin job, Just ask Marty. He's got 2 weeks to kill...

Hey Dick, Could you please assign one of your skins to me for next week please? I dont mind which one. They are all glorious ;)

Sure buddy. consider it done. Do you want a number?

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Re: Thursday S5R1: May 14 Blackwood Reloaded Chat.
« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2015, 10:14:30 PM »
Good racing, great track.

Managed to get down to a 1.29.6 in the end.  These cars are quite fun.

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Re: Thursday S5R1: May 14 Blackwood Reloaded Chat.
« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2015, 10:17:23 PM »
I was trying to catch GW in the main race for a long time, but a couple of laps out I stuffed a gear change in the chicane that cost me a few seconds. I don't know if I would have caught GW without the stuff up. It might have been close.

After I took Krahl's advice and upped the tyre pressures to around 30, I managed to get in the 31's.
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Re: Thursday S5R1: May 14 Blackwood Reloaded Chat.
« Reply #9 on: May 15, 2015, 08:29:35 AM »
One of my favorite tracks in AC. Being a fake track too. I much prefer real life tracks over fake ones but this is one of the best.
very tricky to master. Punishing if you get bits wrong. And in these cars there is not enough laps in the world to catch up after a mistake.

Totally failed the 1st race. started with a qualifying fuel load. Thanks Marty. And I totally miss-timed putting my chicken nuggets in the oven so they where ready at about lap 6.
still, kept breaking PB's when I was racing which is a good thing.

These GTA's would be good on some of those point to point mountain climb thingies i think.

Sorry you couldn't be there Marty. I think Guybrush and Krahl would have whipped you though.

PS, great to see everyone's Dick Skin! Thanks for all the thanks too.
There are plenty of skins for anyone who wants one. Might be a bit lost in the skin thread..
I'll try and organise a new skin thread over the weekend.
« Last Edit: May 15, 2015, 08:37:45 AM by Dick Forrest »

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Re: Thursday S5R1: May 14 Blackwood Reloaded Chat.
« Reply #10 on: May 15, 2015, 08:43:00 AM »
If people are looking for their Dick skins to download....

If anyone want's a skin job, Just ask Marty. He's got 2 weeks to kill...

Hey Dick, Could you please assign one of your skins to me for next week please? I dont mind which one. They are all glorious ;)
Good idea Grubbet the white ones some server admin stuffed up looked a little "boxes of ticky tacky" :) and in the mean time, everyone should now have an unique skin on the prac server, any new ones will be updated as they arrive.
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Re: Thursday S5R1: May 14 Blackwood Reloaded Chat.
« Reply #11 on: May 15, 2015, 08:54:23 AM »
Pleased to hear the feedback on the Alfas, they are fun and the more you drive them the better they become.
Had the early part of the race with Imp pressing from the outset, and knowing his 'braking prowess' I had to work hard to stave off the inevitable out brake and overtake move, but was fun getting there, we had a 3 wide done the first straight with Dave O, a drag to the end!
Noticed the as the tyres went off it suited my crappy driving style and pulled a PB, although not done near 1:30 great fun and will take on Krahl's tip and up the tyre pressures next round... shh keep it quite!  :-X

The Race results are now up on the Season Main Thread first positing....
Prac Server is up.
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Re: Thursday S5R1: May 14 Blackwood Reloaded Chat.
« Reply #12 on: May 15, 2015, 08:59:14 AM »
Pleased to hear the feedback on the Alfas, they are fun and the more you drive them the better they become.
Had the early part of the race with Imp pressing from the outset, and knowing his 'braking prowess' I had to work hard to stave off the inevitable out brake and overtake move, but was fun getting there, we had a 3 wide done the first straight with Dave O, a drag to the end!
Noticed the as the tyres went off it suited my crappy driving style and pulled a PB, although not done near 1:30 great fun and will take on Krahl's tip and up the tyre pressures next round... shh keep it quite!  :-X

The Race results are now up on the Season Main Thread first positing....
Prac Server is up.

I noticed my arse end was slapping about more when my tyres got to 98%

My car was also sliding a lot more.

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Re: Thursday S5R1: May 14 Blackwood Reloaded Chat.
« Reply #13 on: May 15, 2015, 09:53:05 AM »
Good fun last night. Held position after turn 1 and stayed consistent for the race. Spent the whole race behind Dave O, at one point getting a faster line through the chicane and just getting past him down the straight but not enough to pull back onto the racing line, so had to brake early to take the inside line and he got past me again. That was the only action I had  :)

Last 4-5 laps I knew my ping was f00ked as Dave and Bruce seemed to be warping like crazy so I backed off. Had to pull out of the second race as even with a router restart my ping was 350+. Wife was watching Netflix, but she always is so not sure why it was so bad last night. Maybe I need to log into her account and change the quality settings  ;D

Unsure how the hell you fast guys are getting your times. I find it I brake any later than I currently am and I can't keep the car under control. At one point I was behind Guy and saw him do some minimal braking and just throwing the car around the corner in a bit of a slide, is that the key to speed in this beast?

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Re: Thursday S5R1: May 14 Blackwood Reloaded Chat.
« Reply #14 on: May 15, 2015, 10:09:06 AM »
Good fun gents - and well done Krahl, you had some speed ! (Guy's speed is not a surprise but well done to you as well)

I don't quite like this track, mainly because of that chicane. 

Btw; I think LFS had really good tracks, even if all are fantasy ones.  They were really nicely done, good undulations, interesting corner combinations...It's a real shame that LFS development has stopped.   Their modelling of the tyre surface in sections was an absolutely unique and pretty darn good feature.   Not to mention the solid netcode, good online features...shame, shame.

 

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