ACC SRO Warm Up Event @ Silverstone - Friday 8th May 2020 ** YouTube Live Stream **

[Paul Glover]

I wasnt able to join today. Something came up last minute and i wasnt able to let you know. Hope I can join next time!

Thanks for letting me know.

 

[Paul Glover]

@JasonMADCow there is a last minute spot if you can make it!

Also @JasonMADCow can you please ensure your real name is on your forum profile, thanks

 

[rqving]

This will be my last rd race probably. im honestly just fed up of being constantly hit and my race being ruined by people with 0 patience. honestly this had to be the worst race i have ever driven in and probably worse than most public lobbies. so yea. im just done with this bullshit.

i apologize to catalin who i accidently tapped round. i was at the point frustrated and i made the smallest amount of contact with your rear. (might have even been netcode because i didnt get a safety rating warning of any sorts.

 

[Piotrek Blaszczak]

Great race.As always start from behind , and lucky finish at 17th position.first time I had it any incidents.Thx for this event , and see you tomorrow on my "favorite track"

 

[robt100]

Well, the end of that one was eventful!
Although im a bit concered by a few drivers, I shan't mention any names but:
One driver decided overtaking off-track using a massive shortcut is legitamate
One car being lapped decided to slam on the brakes on the exit of a corner whilst I was behind them.
Another lapped car drove round as if he was the only one on track, I can only assume mirrors were turned off and FOV was about 10 degrees, each time I went to pass them they almost took me out, missed by milimeters almost every time.

But on the plus side, had some great battles too. Shame about the server glitch at the end, was hoping to use my fresher tyres to my advantage in the last 10mins!

 

[Paul Glover]

This will be my last rd race probably. im honestly just fed up of being constantly hit and my race being ruined by people with 0 patience. honestly this had to be the worst race i have ever driven in and probably worse than most public lobbies. so yea. im just done with this bullshit.

i apologize to catalin who i accidently tapped round. i was at the point frustrated and i made the smallest amount of contact with your rear. (might have even been netcode because i didnt get a safety rating warning of any sorts.

Sorry to hear that mate.

 

[Daniel Monteiro]

For some reason the server never went down, but everyone got disconnected

We'll be looking into this, but meanwhile, thank you all for joining tonight, I hope we all learned a bit and will all improve for the next ones

 

[Ross McGregor]

Shame about the mass disconnection there, was an interesting race. After the two guys in front fell off the track on lap one, i basically chased
Aenore around for the whole race. At the start, Aenore barged me off the track at turn 1, then made a Max Verstappen-esque late change of direction in the braking zone a few corners later, so that was quite disappointing, as me and the guys behind had to take evasive action. Dropped back by 3s or so due to having zero luck in traffic, then lost a lot of time in the pits as i hadn't practised this properly. Later, an Audi backmarker punted me in the rear for some reason, and after that i accidentally changed my engine map to 8, so lost about 4s mucking around with that.

Now, some of the traffic did a great job tonight, but a lot didn't. As per Rob's post previously there were too many lapped cars slamming on the brakes in braking zones to let me by, instead of slowing down gently on a straight. (this is the method that loses the least amount of time) Or they would slow down on the exit of a corner when i'm already at the limit of grip. Just bonkers stuff. Hopefully that's just due to the large grid size.

Thanks to RD for running such a big event, hopefully the next one will be a bit smoother! Also, thanks to Paul & Ricardo for stewarding, this makes a massive difference.

 

[Fatalist88]

Thanks for the good racing, well managed and well hosted. Just a shame about the disconnect!

I look forward to watching the YouTube stream and listening to Paul's commentary!

 

[Andrearally]

What a race.
Interesting the commentary on youtube. May I know the reason of my second penalty? I got disconnect so I don't have the replay or the chat to check

 

[stribbeck]

Thank you for organising the race, I had a nice battle with a couple of drivers near the start, I apologise to anyone i got in the way of while being lapped a few times I panicked with the amount of cars and got even more in the way

 

[Paul Glover]

Hey All,

Unfortunately it looks like a network issue has potentially caused all connections to drop for all, which is a shame for all. Thank you to everyone for taking part.

We have the results and we will be in touch, the results will be how the race ended. We appreciate your paitence and understanding.

