David Williams (DaveWS)

Flu's can be much worse than just the common cold though.

Quote from Commander :

This is also where Mr.Basford can see how he RUINED!!! my start

Interesting to get a direct perspective in those videos from you guys, nice to watch.

Jack did fully accept the blame for that incident though, in his interview which can be found (among our other interviews during the race) here: http://www.my3id.com/gaming/videos

Thanks for the heads up, that's great news if true.

Quote from Forbin :

It's called a back torque limiting clutch (aka slipper clutch). It disengages partially under engine braking and has a similar effect as engine brake reduction on the BF1 in LFS. I have it set as loose as it will go for maximum rear end traction. If it were set tighter, I'd risk having the rear slide out on me, especially when off the throttle at high lean angles.

All MotoGP bikes and a lot of recent production sport bikes have this feature.

Is blipping the throttle under braking still necessary then? I see you do it in your (nice) lap.

Just thought I should point out, 80 meters is over optimistic into the first hairpin (I based the original distances on how it felt). 110 meters should keep you from flying off the track.

A full hotlap of 2:36.90 onboard My3id Gaming's David Williams, with commentary.

HQ Download (Recommended - 60 fps): http://files.filefront.com/ASG ... /;13062493;/fileinfo.html

LQ version: http://www.my3id.com/gaming/video/97

Full transcript:

Quote :

Hi this is David Williams, I'm going to take you around a lap of 2:36.90 in the FZ GTR at Aston Grand Prix.
You will want to have used as much curb as possible to maintain maximum exit speed from the final chicane for the start of the lap.
Keep the steering to a minimum as you build up speed heading into T1.
Stay left, shifting down into 4th gear, and aim for an early apex. It is important to avoid the inside curb if you can as it may unsettle the balance of the car. Let the car run out wide, and again keep the steering to a minimum.
Coming into this tight hairpin prepare to brake at around (Edit: 110m), while blipping the throttle to maintain stability, and get on the power early and smoothly from 2nd gear to rotate the car quickly.
Sweep across to the left of the track, and concentrate on getting good traction and exit speed from this small chicane. You will want a late apex into the first section so you can straightline the exit as much as possible.
As the car builds speed, gradually drift to the right of the track, to allow better entry into the stadium section. You will need to slow the car down while aiming for the curb on the left, and try to get back on the power as soon as you dare to maintain speed through the apex and exit.
Brake just before 50m and shift into 3rd gear into this tricky right hander. Get on the throttle smoothly and early, allowing the car to run out wide on the exit to maintain traction.
Bring the car back over to the right again as you head towards a tricky left hander, and aim to hook the inside wheels up with lots curb after making a slight lift on the throttle. Avoid the dirt on the right hand side if you can as it will hurt you in the following few corners.
Keep a tight sweeping line heading into this fast double apex left hander. Drop down a gear into 4th, and hook the car up in the camber of the road. It is important to keep a tight line through here so you may need to modulate the throttle a little.
Ride the green curbing on the right to give yourself a wide entry into the next long lefthander. This corner should be almost always completely flat out, and you will want the car to run out wide using all the track after hitting the apex.
Use minimum steering as you drive through this fast sweeping section of the lap.
Brake at around 75m into this final hairpin, changing down into 2nd. Wait for the car to settle, then get on the power as soon as you can.
Let the car drift across to the right towards the final chicane, change down into 3rd, and try and straightline across the curbs as much as you can without losing traction for the exit towards the start / finish line.
You can download this lap and others from www.lfsworld.net

Last edited by DaveWS, Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:01.

Quote from Tezuka :

Check out the wake difference between the 2009 cars and the 2008 STR3 at race speed.

http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/ ... 3282977&postcount=205

That's interesting, and there is probably a genuine difference, but it is exaggurated by the fact that the shot of the 2008 car has the sun shining into the wake, making it look more dense than the others.

They seem to move around under the driver even more than last years cars too, as one would expect with the new regs. I'm really looking forward to the new season TBH.

My take on overtaking on the outside goes like this, excluding the switch back:

Firstly, remember that the guy on the inside is going to have to brake earlier than you to get round the corner, because he has to take a smaller, tighter radius around the inside.

