Season III - F1 2017 RACEONOZ Formula One World Championship (PS4)

I can’t Zachary keeps crashing into me

Can’t remember my last race haven’t thought about racing again the wick on the candle is diseased... when it’ll return who knows

yes m8. i'll slam in a 50% race tonight before the main event!

PLEASE REMEMBER TO RECORD YOUR RACE FOOTAGE.


DRIVERS BRIEFING R19 - Brazilian Grand Prix - 36 Laps
Previous Winner: Jono



Please read the following carefully and 'like' it when you have read and understood it.


TRACK LIMITS: As per our rules and regs drivers must keep 2 wheels on the ripple strips or white lines at all times. We all make a mistake or 2, but if you are caught "continually and obviously" running outside the track limits to gain advantage you will be penalized by the stewards group.


CONTACT: CONTACT IS TO BE AVOIDED AT ALL TIMES. If you make contact with the car in front and gain an advantage, you MUST REDRESS and give the place back. Failure to do so could result in a penalty from the stewards group.


PASSING: Passing is far more difficult with these new cars. You must set up your passes accordingly and not pass recklessly. Interlagos is a very tricky track to pass on, despite two DRS zones, they are the only overtaking spots on this very narrow circuit.


SWERVING: You are NOT permitted to swerve from side to side on the straights. Drivers may only change direction ONCE on corner entry.


PRE-RACE: You must wait until a call to ready in the PS4 chat. This will be approximately 45 seconds after the F1 intro sequence, more than enough time to setup a race strategy. DO NOT hit X until the ready call is sent.


FORMATION LAP: This season will see the introduction of the formation lap to set the clutch bitepoint and to warm up tyres. Please avoid overtaking other cars and leave space.


TURN 1 LAP 1: You can't win the race at turn 1, but you can certainly lose it. Take care into the first corner and leave plentiful space for other drivers, as this is the most risky part of the race.


PIT LINES: Use the pit lane lines as indicated. Do not charge into the pit lane as you risk damaging your car and disrupting the race. Commit early to avoid potentially causing a serious accident. Stay within the lines, you may not cut the exit line AT ALL, otherwise you will receive a warning.


PIT STOPS: This season will introduce realistic pit stops. You must slow down to the indicated speed limit otherwise you will earn a stop and go penalty. You must also pull away from the pits using the clutch, and deactivate the pit limiter on the pit exit line.


BLUE FLAGS: Please observe blue flags, and move out of the way of faster cars if you are being lapped. You should be aware of the leaders coming up on you, and move out of the way as soon as possible. Best to get off the race line, and with a small lift let them go, so you can continue the fight with those in your class. Failure to observe blue flags WILL result in a penalty.


STEWARDS GROUP AND RACE PROTESTS: You are to PM myself, @Viperzed & @Hatfield should you want to raise a protest. The main Stewards group thread will have all the necessary info in it, regarding rules and regs, and the protest procedure. Please read it and understand how it works.

http://www.raceonoz.com/forums/index.php?threads/stewards-group-official-thread.2593/


PENALTY POINTS: For this season you can only be awarded Penalty Points if you have been protested, severely infringe appropriate driving standards, fail to upload your pole position lap, make a track limit infringment on the lap, quit without retiring or spam the PS4 Group Chat.


GROUP CHAT: The chat will be used to convey vital information between sessions. Please do not spam the chat during a qualifying or race session unless it is to warn drivers regarding lag.


QUITTING: This is a huge problem in this game, remember in this series, a safety car will bring you back into the fight. As usual, if you need to leave, make sure you retire the car before leaving the lobby. Failure to do so will result in 3 penalty points against your name. It is also asked that you do not chuck a hissy fit and take out the brake markers. The rage quitting is becoming far too frequent recently and is heavily affecting the race results. In all ROOZ races you must aim to finish the race and/or not cause problems for those still racing. Please do not exit the race unless you absolutely need to.


RECORD YOUR RACE!: Please remember to record your footage via pre recording it or saving it after the race. If you want to protest anything, we can only act on the info we have in front of us, failure to do so will not enable us to view things from your game perspeective, and with some of the issues we have seen, this could have a massive influence on how the stewards group will view and rule on an incident.

I may struggle tonight, been hit with a sledgehammer of food poisoning or something, who knows, a Webber at Fuji 2007 might even happen!

It’s not really beating me when I’m not actually there

but you will be there in spirit and that's enough for hatfield

Rubbish race from the outset. Spun more times than I could count, damaged several wings, was only a matter of time before I hit the wall hard enough for it to be terminal.

Tough race. I was burning through my rears so quickly!

Finally got my sh*t together for once this season. The car felt shaky in qualifying but it came alive during the race.
Hatfield lead from the start but gifted me the lead early on when he got a bit sideways at the Senna S.

From there it was pretty smooth sailing. Biggest issue I had was a 5 second stop go penalty for speeding into the pit lane, but apart from that it was almost faultless.

Also just want to give a shout out to those who were under blue flags at any point during the race, exceptional job.

Cheers guys, hopefully we’ll get a nice grid for the finale next week

Good win, Razor. You were a class above everyone last night.

Thanks. Some close racing with Hat and 90, was fun being wheel-to-wheel. I've some footage I'll post later. Got away terribly from third was 5th or 6th by T1. By lap 2 or 3 I was last after having had a 3-way incident with 90 and I think natman at T1, thankfully no damage. Combination of peoples mistakes and overtakes got me back through the field. Ended up in 3rd with 2 or 3 to go and Hat made an error which gifted me 2nd. Never even saw razor, he was 40 odd seconds up the road.

those that had issues with spinning and high rear wear rates, did you use the set up posted in here? I did and it was terrible.

I ran a few laps in time trail with the above setup but found the front end to be rubbish and the rear to be too floaty. reverted back to a race strategy i found on f1carsetup.com . Could just be my driving style on the track that caused my rears to die.