Round 5 - 1967 Essais Préliminaires du Mans [rF2 | March 29]

#57 Ford Shelby
If I get a decent setup I will turn up, but don't want to spend my evening struggling in my virtual world trying to tame a beast... Thanks in advance Mike...

Mike Becnel wrote:

Note: Ford initial setup is horrible!

Cannot drive, good luck everyone!

Paul Velasco wrote:

#57 Ford Shelby
If I get a decent setup I will turn up, but don't want to spend my evening struggling in my virtual world trying to tame a beast... Thanks in advance Mike...

Mike Becnel wrote:

Note: Ford initial setup is horrible!

Seeing Steve Parker’s time on the board tells me where the Ford bribes need to be sent.

Almost forgot about this! Been a crazy week getting students started learning from home!

Annnnnnd it is raining.

#46 please.

Mick Chapman wrote:

#46 please.

Oh come on, pick a Ford or Ferrari

3:47 on wet with dry tyres as i didn find wets on my garage

Quite a small entry for such a long track . The server tonight will not have a password, to attract more people. Only registered HSO members will be eligible for points though.

Michal Janak wrote:

3:47 on wet with dry tyres as i didn find wets on my garage

There was no such thing as dry or wet weather tyres back then, racing tyres were treaded and "all-weather" until slicks came in the early 1970s .

Mike Becnel wrote:

Mick Chapman wrote:

#46 please.

Oh come on, pick a Ford or Ferrari

Yeh, I know.....I playing the David and Goliath card.......I'll see if you at the bottom of the hill, if it will still be raining.

I'll be jumping out of a USAC 74 straight into the Alpine, with 15 minutes of Le Mans official event left.

#46 please!

absent ce soir, désolé.

#56

May I have the Holman & Moody #5, please?

I see there's less than one hour left in the official session, but I wanted to announce my presence before jumping in there.

No problemo

As the event was not a race, it's going to take me a while to enter the results in the database. Will get to it tomorrow. Meanwhile, the provisional results :

If we ever run this mod for real I will NOT be running a Ford. Ferrari was way more stable!!

Frank Verplanken wrote:

As the event was not a race, it's going to take me a while to enter the results in the database. Will get to it tomorrow. Meanwhile, the provisional results :

shame of the night and many spinned cars on track in q, No possible clear lap

, in race i did 3:29.291 and possible 3:28 but i did bad last corner

Steve did really well to tame the Ford while I spent way too long to figure out the Chaparral doesn't only have the RW "DRS", but also at the front.

So instead of 331, I ran 316 on the straights at maximum, apparently worth 3 seconds. Well, major whoops on my side. Thanks to Jim for making me aware of it!

Had two tries left, but first crashed while having avoid Mr Navonne into Indianapolis and then crashed alone at the same place

As for the fun race, not sure what happened with Steve. We both spun our wheels and as he came sideways, tagged me and I tagged him very slightly.

Unlucky, but the race didn't count for anything.

It was still very tough and by no means a "cakewalk" since I had to figure out both DRS at race speed in day time conditions. Not to mention there weren't two lights in the cockpit to show they were on or off(only one), so if I forgot one heading into a turn I could've crashed easily. I actually did nearly crash once as I mis-clicked the front one heading into T1

Be thankful you weren't running a Chaparral guys, lot of button-clicking to unleash the straight-line speed

At least I could uncover the possibilities in the dry by setting a 3:20.455 I believe.

Nightmare start for me dipped clutch and car rolled back into the wall,which damaged the rear,when it went green  I spun with the rear damage   got it going but could not  turn right  ,So short race for me ,but these cars are fun to tame

Ah yes, that's an issue when you have to shift into gear but need to hold the brake aswell.

Good job though Steve, congrats!

Props to Steve for the setup. Once the track dried it was too dark to see my least favorite place - the Porsche curves. Great setup Steve, thank you.

Great fun. Thanks Frank and Mike for getting this organized. David was very helpful with a setup, but it's clear now how slow I am compared to him. I'm just about as fast when he has a big handicap. Maybe I should stick to crew chief duties. I managed to get away cleanly at the start of the Fun Race, but soon lost touch with P2. So glad the weather cleared for the race.

With resepect, the mod was extremely hard to drive and I have some experience... keep it simple maybe? Racing would be nice rather than focussing on keeping a car on the track. The MAK-Corp Mod on that Le Mans track would have me on there all day. So if we looking for numbers maybe we gotta get more user friendly with some races in the light of the new people looking to sim.
While you guys raced those shitboxes around Le Mans, I was doing pickup races on the server. Should not be like that... Just saying.

Frank Verplanken wrote:

Quite a small entry for such a long track . The server tonight will not have a password, to attract more people. Only registered HSO members will be eligible for points though.

Paul Velasco wrote:

With resepect, the mod was extremely hard to drive and I have some experience... keep it simple maybe? Racing would be nice rather than focussing on keeping a car on the track. The MAK-Corp Mod on that Le Mans track would have me on there all day. So if we looking for numbers maybe we gotta get more user friendly with some races in the light of the new people looking to sim.
While you guys raced those shitboxes around Le Mans, I was doing pickup races on the server. Should not be like that... Just saying.

Frank Verplanken wrote:

Quite a small entry for such a long track . The server tonight will not have a password, to attract more people. Only registered HSO members will be eligible for points though.

this is HSO H is Historical, and old cars like F330 were fast but with chasis from this era not running like on rails, lots of power and old mechanical construction, were like a beast which want kill yoou but many of us are here for these beast - no aero, no electronit, pure power, pure sound , yes they need some experience , but basic is learn how to drive them and then it is more joy than in modern cars