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Simulation Racing Leagues => Assetto Corsa => Australian Assetto Corsa League, Tuesday nights => Topic started by: Freezer on September 15, 2015, 09:42:36 PM
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Disappointing result for me tonight after what was looking very promising.
Qualified 7th in the GTC and got a ripper start to grab two spots by turn one.
From there I was able to gradually chase down Jeremy and Mathew and get by seeing me up into 3rd and now inching my way up to second spot.
Then unfortunately I had a spin at Eau Rouge. I did the full 360 glancing the wall and kept going having only dropped one spot.
The car however was a bit slower after that and I eventually dropped 3 spots and was back in 7th.
Then on lap 9 I see "Connection Lost" . . . %^&#
So the bonus of triple points and a decent result went begging.... (:
Anyhow . . thanks once again to Wally for the season and well done to all that competed, some good close racing was had!
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First up, here's the final season standings:
(http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/w549/WallyMasterson/SeasonStandings_zps58vk2mrl.png)
Congratulations to season champion Guybrush.
Congrats also to the runners up, Matthew and Stan, and the winning team, Struggle Street Racing Crew.
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RACE RESULTS AND CHARTS (http://xgnassettocorsa.blogspot.com/2015/09/s8r6-lotus-evora-gxgtc-at-spa.html)
SEASON STANDINGS (http://xgnassettocorsa.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/season-8-standings.html)
SEASON STATS (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nu52lWM6_TIRBEGCTF32BxLe8mobfsCFpd_wOeuxpXI/edit?usp=sharing)
No penalties.
Round Points
Skaife 72
Guybrush Threepwood 69
Jeremy 66
Phil.8 63
StanDaam 60
Matthew111 57
Bafs17 54
Bacchulum 51
Wally 48
Marty 48
Joe 42
Grat 39
Simone 36
Grubbet 33
Rob 30
Freezer 27
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And some post-season stats:
Best average finish: Guybrush, 2.1
Most wins: Guybrush, 5
Most podiums: Guybrush and Matthew, 7
Most poles: Guybrush, 6
Most fastest laps: Guybrush and Marty, 3
Most consistent: Guybrush, 4
Hunter: Wally, 3
Hunted: Bacchulum, 3
Busiest: Bacchulum and Phil.8, 2
Loneliest: JoshR, 2
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Firstly, congratulations to Guybrush, Matthew and Stan. It was a hard-fought battle between Guybrush and Matthew, coming down to the last round.
Bad luck on the disconnect Freezer.
I had a pretty good race, with the car feeling pretty nice. Again, I'd added a little more front camber and reduced the front tyre pressures to get a little more heat into the fronts, after it felt a bit understeery in practice. I had some good early battles with Simone, Marty and Bacchulum, and Bafs for a while until he pulled away from the pack. Marty kept appearing and disappearing. I mostly had my eye on Bacchulum, because I knew he was just behind me in the season standings, and I'd have to finish in front of him to maintain my position on the ladder. I'd qualified better than him, and I was happy to be one spot in front of him for the first part of the race. But a brain fade saw me touch a kerb and spin at Stavelot, letting him past. From there, all I could do was chase, before, during and after pitting on the same lap, with the gap hovering around the 3 second mark and me unable to close it. I even put the angry lights on in an attempt to rattle Mr. B into a mistake, but he stayed cool and maintained his place, leapfrogging me in the season standings to take my 6th place. Well done Bacchulum.
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I was doing some okay consistent times in the practice session, but just before qually I decided to go to Coles for a chocolate fix and when I got back I couldn't put a decent lap together at all so started near the back.
After the start I ended up behind Grubbet with Rob behind. I had the pace on Grubbet, but he had the widest Lotus I've ever seen and I just couldn't get past him. Great racing with the three of us though, a couple of times I was pushing hard and made a mistake letting Rob by, then would get past him again. Eventually on lap 9 Grubbet and Rob had some slight side to side impact sending Rob off and giving me my chance to get past Grubbet. After that I was able to pull ahead but was quite a way back from the next pack.
