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April 21 season break - fun run - Nordschleife endurance

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Offline marty

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Re: April 21 season break - fun run - Nordschleife endurance
« Reply #15 on: April 08, 2015, 01:48:06 PM »
I think it may be best to just have a prebooked grid for this and people can post here their car of choice, I will do some fuel mileage tests over the next week in all cars to see how far each can go and what fuel multi would be needed or maybe if we could keep it at 100% and just do 1 more lap. Only car I tested so far was the m3 gt2 and this had 11.05l per lap with a tank of 110l so it would be very close to making 10 laps.

Ideally I would want no car to do more then 9 laps so that will be the aim with fuel multi to give some strategic options or maybe make it an 11 lap race and make sure no car can do more then 10 laps. Tyres will also be an issue so even if you can run most of the race on a tank it may be better to split the load on tyres if the harder option loses more time plus the extra fuel being carried. I think around this track all the gt cars are possible of lap times within a few seconds of eachother if all on the same tyre compound so picking whichever may be best so people can choose the car they are most comfortable with.

Also one cool thing I noticed with fuel burn is if you get aero damage not only are you much slower but burn more fuel, this will end up being a fun little enduro as any damage is going to be very costly here. Concentration over the full race very critical as a minor brain burp can be the end of the race or at least make for a painfull trip back to the pits and a long repair to get back on pace.

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Re: April 21 season break - fun run - Nordschleife endurance
« Reply #16 on: April 08, 2015, 01:55:28 PM »
Ok I'll put my name down.
 Of cause my race will be over somewhere through the second lap.
  I'm prepared to have an 'accident' that may take out marty and Guybrush to give the rest of th field a chance......


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Re: April 21 season break - fun run - Nordschleife endurance
« Reply #17 on: April 08, 2015, 02:34:26 PM »
That makes me feel much safer Dick as I know you cant hit something your aiming at.  ;D

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Re: April 21 season break - fun run - Nordschleife endurance
« Reply #18 on: April 08, 2015, 02:49:26 PM »
That makes me feel much safer Dick as I know you cant hit something your aiming at.  ;D

lol yeah you're right there. Keep aiming at the road. Keep missing it

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Re: April 21 season break - fun run - Nordschleife endurance
« Reply #19 on: April 08, 2015, 02:54:51 PM »
That makes me feel much safer Dick as I know you cant hit something your aiming at.  ;D

You're right though. I'll try and take you and Guybrush out, totally miss, crashing into bachulum instead, causing gratulin to go off, letting wally and bird through. Then I'll finally stop crashing and hold up vipergod....
then I'll choke from the pressure of rob...

We've been through this before i think...

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Re: April 21 season break - fun run - Nordschleife endurance
« Reply #20 on: April 08, 2015, 03:02:21 PM »
I spent quite a few hours over the Easter break tuning my MP4-12c GT3 for this.
It's sex beast of a car  ;D

I'm now reasonably confident I can bust out a few laps without coming off and destroying it...
Though if you're aiming for sub 8:40min laps and muff it, you're basically guaranteed to crash big time and damage your car.

Was getting to 5-6 laps in succession before I my eyes started hurting (forgetting to blink lol), was hallucinating and then coming off...   :P
10-11laps is going to be a mission of epic concentration and focus  :o

soo awesome  ;D

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Re: April 21 season break - fun run - Nordschleife endurance
« Reply #21 on: April 08, 2015, 05:35:26 PM »
Need to do this race in a severe thunderstorm at night like in PCars :) That will test your knowledge of the track and car handling  :D

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Re: April 21 season break - fun run - Nordschleife endurance
« Reply #22 on: April 08, 2015, 05:41:21 PM »
definitely up for this. it's one of my best tracks :)
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Re: April 21 season break - fun run - Nordschleife endurance
« Reply #23 on: April 08, 2015, 05:45:20 PM »
I still don't know this track, but sounds like it will be fun... if a little mind-numbing after 80 minutes or so.

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Re: April 21 season break - fun run - Nordschleife endurance
« Reply #24 on: April 08, 2015, 05:56:24 PM »
Need to do this race in a severe thunderstorm at night like in PCars :) That will test your knowledge of the track and car handling  :D

That would be awesome as well! But let's start easy for us first time sim racers  :P

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Re: April 21 season break - fun run - Nordschleife endurance
« Reply #25 on: April 08, 2015, 06:50:51 PM »
Long enduros are awesome, especially through an accelerated night and day cycle. Watching the sun come up after racing all night is such a relief. You feel good. It's quite amazing. The corners start to blur into one another... I wish AC would properly simulate night racing.
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Re: April 21 season break - fun run - Nordschleife endurance
« Reply #26 on: April 08, 2015, 08:45:32 PM »
I still don't know this track, but sounds like it will be fun... if a little mind-numbing after 80 minutes or so.

Try 80 minutes at Indianapolis for proper numbing... ;)

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Re: April 21 season break - fun run - Nordschleife endurance
« Reply #27 on: April 08, 2015, 09:32:00 PM »
80 minutes?
Walk in the park.
I've done a full Daytona 500, took about 3 hours! :o
I got shudders every time I had to turn left for weeks after it....

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Re: April 21 season break - fun run - Nordschleife endurance
« Reply #28 on: April 09, 2015, 11:09:06 AM »
I got shudders every time I had to turn left for weeks after it....

classic! I can imagine it now  ;D

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Re: April 21 season break - fun run - Nordschleife endurance
« Reply #29 on: April 12, 2015, 07:47:10 AM »
I will keep this open so anyone wanting to enter the race just post which car you want here as there is no need for secret car selections for this fun run. Any gt car will be available and I still havent done the fuel tests in all cars but will try to maybe do them this afternoon.

So far Shameless wants the cr7. It will also be good to see numbers and grid limit at the track is 24 cars so it will be open to the first 24 people.

 

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