AC Multiclass Abarth 500/Mazda MX5@ Meadowdale Raceway, Wed 26th April 2023

Assetto Corsa Racing Club event

HF2000

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Welcome to the RD Racing Club.

After last week it's time for a more gentle track.

Meadowdale International Raceway was a 5.3km track located in Carpentersville, Illinois. This challenging course combined features of both oval track and open road racing. A 1,6km long main straight and huge Monza Wall were just two of its more notable features. Most of the track was laid out on flat, open farmland, but the eastern portion featured curves, climbs and esses that undulated through a forest and over the western side of the Fox River Valley.


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SITUATIONAL AWARENESS is essential for clean and respectful driving in our community. You should therefore use tools like Helicorsa or CarRadar and CrewChief. The links for these apps are on the bottom of this post.

DISCORD. It's important that you also join us during the event on Discord for additional information and instructions. Link is below.


Sign up:
Go to https://acsm.racedepartment.com/championship/dfca355d-15d6-4adf-a6ad-80ebc5d4af66?server=1 using the Emperor account you have been given and register with your steamID.

If you don't have an Emperor account yet, ask for one by posting in this thread (only for premium members).


Especially the new and inexperienced drivers are recommended to participate. There are a lot of learning opportunities but without the intensity and stress of the GT3/4 cars or the endurance multiclass cars. It's also good step up for those kind of events.

Server information:

  • Server: Racedepartment Server 2 Password: standard password, if you don't know that, ask for it in this thread and it will be send in a PM.
  • 20:00 CEST, 19:00 BST (18:00 UTC) | 60 minutes - Official Practice
  • 21:05 CEST, 20:05 BST (19:05 UTC) | 20 minutes - Qualification
  • 21:30 CEST, 20:30 BST (19:30 UTC) | 60 minutes - Race
  • Practiceserver available during the week. Same password.

Event details:


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Entry list:
 
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abecede

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Oh boy, one of my all time favourite tracks! I really hope that I can join next Wednesday! It's SUCH a good track. (Even better with a car that has the power to JUMP over the start-finish straight bump!)

Edit: the history of the track is quite sad - the Monza wall had tarmac which doesn't work nicely with the sun shining on it. The Italians knew why they used concrete...
 
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RS242

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I'm in!

Track is fast and fun, although some corners can be misleading: all looks well and controlled until you take the wrong line :roflmao:

I'll see if I can configure the Abarth properly this time. With the default settings was able to easily bring it below 2 minutes, should only improve from there.
 

HF2000

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Count me in, sticking with the Mazda though as at least I know the car if not the track. Looks good though. What kind of lap time will be typical?
Hi William, you could not know this but we have a gentlemen's agreement not to post laptimes before the race. We don't want scare off potential newcomers.

It's ok to communicate via a PM so you are allowed to post the question and asking for answers via PM. Also you can look on Emperor in the results to see which laptimes others have on the practice server.
 

gearwhine

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Can anyone help me with some settings? I just upgraded my faithful Thrustmaster TX to one of the 'highly praised' Fanatec CSL DD 8nm yesterday. Where the u tube influencers go WOW! i am going EWWW. Kind of missing my old faithful at the moment, losing a few seconds a lap which as anyone who knows me i cannot afford to do. I know we all have different views but a few ideas of what to focus on would be great. I have made a lot of progress, but as of right now i am trying to get it as good as it was before. Sort of defeats the reason for changing it really. I am sure i will get there in the end but a heads up could get me there quicker maybe.
 

HF2000

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Can anyone help me with some settings? I just upgraded my faithful Thrustmaster TX to one of the 'highly praised' Fanatec CSL DD 8nm yesterday. Where the u tube influencers go WOW! i am going EWWW. Kind of missing my old faithful at the moment, losing a few seconds a lap which as anyone who knows me i cannot afford to do. I know we all have different views but a few ideas of what to focus on would be great. I have made a lot of progress, but as of right now i am trying to get it as good as it was before. Sort of defeats the reason for changing it really. I am sure i will get there in the end but a heads up could get me there quicker maybe.
Hi Steve, I had the same experience when I changed my G27 for a DD wheel and Heusinkveld pedals. At first I was more than a second slower. The muscle memory needs to build up again.
And in the end it didn't make me faster in the lap only more consistent.
But the immersion is much better especially with the pedals.
 

JamKart22

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These recommended settings are a good starting point


It's tempting to ramp the ffb up to 11 but that will soon become painful. Start ffb strength low and build it up.
These is also a setting in "CSP -> FFB Tweaks -> More physically accurate gyro implementation"

Activate and set strength to 25%. Can stop a lot of oscillation
 
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rooim_87

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Having read so much about car settings it's there anyone that could point out a direction to what settings to look for and what they do
I have only changed the psi in the tyres and drove.
 
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