Round 11 - Birmingham [May 29th]

Jonatan Acerclinth wrote:

Should I join in a GrA Car tonight?

I would prefer to use the Holden or the 635 if that is allright as I'm currently the only GrB car

I am present too, Frank just hasnt updated first post.

Sorry to abandon you Jonatan

Present.

Teemu Toikka wrote:

Jonatan Acerclinth wrote:

Should I join in a GrA Car tonight?

I would prefer to use the Holden or the 635 if that is allright as I'm currently the only GrB car

I am present too, Frank just hasnt updated first post.

Ah, sorry Teemu, looked through but must have missed you're entry

Hoping to have a great race with you for the GrB honors

I'll most probably also be there, but with only three cars, results won't be official I'm afraid

Results will be official but only half points will be awarded.

Damn only two other guys and it's Jonathan and Teemu

Present

Server launched!

Good evening all
Unfortunately not present this evening

I can't believe it!!

Pole

Fantastic race fight for win in C class and game crushed!!

Like i said in the Warm up This will be embarrassing and it was ...

I will Just have to face it ...

I Do Not Belong on The Street

Oh S**T what a stupid way to end the race

Was being lapped by the leader and moved to the right, then saw the 2nd to leader behind also willing to overtake and kept at the right while braking ... hitting a part of the barrier that protudes into the street

Apologizes to Jesper? because I saw in the quick replay that you were affected by the accident. Damn, that was real bad luck, one of those things that catches you in a street track

Pity as I was running a solid 3rd and had been having lots of fun with Franck Mercurio.

Doh ....

Look like David found his 6th gears in the last 5 laps
Can't catch him, the boat is too heavy and not as fast as the sierra, well, it will be the 4th place again

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

Apologizes to Jesper? because I saw in the quick replay that you were affected by the accident. Damn, that was real bad luck, one of those things that catches you in a street track

Don't worry about it, shit happens

Aww man. I felt quite tired tonight, but it was ok in BTCC and I managed to beat Jesper this time (even if the fight didn't last the whole race ).
Then I won the first race in Caterham, and then I lost all my focus before the race 2. Add this to the fatigue and I forgot to brake on the final corner

Results are up !

Caterham R2: Sorry guys, changed to a Gui setup and it only got worse, spun in a bad place

BTCC was much better, didn't expect to end up on the podium

Bonne course, sans bagarres directes cependant, sauf dans les premiers tours avec l'ami Ben qui devait avoir quelques ennuies mécaniques sur sa BM, il me semble...

J'ai passé toute la course à tenter de rattraper Franck, que j'avais en visuel assez souvent (petit point rouge au loin...) et de maintenir l'éccart avec Antoine qui était derrière moi et qui remontait.
A ce petit jeux je me suis bien amusé et j'ai constaté que j'avais une bonne régularité et surtout que cette satanée BMW que j'ai beaucoup de mal à maîtriser habituellement, ne m'échappait pas trop et restait assez docile... Setup mieux adapté, circuit qui me convient mieux, je n'en sais rien mais c'était cool de laisser glisser la voiture au ras des rails et d'enchaîner les virages sans me vautrer... Un régal...

J'ai bénéficié des quelques grabuges de fin de course pour terminer 8ème du général et de la classe B...

Bravo aux vainqueurs et aux finisseurs

Et merci HSO (faudra quand-même pas oublier de me donner mes points de cette course... je crois qu'il y a un oublie...)

Le classement n'est pas encore à jour, c'est Franky qui gère en général

Je fais un bon départ, je me retrouve juste derrière Jonatan, mais me trouvant pas à ma place, je me laisse glisser vers le fond du peloton pour retrouver l'ami Philou. Je me mets dans son train, et décide de faire la route avec lui. Pour ne pas prendre de risque de l'empaler sur les gros freinages, je garde la distance dès qu'on arrive à un point de freinage. Mais ça va me mettre en fâcheuse posture sur le gauche en haut de la montée, j'évite le spin. Voilà Philou à 4 sec devant, je décide de faire Esc, n'ayant plus de copain à suivre.

ah parce qu il y avait une course hier soir la pause estivale va etre bénéfique j espere car je commence a saturé moi

Was an interesting evening yesterday.

Caterhams:

Had no pace here with the Caterhams. I know the track very well but I simply couldn't drive the Caterham, I was all over the place

Race 1 I almost took out Franck when I span out of the last turn and I almost took out Yves I think was behind me at some point in both races, sorry for those scares

Race2 went slightly better but still lost quite a few positions during the leanght of the race.

One 7th and one 6th place I'm happy with considering I was close to crashing out several times


BTCC:

I love this track in the TCL mod cars but I find it more fun to drive the Holden than the M3 around here because it offers more difficulty to try to stay out of the walls

Qualifying:

Got into the server with about 10-15 minutes to go of Qually and went out on my racesetup with no changes to it. Got a banker lap in and then went for a quick lap staying out of the walls everywhere except for over the crest out of T4.

Got the Pole with .064 of a seconds ahead of Teemu. Yet again, sorry for stealing the pole from you

Race:

Started from 7th and pole in GrB as said above and had a good launch off the line getting past Antoine and with a bit more engine power one or two of the sierras but the straight was too long and they could blast past before T1.

Then sort of let the GrA cars by and had a small battle with Ben who got past during a lapping situation and I then got past him by going up the inside up the hill. Sorry going across your front, went into the corner a bit too fast I think

After that I paced myself but in a try to try and go a bit faster I half-span it at the hairpin which let Teemu catch up and go past on one of the straights. I now know what is different in the setups at least, gave the 6 speed a go and found something that might help me for the last 2 rounds to keep up with the other M3s on the straights

After Teemu got past we were trading misstakes which saw us gain and loose time relative to each other during most of the rest of the race but with 5-6 laps to go I noticed that I was getting more consistent and faster while Teemu must have been on softs or had a very aggressive setup as he was loosing speed, making misstakes and overall being a bit of everywhere on the track compared to me on the Mediums.

Caught up to him going onto what I was hoping to be the second to last lap which became the last lap after T4 when I saw JP behind lapping us so it was the last lap. He lapped me on the straight while going past Teemu at the hairpin but held him up slightly mid corner to exit which was where he had gained most time on me over the whole lap so saw my chance.

Pressured him into the following corner which saw Teemu go sideways on his worn tires and I could get a better exit and was side by side for the left hander after the back straight. I braked as late as I dared and managed to go past and then drove as carefully as I could making sure I got good exits out of the last 3 turns and managed to hang on to win the GrB class

Was a good battle with Ben to begin with and then with Teemu, even though most of the battle wasn't dorr-handle to door-handle it was still lots of fun comparing lines and such.


Thanks to HSO for a good event and all the drivers for a very enjoyable evening of racing

Standings updated

I just watched the replay, and what can I say? Looks like a bug on the track, it is absolutely ridiculous how my car went flying simply from slightly touching the barrier sideways

From Jesper's car theview was astonishing as my car was propelled as if by an explosion against him.

Really sad for me to lose a podium like that though happy that Jesper ended 2nd as he was going when I hit him. Sadly I deprived him and JP from fighting it tll the end, but fortunately the damage was limited.