iRacing 24h of Le Mans 2016

[Daunt]

Ready for Le Mans?

 

[Sam Roselaar]

@Noodleguitar awh hell yeah! i did something to contribute to the team

i had a question: would it be bad if i missed tonight's practice pals? because i might go to a party with a couple of friends and then i'll miss (most of) practice pals.

 

[Daunt]

@Noodleguitar
i had a question: would it be bad if i missed tonight's practice pals? because i might go to a party with a couple of friends and then i'll miss (most of) practice pals.

Absolutely. You're off the team...

No problem. You've put in a lot of practice and PP or that sort of thing is never mandatory. We just don't want someone to say "hey i want to join your team" then never do any sort of practice with us. You're good.

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As an update to the team, Pablo is unsure he'll be able to commit enough time to the team, and if he can't make it to tonight's PP, he said he's withdrawing. If that's the case I'll need to adjust the team schedule and everyone will be driving a bit more (probably about 1 stint more each)

 

[Sam Roselaar]

i just came across a slight inconvienience: my gas pedal kind of broke, but now i inverted my pedals.... (as temporary solution) long story short: i'm using a new set of pedals and i need to get used to them.

i'm pretty certain i will be able to participate in le mans as before. but i need some time to get used to my new pedals before i join you guys into practice again. i hope to be ready again before wednesday PP.

as for the new update: how much slower should each lap be? i'm losing at least 0.5 sec in JUST the last sector.

 

[Noodleguitar]

The race has now been confirmed to be in ice conditions, uhm.. I mean Default weather Afternoon.

Sucks that your gas pedal broke now. I once switched the springs from the clutch and throttle in my G27 pedals to make the throttle feel more heavy. It didn't take a long time to get used to it but it took quite a while before my leg muscles got used to longer races with it .

What is making you slower after the update? As far as I can remember nothing changed in the last sector did it? Or did you switch from cold weather to afternoon default?

 

[Sam Roselaar]

you can't cut the first chicane anymore
at least i didn't try because they put little signs there
so you actually have to brake now

 

[Noodleguitar]

The Dunlop Chicance? Turn 2? I didn't think you could cut that or can you not even get close to the curbs anymore?

 

[Noodleguitar]

Slightly updated the fuel schedule. We're following the "Distributed (no saving)" strategy:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S_UgNrZ3FeL8pnSrwWUWT9SFiSM6ycPz7j1m9GPJXZI/edit?usp=sharing

 

[Sam Roselaar]

no sorry i said it wrong i ment the first of the two chicanes just before the start/finish
(those next to the pitlane entrance)

the first one of the 2 now has little signs probably indicating a no-cut zone or something. but i haven't tried it yet.
however if you do avoid those signs you will lose time

 

[Sam Roselaar]

results of my latest double stint if anyone's interested:
tire info: https://gyazo.com/ac66111b49db9bbf923639602bbf854d
session info: https://gyazo.com/ee13d09486cde333421534db30548343
lap times: https://gyazo.com/b7c7cc756fcf4ced20cce849791e94a1

it's worth noting that i did 13 laps both stints
i'm getting used to my new pedals but i'm still slightly off-pace. is 3:55 still the required average at 40C track?

 

[Daunt]

Just to reiterate from our issues we ironed out before, for anyone wanting to use the paint locally as a decal layer, you'd use:

For a team paint: car_team_decal_xxxxx.tga (xxxxx = team #)
For a driver paint: car_decal_xxxxx.tga (xxxxx = driver #)

The team # we're using for the Le Mans race is in the OP if you need. Remember, after naming these and putting them in their proper folder, you need to right click, go to properties, and click read-only so TP won't overwrite this file.

I'll update this post with the proper naming for team suits, etc. @Zac_Sonic You said you'd work on a suit for us, right?

 

[Sam Roselaar]

Just to reiterate from our issues we ironed out before, for anyone wanting to use the paint locally as a decal layer, you'd use:

For a team paint: car_team_decal_xxxxx.tga (xxxxx = team #)
For a driver paint: car_decal_xxxxx.tga (xxxxx = driver #)

The team # we're using for the Le Mans race is in the OP if you need. Remember, after naming these and putting them in their proper folder, you need to right click, go to properties, and click read-only so TP won't overwrite this file.

