S14 - Race 2 - Estoril

[David Armstrong]

Ok race for me. I should have done more practice though.
Sorry to @Johnathan Hoggard for the side tap out of turn 3 on lap 9. I wasn't looking in my mirrors and wasn't expecting you to be there at all. My bad sorry. Gave you the position after the next corner.

Thanks to Florian and Matej and the rest of the admin for the race

 

[David Antonaya]

Great Race!
Unlapped drivers perfect behaviour.
10/10 for admins.
See you next race!

 

[Daniele Vidimari]

Not the best race of my life, i'm half sick so i lost concentration after 30 - 40 minutes Probably i had also a wrong setup, my tires burned away in 20 min. Btw after the last code 80 my race was funny because i tried to catch the 3d position with new tires. Grats to the winners, pudiums and everybody, thanks to the admins for the fun

 

[David Antonaya]

Not the best race of my life, i'm half sick so i lost concentration after 30 - 40 minutes Probably i had also a wrong setup, my tires burned away in 20 min. Btw after the last code 80 my race was funny because i tried to catch the 3d position with new tires. Grats to the winners, pudiums and everybody, thanks to the admins for the fun

Thx for the battle for p2...was amazing controlling the gt4 drivers.. I could say my best battle ever in simracing. Thx for all.

 

[Mike Hanemian]

I want to apologize to the 370z driver who had to go very large in the gravel to avoid one of my overtake(I was in GT1), I locked the brakes. I can't remember your name but I'm really sorry.

 

[Thomas Andriamiharisoa]

@Florian Koetz I've just watched my race replay and during the 1st code 80 countdown, there was a car on the right who was recovering from a spin that i didn't see at all during the race. Idk if it was okay or not. I wouldn't like to be screwed up for L4 because of that

Apart from that, another interesting race from me. Finding some spots to overtake 370z cars safely wasn't very easy and of course, we had to do it quickly, especially when the lapped cars were racing for position.
Had some great fights, especially with @Daniele Ciacciolo and @Standa Vlnas , it was fun and clean with you i enjoyed it

Very tensed finish with Standa who managed to keep P7 in the end : This is how close it was on the last lap :



Thanks again to the admins for the great organisation and making it so enjoyable and fun to race here

 

[Jimmi Allison]

Some posts ago I explained it on the simplest way I could, but otherwise @Jimmi Allison can say (for the 50th time ) more about it.

I just found the closest weather station to Estoril: http://www.meteooeiras.com/dados-detalhados

As you can see, there have been 0.0mm of precipitation today. The same can be confirmed in any weather website, here is an example: https://www.accuweather.com/en/pt/estoril/274013/hourly-weather-forecast/274013

Hence my question, could be a misunderstanding on which Estoril was picked, that's all. I really appreciate all the work you guys put in to try and make it as realistic as the game allows; I'm just trying to help to make it a bit more realistic

Anyway, one never gets enough experience in the rain, so tonight's race should be a good test nevertheless

We dont use a station per say - we use LAT and LON which is included in the track´s gdb - so there is no "picking stations" - this is sending data to Weather undergrounds API, which then respond with the weather.
As Estoril is an official track, im pretty certain the LAT and LON is correct, it has been for the times we´ve used the track.

 

[Daniel Monteiro]

Wow, that was an intense race towards the end! The traffic management seemed to be ok despite the track being quite narrow, thumbs up everyone

Failure to prepare is preparing for failure; a lack of enough preparation created chaos when calculating fuel during the race, which resulted in not refuelling enough during the pit stop and again when doing the final splash and dash; a few extra litres would have been welcomed since the tank went dry after the last turn, which cost me three positions with the finish line in sight @Filippo Marazzi, you won the mind game this time

@Jimmi Allison, thanks for the explanation about how it works, I guess this was out of hands then. Maybe the game transforms humidity and chance of rain into a formulation of its own, who knows. It was a good challenge though, I enjoyed it - thank you guys for organising yet another exciting race!

 

[Daniele Vidimari]

Thx for the battle for p2...was amazing controlling the gt4 drivers.. I could say my best battle ever in simracing. Thx for all.

Yeah great stuff through the traffic!

