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Title: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: Wally on April 04, 2023, 10:45:31 PM
Brad wins the round with consistent speed out in front of the pack, seeing him move up 3 positions into the championship lead. Freezer also did well, moving up 4 spots into third place.

RACE 1 RESULTS (https://xgnassettocorsa.blogspot.com/2023/04/s46r2-homestead-miami-speedway-race-1.html)
RACE 2 RESULTS (https://xgnassettocorsa.blogspot.com/2023/04/s46r2-homestead-miami-speedway-race-2.html)
RACE 3 RESULTS (https://xgnassettocorsa.blogspot.com/2023/04/s46r2-homestead-miami-speedway-race-3.html)

SEASON STATS (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nu52lWM6_TIRBEGCTF32BxLe8mobfsCFpd_wOeuxpXI/edit?usp=sharing)

Round Points
bradc   56
Freezer   46
Joe   42
Wally   32
Rob   32
Mael   29
Seanus   23
Jarmel   14
PumpkinWalrus   8

Season Standings
1. bradc, 56
2. Joe, 50
3. Freezer, 46


Round 2 is on the road course at Homestead Miami Speedway, Florida (download (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MTj2NLbpb4-PNpihqPGq11P3v_LbKkUy/view?usp=share_link)).

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Homestead-Miami_Speedway_track_map--Main_Road_Course.svg/1280px-Homestead-Miami_Speedway_track_map--Main_Road_Course.svg.png)
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: bradc on April 04, 2023, 10:49:12 PM
Until I saw the track map, I was getting excited that we were going to be racing on an oval
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: Wally on April 04, 2023, 11:16:09 PM
Quote from: bradc on April 04, 2023, 10:49:12 PM
Until I saw the track map, I was getting excited that we were going to be racing on an oval
OK, for a bit of fun, I've changed the layout to this:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Homestead-Miami_Speedway_track_map--Modified_Road_Course.svg/1280px-Homestead-Miami_Speedway_track_map--Modified_Road_Course.svg.png)
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: Mael on April 05, 2023, 09:45:42 AM
Quote from: Wally on April 04, 2023, 11:16:09 PM
Quote from: bradc on April 04, 2023, 10:49:12 PM
Until I saw the track map, I was getting excited that we were going to be racing on an oval
OK, for a bit of fun, I've changed the layout to this:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Homestead-Miami_Speedway_track_map--Modified_Road_Course.svg/1280px-Homestead-Miami_Speedway_track_map--Modified_Road_Course.svg.png)

I see trouble for the left tyres again  :P
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: bradc on April 05, 2023, 01:02:43 PM
Quote from: Mael on April 05, 2023, 09:45:42 AM
I see trouble for the left tyres again  :P

I wonder if Seanus can enginereer some asymmetrical tyres for these things....?
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: Joe on April 05, 2023, 01:09:24 PM
Quote from: bradc on April 04, 2023, 10:49:12 PM
Until I saw the track map, I was getting excited that we were going to be racing on an oval

That's nothing to get excited about  :o :-X
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: Bacchulum on April 05, 2023, 03:12:35 PM
Quote from: Mael on April 05, 2023, 09:45:42 AM
Quote from: Wally on April 04, 2023, 11:16:09 PM
Quote from: bradc on April 04, 2023, 10:49:12 PM
Until I saw the track map, I was getting excited that we were going to be racing on an oval
OK, for a bit of fun, I've changed the layout to this:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Homestead-Miami_Speedway_track_map--Modified_Road_Course.svg/1280px-Homestead-Miami_Speedway_track_map--Modified_Road_Course.svg.png)

I see trouble for the left tyres again  :P
From 3 right hand turns?
I think you meant right side tyres.....
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: bradc on April 05, 2023, 04:43:15 PM
Quote from: Joe on April 05, 2023, 01:09:24 PM
Quote from: bradc on April 04, 2023, 10:49:12 PM
Until I saw the track map, I was getting excited that we were going to be racing on an oval

That's nothing to get excited about  :o :-X

It’s the little things I guess, each to their own….its been well over 10 years since I can remember doing an oval race and I can’t remember ever doing one here at XGN…..
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: Mael on April 05, 2023, 05:18:10 PM
Quote from: Bacchulum on April 05, 2023, 03:12:35 PM
Quote from: Mael on April 05, 2023, 09:45:42 AM
Quote from: Wally on April 04, 2023, 11:16:09 PM
Quote from: bradc on April 04, 2023, 10:49:12 PM
Until I saw the track map, I was getting excited that we were going to be racing on an oval
OK, for a bit of fun, I've changed the layout to this:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Homestead-Miami_Speedway_track_map--Modified_Road_Course.svg/1280px-Homestead-Miami_Speedway_track_map--Modified_Road_Course.svg.png)

I see trouble for the left tyres again  :P
From 3 right hand turns?
I think you meant right side tyres.....

