ACC Endurance Series Round 4 @ Laguna Seca - Mon 20th February 2023

Nascentes · Feb 21, 2023

What a race, my friends!
My race was just to make it to the end without crashing into anyone or damaging my own car. I had only 40 minutes to practice last Friday night, and some 20 minutes before qualifying. I had no confidence in the car, especially on the turn in. One of the weakest points of my driving is the lack of precision on steering inputs. On this track these costs too much. The track banking counts a lot for the grip, so one really needs to get as close as possible to the inside of the kerbs, otherwise you lose too much grip. With my lack of precision, combined with how the car was set up, when I went conservative, I would not even hit the kerb and lose all the grip. When I was more aggressive, I would hit the sausage kerb and get to Mars before Elon Musk. The laps where I was aggressive and nailed most of the corners, I could lap in the low 1.24, but most of the time I was on the 1.25. When I did hit the sausage, 1.31. Luckily, I didn't crash into anyone, had only 2 spins, and didn't hit any barrier, so no damage at all.

Congrats to Enrico for the win and the others on the podium. Looks like it was an intense battle!

McFlunch · Feb 21, 2023

Oh and does somebody have the replay please ?

(I only have the second half of the race everytime...)

SwannyUK · Feb 21, 2023

McFlunch said:
Sarting to practice on Zandvoort tonight as I never tried this track @SwannyUK Will it be rainny / random weather ? Or do we bring our sunglasses like yesterday ? (please, I love sunglasses )

I think I'll leave this one with a high probability of being dry, give everyone a break lol.

RicardoJorge92 · Feb 21, 2023

Nascentes said:
What a race, my friends!
My race was just to make it to the end without crashing into anyone or damaging my own car. I had only 40 minutes to practice last Friday night, and some 20 minutes before qualifying. I had no confidence in the car, especially on the turn in. One of the weakest points of my driving is the lack of precision on steering inputs.

Hey! Not an expert, but something that helped me improve massively on turn in, is dialing in the trail braking. Allows you to rotate the car into the corner and not lock up. It feels counter intuitive at first, as you are braking less, but it slows down in a much more stable way.

McFlunch · Feb 21, 2023

SwannyUK said:
I think I'll leave this one with a high probability of being dry, give everyone a break lol.

Great

RicardoJorge92 · Feb 21, 2023

McFlunch said:
Oh and does somebody have the replay please ?
(I only have the second half of the race everytime...)

Change your settings. They are usually set to 30 minutes max.

McFlunch · Feb 21, 2023

RicardoJorge92 said:
Change your settings. They are usually set to 30 minutes max.

I thought the problem came from something like that. Thx

JohannS · Feb 21, 2023

McFlunch said:
Oh and does somebody have the replay please ?
(I only have the second half of the race everytime...)

Here you go: Download

McFlunch · Feb 21, 2023

bobbyD_ said:
Here you go: Download

Thanks a lot !

Andrew Sebastian · Feb 21, 2023

Race report:

Having done mostly low fuel running in practice server, I spent most of practice running with stint fuel to nail down braking, and also practice pit stops.

Qualifying went ok, didn’t quite get to the times I’d managed in practice sessions, but still quite a bit off top spots.

Start went ok, got passed by Robert in opening couple of corners, had a nice battle with Will then just tried to settle into race.

Gained a few spots after T1 collisions, followed Robert for a bit and managed to pass him on corner before run up to corkscrew.

Then I just got my head down. P1 was gone, so just focused on navigating traffic and keeping it on track.

Managed to do that, no track warnings and my consistency rating in game jumped to 98 so happy with that. No doubt I benefitted from other mishaps throughout the race, but I guess that’s the name of the game.

Jay Clarke 66 · Feb 21, 2023

Hey everyone! Not a race report as such as I’m not competing for top positions, so it’s more a progress report lol. I’m pleased to be honest, i go out each week intending to finish a race with minimal damage and successfully carry out my pit strategy. So my pluses this week were…. I got my personal best Laguna lap time during the race, did not get lapped by every car, managed to avoid any difficulty letting the fast guys through, and did an all time Yoda Jedi moment at the T3 accident! Literally threaded though all the car’s spinning and pointing several directions without going off track or clipping any cars but I did require an underwear change during pit stop . Spun once which I was disappointed about, but it was on the corkscrew so meh if it’s gonna happen anywhere it’s there. Thank you Chris for these great challenging races ! They are seriously great fun, and thanks to the entire grid for the tips and encouragement during practice servers and of course for your patience each week with the slower guys . See you all next week.

