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Online Events => Other Online Events => Topic started by: Wiz on December 21, 2011, 06:33:39 PM
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Friday, December 23st.
An Evening in Western Europe (Spa & Sarthe 2009 w/ chicane)
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Car: Honda GT500 Stealth NSX***
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Time: Start at 8:00 eastern and run until the Midnight Drive-In
Laps: 5 or more at Spa. 3 or more at Sarthe
Grid: Reverse based on previous results
Bio breaks: Automatic 6 minute starts.
HP: Set lounge to 493 max.
Weight: 1100kg Minimum
Tuning/PP: Open
Tires: Testing new tire wear model so we'll use all three types of Racing Tires. After the races are over, please post in here your experiences with each tire. Thanks.
*** If you don't have the Stealth NSX, feel free to use any of the Premium '06 GT500 NSX's. No Epson '08 please.
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Cool, NSX's at fun tracks on racing tires. Looking forward to this.
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Looks like fun! Sadly I'll be away from my PS3 from today through Monday :'(
I might have separation anxiety!
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The past events that wiz did were fun. So i guarantee this will be really fun. :D
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this sounds awesome, i'll make an effort to make this!
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As of right now it looks like I won't be able to make it by 8:00. I should be there around 9:00 If someone is on at 8:00 and could get this going in my lounge I would really appreciate it. :)
Also, Metal, send an FR to GTP_Wizard
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Just took this car out for a little spin on these tracks. Fun as :fuck
Hoping for a good turnout. :)
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I'll be right there in about 4 hours :)
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I'll be right there in about 4 hours :)
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New tire wear = I'm in trouble.
I'm not smooth enough with the throttle, especially with a car like the NSX, so I couldn't get RM's to last past 3 laps. :o
I may be restricted to low hp, and short races. :(
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Pd has fucked up this time. Tire wear is far too quick now. Seems like it would have been obvious to them if they tested these things first. :-[
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Pd has fucked up this time. Tire wear is far too quick now. Seems like it would have been obvious to them if they tested these things first. :-[
It really is amazing how they don't seem to try things first (the GT Academy time trials early on come to mind). With the new sound effects, I couldn't hear any of the chatter during a race, only engine noise, so I thought it was just me destroying the tires in the race. I was unaware of the change in tire modeling so I was a bit surprised when I started losing tire on the 2th lap last night. When the race ended, I had maybe 10% remaining on the rears and 15% on the fronts.
Not it looks like every race is going to have to factor in tire wear. As usual, well done, PD.
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I'm guessing tire wear will be getting more patching. I'm certain we could all adapt to this, but I can't shake the feeling PD will be tweaking this more in the future.
So it probably doesn't matter that the tune and how it's driven have a huge affect on tire wear. Right now it seems any slip between the tire and road surface causes an instant loss of rubber.
Wizard used the RS and pitting to victory vs. RH and no pitting. I was too far back nursing RS without a pit to see how close the finish was.
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I'm guessing tire wear will be getting more patching. I'm certain we could all adapt to this, but I can't shake the feeling PD will be tweaking this more in the future.
So it probably doesn't matter that the tune and how it's driven have a huge affect on tire wear. Right now it seems any slip between the tire and road surface causes an instant loss of rubber.
Wizard used the RS and pitting to victory vs. RH and no pitting. I was too far back nursing RS without a pit to see how close the finish was.
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How about nursing R3?
The guy from Malta said R1, 2 and 3 make no sense anymore.
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I'm not a fan of the new tire wear rate either, at least when it comes to racing tires. Sports don't seem too bad. Haven't even tried comforts yet.
Starting to wonder... for certain events (particularly if we want to use racing softs) if tire wear should be turned to OFF.
Is that more realistic? No, obviously not.
Would it be more fun? I think so.
Again though, only for certain evnets. Quite commonly we run 5 lappers. Racing Softs don't even last 5 laps at some of the longer tracks, and on the 4th or 5th lap the cars become almost undriveable. Races like that might be more fun with tire wear off.
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I'm not a fan of the new tire wear rate either, at least when it comes to racing tires. Sports don't seem too bad. Haven't even tried comforts yet.
Starting to wonder... for certain events (particularly if we want to use racing softs) if tire wear should be turned to OFF.
Is that more realistic? No, obviously not.
Would it be more fun? I think so.
Again though, only for certain evnets. Quite commonly we run 5 lappers. Racing Softs don't even last 5 laps at some of the longer tracks, and on the 4th or 5th lap the cars become almost undriveable. Races like that might be more fun with tire wear off.
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I really expect more patching from PD on tires. Though for now I think we should try to move to Sports tires unless using very high HP cars.