This allows me to brake later than him, use all of the track on the outside, and maintain a higher speed through a larger radius than him so I get past that way.

Here is a video of 2 consecutive passes around the outside (with commentary! :razz:

Make sure you skip forward to 9 minutes in.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vde0__Lr8B0&fmt=18

The first pass I make on Dennis May as he brakes earlier than me to keep from running wide on the apex, I brake later, and come from right out wide to maintain more speed than him through the corner.

Then unfortunately in the following corner I go in too hot, and he is able to make a similar move on me again a corner later.

However, normally this kind of racing is only possible when you trust the ability of the other driver not to outbrake himself.

Last edited by DaveWS, Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:58.

Quote from Intrepid :

yes, but that's like saying millions of kids have tried boxing or football because they played a game on the XBox. It's a totally different thing.

£40 for an indoor race is a little different than actually spending thousands racing for real. If you've tried rallying because an Xmas present rally day at silverstone doesn't mean you've actually tried rallying proper.

I disagree. You can't say hire karting is to "proper" karting what football on the xbox is to real championship football. Playing football with mates is different to playing football on a professional level, just as hire karting is different to karting in a proper championship.

Quote from Intrepid :

10,000,000 people under the age of 16
5000 kart licence holders in UK

You can guarantee though that well over a million people under the age of 16 have tried motorsport at a primitive level at some point in their lives (i.e. hire karting).

They're testing with a very high ride height, especially the Mclaren. Maybe it's for a wet setup.

The new Renault looks disgusting, especially the new front nose section. I hope the shark fins are banned, I'm suprised they are still allowed, given how much they ruin the look of the car.

The new Williams looks fantastic though.

David Williams (DaveWS)

Last edited by DaveWS, Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:54.

Quote from andRo. :

Tried your setup, but I somehow didn't like it. For me it felt too loose, and it was hard to control...maybe because I don't race with steering wheel.
But anyway, took my old setup again and after a half an hour drive got a PB - 1.09.69 with a split - 30.33, and TPB - 1.09.61

Yeah, well I made it with a steering wheel in mind. What controller do you use? Mouse? It's designed to be fast though, so I can imagine it would feel pretty loose to a non-wheel user.

I've just uploaded the WR setup here if anyone is interested.

Are there any replays anywhere?

David Williams (DaveWS)

Qualifying was cut very short for me, as a stray tyre in the chicane sent my car into orbit, though luckily I had managed to put in a safe lap before then.

Race 1 was over at T1 for me. I wasn't sure when to brake, so I ended up leaving it too late, and running a tiny bit wide.

Race 2 was great for me in the opening lap or 2, until a opportunity which opened up infront of me turned out to be disasterous, as the rear end came a little too loose resulting in a nasty lag collision with p1lot. From then on I fought back as much as possible, but in the end my tyres were never cool enough to catch troy at the end.

Congrats to the podium finishers. Here is the replay of race 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?51j11m9ltx5 Does anyone have race 1?

Quote from Mattesa :

Niels made a thoughtful rant over on one of the iRacing threads regarding the idea of a sim

Linky please?

http://forum.racesimcentral.co ... =3950005&postcount=11

Edit: RSWC tomorrow Moose, will you be pulled away from NKP to race?

Last edited by DaveWS, Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:38.

Quote from JJ72 :

I guess I am not the only one with lift off oversteer problems with the demo car?

It's good but I am mildly disappointed? maybe I have yet find the sweet spot where the physics magic shines but skippy in Iracing still feels superior in many ways personally. soo....inputs?

It has an open diff, so you'll get plenty of lift off oversteer especially at low speed.

No no Zaf, it's "1 year old new team, we are" :spyoda:

Quote from durbster :

Hmm... that does look very odd and I haven't seen anything like it in nkPro before. Is it with the default setup?

My first thought was some odd setup as it looks like the sort of behaviour of an unstable car under braking, but obviously you're not on the brakes there. Can you throw the car into a corner and expect it to stick or is the setup incredibly lively?

I was actually using one of Moose's sets for that track, with a small ARB change. It's normally pretty predictable and stable, just I sometimes get those "WTF" moments on corner exits...