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Jan 5 Fun Run: Lotus 72D vs. Ferrari 312T at Monza '66 and Paul Ricard

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Re: Jan 5 Fun Run: Lotus 72D vs. Ferrari 312T at Monza '66 and Paul Ricard
« Reply #30 on: January 05, 2016, 11:13:35 PM »
Yeah. I thought I should let you catch me a bit at the end ;) It was good fun to ignore your "safety car"!!!


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Re: Jan 5 Fun Run: Lotus 72D vs. Ferrari 312T at Monza '66 and Paul Ricard
« Reply #31 on: January 05, 2016, 11:22:45 PM »
Thats kind of why I moved off the racing line in my safety car as it didnt look like your going to slow down. ;) But I thought I had you then you finally found a gear and the forward progress grinded to a halt here is the margin at nearly 300kmh.



I just noticed Phil had the fastest lap in all 3 races, just a shame he had a couple mistakes, race 2 especially was looking like a ripper and it was going to be hard keeping that Ferrari behind. Luckily I just had the pace onto the straights where it counted thanks to my maxed out lotus engine. I think that would have been a costly nite for the team as I needed a new gearbox after each session.
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Re: Jan 5 Fun Run: Lotus 72D vs. Ferrari 312T at Monza '66 and Paul Ricard
« Reply #32 on: January 06, 2016, 08:11:21 AM »
Why were there so many DNFs? Were they crashes, or blown engines?
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Re: Jan 5 Fun Run: Lotus 72D vs. Ferrari 312T at Monza '66 and Paul Ricard
« Reply #33 on: January 06, 2016, 08:48:15 AM »
Wowee nice work Gratulin! and .001 too!

I will have a look at the stats, but happy to get around in such a fast car...  Thanks for the setup up Phil and Marty.
Certainly an interesting track, so many blind corners and no undulations.
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Re: Jan 5 Fun Run: Lotus 72D vs. Ferrari 312T at Monza '66 and Paul Ricard
« Reply #34 on: January 06, 2016, 09:07:43 AM »
Why were there so many DNFs? Were they crashes, or blown engines?
Crashes mostly, methinks.

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Re: Jan 5 Fun Run: Lotus 72D vs. Ferrari 312T at Monza '66 and Paul Ricard
« Reply #35 on: January 06, 2016, 09:27:59 AM »

Why were there so many DNFs? Were they crashes, or blown engines?
It was pretty late and very easy to lose concentration at Monza66. I normally can't concentrate that long either but I had Marty to beat so had to keep going!!! :D :D

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Re: Jan 5 Fun Run: Lotus 72D vs. Ferrari 312T at Monza '66 and Paul Ricard
« Reply #36 on: January 06, 2016, 11:12:20 AM »
I didn't do enough (any) practice in these cars and had crashed about five times before I quit. I've been tooling around in the McLaren for the GT3s.

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Re: Jan 5 Fun Run: Lotus 72D vs. Ferrari 312T at Monza '66 and Paul Ricard
« Reply #37 on: January 06, 2016, 11:18:00 AM »
Wowee nice work Gratulin! and .001 too!

I will have a look at the stats, but happy to get around in such a fast car...  Thanks for the setup up Phil and Marty.
Certainly an interesting track, so many blind corners and no undulations.

Q2 Phil also got me by .008 so a few close margins I got done by on the nite.  :'( ;D

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Re: Jan 5 Fun Run: Lotus 72D vs. Ferrari 312T at Monza '66 and Paul Ricard
« Reply #38 on: January 06, 2016, 12:17:18 PM »
Lol such a shame I go to pieces in most races, Dunno why , not nervous or anything, just stupid mistakes,  maybe I should turn my music down for race starts :)

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Re: Jan 5 Fun Run: Lotus 72D vs. Ferrari 312T at Monza '66 and Paul Ricard
« Reply #39 on: January 06, 2016, 12:30:19 PM »
Lol such a shame I go to pieces in most races, Dunno why , not nervous or anything, just stupid mistakes,  maybe I should turn my music down for race starts :)

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I had that issue in the Nords races pretty much stuffed every one, probably because I was needing to overdrive a bit to keep up with GB. Its always hard to try and find a race pace that you can keep up and avoid errors. In those cars though I found backing off too much I made more mistakes and nearly blew the gearbox in race 1 when I had a bit of a gap. When you were all over me I had to keep more focused to run a clean error free line as I thought if you ever got past id be fooked and was never going to catch you. The same with GB I need to get ahead of him at the start and then I have some hope but chasing him he makes less errors then me at the same pace so I either settle for second a few seconds back or try and push as hard as possible hoping to force him into an error before I do. That failed at Nords and I can normally run very good consitant laps there so it was quite frustrating.

At Paul Ricard in Practice I saw both you and GB had the pace on me in the Lotus but it has a few strengths in critical corners, Its a shame GB wasnt there and not too many had ran enough laps to be quite up to pace yet. For example Monza66 I had the advantage of running some laps there before but everyone got very close to that pace by the end of the race. Had we had a second race there it may have been very close, I did notice the Lotus there got no help on the draft down the main straight where the ferrari would real it in.

But that would be a great combo in a large field but those cars have a very fine line between gaining .2 and wrecking the car, Id love to see a race there in a proper league nite in equal cars especially slower ones. I think I will put up Monza 66 in a fixed setup with some slower cars on one of my servers it should be some great racing.

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Re: Jan 5 Fun Run: Lotus 72D vs. Ferrari 312T at Monza '66 and Paul Ricard
« Reply #40 on: January 06, 2016, 12:45:35 PM »
I didn't do enough (any) practice in these cars and had crashed about five times before I quit. I've been tooling around in the McLaren for the GT3s.

Don't worry about that. I've never driven the car & track combo we started with. It's part of the fun. :) 

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Re: Jan 5 Fun Run: Lotus 72D vs. Ferrari 312T at Monza '66 and Paul Ricard
« Reply #41 on: January 06, 2016, 07:24:54 PM »
Here is a little video of a few laps in race 2 as Phil was hunting me down, unfortunately he got a bit excited on the throttle when he sniffed a chance and that ended the battle.



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Re: Jan 5 Fun Run: Lotus 72D vs. Ferrari 312T at Monza '66 and Paul Ricard
« Reply #42 on: January 06, 2016, 07:29:02 PM »
Are you double-clutching on the upshifts? It sounds like it :)

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Re: Jan 5 Fun Run: Lotus 72D vs. Ferrari 312T at Monza '66 and Paul Ricard
« Reply #43 on: January 06, 2016, 08:50:58 PM »
Awesome video, apart from the last bit :) thanks for that Marty, probably first time seen myself drive in a replay,  I never save them.
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Re: Jan 5 Fun Run: Lotus 72D vs. Ferrari 312T at Monza '66 and Paul Ricard
« Reply #44 on: January 06, 2016, 10:21:05 PM »
Are you double-clutching on the upshifts? It sounds like it :)

No just regular clutch on upshifts probably just sounds different to the computer shifting for you with paddles.  ;D I was surprised that you can flatshift this thing I assumed youd still need to lift but I guess not.

 

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