SwannyUK · Feb 21, 2023

Jay Clarke 66 said:
Hey everyone! Not a race report as such as I’m not competing for top positions, so it’s more a progress report lol. I’m pleased to be honest, i go out each week intending to finish a race with minimal damage and successfully carry out my pit strategy. So my pluses this week were…. I got my personal best Laguna lap time during the race, did not get lapped by every car, managed to avoid any difficulty letting the fast guys through, and did an all time Yoda Jedi moment at the T3 accident! Literally threaded though all the car’s spinning and pointing several directions without going off track or clipping any cars but I did require an underwear change during pit stop . Spun once which I was disappointed about, but it was on the corkscrew so meh if it’s gonna happen anywhere it’s there. Thank you Chris for these great challenging races ! They are seriously great fun, and thanks to the entire grid for the tips and encouragement during practice servers and of course for your patience each week with the slower guys . See you all next week.

Awesome stuff! I enjoy reading progress reports and seeing drivers in our club hit personal goals and getting quicker.

Nascentes · Feb 21, 2023

RicardoJorge92 said:
Hey! Not an expert, but something that helped me improve massively on turn in, is dialing in the trail braking. Allows you to rotate the car into the corner and not lock up. It feels counter intuitive at first, as you are braking less, but it slows down in a much more stable way.

I did that and helped a lot. I think that the default setups always have the brake balace too forward. The default aggressive for the Audi was 63%. I started with 59% and after a few laps was running 55.8%. To the end of each stint I moved to 57% to avoid spins due to worn tires.

RicardoJorge92 · Feb 21, 2023

Nascentes said:
I did that and helped a lot. I think that the default setups always have the brake balace too forward. The default aggressive for the Audi was 63%. I started with 59% and after a few laps was running 55.8%. To the end of each stint I moved to 57% to avoid spins due to worn tires.

With the Porsche, I drive with it bellow 50.
For this one, I started on 45, but went up to 47

SwannyUK · Feb 21, 2023

RicardoJorge92 said:
With the Porsche, I drive with it bellow 50.
For this one, I started on 45, but went up to 47

Yeh I think the Porsche can run the BB further back than other cars, it's an absolute weapon if you can cope with the handling characteristics.

RicardoJorge92 · Feb 21, 2023

SwannyUK said:
Yeh I think the Porsche can run the BB further back than other cars, it's an absolute weapon if you can cope with the handling characteristics.

I used it for the Barcelona test and couldn't get a hang of it.
For this one, I made a few setup changes that suited me.
Has been cool to learn a bit more and geek out over these details.

SwannyUK · Feb 21, 2023

Results

https://simresults.net/230221-kV1

*Points for 5th and 6th reversed - Carlos let me past but earned 5th place after my off.

Trox · Feb 21, 2023

Driver Standings

Position	Driver	Points
1	Enrico P @huggybendy	81
2	Chris S @SwannyUK	71
3	Andrew S @sebastalona	66
4	Will H @Trox	65
5	Johann S @bobbyD_	60
6	Ricardo J @RicardoJorge92	54
7	Oliver Z @akephoe	47
8	Michael K @mklengel	45
9	HARRY B @Hazzatron19	41
10	Carlos B @CarlosB	36
11	Andre N @Nascentes	32
12	Robert B @rborowik	25
13	Myles R @tabletmctablet	19
14	Taj J @Taj Johal	19
15	Alexis M @McFlunch	19
16	Piotrek B @Piotrek Blaszczak	13
17	Jay C @Jay Clarke 66	12
18	Callum K @Supersoulfighta	11
19	Carsten S @Kischte	9
20	Rich G @Rich Green	6
21	Tom C @Reefabus	6
22	Douglas A @Douglas Aird	5
23	Cengiz G @Cengiz Gencer	0