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Yoeri Gijsen · Apr 27, 2012

RaceDepartment Indy 500 2012 (RDINDY'12) | Intro & Info

Introduction

Welcome to the the second running of the RaceDepartment Indy 500 in iRacing. Last season saw a huge turn-out of drivers that gathered to pick up the virtual bottle of milk. Lots of crashes painted the picture of the first half of the race; close fighting dominated the second half. This year we're looking to go bigger and better than last year, so go get that FREE RaceDepartment Licensed Membership and sign-up for this annual high-speed thrill!

OFFICIAL RESULTS
REPLAY - Complete
REPLAY - Part 1
REPLAY - Part 2
Event schedule

Date: Sunday 20 May 2012
Open practice: 15:00 GMT (80 minutes)
Qualification: 16:20 GMT, 1 lap, lone qualifyer (10 minutes)
Race: 16:30 GMT, 200 laps, 500 miles (270 minutes)
Car: Dallara IndyCar
Track: Indianapolis Motor Speedway - Indy Oval
Server farm: NL-Ams
Starting type: standing
Fast tows: Unlimited
Cautions: full course cautions on
Restarts: single file
Racers/server: 33 (possibly extended to 55)
Hardcore level: Disable all driving aids (but clutch assist ok)

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Yoeri Gijsen · Jul 21, 2012

Between Iowa and Texas I will be unavailable. Please contact Xosé Estrada with your questions and remarks.

Yoeri Gijsen · Jul 21, 2012

Thread open!

Philip Johansson · Jul 21, 2012

This has been one of the thoughest race i've done in Iracing, my truck went sideways every time on exit of 2 and 4 every lap.. I tried to keep up with yoeri, but he must have had a fifth gear

Good race anyway.

Eckhart von Glan · Jul 21, 2012

wow, look at the overall standings: tie for 1, tie for 3, near tie for 5! couldn't be closer, Texas is going to be huge!

Yoeri Gijsen · Jul 21, 2012

I forgot to save the replay. Does anyone have it, or any screenshot from the race? I'd like it for the ileaguerace news page. If possible, this weekend.

Mark Hewitt · Jul 21, 2012

Yoeri - I sent a pic to your Windows Live email address. Hope it gets thru.

Kevin - yes, a nice battle we had going there! really enjoyed it.

Chris Preston · Jul 21, 2012

Really looking forward to this week

My setups are so unorganized it's sad, but I've got two weeks to figure them all out. I'll edit this post with some stats on times later on, but I know times for qualifying so I'll post them below.

Qualifying Times: Low 29.6's are what I'm hitting currently, if you're a pro like Ray Alfala you'll hit low 29.4's but I've got no idea how people have done that. I expect pole to be 29.6 maybe 29.5 depending if we hit our lap correctly.

Race Times: First lap I can hit 29.9's but 30.0 - 30.1 are more common. Haven't worked on this too much so I'll edit these later to see if I can go faster. I know pros can hit low 29.7's but that's just insane.

Eric Estes · Jul 21, 2012

Apologies for missing race... spent too much time in Raleigh looking at new build computer parts

Marc Heymann · Jul 21, 2012

Was a great Race for me until we came to Lap 83. Until then I thought, 3rd Place must be possible. Then I was caught up in an accident of the #15 and #30 (I think) and had to take the Fast-Repair. So because I made my Gren-Stop a few Laps before the Accident, i was 3 Laps down at that Moment, so no chance to go to the Podium any more.

Bad End for me with just 8th Place.

Yoeri Gijsen · Jul 21, 2012

Mark Hewitt said:
Yoeri - I sent a pic to your Windows Live email address. Hope it gets thru.

Excellent, thank you!

Yoeri Gijsen · Jul 21, 2012

Don't forget that iRacing does their pre-season update in just over a week from now. This might affect your setups.

Chris Preston · Jul 22, 2012

I swear if it does I will murder someone

To my knowledge though they're keeping the tyre model the same and not making any major adjustments there.

Yoeri Gijsen · Jul 22, 2012

No, but they've always tweaked things, adding or removing details from the setup sheet and slightly changing the balance of the car. Sometimes it meant your setups went useless, sometimes it meant just a few little tweaks on our end.

Chris Preston · Jul 23, 2012

Just to add onto Yoeri's comments, I've checked the forums and there's no known planned changes to the tyres model or stuff like that. There's a couple cars they're adding the NTM to but not a universal change. The big "update" this build is the addition of the new shader models on some tracks like Spa and Watkins Glen.

http://iracerstuff.com/?page_id=71

Your setups should be safe presuming what people say are true.

Eric Estes · Jul 23, 2012

Hmmm... time to get that HD 7950 I suppose.

Eckhart von Glan · Jul 25, 2012

bought the track yesterday and did an installation lap with the Dallara, it's allout full throttle stuff, isn't it? Back with some testing results later tonight.

Chris Preston · Jul 25, 2012

It's similar to Charlotte, full throttle until the corners where you go about half throttle. Later on in runs you'll have to let off though.

Unfortunately I might have to miss this race too

It's my wrap-up day for baseball so I might have a game at that time, if not I'll most likely be working since I work at the diamonds setting up fields. I'll let you know though.

Eckhart von Glan · Jul 25, 2012

30.4 after a dozen laps, gonna be great, we just need to be careful about two-wides in the last turn, that entry onto level ground will be difficult to do with a guy next to you.

Philip Johansson · Jul 26, 2012

I bet we will get something in the new build tomorrow that will change the car so the old sets are useless..

Chris Preston · Jul 26, 2012

Well sure as s**t just like at the beginning of every season without notice they mess up our old setups... goodbye endless hours of work. The truck on Texas is now impossible to drive with endless oversteer and it took me 10 tries with the setup iRacing provided just to complete a lap. Hopefully they didn't mess up every other car.