Round 1 - BRDC Euro Race Day - Silverstone National [April 15th]

We looked at many many other options, believe me, but this was the best to do and the fairest for all.

Richard Coxon wrote:

We looked at many many other options, believe me, but this was the best to do and the fairest for all.

Sure thing Richard

Bon, je suis loin d'avoir fini ... me suis pas bien organisé. Ce sera pour la prochaine.

Amusez-vous bien.

server lost

I had to relaunch it, and it is very slow tonight for some reason... Back up now Good race to you all

runtime error !!!

i go to watch the football

Wow I'm so sorry Ben for that... huge misunderstanding when I lapped you... I feel really bad...

Dégoûté à 3 tours de la fin, des appels de phares pour me dire de pousser mes petites fesses, je m'exécute et prends une pile de pneu béton avant le dernier virage. Hurry up hurry up pousse toi de là j'suis si pressé.

Edit :
Np because it's you.
Maybe I'm little guitly too.

No really, I'm really sorry, i was being chased from behind and my car was very damaged, but i tried to pass you where it was impossible.


About the race, crashed to desktop while fighting for the lead, and when I got back to rFactor my car was against the wall with a very damaged front.
Finished 7th after all which is not so bad.
Great fun battling with everyone though!

see you!

I saw the front of your car, something missed.
Next time, I won't let pass you, and both will be safe.

Crash in the T1 Lap1
So very disapointed.. I tried to avoid it, but cold tyres and brakes... turned upside down, hoping to get reseted maybe, but nothing happend..

Quite an exciting race! The Rondeau's and Alba's are a good match for each other.

I guess for all us up front, we can say that if we had had a clean race, we all would have won. I think Francois had the cleanest race, so he did the best job! It was very hectic out there, and one driver in particular I am not happy with. Anyway, I will work harder to stay out of trouble next time.

Will be an exciting series this.

was a great race!

after all the confusion on the start of the formation lap was gone i kept good up with the pack until i spun on the 2nd or 3rd lap, after that had some great fun getting past and keeping Philippe behind me, it went with some push and shove work but i kept in front because he DNF's (?), but(i think) i misunderstood his Green Alba for François his (perfectly the same, except number) green Alba and blocked him quite aggressively on the strait (Sorry ) the rest of the race wasn't so exciting, tried catching up with Chapman (If i'm right) but we had about the same pace and he kept his 10 sec lead.

looking forward to next round, maybe will be a little bit more competitive !




\will take some photo's tomorrow

Well what can i say...


The qualy session was hard, had to adapt myself to make the cut with the hard tires, but still was able to grab second place onto the grid.

Started cautiously, was shoved a bit, had to take avoiding action a couple of times, and i was third in class. People in front of me made mistakes, i passed Steve and suddenly i was running first in class I led most of the race, but my car was getting more and more understeery, so i gradually lost the slim advantage i had, until, 3 laps from the end, i was hit from behind twice coming out of the last hairpin... That spoiled what could be have been a great race to the flag, and ended up third . I wont comment until i see the replay though.

Congrats to Martin for his steady race, and for Matthias ( i got it right now ) for an amazing race with the 717C.

Well, that was interesting......and fun.....

Though from the start (formation lap) went a bit Peter Tong, as  Steve(right side) was looking for the non existant ashtray in his car. and I waited for a brief moment, then realised all I needed to do was stay behinf Dave Miller (ahead of me on the left side)......then out of turn 2 (left kink before hairpin-still on formation lap) I get a bit loose under braking and get shunted by Phillipe Henrique who need to gain his correct start position. (no probs Phillipe though Phillipe, though you still had half a track width to avoid me) Into the wall, and now last and catching up field before the start.......Mad up places in 1st few laps and then battled with DM......got him on the straight, but couldnt fade off braking properly.....so eventualy he learnt the track and got away.

I had to turn off smoke as with it I couldnt see if people were behind me and attempting to pass at end of straights...and then relised I coukdn't hear my tire locking up......(sound effect vol too low)

Edit : Ben; Google translate implies you live in a lighthouse??

