Wed night Fun Races (2021)

[Myles (Mr Fox)]

Yes, I have always used auto-clutch. I've have always been a paddle shifter and so have always let the car's computer (ie the sim) do the "clutching" for me. But your post has made me explore that situation. Up until now my clutch pedal as never even been mapped into the sim. So I activated the clutch and turned auto-clutch off. And yea verily, popping the clutch pedal in and out will get a slipping clutch to grab! Woohoo! BUT... with auto-clutch off, down shifts become a big problem. That is, it's up to me to do the rev matching! Arrgh! But tinkering a bit more I find that I can have my cake and eat it too! I can leave auto-clutch on to help the downshifting and still just pop the clutch pedal when I get slippage!

I know paddle shifting in every chassis is totally a gaming crutch but hey, I need all the help I can get. If I can ever achieve competitiveness using crutches I might consider going "realistic". But that's a big "if". You guys don't need to fear me... yet! (And oh yeah did map a deadzone into my throttle.)

I'm ready for a re-do at Zandvoort!

I tried auto-clutch briefly this afternoon and didn’t like it much on these cars - it seems to over-Rev even on an upshift.

I, too, use flappy-paddles for everything - despite having a TH8 shifter fitted. The manual clutch isn’t fully used in rf2 (auto-clutch on or off) and generally is only needed to get off the line. As noted in my Motec extracts, for downshifts (again - pretty much irrespective of whether I’m driving a historic, modern - or even my IRL 1963 Land Rover) I just blip the throttle (seemingly) as I pull the shift paddle - seems to work for me.

I also tried the Toyota Celica - and Nissan (2000GT?) alongside the B110 at Cadwell. The Datsun does appear to be the overall quickest and best compromise. Both the Toyota and Nissan have dreadful brakes by comparison - which could make for interesting multi+vehicle racing against the Datsun… …except that the Toyota seems to be a second or so off the pace.

The Nissan 2000GT (I think that’s what it is) is much more comparable and I managed to post a similar 1:40.X time offline (with the same track rubber) as I did online with the Datsun… I’m tempted to reload the server over the weekend adding in the Nissan but suspect not many people will go for it…