Sim Racers 4 Life - BT44 Season - Round 1 - Sao Paulo

[gorgias1976]

Sim Racers 4 Life welcomes you to another season of our Historic Leagues.
This season we race the Brabham BT44. Fast, handles nice and brakes good. This 1974 car has huge rear wheels and adjustable front and rear wings which can bring a lot of different race strategies. Refueling during a pitstop is not allowed in this car.

SR4L wishes you good luck for the season.

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Race day Information

40 laps



Oct 9th 2016


16:25 GMT (17:25 BST - 18:25 CET - 12:25 EST)
120 minute practice
18:25 GMT (19:25 BST - 20:25 CET - 14:25 EST)
30 minute qualifying
19:00 GMT (20:00 BST - 21:00 CET - 15:00 EST)
--7 minute warmup--
race - 40 laps

No mandatory pitstop must be done.


Car (available at Steam):
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fi...=679417795
Track (ISI Official):
http://www.mediafire.com/download/n5m39o...v101.rfcmp


Server Settings

Server name: !SR4L Server 3
Fuel usage: Normal
Tyre wear: Normal
Damage: 50%
Auto Clutch on

Race Day Password

BT44Brasil (*) Password will be case sensitive


Weather forecast in Sao Paulo for Oct 9th at race time

-Skies: Partially Cloudy
-Humidity: 65%
-Temperature: 24ºC
-Wind: 13km/h from South

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[mel1c]

Some of were on the server just now and could not set up a pit stop in the Garage. Actually doing a pit stop took 10 seconds, no fuel added, no tires changed (the car was not jacked anyway). Can you guys confirm?

[1959nikos]

Same here and DanB reported it too.

[sdancourt]

F1 races on those days were one single stint without pitstop of any kind.

[1959nikos]

So, you propose no pit Santiago? If its historically true, Im for it too.

[edwin]

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[Harri Mac]

Great find Ed

[sdancourt]

I think could be fun to make 1 hour races the full champ. Strategy will be quite different and maybe each start will be safer because slower and heavy cars. Just an idea. Besides the need of two setups: one for qualy and another for the race.

[gorgias1976]

I like Santiago's idea of no pitstops and 1 hour races, it's up to your decision, fellows.

[edwin]

Yep i'm in for it 2

[deecee52]

Its in the car model , you cannot refuel but you can change tyres and get repaired , the car jacks up once at both ends unlike the eves which jack 1 side at a time , its the same at all tracks for this car

[Hedlund]

It's WIP so it should not come as a surprise that there are issues with it.. This is probably not the last one we will see.
I would have waited for it to get finished before doing a full season with it, but maybe we will have a 2nd season with it anyway

I'm currently setting my new rf2 install up, but I have not solved the disappearing cars problem. I really doubt I will be able to race on Sunday.

[Harri Mac]

Desperately grasping at straws. Have you tried manually setting up your network adaptor on IPv4 to a particular address on your network rather than letting windows decide, eg 192.168.0.10? Use open DNS as your DNS server addresses which are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

I needed a dedicated network address for port forwarding as I have sometimes hosted but I prefer a dedicated address anyway, old school habits maybe.

[Hedlund]

Desperately grasping at straws. Have you tried manually setting up your network adaptor on IPv4 to a particular address on your network rather than letting windows decide, eg 192.168.0.10? Use open DNS as your DNS server addresses which are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

I needed a dedicated network address for port forwarding as I have sometimes hosted but I prefer a dedicated address anyway, old school habits maybe.

It doesn't help that I'm noob at network connections :-[ Are you talking static vs dynamic ip adresses?

[Harri Mac]

No, it's the network adaptor setting for your computer.

Windows 10, right click on what would have been the start button and choose (6 down from top for me) Network Connections
Then you can see your network connection, eg Network 2
Right click on that then click on properties at the bottom of the menu box
Double click on Internet Protocol Version 4 and it will bring up a box
click on button "use the following IP address"
fill in the boxes:
choose your network address eg 192.168.0.40
if you click in the next box down it should auto fill with 255.255.255.0
type in your Routers IP - often 192.168.0.1 as the gateway it's what you'd type to access it from your computer

Then click on "Use the following DNS server address" and type (this is the address of open DNS)
208.67.222.222 in the first box and
208.67.220.220 in the second box

Should end up being similar to this http://www.home-network-help.com/images/...set-ip.jpg

To undo it all just click on "obtain an address automatically" and all your typed in settings will vanish.

This might explain it better than I can http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/19249/how...windows-7/

[gorgias1976]

It's time for my first serious practice in a few minutes. What do you feel this car goes better? high or low wings? hard or soft suspensions? anything else?

[donrandom]

It's time for my first serious practice in a few minutes. What do you feel this car goes better? high or low wings? hard or soft suspensions? anything else?

Honestly, I have no clue yet and awaiting your findings in eager anticipation.

[gorgias1976]

At the moment higher downforce seems to work better for me.

Once thing I've tested is autoclutch vs manual gears (clutch pedal) and autoclutch is faster. In a straight test starting from 2nd gear 110km/h to 280km/h in 5th gear, autoclutch took me 0.2sec less to reach the speed than best attempt in manual gears.
Anyway I'll keep driving manual gears as it is what I enjoy best.

Other data.
1000m starting 110km/h in second gear
Autoclutch - 15.69sec at 279.7km/h
Manual - 15.75sec at 279.2km/h

[Mike Bennett]

I like Santiago's idea of no pitstops and 1 hour races, it's up to your decision, fellows.

+0.5 (part timer)

[gorgias1976]

Well, I think we can do this 1st league event in a 1h race.
Then we will speak about how things went and if we keep that way or change for a better.

We must be very carefull with the posibility of a freeze which could happen by mid race. If moving the server to steam has made the freeze to be gone, that'll be great news.