Well here is the 1983 F1 Assetto Corsa season. With mandatory pitstops. The races are from 15 laps (Hockenheim, Monza, Imola) to 25 laps (Paul Ricard) to 30 laps (Long Beach).
Racing time varies from 25 to 35 minutes.
Every single car will pit during every race. Every cars' fuel consumption and fuel capacity has been altered. You will NOT need any applications or Content Manager settings anywhere. Driver skills, car performances and everything required for pitstops are all set and ready without any adjustments.
You will have to pit as well. This increases the excitement of the races tremendously as tactics come to play.
I achieved very realistic results and logical pit times for the ai. I tested two full seasons and literally parked my car in front of the pitlane of each track and wrote down all ai cars' pitting laps and altered their consumption based on the results. There can be some sort of random variation between the races how the ai will pit. In some tracks (rarely) another team car can pit twice and the other driver just once. But 90% of the time it's just one pitstop per team. But the randomness just increases the element of surprise. You will notice, for example, that the naturally aspirated Williams cars usually pit later in the race.
I didn't include ai engine failures to this season as the ai cars retire in the middle of the track and it creates mayhems. But there ARE retirements and crashes and that's exactly why I prefer driving the seasons with these cars. Retirements and crashes were a big part of the "Turbo era" of F1. The SimDream aren't well liked in the AC community and in their default form they're useless but their physics are based on Kunos Lotus 98T and with these changes and corrections I have enjoyed the seasons tremendously.
Turbo is cockpit adjustable. Use 100% for the qualifying and 70% for the races. 80% is pushing it and you're risking an engine failure. Before the race start go to pit settings and adjust the pitting tactics preset (refueling). When you enter the pit the refueling will be automatic.
Top cars are Brabham and Renault (their boost is a bit higher so they're faster on straights).
Top ai drivers are Piquet the eventual champion of 1983 (ai level 100) and Prost (ai level 100). Watson, Lauda, Rosberg, Tambay can score an occasional win but Prost and Piquet (Renault/Brabham) are the teams and drivers to beat.
The user is driving Rene Arnoux (Ferrari) but of course this can be easily changed to your liking.
I have removed all other tyremodels but supersoft (because the cars weren't competitive during the races with standard race tyres). I also slowed down the refueling process. Sure it's not realistic to race with QF tires but beggars can't be choosers. With race tyres those cars were SLOW, believe me. Now they're extremely competitive. I also fixed all wrong driver names, nationalities and driver pictures in the skins folder (they were mostly wrong on SimDream package).
Monaco 1983 was a rain race so there's rain in the season (SOL) if you have that pay mod. There's also another download link for the clear weather season if you don't have rain.
Tracks:
Jacarepagua (20 laps)
Long Beach (30 laps)
Paul Ricard 1988 (25 laps)
Imola 1988 (15 laps)
Monaco 1988 (20 laps)
Spa 1988 (15 laps)
Detroit 1988 (20 laps)
Montreal 1982 (20 laps)
Silverstone 1975 (25 laps)
Hockenheim 1988 (15 laps)
Oesterreichring (20 laps)
Monza 1988 (15 laps)
Kyalami 1967-1985 (25 laps)
All in correct order and tested. Zandvoort is missing on purpose. There is a vintage Zandvoort AC track and we rigorously tested that track but no matter what, these cars will not work with it. They crash everywhere and drive like maniacs. All other races should have very accurate layout and the cars work nicely most of the time. Osterreichring can be a mayhem race but then again many races of this era were.
Remember to adjust the pitstop preset during practice or qualifying. When you enter the pitstop it's all automatic.
You can be on pole at some races but Renault/Brabham race pace is very tough to match. But not impossible. Should be a tight competition for the championship. At least it is for me. Have fun!
All download links in the video description. I don't want to share the SimDream cars as they're a pay mod. There's only the dl link for the car changes that have to be overwritten.
PM me if you need them. I might know where they are available for free.
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