I'll update this post with the proper naming for team suits, etc. @Zac_Sonic You said you'd work on a suit for us, right?

do we get team suits and helmets?

 

[Daunt]

do we get team suits and helmets?

If Marc does a team suit, it will be a team suit and you'll have to do provide for yourself locally to see it. TP wants you to pay for that sort of thing so team suits are only a TP Pro capability. Helmet is always the same, it shows your usual driver helmet regardless of whether you're in a team session or individual session. Though I don't think you can have it change based on team / individual session unless you're paying for TP Pro.

 

[Sam Roselaar]

ok so to get it clear:
i don't have to do anything on TP for the car
i just need to put in TP the suit that might be made by Marc so i can see it myself
and i use my own helmet?

(sorry if i'm being an idiot i just wanna know for sure xD)

 

[Daunt]

ok so to get it clear:
i don't have to do anything on TP for the car
i just need to put in TP the suit that might be made by Marc so i can see it myself
and i use my own helmet?

(sorry if i'm being an idiot i just wanna know for sure xD)

-Technically no, but if you want to see the car properly, you can do as I said above for the team paint. It will still show you the regular paint, but the paint with decals is a tiny different, namely the nnumberplates are more realistic. If you look at the numberplates Duke's screenshots in page 5 of this thread, that's how they'd look if you didn't do as I said above. In my screenshot, I have it as a decal paint locally.

-Yes for the suit.

-Yes for your own helmet.

 

[Kenadian]

results of my latest double stint if anyone's interested:
tire info: https://gyazo.com/ac66111b49db9bbf923639602bbf854d
session info: https://gyazo.com/ee13d09486cde333421534db30548343
lap times: https://gyazo.com/b7c7cc756fcf4ced20cce849791e94a1

it's worth noting that i did 13 laps both stints
i'm getting used to my new pedals but i'm still slightly off-pace. is 3:55 still the required average at 40C track?

I'm doing 55's as well with the odd 54 so we'll be the turtles on our team.

Sorry I wasn't there last night guys, came home with the worst headache so the last thing I wanted to do was drive and stream.

 

[Sam Roselaar]

i think we can get pretty far if we just keep the car on 4 wheels and let noel do the fast stuff

oh and, does PVU enter the race?

 

[Noodleguitar]

Don't worry about the average lap time too much. There is no such thing as a 'required' lap time. It's just the closer we are as a team to that, the more accurate our schedule will be.

Setup updated once again with tire pressures that work in this weather. If you want other pressures because of a different driving style for example then that is fine, we can change them every pit stop. They are now 165 kPa, except for the RR, which is 169.

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Did about 1.5 stints in a public session. As can be noted, until my pit stop the traffic was quite intense, as opposed to the second stint:
Laps

With a decent amount of traffic I could run 13 laps flat-out, having 0.6 L left at pit entrance. So I think we should be fine on fuel for 13 laps, if it gets too close we can always do a bit of lifting during one or a few laps.

Here is my tire data taken after a stint.

 

[PVU]

Don't worry about the average lap time too much. There is no such thing as a 'required' lap time. It's just the closer we are as a team to that, the more accurate our schedule will be.

Setup updated once again with tire pressures that work in this weather. If you want other pressures because of a different driving style for example then that is fine, we can change them every pit stop. They are now 165 kPa, except for the RR, which is 169.

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Did about 1.5 stints in a public session. As can be noted, until my pit stop the traffic was quite intense, as opposed to the second stint:
Laps

With a decent amount of traffic I could run 13 laps flat-out, having 0.6 L left at pit entrance. So I think we should be fine on fuel for 13 laps, if it gets too close we can always do a bit of lifting during one or a few laps.

Here is my tire data taken after a stint.
View attachment 3308

Thank you Noel, ill check it out now

 

[Kenadian]

So will anyone be on tonight turning laps?