Round 1 - Race of Champions [January 15th]

Damn! I got called in to work. I'll have to miss it. Have fun. My car is available today.

Jim

   absent , j ai du reinstaller tout le mod du a mes decos serveurs qui continues et il m indique qu il me reste encore 2h de telechargement , pas la peine d arriver en catastrophe voir pas du tout pour faire un carnage , bonne course a tous .    

Sorry guys I won't be able to race today  

Impossible de revenir sur le serveur ..current session closed  

20 tentatives ...je laisse tomber ...amusez vous bien

Hein quoi? Y a une nouvelle procédure de départ et personne ne m'a averti?   

Bon, au moins j'aurais réussi à régler un peu mon volant pour les courses suivantes.

Saleté de touristes.

Good race, just had some consistent laps to finish 4Th.

Maybe i need a bit more battle but Tiago Francois and Richard were too fast!

First of all, my sincerest apologizes to those who were affected at the start by me standing in the grid and not moving     

The FUCKING START PROCEDURE   again caught me, and I had engine off when the start lights went in their sequence. I started the engine almost in time, but then I had the handbrake pressed and had to release it, and in the hurry I didn't find the key quickly. I don't know who rammed me from behind, but I feel so sorry if I killed his race   

The rest of the race was pure boredom, after going fast for a while and getting some positions in my class, the engine was cooking and I had to back off. The most boring laps of the recent years followed, trying to stay awake at the wheel and having continuously to back off after sprinting for a bit. In the end I decided to just follow Vincent so as not to be too bored and fall asleep, and I just cruised to the end.

Well at least the SCCA/IMSA will have a rolling start after the stupid new starting procedure, so I hope there won't be such problems on sunday. I'll never understand why the admins like this procedure, but well it's your league guys   

Not a very exciting race but happy with 2nd   

Should have been 3rd were it not for Tiago's mishap.

Thanks for organising HSO as always, was great   

Well done Francois on your 1st HSO win too   

Sincerely apologize Tiago in connection with the incident!
Please withdraw my application for participation in the championship, because my presence on the track carries a danger to other participants.

 

Realy awesome , my first league event here and a victory  , just awesome
abit lucky cause Tiago got punctured by a collision and i could pass him , without he had won  cause he was abit faster. I want to appologize for talking in the end when i finished , i totaly forgot and wont happen again
i was too happy and still am, please excuse me

thanks hso and see you at Oulton Park!  

It was fun, it was good.

Vadim Sadoshenko wrote:

Sincerely apologize Tiago in connection with the incident!
Please withdraw my application for participation in the championship, because my presence on the track carries a danger to other participants.

No way Vadim, I'm really pissed with the collision but no way I'm going to accept you to withdraw from the championship because of this. I finished 3rd so you didn't exactly destroy my championship.

Again, I won't accept you quitting the champ and I ask the admins not to take in consideration Vadim's request.

We're good  

At least you brought some drama to my race, it was getting boring   

very very fun race.  
great battle with Carl. little mistake in the final lap.

Merci HSO pour le bulot et le plaisir procuré.  

well, wasn't so bad for me and it could have been better without 2 stupids errors, 2 spins ... A bit boring since i drove almost all alone for the whole race.

Tiago, i can understand your frustration but try to think of others. I got a blue flag and let you pass but you were so slow that i had to go through, my closest opponent was just a second behind me.

Well at least i can say i overpassed you once in the season it won't happen anymore

Jukka Maattanen wrote:

It was fun, it was good.

That   

Laurent Binet wrote:

Tiago, i can understand your frustration but try to think of others. I got a blue flag and let you pass but you were so slow that i had to go through, my closest opponent was just a second behind me.

err...

I'm sorry Laurent, but I was already handicapped, I tried to make it as easy as I could for you. If I would lift on the straights, maybe 3rd wouldn't happen too

Tiago Malafaya wrote:

Laurent Binet wrote:

Tiago, i can understand your frustration but try to think of others. I got a blue flag and let you pass but you were so slow that i had to go through, my closest opponent was just a second behind me.

err...

I'm sorry Laurent, but I was already handicapped, I tried to make it as easy as I could for you. If I would lift on the straights, maybe 3rd wouldn't happen too

i understand. At first i didnt notice the puncture so i didnt understand why you were so slow, then i saw it. If i didnt have an opponent on my tail, it would have been easier

anyway no harm done

Shame that there was not more cars in Class D but i had a thrilling race with Mattieu there was never more than a few seconds between us for the 19 laps we completed ..
Very happy with my Class win .... Even managed to have some fun with the quicker cars ...

Congrats Francois , Frank , Me    
Well done also to Richard ...     Unlucky Tiago ....   

Congrats all finishers ....   

Many Thanks to Mattieu i have a feeling this will be the 1st of many encounters
with your Mini  

I realy enjoyed, It was very stressful at first for reasons I shall expleinand. i t was my first multi class race and only my 2nd rfactor race.

I was lucky to even be there as, despite working out the GMT for the race an even writing it  down (correctly) on an imprtant piece of paper, for some reason, in my head today I added an hour to the CET rather than deduct. Do I though I had plenty of time to join "free practice"£ and try and work out how to drive a Mustang properly. A few days ago, I managed a 2:01.xx but since then couldnt get anywhere near it......So I join an empty server and within minutes lots of people turned up, which I thought odd so soon before race....So I get on track, and car feels worse and I spemd 10 minutes trying to sort out settings. Then while thinking at the back of my mind there are alot of people doing alot of laps, that I had totaluy got timing wrong, and this was the actual event!!. Fortunately, I managed to sort out handling with 10 minutes to go in qualifying, but not a very impressive time..... near the back of the field.

So good start and was helped by alot of space and cars dtationary on the grid on the other side of track. Shortly found myself catching up a couple of class B cars, and this was a new one on me. I wondered wheber there was some etiquete when racing against another class Once I got past them on the straights, I started of being a bit defensive into the corners, but after a few laps realise all this was acheiving was loosing time. On my final pass against Mathieu, I gave him a slight tap as my car squireled and rolled under power. but was worried at the time he might have taken it as "get out of way you slow little car!!"  Not so...totaly unintentional.

So thanks alot HSO, and thanks Tiago, for letting me unlap myself. And thanks all for the race

My pleasure   

Sorry I missed the race guys, I was not feeling well enough   

Shame Martin, You could have made Tiago's race interesting for him   
I did wonder why you just disappeared.

8 possible wins and 8 different winners this year.   

Richard Coxon wrote:

Shame Martin, You could have made Tiago's race interesting for him   
I did wonder why you just disappeared.

Moreover Martin could be in place Tiago! That's such a sad joke.   
Incredibly, before the collision I was so focused on Tiago, that when he got near done all on the contrary.
The situation would not be so hurtful, if for example I lost control.
In fact, I sent the car in the direction Tiago.
And I have no explanation!  

Which shifter style you guys are using ?
I had the #3, and I was overtaken left right and center in that long straight after Surtees corner, it seemed that my shifts were taking forever compared to the guys around.