Quote from Speed Senna :

Someone other miss this too?

Nope actually. I was never fan of the old hockenheim. It is a bit like modern monza. Boring long straight, couple of boring chicanes, couple decent corners. I never enjoyed driving it in any sims either.

Some action from troy's server:
https://www.youtube.com/watch? ... ailpage&v=O-jGyFXr1rA
(there's me getting rekt in T2)

Meh I have literally turned every possible graphical setting off and I still get like 40fps...

Hmm my fps has tanked a bit and I sometimes get like 40fps on the pitstraight despite the fact that I've literally turned everything off to get good fps. Not to mention really bad stuttering at times? Anyone else having any issues? It could be join lag too...

Personally I just use between 560-700 depending what car I drive. I have configured the wheel as 900 (903 to be exact, I did not bother trying to chance the last tenth of pixel to get it to 900) in the game and I just use the fanatec tuning menu to change the rotation while driving so it feels fast enough. My wheel is Fanatec 911 turbo s which is basically the same as fanatec csr/gt2/gt3 and probably the only major difference to a G25/7 is the diameter (it is also a belt drive).

If someone has the "ffb rotation quickness" image from iracing forum that shows the different wheels then please post them here. From that pic it should be possible to tell how fast different wheels.

As for ac and G25/7 you could set it to 900 in the game and then do this with your g25/7s: http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/ ... ck-settings-guide.286646/ to change the sensitivety

Ok, last post about this car for me. If you really think this car is any good I challenge you to install rfactor and historix mod and drive the cobra there and then come back and say this is even half decent. There, done.

I still think it drives like crap. It is gtr2 all over again. Too much grip on low slip angles, impossible to spin on power and once it goes countersteering makes it only spin faster. If you can keep it on the pre-programmed low slip angle it is super easy to drive but once it goes you might just as well get up and go crab a burrito while waiting for the car to stop spinning around.

Someone should do a comedy rift video where they put someone with that headset on and use the rollercoast ride demo. Then during the ride they throw buckets of water at him, hit him with baseball bats, lift his seat up and down and have fans blowing hot and cold air at him all the while the guy with he headset on screams how realistic it is

Let's do some racing today? Maybe we can get little more people if we have little more warning

What track is indigp?

Here are links for those other tracks:
blackwood: http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/blackwood.2639/
gentrack: http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/gentrack1.2541/
newbury: http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/newbury.2576/ (this comes with newbury 2006 as well)
prato: http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/prato.2525/

And the cars:
cobra: http://www.racedepartment.com/ ... ds/shelby-cobra-427.2710/

The calendar does look interesting. Basically it is going to run from september to june which is completely different than almost any other motorsport series that basically start in march and end in november. Formula E is planning to race in december and january. It may actually work out for them because there is literally nothing else to watch...

So I downloaded the cobra and the gp2 car. The gp2 car feels crazy skittish everywhere. To the point of being undrivable unless the track is super smooth.

The cobra. I'm partially impressed and partially disappointed. The physics... feel great at small slip angles. But when it gets sideways it is poor rfactor mods again. It's like past 25-30 degrees there is nothing. Countersteering just makes the car spin faster. Also all the cobras drive like they have traction control. And tons of downforce that makes them achieve something like .3g too much grip when cornering. They all corner like on rails.

Also tried some tracks. Blackwood. Did two attemps. Assetto corsa turned into kerbal space program on two different parts of the track. Did not complete one single lap. Then tried Gp200 track. Apparently this is a track by madcowie that was good in rfactor. I have distant memories of disliking it. The driving surface felt lower poly than mario kart track ported to nkpro. Every turn is a chicane anyways so unless you like fern bay you won't like it anyways. Tried it in the gp2 car so I can be horribly and awkwardly wrong too. I hope I am.

The best car was the ibiza. Having to use 2nd gear while climbing the bathurst uphills was... hard to stay focused.

Quote from kars19 :

Can't wait to be old just to do shit like this on purpose and then play innocent

Quote from R3DMAN :

I wonder if he let tiago convert it becUse it was a demo track.. Either way.. My thanks goes to him.

I think that is indeed the reason. It is not exactly the first time blackwood is being converted. It has been converted for rfactor and rfactor2 (maybe even for nkpro too at some point?!). There is probably a thread about it somewhere here too.

edit: time flies: https://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=10168

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He could download crystaldiskinfo and see in how good shape his hd is. Or try some of the other hd tools from his hd manufacturer. It could be an old hd dying.

