Round 2 - Keimola [Oct. 6]

Once I posted the above I gave it about a minutes thought and realized the times were not being rewritten-and that my fast lap from last year would remain.

Apologies for my lapse in consciousness... 

Server launched, quali starts in 10min

Arrived on time, so  

Can't believe my luck over the past two weeks. Lap 1 turn 1 death last week and this week my car starts in the middle of some big black circle twice in a row. %^^&!!!        

Thx for trying a restart guys. Same exact outcome both times.  

Really atrocious race for me.

Forst of all, apologizes to everyone I touched or made spun  

Despite qualifying well and feeling quick in the Porsche, it seems that I had WAY different braking points & style than the rest of the field around me, and it caused some really embarassing situations. I was so much out of sync when braking with the Sports 5000 cars around me (A class I didn't always recognize well, which added to the confussion) that it became a true nightmare.

I went down to the end of the field and finally hit a kerb and damaged the car, after a horrendous show.

Apologizes again, not having raced on the net since before the summer and the difficulty of not locking brakes with these cars were a terrible combination  

disco   La fin de course aurait été très difficile, je surchauffais l'arriere ...

Bravo au podium et aux finisseurs

Mike Becnel wrote:

Can't believe my luck over the past two weeks. Lap 1 turn 1 death last week and this week my car starts in the middle of some big black circle twice in a row. %^^&!!!         

Thx for trying a restart guys. Same exact outcome both times.   

Sorry Mike

4th in class, so another top 5 on the stats chart. Less zeroes is a good thing  
My apologies to Jan, I got in his way when he was trying to lap me and he spun   Hope I wasn't too big an impediment for the others; there were some hairy moments throughout.

James, what happened at the start?  You were stuck on the line for a long time.

Did all I could to show I had different braking points with the heavy Lola...

First lap... 3rd turn...

Well, the result was a flat rear tire and lapped by everyone. No fun to continue.

Results are up  

Tough race, Was a struggle to get on pace as only had tonight's practice to get a setup and learn the track, Had a good race with the other 5000 cars, But we all had our spins at one point or another! Glad i chose the hard tires as at the end i was catching up with Anders and Yannick, Assuming you guys used the soft tires?

Thanks again HSO and i'm very happy to take a class win  

Makes us 1-1 now doesn't it Frank??  

Richard Coxon wrote:

Makes us 1-1 now doesn't it Frank??  

I Think Frank wins the award for the most spins

Jason White wrote:

James, what happened at the start?  You were stuck on the line for a long time.

I am not certain..but it would NOT go. Really sorry for holding you guys up. Finally got the car going and making time on you, then would make a mistake and fall back, catch up, mistake, fall back, repeat, repeat. This happened about 3-4 times. Then you were off in turn 1 and I got by.

Jan Titz was very fast today....very impressive Jan.

Sorry Mike couldn't make it. Was looking forward to scarpping with you mate.

Really having fun with the 910-car felt really solid here. I let it down, but there was no way I would catch Jan, even without my mistakes and the messed up start..

Championship standings updated on the site

I just managed to take pole infront of Vincent, who came very close. I could have been better in S1, but I couldn't put it together.

The race wasn't really on and we had lost Mike&Leo  

I barely kept the lead with late braking into T1 but got away. Then went off twice which enabled Vincent to close right in. I spun again, this time at T1(rear-ended the barrier), handinghim the lead. I guess Vincent was just waiting for another mistake after my first two incidents.

About 2-3 laps later he spun at T1 too, giving the lead back to me. After that, I opened a gap as Vincent ran into trouble(?) and Yves was already over 20s away.

It got a bit more exciting when I came to lap Jason&Gui. Barely managed to avoid Jason spinning, then came back ahead of Frank. I followed the 2000 cars into S2, then waited as Jason&Gui were still ahead. Frank came up to my inside, bumped the right side and spun to the inside into a tyre  

This track is such a nightmare when you hit one of them, your car will never feel the same.

In the end, I lapped Richard at the last turn and took the win by about 8.9s ahead of Yves and Philippe.

  

I love that Alfa, really nice car to drive, just the driver a tad error-prone

Well done to all finishers!  

Btw: Mike, tell me about that Porsche of yours with the Mazda engine...  

That was fun no practice and i had no setup before the race but i had good and bad memories of this track ... So i knew i could finish ..

The Flunder was terrible for understeer i found the car much easier with the heavier fuel load and had many nice laps with my old friend Jieffe but when the car got lighter he got away
Thanks for the setup at short notice Alberto the only thing i changed was the brake bias on the front
as i kept locking up but other than that it felt ok ...

