ACC GT3 Sprint Series | Season 2

[SwannyUK]

Welcome to the RD GT3 Sprint series!
30 minute GT3 sprint races that anyone in our RD simracing.gp community can take part in, premium membership is no longer required.

If you enjoy our races our premium membership helps to support our platform and ensures a better driving quality. If you aren't a premium member yet you can upgrade your account here

Missed a couple of events? No worries! The final scores at the end of the series use your 3 best results and if you aren't bothered about scoring points that's fine too, just turn up and have fun.

Each event starts at 18:45 UTC / 19:45 BST / 20:45 CEST / 21:45 EEST

Sign up for the any of the events in this series here:
https://beta.simracing.gp/series/UJb2CQ2AwwsMKS9hwGNoD#events

Practice: 30mins
Quali: 15mins
Race: 30mins (special event 40mins)

Schedule
20th July - Monza (in game race start time 20:00 - x2 time acceleration - finishes in the dark)
27th July - Hungaroring (In game race start time 14:00 - x1 time acceleration)
3rd August - Kyalami (In game race start time 3:00 - x3 time acceleration - finishes with the sun coming up)
10th August - Brands Hatch (In game race start time 14:00 - x1 time acceleration)
17th August - Silverstone Special! - 40min race with 10min mandatory pit stop window for tyre change
(In game race start time 21:00 - x2 time acceleration - finishes in the dark)

Scoring
1st = 24 Points > 24th = 1 point
Best 3 finishes will be used to determine final results at the end of the series

Rules
Normal racing club rules apply which can be found here

Looking forward to seeing you all on track!

 

[SwannyUK]

Great size grid for tomorrow's race, let's hope the driving standard returns to normal. I don't have chat enabled so I can't keep an eye out for "silly people" during quali or the race.

Any issues please let me know after the race

 

[Sascha Reynders]

Great size grid for tomorrow's race....

Yep here's to hoping everybody will actually show up. I'm really looking forward to this one, such a great old school track. Should provide some good racing !

let's hope the driving standard returns to normal.

Well, quite a few familiar names on the grid, we should be good I guess. Fingers crossed !

 

[SwannyUK]

If anyone gets chance today could you please have a quick look through the entry list tonight and let me know the names of anyone with a really poor record (specifically incidents per race / dnfs) I've already removed one potential T-bone specialist. I'll try and do this for each event until controls come in to limit who can join based on ratings.

 

[Sascha Reynders]

Most names look familiar and have raced with us before, a couple of new guys with 0 races to their name but that's not necessarily an issue since we all started out that way But check you PM in a while @SwannyUK

 

[SwannyUK]

Cheers Sascha, that's a big help. Yep new guys and girls are always welcome - it's the drivers that appear to have been participating in wacky races that I'm interested in

 

[Piotrek Blaszczak]

Thanks for today's race at Hungaroring. I didn't expect to finish third , the circuit is difficult to overtake, but I was lucky . Racing much better on RD / Simracing.gp than on other portals where there is a lot of kimikaze .

 

[SwannyUK]

Stunning race tonight.

The Macca had good pace around here but there was no way around Marco's big *ss Bentley. I managed to get side by side on one occasion but the turn sequence favoured him so had to go for a cut back that didn't quite work.

I hope everyone else had a good, clean race. Really happy with the numbers tonight but please remember It's just me running the ACC club at the minute so I can't keep an eye on everyone to make sure rules are followed. Please do PM me with any issues you encounter.

Cheers all!

 

[edo22]

Great race, not a single overtake but a good race pace fight with @sebastalona , and thank you for giving me space on turn 3 while i was on the inside.
Anyway i let you by later after my mistake again in T3 (i'm glad that i lost only one place and didn't damage the car)

 

[Manfrons]

Awesome and clean battle tonight with Chris.
On lap 12 you made me sweat! [well, not only on lap 12 ] Side by side, no contact... I enjoyed all the race.
The pace was the same, in one sector i gained tenths and in another you gained tenths.
Let me go to train for Kyalami.
I'm happy to have seen a lots of drivers and I hope that more will join us in the next races.