When driving in sim I like the new silverstone better than the one before the new corners. I'm only really missing the old bridge and those blind double left handers but other than that I really like the new track. Only thing I don't really like is the new slow corners (turns 3 and 4 I think) but they are not that bad. I really don't miss the chicane before the bridge or the corner before that though.

Putting grass there next to the track sounds to me like the simplest solution. It prevents cutting the inside in turn 14 so it should work just fine in exit of 15 as well. Same with 9.
Track map
http://corseclienti.ferrari.co ... /silverstone_circuit1.png

The constant complaining about track limits was super annoying though. Imho the track is broken if you can drive off the track and be faster. If we start to see penalties because a driver goes 5 centimetres too wide for one times too many then that is just going to be stupid. Put some grass or kerbs that unsettle the car if you go too wide and solve these problems...

The alonso vettel battle was great but at times alonso was waving too much for my liking. Great job with bottas though.

Also #inbeforemercedesconspiracyaboutmakingrosbergdnfonpurpose

Yeah, lots of bizarre reasons why cars did not go out or stopped their laps...

After Q1 when both finns were out:

Quote from mike1158 :

Perhaps instead of a fan boost, they could just have a handful of landmines on the circuit. triggered by fan boredom. Problem is that I can see this after about lap eight or so.

Well the cars may be slow and boring but the racing can still be good. With so little power (how much torque are they making?) passing may be difficult because they still have lots of grip. On the other hand the racing could end up looking a bit like btcc with lots of body contact which will probably have its own appeal to people who like crashes and bumping other people off the track. The cars are not really suited for that though.

It is admirable that they have gone full electric and not put a small petrol engine there and made it hybrid but in the end all that seems to be happening is that the preconceptions about eletric cars are just strengthened. They are slow, heavy and unexciting. And not even eco friendly.

The one single electric car that has been even slightly exciting is the nordschleife electric lap record by toyota in 2011 I think. But even that 7:22 time is kind of good / kind of bad when you think that the radical sr8 (which is the same chassis toyota used I think?) has done lap time of 6:55. What electric cars need is a proof of concept that they can be faster than similar normal cars.

Very few are interested about steam car racing because they are slow and heavy. They are unique and for the engineering types there is some attraction in the technology of the cars but as racing cars they are still slow. It could even happen that electric cars just are never going to be interesting for racing. Everybody seems to think that electric is not good at the moment but in the future it will be the only thing. I doubt it. It will take massive amounts of money to get the battery technology to such level that it makes sense from racing perspective. Then it needs the money perspective taken care as well.

Of course rules can be changed to make any kind of engine competitive. The rules were bend for diesels so that they could be competitive (and probably still are?). But are there people who are inspired and awed by diesel race engines? No. But there are people who are interested about the hybrid technology because it adds something. It adds power and that is exciting. The additional weight is something never gets mentioned and in some ways the added complexity of hybrids is exciting as well. But electric and diesels? Meh.

A lot of people watch boxing. A lot of people watch ufc. Some morons even watch wwe (sorry)(not really). Would anyone watch boxing where the boxers move slowly, punch like little girls and can only do 20 second rounds?

So close but no cigar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch? ... ailpage&v=-h09UvZ4bEI
(that is not official account just in case you have low iq)

Quote from Keling :

The fundamental problem here isn't data access. Does the engine support it?

Well the Z4 and the abarth 500 have electronic diff of sorts so even if the code doesn't support fully eletronic 4wd cars yet there is already some support for the computer gimmicks. But even in the z4 I just hate the edl. It just kicks the car into understeer when you have gotten the car into perfect slide and turned into a corner...

I have one more improvement suggestion. After the race the top-3 could be decided by a boxing match between the team personnel. 3 teams in - one team out. Thunderdome! To add little spice the team personnel can use any piece of the car as weapon that they can remove during the podium driver interviews.

They could make it that the if you don't get some x number of minimum tweets during the qualifying you need to drive the whole race backwards.

Is there a list of all cars and tracks that are coming to ac at some point? Iirc there are still lots of lotusii for example that are not yet in the game for example. This list for example has been updated in april last time:
http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/ ... st-not-a-wishlist.306899/

Also I'm getting the idea the ac team needs to start updating the cars at some point. The first cars seem to drive worse than the newer cars. The p4/5 ferrari (which is probably one of the first cars they made for ac) is imho not up to the detail as the z4 for example when it comes to physics. The p4 randomly seems to spin from flat kerbs and doesn't seem as nuanced as the newer additions.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/114733

Why not give them all 200kW.. or 400 while we are at it.