Seeing that you have no interest in Thursday night racing and what we race and what tracks we race on, why do you make disparaging comments about it when ever you get bored or something ?  Why not just tell yourself  its not your thing and keep out of it ?

That can work both ways yea, if your not interested in someone elses opinion then stay out of the discussion. If you didnt mention your amazingly low standards for accepting a track and as you run Thursdays with the same standards is the only reason I mentioned it here.

Do I have to praise all the crappy rips/mods pushed on this forum recently? I am free to give my opinion just as you or anyone else does.

Also running a seperate "event" purposefully clashing with a Tuesday fun run I think was great form so well done on that.

I wont run this round but its not like I am going to post about running an alternative fun run to it on this forum at the same time.

who cars what they look like as long as they have grey stuff and the corners are in the the right spot

Yea who cares if the tracks drive like crap because of a very poorly modeled road surface. Who cares if its version 0.2 and clearly shows this is a fair indicator of the quality of the track. Why settle for top quality mods and official content when there is so much junk stuff around to use instead. 

Quote from: marty on May 10, 2017, 10:27:33 PM

Did a couple laps, track I dont think is ready for a main series run for a fun run? wont tell you much about the cars. Visually its not horrible but those low poly bumps all over the track surface are so annoying I will give this round a miss.

The bumps do make it interesting, and a bit of a challenge, but I actually really enjoy this track. Great atmosphere and sense of speed.
With the accent on fun run it could be a great candidate. Keeps you on your toes.  Dave O.

There are many propoerly made mod tracks that have bumps as designed not a basic washboard effect like this. A proper bumpy road on purpose is a good thing one bumpy only because its poorly made not so much. Its a fun run but more a pre season test so if its an indication of quality of tracks going to be used I likely will give the season a miss.

Quote from: marty on May 10, 2017, 05:26:46 PM

I find Le mans the most boring track around personally, there is a mod track around but I would much prefer a race at Spa or amy of the other WEC circuits that arent Le Mans lol.

919's will get some competition as Kunos will release Audi and Toyota LMP1 cars at some point. I would probably hold off on a wec season until those come as its not likely we will get multipke wec seasons. There will also be more gte cars coming but no real news of what or when has been announced other then whats been announced but yet unreleased. A WEC enduro as a mixed class test after this season would work and I think Spa would be a good track for it.

The Zonda R is a trackday special hypercar kind of competing with the 599xx, laferrari fxxk,p1 gtr, 918 etc ts not close to an lmp1 car.

could always put in the 599xx the the fxxxk and the zonda r as a class if they are comparable. And another class type as well for a mixed race

You would need considerably more drivers then last race to consider so many different classes, also those cars arent that evenly matched and a bit too close to gt3 yet done so differently they dont go so well together. Also they are probably all considerably trickier to drive then gt3 if you wanted to go another class I think a low powered basic high grip class like gt4 would work better but even 2 classes is more then enough with less then 20 starters.

I find Le mans the most boring track around personally, there is a mod track around but I would much prefer a race at Spa or amy of the other WEC circuits that arent Le Mans lol.

919's will get some competition as Kunos will release Audi and Toyota LMP1 cars at some point. I would probably hold off on a wec season until those come as its not likely we will get multipke wec seasons. There will also be more gte cars coming but no real news of what or when has been announced other then whats been announced but yet unreleased. A WEC enduro as a mixed class test after this season would work and I think Spa would be a good track for it.

The Zonda R is a trackday special hypercar kind of competing with the 599xx, laferrari fxxk,p1 gtr, 918 etc ts not close to an lmp1 car.

Quote from: marty on May 10, 2017, 11:36:26 AM

This makes it seem its not the most popular

I think Nords generally scares people off... an enduro at Spa would be a different kettle of fish 

Yet gt cars are the supposedly most popular online and the most popular track online is also Nords. 

Funnily enough however most like Nords only for trackdays with the big majority claiming its not a good track to race. The only difference between running a longer race at Spa is you would lap more cars but if of the 3 cars I lapped 1 nearly took me out both times when I passed it twice. Having to deal with cars very sketchy when being lapped and under no pressure isnt exactly what I consider more fun. 

In the 650 I found it was about 3-4 seconds per lap faster softs vs mediums but as Kcender said it went away a bit by lap 5. Seems practice with blankets made me not realize how much slower the mediums would be to get to temp over softs. This extra time meant they grained more and so lost another 4 or more seconds per lap. At 3 seconds per lap over 15 laps with no errors the softs would be quicker then mediums but the audi was cooking rears on softs and was barely faster then mediums so it wasnt really an option.

I didnt think I would lose 40 seconds over 5 laps which meant even if I went longer first stint I would have not stayed ahead where possibly it could have effected kcenders strategy a bit. Trying a short first stint to get an advantage and losing 40 seconds pretty much dashed all hope. He likely still would have passed easily me with nearly 10 seconds per lap advantage on fresh tyres so unless he made a mistake he made the best strategy choice especially as on mediums the audi probably had the edge over the 650. 

Quote from: Rolz on May 10, 2017, 07:55:26 AM

anyone else felt like that message up the top of the screen (Leader has 2 laps...) felt like ages??

Yes! When I realised I had to still do one more lap, my heart sunk just a little.

Seeing I had fuel for 14.5 laps going 15 wasnt exactly what I wanted to see lol. It does make it interesting and I would like to see main season races go to a time in some seasons especially if the format is based on time which most recent seasons have been. Trying to save 5l of fuel wasmt worth the 20 seconds lost adding the fuel with 1 to go.