Thanks!

Thanks for watching!

I know it was an accident, the real nail in the coffin for that race was when I self spun like 4 laps from the end, stuff happens.

Yea, me too. As the title says, sometimes it goes that way... Hopefully this week will be better :)

Thank you, hope to see you out there too!

It's a tough one.

Thank you!

It's probably my favorite.

It's a tricky one.

Thank you, I'm just hoping I'm not the attrition :) I know there was one season where I couldn't avoid it for the life of me.

I find it's harder to get lap times now than it was before the update, I think everyone is finding it this way. It took me quite a bit of work to get to where I was last time we went here and I think the track conditions are a bit more favorable this time.

Thank you! Yea, as I saw the speed he was gaining in the relative I was hoping he'd catch me a bit later so I'd have a chance but he was mighty quick.

It's a really tough track, congrats on the 54s!

I think the high track temps don't help.

I do like to josh around :) Thank you for the kind words. You're usually around my pace, I remember last time we went to Mugello you beat me pretty well.

@@piltdownfilms Ha! Good one. I don't think I really noticed the car being different this season at first, however I have definately been finding myself struggling to be more on the pace. My best time at Mugellow right now is a 1.53.00 - 8/10ths off your time! I'm on the edge too much and make mistakes.. Maybe I should change my car color to purple? Maybe you know something I don't know.. 🤔

@@MarlonFamilton Purple car definitely helps :) But more seriously I just practice a lot. I look at what the quick times are going to be and set a target of like 102% of that time and after getting there try to get as far past it as I can. I know I'm more than likely not going to hit this best time in a race. I think this is partially subconscious as when I'm doing my practice laps there isn't a huge consequence for overdriving or crashing (just hit the reset button and I'm back at my reset point), but there is a part of the back of my mind that won't let me push that hard in a race. Hopefully all the practice will let me back off a bit and still be somewhat competitive. The other thing is I've gotten relatively ok at saving spins and whatnot so that when I do make a mistake it's not quite so devastating, at least most of the time... Sometimes it still is but I think on the percentages I do okay.

@@piltdownfilms Yeah, I absolutely noticed how many laps you did. I think I have about 20 at Mugello and you had over 100! For sure that shows in your driving. Saving spins.. I am a bit better on the limit, but once she starts to come around I work hard to make sure I get to experience the joy of snap oversteer. That's been my latest jam. 🤘

@@MarlonFamilton We did a couple hours on stream the night before in a hosted as well, but I had a horrible time concentrating and couldn't get under 1:54. There is a certain point where I hit and things start clicking and it's time to optimize then I get to a point of diminishing returns. Very track dependent. I don't know if you know about the two foot magic method of saving a spin, and I don't know if it would help you in the scenarios you're having but I did do a video on that kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2LbiXtpYrepbrM you do have to get it before it gets too bad. It may or may not help, I know having it in my back pocket helps give me some confidence at times.

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Thank you! I use a dual clutch. You let go of the right clutch paddle and it drops the clutch to a preset point (I have it set to 45%) then you open the left paddle at a more reasonable rate so you don't light the tires up. I think in one of the recent patches this ability was added to iRacing so you can do this with a button you bind. I think it's on the first screen (but don't quote me on that) and there is a slider for the percentage you want the clutch to drop to and then you would just let out your clutch pedal like regular.

Thank you!

lol, I knew that Spencer was right behind me and I thought that Wong was right behind him so when Spencer overshot I wanted to figure out where Wong was to not turn into him, but he wasn't anywhere :)

Thank you! Yea, I'm quite a night owl so it's pretty late my local time when I race. Man, I was so slow in the 6hr, hopefully I'll do a bit better in the next round...

@@piltdownfilms a few nights per month I run around the same time as you.. running from PST so 2hrs behind.. I will try and jump into a Pcup race and see if you're in there!!! What do you use for editing your videos? I have tried streaming and my network doesn't like it as much as I'd hoped. might have to explore recording and editing ala DaveCam or something.