I pitted after lap 11 and somehow came out with Simone behind me. I stuffed up and he got past, then he stuffed up and I got the place back. A bit later Marty came steaming up behind me and I had no chance holding him off. Grat was slowly closing on me but couldn't quite make it; given another lap or two and I'm sure he would have.
I really enjoy these long races when you get into it. You know when you drive in real life sometimes and you get somewhere and you can't really remember the drive as you've just done it on auto pilot; this happened to me a couple of times in the race where I'd be half way through a lap and realise I couldn't really remember doing the first part of it.
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Great racing at the back of the field with Joe and Robert until AC crashed again!! It looks like my old pc is really struggling to cope with the rigors of AC. But great fun while it lasted. Thanks guys.
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Great racing last night, and good to finally put a season together and sneak in above Matthew.
I was surprised at the gap in qual, especially after seeing Skaife's pace during the race. Ballast was active during qual wasn't it?
Anyway, got off to an alright start and went a little bit long into T1 which put Grat right on my tail down the hill and through Eau Rouge. I lifted a little to be cautious and saw Grat in the rear view mirror get just a little bit loose and go around. Eau Rouge is a killer on the first lap with a heavy car, no track grip and cold tyres. I've fallen victim to it before as well!
After that it was pretty steady and I managed to pull a gap on Skaife who had more and more pace as the stint went on. Had a pretty good pit stop on lap 10, but came out just behind Stan who surprised me a little when he was braking through Eau Rouge because of his worn tyres. I was a bees appendage away from losing it but managed to hold on "Ricciardo style" and was stuck behind him for the rest of the lap as I didn't want to take any risks when all I had to do was finish ahead of Matthew for the championship.
So Stan pitted that same lap and as I drove past the pits I noticed Skaife exiting only a couple of seconds or so behind me. Again, I pulled a smallish gap over the first few laps (i think!) but then Skaife was gaining quite a bit, so I tried to get the most out of the GX and predicted I would get caught with around 2 or 3 laps to go. It was great between the two of us, pumping in qualy lap after qualy lap and the gap slowly closing and waiting for the inevitable. Skaife caught me on the second last lap and we got close through the final chicane which meant he zoomed past me into Eau Rouge and the rest is history. Great racing and great pressure!
Well done Skaife and everyone else. Thanks for another excellent season Wally! I think ballast will have a better impact when we are all driving the same cars as you can probably increase it a little bit more.
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Yes, the same ballast was in effect in each session.
The ballast weights were just lifted straight from the British touring cars. Next single-make season (looking like FR3.5), I will use a more parity calculated ballast, which will see weights for some climbing much higher.
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Excellent race for me last night :D
Had a great 3 way battle with Phil and Matthew. For once I did a quick pit stop which is very unusual for me, I managed to actually get out in front of people after it. They must have had bad pits stops for sure!! ;D I came out just in front of Phil and Matthew in 4th and we continued our battle with Phil eventually getting me and came home in 5th. Great to be racing in tight with others, 2 and 3 wide where it should never be!! ;D
Fun season, congrats to the mighty GB for the win :D
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Car was pretty good this round which was a surprise since i did 0 prac lol. Was dissapointed in qualy felt i could of got pretty close to gb's pace as i had plenty left after my prac time but miss timed my runs so i didnt get to do a run at the end so had to settle for 4th i think it was which was a bad lap nearly losing it but it was the only lap i got to register so lucky it was enough for something.
Come the race i was surprised how shit the car became with the medium tyres and full tank lol i never tried the car like this in prac so i was caught out badly with huge understeer. This left me vulnerable at the race start with no pace for the first stint on the green track, i nearly lost it through eou rouge watching grat spin but managed to keep it. From there i fell back into phils hands and had a good little battle trying to fend him off until the pitstops where i had a brain fade with how much fuel i wanted costing me a few secs to put me behind phil and stan. The car was getting better in this stint as the track gripped up it was feeling more like my qualy car and my pace improved and i could attack phil and stan but couldnt get around as they had a bit more straight line then me but was good racing all round so 6th is where i finished :)
Well done to GB on the season he had great pace everywhere pretty hard to beat!
