GRM Project Cars 2 - Series 10: 10 for 10

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e30Matt said:

Oh FFS

I had all sorts of random ideas of what prompted that....the reality was a bit less exciting than some of my imagined scenarios.

Ya I should edit that post lol

T.J. said:

I jumped straight to this page and read:

 

e30Matt said:

Oh FFS

 

I had all sorts of random ideas of what prompted that....the reality was a bit less exciting than some of my imagined scenarios.

It stands for "For Forum Supporters" 

And now back to our regularly scheduled thread. 

In reply to dean1484 :

The Glen without the boot this week. Don't miss it!

What car?  

Old school.  I did test drive this one.  Good balance and turn in.  Nice sound and liveries. Should be fun at the Glen.

Tested last night. Ran about 40 laps. Settled in to a race pace in the 1:16s. The loose set up goes through a stage where it is just diabolical to drive for three or four laps but then seems to come back to you. The balance setup just starts to loose front grip and starts plowing the eases and the turn after the bus stop. The gearing is good. These cars have a huge flat power curve. I was faster only using 3rd and 4th gear for the whole track.  It feels like you are lugging it in turn one but your speed to and through the Essex and entering the bus stop is much higher if you roll third gear through turn one. Same for the last corner. 

Ohh and they have a bright orange car!!!! So best car so far in the series just because of the color selection.  

In reply to dean1484 :

Dean, sorry I missed your invite last night, didn't see it til I was closing the game. I've started running in a GTS series with some other people so I'm not usually in PC2 right now other than our race nights. 

Another thing you can really tell that these are bias ply tires. I love that about this car!!!  Get it right and you are old school drifting the car in the corners.

The other thing is this car reminds me of my friends 68 Camaro. We put a race prepared big block in it and we called it the one shift wonder as you only had to shift once up and once down on the road course at NHIS. 

Sounds like these will be fun cars. Looking forward to tomorrow.

I watched Lando Norris win an iRacing Indy car race at COTA on youtube which had to make the folks running Indycar cringe a bit.

I also watched a bit of Josef Newgarden's stream of the same race.

What struck me the most was the difference in how the two used their brake pedals. Lando was so smooth when releasing the brakes, usually coming off very gradually where Newgarden used the brake pedal more like an on/off switch. Ok, he was not quite that abrupt with it, but way less smooth with it than Lando. Lando was also faster. It was quite interesting to watch their respective footcams while they raced. I suppose the brakes in the '69 Crammit are not quite the same as Indy cars, so it may not be all that applicable to our race tomorrow. They were both really smoth with steering inputs and their braking points were insane.

That was good fun last night!!!  Once again Air and I had good fun running together for a good part of the race (up untill I pitted)  I should have pitted when Air did as the lap I ran after the tires were really sippery and I lost a bunch of time to air on new tires.

But over all a good time!!

Next week is going to be a bit nuts!!!  

I'm about 60% through my office remodel and I got my PS4 headset in the mail today.  With any luck at all I can be running with you guys in the next few weeks.

In reply to dean1484 :

After I spun at T1 and fell off the back of the Dean and Air train, I pitted early, took on a lot of fuel and then hoped that if I could get a lot of laps in clean air I could catch back up when they pitted. I didn't know tires went on concurrently with fuel, so my not switching tires strategy didn't have any use. I was only like 12 sec behind Dean after his stop and I think I got that gap down to 8 seconds when I lost it again. After that, I just tried to set fast lap times, so I either did a good lap or crashed. At one point I wrecked on consecutive laps at the inner loop, but I still had a good enough gap on Brad and was so far back from Dean at that point it didn't matter.

I did get most of my fastest laptimes when the tires were fairly worn and beat my qualli time fairly handily.

In reply to Patientzero :

Nice. We'll be glad to have you join.

Next week will be interesting.  I swear Dean and I tested these a bit and they where entirely different.  They seem to be almost like driving on ice now... which is fun.  Of note: Dean discovered that they come with 6 different preset tunes.  Strangely I liked the more stable tune and Dean liked the loose road course tune.

Underdrive to survive.

In reply to aircooled :

I'll have to check out some of the available setups. Whatever one I tried out Wednesday was a bit hard to control. I don't mind loose, but I do like to have the feeling that the steering wheel is somehow connected to the front wheels. Hopefully, one of the setups results in steering inputs being a bit more than just a suggestion.

Man, if there are 6 preset tunes I'm going to have to actually run some test laps beforehand. 

In reply to e30Matt :

There are loose and stable setups for circuits, ovals and superspeedways. No need to practice, just pick stable speedway and you'll be fine. I'm guessing the rest of us will use one of the two circuit setups. 

I did a few laps. I need to do some practicing over the weekend or I doubt I will complete the race. The steering wheel is only sort of connected to the front wheels and the brakes are sort of a suggestion to slow down. This car and this track make for a tough combo. 
 

I've managed roughly similar laptimes with loose and stable. Not sure wuite yet which I will go with for the race. 

There is a road course set up as well yes?

In reply to T.J. :

I picked the track and car, but based on last week's test I am not looking forward to the race. 

It's going to be an exercise in patience. 

In reply to dean1484 :

Yes. They call them circuit loose and circuit stable.