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Can you share your experience of using new Fanatec wheel in AC? It’s amazing that they use it in studio during development/testing what means that this fantastic wheel support in AC will be sperb.

I would love to continue with KS2 champ.

It’s pity that we will not have dedicated KS2 champ, but rather mix of different cars. Personally I never drive those cars (F1800, F2000, etc) and most likely some different skills needs to be obtain to drive all of them fast. That makes entry barrier for drivers a bit higher I think. Interesting to hear what other people think about it.

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that's fine, I just wanted to hear that community is alive and we start to race soon. thanks for working on things that we will enjoy to play with!

gotcha! thanks for clarifying Mika. I used to drive Lambo in Barcelona circuit during my vacation, 80 euros for 2 laps.

I thought it's going to start somewhere when F1 starts at March. Just curious if it's actually going to be or not this year

when we start champ?

I always loved view from the ‘nose’ it gives me more feeling of the speed. My friend who is pretty fast go-kart driver when I first time showed NetKar preferred to use cockpit view.

It’s always interesting to see real faces of virtual drivers at their work with car. I filmed myself driving at my home cockpit so please enjoy Looking forward to see you guys soon at new champ!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WfqM2KAHYw

Found interesting video from CARS projects which visualize how suspension works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7DKUMSAtEE

I vote for option C, we need top drivers to be in group A. Also this will allow to introduce a penalty. If you confirmed allocation and didn't participate in Race - add xx seconds to hotlap for next race.

I like long races - it dramatically differentiate champ from single 5-10 laps races on regular day.

I propose to have race each 2 weeks so not to follow F1. 2 weeks gives good amount of time for practicing/setup tuning.

they have much better visor protection than f1 uses now

You can find good selection of helmets in Toledo, Spain

First words come to Andrea who was magnificent yesterday in race organizing and people support (I wish to have same boss at my job). That was my second official race as team member of Vermin Racing Team that made me feel more nervous and be more responsible for the result I have to achieve . Qualification was amazing. Few people were within 0.1-0.2 second and a little better lap can move you 2 or 3 positions up. I literally feel like this is a real F1 quali. All the way I was close to my teammate Richard and we changed in order during the whole session. I did set my best time at A1 but unfortunately it didn’t come to official Rank since servers weren’t connected to that service.

Start of the race was pretty good. Not sure why but I often have a pretty good acceleration during start procedure and run even better that some famous aliens here. I did overtake car or two and was faster than cars ahead but decided to avoid risk and pass first corner safely. Richard, Davide Z, Marco W were behind when we arrived next very slow right corner. Davide Z made aggressive overtake attack there, his car color has some similarity to Vermin so I thought initially that it was Richard. So few laps after we run pretty same speed with Davide. Don’t remember exactly what happens next (race was full of events) but Davide Z and Marco W were again behind me and Marco was fighting to overtake Davide. According to Rank Marco should be 1-1.5 seconds faster than Davide and I was impressed that he stuck behind him for so long time. Ahead me in 4-5 sec gap run Peirs S. I think I was losing about .2 -.4 sec each lap comparing to his race pace but that was amazing for me since in my Netkar carrier I never run so close for long time to famous drivers

Around lap 8 or 10 I made silly mistake at last corner due to some oversteer. Davide and Marco passed me and I got just in front of Richard. We run pretty close for 4-5 laps, some sectors I was faster, other sector – he. My strategy was wrong as I decided do 2 stops. Never know without good experience what is the better 1 or 2. After stop I moved to last place, not good but not a tragedy as well (as I was satisfied with battle I was able to participate in first laps). I tried to push on new tires thinking that I can overtake Richard when he make his own stop. Surprisingly his race pace on old tires wasn’t that bad. He runs around 1.15-1.16 same as me on new tires. When he made his own stop he returned just 1-2 sec ahead me. Wow – that was like real F1 again for me as it looked similar to pit-stops strategies when cars before/after pit stops and long runs come close again. Few laps after I made one more small mistake and lost 3-4 sec. Then Richard had his own problems and got behind me.

Next amazing thing was last 3-4 laps. Davide Z had some problems at final part of the race so that he was running behind me before the end of the race. His speed was better than mine and he getting closer and closer to me. On main start-finish straight he attempted to overtake me in first right corner. He runs a bit wide and then pushes throttle too much so that car was oversteered and he lost position. I finished 9th what pretty reflected my overall speed. Great race, great feelings, great community so looking forward for next season!