Round 5 - Grand Prix du Canada [March 24th]

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

Any idea how to tweak the sky brightness without affecting the track illumination?

Take it easy with that medication of yours, seems to work ok!

Yeah well, like most anti-pain and muscular relaxing medicaments it says specifically not to drive while taking it ... wonder if it is because it makes you faster?

Jorge Alonso is not going to make it to this race due to work related stuff.

Will be driving with 1 arm tonight as I can't seem to feel my left arm after an incident whilst playing football today

Alberto, try turning of Special effects and setting shadows to Max in the Display menu. That's what I have, and I'm not struggling with the sky.

Ruben Freitas wrote:

Jorge Alonso is not going to make it to this race due to work related stuff.

So he says....

Chicken...

I knew Gui was sandbagging

Ruben Freitas wrote:

Jorge Alonso is not going to make it to this race due to work related stuff.

Thanks for posting it.
There's a free Larrousse guys.

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

I knew Gui was sandbagging

I just didn't practice

Quali #2 started!

Well not bad, I had been in 1:18s but very rarely, so I suspected that a low 19 was the realistic thing to expect. So far I'm 2nd on the grid, until Gui does his lap. I guess 2nd or 3rd row start should be in order, but need to spend tomorrow some time making a race setup as today was the first day I touched the car when I realized I could make it to the race

Great run Alberto!

Happily only 0.018 behind Franck, and a position on the 3rd row! Should be a good race

=> STARTING GRID <=

Did not qualify :

27 - Jean Marie Plaçais
28 - Eric Campillo
29 - Cyril Derkir
30 - Jon Lasa
31 - William Tringas

YAY I am in the Top 10 for once!

And the gap to Greg is not that big:

1:19.820 to 1:20.337(Well, still 5 tenths but nowhere near the last qualifying sessions)

I did a small change in the setup and gained 2s

Just hope this change doesn't backfire as in tyre wear or anything else.


Abat qualified ahead of Teemu, not bad! And we have 3 flying Fins on the grid

Sadly, William didn't qualify. But his time will come I guess.

Cool de voir les Jordan bien placées, on les avait pas trop vu depuis le début de l'année

Can't complain with that Quali, don't think I could get that much more out the car. Still couldn't get near my best S1 time which I set on my very first lap on Thurs, but shaved a few tenths off middle sector. If I properly hooked everything up, I know a 1:21 was possible, but still pretty decent. Quite happy to be as close to the McLaren boys as I am, considering how anti-Fondmetal this track is.

Lots of improvements from drivers in Q2 tonight, well done all qualifiers!

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

Cool de voir les Jordan bien placées, on les avait pas trop vu depuis le début de l'année

Ouais, on a fait un bon travail d'équipe avec Yoann , et en plus, on a récupéré l'upgrade 2, le moteur des Benetton !

Dommage pour Jean-Marie qui rate la qualif pour deux dixièmes

David wrote:

Abat qualified ahead of Teemu, not bad!

Yep, to my amazement. I have to thank Teemu for passing me his setup on Thursday. I haven´t had a lot of time to practice, but the setup was really good and i knew i could make a good lap if only i stayed in the tarmac without crashing. And hey presto, first lap in qualy, and i get my PB (nearly a second better than my previous one). Couldn´t believe my eyes, but there was potential even for a 1:22, pity that i couldn´t manage another decent lap without crashing or spinning (but i was really relieved with my time and just went balls out for the rest of the laps).

I had absolutely zero chance to qualify without his setup, and damn it was close even then, you can´t relax for a second in this championship

Great effort, Abat. See you on the grid tomorrow!

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

Cool de voir les Jordan bien placées, on les avait pas trop vu depuis le début de l'année

Pffft

Someone forgot that awesome stand-in driver for Monaco that finished 5th, you know... whathisname?

1 21 in a Ferrari.

Was hoping to make 1 20s. Meh, bring on the race. Hopefully will need fewer wings than I needed at the Monaco debacle!

ppfffffff je me doutais bien qu en ne pouvant pas etre la ce soir j allais me prendre cher dans les dents

Jolie qualif Yves !

je pensais m'etre sufisemment rapproché en perfo pour jouer les troubles fètes en m'approchant de mon record j'esperais me qualifier peut etre
un peu apres 22h juste avant de me conecter je vais me rancarder sur les temps
j m Plaçais est alors 26e à 1/2 seconde de mieux que mon record
dépité j'améliore à peine mon chrono de jeudi
au moins je ne suis pas dernier
j'ai cru entendre dire qu'une Lotus allait peut etre se libérer