LMS Round 8 - Road America - Discussion Thread

[Richy59]

This Sunday is Meeting 8, Round 8 at Road America starting at 20:00BST

Lap Video
~Not Available~

Race Format

Qualifying

1 Outlap
5 Flying Laps
1 Cooldown lap to collate times.

Race 1 (Round 7)

75 Minutes (TBC)
Standing Start
The grid will form in the order of fastest qualifying time first, where possible.


Lap Times
To Be Added

Proto 1

Proto 2

LMGT 1

LMGT 2

Lets discuss

Are you IN or are you OUT? Let’s just see in advance whos gonna be there. How’s your car handling? Do you like this track? Who do you think will win this event?

[Richy59]

I'll be there, although I will have extremely limited practice time before the race.

[Slider S15]

I'll be there in the M&M Jag.

Hopefully have better luck than last time.

[LMR DarthMario]

i'll be there Sunday! my LeMans tuned DBR9 will be there as well.

[Av8rTim]

I'm bringing the xbox on the road to hopefully make this one. 2:08ish in the ESM Ferrari F430GT in GT2. Slow but pretty...

[Stonewall458]

I should be in.

1:40.788 (clean) - HPD ARX-02a - LMP1

[Ax4x Chaddy]

In driving LMP2 as nicks left so ill stick too my car

[Radiation Louis]

In driving LMP2 as nicks left so ill stick too my car

Did I miss something while at PLM?

[XTI Jon Snow]

Not excited in the now slow ford but ill see how it goes

[Radiation Louis]

you'll do fine i think nightrider you dont give yourself enough credit!

[Radiation Louis]

We do have the possibility of crowning our first Champion of the year with this race if XTI Avenger finishes 29th overall or better he will win the P2 championship! and with attendance the way its been he's got it locked up at the finish!

[XTI Jon Snow]

Congrats to Avenger!

And i know im not gonna do bad, but if i win its on strategy. The ford is quite slow

[Matt]

Assuming I'm not called in to work I'll be there on Sunday

[XTI Avenger]

We do have the possibility of crowning our first Champion of the year with this race if XTI Avenger finishes 29th overall or better he will win the P2 championship! and with attendance the way its been he's got it locked up at the finish!

[lfcnicklfc]

In driving LMP2 as nicks left so ill stick too my car

Did I miss something while at PLM?

Nope i'm just taking a break from TORA for 2010 might look to join back next year on a smaller scale as i've been doing a lot of work for OM plus i cant not have a bit of TORA GT3

[Ax4x Chaddy]

nick is there a design for the r10?

[AS Lil Terrier]

IM in for the road america race. when is qualy?

[Radiation Louis]

8PM this sunday. 3PM EST

[Radiation Louis]

Just to let everyone know, this sunday in P1 and P2 things are going to get a bit of a shake up in preparation for next season. (this was discussed durring and after the last round at the Nurburgring)

First off in P1, anyone who runs an Audi (either it be R10 or R15) will have to put restrictors back on! "But what about the Pugeot?" they will be given a power handycap of 5 or 10% (testing tonight will confirm this percentage) this allows anyone in the running right now to possibly win a race before the season is done and will make for much closer racing.

Second, Coca-Cola Racer's get those ugly big rims off your car and run what ever ones you want, 5 lbs doesn't make much of a difference in PI other than 1 point and i think we can allow you to run at 999 and not see a huge spike in performance.

P2, anyone running a Porsche will also recieve a power handycap of 5-10% (again testing tonight will confirm this number), the car is just a bit too good and because of its performance has pushed people away from the category, consider this round to be the official start of the 2011 LMS testing seeing how the champioship is for the most part alrady locked up (again Congrats to Avenger). Any questions or disagreement to these changes please contact me or post in this thread and WE WILL take a closer look at it (yes ill stop playing F1 2010 for a while to make everyone happy)

[Stonewall458]

about when will we be testing?

[Radiation Louis]

about midnight (when i get home from work) for the east coast of the states. Just to let you know stonewall the only change you have to worry about is the car rims your restrictor can stay off because the Acura struggles to break 200MPH with them on while the other cars can do it easily.

[Radiation Louis]

ALRIGHTY! after 400 miles of testing my brain is fried and i think we have a great solution.

P1
Audi's (R10 &15) to have restrictors back on.

Peugeot's and Aston Martin's to run with a 5% power handycap! (unless you are jenson09)


Lap times
Audi R15- 1:42.5--
Aston Martin- 1:42.5-- (5%)
Peugeot- 1:42.6-- (5%)
Audi R10- 1:43.1--
Acura- 1:43.6-- (PI 999 with stock rims!)

P2
Lola Mazda's to run with stock engine please (if you have already tested with wankel/ rotary engine and are comfortable with that then you dont need to worry about this for this round)

Porsche's to run with a 10% power handycap!

Lap Times
Acura- 1:46.7--
Lola- 1:47.2--
Porsche- 1:47.4-- (10%)

FOR ALL CLASSES WHEEL OPTIONS ARE NOW OPEN PUT WHAT YOU LIKE ON THE CARS!

[Richy59]

Looks good, I will only get Sudnay to test my car so I'll see if I can match those times and we will need to get in a test race before the main one as well Louis. How do thoe times compare with the Aston and Acura in P1 or has your brain been sizzled too much for that?

[Radiation Louis]

a bit to sizzled to do that last night i can carry on with more tonight

[Radiation Louis]

updated above post for the rest of P1 field times are really close!

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