1970 Watkins Glen 6 Hours [05/02/2012]

question bete et peut etre deja pausé , il y aura une partie de la course de nuit ou pas ? ( vu que sur le serveur des fois la luminosite baisse pas mal )

Non y'aura pas de nuit, mais ça finira en fin d'après midi.

ok merci

Pour ce qui est des dépassements pour les attardés (comme moi quoi ) ...... en ouvre en virage et on garde sa ligne en ligne droite ???

Pour ma part pour indiquer que j'ai vu le pilote rapide et que je ferai la place, je fais un appel de phare

Il est conseillé de garder sa ligne. 5 fruits et légumes par jour.

Déjà un bon punch apporte une grosse partie des 5 fruits

2ème séance qualifs ce soir !

Merci de faire plus attention lorsque vous sortez des stands. J'ai reçu plusieurs plaintes à ce sujet.
Ne sortez pas des stands à toute vitesse mais arrêtez vous à la sortie, regardez si la voie est libre puis allez y, en restant sur la droite de la piste.

A l'issue de la séance, merci de poster sur le forum quel pilote prendra le départ.

Pilotes devant éditer leur nom de joueur :

- François-Michel HERROU => "Francois-Michel Herrou" (pas de cédille, majuscule seulement à la première lettre du nom)
- karl dudouet => "Karl Dudouet" (Majuscules)
- vincent devulder => "Vincent Devulder" (Majuscules)
Second qualifying session tonight !

Please be more careful when exiting the pits. I received several complains about this.
Do not exit the pitlane flat-out, stop at the end of the pitlane, check if the track is empty and then go out, while staying on the right of the road.

At the end of the session please post on the forum the name of the driver who will start the race.

Guillaume:

IMO the safer way is to cross the raceline and run around the outside line through T1 until up to speed. The fastest cars are going to use the right lane at the apex of T1 and may carry around a fair way past that too still staying to the right before coming back left for the apex of T2. Running slow in the right lane just gets in the way...at least the way I see it.

Ideally, people will, as you say, wait for oncoming traffic to come past before going out in the first place, but some people do charge out without looking <sigh>.

For the benefit of anyone who may not already know, pressing BOTH "look keys" or wheelbuttons (look right/look left) at the same time will let you look behind, and that SHOULD show you any cars that are coming out of the last corner and past the S/F line.

It's also worth taking the time to aim the mirrors properly (but please, not during qualifying!).

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As to naming the driver who will start, in our case we may not decide that until later in the evening (my teammate is working this weekend, which complicates matters for us). Can we change this early Sunday AM if need be or do you need to have this decided by a certain hour (presumably to set the grid)?

Sorry for complicating things....

[Please translate and repost as you see fit, thanks]


CS

Christopher Snow wrote:

IMO the safer way is to cross the raceline

That's the problem, crossing the track is never safe, especialy with cars coming fast behind you. As you said, ideally people will wait and never get in the way, but in case that happens, the driver in his flying lap will go round the outside. His lap will be destroyed, but at least there will no crash.

As to naming the driver, all I need is to know who will start the race, can be one hour before the start, no problem

Ok, that's good, thanks. In our case, it may literally come down to that last hour, as my teammate has to drive his stint and then spend a full day at work (while I take over to the end). It's likely, therefore likely to be him taking the start, but we still aren't entirely sure I suspect we will decide it later tonight (US time) and I will certainly post it once we do.

The biggest cars (not sure about that flying fast 312P) will use the entire width of the road through T2 and T3 both, and if a slower car is in front there, the big car will just have to accept that the lap is ruined...but that's multi-class racing of course too, and that's why we put five classes into the mods in the first place.

At least there are no VW busses out there!


CS

Me and Kimmo are unable to do the race tomorrow

I won't be able to do the race tomorrow. It's out of my hands, sorry.

Guillaume, je peux déjà te dire qui prendra le départ chez nous !

Matra #34 : Samuel Mefrouche

Quali #2 launched !
Live timing HERE

Great Pole lap there Martin. I busted every seam, but just couldn't catch you over the rest of the session.


CS

Great session, well done Martin and Christopher

Thanks

Yes it was a great session, and I was under pressure until the end, I kept in mind the laptime you did in free practice Christopher

Martin. I did a couple of laps too, It seems I'm a bit out of pace...

Congrats absolute pole, and Sports 3000 whoever got it as I lost track

I'm happy with my time, never would have believed at the start of the session that I could extract a 1:06.2 out of the 908

Tomorrow will be a tough day!

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

Congrats absolute pole, and Sports 3000 whoever got it as I lost track

Well double thanks then, because the absolute pole and Sports 3000 pole are the same

pour l'Alfa numéro 37 c'est Yannick Lampuré qui commence

Tiago Malafaya wrote:

Martin. I did a couple of laps too, It seems I'm a bit out of pace...

The most important thing is the race anyway

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Well double thanks then, because the absolute pole and Sports 3000 pole are the same

Sorry I said "Sports 3000" but meant "Prototypes 3000"

But double congrats in any case, as it was an well worked pole

EDIT:

I forgot to say that I will start the race tomorrow, and Gianluca will take over later

Pour la Lola-Chevrolet T70/MkIII GT n°5 de l'ecurie Bonnier
C'est Jean-Louis Petillot qui prendra le départ de la course