Weekly Race Week 5: SSR5 WET.

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well you shud have registered !!

shame on you for gettin info from the site without makin the member list bigger with a registration !!!!!! :lol: :lol:
 
hehe thats true, didnt think of that. I figure I would register if I had any good settings to post. And since there are alot of tracks missing in there and we are probably covering all of them, I just might start posting some settings. Til then, leeching will be just fine :D
 
The title of this thread is Weekly RACE Week 5 SSR5 Wet. And thats the way it should be in my opinion. If we are going for a realistic series we shouldn't be shooting for a hotlap.
 
OK we have a dilemma here. Sandstorm, we gonna have to go for a vote and see who wants total race time to count towards final result, or best lap time during a race. I think everyone has mixed emotions here with the best lap during a race being the deciding factor. Sandstorm, you must do sumtin about it.
 
Ok, down in the 1:02's now. A really low 1:02 is an eventuality, and I think the 1:01 also. We'll just wait and see :)
 
As for the settings, I pretty much took the ones I had saved from Midfield. Toughened up the springs and slightly decreased the rear brake level. Im still playing around with rear downforce, but its still close to being maxed.
 
Originally posted by T13R
OK we have a dilemma here. Sandstorm, we gonna have to go for a vote and see who wants total race time to count towards final result, or best lap time during a race. I think everyone has mixed emotions here with the best lap during a race being the deciding factor. Sandstorm, you must do sumtin about it.
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hmmmmm I duno bout that - from what Ive read he's a tough cookie to crack, been in the oven for far too long !!!

I'm happy whatever really spose its storms series so his rules - but the racers do need to be happy !!!!!
 
Originally posted by Sough
The title of this thread is Weekly RACE Week 5 SSR5 Wet. And thats the way it should be in my opinion. If we are going for a realistic series we shouldn't be shooting for a hotlap.
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Hmmmm, excellent view, and one I admittedly hadn't thought of.

T13R - the series is about being consistent - consistently fast. You want a hotlap-style series, where you shoot for the best one-off lap, that gives you a lap to regroup and go fast again, after you've crashed. With a 5-lapper you don't always get that. To some point you do, but with 5 laps you're after consistent speed, not just "fast-slow-fast-bestlap-extremelyslow" sort of thing. Get what I mean now?
 
I guess I do... Anyhow, I'll just keep racing the way I did from the start, except if I make a little mistake somewhere, I wont restart the race like the other times.
 
Okay then. How are you managing low 1'02s? I can only manage a low 1'04 with max downforce and no LSD (<- for all), and max F/R brake balance, and max spring rate, min ride height, and suspension maxed out.

How the hell do I improve? Mind, I only had a look at the course yesterday... :banghead:

Great advertisement for starting early, isn't it? 💡
 
Originally posted by SandStorm
Okay then. How are you managing low 1'02s? I can only manage a low 1'04 with max downforce and no LSD (<- for all), and max F/R brake balance, and max spring rate, min ride height, and suspension maxed out.

How the hell do I improve? Mind, I only had a look at the course yesterday... :banghead:

Great advertisement for starting early, isn't it? 💡
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still havent had any attempts yet - MUST get on with it tonight and get under 1.02 !!!
 
My setup right now looks almost identical to this . Only thing I modified was to max out the spring rate, and put the rear brake distibution at 17 instead of 20. The LSD is identical. Im playing around with the rear downforce abit(between 1.30 and max) and my TCS is at 2 instead of 1. Everything else is identical. I was running high 1:03's and low 1:04's before, but I changed my racing line a bit in a few curves and now im in the 1:02's.
 
Originally posted by BigJamesGTI
still havent had any attempts yet - MUST get on with it tonight and get under 1.02 !!!
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Ha! Good luck! :lol:
 
Originally posted by T13R
My setup right now looks almost identical to this . Only thing I modified was to max out the spring rate, and put the rear brake distibution at 17 instead of 20. The LSD is identical. Im playing around with the rear downforce abit(between 1.30 and max) and my TCS is at 2 instead of 1. Everything else is identical. I was running high 1:03's and low 1:04's before, but I changed my racing line a bit in a few curves and now im in the 1:02's.
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Cheers, mate. One thing I saw that was a bit odd - the LSD. I found that minimal LSD helped me turn better, rather than medium here, bit there, max there, etc.
 