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I opened my eyes this morning and the first thing i noticed i could not open my right hand,i panicked at first but then i remember i tamed (sort of ;D)the lotus GX at SPA the night before for bloody 21 laps,,,,,,,i smiled.My 54 years old are starting to show a bit 8) 8) ::) ::) ::) :-[ :-[ :-[
Great race,great season,great fun.
I had a bit of speed in practice and qual but in the race was not so,and it has been a painful trend this season ,i just cant not put things together.It was clear that the set was not very good it was probably more a qual set that a race set for me and i was struggling to cope with wally and (bacchulum??) and many others.
i decided to pit early to see if fresh tyres would allow me to catch wally and fight for the 10th place,and i think i was right but unfortunately GRAT spun me around at the last S where i lost hips of time,i was not very impressed because i knew it had spoilt my plans,but,,,,hey...chin up mate!!!(hard thing to do at time).I also drove very bad,going long a couples of time,all these accident were due to poor concentration,infact in one of these lack of concentration moments came my 10 sec penalty,i was aching pretty much all over my hands and shoulder,,,,but hey,,i loved it,good fun!!
This is a good assetto corsa group,and apart the 2-3 aliens the rest is nice and close,i will probably race the renault and this time.......heheeheheheheheheee :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
I have to say i litterally enjoyed the lotuses and the assetto corsa tracks,great fun!!!
Congratulations to the F.........ING aliens,you guys showed off your racing skills,,,good on you!!!
And more importantly like freezer said thx to everybody who have participated...thx all.......now,,,,,,i am trying to open my right hand without hearing those cracking noises ::) ::) ::)
Ciao!!! ;)
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Good to be back for a race, no practice only ran a lap and half on prac server then did about 15 min before qualy. I just tried to find a way to get some heat into the tyres but failed so after really struggling on the mediums early in the race decided to switch to a 2 stopper on softs. I made lots of mistakes early laps on the meds so was well off the lead and a shocker in qualy running wide and having to abort my last 2 runs made me start well back.
Early in the race I saw I had speed on the others around me due to low ballast and low aero but some silly errors didnt help. I then switched to softs and think my stint on them pitting lap 7 got another 8 laps out of it with still reasonable pace with tyres at 95%. I pitted with 6 to go for another set and tried to at least grab the fastest lap as I was a fair way behind everyone.
In the end I was closing on Wally but needed 1 more lap to catch him and so ended up finishing 10th I think.
Congrats to GB on the season win and we will need some more race attendances in order to get the team title back where it belongs. :D
I will be home for the next 2 tuesdays but then will be away for another couple weeks to Kunos land which will likely be the start of next season. I should be able to make a few rounds in the middle of the season before being away for most of the last 2 months this year so maybe achilles heals needs a new teamate for gb the rest of this year.
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Simone please report to the team doctor. You're due for a recovery session in the ice bath :)
Is your FFB too strong? I don't get sore at all.
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As Wally was watching me, I was chasing Wally for that next spot up in the championship.
I was rather dejected after qualifying 1.5s slower than him though. :(
I ended up at the back of a pack of Wally and others (no names in replay and I can't remember who) at the start but couldn't keep up with Wally and he pulled a sizable gap.
Approaching the mid-point I see, and pass, Wally re-entering the track at Stavelot and we pit on the same lap.
The Aleph Null crew were faster than Wally's crew and I pulled a 4 second gap on exit, but I recalled Wally's pace in qually and waited for the inevitable battle.
But I think the track was coming towards my setup better than his as I seemed to have closed the gap pace-wise and maintained the gap.
Until I had a tank slapper through Radillion* which I only just managed to save, losing 1.5 seconds, but still made to the flag in front of Mr M.
