16-01-2017, 08:38 AM
Maybe illumination effects in the game happen a bit too quick. I think the game tries to simulate going from clouds shadow to an area where the sun is shining. It looked a little wierd but it didn't affect me that much.
When thinking in race strategy I calculated pitstop time lost. In this track it was like 30", quite a lot. That meant you should be 0.6" faster per lap as an average compared to doing no pitstop.
When I practiced both strategies I found out race fuel strategy was like 1" sec slower per lap so there was no way in risking doing it.
Qualy
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Got very little improvement compared to half race fuel. Just 0.3" faster as it looked this setup didn't quite like going light.
Race
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Had a good start, good enough to get ahead of David but I was a little offline entering T1 and had to lift to avoid going to the grass, getting back to second place.
In this moment I thought of letting David drive ahead while staying away from his turbulence, saving tires and waiting for pitstop time to come. I did so for a few laps but quickly I found I was driving way too comfortable and that I could go faster, so I pushed harder to see how much I could get close to David's car.
In a lap I got close behind his slipstream and so I overtook him braking for the chicane.
At this point I thought David could be going for a single stop as I had seen going a bit wide at turns the first laps (what happened to me when I practiced full race fuel), so I decided to push very hard to try to get as much distance from him as posible.
When lapping some cars I suddenly lost him from my mirrors and I found out he was already 10" behind, maybe he had had some kind of problem lapping a car.
By the end of lap 22 I went to do my pitstop. The next lap I saw David doing his. At this moment, seing I had a 22" advantage I decided to drive very carefully looking after the tires, lapping high 14s and mid 15s.
Moving through the traffic helped me keeping concentrated and finally making it through the finish line pushing hard the final two laps to try and get the race fastest lap getting both a 14.2 and a 14.0 in a 25 lap tire set (not quickly enough).
When thinking in race strategy I calculated pitstop time lost. In this track it was like 30", quite a lot. That meant you should be 0.6" faster per lap as an average compared to doing no pitstop.
When I practiced both strategies I found out race fuel strategy was like 1" sec slower per lap so there was no way in risking doing it.
Qualy
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Got very little improvement compared to half race fuel. Just 0.3" faster as it looked this setup didn't quite like going light.
Race
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Had a good start, good enough to get ahead of David but I was a little offline entering T1 and had to lift to avoid going to the grass, getting back to second place.
In this moment I thought of letting David drive ahead while staying away from his turbulence, saving tires and waiting for pitstop time to come. I did so for a few laps but quickly I found I was driving way too comfortable and that I could go faster, so I pushed harder to see how much I could get close to David's car.
In a lap I got close behind his slipstream and so I overtook him braking for the chicane.
At this point I thought David could be going for a single stop as I had seen going a bit wide at turns the first laps (what happened to me when I practiced full race fuel), so I decided to push very hard to try to get as much distance from him as posible.
When lapping some cars I suddenly lost him from my mirrors and I found out he was already 10" behind, maybe he had had some kind of problem lapping a car.
By the end of lap 22 I went to do my pitstop. The next lap I saw David doing his. At this moment, seing I had a 22" advantage I decided to drive very carefully looking after the tires, lapping high 14s and mid 15s.
Moving through the traffic helped me keeping concentrated and finally making it through the finish line pushing hard the final two laps to try and get the race fastest lap getting both a 14.2 and a 14.0 in a 25 lap tire set (not quickly enough).
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