Assetto Corsa on PC

Yeah, you can throw the Mini in there if you want.  The track and car for next week are ready to go also (unless you want to make another attempt at the Indy cars).

aircooled said:

Of note:  there looks to be miniature versions of tracks out there for these cars, that would work for either of the above.  I know there is a Spa Petitchamps and a Mini Monaco, not sure what others are out there.

That was some pretty good racing last night until my co-worker got needy on me and I had to drop.  I'd love to see the replay of the first (?) MX5 race to try to figure out exactly what happened to me there.  I don't know if the orange-ness of the car gave it a mind of its own or I just got distracted by my phone blowing up, but I just totally lost it there and couldn't get it back under me!

Last night was great fun. I liked the format and I especially liked how I got the server set up so we can just vote to the race and the inverted start. It all worked seamlessly.  I had some great battles with various people last night. Bill in particular!!!  It was great fun. 

it took forever for things to install but the aus supercars are up on the server

wae said:

That was some pretty good racing last night until my co-worker got needy on me and I had to drop.  I'd love to see the replay of the first (?) MX5 race to try to figure out exactly what happened to me there.  I don't know if the orange-ness of the car gave it a mind of its own or I just got distracted by my phone blowing up, but I just totally lost it there and couldn't get it back under me!

I took a quick look at the replay and it looks like a bit of a tank slapper that was aggravated by running the right tires on the grass.  I will get a video of it.

What about Australian supper cars at Indy?  Do they have enough gear?  

A quick check says yes.  They top out around 180 (JUST enough gear).  Tires will likely be a bit of an issue, and drafting will clearly be a thing.  A definite go to try.  I put Indy in the Current folder.  We can try the road course if we want also.

No luck getting the Indy cars to work?  I suspect if you just install the car (Apex Indy car 2020) we could run them without the liveries, like the Supercars.

A few pics:

Evidence of grass contact:

Close racing.  This is the second lap:

I am not a fan of these cars:

OK, a video compilation format for the night (to see chapters, open it in YouTube, they are in the Description):

Notes:

- Happy hands: shows Wae's weird wall smack.  From what I can tell, he got a bit out of shape going into the corner, had a bit of a minor tank slapper (happy hands), ran over some grass.   Then it got weird.  Looks like he lost all front grip and only grip on one rear tire (grass).  The banking probably didn't help and the car made a weird left turn into the wall...

- How to take out someone on the inside: Shows my quite ingenious move to take out Sauce.  I probably should have stopped, but didn't realize how bad the result was.  Hey, I was in first, how often does that happen!?

- All Bad:  Is our disasterous AE86 race, where almost everyone went bad in the first corner.

- Do you even drift bro?!:  Is a demonstration that some can drift... some can not...

- Fiats - Full Race:  Is the full Fiat race following Sauce, who starts from the back.  Don't skip on watching the middle, something rather interesting happens... Dean... there is no cure....

I have not tried the Indy cars yet I was just "thinking" and thought that the Aus super cars could be fun as there's a lots less aero. 

I really liked the two sprint race with reverse grid format, that was a lot of fun. 

Also, I think I fixed my shifter so I'll probably be on tonight testing it if anyone wants to join. 

e30Matt said:

I really liked the two sprint race with reverse grid format, that was a lot of fun. 

I agree. Pro and I were thinking maybe if there was intrest we could do a longer race. If we did that I would also add tire ware and fuel cranked up so we have to do pit stops. Maybe a Sunday thing or something. 
 

For now I like the short sprint race format with reverse grid. Get tagged or just drop a wheel you are not spending 20-30 minutes just making laps.  Bill and I had a great battle a couple times. It was great fun!!!

A side note re the server by getting all the cars in the server and changing the voating to next session settings I never had to re set up the server.  It worked really well.

In reply to e30Matt :

Ping me on Discord when you hop on.  I'm down to race, but probably not until around 9pm.  Just started my pizza dough.

Side note:  I should check with Spacecadet and see if we can make a Assetto Corsa role (my admin powers only go so far), so you can just @Assetto Corsa in discord and it will send a push to all with that role.

dean1484 said:

I have not tried the Indy cars yet I was just "thinking" and thought that the Aus super cars could be fun as there's a lots less aero. 

No hurry, I just want to make sure we put in an effort to try them at some point.  

We have to try and do better than the S-show they were in Project Cars.

I tried putting the Indy track on the server and I could not make it work. It was late to I just restarted the server computer left it the way we were running last night.  
 

Also I have the server set up with a race session so if people are on the server and want to race you can always vote to the next session and it will start the race.  

Btw I really liked the Fiats last week. That was fun close racing.  
 

On another note the Aus super cars are definitely a "200" class of car in terms of difficulty.  They magnify small mistakes. I like them and we should mess with them but they could be an excessive in frustration for some. 

I tried to get the indy cars to work and they say they are installed but I can not find them in the cars in the game.  Kind of weird

On another note I put the Australian supper cars up at Bathurst and took them for a spin.  Great fun.  It will be a mess but a fun mess  LOL

In reply to dean1484 :

Yeah, the Aussie supercars can be quite a handful.  They are high power, high weight, and high grip but have poor brakes and no ABS.  Due to the inertia it's extremely difficult to recover from mistakes, and with that combo of factors getting it right isn't easy.  Just keeping them on track is an exercise, trying to go fast in them is something else.  I haven't tried it yet but going fast on Bathurst in these is just insane.

They actually work well at Bathurst. I like that track so it may be part of it. Easy to get away from you but I really like them there. Makes the track seem much smaller. 

For some reason Bathurst felt easier for me than the other two tracks.  My times might be garbage though, so who knows

It feels like the have more grip for some reason.  They put down power better and are less sketchy under braking.

The top part of the track has great flow in these cars. You can "send it" in to corners way more than you think you can on the up hill. The down hill is fun but kind of in the opposite way in that you float the car in to corners under breaking. 

Finding cars is getting more difficult as we add more.  The problem is the naming is in consistent, sometimes start with manufacturer, sometime the moder, sometimes the league.  The Indy cars are under Apex (folder and in CM).  A nice addition to CM would be folders, but that would not help much when you are looking from other views.

I did have an issue running the Indy road course in Time Attack mode, so there might be some issue.

I did a bit of Indycar driving yesterday (being Indy day and all).  They are a bit slow and seems to have tremendous grip going around the full course (not much of a challenge).  On road course, they are rather challenging at low speed (very peaky power)

If you change the folder name, does it actually impact the car name in CM?  Might be good to group the cars that way.

Otherwise, I'm assuming we could modify the tags before sharing them?  Sucks for Dean, because they don't help when setting up a server, but at least simplifies things for everyone else.

I don't think changing the folder name is an issue.  I have not tried changing tags.

My primary concern at this point would be making sure everyone has the same names.