A good battle which took my mind off the pain in my knees.
Congrats Guy on the 'ship and thanks Wally for the admin. 8)
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Eau Rouge - means 'red water' and is a downhill left hand corner over a creek.
Radillion - means 'steep climb' and is an uphill right-left combination.
;)
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Race
What to say? The short version race report is: I crashed. Immediately. Badly.
With simulator's magic on, though, that's not all, and I thankfully do not have to report from Liege Hospital.
I could not get any heat in my medium tyres. So, after seeing I was apparently almost competitive on softs (qualified 2nd) I decided to try a 2-stop strategy and aim for something like a 6th place. Start was really good and exited La Source very fast. I did not want to risk it, so I lifted for Eau Rouge,* but---with replay's insight---with visibility hindered by GB close ahead, I probably missed my usual line and hit the left curb not straight enough. The car started to get loose. I could keep it straight for a bit, but in the end there was nothing to do for my limited skills. Concrete to the left; bouncing middle of the track; back left to avoid a carnage; concrete again. I guess it is mostly lack of experience with first-lap nuisances, as GB said.
I restarted from pits some 35 seconds behind the pack and tried to keep a good pace to catch up with the back of it before my first stop. Things worked out pretty well until I again revealed my inexperience by being too aggressive behind Simone and causing us to spin at the last chicane. Scusa!!! Anyway: we both lost quite crucial 10 seconds with that. But in the end it only costed me 1 position, I think.
Season
This was my first ever sim-racing season, so I guess I would like to add a few words. First of all: thank you all. It was a lot of fun, an amazing experience, and it looks like you changed my home's dining schedule to Australian mode for most Tuesdays to come. In particular: thanks a lot to Wally for the impeccable organizations; to GB and Marty or the many advices and coping up with my stupid setup questions; to Rolz and Joe for the kind words of encouragements; and to Matthew, Stan Daam, and Wally for the many duels.
I really feel I learned a lot about driving and racing (and a bit about how these things called cars actually work). This was my main objective in getting into simracing, so I am very happy with it. I have also learned that I am not as crap as I feared. My 5th position in the ranking is definitely inflated by the many of you who had to miss several races, but I had those pair of days when I felt I could keep up with the fastest ones and I have even managed to get two podium finishes. It most likely sounds silly to most of you, but it has been both a huge pleasure and a great satisfaction for me.
Most of all, it was quite fun to get to know you guys a little bit, and I really appreciated you never made me feel like the new stupid guy (despite all evidence indicates I am the new stupid guy). I guess there remains just three things to be done: taming the FR3.5, trying to win a race, and figure out how to understand what you all say over teamspeak!
*Bacchulum: I know, but names of corners that are now not what they once were are what they are: stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus. Furthermore, as there are 3 corners and 2 names, I suppose we have to be a little flexible :)
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I am very jealous of your written english....perfect!!! A bad race is a bad race,but maybe you are right those medium tyres betrayed us.probably the damp track did not help either,but anyway .....good to meet you Signor Grat,and welcomed at XGN!!!
Btw: Your english is perfect but it cant be better than bird one, Heeeeeeeeeeees the king !!!
CMON bird do the renault!!! we`ve been missing YA!! :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Well done grat. You're a great addition to the league!
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I am very jealous of your written english....perfect!!! A bad race is a bad race,but maybe you are right those medium tyres betrayed us.probably the damp track did not help either,but anyway .....good to meet you Signor Grat,and welcomed at XGN!!!
Btw: Your english is perfect but it cant be better than bird one, Heeeeeeeeeeees the king !!!
CMON bird do the renault!!! we`ve been missing YA!! :-* :-* :-* :-*
I think I have made at least 3 mistakes, revealing my foreign nature :)
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Well done grat. You're a great addition to the league!
Thank you. And the league is a great addiction for me. :)
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Well done grat. You're a great addition to the league!