Originally posted by BigJamesGTI
hey cheers storm - arent you tired ???
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Nope - it's 9:30PM here in Oz.
 
OH right I figured it was later for sum reason - nevermind
so you only just started testin today for ssr5
ive gotta do some runs tonight ive not played all week at all
 
Originally posted by BigJamesGTI
OH right I figured it was later for sum reason - nevermind
so you only just started testin today for ssr5
ive gotta do some runs tonight ive not played all week at all
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Yeah it's sad, innit? I need to get down below 1'02, but I don't think I will, somehow. :(
 
just a quick question what single race will earn the most cash - not enduros but wheres the biggest wad of cash !!
 
I think it's 50 grand in some of the races in Pro league, forgot which. Look around, check out the information buttons, that'll tell ya.

I'm off to do some laps, James, I might be on tomorrow. Doubt it though. Seeya!
 
happy :drool: ing then !!!
1.02 for me !!!! erm hopefully soon .... ish !!
 
The fact that there is 5 laps has nothing to do with anything. There may as well be 50 laps since only one counts.

I can especially see the system exploited at R5wet but I guess we'll have to see how it goes.
 
Hey BigJames if you want quick cash, the best way is by doing the European Championship in Amateur. Win the first four races. Save your game. Quit out of the fifth one and hope to get the Vertigo. If you dont, reload and repeat. The Vertigo sells for 300 000 Cr, plus u get race win bonuses and series win bonus. It all takes about 25 minutes.
 
Hey Sough.. the system isnt being exploited. Thats how things were and still are. Best Lap during race.
 
Ran 30 or so laps today and squeezed a 1.03 - Then realised I didnt change ANY of the setts I had from midfield !!
So a 1.02 might be on the cards ? But like Sough says its not so much the setts as the driver and in the wet its well tough
I figured that the sooner you change to 3rd and 4th the less chance of spinning out - well it seemed to help my times out a bit when I shifted quite early into higher gears
Im trying to juggle week 18 from the weekly race series with this one but a time will go in and hopefully its under 1.02 !!!

Oh yeah - we all know the rules so its up to us to decide what to do on race day - go for flying lap or consistency ??
 
Perhaps a poor choice of words. But doesn't it seem like it should be one or the other not fastest lap in a race. Its like having a hotlap contest where only T1 counts.
 
Originally posted by Sough
Perhaps a poor choice of words.
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:confused: - We have a situation where we have to run 5 laps as quick as we can - the results are judged by the fastest lap of the session. so its understandable to try for a single quickest lap ? If it were the other way round and we had total time as the deciding factor then we'd all go for quickest total time. There aint no point in trying to fly round the circuit for all 5 laps if only one lap counts ???

This would be easily sorted out if we had some sprt of points system deciding between quickest lap and quickest time ??
But storm has already said he dont want to go for points
Im happy with it as it is anyway
 
Hmm, how about we go for best race time as a first goal, and set a second goal of best lap during the week. So there would be two standings in the end. One with the fastest laps, and another with the fastest race times. What do you ppl think? We can sorta get the best of both worlds this way (possibly).
 
I dont think it will change T13R Storm is quite set on leavin it as it is

I think we shud just get on with it and race how we wanna race

btw I got high 1.02 tonight - quickest yet im struggling in the first tunnel believe it or not - I think I seem to have gotten the right lines for the rest of the rack - Its different every time I go into the tunnel
How are you guys takin the first tunnel - I seem to go quickest
In - wide then accel to the inside for quickest exit speed

And what about the hairpin 3rd gear there ???

cheers fellow racers !!!
 
I try to go in as straight as possible into the tunnel while being really close to the curb. Since Im in a straight line, braking is easy. Then I keep it in fourth in the high revs while staying close to the curb, and when I start getting close to the exit, I shift up to fifth gear. It doesnt always work out great, but when it does, i can take off almost half a second off my time, and I'm already running 1:02's. I just never get all the sectors right.. not yet anyways. And for the hairpin i keep it in third, and try to give it a little gas to keep it high in the revs.
 
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