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GassyHaggis

Alex Haha, nice avoidance of the mounting F3s at the hairpin.

@Jogort Funny, was just thinking about that earlier. Was contemplating either the F3 or the Porsche Cup for next season but it’ll be dependant on tracks I think. Although @Alex does make them look easy 😂

Got placed into the upper tier for a race earlier and was dead last. Bit demoralising when that happens but I kept my nose clean and had some good side by side racing in the first ten minutes. I have been enjoying the touring cars this season but I’m not very fast at all. Spent a bit of time on Lime Rock and Knockhill to get a jump on next week’s TCR and IMSA events as we are out at the ice hockey on Saturday.

Going straight for the race participation credit next season. 😁

GassyHaggis

That’s two events at knockhill where there’s only been one split. Noticed it last week in the BMWs, but put it down to it being Knockhill Reverse. Today in the IMSA Pilot Challenge it was one split and seems to have been that way since Tuesday.

I’ve loved launching the touring cars over that chicane. Great fun. There’s downtime scheduled on Monday at 1pm so I plan to have a go of the Civic, F3 and Porsche Cup. If I’m not hungover after the Superbowl that is.

Alex

The thing to know about the F3 is that it’s like driving on ice until the tyres warm up. The first two laps you have to absolutely tip toe around, however as the tyres warm it gets faster and faster. If you look at the results of an F3 race the fastest laps always come at the end. So basically don’t jump in and get put off immediately because of how hard it seems, take it easy and wait for it to come to you.

GassyHaggis

Alex Good shout. I’ve been noticing that albeit in a more subtle fashion with the BMW and Hyundai the last fortnight. I think the loadcell is definitely helping me but I am quite slow. Consistency is there though so that’s something.

BritishBean

GassyHaggis what have you set your brake pressure to?

GassyHaggis

BritishBean Had it at 40% when I got it and that was properly straining but I found today that I could have had a bit more pressure. Maybe just getting used to it and my head is getting around it now. Might bump it up another 10 over the weekend and see how that feels. Certainly taking a while for it to not feel alien to me. There’s glimpses of eureka moments though.

Considering moving the input box more into my line of vision so I can relate pressure to a visual indicator of what is happening.

Had a couple of decent races recently and my safety rating has skyrocketed. Sitting on a 3.99 with my iRating staying around 1400.

Alex

Brave

Wow. That looks surprisingly good

GassyHaggis

Lime Rock today in the touring cars. A track I’ve never been fond of so never spent any time on it in the past or even today. As expected, I was pretty slow. In the video below I had been hounded by him for a few laps and he was making increasingly aggressive moves so I deliberately let him by at the first turn so I could get on with my race.

Turns out he wasn’t that much faster and I ended up closing him down again near the end of the race.

Main attraction here if you want to get right to the meat and veg.

GassyHaggis

Had a quick blast of a few cars on Monday when there was downtime. Audi and Honda touring cars felt as expected but not enough to grab one of them. The Porsche Cup felt good but I kept swapping ends under braking and locking up. Think there’s a lot to do with my loadcell experience and the lack of ABS. Could probably figure it out but… The F3. Oh that felt nice right away.

Any mistakes I made I knew were my own and I knew why/how I had made them which was different from the Porsche and the BMW (which is still evading my understanding for some reason). Remarkable how much speed the F3 picks up as the tyres and the track heats up.

GassyHaggis

Got bumped up to B class because my safety rating was above 4.0 which on promotion dropped it to just above 3.0 again. Joined the IMSA Pilot Challenge in the touring car class again and qualified third in class. Guy in second was sleeping at the rolling start so I got the jump on him and then it was pretty much pulling away slightly every lap. Pace dropped off by about a second to a second and a half with about five laps to go and before that I had been slower too. Tyres probably going off but interestingly the guy in the lead was almost the same lap times from beginning to end about a second faster than my best.

Second place, increase in both ratings in the lower split. At least I felt competitive here even although I am slow. Would have been in the bottom five in the upper split. 😂

Also bumped my brake force up as I’m getting used to the loadcell. Now sitting at a whopping 60% but don’t think I ever used full brakes at all. Which may be where I can gain more time.

BritishBean

GassyHaggis I’m not convinced the higher the pressure the faster you’ll be. I have mine around 50% and with this setting I’m able to manage trail braking. I found that more difficult at 80% and was therefore slower.

Jogort

BritishBean are you guys talking about the BRF setting? As I thought that was the amount of pressure needed to get 100% braking power, so 50% needs less of a press than say 75%. I dunno how you can do it on 50% as I find I lock up far too quickly on that setting.

Alex

Apparently the built-in crew chief will now warn you if you don’t have enough fuel for the race, which is great news.

GassyHaggis

Jogort Yeah that’s why I’ve been putting it up. When I first got it, my weak old man muscles could barely handle 30% but that’s me moved it up gradually each time I’ve sat down to race.

@BritishBean Completely get the trailbraking thing. I’ve been finding I’m locking up quicker though so that’s why I’ve been going up.

Alex

Yeah that’s my understanding of it. The CSL Elite can take up to 90kg of pressure so if you set it to 50 then you need to put in 45kg for it to register 100%. I have it set to 90-100% for the F3 car, 60-70% for GT3s because of the ABS.

I think the CSL pedal is set to 65 shore, which is equivalent to the ‘soft’ setting on the CSL Elites. I use 85 shores with the Elites so my pedal will be stiffer.

BritishBean

GassyHaggis I’m also playing ACC not iRacing and obviously exclusively GT3 cars so with ABS locking up isn’t an issue for me. If I play something else I’d be doing the same so that I don’t lock up with cars without ABS 👍🏻

Jogort

I noticed a much better braking control going from 50% default to 75% when driving the Radical the other day. At 50 I felt like I was barely pressing and it was locking up

Alex

The MAP F3 cup this Friday is going to be at Nürburgring GP. A fairly solid track choice that won’t require much practice.

Jogort

Alex Just watched your YouTube F3 Nürburgring GP race, didn’t seem like you had enough damage to pit. Bloody nice overtake at the end though, that S bend seems not as tight as in other games as you were going through there pretty quick.

Alex

Jogort yeah, the back end felt a bit loose, I probably could have not pitted but I decided to play it safe. I couldn’t be arsed doing the full half hour race with the backend constantly trying to come round.

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