ACC | A Sensational Season Opener!!! LFM GT3 @ Donington Park
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- Welcome to a brand new Low Fuel Motorsport season in Assetto Corsa Competizione. I’m back in the Coach Dave GT3 Sprint, I’m back in the Ferrari 296, and I’m back in the middle of the pack!
I was pretty happy with my qualifying time, but it’s only good enough for P13 on a grid of 20. That said, I am within one second of pole position, so it was all set for fiercely competitive LFM ACC opener at Donington Park.
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Awesome video Chris!! That was unbelievably exciting from start to finish! Donington is a tricky circuit in these cars I always find - not much room or many overtaking spots!
Really challenging to overtake, I lost count of the times I had to lift because there was no way through. Was a great pass the lad pulled on me at the bottom of the Craner Curves, but I just didn’t have the confidence to try the same!
Thanks!
Ahh thank you my friend, that’s truly very kind of you, and very much appreciated 😃 Thank you so much
thoroughly enjoyed that Chris. you don't need to battling for podiums to have a belter of a race!!
Cheers Metz, absolutely right! I’ll take battling for 15th any day, compared to the madness of iRacing last week!
Another great vid Chris. You are criminally underrated on the youtubes. Love your work mate. Always entertaining and keeps me motivated to fire up my sims. Thanks from 🇦🇺
Ahh, the pleasure’s all mine. As I always say, hearing one of my videos has inspired someone to try a sim race themselves, is the best possible compliment I can get! Cheers
Chris I just found your videos for the first time and they're great, you're enthusiasm in commenting makes it interesting to watch each and every one of them!
Ahh thank you mate, and welcome to the channel. Hope you enjoy the upcoming races on the way!
Brilliantly done Chris, you don't have to be an Alien , when you can have close and respectful races like this one, congratulations 👏
Absolutely! I don’t care if I’m battling for a podium or 20th place, as long as the racing is fair and clean - which it was here. It was great just to be able to trust the cars around me again.
Nice racing Chris. Looking forward to more races from you in this series.
Thanks Matt!
Really a close hard run there Chris!! Thanks for sharing!!!
My pleasure Walt, thanks for tuning in!
You had me on the edge of my seat watching that one. Well done Chris great racing!
Excellent, I know I’ve done my job when you’re on the edge of your seat over a battle for 14th 🤣 thanks Andy, cheers
Exciting race Chris! I don’t know much about LFM but the action from start to finish and all those fights for position was very cool. I might just check it out. Thanks for the video!
The standard of competition is very high in ACC / LFM… I felt like I was really quick in this combo, and found myself fighting for 15th 🤣 this was definitely an example of it at its best.
Very exciting Chris - well done getting stuck in and fighting hard in all these battles!
Thanks Lorenzo, yeah it was just what I needed after my iRacing disasters last week. ACC just seems that little bit more forgiving with contact… the lap where I had 3 contacts while racing side by side, I’m not sure I’d have got away with that in iRacing. Made for a really good race.
That video just about sums up what SIM racing is all about: Having fun through hard, fair racing. Great stuff!
Absolutely, I really needed a race like this after recent disappointments!
Great to see you get a positive race after your last iRacing outings. I have been trying out the 720s Evo in some of the LFM 45min Spa races and i have to say driving standards seem to have vastly improved in a big way... looking forward to some more ACC from CRSR. Good job fella as always thoroughly entertaining.
Always good to have another car recommended Nij, cheers for that. I wanted to choose a different car to race this season too, but time kinda ran away with me so, for ease, I just hopped into the one I’d driven most recently. I will make a switch at some point though. Never thought I’d say it, but it was great to be back in ACC!
Great race Chris! Lots of action and really good racing. The driver quality was really good in this one.
Thanks Bill, yeah it was exactly what I needed after last week’s disaster to restore my faith in sim racing!
Cracking race! I love Donington Park and im really looking forward to trying this race out
It’s such a fun track to drive, but incredibly tough to overtake. Very little room to go two wide - which is why I was sweating so much in the middle of the race 🤣 good luck, when you get out there on track
Fantastic racing Chris, bit of panel beating needed after the race..!!
Haha very much so! It’s nice to be able to have a bit of contact without it resulting in an instant crash. Certainly made for a fantastic race. Cheers!
Donington is just fantastic - good racing Chris
It’s so much fun to drive, but really hard to overtake - any pass you successfully make at Donington, you really have to earn it! Cheers
Great stuff, nothing wrong with some mid pack racing. Top stuff as always, love the TV cam, its a better production than eurosports coverage of the speedway lol!!!!
