Round 3 - Road Atlanta [Feb 11th]

It's the car's name, according to Sky.

Sky Willis wrote:

someone else can have my car this race then. treat him well. his name is Mr Starsypants.

Jason White wrote:

195 mph for Yves on the long straight! 

184 mph for the Mclaren M6B w/427

T160 will hit 181 right as it leaves the track at the top of the hill, otherwise I'm topping out at about 177ish when I brake for the last turn.

EDIT: No sooner do I say that then I learn that he will in fact hit 184 just before the Braking point.

Brian Janik wrote:

Jason White wrote:

195 mph for Yves on the long straight! 

184 mph for the Mclaren M6B w/427

Attention de bien négocier la fausse courbe à droite sur la bosse pour perdre un minimun de vitesse.
On peut perdre facilement 10km/h. J'y arrive à 293km/h (182mph), je ne perd qu'1 km/h (181mph).

Count me in please!

Little tip for anyone who wants to try it. I’m hitting 184mph in my 5l Porsche but extending it to 188mph simply by lowering my 4th gear and letting it bounce of the Rev limiter. Wouldn’t recommend for the race but for qualifying could help top speed for some..

Great track though, shame it doesn’t have 16 chicanes down the back straight for myself but never mind

present

Present

Nobody for Mr Starsypants btw? Michal, you? There's more than just the #55

subsonic Can-Am car.

#9 Lola T160 will be on track at Sunday.
Sorry for the late confirmation

There is still one open car left for anyone who is interested (see the first post in this thread)

Jason White wrote:

There is still one open car left for anyone who is interested (see the first post in this thread)

would love to, but mother nature has other plans. i knew my schedule would be out of control this time of year, was the main reason i didnt request a car. still an outside chance this breaks early enough i can have everything done and home in time. alarm set for 3am, fingers crossed ;P if i can make and a car is still free, i'll drive anything. if i dont make it, tough track, tough cars, good luck everyone!

dave

The Broadcast has been created and can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IgymtHIMtQ


I hope you'll all enjoy the show and that everyone turns up for as good a race as we had at Mont Tremblant

im too late to get it all fired up
sorry guys but get this car asap

François Remmen wrote:

im too late to get it all fired up
sorry guys but get this car asap

#55 m8e please!

made it just in time ;P

David Jaques wrote:

François Remmen wrote:

im too late to get it all fired up
sorry guys but get this car asap

#55 m8e please!

made it just in time ;P

ok

Can't believe it still...

@Marazzi: You're a Texas driver, right?

It shows.

Absolutely horrible, horrible drive from me today. Sorry to Brian Janik for ruining your race.

Nice avatar Martin

David Sabre wrote:

Nice avatar Martin

Its your model. Only some tweaking in Blender.

Might need a rule about parking drivers for the race after X amount of incidents. I feel like I saw a lot of the same cars stopped on the side of the track (or in the middle of the track) several times throughout the event. This is done in stock car racing and it's a way to prevent things from getting too out of hand as the night progresses.

I get that not everyone is in the same skill bracket, but there is a difference between cars 1 or 2 laps down, versus cars 8-12 laps down who just shouldn't be out there. There's nothing to gain when you're that far removed from the actual competitive part of the race and have so little car control.

Grats Yves, following you in the last laps and listening to that Ferrari sound was quite a treat after a pretty up-and-down race for me!

I had a seriously great joust for position five with David Jundt and David Jaques for pretty much the first half hour, but then a driving error from a lapped car put David out of the race and cost me one of the four wheels. You win some, you lose some. That puts me in the weird position where I am happy with the experience of driving in the race although I'm a bit mad about the result.   Definitely  looking forward to the next one!

David Jundt wrote:

Can't believe it still...

@Marazzi: You're a Texas driver, right?

It shows.

Yeah, that whole thing was a bit of a mess. Definitely a driver error from Fillipo. Poor driving, but I'm sure he didn't want to cause that. However, you making that move in the first place put us both in a vulnerable position. Needless to say I didn't appreciate you taking that risk since it cost me four minutes of repairs and a shot at the podium. On the other hand, pretty much the whole exchange before that was some of the greatest racing I've had in a long time, so it's easy to forgive. Thanks for the battle!