Tour de France : Barcelone-Albi (E2) October 7th

Cette seconde étape commencera par une longue épreuve chronométrée sur le très exigeant circuit de Montjuich, au coeur de la capitale catalane. Les pilotes franchiront ensuite à nouveau la frontière franco-espagnole pour se rendre à Albi. Sur l'ancien aérodrome, une épreuve plus courte mais qui devrait être tout aussi disputée les attendra. De plus, celle-ci se déroulera de nuit! Les grilles de départs de ces deux courses seront établies suivant le classement général à l'issue de la première étape. Bonne chance à tous!

Driver's briefing

- During the warm-up session for each race, you are allowed to make one lap, and one lap only, from pits to pits (no timed lap).

- Remember that if you retire at Montjuich, you won't be able to race at Albi !

- Between both races, you will have to leave and rejoin the server while is it reset by the admins.

- The Albi race will be run in the dusk (8pm rFactor time), make sure you train offline in those conditions.

- In both racing sessions, chatting is, as usual, strictly forbidden.

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Briefing

- Durant les warm-up des deux épreuves, vous pourrez faire un tour, et un tour seulement, sans passer par la ligne de départ (de stands à stands)

- Rappelez vous qu'en cas d'abandon à Montjuich, vous ne pourrez pas courir à Albi !

- Entre les deux épreuves, les concurrents devront sortir du serveur et rentrer à nouveau une fois le serveur paramétré pour la seconde manche.

- La course d'Albi sera courue de nuit (20h heure de rFactor), assurez vous d'avoir expérimenté ces conditions offline avant la course.

- Durant les deux épreuves chronométrées, le chat sera comme d'habitude strictement interdit.



EVENT SCHEDULE (all times CET, Paris time)

Dimanche 7 octobre :

8:15 PM - Montjuich, Warm Up
8:30 PM - Race start, 32 laps
9:30 PM - Race end, pause
9.45 PM - Albi, Race start, 25 laps (password : hso72)
HSO rFactor servers informations

The server is launched for training already, make sure you've read the race briefing in the previous post

These two tracks should be great fun, first time we ever race on the legendary Montjuich at HSO

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- The Albi race will be run in the dusk (8pm rFactor time), make sure you train offline in those conditions.

The HGT mod comes with a special upgrade, a "lights" pack for human drivers that is supposed to give much more illumination of the road. Can we use it, or will it annoy the other racers/cause lag on the game?

Thxs

Yeah of course better use it or you won't see shit!

As i already stated before i won't be able to race in some stages, like the first that happened Wednesday.
So i would like to know how the starting grid for those races at Montjuic and Albi will be determined?

It's written somewhere in the first post, but you might need help to understand... Picture that, it is 1972, you're in the South of France and nobody speak English (let alone Portuguese!) 100 miles around, not even the organisers

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

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- The Albi race will be run in the dusk (8pm rFactor time), make sure you train offline in those conditions.

The HGT mod comes with a special upgrade, a "lights" pack for human drivers that is supposed to give much more illumination of the road. Can we use it, or will it annoy the other racers/cause lag on the game?

Thxs

It is an upgrade on the cars. Use ISI_BABYFACTORY in a test session (offline, type it in chat) and you will get several million credits. You can then buy your car and then the upgrade. The Ferraris are near 400K so this is a must.

The "stock" headlights are uselss. The extended make life much better. The two fast turns are truly going to be fantastic in traffic at night. I suspect many cars will be recycled on the guard rails. Bravo Antoine, great track choice.

Antoine de Mautor wrote:

It's written somewhere in the first post, but you might need help to understand... Picture that, it is 1972, you're in the South of France and nobody speak English (let alone Portuguese!) 100 miles around, not even the organisers

The Ferrari lead engineers all speak it just fine. And I will make sure my translator has big bOObs. Like gOOgle translate.

Antoine de Mautor wrote:

It's written somewhere in the first post, but you might need help to understand... Picture that, it is 1972, you're in the South of France and nobody speak English (let alone Portuguese!) 100 miles around, not even the organisers

Actually its not in the first post, but in the rules :

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The starting grid for the road racing stages will be done according to the overall standings.

It is in the first post I swear, and has always been I didn't want to translate these short texts I wrote to keep the "French flavour" of the event

Mike Becnel wrote:

Bravo Antoine, great track choice.

Once again, I'm not responsible for the track choice, except when one is missing and we have to replace it

It's actually pretty easy to be an HSO admin because you don't have much choices to do, just a job of adapting reality to simulation http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_France_automobile#17e_Tour_Auto_:_1972

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It is an upgrade on the cars. Use ISI_BABYFACTORY in a test session (offline, type it in chat) and you will get several million credits. You can then buy your car and then the upgrade. The Ferraris are near 400K so this is a must.

The "stock" headlights are uselss. The extended make life much better. The two fast turns are truly going to be fantastic in traffic at night. I suspect many cars will be recycled on the guard rails. Bravo Antoine, great track choice.

Yes yes thanks Mike I know I can buy them and cheat for money (The only cheat allowed here at HSO ). What I wanted to know is if those lights will cause trouble when racing online, either server lag or annoy the other players if they are too bright.

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Picture that, it is 1972, you're in the South of France and nobody speak English (let alone Portuguese!) 100 miles around, not even the organisers

According to my mother (Who has the upper grade/title in french), what they speak in the south of France is not even french

I'm going to the World Superbike season finale at Magny Cours this weekend, I hope to be back on time for the first race. I'm counting on my raw skills cause I won't have any training before the race

That's not how you will reduce the gap on the overall standing

I'm counting on you chosing an F1 car this time.

Just to report it will be me who will be making these 2 races, not David, in case someone forgot

I Will be Ok as long as no fast cars sneak up from behind me in the Dark
hopefully i won't ***t myself

Braking should be ok as long as know one destroys the Marker at the end of the long straight

Carl Larrad wrote:

I Will be Ok as long as no fast cars sneak up from behind me in the Dark
hopefully i won't ***t myself

Braking should be ok as long as know one destroys the Marker at the end of the long straight

There is a nice big tree that makes a good reference on the long straight. The well lit house before the fast left is also a "brake before here or you are going to kill spectators" reference.

a part l upgrate feux longye distance y a moyen d ameliorer la puissance des phares ? car la je viens de faire mon 1er test et avec la porsche on dirait que je roule en veilleuse et encore qu une seule et proche de sa fin de vie

Wont be able to race tonight due to other commitments, just thought i'd let you know But will be able to race on wednesday

Greg Goissen wrote:

a part l upgrate feux longye distance y a moyen d ameliorer la puissance des phares ? car la je viens de faire mon 1er test et avec la porsche on dirait que je roule en veilleuse et encore qu une seule et proche de sa fin de vie

C'est tout l'intérêt de cette épreuve : être capable de faire un tour les yeux fermés sans sortir !

L'éclairage est bien histo

Par contre mes phares n’éclairent pas les autres voitures:



C'est normal

Si il y en a un qui perds ses feux avant et arrière, ça va être tendu pour le voir

Hé oui c'est vraiment chaud les phares sont pas très puissants, mais ça va nous permettre de différencier les hommes des petits garçons et c'est très bien

Gaffe, je freine tôt avec la Corvette à Montjuich !

Un suppot(u)eur potentiel averti en vaut deux !

Server up, you can join for race briefing, but nobody on track