DriverSports Progression Club | Mon 23 | Stealth Mod | Silvia S15 '02 | RC-I

[Forgetful]

Welcome to the DriverSorts.org Progression Club, an introduction to the methods of car building and event restrictions at the disposal of the DriverSports event staff. Beginning with a stock car in week 1, we will progress to a lightly tuned street car the 2nd week, a mild Race Modifed version in week 3 and a potent race car in the final event. Tires will advance accordingly as well.

This month's subject is the premium Nissan Silvia Spec-R Aero (S15) '02. This lightweight RWD is a favourite of drifters and is often overlooked in the world of competitive racing. Thanks to PD's Race Modified version it's a great platform for this series, starting off as a mild RWD street car and ending up a serious track car. It is our intention to promote a better understanding of how and why we allow certain parts and disallow others.

Week 1 will run with Tuning Prohibited to experience the stock car on the Sports Hard rubber it was born with. Week 2 will see the tuning restriction lifted and the 'Stealth Modifications' and Sports Medium tires allowed. Week 3 will bring the Racing Modification in to the mix (please note that after race modifying a car it needs to be broken in again). The stealth mods will stay, but an increase in power and speed will come with the Racing Modification and jump to Sports Soft tires. The final week will be run with all of the engine upgrades allowed, except for the turbos, what we call 'Max RPM', while also advancing to Racing Hard tires. All four events will have TCS disabled and ABS allowed.

DriverSports.org Rulebook:

Race Day: Monday January 23, 2012

Car: Nissan Silvia Spec-R Aero (S15) '02

This event is with Race Mod/ Stealth Mod regulations. See the Rulebook and Technical Regulations tab for full details.

Technical Regulations | Jan 23 | Racing Modification/ Stealth Modifications:

Track: Road Course - Indy 4.19 km / 2.61 mi

Race Distance: 24 laps | 100.56km | 62.64 mi

Qualifying Deadline - 9:00 PM EST

• Pre-Qualifying Session Maximum Lap Count: 5
  
• Submit a Time

Drivers Meeting - Open 9:20 PM EST | Closed 9:30 PM EST

Pre-Qualifying Results:

Proper Room Settings:

Schedule:

• January
  
  • 23. Race Mod/ Stealth Mod (RM/SM)- Road Course - Indy 4.19 km / 2.61 mi | 24 laps | 100.56km | 62.64 mi
    
  • 30. Race Mod/ Max RPM (RM/MRPM) - Road Course - Daytona 5.73 km / 3.56 mi | 21 laps | 120.33 km | 74.76 mi

Upcoming Technical Regulations:

Technical Regulations | Jan 30 | Racing Modification/ Max RPM/ Default Turbo:

[vkaifh]

car is broken in and ready, not so much the driver though.

Will have to do practice and qualifying tomorrow during lunch or any other break. Nevertheless I'm already looking forward to tomorrow night.

[jochenrindt]

car is broken in and ready, not so much the driver though.

Will have to do practice and qualifying tomorrow during lunch or any other break. Nevertheless I'm already looking forward to tomorrow night.

I'll be around late afternoon and early evening if you would like to give me a track walk, mein freund...

[vkaifh]

I'll be around late afternoon and early evening if you would like to give me a track walk, mein freund...

that's when kids are back from school and my more important (but unpaid) job requires my full attention.
I have basically no chance to get on my PS3 between lunch and race time.

[group44]

Took a blast earlier today and it would appear any times in the high 39's will do nicely.

[clacksman]

Took a blast earlier today and it would appear any times in the high 39's will do nicely.

That reminded me to stick my tune in gtdata.

[vkaifh]

That reminded me to stick my tune in gtdata.

[vkaifh]

found 2 tunes in GTData, took one and q'd with 1'40.240. Thanks to all the tune-donors at GTData, this is very much appreciated.

Very much looking forward to tonight.

[clacksman]

Also Q'd

[ttourist]

Is 'Tuning Prohibited' correct for this event?