 

[Paul Glover]

What a race.
Interesting the commentary on youtube. May I know the reason of my second penalty? I got disconnect so I don't have the replay or the chat to check

I'll happily speak to you via PM, send me a message.

 

[Paul Glover]

Thanks to RD for running such a big event, hopefully the next one will be a bit smoother! Also, thanks to Paul & Ricardo for stewarding, this makes a massive difference.

Thanks, harder than it looks.

 

[Miko_Skye]

What a race! It had everything. Drama caused by back markers....drama from losing grip on my rear tyres 5 laps from the end of my stint (serious oversteer on most corners)...and a bit of drama where I got my first ever drive thru for causing an avoidable accident. Apologies to whomever that was cos on my screen, I didn't have a single issue on the first lap, so no idea who I need to say sorry to.

16th I think at the end, and regardless of the drama, great fun.

Thanks to the RD stewards..awesome job tonight.

 

[Raresch]

I knew I was going to be in the bottom part. I did what I could. After a pretty nice start, made a small mistake and bumped very slightly (he carried on as nothing happened) into the guy in front and the same time, someone hit me in the back I've lost 7 places before having time to rejoin.

If that would have been all, it would be great ... but I kept loosing the rear, like I had no wing or something, or that the wing was degrading further and further (is that even possible?). Entered the pits to repair the damage, and while navigating through the settings, wanting to disable the tyre change, I did disable the pit limiter by pressing the ENTER button on the wheel instead ... Then, I had a 30s stop and go. Then I've entered the pits and made the same mistake, don't know how, I was using the keyboard, and disabled the pit limiter again by accident ... So I;ve had to do another 30s stop and go penalty

But still, maybe because we had live stewards and things were so alive everywhere, I actually enjoyed the race. Maybe I should give it the game more chances, even if my 1060gtx barely keeps it running at 35-40fps with so large crowds. (any tips for that?)

P.S. i hope I didn't hold up any of the fast guys while I was under the blue flag. I am sorry if I did.

 

[speedyx56]

Pretty happy with this race. Only started practising with the Macca yesterday. Not sure my pace was good enough (setup definitely needs a lot more work) but it was good enough to win anyway.
Will prolly post some pictures tomorrow

At the start, Aenore barged me off the track at turn 1

Sorry about that, it did happen on replay although it apparently simply did not register on my side. Not a hint of damage, no notification about contact and SA loss and I did not sense anything in the wheel when it happened.

 

[Paul Jeffrey]

Hey guys,

Great race, thoroughly enjoyed commentating on it - my bloody voice is shot now!! lol.

For anyone who is interested, please find below the link to watch back the action:

If you could tell your friends, give us a like and a sub, we would appreciate it

Also, please note for those that aren't racing tomorrow, we will be live on the RaceDepartment Twitch channel, with a guest (high profile) commentator - so stay tuned for that (I'm properly jealous he's not commentating on a race I'm in...).

RaceDepartment Twitch


Well done to everyone today on track - great show.

Thank you to @Paul Glover @Daniel Monteiro @Ricoow for race control duties - awesome job guys and thank you to @Davy Vandevenne for the excellent broadcast direction. Thank you to @Bram Hengeveld for performing broadcast chat duties.

Great stuff!

 

[Alex Townsend]

Maybe I should give it the game more chances, even if my 1060gtx barely keeps it running at 35-40fps with so large crowds. (any tips for that?)

YES!
reduce opponent detail and visible cars. Practice offline to find the sweet spot with 50 cars in SP and dial back the detail and visible cars until you get better frames.
I'd check your other settings too, make sure you're not running anything not required too high like Shadows, track detail and foliage too high.

P.S. i hope I didn't hold up any of the fast guys while I was under the blue flag. I am sorry if I did.

All you need to do here, which sadly wasnt happening earlier, is to keep to the racing line during corners and lift off on the straights to allow the faster guys past.

 

[Raresch]

All you need to do here, which sadly wasnt happening earlier, is to keep to the racing line during corners and lift off on the straights to allow the faster guys past.

I was trying to do that, because i had my fate share of blue today's in AC as well but sometimes I do take the turn wider to let the faster guy on the issue. Maybe I shouldn't do it anymore.