R3E R3E Racing Club

[UMC 22]

@groove200 ah ok, thanks a lot for the info, i'll consider it!

Premium gets you full access to the racing clubs for all the sims we support, with daily racing, special events like this one, and in the R3E club regular mini-championships too. Small price to pay to get some quality, fair, respectful racing instead of the crash-fest public servers.

 

[Gerdoner]

Apollo #14 for me pls. Been going back and forth between this and the Ford for days, but I don't want half of the field to be Fords

 

[Robert Berggren]

I might sign up later. No time to practice though, but 2 hours is a long race.. Might need to practice som pit stops

 

[Sasha Jednak]

@Goffik I think you missed my signup.

Sign me in, Saleen #50.
@Daniel Kornblum , does Saleen #28 exist? I only saw 10 Saleen cars and no that number.

 

[groove200]

What time of day are we racing ? Please say Sunset .... feels like driving into the night . Which we can’t do ..... but hey close enough ?

 

[UMC 22]

What time of day are we racing ?

Noon. I don't mess with the time of day settings because it can cause serious performance issues for some. Once that is fixed, if it ever is, then we can start using times other than noon.

 

[rustymoto]

Noon. I don't mess with the time of day settings because it can cause serious performance issues for some. Once that is fixed, if it ever is, then we can start using times other than noon.

In my time zone it will be exactly noon when the session starts, so this suits me.... And has the added benefit that it won't be pissing rain, like it is in reality....

 

[sc4dr]

Thank God it’s noon. 2 hours of shadows is pretty difficult without headlamps.

 

[2112]

In Saleen #10

 

[groove200]

@Goffik are you streaming this one ? ( missus is asking ..... not that she’ll stay awake )

 

[UMC 22]

@Goffik are you streaming this one ? ( missus is asking ..... not that she’ll stay awake )

I'm going to try, yes. It's my partner's birthday so there won't be any commentary, but I'm trying to get the stream set up now so that it's a quick click to get it going when the race starts.

 

[UMC 22]

 

[PorDallas]

BRAVO TOU ALL DRIVERS ..I HOPE FOR MORE RACE LIKE THIS !!!

 

[UMC 22]

Very well done to everyone who finished the race! That was a long one so just making it to the end in one piece deserves a good pat on the back. And congratulations to @rustymoto for the win, great stuff! I hope you all enjoyed yourselves.

 

[sc4dr]

Wow what a blast! Congrats @rustymoto for a well deserved win. I made the mistake of not running a full fuel load. I won't do that again. One stop was critical!

 

[rustymoto]

Yes, that was fun! I didn't quite have the race pace as @sc4dr and @PurgerUK, but the 1-stop educated gamble worked out - the first stint made it just past 1 hr with ~4 litres remaining.

We should do this again...Some ideas mentioned in post-race chat were Spa, Daytona, and Ningbo.

 

[sc4dr]

I would love to do one at Daytona or Spa!!

 

[Sasha Jednak]

Great=“I was dead in the end” race. Special congrats to Anic, Dan, Kenwood. And congrats to everyone who reached the finish line.
It is to much to write about whole race, so I will give best and worst moments for me.

Best: after Kieth let me by, my engineer giving me “sweet pass” message
Worst: at start, I was late on throttle. Then in turn 1, @stevem looked like coming to complete stop so I stopped behind him, and his car disappeared. Luckily he teleported at the end of turn 1. Then after few laps I got to move on him into the hairpin, on my screen I moved to the inside and so him outside. Then on braking he wasn’t there and when I tried to turn in his car appeared on my right (still in braking zone). Have to check replay, I hope I didn’t mess up anyone’s race.
Funny: after lapping Kieth on start straight, I half spun in 3-4th corner. Few laps later came back behind Kieth, only to see him halfspinning in turn 4. Good we survived.

 

[ScanScan]

Went from 6th to 13th within 5 minutes of the start, did a two stop instead of a one stop, and came back to 8th. To be fair even if I made no errors and did one stop, the highest I could have probably got would have been 4 or 5th.

Really enjoyed it, just lamenting splitting the race into 3 stints rather than 2. Was unsure about the tyres doing 30 laps each but I think they would have held up - as others have said another traditional endurance track would be good. No beating the Nordschleife for me but then we would need a 30+ grid to make it less lonely.

 

[UMC 22]

We should do this again...Some ideas mentioned in post-race chat were Spa, Daytona, and Ningbo.

This seems to have been enjoyed and the grid was decent, so if the demand is there then I'm happy to run more of these mini-enduros in the future.