Round 2 - Hockenheim Club [April 9th]

David Cid wrote:

After 2 crashes with spinning cars in front of me and some strange manouver from Wenham while being laped, wich made me lose a place for my friend Steve, with whom I had a great fight. Later, I've lost the motivation and concentration, ending up on the guardrails. So I went dinner instead. Thank you Hso.
 

It was good fun m8,pity backmarker ruined the battle,for me it was survival after injuring my back at work this made driving through pain barrier    but survived both races so that was bonus.  

Première course: sur le toit avant la fin du premier tour, suite à un incident de Pascal

Deuxième excellente: je suis explosé par derrière dès le premier virage, juste inutile d'être prudent quand on est au milieu du paquet au départ... et je repars dernier avant de faire une belle remontée très fun et remplie de bonnes bagarres (Gérard, Fort, et d'autres...)

Merci HSO, bravo à tous, see you soon!

It was just amazing.  
Every fight that i joined was full of respect. Good to see that you're all racing very fair   
Thanks guys!

Too much stress in real life means I am arriving to these wednesday races in less than ideal menthal conditions, and with a total lack of practice. As a result, I don't find my mojo with the M3 as I did in previous years in the BTCC or ATCC, where I felt fast and confident   

Yesterday I only took part in race 1 and always felt the car was pushing like a freight train. In the last 3 turns on the stadium the difference with other cars was simply crazy, they were doing that section much quicker than me. Still I got close on other parts of the track, and that allowed me to follow Ben for some time and do some defences of my position, but the push on the last turns meant I always crossed the finish line with the front left well over 130º   so I had to back up and let it cool down.

For race 2, I was already tired and disgusted with not finding my pace, so I quit and went to bed.

Hopefully it will slowly get better and I will be more centered, as otherwise the championship is great as well as the company and attendance in the races   

Mark Holdampf wrote:

Every fight that i joined was full of respect. Good to see that you're all racing very fair   Thanks guys!

Just one of the things HSO prides itself on, Glad you enjoyed   

Thanks Vladim   

Awkward moment when you're faster on race, than on qualifying session with "full" tank, medium tyres.  
I had never been a one lap (Q) guy, as you can saw yesterday. I don't know why   and of course on super pole session, I am a dead man   
11th place on Q but on both races I had a superb start especially on the second race. I caught 5 drivers to the first turn.

Before and on Q I tested an other setup, but it was a little bit slower for me than mine so I used mine on the races. I knew I can set a 1.06.9 lap with mine in the race, but 06.6     

Double   nothing better than this in this round. Simco 1-2 on the second race.     

Again nice battles with huge respect    Thank you guys.
Congratulations to everybody
ps.: Frank why did you let me on both races?   thanks 

This was a difficult round with the 635. It didn't want to take the corners like the other cars and it had no power on the straights either but I did what I could with the car.

I want to begin with a sorry to Samy for the contact we had in Race2. I saw you spin but wasn't sure if you were stationary or not but once I realized it was too late

Also sorry Stephen for hitting you in one of the races when I was trying to lap you. I was a bit stressed and missjudged what speed you would have mid-corner


Race1 I can't remember much from apart from me being all over the place in the opening part of it and then trying to get back in contention but couldn't get further than the low 20's.
Sorry if any of the lapping drivers got held up by me. I was trying to catch Gerard and didn't want to loose too much time getting lapped   


Race2 was a lot more fun. Got a resonable jump off the line this time around and had a good turn 1 and 2 and was in the low teens after Lap1

After that had a few laps staying close to the front running group until Samy had his spin and we had contact. Went down the field but was able to climb a bit to finish in the teens and gaining a few more points for the total standings
Again, sorry to those lapping me if anyone felt that they got held up, I was going as quickly as I could to gain more positions   


Thanks for hosting and thanks to those I had a battle with, I especially enjoyed battling Ben for most of Race2, sorry if you feel I was too aggressive and defensive but I really wanted to keep my position if possible

Alban Cosnuau wrote:

deuxième manche ruiner au deuxième tour par Ben PAULET qui traverse la piste après être sorti.  

Ca fait mal de se faire bousiller la course par un incompétent qui ne contrôle pas son retour en piste. C'est ce que beaucoup de pilotes ont aussi pensé à Macau. 
Et de plus, tu n'es pas obligé d'hurler mon nom.  

Course 1 et 2 bien sympathique avec de belles passe d'arme;par contre je veux bien admettre que la Sierra à l'époque du fait de sa bride était moins performante que les BM/Mercedes,mais je pense que les pneus étaient quand même capable de tenir leurs perfo sur la longueur,or là depuis deux courses l'arrière se met à flamber après 2/3 tours et à chaque fois que suis obligé de faire le bouchon de service....ça va pas être très amusant tout le temps...ni pour moi,ni pour ceux qui reviennent systématiquement sur moi.

Amazing stuff..especially the last 10 secs...see how they avoid the spinning BMW!   

Ben Paulet wrote:

Alban Cosnuau wrote:

deuxième manche ruiner au deuxième tour par Ben PAULET qui traverse la piste après être sorti.  

Ca fait mal de se faire bousiller la course par un incompétent qui ne contrôle pas son retour en piste. C'est ce que beaucoup de pilotes ont aussi pensé à Macau. 
Et de plus, tu n'es pas obligé d'hurler mon nom.  

la différence avec macao, c'est j'ai admis mon erreur et que je me suis excuser.

Peter Blom wrote:

Amazing stuff..especially the last 10 secs...see how they avoid the spinning BMW!   

  
My teammate, Imre's onboard   

Alban Cosnuau wrote:

Ben Paulet wrote:

Alban Cosnuau wrote:

deuxième manche ruiner au deuxième tour par Ben PAULET qui traverse la piste après être sorti.  

Ca fait mal de se faire bousiller la course par un incompétent qui ne contrôle pas son retour en piste. C'est ce que beaucoup de pilotes ont aussi pensé à Macau. 
Et de plus, tu n'es pas obligé d'hurler mon nom.  

la différence avec macao, c'est j'ai admis mon erreur et que je me suis excuser.

Et la différence avec toi, c'est que je ne me suis pas empressé d'hurler un nom. Mais, j'arrangerai ça à la prochaine et te garderai dans mon viseur.  

Hello Racers,

I am after a bit of advice on Rf FFB settings. With my current settings I don't seem to be getting much feel for grip levels. I generally set high levels in the controller.ini file for things I want to feel, like front wheel grip and when touching the kerbs.

if I touch a kerb I get good feedback through the wheel, but when the car starts to understeer I don't get any feeling in the wheel at all, some forums I have looked at suggest I may have set some of the parameters too high and saturated the effects. but there are so many parameters to fiddle with I don't really have the time to spend testing them. does anyone have any advise or controller.ini settings I could try?

regards Stephen

Did you try these settings (bottom of the first post) ?