another test evening. formerly, i wanted to check tire wear so i went out to a test session. setup was my race setup for hot tracks with medium slicks front and rear. my plan was to drive 3 laps and then to pit to check tire wear and to get fuel. but my 2nd stop was like some other evenings befor. nothing happens. it is really not understandable because there was no other car on the track, so it was really not yellow, i have anounced my stop, there could not be any stopn’go penalty. no pitstop, it really goes to annoying me.
to put some more salt into the soup i wanted to test the brake issue again. i calibrated my wheel and checked all settings within gtr. i set the sensitivity to 20% to get some kind of linear response and i set 5% deadzone for brake axis. disabling abs and out on the track, and what a surprise, the elise was acting very similar to the settings with low abs. so it is possible to use this car without abs if the brake pedal is correct calibrated. i often found the brake at 100% when checking the controller settings and at the moment the throttle was ablied just a bit the brake power went back to zero but as soon as the throttle was zero the brake power was back to 100% percent. this happens sometimes between sessions but often only after starting gtr. over the whole evening i had just 2 complete wheel locks at all and this was at night where the brakes were too cold. this is a little bit pity because you can not adjust brake cooling during race and with more than 10 degrees difference between day and night it is quite hard to handle.
so i thought, ok, lets go for a huge field. i installed the nordschleife pack containing two versions of the nordschleife (zurich and the mother2) plus additional cars. strange thing, it was not possible to put more than 29 cars on the track. after struggeling with this for more than a half hour i get really pissed and deinstalled all mods and addons on gtr and installed my previous version of zurich which is quite newer than this nordschleife pack (helpers on the track and some minor changes), my prefered elise car pack plus brighter headlights, video removal and gtr logo removal and nothing more. surprisly, now it was possible to create a grid of more than 29 cars, 59 to be exact. i decided that a total amount of 50 would be the maximum my system can handle. my next attempt was to modify the gdb files of the zurich track to get longer races on the special stages. i went for 6 hours, edited all the files, gtr was showing a max race length of 6 hours, exactly what i want. so i started another test session but who knows why, the race was done after 40 minutes. so this works neither. back to the original files and another try. i startet the zurich24 track and went for a 2 hour race with all classes and 50 cars. no time for qualifying and after my last attempts to qualify and to race i thought it would be the best to start from the end. everything went fine for 1:30 hours until i was trying to pit my second time and, you surely guess whats coming, no pitstop. damn, this cant be true, i was leading the gt2 field, and the race had just half an hour left to race and i can not pit. beside this, it was a great experience to have this huge field, the passes of the gt1 in the morning, the life in the pits, the daytime changes and the differences in the behavior of the car due the different temperatures.