[vkaifh]

Is 'Tuning Prohibited' correct for this event?

that can't be right.

[ttourist]

Is 'Tuning Prohibited' correct for this event?

that can't be right.

That's what I thought but that's what it says in the room settings. Thought I'd better check. About to run Q with tune.

[jochenrindt]

01:41.392

[jochenrindt]

Div 2 for sure

[jochenrindt]

My wireless connection froze at 8:59PM Still time to start from the back? I'll be there anyway!!

[ttourist]

clacksman 40'46.396
timneyb 40'49.394
group44 41'05.056
Rooster722 41'07.214
ttourist 41'14.816
robiker 41'16.184
vkaifh 41'43.540
bamboo4wt 42'19.654
JochenRindt 42'28.903
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Eventful race with position changes throughout the whole thing.

[jochenrindt]

Thanks guys, sorry for the late qually...I'll try to post earlier next week....Sorry Bam for the turn 1 nudge, I slowed and waited for you, let you re-pass me. week Then you got me back with 3 laps to go...

Oh well, full Race Mod next week!

[clacksman]

Eventful race with position changes throughout the whole thing.

Indeed.

Going in I had to manage tire wear and see how it looked about halfway. Race wear is usually better than practice wear for me, if it wasn't I was going to need to pit. Rooster broke out to an early lead, followed by me and tt. tim started fourth and wandered forward to second in a few laps. Then tim spun out leaving the last turn. I checked up to avoid, tt got by, tim resumed well back. About L10 I knew I wasn't pitting, and noone else up front did either. I finally ran Rooster down with a handful to go and took the lead and held on for the win. Without tim spinning that would have been more difficult.

Good times.

[bamboo4wt]

Thanks guys, sorry for the late qually...I'll try to post earlier next week....Sorry Bam for the turn 1 nudge, I slowed and waited for you, let you re-pass me. week Then you got me back with 3 laps to go...

Oh well, full Race Mod next week!

I think that was my fault, was my pass clean? Should have cooled my jets and stayed with you, we were still tight with the pack at lap 2. Great to run with a true sportsman.

[timneyb]

Good race last night. Without the spin it would have been very interesting with clacksman. The spin cost me about 6 seconds, and clacksman won by 3. Clacksman maintained more tires, as usual, though, so if I had got within 2 sec, he probably would have been able to push a little more and stretch the gap back out.

I had a look at the replay, and looked at my and clacksman's lap times throughout. the difference between the first 12 and second 12 laps was 20 seconds (even taking into account that the first lap is slow, because of the start). Pit stop delta is about 36 seconds, so for us, pitting wouldn't help. Those in the next pack had dropped more lap time though, so they might have benefited from a stop. It's hard to make that call when you're in a good fight though.

Some pics:

The pack:

Catching too much grass:

clacksman coming through the smoke:

Straightening it out (pretty pro-looking, actually):

[vkaifh]

I would have liked to see how the different pit strategies work out between robiker and myself. He was a few seconds ahead of me when he pitted and I was planning to go w/o stopping. But then I damaged my car and had to pit anyway.

Good times nontheless.

[timneyb]

I would have liked to see how the different pit strategies work out between robiker and myself.

I may check that. Lets see how much I want do grant writing.

Edit: Oh wait, you both pitted, so I can't figure it out. Back to paid data.

[vkaifh]

I would have liked to see how the different pit strategies work out between robiker and myself.

I may check that. Lets see how much I want do grant writing.

Edit: Oh wait, you both pitted, so I can't figure it out. Back to paid data.

yeah, I had to pit with maybe 5 laps to go. At that point I knew it would get close between us but now we will never find out how close

[robiker]

Depended on tire wear.
Clacks and Group had about half tires left at the end, while TT and Rooster were almost on rims.
I didn't want to risk it.

[vkaifh]

Depended on tire wear.
Clacks and Group had about half tires left at the end, while TT and Rooster were almost on rims.
I didn't want to risk it.

while I had clacksman's tune I highly doubt I had his tire wear. But I was kind of confident I can make it to the finish line.

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