Round 6 - Int. ADAC Alpentrophäe - Salzburgring [Nov 20th]

Jukka Maattanen wrote:

Absent. The game won't even start

I think that'll be three meetings missed so my car will be free as per rules?

Seeing as there is still available cars that has not been taken, I would say that if you want to keep a hold of your car, then you may do so.

Have you tried re-installing the whole game, can't remember if you've said you've tried that or not?

Jonatan Acerclinth wrote:

Have you tried re-installing the whole game, can't remember if you've said you've tried that or not?

I'm gonna try that one of these days. Fingers crossed

I have some issues with my ADSL Box...
Keep the cross the problem could be resolved before 20h30,if not im out

Hope I get into the races, might've to skip the first Q session.

Finally thats work again

Cannot load the track, just get an Error:
"Error opening MAS file COMMONMAPS3.MAS"

Any ideas?

Thx for your help...

just copied + renamed COMMONMAPS.MAS to COMMONMAPS3.MAS

no my wheel isn recognised any more

Only just saw, but we could have easily given you a file to remedy.
Glad you found a fix though.
Apologies we took so long.

P.S here's a link to the intended file, incase it differs from the usual common maps.

ftp://51.77.116.8/Automobilista/Mods/commonmaps3.rar

Nah, no problem. Don't know where it came from and why this track wants commonmaps3.mas on my PC. Doesn't seem like any other one has that problem

A few of David Sabre's tracks require common maps 3. Mainly the F1 71 tracks used it most.

We can do better than that. An audi upsidedown that then lands in front of me with nowhere to go, race 1 over before the first corner.

Warmup 2 is open, anyone can rejoin

Good fun track and racing tonight, sorry to David Sabre for the bump at the start of R2.

My turn to get it wrong this time . Sorry to whoever it was that hit me when lost it trying to go up the inside. Dumb move by me.

Great Quali but R1 was a mess,too much hot on brake make me spun two times,only managed 8th with some luck.

R2 began very well after a poor start,but the car was very unpredictiable,with some damage and brake set on 3 and not 2 like R1,the handling and braking was pain in the ass sometimes and very good other time,lucky to got 8 th on the last lap.

David Sabre wrote:

My turn to get it wrong this time . Sorry to whoever it was that hit me when lost it trying to go up the inside. Dumb move by me.

Yeah i try to avoid you and the other driver but didnt succeed.

Very hard to handle this car on braking in this race

perhaps i would have been faster, if i've driven backwards

Trying that on the Avus next time...

I guess I should share some words too:

There were two races. I participated in them both. In the first one I damaged my car on the first lap, but still managed to finish 10th. In the second one I finished 6th. In neither did I do anything worth of noting.

Still had fun nontheless. Love Salzburgring and the super tourers. Getting a bit tired of being hopelessly off pace though.

Your car is fat indeed Jacob, i am sure you are going as fast as the car allows, specially in a track like this. Next season i hope you get a more competitive ride

As for me, i will just say i didnt want to see any Nissan driver hit on the side, so i killed myself instead was a lot of fun wrestling the audi around though.

New hardware up, now i am back in action

It's been a while but I'll try to put together a summary of the event either way.

Practice:
Coming into this race I knew that the Nissan should be pretty decent around Salzburgring but I hadn't taken into acount the inherent advantage of RWD off the turns that the BMW's would have.
But overall I was happy to be up at the front pace wise once again going into Qualifying.

Qualifying:
Managed to put together a decent lap but soon saw that Steve was able to go even quicker, as he completed a lap in 1.18,5 and that's when I thought I'd be a goner when it came to pole position.