Have to be happy with 8th place overall ...

Well done to David ,Yves and Phillipe and also Richard ..

Congrats all finishers   

I was having a good battle with Philippe until I hit a tire  
I got a puncture, but missed the pit entry and did almost 2 full laps at very low speed. After a very long pitstop I rejoined last on track (the game forgot to count that lap) but managed to grab the class win with 5 laps to go  

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

I was having a good battle with Philippe until I hit a tire  
I got a puncture, but missed the pit entry and did almost 2 full laps at very low speed. After a very long pitstop I rejoined last on track (the game forgot to count that lap) but managed to grab the class win with 5 laps to go  

 

You monster of a driver!  

Errr btw Gui: What would happen if we'd both win 4 races(or finish in exactely same positions) in our class? Who would be champion? Tie?

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

Mike Becnel wrote:

Can't believe my luck over the past two weeks. Lap 1 turn 1 death last week and this week my car starts in the middle of some big black circle twice in a row. %^^&!!!         

Thx for trying a restart guys. Same exact outcome both times.   

Sorry Mike

Nothing you could so sir, thanks for the restart even if it resulted in another dose of  

David Jundt wrote:

Errr btw Gui: What would happen if we'd both win 4 races(or finish in exactely same positions) in our class? Who would be champion? Tie?

In that case the admin always wins, sorry!

No seriously I don't know yet, but I'm sure you'll be kind enough to avoid winning all races.

oups ! 

oublié qu'il y avait une course hier

bon , vu que je serais en Asie pour la prochaine course , ma voiture est libre pour la fin de saison

désolé !!

Très bon résultats pour moi hier soir   ce n'est pas souvent donc profitons-en  

La course a été très amusante les quinze premiers tours, après j'étais un peu seul à la chasse impossible des Alfa de devant et vigilant pour que cela ne revienne pas de derrière.

On a bagarré avec Franky au tout début, puis il s'est loupé en dépassant Richard, alors que Richard partait à la faute un peu plus tard, me laissant le champs libre devant, en 4ème position... Mais derrière-moi la voiture bleue de Guillaume revenait très fort...
Avoir Gui dans mes rétros n'est pas très banal pour moi... Mais j'ai une 3L et lui est en 2L... Les deux lignes-droites du circuit donnaient l'avantage à mon moteur, alors que dans la partie téchnique du circuit c'était lui qui gagnait du temps. Il revenait coller à mon arrière à chaque début de la ligne de départ-arrivée et je le distançais à la fin de la partie rapide. J'ai résisté à ses assauts une bonne dizaine de tours et puis il a eu un ennuie et il a laché... Merci Gui c'était bien sympa!

J'ai essayé de garder le rythme jusqu'au bout et sur la fin la malchance de Vincent qui était 3ème m'a offert le podium... Une première en scratch pour moi et la poursuite d'une série faste de top 5 assez incroyable pour moi... (je vais me réveiller sans doute bientôt  ).

Bravo David et Yves   et à tous les autres participants  

Merci HSO, à la prochaine

Bonne course hier, sur un circuit qui convenait décidément mieux à la voiture que le champ de bosses de Karlskoga
j'ai eu de la bagarre de premier au dernier virage, 2 petites sorties de piste mais aucun problème notable, just a tiny front kiss with Carl in the middle of our nice fight  ... c'est finalement la régularité et quelques bons tours qui m'ont amené à la 6ième place finale
avec un petit échange de politesses pour la 5ième place avec Yannick dans les tous derniers virages, ça s'est joué à quelques chevaux pendant la dernière réaccélération, miam

Comme d'habitude, l'agilité de la voiture compensait à peine les écarts de puissance dans la ligne droite
à ce niveau, les Alfa m'ont carrément impressionné (et Ben aussi je crois )

bravo aux vainqueurs, mention spéciale au podium de Philippe et merci HSO

David Jundt wrote:

Btw: Mike, tell me about that Porsche of yours with the Mazda engine...  

I beg your pardon sir...I now have a lovely red Lola with a Cosworth engine. I now suspect my car was made at me for choosing to switch to another car. Must be a female car and kicked me out of bed at the start.  

Richard Coxon wrote:

Makes us 1-1 now doesn't it Frank??  

  

Carl Larrad wrote:

I Think Frank wins the award for the most spins

I hope I got the award coz I worked hard for it   !