Well going by the last race I may be going backwards most of the time. Thus the left tyres.....
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: bradc on April 10, 2023, 10:17:42 PM
It’s a rather tricky track….there seems to be heaps of time to be found at turn one but it’s also the hardest corner on the track!
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: Freezer on April 10, 2023, 11:06:32 PM
Quote from: bradc on April 10, 2023, 10:17:42 PM
It’s a rather tricky track….there seems to be heaps of time to be found at turn one but it’s also the hardest corner on the track!
True, there is a bump at T1 that if you hit wrong your mowing the lawn.... :)
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: bradc on April 11, 2023, 07:48:23 AM
What ride height are you running Freezer? It looked like you were bottoming out in the banking in the middle of the banked corner as your car was throwing up the most awesome sparks!
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: Joe on April 11, 2023, 10:10:29 AM
Yeah not as easy as it looks this one. I was losing over half a second to Wally and Freezer in sector 2. I managed to get a little bit of that back but it's one corner I'm losing all the time I can't seem to get right
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: Seanus on April 11, 2023, 01:35:10 PM
Quote from: bradc on April 11, 2023, 07:48:23 AM
What ride height are you running Freezer? It looked like you were bottoming out in the banking in the middle of the banked corner as your car was throwing up the most awesome sparks!


Online, this won't correlate. The lag means your computer doesn't know exactly where to draw the opponent's car, so it will often intersect the ground.
 Sometimes it seems to get stuck and a particular opponent can have sparks being generated constantly.
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: Jarmel on April 11, 2023, 09:36:16 PM
Hi , had a power outage that is why I disappeared all of a sudden.
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: Mael on April 11, 2023, 10:11:33 PM
Quote from: Jarmel on April 11, 2023, 09:36:16 PM
Hi , had a power outage that is why I disappeared all of a sudden.


 :-[
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: Wally on April 11, 2023, 10:31:47 PM
Results are up - congratulations to Brad on the round win, taking the championship lead, and to Mael who reached a milestone of 600 Tuesday league races in race 1!
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: bradc on April 13, 2023, 10:21:35 AM
I can’t believe how much of an influence the wind direction and speed made to these cars. The greatest differences I noticed was in race 1 I could hit the limiter just before turn 1 but the infield right handers were tricky, then in race 2 the wind made gave so much grip in these same right handers and in the last race I could only get 2/3 into the rev range before turn 1! There wasn’t a lot of difference in the ultimate last times but how you made the lap times changed during the night which made the driving rather difficult and extremely challenging. Despite what the results say, I found this night rather difficult and was driving on a knifes edge every lap to extract my speed. In the final race I had a little spin in the infield section and Joe was able to capatolise from my mistake and I ran out of laps to try and catch him.
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: Wally on April 13, 2023, 11:32:45 AM
I really struggled with spins in the slow, 1st gear corners. I find breaking in this car hard at the best of times, but the downshifting to 1st really killed me, kicking the rear out. And of course the more I spun, the sadder the rear tyres got.
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: bradc on April 13, 2023, 07:16:27 PM
Quote from: Wally on April 13, 2023, 11:32:45 AM
I really struggled with spins in the slow, 1st gear corners. I find breaking in this car hard at the best of times, but the downshifting to 1st really killed me, kicking the rear out. And of course the more I spun, the sadder the rear tyres got.

I experienced the 1st gear spinning thingy in testing and found that braking longer before downshifting at a much lower rpm with a decent throttle blip fixed this. That rear tyre issue did my head in during my disastrous round 1 where I did a lot of spinning and found that the tyres took a decent calm lap or two before they could be leant on again. These certainly are challenging beasts to drive.
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: Freezer on April 14, 2023, 09:57:52 PM
Sorry just saw the question on sparks and ride height. Mine was stock ride height.
Title: Re: S46R2 - Homestead Miami Speedway
Post by: bradc on April 15, 2023, 08:08:31 AM
Quote from: Freezer on April 14, 2023, 09:57:52 PM
Sorry just saw the question on sparks and ride height. Mine was stock ride height.

Don’t stress mate, seanus gave some technical justification which basically said that it wasn’t relevant  ;D
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