Some screen:

Spoiler

@David Antonaya

 

[Muhammed Patel]

@Matej Lakota

I just want to explain the first Code 80 situation, from live I felt I was pretty close with being around 80kph, and honestly I might have exceeded it by 1-2 kph. However, I had Martin within half a second behind me on my first ever Code 80, and we were in the middle of a high speed turn, so although I came off throttle and broke, I felt that if I broke very hard with him so close behind me, it could cause an incident or put him in a tricky situation to avoid me, so I aired on the side of caution and broke more linearly and gave up more time following going under 80kph. I guess the error that I made was I could have lifted a second earlier, to give Martin an easier time of it behind me, also.

Either way, was a fun first race here, was hoping a Code 80 would fall right before my stop, unfortunately it ended just before I reached S3, otherwise it would have been a fun fight with Jack at the end.

 

[Florian Koetz]

I will review the code 80 as always. Usually if a car is recovering it's not a problem to overtake it, Thomas.

And when I see that you visibly slowed down and gave up the time gained I will refrain from giving you a penalty, Muhammed.

 

[Giulio Scrinzi]

The worst race of my life. I don't know why the game give me a stop&go penalty in the beginning, but as usually I drove into the pits and I stopped next to my box for 1 minute as requested. After that I don't know why the system has maintained the penalty saying that I had to do a drive-through. I did it entering another time into the pits, but after a lap i get a DSQ for not paying the first stop&go. I don't know why all this happened to me, but I think that I could do a great race. Thanks for all, I have enough of SRC. Cheers.

 

[Florian Koetz]

You got a penalty from me for last race which you would have known if you had taken a look at the penalties post of last race where you were even marked on.
To be precise you got two penalties, a stop and go and a drive through for last race. You must have not taken the stop and go but a normal pit stop.

 

[Giulio Scrinzi]

Ok for the penalties, but in Estoril I stopped the first time in order to serve the stop & go, exactly 60 seconds doing anything. It wasn't a normal pit stop, no refuelling and no tyres change. Then, when I entered for the drive-through I stopped 16 seconds to change the tyres, but the DSQ was for not serving the first stop & go that I actually payed. I've written this only to clarify the situation. Bye.

 

[Jimmi Allison]

Ok for the penalties, but in Estoril I stopped the first time in order to serve the stop & go, exactly 60 seconds doing anything. It wasn't a normal pit stop, no refuelling and no tyres change. Then, when I entered for the drive-through I stopped 16 seconds to change the tyres, but the DSQ was for not serving the first stop & go that I actually payed. I've written this only to clarify the situation. Bye.

Drive through means drive through - not drive through and do something else if you like.
Good job reading and understanding the penalties though.

 

[Stefan Kanitz]

Ok for the penalties, but in Estoril I stopped the first time in order to serve the stop & go, exactly 60 seconds doing anything. It wasn't a normal pit stop, no refuelling and no tyres change. Then, when I entered for the drive-through I stopped 16 seconds to change the tyres, but the DSQ was for not serving the first stop & go that I actually payed. I've written this only to clarify the situation. Bye.

At the bottom, if iam not mistaken, of your pitmenu you can apply the penalty or not. If you have correctly done that you are safe. So I would guess it's a mistake by you and not the game.

 

[Standa Vlnas]

Thomas Andriamiharisoa Thanks

 

[Jimmi Allison]

Results and replay posted - sorry about the delay

 

[Daniele Vidimari]

Then, when I entered for the drive-through I stopped 16 seconds to change the tyres, but the DSQ was for not serving the first stop & go that I actually payed. I've written this only to clarify the situation. Bye.

I was looking for my results and i have found this:

So for the game you served the Stop&Go

 

[Martin Ulrik]

The first half of the race was quite fun, chasing M.Patel. At my pit stop I chose to change only front tires. However, it made the car very difficult to drive in the fast corners. Had a few scary moments. In the last half of the race I was a bit unlucky with traffic, which often picked me up in sector 3. ended P3.
Surprised to see that Patel could drive without tire change. Impressive.
J. Keithley was way too fast so not much to put up there.

This time the tactics were ok, but the speed worse than Portimao. But okay, got through without big problems, had a small touch with a GTR near the end but nothing serious.