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Thank you Walt. Yeah I’ve not been able to get back in the rig since this race, had a rather troublesome ear infection that I’m still trying to shake off. Hoping to be back in the next week or so 🤞 hope all is well with you.

Hi Steve. Unfortunately not. It is an additional DLC pack. There is a BTCC car pack, and also a British track pack (Donington, Brands, Thruxton and Croft if I remember rightly). Been a long time since I used rF2, but seem to remember the two packs costing around £20 for the pair on Steam. That was a while ago when they first came out… might be a bit cheaper now!

@@chrisrogerssimracing Many thanks for the info, very helpful.

Haha 🤣 sadly I’m out of action for a little while. I burst my ear drum a week or so ago, so it’s made any racing impossible. I am recovering well, but might be another week or two before I’m ready to race again 🤕

​@@chrisrogerssimracing Dang! Sorry to hear that man. I guess we can wait a little longer 😉

Thank you! Yeah it’s always a worry, heading into T1 for the first time and knowing it’s your only race! Thankfully this one was very clean.

Thank you mate!

Exactly. I don’t know how you lads with children find any time at all to race. I find it hard enough without having any! ACC is particularly tough to hop in cold, because of the time needed to test for tyre pressures if nothing else. I had to resort to an educated guess for this one, based on my qualy laps, and I think I went a bit low.

Yeah, setups (or rather, a lack of them) is always my downfall in ACC. I just don’t get the free time to do practice runs for setup work, so I just have to settle for default with some PSI changes. Not ideal in ACC, but I just kinda accept that I have to work with what I’ve got 🤣

I think it’s probably more hope than optimism! It’s a big gamble given his track record so far, but it’s also exciting to have such a high-profile manager. I’m really hoping he can make a success of it, but it would be a tough job for an experienced manager, never mind a young one. Our squad and budget just isn’t Championship standard. But I’m hopeful he can perform a miracle!

@@chrisrogerssimracing all the best for the season always had a soft spot for your team, something about green outfield shirts!

Nice, yeah I might check that out. I try not to limit myself to one platform… LFM is usually just my go-to for convenience, but I’d give Sim Grid a go. I did a couple of early ACC races on there, back in the day!

@@chrisrogerssimracing cool, you're already registered then too. Like I said, I've had very good luck, and I'm pretty sure they've added daily races too. There is a 12 min with no qualy, and a 20 min with 5 min qualy, plus the tracks rotate frequently. Also, there is a voting system for opposing drivers, and they ask to report rammers. I think people are trying their best to race clean, and that's about all I ask! There's a bunch of leagues too, but for us daily racers, it's been great.

Thank you. Yeah the media would have had a field day if we’d lost to Cheltenham. Good luck to the Blues tomorrow too

Thank you, yeah loving it mate! I probably wouldn’t have done this race if I’d still been on the old desk setup, as time was so tight. But the rig let me just jump in and race very quickly. Cheers

Haha yes! 🤣 and sadly, my trophy cabinet is full of them!

Horrible corner. I think it’s moved straight to the top of the ‘Corners I Hate’ list! Cheers mate

Thank you, yes I’ll be back after the weekend 💪

Thank you Dave!

Yeah, and I think the only reason I was faster was because I was pushing harder. Which meant my tyres were cooked by the end!

Thank you, yes there has been many a race where I’ve climbed up through the pack without having to make a single overtake. Always satisfying when that happens!

Yeah, graphics are dialled down a bit mate. Only on a basic gaming PC so I start to get stutters if I crank the graphics up too high 👍

@@chrisrogerssimracing Ah, I see, okay it makes sense then. After trying AC with LFM and many other independent series and RaceRoom (with it's lack of player base), I've decided it's much easier to just jump to iRacing and just go with the flow

Ahh mate, sorry to hear you’re out of action. Hope you’re on the mend and back in the rig soon!

@@chrisrogerssimracing Thanks Chris, its a very dangerous situation, been paid and have a whole week with nothing to do but browse things to buy for the rig 🤣

@@Hiroschima Very dangerous… someone needs to hide your wallet from you, for your own good 🤣

Thank you Matt!

Yeah definitely. I missed out on getting any practice session in this week, due to a lack of time. So the only data I had for setting PSI was from my 4-5 qualifying laps. It was an educated guess at best, and I guessed too low!

TSC in the house!!

Thank you, yeah a lack of practice session meant I wasn’t able to set my tyre pressures quite right. They were a bit low, which cooked the tyres a bit too much!

