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XPR ChicaiN wrote:

bigshotshane699 wrote:

Flyin Mikey J wrote:

bigshotshane699 wrote:Anyone have any times for suzuka full circuit yet I am looking at like a high 2:16 whats every one else playing around with?

That's about where I am at too. Dirty 2:16s with a clean 2:17.1

Hard to keep the car from wanting to spin tires I have tried all my tuning genius and nothing is working. Gotta be real gentle with the throttle.

Hey Mikey, or anyone who knows...do these cars have and use traction control in the real life series? I know nothing about these cars or the actual series.

In real life, they use "Yokohama performance street radial tyres" and traction control is banned, hence "Sport Tires" and "No TCS". We're actually using wider and possibly softer tires than they do.

Flyin Mikey J wrote:

XPR ChicaiN wrote:

bigshotshane699 wrote:

Flyin Mikey J wrote:

bigshotshane699 wrote:Anyone have any times for suzuka full circuit yet I am looking at like a high 2:16 whats every one else playing around with?

That's about where I am at too. Dirty 2:16s with a clean 2:17.1

Hard to keep the car from wanting to spin tires I have tried all my tuning genius and nothing is working. Gotta be real gentle with the throttle.

Hey Mikey, or anyone who knows...do these cars have and use traction control in the real life series? I know nothing about these cars or the actual series.

In real life, they use "Yokohama performance street radial tyres" and traction control is banned, hence "Sport Tires" and "No TCS". We're actually using wider and possibly softer tires than they do.

I have the feeling that patience will be tested during this lol to be that gentle on the throttle for so many laps and races going to be a good interesting series especially with the tight tracks we are at.

^ It's a nice contrast to the other series we have going on right now, which either have race tires and loads of downforce (and TCS) or light weight low HP.

This one was designed to be a bit more hardcore from the onset.

I approve! This will be my first series along with d racing so looking forward to getting the ins and out of this organization and how this all works.

Flyin Mikey J wrote:^ It's a nice contrast to the other series we have going on right now, which either have race tires and loads of downforce (and TCS) or light weight low HP.

This one was designed to be a bit more hardcore from the onset.

I'm all for this, in fact...it helps me. Was just curious if the settings were mirroring the actual series or close. Seems it is.

I vote that qualifying be judged on who can get the highest drift score in one lap

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Due to communication issues, which hinder our ability to have restarts and safety cars, and until these issues have been corrected, the following rule changes will apply:

Damage: Fuel and Tires

Collisions: Default

In the event the communication glitches indeed do get patched, we will revert to the damage/collision rules as posted in the Rules and Regulations Thread

HaydieT wrote:I vote that qualifying be judged on who can get the highest drift score in one lap

+1

You can tune 95% of the sliding out of these cars. It's only when you're in a slow corner or a long turn that the rear-end steps out.

After 10 laps or so with each car, I ran low 13s, but I could see 12s with proper tuning.

F4H Diablo wrote:You can tune 95% of the sliding out of these cars. It's only when you're in a slow corner or a long turn that the rear-end steps out.

After 10 laps or so with each car, I ran low 13s, but I could see 12s with proper tuning.

To bad we have 4 or 5 laps to qualify. Yeah, there no way I can run 13s in 5 laps! IN 5 LAPS!!!!!!!!!!! But not too far from 13s either!!!!

Same as Diablo for me. Didn't bother with the Ford but managed a 13.2 in the holden in 4 laps

I'm only doing 17's. what am I doing wrong.

GR1M RACER wrote:I'm only doing 17's. what am I doing wrong.

If I knew what I was doing I'd be able to answer that.

Basically you have to just accept that A, these things will drift in 1st-4th gears depending on turn angle and elevation changes, and B, account for the unusual weight distribution, so point the Ute in the direction you want to go in before you would in any other car, and hope for the best.

Do we need to sign in for tonights race?

No need to sign in per week, just be ready to hop into your lobby about 15-20 min before qualifying starts, as that's about when you'll get an invite.

F4H Diablo wrote:No need to sign in per week, just be ready to hop into your lobby about 15-20 min before qualifying starts, as that's about when you'll get an invite.

Awesome thanks

No qualy... no grid positions notifications... whats going on?

XRS Carlos wrote:No qualy... no grid positions notifications... whats going on?

The Suzuka round has been postponed until Dec 15, we'll try again next week at Mugello.

By the way, I did send three qualifying invites, but you never came. Hope that goes better next week.

Note: Qualifying Host and Race Lobby Information can be found at:

http://forums.theonlineracingassociation.com/t18665-tora-sport-ute-timing-and-scoring

Qualifying Lobby Hosts are updated two hours prior to race time, if you miss your invite, join your host's lobby.

Race Grids will also be found on that page, including Lobby Hosts and Starting Positions.

Hi everyone.

Are we going to race tgis friday even if the game is not fixed? I dont know if a new update is comming this week but if not, we are going to have the same troubles then last friday.

The Carrera Cup went okay, surprisingly.

Just need to limit the lobbies to 16 people per lobby so that everyone can hear each other.

Actually, last Friday had an additional issue in that many people were uploading an update at race time. Some couldn't access the track, others could depending on how far their upload had gotten at race time. And, I think to further complicate things, many were racing as their update was still loading, maxxing out their bandwidths and making the connections rather unstable.

Im gonna miss tonight's race because of work. Good luck everybody and see you next week.