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Simulation Racing Leagues => Assetto Corsa => Thursday Nights fun racing => Topic started by: Bruce on May 05, 2015, 01:24:20 PM
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Thursday Fun Run
Keeping in the spirit of the "Cobra Cup" and the upcoming Season 5 with the agile Alfa GTA
Thursday 7th May
Same "Bat Time"
Track: Salzburgring Download Link. (http://www.virtualr.net/salzburgring-1-0-for-assetto-corsa-released)
Race Length: 10 Laps
NO Qualifying!
2 Cars to select from: Alfa GTA & Shelby Cobra 427 S/C
Server Password: as per usual
As you enter the server for race 1:
1st in selects any car
Subsequent entrants select alternate cars
Server will be Practice, no Qual, then straight into race at 8:30pm
Race 1:
When the flag falls:
All the Alfa GTAs will be at the front of the grid.GO!
Cobras wait, (ready to strike :P )
As the the LEADING Alfa GTA Enters the main straight
Lead Alfa shouts " GO!"
The Cobras have 9 laps to overtake!
Race 2:
Swap cars
Repeat as above.
Thanks to GB for suggesting the "Catchup Race".
NO NEW SKINS. (Thanks for the update Dick).
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Skins aren't ready for consumption Flattop! This where we got into trouble with the cobras..
I should have really pmed the links to those I've made skins for. They are prototypes only. just meant for the owners only to assess And give me feedback.
I repeat. Skins are not ready for race night at all. Please please please please!!! Do not use them on the server!!
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Perhaps put up the Alfa's on Baskerville seeing as it isn't in the season track list?
Would also be cool to try a fun night of half of everyone in Alfa's and the other half in a fast car, giving the Alfa's a head start. Then everyone swaps over for the next race. Just a thought.
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Perhaps put up the Alfa's on Baskerville seeing as it isn't in the season track list?
Would also be cool to try a fun night of half of everyone in Alfa's and the other half in a fast car, giving the Alfa's a head start. Then everyone swaps over for the next race. Just a thought.
Great minds think alike! I had thought about putting half Cobra on the server, 2 races, racers to check numbers of each car on server and select a car to balance the numbers out as the server fills.
racers need to swap cars for race 2.
WILL DO!
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Maybe a car that is around a lap quicker over say 10 laps and then start them just as the Alfa's have completed their first lap?
Perhaps the McLaren F1 GTR, or the 458? Unfortunately Baskerville isn't on RSR - I thought it was - so makes choosing a car kind of difficult.
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Leading post update with Fun Run Format, thanks GB.
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Race server is up, password as per normal.
(Be careful, Practice server up too :o )
AND I think I will be available to night! ;D
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This sounds similar to the ARSE Friday night fun nights we were discussing on TS the other night. Should make for some good fun. I can imagine there'll be a few big wrecks as these cars can be a bit tricky ;D Will damage be turned on?
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Could you set the server up as fixed grid order GTA's up front and Cobras in the second half of the field. Then You could start the Alfa's and someone could call out the start for the cobras maybe 15 seconds later lor something. Would be a little easier then having half the field pull over but you could also just do a basic rolling start in 2 packs organised via teamspeak in whatever grid order is wanted.
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And I should be given a 2 week head start.....
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Could you set the server up as fixed grid order GTA's up front and Cobras in the second half of the field. Then You could start the Alfa's and someone could call out the start for the cobras maybe 15 seconds later lor something. Would be a little easier then having half the field pull over but you could also just do a basic rolling start in 2 packs organised via teamspeak in whatever grid order is wanted.
