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Practice with the Huracán felt alright. Did a 7S/1H/3M/7S while short shifting to save fuel. Lambo was a lot more forgiving and stable while short shifting as well which should help especially on the hard tyres. Not a long stop either so a 3 stop looks more than viable. Still not 100% confident with it in qualifying either but I'll get there. Also avoiding being murdered at the chicane of death is going to help anyone's race.
 
You won't see any live streams of EMEA Top 16s tonight, as PD has told everyone not to so that tomorrow's official stream isn't 'spoiled'.

I hope people ignore them, or refuse to do the interviews planned. It would also be a shame if people shared the results widely on social media tonight ;)
 
I do hate the fact they've done Nations and Manufacturers on the same day. I've only got time for a single race when I finish work today.

Thankfully I managed a little practice in race sim last night, so got an idea on strategy. Let's hope nobody in my lobby knows how to fuel save.
 
Hey,

Question for you guys... is it possible to change tyres at the last moment of the final lap, and not receive a penalty?

I noticed that you don't cross the start/finish line in the pits until after you are released, so surely it's ok?
 
Hey,

Question for you guys... is it possible to change tyres at the last moment of the final lap, and not receive a penalty?

I noticed that you don't cross the start/finish line in the pits until after you are released, so surely it's ok?
I was wondering the same, but opposite. Say hard tyres are mandatory but you only really need to get one lap out of them. Could you qualify in suck place and dive into the pits as the race starts to get rid of them?
 
I was wondering the same, but opposite. Say hard tyres are mandatory but you only really need to get one lap out of them. Could you qualify in suck place and dive into the pits as the race starts to get rid of them?

That would be interesting, I can't see why it wouldn't be possible.

Surely both options would be permissable in a real life race?
 
Is there ANY hope for any of the Gr2 cars in the Nations race, other than one of the two GTR? Didn't seem so in the Daily Race a few weeks ago, I'm assuming its a spec race today, with your choice of the '08 or '16, but otherwise no contest if you select a Lexus or Honda.
 
Double header complete, would have been very happy with a couple of top tens, even happier after my qualy (Manufacturers qualy was very poor). Nations race was a lot of fun though

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Gained 62DR overall for my troubles!! Report to come later, I'm going to sit next to an oven to cool down
 
As much as I love Catalunya I’m not going to attempt gr2 there. I think with those cars things will get messy there...
Gr3 is good, or Formula so you can get away.
Gr2 is a very tough class for me personally.
 
Qualified on pole in Manu. I had planned 1/3/7/7 but started on softs and got 8 laps out of them. Fuelled when I swapped to hards (I had no idea what I was doing with fuel tbh, it just went in while I was there) and spent the last stint chasing a Porsche and an AMG who were fighting. I basically bottled the entire last lap and finished .060 seconds behind him after the run to the line. I'm pretty gutted tbh, even though it was one of my best performances ever. 153 points.
 
Decent race in the Atenza Gr.3 after a meh qualifying. 17th to 8th, for some points. Gained about 400DR, which actually put me to my highest ever DR on this account. Which is nice. Means I'll have to never drive the Atenza Gr.4 ever again if I want it to stay there though :lol:

I went for 9M/1H/8S, with the first stint basically fuel-limited. Probably should have done two on the hards, because the last lap on the softs was dicey and slow.


Edit: Very glad I read the forum in the warm-up so I wasn't tempted to do a lap one pit-and-ditch :lol:
 
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One and done in the manufactures race today. I can never quite nail it in qualifying so started 11th, maybe could have done better, but a car slowed right down through the CoD on my 2nd flying lap, I'm assuming he didn't see me coming rather than malicious.
Race went well enough for me, a bit of carnage on the 1st lap but I survived ok.
Went 7S 6M 1H 4S drop of fuel each time. Finished P7. The Lexus held it's own against mainly Porsches GT-R's & a couple of DBR 10's.
One person did decide to head into the pits with me & another car on the inside, fortunately just span himself out.
Might try the alt account with the Ferrari later, the daughter has a movie night planned though
 
Tried this during nations race recently. Cost me 20s around.
Haha, and that's why you check the forum. Man I thought I was so smart... Qualified P13 so I put the hards and went into the pits right away: self inflicted drive through penalty. I guess I could appeal the sentence because I checked and the pit lane entry light was green!
It cost me 8.5s so not too bad, I managed to recover from dead last to P10 with a 3 stop strategy (H1M1S8S8). 4 trips to the pit lane for me in total, the boys at the Mercedes factory were not happy about that. They said I'm only allowed 2 stops for the next race.

