NC - Rand Grand Prix [Jan 5th]

1ere course: belles bagarres avec Martin d'abord, puis avec Richard. Pas mal de survirage en fin de course.
2eme course: nettement plus difficile. J'ai cafouillé au setup et ça l'a rendu encore plus survireuse.

Ca promet des GPs incroyables ...

Bravo à Tiago et Yves.

Vincent Beretta wrote:

1ere course: belles bagarres avec Martin d'abord, puis avec Richard. Pas mal de survirage en fin de course.

Oui c’était sympa   

C'est dommage au moment ou il y allait avoir un regroupement à 3 je me suis déconcentré et zip, le rail   

I was careful not to overrev the engine as my only goal was to reach the finish. I was really surprised my race pace was good enough to lead the private entries after barely making the top-20 on the grid. I firmly believe that if it had been a longer race I wouldn't have been anywhere near as strong.

Good bit of fighting with Frank, it's been way too long 

Joshua Anderson wrote:

Heat 1: Don't know what happened to Carl at the start there, he seemed to get a worse start than Webber usually did in F1! :DI almost went into the back of him, but luckily managed a decent getaway, and from there I just went backwards :(Until I blew my engine on lap 6.

Heat 2: Carl had another bad start from where I was sitting :PBut, I soared up the field! (Mind you, that start with Yves had me on the edge of my seat   ) Again, I went backwards - and I think I must have set a record, for the first HSO driver ever to flip the car over!     It seems when I went off on what would have been my 2nd-to-last lap, I had a disagreement with... one of the cones.   And it threw me 10 feet in the air, and upside down.

So, yeah, a decent meeting for me then  

Sorry Joshua but i really struggled with the Uphill Start and the car rolling backwards ...  

Je n'ai été tres chanceux sur les 2 départs ou à chaque fois je me fais sortir mais malgré ça et avec à chaque fois une F1 bancale, je parviens à rallier l'arrivée en bataillant ferme avec Jason, Mike et Gérard entre autres   

Ce mod et ce championnat sont tres prometteurs, merci HSO   

Carl Larrad wrote:

Sorry Joshua but i really struggled with the Uphill Start and the car rolling backwards ...  

I sympathize. I had the same difficulty.   

It's a crying shame there are no slushbox-equipped BRMs

Really Carl and Jason, I Just left it in gear and it was fine   

Richard Coxon wrote:

Really Carl and Jason, I Just left it in gear and it was fine   

We were rolling backwards where we were on the grid.

Thx for this great event HSO   

Really enjoyed myself. My Lotus 25 was struggeling here, chassis is good but only have that 148 kW engine so I had to drive this baby really hard to even stay in touch with the leaders. 1st race I had some problems with a slower V12 driver in front of me so we lost touch to the leaders, eventually finished 6th there which gave me a better outlook for race 2.

Race 2 was superb, after a while there was 1 big leading group with 3 Loti in it...that second race we gave Tiago

a really hard time hehe   
After 25 laps of driving with a knive between my teeth somehow I ended up 3rd  

@Richard shame you spun out last corner m8...you could easily have passed me on the straight with your factory BRM and get 3rd   

Race 1: START!

 

Race 2: Greetings from Team Lotus...

Wow! Looks fantastic!
A crying shame I couldn't be there tonight

Peter Blom wrote:

Race 2 was superb, after a while there was 1 big leading group with 3 Loti in it...that second race we gave Tiago a really hard time hehe  Cool  

Indeed, and I really appreciate it... 1st race was boring   
Despite not winning, in the 2nd race I was really trying (97% engine life in the 1st, 75% in the 2nd says it all) and had so many wheel to wheel situations ending in 0.008 secs photo finish with Yves. I prefer the 2nd race than the 1st one, no doubt.

Thank you guys and thank you HSO  

Man this mod puts me on the very edge of my comfort level. I was a spinning idiot in race 1 and in race 2 spun in the last turn on lap 1 and had to fight back from then on. I am happy with my finish but I have driven more consistent in the past.

Man what a mess at one point. I think it must have been when Jens made friends with some others.. Was a pile up from a slip up front, not Jens. That was behind me (for once!). I was too busy dodging cars and parts to read names. That was an awesome wreck. Also had a bit of a scare when Jason lost it. Bravo Jason for the safe recovery.

Man it sucked sitting in the grass waiting for the field to pass   

For once I did not damage the car at all in either race. Came dang close to taking both NART cars out on lap 1 race 1 though. Glad Patrick was not hurt or not hurt bad. We did not touch in my replay but I know we did on server as he pitched over. Very sorry Patrick.

1st Race Not a great night had some nice moments with Patrick and Philippe finished the 1st race in 18th Place
with 98% engine life .... Was so slow ...   

2nd Race decided to go with more of an attacking setup and blew my engine after just 5 or 6 laps it was a shame as i felt much quicker in the early stages and was hanging on to the back of Philippe and Jason ...
My Engine went POP   

Joshua when you push out of the track someone , first you must wait him and second give him back his place .

what did you do to prevent the car from rolling backwards when engine off at the starting grid?



and how did you turn the engine off?

Leave it in gear and assign a button for ignition and starter. Just press the ignition button to turn the car off, and to start it, press ignition button, then the starter button.

Jens Kraft wrote:

what did you do to prevent the car from rolling backwards when engine off at the starting grid?



and how did you turn the engine off?

you have to set in your control menu a button for ignition and other for start engine

Don't know what was the problem with my grid spot. It didn't happened in the open event we had here. Sorry for any thing. Reinstalling the mod from zero.

Fun races anyway!

Leo Menegucci wrote:

Don't know what was the problem with my grid spot. It didn't happened in the open event we had here. Sorry for any thing. Reinstalling the mod from zero.

Fun races anyway!

It was interesting to see you drop in (literally) just before the start of race 2.   I have no idea what causes that to happen.

Leo Menegucci wrote:

Jens Kraft wrote:

what did you do to prevent the car from rolling backwards when engine off at the starting grid?



and how did you turn the engine off?

you have to set in your control menu a button for ignition and other for start engine

does that mean the engine will not stop but revv on with 10rpm and consume fuel because ignition on?
i want to know since i stop the engine by braking with a gear in.
maybe thats different to ignition

"does that mean the engine will not stop but revv on with 10rpm and consume fuel because ignition on?
i want to know since i stop the engine by braking with a gear in.
maybe thats different to ignition"

no. when you press the ignition button the engine stops completely (ignition off). then you have to restart it by pressing ignition again (ignition on) and then the start engine button.


Lucky I didn't crash landed on top of some one Mike   

Just reinstalled the mod. Maybe it was something related with F1SR skins for the mod...

Jason White wrote:

Peter claims I "almost crashed him" on the final lap of heat 2, which, after reviewing the replay, is complete and utter BS.

Peter is a great chap but I disagree with him on this one. Didn't see anything resembling a crash on this one, not even close.

Sorry Peter, I watched the replay and didn't see that   

Martin Audran wrote:

#38 Lotus 25 BRM (Innes Ireland) : Vadim Taciak

   

lol I never said Jason almost crashed into me, of course he did not, I said he almost hit the Honda after he let him past. Because Jason posts this on the forum doen not mean it's true and something what I said Tiago. You can read the chatter back in the log file and see for yourself.  

Only thing I was dissapointed about is that he put his car between me and the Honda so I lost touch and any change for victory on the very last lap of the race. If I was in his position I would have let the 3 leaders by on the same spot, I was right behind the Honda so that was the most logical thing to do for a backmarker in that position. No probs further with Jason, hes a wonderful and commited guy. One to the next race.