2015-NOV-04 rF2 Corvettes at Road America WET RACE

[F1Fan07]

#2 of a three race weekly mini-series. All bets are off this time. It's a wet race!!

Some things to be aware of:

- The track won't fully dry in 20 minutes but a dry line will form.
- Quali will be light rain and constant... a dry line will not form
- It's impossible to make practice behave like the race due to the different lengths of time. Everyone should manually advance the server to race and run a full 20 minutes to understand what the race will be like.
- You must start the race on Wet tires. Change if you want as the track dries.



RESULTS: not yet

DATE: Wednesday, October 28, 2015

TIME: Quali session starts at 7:15 PM Pacific / 10:15 PM Eastern, Races begin at about 7:30 PM Pacific / 10:30 PM Eastern.

SIM: rFactor 2, Build 1008
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MOD: ISI Corvette C6R GT2 1.62
DOWNLOAD HERE

RFMOD (if it doesn't auto-download then install manually):
bhs.dynalias.org:64297/Mods/GBRRainFun.rfmod (if prompted, leave username blank and use the race server password)

TRACK: Road America 1.0 by Alex Coutie and others
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QUALIFICATION: 10 minutes

FLAGS: Black Flags Only.

LENGTH: 2 x 30 minute races.

PIT: No mandatory pit stop required

FUEL: normal

TIRES: x2

DAMAGE: 50%

DRIVING AIDS: Auto Clutch, Low TCS, Low ABS

Setups/Tuning: Open

[neverender158]

[zedarchitect]

sweet - it's a lot of fun

will practice and quali be in the wet?

[helios16v]

Mwahahahahaha

[F1Fan07]

Oct 22, 2015 4:58:51 GMT -8 zedarchitect said:

sweet - it's a lot of fun

will practice and quali be in the wet?

If I can set the server that way, yes.

[zedarchitect]

I think the time we did that one wet race they had some odd things happening with the start times of the sessions. I am out of practice, but I know you can set the start time of each session so that the track conditions seem to progress from wet to a drying track without a big jump. I think they had the server set with a long time between Qual-Warmup-Race so the track conditions would jump in between sessions. I think a little bit of time is good since in real life sessions are often a day apart, but it should feel natural.

I dont mean to complicate your task for an exhibition, but that was one observation from the one race I did in the wet. I can't wait!

[F1Fan07]

If it passes my testing... we'll use Road America which was just released (3rd party).

simhqmotorsports.com/road-america/

[Scott Beck]

Todd and I did some testing tonight. It started out wet, then slowly started to dry out, but it also turned dark. Is that the way you have it set intentionally?

[F1Fan07]

I am testing several different things today.

[Scott Beck]

Sounds good

[F1Fan07]

OK, server is set, I think. Everyone should try practicing in the race session at least once.

I wanted the track to dry during the race but there's just not enough time without accelerating the time scale to crazy levels.

[F1Fan07]

Scott and I tested a 20 minute race distance. If there are no objections I would like to change the events to 2 x 30 minutes.

As it is, everything happens too fast. I changed from wet to dry at 8:00 to go, one/two lap to warm up the tires then two fast laps at 6 sec/lap faster than wet and the race was over.

Tire wear is good... no one should wear out the wets before it's time for a switch to dry. FYI, tire wear is 2x. Previous events were 1x.

[Scott Beck]

No objections here.

[Dan W.]

Sounds good.

[zedarchitect]

This reminds me of a great book, "The Art of Racing in the Rain". It is a great book for anyone who likes racing and/or dogs. Easy read and lots of racing references. Pretty funny too.

www.garthstein.com/works/the-art-of-racing-in-the-rain/