Yves tes instincts manceaux t'ont fait prendre la voiture du carset LM84 au lieu de celle du WEC84 comme tu aurais dû C'est pour ça que ta photo n'apparaît pas sur la grille, je corrigerais ça demain

Sorry to anyone I got in the way of during the race had no pace at all and a car that was drifting slightly right all race, think I accidentally blocked Richard Coxon the 1st time I got lapped didn't mean that was just trying to hold my line under braking for turn 2, sorry .

If I can't find any reasonable pace for the next round I'll pull out of the series as its not fair on everyone else having a mobile chicane on track and its not fun for me having to drive round on my own looking in the mirrors the whole time.

Got involved in the fracas at the start, bent the steering and took a pitstop. Would have been lapped without accidentally adding more fuel in.

Rest of my race was spent way out of position and trying to unlap myself on a few people, all came to a messy point on lap 17 where I got caught trying to unlap myself from Dave Miller when a train of cars came up to lap us all. Ended up feeling a prat caught in the middle, and then 2 laps later skewed into the chicane and destroyed the front.

I want to apologise for the clusterf*** when it came to being lapped by the frontrunners, to Dave and to whoever it was I ran into on the first lap, despite doing my best to avoid it.

Frank Verplanken wrote:

Yves tes instincts manceaux t'ont fait prendre la voiture du carset LM84 au lieu de celle du WEC84 comme tu aurais dû C'est pour ça que ta photo n'apparaît pas sur la grille, je corrigerais ça demain

Oh, mince, excuses-moi !

Results are up

Threw that race away, led by 10 seconds after around 1/3 race distance then 4 spins in 5 laps put me behind Richard Wilks and in front of Martin. Caught Richard once before another mistake put me another second and a bit behind, caught him again in the penultimate corner with I think 4 to go and went up inside of him but I don't know if he oversteered out of the corner or misjudged his line and didn't know I was so close but we banged doors and he spun in front of me. Martin came past and ahead by 2 seconds, caught him on the final section of corners but ran wide and ruined any chance to come past again, so 2nd place will have to do

Yves Plaçais wrote:

Oh, mince, excuses-moi !

C'est pas très grave je pense que les deux versions ont les mêmes perfs de toutes façons Il faudra néanmoins prendre la WEC la prochaine fois stp

Nice Race guys, altough 50% i was driving on my own, i had a lot of fun at the start/end.

Sorry for the leading group for standing in your way in the final lap, but Richard wasn't that far away and i hoped to get him (didn't know i was fighting for podium at this time).

So i messed up positions 3 to 6 in class A, but i think that is racing and i have to drive my race.

Hey Alan, perhaps we can work together for the next track, i don't want you to quit


P.S.: Big Thanks to the admins for the patch, i think its much better for the race!

Thanks everyone who attended, It was great to see such a large grid! Sorry for all the issues today regarding patches, but it was for the best.

I hope to see many of you again at Donington Park

@Alan F, Don't worry about it, Didn't affect me at all really

Wow....what an event this was.
Ups and huge downs.

The start was okay. I drove very carefully in the first laps, because these cars are very sensitive for any contact. Also very easy to get major damages.
Francois passed me at the slow corners, no problem with that.
Than Jose passed me few laps later at the same corner. The overtake was a bit agressive, like we all know, that these are not touring cars. But let say, it was inside the limits.
Later he went off the track in the main straight and I passed him.
Than he made another agressive and over ambitious move at T3. He dived inside and spun me out from 4th place.
I rejoined to 8th place.
The following stint was a hard climb back for me.
Somehow I managed to reach Francois but Jose really did it hard for me.
Hit me couple of times, blocking my way with a spun and of course he not gave back my position.
I checked Jose's race in the replay. His race was everything but clean.
He spun out Jacob and me. Passed Miguel at the back straight with 4 wheels off the track and cut the last corner at least 6 times. C'mon Jose, why you drove like this?!
We had some nice and clean battles in the TCL mod. What was wrong with you in this event?

On the other side, I like to say thank you to Miguel and Francois for the fair battles!
Also congrats to Francois for the race win.
And thank you to the admins for let me compete in this event.

All in all this was great fun for me with some bad moments.