AC Alfa Romeo GTAM/Ford Escort RS1600 @ Crystal Palace 1969 - Tue 16th Jan 2024

[JamKart22]

Welcome to the RD Racing Club.

This week we're off to the historic Crystal Palace track from 1969. Home to some classic salon car racing.

The format will be 2x25mins races

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.

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Server information:

• Server: Racedepartment Server 3
• 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 CET, 19:00 GMT (19:00 UTC) | 60 minutes - Official Practice
• 21:05 CET, 20:05 GMT (20:05 UTC) | 20 minutes - Qualification
• 21:30 CET, 20:30 GMT (20:30 UTC) | 25 minutes - Race 1
• 22:00 CET, 21:00 GMT (21:00 UTC) | 25 minutes - Race 2 - Reverse grid of race 1
• Practice server available during the week. Same password.

Event details:

• Car:
  • Alfa Romeo GTAM - Skins
  • Ford Escort RS1600 (KUNOS) - Skins
• Track: Crystal Palace 1969
• Tyre blankets: Yes
• Track Road temperature: 30 Celsius
• Track grip: 100%
• Track limits: No more than 2 wheels over the white/yellow line without a lift of the gas please. You will be penalized if you break this rule.
• Damage: 10%
• Fuel Consumption: 100%
• Tyre wear: 100%
• Pitstop: not mandatory.

Useful Links:

• RaceDepartment Discord: click here
• Sync Accounts: click here
• Recommended apps: Helicorsa + CarRadar+ Top/Centre Flags or AC_Flags + CrewChief
• Tracks, Cars, Apps Installation Guide: click here (Handy guide to install non AC content)
• Racing Club Rules: click here
• Incident Reporting: click here

Entry list:

• Tab Entrants

Practice on Server 3 is up

 

[JamKart22]

If you find the grass is white then deactivating Track Adjustments in CSP fixed it for me.

I that doesn't work then there are few more things to try in the attached document.

 

[Shed 17]

Nice find Colin, I love these old tracks and this one is very nicely done with great graphics.

The Alfa should be quick here.

 

[gearwhine]

Does it fix the trees also. I was on there a few days ago, it almost looked black and white. Very washed out. Ahh, i tried the fix. Did not work for me.

 

[JamKart22]

Have I tried the things in the pdf

 

[JamKart22]

A different csp version might make a difference too

 

[Programmer_Rich]

The black/white effect sounds like seasonal weather FX to me. I'd suggest trying to turn that off before patching anything.

 

[JamKart22]

The pdf describes switching off seasonal effects but it made no difference for me. I had to deactivate Track Adjustments

 

[robthesquare]

Seeing as I'm currently snowed in - it looks like I may be able to race with you guys. Could you PM me the password?

 

[Programmer_Rich]

The pdf describes switching off seasonal effects but it made no difference for me. I had to deactivate Track Adjustments

That also worked for me and looked sooo much better afterwards!

 

[João Nunes]

I cannot seem to find the practice service. Actually none of the Racepartment servers when i do a search. Could i be missing something or doing something wrong?

EDIT: Solved. Downloaded content manager and now i can see it.

 

[JamKart22]

Nice grid tonight

It's a simple 1 minute lap and an ideal taster track for these cars if anyone else fancies a go.

It's also a 2 x 25 min race format (with reverse grid for second race) so you get a second change if you screw up the first race

 

[João Nunes]

Is it just me whose car spawns in the server without a wheel?

 

[JamKart22]

That might be your internet speed. What ping do yo have?

 

[JamKart22]

Join the server and I'll have a look

 

[eN1xes]

Congratz to Jason for p1 and Laurent for p2 . was way hard to play the understeer was like not having a steering wheel i dont know how i managed to get the podium the car in most of the corners was just going straight probably something in the setup not setted in the right place

 

[JamKart22]

Thanks for everyone for racing last night. My R1 performance was pretty poor which at least gave me pole for R2. A bit of netcode error for Paul saw him warp into Steve and I got caught up in the accident and was last again by lap 2.

There seemed a good battle up ahead in R2 with the usual front runners out of position. Rob looked on for a win but fell back towards the end of the race. Well done to the podiums and a special well done to João on a win in his first race with us.

Results are here...

Result 240117-8Wc - zw_crystalpalace - Unknown - Assetto Corsa - Simresults

Result 240117-8Wc - zw_crystalpalace - Unknown - Assetto Corsa - Simresults - The results viewer for your favorite race sims.

simresults.net

 

[cerebralvortex]

That was actually good fun besides the incident with Rob.

Race 1 I was trying to hold on to Jason, for some time it worked and he was under pressure but the next 10 mins he drove flawlessly. I actually found a better line during race 2 going on that crystal palace straight that would have helped, that is also where he made the difference mostly.

Race 2 I had a good start and was quickly gaining positions but I also got caught up in that Paul and Steve incident sending me back. From my viewpoint it seemed as Paul almost braked on the straight there and Steve ran into him and me as well.. Since it was still the beginning of the race I had time to climb back up and did. I was chasing Rob, made the move for P1 and he clipped the right rear of my car with his nose sending me in a spin.. and he continued on and no sorry afterwards. This might be a fun race but this is certainly a golden rule situation and I'm not happy with that. Maybe he wanted P1 so bad, I don't know but the pace difference was too big anyway. I had a good battle overtaking Richard afterwards which was fun.

 

[JamKart22]

I've not looked at the incident with Rob and wouldn't comment on it in this thread anyway. If anyone has an issue with someone's driving then don't highlight it in a public thread, instead pm them to get their view on it first. If you can't agree then pm me with a formal complaint and I'll look into.

We have a good grid of racers and I'd hope it would never get as far as me. However, that ultimate step is available if you want to use it.

 

[Peevee88]

Great job Jason and João!
I was cr@p. Forgot to brake in Race 1 and messed up maybe a top 6.
Race 2 from my perspective ended on the straight in normal battle suddenly I was rear-ended and into the air. I was not on the brakes.
Seems there was a huge spike in my ping at that time (I am told by @gearwhine ) which is strange as normally 50-100 to RD servers.
Maybe my service provider here in Berlin had an outage. Will look at it.
Netcode notable: The odd thing is with Allan, at one point when he came past me we were rubbing and racing, yet the big incident it was like I was not there for the guy behind.
Apologies for the races ruined...