ACC GT3 Sprint @ Silverstone - Thursday 13th May 2021

SwannyUK · May 9, 2021

Do you get a numb "behind" when racing for more than 30 minutes? Is your partner giving you grief for being on the PC too much? Not enough time to commit to a league? We've got you covered - sprint races are back!

Kicking off with Silverstone this coming Thursday we'll have a sprint race ready to go every Tuesday and Thursday evening at 19:30BST (18:30UTC). No pressure fun racing with the usual standard of driving you are used to at RaceDepartment.

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Event Details
Cars: GT3
Track: Silverstone 2020
Practice 45 minutes | Qualification 15 minutes | Race 30 minutes

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See you on track!

Ricoow · May 9, 2021

I've added my Audi to the signup list!

SwannyUK · May 9, 2021

I'll be bringing the big old Bentley to this one. If I haven't got the pace then it's up to you to find a way around it

Andrew Sebastian · May 9, 2021

I'm in, AMR V8 for me!

Ricoow · May 9, 2021

SwannyUK said:
I'll be bringing the big old Bentley to this one. If I haven't got the pace then it's up to you to find a way around it

I'll simply cut Maggots. I gotcha

Mbeet2000 · May 10, 2021

I'll be here for this one, joining Mr Swann in the Bentley, gotta keep it British(ish) for Silverstone

SwannyUK · May 10, 2021

British(ish) - we should put that somewhere on the Swanton paintjob

SwannyUK · May 10, 2021

@jimortality can you make this one Sir?

Grumps82 · May 10, 2021

Going for the Porsche.

No idea if it's a good idea or bad tbh

SwannyUK · May 10, 2021

This might help you out. I found over 2 seconds around Zolder with the tips he gave on setup. Much less prone to snap oversteer on the brakes.

I know the McLaren is strong here, Bentley and Aston are handy too.

Sascha Reynders · May 10, 2021

OK, count me in : 488 Evo. This will be my first ever online race with you RD guys, looking forward to it ! And already a bit nervous about it too...

SwannyUK · May 10, 2021

Sascha Reynders said:
OK, count me in : 488 Evo. This will be my first ever online race with you RD guys, looking forward to it ! And already a bit nervous about it too...

Great to have you join us Sascha

I still get nervous every race start even though these are just friendly races! If you pressure @Mbeet2000 enough you can make his leg wobble

SwannyUK · May 10, 2021

Great to see the participant list growing, should be a cracking race.

Grumps82 · May 10, 2021

SwannyUK said:
Snip

Thanks for that mate. I really should look at other cars to be honest. But I picked the Porsche right at the beginning and never looked back... I'm still crap in it though.

Sascha Reynders said:
OK, count me in : 488 Evo. This will be my first ever online race with you RD guys, looking forward to it ! And already a bit nervous about it too...

Don't be at all. If it's any consolation I haven't done any laps in any car on this track..... I'm off work Thursday so might spend a bit of time practising.

Sascha Reynders · May 10, 2021

SwannyUK said:
Great to have you join us Sascha I still get nervous every race start even though these are just friendly races! If you pressure @Mbeet2000 enough you can make his leg wobble

Well, my legs will probably be a bit wobbly right from the start so this might prove to be an interesting experience

Thanks for the warm welcome !

Grumps82 · May 10, 2021

Have you done much online racing in ACC Sascha ? Or just single player ?

Sascha Reynders · May 10, 2021

Grumps82 said:
Don't be at all. If it's any consolation I haven't done any laps in any car on this track..... I'm off work Thursday so might spend a bit of time practising.

I've done some laps at Silverstone, but for one reason or another it's one of those tracks which are hard for me to really memorize. ...weird

But like you, I'm off work on Thursday so I'll get some practice in before the race as well.

Grumps82 · May 10, 2021

Yeah nice. It takes me longer to memorise now than it used to that's for sure. But for me I don't care where I finish, just want a good battle with a couple of people. Number of entries is promising with 3 days still to go

SwannyUK · May 10, 2021

Same for me Shaun. I love a good battle especially on ACC where the radar makes life so much easier. @Sascha Reynders if you haven't got the radar on already I highly recommend finding it in the settings menu.

If you do get time it would be good to have a practice, that way you know the track well enough to just concentrate on the racing around you.

Sascha Reynders · May 10, 2021

Grumps82 said:
Have you done much online racing in ACC Sascha ? Or just single player ?

In ACC, I've done some online races on public servers (and survived them all so far

) and 1 race on Simracing.gp. Would have been 2 if I hadn't been disconnected at the start of my 2nd race.... (I suspect this was due to an IP address sharing issue on behalf of my IPS, which I've since then corrected). But most of my ACC racing so far has been single player, yes. I used to do a bit of online racing in R3E, and now I'm getting back into it after taking a break from sim racing for about a year.
I do tend to approach sim racing (be it against AI or real people) like I would be racing in the real world though, within the limits of my capabilities of course.