PrestoGP Fun Race - Meganes@Oulton Park, Wed 14th Feb

[David Turnbull]

Hi guys,

For our second fun race we will be using.....

Renault Meganes @ Oulton Park

The race format will be....

2x20 mins (reverse grid in race 2)
Tyre wear - normal
Fuel usage - normal

Usual PrestoGP times apply (Practise from 7pm UK)

Sign up in the usual way.....

(Non PrestoGP members are welcome to join)

 

[David Turnbull]

1. David Turnbull
2.

 

[jego]

1. David Turnbull
2. John Melichar
3.

 

[Hedlund]

1. David Turnbull
2. John Melichar
3. Rikard Hedlund

Great combo Let's do this. I won't get much sleep before going to work but who cares

 

[Valerio Vinassa]

1. David Turnbull
2. John Melichar
3. Rikard Hedlund
4. Valerio Vinassa

 

[Valerio Vinassa]

there is the password on server

 

[David Turnbull]

oops

 

[MOOOOOOOOOSCHT]

1. David Turnbull
2. John Melichar
3. Rikard Hedlund
4. Valerio Vinassa
5. Martin Floeck (it's in fact pointless because Vale will win with the Megan anyway, but I'm in )
6.

 

[Valerio Vinassa]

Thank's for the confidence Martin

 

[jego]

Does anyone have a decent setup for this car? Default feels very unstable and I don't know if I have enough time till Wednesday to make a good setup.

 

[David Turnbull]

my setups for tintops are rediculously bad so i'll wait for a posted setup too lol

 

[Valerio Vinassa]

I do not know if it's right I put harder springs and I get better and a little more wings.
in any case I think i have to adapt a bit to the car is true when brakes especially the back tends to pass you in front but changing a bit the way to brake and down gear I found this better but it happens only in the evenings that are fit
28/30 lit. for race
if someone is crazy set up is here

 

[Mario Marquez]

I'm in for the race

1. David Turnbull
2. John Melichar
3. Rikard Hedlund
4. Valerio Vinassa
5. Martin Floeck
6. Mario Marquez
7.

I will try to post a setup tomorrow but all I can say is that car is very unstable even with a lot of rear wing. Maybe the solution is to force understeer by having a hard front suspension

Edit: Setup uploaded. The car is more manageable now

 

[jego]

Something is so strange about this car... isnt this supposed to be FWD?
Why does it spin around tank slap style when I leave the pit box with a little too much throttle?

 

[Mario Marquez]

Something is so strange about this car... isnt this supposed to be FWD?
Why does it spin around tank slap style when I leave the pit box with a little too much throttle?

No, the car is RWD and has a 400 HP Nissan V6 engine. So the best is to be careful with the gas

 

[jego]

Ah this explains a lot
I tried to find infos out about this car and everywhere I looked it said its FWD.
What on the other hand does feel like FWD, is sometimes the FFB would kind of go away in slow corners with a lot of throttle applied as if the grip was gone due to wheelspinning.
But thanks for the info, this will help me a lot... The laps I did I tried to drive it like a FWD car and it just did not really feel right

 

[David Turnbull]

race server is up guys

 

[MOOOOOOOOOSCHT]

That was good fun yesterday
And for the fact of valentines day, champions league, olympia, end of carneval, ... are 6 driver really much
It is worth considering to make a season with a non formula car
Sry David for pushing you over the finish line, I tought race is over, but we had our special battle anyway
Thx Mario for the setup, that made the car fun to drive
Thx David for organization
Grats to podiums
Cyas
Martin

 

[David Turnbull]

yup i enjoyed it alot, the cars were pretty good, at first i couldnt get used to them at all but i was setting pb's in the races so started liking them, and our little duel in the 2nd race was fun martin and no probs about the end i actually thought it was the end too so no harm done.

regards your thoughts on having a non formula car for a season NO!!! back to open wheelers for the season which will start getting organised this weekend

thanks for turning up guys, wouldve been nice to have more numbers but still fun all the same

 

[Hedlund]

Yeah it was great fun. I haven't raced online much lately, so every little battle on track gets me excited And the low numbers didn't affect the race as much as I thought it would as it was pretty close racing.