[2014] Round 4 - Monterey Triple Crown [Feb 16th]

Historic GT & TC mod

We will use the the 1.95 version of the Historic GT&TC mod by the HistoriX mod team.
Can be found here : 1974 IMSA Rules

Event Schedule

The race will be a timed one hour event. Sedan A and Sedan B will run at the same time.

Sunday February 16th

Times are CST US

18:30 – Qualifying
19:30 – Warm-up and drivers’ briefing
19:35 – Race start (1 hour)

Race server password : hso74

Training Server

A training server will be online 24/7, pass : hso74.

Race Start Procedure

--> Reconnaissance Laps <--

Behaviour on track

- as for all HSO races, it is required you use your real name both in-game and on the forum. Thank you.

- Chatting is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN in race session. It is allowed in qualifying sessions for technical issues only.

- Drive Through : If a driver has to do a drive through, even if there is no pit lane speed limit, he has to drive through the pitlane at 100km/h max (60mph). If he doesn't respect this, he will get a 30s penalty at the end of the race.

- Shortcuts : If a driver gains a position after shortcutting a turn, he is required to give it back as soon as possible. In the case where a driver would not do it rapidly, a 30-second penalty will be added to his total race time. In the event of abusive and intentional shortcutting, severe sanctions will be applied (up to definitive a ban from the league). To make sure you never shortcut a turn, try to always keep two wheels on the track.

- Respect the red light at the end of the pitlane.

Application and Interpretation of the Regulations

The admins alone are qualified to solve any problems raised by the application and the interpretation of the present regulations.

Please book a car even if it is a one off for this race on the entry list page.

Please reply within this thread to indicate if you are participating or will miss.

Confirmed drivers:

Mike Becnel (warning:          been flying off track a LOT!!!)
Richard Coxon (warning:  )
Austin Johnson (El speedy)
Jason White
Erik Czakoi
Simon Wattman
Jan Titz
Dave Miller (warning   and possible     )   strikes again
Mick Chapman
Matthew Brinson

 

For anyone wondering, we start at 6:30PM CST when IMSA is also running (or another HSO event occurs earlier) vs 6PM CST when no other event is happening. This gives the admins time to pull their results and update their race before I start the SCCA admin work. It also gives me time to recover from the other race becasue I likely ran in it   

Watch the guard rails here. They bite!!   

So that's    2:35am Paris time yes? If so that 1:35am GMT, (Race start time)

Will try to make it, but plus give the usual warning please Mike   

Richard Coxon wrote:

So that's    2:35am Paris time yes? If so that 1:35am GMT, (Race start time)

Will try to make it, but plus give the usual warning please Mike   

Yup. I think you got that right. Qual 1 hr 5 min earlier of course.

Adding   now

El speedy   thanks mike i have been around cars or racecars my whole life. My pops told me i was born in an engine bay and came out oily instead of bloody  

Well I see your IMSA time with the BMW and must say I am staring at it in awe!   


For some reason this version of Laguna Seca the laps seem to go by very fast. Unfortunately, I have already found 5 excellent places where you can snap spin off track into the abiss of no return. The Escort snaps nastily on the main straight at the left kink.

 

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For some reason this version of Laguna Seca the laps seem to go by very fast

The track was slowed down by the modifications introduced later, you can see that the laptimes are almost the same today with much quicker cars. If you pick the excellent modern version of the track by Com8 you will notice the differences.

I have driven on the modern track

The modern track is amazing, i have had a couple track days there. The game does no justice for the corkscrew when your really flying up the hill near 100 mph and you cant see the corkscrew at all just a wall in front of you   you kind of piss your pants a little the first lap  

Can't confirm at this point   

heavy hit on my fps this track, yet not all graphics on full.

Bad cause it is perfect for the Alfa.

There's a typo in the topic's title   

Sorry too late for me   

Hum, what typo?   

The only I can think of would be if you wanted to write in spanish (As it was originally) the name of the track's location, which then would be with doube "r" (Monterrey). But once the US guys got hold of it, they gave it that barbaric and unmusical name of "Monterey"  

Mike Becnel wrote:

Antoine de Mautor wrote:

There's a typo in the topic's title   

I don't see it...but I do see this place called Chantier for such comments.

I already corrected it   

Confirmed    I'll be there   

Erik Czakoi wrote:

Confirmed    I'll be there   

Excellent! Did you book a car already? I will go check...I missed it if so.

I see your booking request, confirmed and booked!

Great not another bmw    Just kidding ,welcome to scca erik hope you have a good time, see you on the track 

so my problem is with mirrors on my fps is terrible, especially at the stat/finish line and at the cork screw, even with the lowest graphic settings

with mirrors turned off i have the regular high fps like every other mod, graphics settings almost everything full. Any help with mirrors details?

strange thing is that this happens with this track. I tested some other track and it is all normal

Leo Menegucci wrote:

so my problem is with mirrors on my fps is terrible, especially at the stat/finish line and at the cork screw, even with the lowest graphic settings

with mirrors turned off i have the regular high fps like every other mod, graphics settings almost everything full. Any help with mirrors details?

strange thing is that this happens with this track. I tested some other track and it is all normal

Leo is it the realistic mirrors or the 3 mirrors you get from TV camera (over the car) view? I use the over the car view and have no FPS issues with mirrors.

It may be your car detail if this is in car mirrors. Try turning down car detail. I am guessing.

It's a 3 year old update of a GPL conversion. A track that's pretty much empty, and nobody else complained.
Seeing that you usually run with settings "almost everything full" tells that your hardware must be outdated. Nothing we can do really  

I use in cockpit view Mike.

I asked because there is some rear view mirrors settings in plr file and thought someone would know something about it.

Almost everything full graphics means only shadow blur turned off.

I'll work those plr settings to see what happens. I will be present anyway