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Is there diff settings in the set up? I would start there. And / or soften front anti roll bar.
Pretty sure they always do black friday deals on subs, I got mine last year for 1 year with whatever discount that came to so planning to re-sub for another year or two when they announce the sale
Still really enjoying the GT4's, also really really enjoying the new weather 'reroll' setup even if it doesn't exactly help me at times
Did the 2-hour GT4 race on Saturday and really struggled, it was dry but track temp around 21-22c and understeer was my issue, I just did the 30 minute open setup race using the same setup but less fuel and it was much better, track temp around 19.5c...Finished 8th I think it was, ranked somewhere around 14th so a small iRating bump and pretty clean so bit of SR too, good times
Seems as usual Spa brings out all the idiots 
it's been crazy every race so farhas been nuts, never seen so many incidents, front the usual crashes but lost count how many are spinning out on first lap due to cold tyres.
Dunno what it is about spa but never seen so many first lap incidents
it's been crazy every race so farhas been nuts, never seen so many incidents, front the usual crashes but lost count how many are spinning out on first lap due to cold tyres. Dunno what it is about spa but never seen so many first lap incidents
Pretty sure they always do black friday deals on subs, I got mine last year for 1 year with whatever discount that came to so planning to re-sub for another year or two when they announce the sale
Still really enjoying the GT4's, also really really enjoying the new weather 'reroll' setup even if it doesn't exactly help me at times
Finished 8th I think it was, ranked somewhere around 14th so a small iRating bump and pretty clean so bit of SR too, good times
Yeah looks like I can get 30% off with the sale
Just switched from a Moza R5 to a Logitech RS50. Had to play around with the settings as there was a horrible judder even whilst stationary. First impressions are that you can feel much more through the force feedback, presumably down to the TrueForce Logitech has.
had a R5 n R9 before going to simagic Alpha evo Sport, was massive difference, more refinement on the simagic, but can feel so much more, Moza just doesn't feel refined, ffb feels rough, which you miss loads of detail, but moza a decent place to start with.
Just done the 2-hour GT4 (and TCR this week) endurance race as usual, shockingly calm though! Bit of a shame as I was way outclassed by basically everyone pace wise but came in ok, tiny loss of ir and nice healthy gain of SR. My fixed races this week have been mental so needed that
@MCFC_ANDY is it the 3-hour GT3's you do? I may be doing the one tomorrow and if so was wondering if there were any tips on strategy? I'd be in the McLaren and basically just doing it 'for fun', and practice as I'm trying to convince my mates to do the 12-hour Pcup Spa endurance at the end of the month and not done an team endurance race but 10 years now
@MCFC_ANDY is it the 3-hour GT3's you do? I may be doing the one tomorrow and if so was wondering if there were any tips on strategy? I'd be in the McLaren and basically just doing it 'for fun', and practice as I'm trying to convince my mates to do the 12-hour Pcup Spa endurance at the end of the month and not done an team endurance race but 10 years now
yeah gt3, strategy is a tough one as strategy down to others as well,(idiots a plenty ) plenty race like its 2 lap race at beginning , take your,time take it easy till tyres come up to temp/ first couple laps, you see so many offs due to cold tyres, no need to force overtakes as plenty of time to work out overtakes n where, fuel save is important, plenty tips for fuel save, i find lifting off throttle 100m or so before heavy braking corners. take new tyres at pitstop, unless short stint. but tbh just have fun 3hrs will fly by.
) plenty race like its 2 lap race at beginning , take your,time take it easy till tyres come up to temp/ first couple laps, you see so many offs due to cold tyres, no need to force overtakes as plenty of time to work out overtakes n where, fuel save is important, plenty tips for fuel save, i find lifting off throttle 100m or so before heavy braking corners. take new tyres at pitstop, unless short stint. but tbh just have fun 3hrs will fly by.yeah gt3, strategy is a tough one as strategy down to others as well,(idiots a plenty
Cheers, fuel savings is definitely a skill I'm lacking tbh, never 'needed' to really although have been thinking it could be potentially relevant even in the GT4 ones...
Probably gonna jump on in a bit and get an idea on what a full stint is like, did do one earlier in the week but wasn't really paying attention/thinking about fuel or anything. Do you know how many stops it'll be kinda thing? We briefly looked at the Indy 8 hour and I did a full stint (without saving) and it was ~56 minutes, kinda assuming it'll be similar at Spa so without saving it'd be 2 full tank stops and a splash at the end, I guess with fuel saving you can avoid the splash? Or is the fuel more limited than even that?
it will tell how many laps you have left, plus new iracing fuel usage, just make sure you can scroll through to see your relative/fuel remaing, but its auto fuel plus tyres if no button mapping, so just enjoy. button mapping, or setup hub to show fuel, iracing new usage is ok for me, button mapping is very helpful heres few of mind, the chat one is to no tyres at pitstop, plus blackbox to see info like fuel etc
Yeah, I've got a joystick setup for blackbox changes, also altered the ini files so by default I have no fuel/tyres selected (which isn't really great for endurance tbh ), I really should set some binds for the chat stuff tbh, keep meaning too and end up trying to change stuff on the straights or worse pit entry
Also got both the iRacing and iOverlay fuel usage widgets running to see usage as well as the dash on the 720S shows it.
Just did some practice, not super fast but can sit in the 17's for most of the stint so happy-ish with that. Found I was using ~4.4l per lap of fuel for the most part then after a full stint I tried my first attempt at fuel saving and did a few laps around 4.2l per lap, and still managing mid-high 17's with it, first lap was slooooow and still used a bunch but got a bit of a hang for it, I'd imagine could probably do a bunch better still but not bad for the first few laps. I think at 20+ lap stints that 0.2 saving should be an extra lap of fuel so worth it I think.
I get why people get so into endurance racing tbh, the GT3 seems that step up in that respect to the GT4's...
), I really should set some binds for the chat stuff tbh, keep meaning too and end up trying to change stuff on the straights or worse pit entry Also got both the iRacing and iOverlay fuel usage widgets running to see usage as well as the dash on the 720S shows it.
Just did some practice, not super fast but can sit in the 17's for most of the stint so happy-ish with that. Found I was using ~4.4l per lap of fuel for the most part then after a full stint I tried my first attempt at fuel saving and did a few laps around 4.2l per lap, and still managing mid-high 17's with it, first lap was slooooow and still used a bunch but got a bit of a hang for it, I'd imagine could probably do a bunch better still but not bad for the first few laps. I think at 20+ lap stints that 0.2 saving should be an extra lap of fuel so worth it I think.
I get why people get so into endurance racing tbh, the GT3 seems that step up in that respect to the GT4's...
Yeah, those LMPs are a menace, not done the open race with them yet and kinda dreading it after the past few weeks, they just seem to make the most boneheaded moves constantly and although I'm happy to let them through the good ones manage to get past without completely destroying both of our lap times, the bad ones need me to take avoiding action...
The 2-hour race yesterday with the TCRs was interesting as they're really quite close in pace, in fact the top 3/4 are faster than me at least, not hard though But being slower down the straights it gets awkward in other ways, I could probably keep ahead of them just because of the straight line advantage of GT4 vs TCR so need to find the place to give them the position then let them get away whilst I navigate the boat through the corners
The 2-hour race yesterday with the TCRs was interesting as they're really quite close in pace, in fact the top 3/4 are faster than me at least, not hard though
But being slower down the straights it gets awkward in other ways, I could probably keep ahead of them just because of the straight line advantage of GT4 vs TCR so need to find the place to give them the position then let them get away whilst I navigate the boat through the corners