@@BCSimsport Look forward to seeing you out there. I use Adobe Premiere to edit the videos, OBS to stream, then I just download the stream from Twitch or record directly with OBS if I'm not streaming. I then also play the replay back on another computer and record that separately to get the picture in picture. I've thought about trying DaVinci resolve just so I have a free alternative to show people how to use.

I had plenty 😅

Thank you!

That's a bummer man. I remember a while back when I was doing both Supercars and Pcup I forgot to switch my wheel back to dual clutch paddles from the right paddle being a hand brake and I let the one go and nothing happened. Looking at the results from tonight it looks like you had a good one. I think Lawrence and I started a new olympic event, synchronized pcup spinning :)

Thanks for watching!

It was a really rough night...

Sorry to hear that, hope you can get the situation remedied quickly.

@@piltdownfilms I've got confirmation late last night that a new one is being sent out. I bought this week's track at the beginning of the season because I was excited to finally race at this track with the PCup. I jinxed it 😆

@@CodeB4US10 Fortunately Hockenheim is a pretty popular track, you should get plenty of use out of it even if you don't get the replacement in time.

Thanks for watching! I typically don't mess around with the brake bias during a race, I worry about changing it then forgetting that I've changed it and it catching me off guard.

@@piltdownfilms Thanks for your reply. I’ve had that experience as well. Changing the bias and then leaving it only to have it compromise another corner. Thanks again for the great videos!

Yea, I definitely felt something too. To me the car just felt extra squirrelly here. It took me a while to come to terms with some corners that I though I had a pretty good handle on before.

Thanks. I was trying to figure out how to work in the Diviynls, Violent Soho, The Avalanches or Jet but at a certain point I decided to save them for a future Aussie track. I was never able to get to the 6s in an actual race my race times were always in the range you're talking about. There is a big difference in how much I can push when if I put it in a wall all I have to do is hit the reset button.

It's been a good long while since I've driven the prototypes, but I had a lot of trouble with the brakes too, I had a lot of races where the first corner or two I'd spin it. I think it has something to do with the regenerative braking. We're not the only ones either, just watch the first corner of the 2023 Long Beach IMSA race for a good example. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZKXcmWhapWtrJY

I’m not sure I’m the best person to ask for advice on this, I can only talk about what I do and my channel isn’t that big. I think trying to be consistent with uploads is important, think about things you would search for and watch, try to cover some “evergreen topics,” in addition to whatever it is that you’re doing currently and I’d look at areas outside of sim-racing for inspiration as well. If you just stay within the bubble it can become a bit of an echo chamber. Hope some of that is useful.

@@piltdownfilms Thanks so much answering my question. That's really helpful. Especially the part about looking outside of sim-racing is something I have not considered until now.

Thank you. Good luck with your races!

Thanks for watching! Hope it helps :)

Thank you, and thanks for watching.

It takes a bit of practice :)

Thank you, it is a bit of a mixed bag when it's a friend who spins...

It's a fun one!

I don't know what would cause this, sorry.

If I remember right, I've got the engine turned down a bit to hear the tires a little better. Everything is going through the GoXLR, for gain, compressor, de-noiser etc I just played with each setting one at a time after watching a video on how to set them. They're going to be different for every set-up.

I think you were better on the back half of the track, it felt like I could get a little gap going then by the time we got to the bus stop you had caught back up. I usually have a good time at Bathurst but I find the downhill section so tough, I'm so slow through that section. Hopefully I'll get a bit better at that section this season.🤞

It's pretty amazing how little changes can add up.

I got it once, but it was so unreliable I gave up on trying to get it every lap.

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You'll find the time, just takes practice. One thing I'd recommend is getting Garage61 or something similar and comparing telemetry with faster drivers to see what the difference are. Are they braking later, lighter? Downshifting sooner, or staying in a higher gear in a corner? How does the turn in point compare? That kind of stuff.

@@piltdownfilms will do! Thanks a lot!!

Now there's an idea...

Thanks, I use racelabs for most stuff and kapps for left right bars and twitch chat.