Thank you. And the league is a great addiction for me. :)
So how many hours have you put into Assetto Grat? You started around the same time as me, and are much quicker, so to make myself feel better I'm hoping a lot more hours! ;)
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Well done grat. You're a great addition to the league!
Thank you. And the league is a great addiction for me. :)
So how many hours have you put into Assetto Grat? You started around the same time as me, and are much quicker, so to make myself feel better I'm hoping a lot more hours! ;)
Steam says 850 hours. I am pretty sure you can feel quite good ;)
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Well done grat. You're a great addition to the league!
Thank you. And the league is a great addiction for me. :)
So how many hours have you put into Assetto Grat? You started around the same time as me, and are much quicker, so to make myself feel better I'm hoping a lot more hours! ;)
Steam says 850 hours. I am pretty sure you can feel quite good ;)
Wtf! And I thought my 310 hours in 6 months was quite a lot. :o
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850???!!!!
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changed my home's dining schedule to Australian mode for most Tuesdays
Me curious!! You would normally have dinner later? :D
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So it says. Although I think it counts every second AC launcher was open, whether I was actually driving or not. So perhaps you have to cut the figure somewhat (but I wouldn't be able to say by how much).
I told you it was an addiction ;)
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changed my home's dining schedule to Australian mode for most Tuesdays
Me curious!! You would normally have dinner later? :D
Yes, Stan. We normally start eating sometime between 8 and 9. (Interestingly, we never chose this. I guess that, as I am usually the one who cooks, we took the Italian "schedule" as given.)
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changed my home's dining schedule to Australian mode for most Tuesdays
Me curious!! You would normally have dinner later? :D
Yes, Stan. We normally start eating sometime between 8 and 9. (Interestingly, we never chose this. I guess that, as I am usually the one who cooks, we took the Italian "schedule" as given.)
I like the Italian way. We just had my folks stay with us for a week and they eat so early (6-ish). We normally graze much later (8 or 9 is fine unless it's a race night) :)
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changed my home's dining schedule to Australian mode for most Tuesdays
Me curious!! You would normally have dinner later? :D
Yes, Stan. We normally start eating sometime between 8 and 9. (Interestingly, we never chose this. I guess that, as I am usually the one who cooks, we took the Italian "schedule" as given.)
I like the Italian way. We just had my folks stay with us for a week and they eat so early (6-ish). We normally graze much later (8 or 9 is fine unless it's a race night) :)
Gets earlier if you have kids mate. The sooner you feed them the sooner you can get them to bed, tidy up all the chaos they caused that day and load up AC!
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I think I have 1000+ hours, and I only play AC Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday morning.
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Hey Stan, just saw we got third in the team standings. Think that's as good as it's gonna be with me as a fellow goat ;D
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Hey Stan, just saw we got third in the team standings. Think that's as good as it's gonna be with me as a fellow goat ;D
We is on da podium!!!
Getting a goat out tonight for sure!!
;D
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Isnt it enough you slaughter a goat every race nite but now you slaughter more for a celebration. :'(
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Next time you hear someone knocking on the door beware it could be this guy. And hes not f$#%ing happy. ;D
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@43 secs, right in the family jewels for extra points!! ;D
That goat is next level!! ;D
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252 here
Yea....one thing that i have never got used to.....,having dinne at 6:30.....and then Grat the aussie!!!!!.........they never sleep in mate!!!!!!! They wake up at 6 am on sunday morning!!!!!!! .knoth no mate!!!! ;D .... 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8).... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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1000+ hours here, love having early dinner as it makes the night seem longer, and an insomniac, so I'm normally awake at 3am (which you may be able to tell from the time at which I post some things). ;)
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Holy shit grat how long you had it for? I got 869 and I have had it since day dot
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that is a cool goat
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Holy shit grat how long you had it for? I got 869 and I have had it since day dot
Ahahah. I think I have got 1 or 2 hundred hours in July 2014. The rest is from February to today. (But I think a few times AC remained on for quite a few hours while I was actually not there.)