Season Lucky No. 13!! That's No Pirate, It's A GTaaaRrrgh!!

Hopefully my G29 will hold out....

Anyway what an interesting start to a race! Was pretty relieved to hear Ed and Koastr were in another dimension during practice. I definitely remember hearing @marty admitting defeat on Thursday, thought it was odd for him to be so far off the pace....but I welcomed it haha.
I didn't have a great quali, couldn't find a clean run/rhythm but my grid position didn't end up being too bad.
The first stint of my race was so much fun again. Was a bit annoyed I couldn't capitalize on the Marty and Cherno contact on lap 1. Then positions 4 - 10 were so close before the first pit stop. Like last week had a really fun battle with @Cherno and somehow managed to keep him at bay for a while. He ended up giving me a tap which cost me a few places. Then I was behind @Mael for a bit and couldn't find a way through which again was super fun.
Decided to try an over-cut but the lap after Mael went in the pits @KoAStR came out right in front of me on the next lap. In hindsight I should of tried to get past but didn't want to risk ruining his race. His cold tyres cost me some time and ended up losing places. Had a bit of a laugh with @krunch when we were both skating around on cold tyres. Mael ended up on the lawn somehow on the last lap so my eyes were like dinner plates and it was fun trying to see if I could get him.
Great race guys, sucks for you Koastr but you could afford one bad race
Shout out to @pogz who came back from a holiday on the weekend and couldn't do any practice or find a setup 10 min before quali!

Oh and sorry about the bird noises - apparently on discord it sounded like I was sitting on a bird?? Not sure why it was coming through this race compared to the others, I think it was my paddle shifters. FYI the birds normally sits on me

I think the Logitech wheels are best just clamped to a desk, have it mounted solid and stiff then the plastic bits take all the force and eventually break once they cant bend any more.

My G25 lasted years but I got sick of ripping it off the desk at times and so hard mounted it, that was when it started to go south. The G27 amazingly is bolted to the base with plastic screw mounts even weaked then the g25 and the internals are all plastic, using clamps these will fail and come off the desk saving it from being overloaded I think.

My first g27 I fully ripped the entire wheel off the rim, when I took it back to the shop logitech called me and said this was fairly common. All it needed was a new wheel center plate to bolt it on as it looked like very brittle plastic that failed way too easily but they replaced the full setup.

If you have it clamp mounted or mounted to a frame that flexes a bit you should be better off but mine is very stiff so the wheels took all the load and over time the plastic will crack if it gets too much regular load its not likely built to handle.

He uses 1000% FFB

Lol it wouldnt matter what ffb % you use and that level it would just be like a basic spring setup with all the clipping. I had mine set so it doesnt clip mostly around 70% no point clipping and losing all feel of progression.

I have ordered the accuforce so wonder how long it will take to come in but highly doubt I will have it before the weekend even if it said 1 day shipping lol. Still will need to do something about peddles and a shifter but may just use the logitech ones for a bit until I find something I want to get but I hadnt really looked into them as much yet.

New wheel is on the way but I managed to temp fix my g27 with some duct tape and plastic scraps , it survived a test in PC2 and quite likely should be ok to use for a week or 2 or at least for the next round as I doubt the new one will be here by Monday.

Duct Tape and Chewing gum should fix just about anything

Should be a fun round would have loved a reverse grid race at this track as racing in the prac server in traffic has been quite fun.

No chance I will get my new wheel as the 1 day shipping I paid for makes no difference if it hasnt even been sent within 2 days or even likely this week. I would be quite surprised if it comes by next week but at least it seems the g27 can hang in there with a work around if I need to restart the pc and calibrate the wheel.

Tried another 2 practice session. So far (touch wood) it looks like my stability issues have been fixed, thanks to replacing all 4 sticks of DDR2 RAM with some that I had lying around from an old HTPC. Even picked up a fair bit of speed despite a lack of time to practice. May make the final round by the look of it now.

Race Results Round 7
http://simresults.net/171204-qb7

Thanks for the awesome racing guys! Well done Koastr, pretty flawless season.
Had a good arm wrestle with Godzilla for the first 10 or so laps.
Decided to pit on lap 16 which worked well and bought me out much closer to whoever was in 7th. Although I must of accidentally changed to a different pitstop strategy when I was playing with fuel....so my tyres didn't get changed after the race I checked my strategy and I definitely had a tyre change saved. Pretty lonely race after that.

Looking forward to any fun races before next season starts

Well done @KoAStR on another great season, worst position 2nd other then your connection issue. Good job to @ed40t who was silly quick all season but his pit crew and strategists where already on their christmas break during the season.

Here is Ed's crew chief describing the wrong tyres incident post race with the head mechanic in the background.

Thanks to all for a fun season and some fun racing practice servers too, will see you all in the next season and maybe some off season racing too.

Thanks to the organisers and the racers for another awesome season, i know how much all of us loved this car! Shout out to my team PRT blokes great season fellas considering how strong some of the other teams are! Congrats to Koastr just shows how dominant he really is with the quality and competitive fields that show up on race day.

I was quite happy with winning race 1 out of the pits.... haha but I pulled out my best lap on lap 2 and then over drove it trying to beat it. Had a good start but had Cherno all over me and the first two laps I was thinking fark, this is gonna be a hard race. Im not sure what happened but I managed to get a gap after a few laps, I noticed Koastr passed cherno and the mental games began. I was too busy worrying about K's times and I was not nailing my laps and it showed he was gaining a few tenths every lap. Went into pits, came out behind Koastr and he was just too good I couldn't make any time back on him. Race fitness is really good there Koastr! haha. I tried all the way to the last lap to catch him but no dice. Also had to be careful marty was close behind aswell, made up a heap of time man!

Just a tip for pete perigod, would have been nice to give us both some room mate, Im not sure if u where aware though but when your putting in 100% to catch a guy and then you get your rhythm disturbed by someone not going for a race win its really soul destroying!! At the end of the day it is just a game and I'm not upset but just thought i'd let you know for the future Guys like Marty and Jlynn will have you hung drawn and quartered haha

I've just changed jobs fellers so not sure if I will make next season see how we go. Will try to jump on the v8 servers though as they are fun as!

Cheers.