Yeah, I really paid the price for the lack of practice session when it came to the tyres. Usually I try to get a base tyre pressure sorted before the race, and then adjust based on the in-game temperature. But for this one, the only laps I had were the 4-5 in qualifying… so the best I could go for was an ‘educated guess’ when it came to setting the PSI. I definitely guessed on the low side, which is why the tyres gave up. I’d be keen to try the Mustang, but at the moment, I’m in such good form with the Lambo, I’m reluctant to switch 🤣

Yeah, it was a decent standard. I always expect a mass pile-up in T1 at Imola, so the fact all 21 cars got through cleanly… it was a positive sign that racing standards were good.

Yeah! I still remember my race at Nurburgring last month, when I was in P2 and I decided to push on the last lap to try and catch P1. I ended up crashing twice and finishing P5 🤦🏻‍♂️ I definitely learned a lot from that!

Thanks, yeah defending is still something that doesn’t come naturally to me, so I’m often a bit too slow when it comes to reacting to what the car behind is doing. I’m working on it! 👍

Hello mate, great racing with you (well, chasing you, to be more precise!) I was certainly closing in on you, but I was overdriving quite aggressively to do it. Had nothing left by the time I got within a second of you! Look forward to seeing you on track again soon!

Max!! How do you do the 360's on GT7?!? Sure you've heard/seen, but you cracked Tidge (and me!) up doing that at Spa. Good stuff bro!!

@@brentweir4651 Must be a different Max. I don't play GT7.

@DextrousWeevil huh. Sorry about that. Yeah, it's a Max Power from the UK, but I guess there's a few of ya!!!

My setup is very basic. I only have one PC, so I just use the built-in Nvidia GeForce screen capture tool to record my races. Basically it just records the screen while I’m racing 👍

@@chrisrogerssimracing And since you're not broadcasting or commentating live, you don't even need to record while racing. You can just load up the replay and record whatever you need after the fact.

Yeah tyre pressures are a constant problem for me when I only hop into these races without a practice session. I’ve only got my 4-5 qualifying laps to use as data, so often I’m limited to an ‘educated guess’ when it comes to PSI!

Thank you Joe, I’m a bit gutted I won’t get chance for a second try, because the pace I’d found by the end of the race would probably be decent enough to get a podium challenge in. Hope you’re doing ok mate ❤️

Yeah! Imola is always like that. The guy on lap 1 had the same problem when he rejoined at Villeneuve. Never got the chance to return to the racing line (and ended up in the barrier because of it) 🤣

Yeah, it’s crazy. In my earlier days, that’s pretty much all I’d do… I would rarely risk trying to overtake anyone, because I knew the odds were in my favour that others ahead would crash anyway. It’s always a safe strategy to rely on, particularly if you’re only able to try the race once.

Excellent, glad you gave it a try! To be honest, you’ll probably get more value from them in AMS2 than you would if you bought LMU. There is still not much to do in LMU… only a small number of tracks, no career modes or championships. You will find many more ways to enjoy the car in AMS2. And yes… they are like rockets!

Cheers, yeah I edited out large parts of that race, because it was just me trying to catch them up. But in doing so, I was overdriving quite a lot… sliding through corners, braking too hard. Think the tyres had enough by the last 5mins!

Thank you! And yeah, what a relief last night. The opposition weren’t particularly strong though, so Saturday will be the real test 🤞

Cheers Ben. Yeah, the one overtake I made was about as messy as it could have been without causing a mass wipeout 🤣 but thankfully I got away with it. Was overdriving way too hard though, trying to catch the guys ahead, and it caught up with me at the end.

Thank you Tony!

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Haha, no. The LMU race was from last week, but I just didn’t quite get the time to finish editing it. But as it was 90% made, I thought I’d finish it anyway and upload it as a bonus one 😃

My pleasure! Always happy to oblige… enjoying my hop-ins to LMU, even if I do struggle with the cars!

Ahh yeah, it was comedy gold when I saw that rear start to slide away a second time once he’d got past me. But I was quickly punished for taking enjoyment from the misfortune of others 🤣

Yeah you’re definitely right there. I think it’s partly due to having no setup, but a lot to do with lack of LMP2 driving skill!

Yeah, big time. Even applying just 60% on the pedal would lock it up sometimes, I really struggled. Haven’t changed anything from default setup yet, but yeah that’s probably a good idea 👍 cheers