GTMSA Presents GTPLMS Season 4 Round 5
Infineon Raceway Sports Car Course; 33 Lap Race
Deadline 11.59pm GMT Sunday 12th July
Standings
Results
General Information and Regulations
All rules, regulations, car specifications, and races are controlled by GTPLMS sanctioning body, GTMSA. Any and all questions should be directed to GTMSA officials (namely me ABud) and officials will do their best to answer in a timely and accurate manor.
All drivers must run at the specified weights and horsepower settings provided by GTMSA for each round. Horsepower and/or weight settings are adjusted for competitive reasons each round based on finishing positions from previous rounds.
Standard Online Racing Rules Apply.
No Cheating, hybrids, etc. You must run the car specifications I give you
Try keeping at least 2 wheels on course. Long races = small mishaps, but absolutely NO shortcuts
No wall-riding as well. Combined with penalties, this will slow you down considerably, so don't do it.
All decisions by GTMSA officials are final
Race
Arcade Mode>>>Single Race>>>World Circuits>>>Infineon Raceway (Sports Car Course)
33 lap race (135km)
Weight penalties in place
RS, RM, RH tires or any combination thereof
Strong Tire Wear
AI at +8
Ai tires RS
Forced Pit Entry penalty system
ASM is prohibited TCS is optional
Points for race: 10-8-6-4-2-1
2 points for finishing within 103% of race winning time
1 points for finishing outside 103% of race winning time
Time sending format
PM me with the following data. Please make sure all details are correctly filled in and DONT MISS THE DEADLINE
User Name: Class: Car: Number: HP: Weight: Total Time: Fastest Lap: No. of Pits:
Time sent. Didnt have any offs or crashes of any kind and only a few minor mistakes. My fastest lap wasnt too fast, but other than that im happy with my race. Good luck all 👍
I'm finding this one a tough track to crack - my pace is really quick and i've got a strategy that could actually mean i challenge for the win but i'm not quite consistent enough The 1st corner is catching me out maybe 2 or 3 times per race and costing me too much time! I'll keep trying, i'd love to win a round 👍
Time submitted. Only ran it once, as I feel with how tired I am now, I wouldn't be able to concentrate enough to be able to make any significantly faster times. My fault I guess
I still had three hours of my 24 hour race to go today , so I could only do each race once. They were okay, I guess, but far from the prettiest, cleanest, or fastest. I'll see if I can scrape together a second place in LMP, where my normal strategy was too slow, but I don't hold out much hope based on the reports of east and ABud.
Times sent. Overall, had a great strategy that worked well and even decided to shorten up one of my stints just so I could have enough laps to run some good hot laps now that I was confident in my consistancy.
Congrats to all finishers again . I'm quite happy with my 2nd place but if i'd just been able to cut out those offs i had a 43'12.x! Oh well, East you're just too consistent for me 👍
Wow, that was close at the top! I didn't expect to be so close to east, and unfortunately for me, I still get a third place because you did so well, ABud. The only benefit is that I get the smallest weight penalty for the next round!
I don't know what everyone else's strategy was, but I was forced to use mediums and pit every six laps (with three laps left over at the end for softs) because the hard tires offered too little grip for their longevity to make up. It's possible that softs would have been faster, but pitting every four laps didn't seem like a winning strategy to me. In GTS, for some reason, hard tires produced an amazingly small difference in lap times as compared to softs, so I simply used hards and pitted every 6-7 laps.
I ran mixed tires - mediums on the front, hards on rear for 28 laps (7 lap stints) then soft/medium for the last 5 - hence the massive oversteer and problems around the first two corners. Still it's better than understeer whilst the tires are cold and then oversteer when the rears wear that i get from using ballanced setups.
I ran the same strategy as you Austin, I used Mediums front and rear for the first 29 laps of the race (pitting every 6 laps) then did the final 4 laps on Softs.
The 1st corner is catching me out maybe 2 or 3 times per race and costing me too much time! I'll keep trying, i'd love to win a round 👍
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In GTS, for some reason, hard tires produced an amazingly small difference in lap times as compared to softs, so I simply used hards and pitted every 6-7 laps.