Good thinking Marty, the sever ini is in Alfa then Cobra so easy there, I have removed "Qual" so we can practice and then hit race with the Alfas first and the lead Alfa to yell GOOOOO on entering the straight, hopefully sill have a bit of speed to overtake the odd Cobra into the chicane! :)
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Setups as per our resident engineer, GB, http://www.xgn.com.au/index.php?topic=311.0 for the Cobra
hmm we need an Alfa setup, may be a pTracker job. ;D
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Setups as per our resident engineer, GB, http://www.xgn.com.au/index.php?topic=311.0 for the Cobra
hmm we need an Alfa setup, may be a pTracker job. ;D
I'm not sure how old the Shelby setups are. I haven't driven them seriously for a while. Anyway, might be a starting point.
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Why, I believe my Cobra setup was the winner back then :)
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Last night one of my monitors started to play up. Took a couple of boots, does a bit off a hiss then goes off. Stays on eventually.
I'm sure it's marty's fault...
The cobra skins still work.... just quietly. .
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Setups as per our resident engineer, GB, http://www.xgn.com.au/index.php?topic=311.0 for the Cobra
hmm we need an Alfa setup, may be a pTracker job. ;D
I'm not sure how old the Shelby setups are. I haven't driven them seriously for a while. Anyway, might be a starting point.
Do they go off? like tinned meat left in the sun?
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You boys! lot
In hope the server is okay. on my way home and haven't had time to check.
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Thanks for last night Bruce. Was a good mix up of cars. The Alfa's at Silverstone National were fun as well.
First race l had in the Alfa my gearing way too short, and to top it off I ran out of fuel. But it was fun never-the-less. Well done Wally on holding off the wolves at your tail by a few seconds!
Second race was interesting. Good fun in the Cobra - it felt like an animal compared to the Alfa, but set out after the Alfa's and got around the first time to un-lap all OK. Unfortunately the second time I cam up on them I went around the outside of Gratulin at the final corner and we collided. Sorry Gratulin - probably could have waited but if there's a reasonable chance to pass I have to take it and didn't know how far in front the leader was. I gave room on the inside, but unfortunately the understeer on the Alfa took you into me. Anyway, got going again so all was well and finished just in front of Rob(?).
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Sorry for the late report...
Firstly great idea GB, it made for a fun night with some very tough driving.
I checked my speed around the track in both cars and found I was ~25 difference and hence the 10 laps.
Started to worry at the line, but quickly realised the leading times still matched the ~25 sec diff.
Enjoyed both cars at the track and being the the hunted and the hunted, what a change jumping into the Cobra after the Alfa, hope you all had as much for as myself... this type of event needs to run again and using one of auspacer's handicap systems, calculating the handicap time from qual for the race staggered start.
See you next week at Blackwood Reloaded and hope fulling in our own liveries if available in time.
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Next week? Ok I'll finish up this weekend on the skins... i hope
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Next week? Ok I'll finish up this weekend on the skins... i hope
Thanks Dick, but please keep in mind, Thursdays are Fun Season, we can the skins as time goes on. Enjoy your weekend first.
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All good Guybrush. A bit of a miscalculation on my part. I thought you knew I was the lead Alfa car since Wally was continually reading out his gap to the Alfas. Therefore I was doing my best to block you coming through and thought you realised that and would give me a wide berth given that you had caught everyone in about 2 laps :))
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All good Guybrush. A bit of a miscalculation on my part. I thought you knew I was the lead Alfa car since Wally was continually reading out his gap to the Alfas. Therefore I was doing my best to block you coming through and thought you realised that and would give me a wide berth given that you had caught everyone in about 2 laps :))
Oh, were you leading? I thought Rob must have been as when I got going again he was in front and I couldn't remember passing him before. Yeah, if I knew you were the last one left to pass I would have waited some more, but because of the small gap between Wally and you in the first race I thought it was going to be tight.
I normally zone-out during a run so don't really take notice of much. Easiest way to put me off is just talking to me, hehe. Although I've become used to ignoring Marty ;)
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It's actually been about 2 months since I last raced Assetto Corsa, so good to be back.
My performance was quite a bit better in the Silverstone race. I had forgotten to
load my controller profile in the previous 2 races, no wonder I found the cars a bit
harder to control.