Also I witnessed quite a lot of shadow realm entries at the Chicane of Death, Super GT is gonna be busy with all those new members.
 
Nation's race went well for me after deciding to use the newer '16 GT-R. Qualifying as always went badly with me starting a lowly 15th on the grid, this however gave me a chance to try something a little different in terms of strategy. I started on the hard tyres and remained in 15th for the first lap pitting for mediums at the end of said first lap into clean air. From there I quickly made up ground and into a decent position for my second stop on lap 7 for the soft tyres. I then came out into a little traffic passing fairly easily and making progress up the pack slowly but surely. I pitted for one final time after 6 laps for another set of soft tyres not needing to refuel either due to a bit of fuel saving in my part. A fairly quiet final stint left me to finish with a result of 6th, up 9 from where I started due to doing one less stop than the older GT-Rs and the newer car being an overall better race car. Very happy with that dispite the qualifying result.


First go at manufacturers went poorly with another rubbish qualifying session and not being able to get a good lap in due to traffic on both laps started in 16th. Again I pitted lap 1 for mediums then 4 and 11 for soft tyres. Was bumped into a wall lap 4 at the chicane of death by a Porsche behind and the span out by a Ferrari lap 12 from where I recorded a DNF as I was just frustrated and over driving by that point to try and claw a result that wouldn't have been last.

Edit: only able to have the attempt at the manufacturers race today which really sucks that it was such a poor showing by me and a couple of others who shall remain nameless.
 
I'm in the Merc and planning one stint on softs - probably seven laps - and a two stopper (7-9-2 or 7-10-1). Unless you're really hard on your tyres you'll struggle to make up the time lost from the extra pit stop.

Of course - this is all open to change as and when I screw up qualifying!
For manu, you can get 9-10 laps on softs with Porsche no problem without much loss. Last practice race, I did 9RM-1RH-8RS.

My 7th lap on mediums was 141.5 and my fastest med lap was 140.9 so hardly a drop off.

I was short shifting somewhere between half and 3/4 and used up 87% over 10 laps so a little under 9%/lap. I ended up taking fuel to 68% for the final 8 laps (should have went with a little more as I had to fuel map last 1/2 lap).

Finished race in 31:10.

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For nations, definitely 555 on softs and a 4-stopper.
I was looking forward to this Manu race, as I'm usually pretty fast around here. Unfortunately, even trying to tire save, the Softs are only good for 5 laps in the Corvette before they drop to slightly slower than the pace of fresh Mediums, so doing the minimum number of stops I'd be looking at either over 10 laps on Mediums, which doesn't seem feasible since that would be around twice as long as what I could get off the softs; or to run multiple laps on the Hards, which is obviously just going to be slow. I'm either going with a 3-stop with two 5-lap stints on Softs, or I'll just start on Hards and try my best to hold people off for 6 laps on them...

Curse my loyalty for the "home team"...maybe I should've signed for Ford...
 
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As much as I love Catalunya I’m not going to attempt gr2 there. I think with those cars things will get messy there...
Gr3 is good, or Formula so you can get away.
Gr2 is a very tough class for me personally.
Do it, it's fun. Every lap there's someone pitting or off the track! The tyre wear being high means it's not often two cars are on the same tyres in terms of compound and age
 
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the game let me do an FIA race without disconnecting me :bowdown:

went for the Nations race as I like the Gr.2 cars but have never actually done a race at Catalunya on this game (have done plenty on the F1 games though so not like I'm still learning the track!). pace beforehand felt OK, nothing special whatsoever, so was reasonably happy to qualify 8th, about 1.5s down on pole.

race started poorly, went a little deep into T1 and lost a couple of places as a result, but then pretty much gained a place every corner after T3 as someone went deep, got bumped off etc. got up into 7th with an overtake into T1, and settled down from there.

strategy wise I did 6S 6S 6M 1H - it was weird cos I set my fastest lap on the second set of softs, they didn't seem to be wearing any more than the first set but my pace fell off on them much quicker. splash of fuel to go with the mediums in stop 2, not much happened but when all the strategies unwound themselves I was in 6th. given I didn't feel particularly confident going into the race, I'll take that 👍
 
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