Haha, are you watching the Speedway GP on Eurosport now by any chance?! Because that’s exactly what I’m watching right now 🤣
Yes I recorded it and watched it this morning. Dan the man!!!rode his luck a bit, but it's still a win. Plus he's a mighty ace!!!Tbf the gp coverage is a lot better than the league coverage shown on Mondays.
@@deanothemanc5281 Belle Vue live on Eurosport tonight aren’t they? I love my speedway. Used to go to Somerset Rebels every Friday, but sadly they didn’t survive the lockdown. GP final on Saturday was a cracker!
@chrisrogerssimracing yep it is, going to go down after work, will watch highlights tomz. The rebels were a good team, I only went their once it was a bloody good track. We should win tonight I hope!! looking forward to seeing Emil the guys awesome 👌. Plus Doyley is good around the NSS, albeit he was awful at the GP.
Really entertaining race mate,your a great commentator,like a Devonshire Murray walker
Haha! Now there’s a tagline for my CZcams channel branding 🤣 Cheers mate, glad you’re enjoying them
Awesome racing, as always! I love Donington as a circuit. The sequence between Redgate and McLean's is delicious to drive, but I find the lack of overtaking spots can make for a frustrating race.
That was exactly the problem I ran into. I lost count of the times I had to lift and lose all my momentum, just because there was no way through. The guy behind pulled off a great pass on me into the Old Hairpin, but I just didn’t have the confidence that I could pull off a similar overtake successfully!
@@chrisrogerssimracing I suspect I will have similar issues when the Porsche Cup goes to Donington on iRacing next week. I'm not a big fan of sending it and hoping for the best (not any more at least).
Loved it. Very exciting.
Thank you mate, glad you enjoyed it. Cheers for watching 😃
Solid drive mate, I've moved over from iR to ACC now and I'm just working on getting my SA up enough to take the LFM licence test. All signed up to LFM now.
Thank you mate, ahh that’s good to hear. iRacing can really drain you of enthusiasm when you have a run of bad races - it certainly does for me, at least. You still get the occasional bad race in LFM too, particularly in rookies, but it’s worth persevering with. I find in LFM now that 1 in 4 races might be bad. Compared to iRacing, where it’s usually 3 in 4! Good luck, will look forward to hearing how you get on.
Has always great stuff watching your racing Chris
Thank you Roy, really appreciate it! Thanks for tuning in.
What a difference between this and iRacing driver quality. Congrats on a solid performance, Chris, and good on everyone else for remaining professional through the pressure.
Yeah, a world of difference! And exactly what I needed to restore my faith in sim racing. Absolutely loved this race, even the door-banging! It’s nice to be able to have a little bit of contact like that, without it resulting in an instant crash (as I’m sure it would have in iRacing). Cheers!
Bloody brilliant video!! 😮 so entertaining...your editing is awesome 👌 new subscriber here 👍
Ahh thank you mate, and welcome to the channel! Hope you enjoy the upcoming videos as much. Cheers for the sub 😃
While I will always cheer for you Chris. I did find myself shouting out loud "No! What are you doing Santo?!" on that last lap.🫣
Great racing all round 👏
Haha don’t worry, I nearly found myself shouting it too! He finished in 13th, just behind me, so clearly didn’t run out of fuel. He either thought the race was over, or backed right off because he needed to preserve the litre or two he had left. Was an extra little twist at the end!
Great stuff mate great racing a tip I got off an alien at Donny and it works at most tracks with tight hairpins, is to have 2 buttons mapped on your wheel one for your desired TC and the other to take TC down to 2 or 1 if you feel comfortable with it, as you come out the chicane drop TC to 2 for the 2nd last corner and when you accelerate you will have much more drive I think this is why you kept getting smoked by the Macca,this really helps me on all tracks but must remember to switch it back for the rest of the lap
Cheers mate, yeah I was doing exactly that with the TC - but only a couple of notches. Was running TC8 for most of the lap, but only dropped it to 6 for the final couple of corners. I didn’t even try going any lower, which was an oversight… would have been easy just to try TC2 or something lower, during my practice or qualy run. TC6 really didn’t make that much of a difference!
@@chrisrogerssimracing oh sorry mate I didn't notice I just saw the run the Macca and Lambo had on you out of that corner i was going from 7 to 2 there made a big difference for me with launch on exit, great commentary and content as always.
@@petermartin5197 Haha no worries, at the height of the battle with the other guys, I was so pre-occupied with trying not to hit them, that I forgot to change my TC anyway on those laps! Currently I only have TC increase/decrease buttons set, so it’s quite time-consuming to cycle through them all the time. I like your tip much better - work out which two TCs I need before the race, and set the buttons to those instead. That way, it’s just one press each time. Will definitely be doing that next time 👍
@@chrisrogerssimracing Hope this helps Chris dialling thumb encoders is a real pain dedicated buttons make it quicker and easier definitely worth a try works on lots of tracks with tight hairpins and chicanes eg Monza Donny Oulten Imola to name a few looking forward to your next ACC content
Another great video as always!