Luckily for me, I got some fortunate timing in coming onto my hotlap not that far behind Dave in the Opel and I asked him after we came through the opening hairpin if he was on a good lap and when he wasn't, I were able to use the draft to suck myself up to the rear of his car down that looooooooooooooong back straight and didn't make any errors in the final turns to blast in a 1.18,3.
Without the help of Dave and his Opel, Steve would have taken pole, thanks a lot Dave for being sporting and letting me past when your lap wasn't good


Sprint Race:
Knew it would be really difficult to be in a good position down at the hairpin on the start, without the chicane it would be a.... How long a distance is that actually, it's like 14-18 seconds at full chap down that straight to the first "proper" turn of the track...

Happily I nearly got as good a start as I got at Nürburgring and was able to hold off most of the BMW's (1 of them, David) and all of the Audi's (Juha, Richard and Mick) going down the straight.
In the mirror I could see all hell break lose as I saw two cars off at the kink, one of them flying into the air quite high, was sorry to hear that several people got involved and impacted by the incident.

For myself it was a race long battle with the privateer Bimmer of Steve and the works one in the hands of David.
I tried early on to get past Steve but he made it very clear that he wouldn't give up the position easily, great defensive work at the end of the back straight that one time I got past, thought I had it done but you held on around the outside in that fast sweeper, didn't think that was possible.

After a bit of a moment I dropped behind David but in the slip-stream I were able to get back past and soon caught up with Steve again.
As the race was coming to the last few laps I had a few more stabs and, at the time at least, felt that I was being slightly chopped off in the small kinks that are on the back straight. In the end I, more or less, decided that I was going to go up one side, whichever was open, if I got a good enough run and so I did.
I don't know if Steve either didn't see me or what ever happened, but I went up the right side and had to quickly start moving right as Steve came over on me, which in the end saw me with half the car on the grass but couldn't move over much more without risking crashing out just hopeing that Steve wouldn't move over more but sadly our cars interlocked SuperTouringCarStyle and Steve was turned across my bonnet.
Slowed down to not take the position as I felt I had been a bit forceful with going up there but Steve decided to retire, I was very sorry to see that and rejoined the race in 7th place behind Jason.

Despite flatspotted tires from slowing down I were able to make the move on Jason when he made a tiny error at the opening hairpin and I got up to 6th.

That's as far as I could climb back up and 6th place for the start of the Feature Race, not optimal but it could have been far worse.


Feature Race:
For the longer race I was slightly worried about the tires after the Sprint but I had my suspicion that it was the locked brakes that had caused the late-race troubles with the tires.

Got another good start going, I think I've finally worked out how to get the Nissan off the line, as I climbed past Dave's Opel, Øyvind's Honda (Great first race mate!) and even Richard's Audi to place myself behind Ray and David going into the opening hairpin.

Spent a few laps sitting behind Ray being unable to get past, those works Bimmers has some proper power under the bonnet and their RWD helped both David and Ray to be faster off the turns at this place.

Finally I managed to get a better run off the hairpin then Ray who had a tiny bobble trying to get the power on and I slipped past down the straight and not long after Richard in the Audi was past Ray as well.

What ensued was a great battle between me and Richard for a few laps where Richard put in some stunning laps despite the weight dis-advantage that his AWD imposed on him. He got by and I couldn't quite find a way past and a truce was entered in an attempt to catch back up with David who had opened up a gap due to our battling in the opening few laps.

In the end we couldn't close in and Richard made a mistake at the opening hairpin like many others had done and I were able to slip past and blast open a gap down the straight.
A couple of laps later I sadly made a tiny mistake at the very fast sweeper at the end of the back straight and put half my rear left tire on the grass and span. I were able to almost save it without any damage but Richard sadly got caught out by it, missed his braking point and slammed into the outside barriers and retirement while I flung the car towards the inside and side swiped the inside barriers picking up a bit of damage myself.

Took a few laps to work out how the car would work and were able to get down to some decent lap times in the end but could do nothing about David ahead, your pace around here was astounding, great job!

So with Steve and Richard retiring and Anders not able to run, my championship lead is now a whopping 103 points so I need 58 points in the remaining 2 meetings to secure the title by points and not having to rely on amount of wins or something like that.