ACC GT4 Sprint @ Donington - Thursday 20th May 2021

SwannyUK · May 11, 2021

Thursday 20th sees us move to Donington park and the GT4 cars. This fast flowing circuit combined with the GT4 cars should make for some great action.

How to join the event
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3. Click Here to sign up for the event.

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Event Details
Start time: 19:30BST (18:30UTC)
Cars: GT4
Track: Donington
Practice 45 minutes | Qualification 15 minutes | Race 30 minutes

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See you on track!

Grumps82 · May 11, 2021

Yes perfect. Would like to see more GT4 races. Not many of them about online unfortunately

SwannyUK · May 11, 2021

Yep! I'm thinking 1 GT3 and 1 GT4 race a week

Interslice · May 11, 2021

In with the bmw chris. Thanks for organising

Sascha Reynders · May 13, 2021

GT4's, nice

and Donington has always been one of my favourite tracks. Guess I'm in but I'll need to decide on which car to drive. I've only tried the Maserati so far and even though I love the sound on the thing, I definitely won't be driving that death trap

Sascha Reynders · May 15, 2021

Mercedes it is ! Any tips on what tyre pressures to aim for in the GT4's ?

SwannyUK · May 15, 2021

Sascha Reynders said:
Mercedes it is ! Any tips on what tyre pressures to aim for in the GT4's ?

I'm not sure myself but just found this:

GT 4 Tyre Pressures :: Assetto Corsa Competizione General Discussions

Hi , just noticed the starting tyre pressures in the safe setup is quite a bit lower than in the GT3 cars , what should be the optimal pressures for the GT4 cars ? For GT3 would normally go for 27 to 28 psi any advice !

steamcommunity.com

Sascha Reynders · May 15, 2021

SwannyUK said:
I'm not sure myself but just found this:

GT 4 Tyre Pressures :: Assetto Corsa Competizione General Discussions

Hi , just noticed the starting tyre pressures in the safe setup is quite a bit lower than in the GT3 cars , what should be the optimal pressures for the GT4 cars ? For GT3 would normally go for 27 to 28 psi any advice !

steamcommunity.com

Thanks Chris

adjusted the aggressive setup to reach 27.2 to 27.3 hot psi all around and that seems to work well.

SwannyUK · May 15, 2021

Great stuff. Looking forward to Donington, it was my local track when I was a kid. Used to go and watch the touring cars there.

Sascha Reynders · May 15, 2021

Zolder was my local track back in the days, went there every summer as a kid with my dad for the European Historic Grand Prix events, and later on for the 24h of Zolder a few times. I was there the year the 1st GTR came out, they had a truck with a few rigs set up to introduce the game to the public. And of course the iconic red GTR sponsored Viper ran in that race. I remember it crashed at the chicane at the end of the back straight and lost a rear wheel, one of the mechanics ran up and threw a screwdriver over the fence so the driver could use it to lock the diff and limp home on 3 wheels. Great memories !

SwannyUK · May 16, 2021

McLaren Gulf Livery Ginetta GT4

Inspired by the new McLaren F1 livery for Monaco. This will be the livery I use for a few ACC GT4 club races.

www.racedepartment.com

If you are joining the GT4 races this is one of the liveries I'll be using if you want to download it and see it on track

Evsbet · May 17, 2021

Great to see more GT4 stuff being organised. Does anyone know why I can't pick a car to register with? None of them have the normal red Choose button on the card.

Sascha Reynders · May 17, 2021

Evsbet said:
Great to see more GT4 stuff being organised. Does anyone know why I can't pick a car to register with? None of them have the normal red Choose button on the card.

Hi, did you join the RD community on Simracing.gp ?

Evsbet · May 17, 2021

Sorry, me being dumb, didn't realise it was for Premium memebers. Need to get that sorted first. Thanks

Sascha Reynders · May 17, 2021

Evsbet said:
Sorry, me being dumb, didn't realise it was for Premium memebers. Need to get that sorted first. Thanks

No worries, look into getting Premium: it's worth it for the quality of racing

SwannyUK · May 17, 2021

Evsbet said:
Sorry, me being dumb, didn't realise it was for Premium memebers. Need to get that sorted first. Thanks

Just give me a PM with your email when you do and I'll add you on the RD community so you can join the races.

Grumps82 · May 17, 2021

Im expecting to see good numbers for these gt4 races given the excellent write up on the front page over the weekend.

SwannyUK · May 17, 2021

Grumps82 said:
Im expecting to see good numbers for these gt4 races given the excellent write up on the front page over the weekend.

Yeh I hope so! Not amazing numbers at the minute but hoping more will join soon.

edo22 · May 19, 2021

I tried a bunch of cars as i pratically never used the GT4 because of the lack of races, and it was a pleasure just to test them, i hope that other members will give it a try

SwannyUK · May 19, 2021

The Ginetta best suited me after testing them all. Good in to the corners on the brakes and can use a touch of oversteer to help out of the corners.

Some of the others had too much understeer but that's probably my lack of time / setup with them.