[Matteo Venuti]

I've done some laps in the Ferrari with soft and low fuel, i managed to do a 20.9 (but invalid, i cut a bit the Abbey corner)
But i have a question, expecially for those who raced the Ferrari: Are Hard better tyres for the race? Or we can use soft without any problem?

[Michal Ringes]

I will use soft tyre, it should be ok. I did maybe 50 practice laps with low fuel, best lap was 20:2, but i was quite consistent between 20:3-20:6. I will also only use 100% limiter for race, had enough roasted engines lately

[Matteo Venuti]

It was a good race, at least for me
I was pretty consistent (22.0-22.5), and luckily i didn't make any mistake (well, sometimes i almost touched the wall on the inside lol
A BoP for Michal could be a good choice, isn't it? (just kidding)

[Michal Ringes]

Yeah great race, and i even got to do some racing thanks to the worst starting position on the left when i had to let you guys go at first. I already have slight BoP, limiter only set to 101, even thou 103 or 104 should be doable with carefull shifting

[Simon Meisinger]

That was an amazing race. It's been a while since I was in a race with that many great racers on SRS. There were 4 quite fast people on server 2 as well.

After the first lap I was glad that it will only last 20 minutes, because I thought I couldn't handle all that adrenaline for so long But in the end I was disappointed that it was over already.

Robert made a mistake through Woodcote, so I overtook him and in the following lap I thought I was unable to make a mistake through that corner and decided to shake him off with my unlimited skill there. Didn't work as intended and I fell back to 10th place ...

But the battle with Jim, Lucas and Donnchadh was worth it.

[Michal Ringes]

i just watched the race stream, wow, so many great fights across the whole field, very nice guys ! also a lot of grass was cut, and i kinda like the extra smoke on stream

[Donnchadh MacGarry]

It was good to be back doing the F1 race on Wednesday evenings. I hadn't done one since the 90s car at Imola from about two months ago due to changes with my spare time in real life stuff. 

That race was a lot of fun, I had some good battles with Lucas, Simon M and Jim C. If I hadn't kissed the grass on Stowe midway through the race that sent me off track, maybe top five was on. Thanks for the setup Simon Meisinger, it was really nice to drive as the car felt nimble and responsive but still stable (at least be F1 70s standards).

Looking forward to the next one, hopefully I can make it.

[Andrzej Gruszka]

I made one little contact with the inside wall and the suspension damage was too much to carry on, these cars are soo fragile.

[Donnchadh MacGarry]

I had been working on a Lap Time Comparison Excel workbook a few weeks ago, that would basically be able to compare lap times from different drivers/cars/setups and allow me to do some analysis on those times. I had started it the week of the Estonia 25 series at New Jersey Motorsports Park to be precise, I was comparing three different setups for that car and track combo. I wanted the sheet to be more than just looking at the fastest lap, which could happen to be done when a driver just lucked out and was not repeatable. It would calculate averages, deltas from the best/average and much more. Initially I thought it would only take about a week or two, but then I started getting more ideas on features to add and it became an entirely different beast. I have a habit of overdoing things just a bit. It would not surprise me if there are other (better) tools online than this workbook, but I wanted to create and customise the workbook to show the information that I wanted to know (I also needed to practise and refresh some of my Excel skills, so it was a good excuse/project to work on). Unfortunately, I had to take a break from it for a few weeks, so I have not finished the design of the workbook, but it already has most of the functionality that I wanted for it. I also have an incomplete tutorial document on how to read, edit and customise the workbook that I need to finish as well. When the workbook and tutorial document is all done, I plan on creating an individual thread on the forums for it. Since this is an incomplete demo which currently compares the times of the 70s F1 race at Silverstone, I decided to put it up here as some people might be interested in it.
 
If you are interested, download the zipfile attached to this post and extract the Excel workbook called LapTimeComparison_F170s_Silverstone67_SRSRace20201007_1900GMT.xlsx.
It compares the laps of five of the drivers in the F1 70s race at Silverstone that we just did. The sheet stores the times as follows

·        Stint 1: Myself (finished 6th)
·        Stint 2: Michal Ringes (finished 1st)
·        Stint 3: Matteo Venuti (finished 2nd)
·        Stint 4: Robert Duplantier (finished 5th, best Lotus 72D result)
·        Stint 5: Max Spied (finished 12th, roughly midpack)

which I think is a useful spread of the drivers in the race and includes information on the two best performances of each car. Feel free to replace my times with yours, so you can compare your lap times instead. To do so, copy your times from the standings which are all stored in the first sheet called “Retrieve_Lap_Times”, and paste them into the times for stint 1 in the second sheet called “Stint_Collection”. Or else manually write them into stint 1 of “Stint_Collection”, but I would not advise this as it takes ages. The workbook will automatically update the comparison sheets (“Key_Information_Comparison”, “Full_Lap_Comparison”, “Sector_1_Comparison”, “Sector_2_Comparison” and “Sector_3_Comparison”) to read these times and do the calculations, so you should not need to do anything else. Do not paste times into the comparison sheets as you will break the formula in these sheets and they will no longer update automatically.
 

To keep this post from going on much longer, I have also included in the zip file an intermediate tutorial document for the workbook to explain a few more things instead of writing it here. It is very brief and does not go into nearly much detail as the actual tutorial document will, but hopefully it will do. If there are any key features that you think that are missing or have any advice on the layout of the Excel sheet then let me know (maybe PM me so it doesn’t clog up this thread). Since I created the workbook, what I find clear to read might not be true for someone who has never seen the workbook before. I’m pretty happy with how the workbook is at the moment, so hopefully others will find it useful/interesting.

[Matteo Venuti]

That's great! But i think that uploading this file on something like Google Drive it's better, so everyone can see the changes made by other people (if it's possible, of course)