B2O iRacing 24 Hours of Daytona Team Discussion

[Kenadian]

Hey all,

The iRacing 24 Hours of Daytona is fast approaching and it's unclear at this time as to whether or not we'll be fielding a team?

The event is to run the 21, 22 of January (I believe) so the question is, who's up for driving and in what car?

Personally I'm good to go in either the Mercedes AMG GT3 or Corvette C7 DP.

Please respond if interested as we have to get on this right away if we're to be ready in time.

Thanks.

 

[Jes_971]

Sign me up for a scoot in the AMG GT3.

 

[Deb]

Duke, good news, I can bring at least 4 maybe 5 drivers to the table for 24HR Daytona in the Merc if you want. Better news, Bedo is one of them. Bad news, I am another, but don't worry, since we won't be driving at the same time, you will be safe. . . . well, as safe as you would normally be

 

[Skid_Marc_]

The best part of being on Ken's team is that he cant punt you!

I havent driven the penis-mobile-Merc yet so I'm game to try it now..

 

[Kenadian]

The best part of being on Ken's team is that he cant punt you!

I havent driven the penis-mobile-Merc yet so I'm game to try it now..

Don't you have to renew your Membership first?

 

[Kenadian]

Duke, good news, I can bring at least 4 maybe 5 drivers to the table for 24HR Daytona in the Merc if you want. Better news, Bedo is one of them. Bad news, I am another, but don't worry, since we won't be driving at the same time, you will be safe. . . . well, as safe as you would normally be

It's all good Deb, I typically laugh myself all the way to the Hospital.

BTW I cleaned my windshield last night

 

[Nejtun]

I would like to do a stint for this but I am only available for the first 5 or 6 hours of the Saturday as it is birthday shennanigans that weekend and I have company from 19:00 GMT onward. but anything in the first 6 hours if you can fit me in would be splendid!

 

[Deb]

It's all good Deb, I typically laugh myself all the way to the Hospital.

BTW I cleaned my windshield last night

Nothing like a man with a clean windshield

So along with me and Bedo, there is Tom Cabral and Reid Weistphal. Jason Lisner may want to drive as well. He's very fast and has like a 6000 iRating or something. So whatever you guys want to do. Talk to you tomorrow.

 

[PancakesYUMMY]

hello sirs my name is rajesh i would like to race in your daytona race i have the mercedes it is a very nice car and i can race:

most time OTHER than between 1pm - 8pm GMT

 

[Deb]

What kind of Mercedes do you have, is it a 190 SL?

 

[Noodleguitar]

I'd like to sign up for this as well. I might not be able to practice as much as I can before the first Daytona 24 we did but if I feel I can't live up to the task I will pull out as early as possible.

 

[Bedo]

Hey guys, here are two setups for daytona I threw together for the AMG. I haven't had the time to fully develop them, but let me know what you think. Of course if you have a better set, even better!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzBdkeQONUAmU0czcjF2SEtDOHM

 

[Bedo]

Also here's the monster schedule sheet from last year if you want to fill it out:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CVBn4JCdLmSg555Ps_NB55-JpaGrUf2mEtvNew8_lYw/edit#gid=0

You can start filling it out by entering your name and adjusting your time zone offset in the Tz column.

Then highlight your available time in yellow.

Then someone can assign the driving stints.

 

[Kenadian]

Thanks for the sets Bedo, I'm sure we'll give them a go this week.

Will you guys be able to join us in Practice Sessions leading up to the event? It's best we all get on the same page and turn laps together leading up to the 24.

We typically run Mon and Wed nights starting at 8PM EST.

 

[Bedo]

I'll try to join tonight and wed.

 

[Noodleguitar]

Tested some setup tweaks today. I found your setup quite hard to drive Bedo, with lots of pre-load. I usually run it pretty low in the Mercedes/McLaren.

I've got a setup at the moment that I can drive fairly reliably with -1 wing and around 20 pre-load. I feel we need around -1/0 wing to be somewhat competitive on the straight.

 

[Deb]

I'll check with the other guys on practice.

 

[Kenadian]

Tested some setup tweaks today. I found your setup quite hard to drive Bedo, with lots of pre-load. I usually run it pretty low in the Mercedes/McLaren.

I've got a setup at the moment that I can drive fairly reliably with -1 wing and around 20 pre-load. I feel we need around -1/0 wing to be somewhat competitive on the straight.

I didn't like your setup at all Noel sorry.

I don't know what it is about your sets but I never seem to be comfortable in them?

David was running a set with Spring Set 3 last night and had the fastest laptime in the Server, I think in the 43's. I couldn't touch this time with your or Nate's set but of the two I think Nate's is more stable and less likely to kill us over the course of 24 hours.

I even took 1 wing out of Nate's and recorded my fastest lap (no draft, full fuel). Having said that, his is also Spring Set 1 but I feel more stable all be it probably a bit slower than your set.

 

[Noodleguitar]

I tried Nejtun's set as well. I thought it was a bit understeery because of his pre-load and rake (85mm at the rear). But I don't mind running a more conservative setup if that makes everybody less likely to die (including myself).

I think we still need to look at some stuff on Nejtun's/your set because I noticed Nejtun had pretty high camber numbers and I think negative toe on the rear, which I don't think is ideal for Daytona.

 

[Deb]

On Bedo's set, if you move the Diff down to 45 or 50 drop the ARBs to D3 and set the wing at 1 or 0, it is good. Didn't check the springset.