Ciao a Tutti!

 

[Andrew Sebastian]

Great race, not a single overtake but a good race pace fight with @sebastalona , and thank you for giving me space on turn 3 while i was on the inside.
Anyway i let you by later after my mistake again in T3 (i'm glad that i lost only one place and didn't damage the car)

Thanks Eduardo, great race. I realised quite quickly after a couple of laps behind you that it would probably be a small mistake from either of us to make the difference!

 

[Andrew Sebastian]

Gutted I missed the first race at Monza, it's just been so hot recently I've not really thought about racing! Some great tracks coming up, looking forward to the rest of the championship.

 

[Sascha Reynders]

That was an exciting race ! It started a bit messy when I had to brake hard going into T2 on the 1st lap to avoid T-Boning Lee's Bentley after he spun across the track. Got tagged in the rear as a result but luckily without much damage or lost time. Spent the remainder of the race having a great battle with the Aston of Luca Borsari, running nose to tail for the entire race. There were a few moments where I thought I might get past, but we were so evenly matched and he defended well, so no dice. At one point it turned into a 3-way battle when Magnus caught up to us in his Ferrari and I had to switch to defending. I managed to hold him off for a lap or so but he outbraked me into T1 and I had to let him go as he had much more pace.

It was great fun and good to see so many racers showing up tonight. Let's do this again at Kyalami next week !

 

[Jan Larsen]

Hi guys, nice to see you had a great race, I'm planning on attending the Kyalami race as a test. While I know we dont discuss laptimes, but can someone get me a ballpark laptime for middle of the field'ish pace from the Hungaroring race? Trying to judge where I am pacewise.

 

[SwannyUK]

Hey Jan, I'll try and put a few laps together this week and see where I'm at

 

[Andrew Sebastian]

Hey Jan, I'll try and put a few laps together this week and see where I'm at

You are NOT midfield pace!! If I was asking that question, and you came back with your times, I’d probably stick my PC on Gumtree and jump out of a window!

 

[SwannyUK]

You are NOT midfield pace!! If I was asking that question, and you came back with your times, I’d probably stick my PC on Gumtree and jump out of a window!

I genuinely almost spat my cup of tea out reading that haha. Add a second on to my time? I'm not sure how the Macca is going to be around here.

 

[Sascha Reynders]

Hi guys, nice to see you had a great race, I'm planning on attending the Kyalami race as a test. While I know we dont discuss laptimes, but can someone get me a ballpark laptime for middle of the field'ish pace from the Hungaroring race? Trying to judge where I am pacewise.

Hi Jan, just join us and see what happens I'd say To give you an idea, I'm a true midfielder in this merry band of racers, and my best lap times at Kya are in the 1.42.7xx to 1.42.9xx range. Those we're in the Audi Evo, I'm now trying to "master" the Vantage V8.

EDIT: my best at Hungaroring so far is a 1.45.9xx in the Aston, but I didn't manage that in last night's race. My best race lap was a 1.46.146 (quali 1.46.083)

Hey Jan, I'll try and put a few laps together this week and see where I'm at

As @sebastalona said, since when do you qualify as "midfield" Chris ?

 

[edo22]

Hi guys, nice to see you had a great race, I'm planning on attending the Kyalami race as a test. While I know we dont discuss laptimes, but can someone get me a ballpark laptime for middle of the field'ish pace from the Hungaroring race? Trying to judge where I am pacewise.

If you go on the results page on the RD community on Simracing.gp you can check the results of the past events and see the lap times, it's useful to get an idea of the pace even if it shows only the best lap time.

 

[Jan Larsen]

Cheers, thanks! Didnt even know SGP had that feature, its not the most intuitive system to navigate in.