Thanks Tom!
Hope you're enjoying the 296 Chris. Bit different from the driving standards we saw in iracing.
It’s far more nimble than the old BMW I was using. Even though lap times are similar, it just ‘feels’ much faster. I struggled a little bit this week just with getting used to the ACC physics again. A couple of weeks running iRacing and RaceRoom, and it takes a while to get used to ACC again. But loved the race. A year ago, I’d never have imagined that ACC would become my first-choice sim!
Great race, Chris. I'm supposed to be working but your video popped up on my phone and I had to watch. Donnie's a really tough place to overtake. I wonder if Santos actually had the same issue I did last night ... not enough fuel and so was short-shifting and using higher gears on corners, causing him to misjudge his speed at the corner you ran into him. I was driving a perfect race and running 6th after starting 9th but then halfway through I realised I didn't have enough fuel and so I started making mistakes, wondering how best to drive - should I let the guy behind through so I could save fuel from his tow, etc. In the end, I ran out of fuel half way around the final lap. So he might have just let you through on the final lap rather than fight it.
That’s a very good shout actually, regarding Santo. Just looking at the results, he did finish just behind me in 13th, so he obviously wasn’t completely out of fuel, but quite possibly was doing his best to manage it and bring it home on fumes! Really good combo to start the season, this.
@chrisrogerssimracing Just a note on the tyre wear. I'm usually really bad and my tyres typically last 15 minutes. After that disaster last week, I went back to the drawing board. In GT3, you're supposed to apply around 70% to 80% brake pressure. But I was planting my foot on the brake at every turn. I soon realised that 70% braking doesn't really affect your braking point. If anything, it actually improves your ability to brake at low speed corners, which has caused me a few issues where I've almost come to a standstill. Your ABS was only set to 4, which probably means that you were locking up your tyres more as well. Last night I had no problem with grip because of the changes I made. I've increased ABS to 7, just in case i slam on the brakes, and TC at 9 to reduce slides. I reduce it for the last two corners as well. With those settings, I was probably about 2 tenths off your pace. That, for me, is impressive ... prior to a practice session I had on Sunday, my fastest was a 1.33. It's now a 1.28.
Great race! Really a joy to watch.
Will you try LFM RF2 GT3 as well, Chris?
Yes, absolutely! Maybe even this weekend, or next week. I’m assuming now that rF2 has removed the “own all content to race against it” rule, I can just get away with buying one GT3 car, rather than the whole pack. Looking forward to it!
Geeez dont forget to breath once in a while
Breathing is for wimps 🤣 haha
Cracking race Chris,pity about the last lap but as always compulsive Viewing and great commentary....
Quick question...
Do you ever race Gt7..?
Thank you Leigh. No, I’ve never tried GT7. That’s PlayStation only, right? I don’t know too much about it. I do have an old Xbox and tried a bit of Forza during my early forays into sim racing, but I’ve never had a PS. Would you recommend it?
@chrisrogerssimracing yeah I would recommend it buddy, I on the other hand have never raced using a PC ,I have Acc on ps5 but I don't like the graphics much, your graphics on pc look great and the quality of play on gt7 I think is excellent, thanks again for your great great content, I really enjoy it 😀
Great close racing is always entertaining, Thanx chris. Putting the question out their, Should damaged cars, ie well of the pace, hard to control, Danger to others be automatically called to the Pits?
Very good point. The same thought crossed my mind last week in the F4 races on iRacing. iRacing is usually pretty strict on hamburger flags for the slightest damage, but it lets you continue driving without a rear wing. Drivers staying out on track with no rear wing caused a lot of accidents. If I do stay out in a damaged car, I’ll almost never defend or try to battle. Just not worth the risk!
I MADE IT 😂😍😊❤️👌👍🤣💯
You’re back on form!
It's a pity last mistake.
Yeah, either my brakes or tyres (or both) had nothing left. I don’t think I braked any later than usual, but as soon as I did, I knew the car wasn’t stopping!
Low tire pressure is not rare in your races.
Ahh I know mate, it’s a constant struggle for me in ACC. I just don’t get the practice time to work on setups or pressures, so it’s mostly guesswork from my qualifying laps data. Tyre pressures aren’t so crucial in the other sims, but here in ACC it’s much harder for us casual racers sadly
@@chrisrogerssimracing You could use qualifying laps to simulate race laps.
Why do you yell so much???
You could turn the volume down a bit.