UKAC Season 3 Blancpain Round 5 - Estoril - Jun 7

[Baikal]

It was a race like a blast. No words else- so tired . Thanks all pilots who was around me. Not thanks to Kunos for MP car behavior issue.. I cant tell Kunos about it cause bad english but still hope that any good guy will report to Kunos this f.g bad bad BAD bug...
 

trust me, its known about and they are looking into it.

Ahh great info Chris! You are only one who tell me about " they looking into it"...I have many guys who confirmed and hate this bug which is ruining our races and AC's fun . But i dont see topic about it in Kunos site. May be its time to open it? It's main issue of AC for me.. I hate kunos this moments when cant drive same way like in my local server and offline.. IMHO its beguns when they was implemented new alghorythm of online car smoothing..  And it's depends of pilots amount in server, also ping and may be server's client poll settings..

[Mark J]

To Pag, No mistake, just cold medium tyres and taking it sensible on first lap with a full grid around me, as I hoped others would   it will be going to the moderators as I said last time I got punted off on lap 1 that in future it would result in penalties. Sorry, I know it's not intentional,  but I practised a lot to get a top 10 grid slot so it's very annoying to get knocked off on lap 1 again.   it also ruined my race as I got aero damage and lost top speed.  :'(. I had the pace to fight nsw in 9th  

Shame that, but a great grid of cars on a great challenging circuit.   The full pack of race liveried cars looked uber cool on lap 1.
I had fun recovering from the back of the grid with some good overtakes and a great battle with Bobs monster Nissan   whilst two fezzas of spanner and Sutol nipped at my heels. Great stuff.
Was annoyed with myself late on when I made a couple of small errors that allowed Spanner past but thankfully Simon did likewise even later to gift me a spot  

Congrats to Gavino and the podium   and thanks to all that raced.

[Pag96]

Well then sorry but you were taking that too easy IMHO, I took that corner with a small lift every lap, I brake quite a bit on the 1st and still bumped into you, even though you were a couple cars in front..
I just checked the replay, when I hit you i was nearly 10 kph down on the speed I had during that corner for the whole race, braked as soon as I saw you were slower there, and still bumped hard on you, while you are making that sound like I just dived hard into the corner..I didn't and I'm truly sorry for hitting you, but first I also damaged my front splitter with that and second I really think you were taking it too easy there, with me decently close behind and not much time to react..

[Mark J]

Pretty upset about Stephan W. though, 23rd lap out of 25, he went super wide into the 2nd corner; i just made the normal racing line there since as I said he went very wide, and then he just turned into me full gas, making me lose 3 positions... most probably not intentional, but come on..

Note the lap and time in the replay and report in the incident report section on here. I don't want people being bashed off without consequence - to make them think twice next time.

[Mark J]

It was a race like a blast.
 
I dont remember the track which is more hard to drive with no relacs in 40 min ))) Great crazy track. And very good mode. Thanks Mitia Bonka and Mark for choice. 

Your welcome  I liked the track too, a technical challenge and seems many had some good racing again.

[Baikal]

Pretty upset about Stephan W. though, 23rd lap out of 25, he went super wide into the 2nd corner; i just made the normal racing line there since as I said he went very wide, and then he just turned into me full gas, making me lose 3 positions... most probably not intentional, but come on..

Note the lap and time in the replay and report in the incident report section on here. I don't want people being bashed off without consequence - to make them think twice next time.

Yes , i see that Stephan W   was something like incorrect to others during they lapped him. It was very dangerous for all 3 cars here who was around .. Hi wasn't have any real battle but continued to stay on track very close to guys lapped him in they's very hard real battle.. I am in hope and sure that hi will check and correct his behavior next rounds  

[Manteos]

Unfortunately it was definitely not my night.
During the third flying lap in quali, when I was on a path for the 38.0 in the second sector I suddently lost the feedback on my wheel, so I had to left the server, trying to unplug and replace the usb, but nothing happened. My wheel was seemingly dead
I resorted to the last hope restarting my pc, and luckily that led to the rebirth of my G25, and with 1 min and 20 secs to go, I was quite ready to go.  

Despite a good start and some great head to head with Jeff during the first three corners, on the braking of the fourth corner I was a bit overambitious, forcing Jeffrey to widen his line to avoid my car. We had a light 'exchange of paints', so I decided to lift up the gas a bit and let him pass again. Great mistake  

Jeff seemed very comfortable with his softs, but I was keeping the pace for at least one lap and a half, then I made a little mistake, losing contact with Massimo and Jeff a bit. In the attempt to recover the gap I was doing some very bad laptimes, forcing too much lap after lap... really counterproductive strategy. When the gap went above the 3 seconds I had to restart my brain.  

My pace became very good and my laptimes were sometimes better than the guys in front, so I hoped at least that Jeff' soft would have caused him some issues during the last laps, and have a chance for a final assault. That was not going to happen  
After another small mistake I've lost another second, and with a few laps to the checkered flag my hopes were more feeble lap after lap.
In the end Jeff's tyres probably did abandon him, but it was too late... time up!

I've lost the train too early in this race and I'm bothered by the fact that it could have been another cracking race like in Misano cause I had the pace to fight until the end for the podium. A bad result for me, but the fight for the second/third place of this champ is thrilling.

As ever, Massimo will not leave a commen on this thread but he thanks Jeff for the great duel. I was in TS with him and Gavino and after the race he said us: "When Jeffrey passed me, I put the heart in the attempt to take back my position, and this time I wouldn't let him to be placed in front of me."
It's very difficult to pass this guy when he feels like this. He is a bit competitive by his nature

Grats to Gavino, Massimo, Jeff and to all finishers. Is always good to read that people had some fun during the race. What a pity I can't just say the same  

See you for the next  

[Jeffrey]

Decided just before the race that I could either go for mediums and drive around for 40 minutes in no man's land, or risk softs and see how they go.
Due to bit of a messy openingings lap I didn't really capitalize on my softs and I stayed where I started.

Was able to stay with Massimo, but I never really had the idea I could overtake him. My last sector wasn't good so the gap was too big on the main straight. Guess my Monza setup could have used some extra tweaks .

I was waiting for the softs to go, but they were actually fine till 3 laps before the end. By that time the rear left was toast and the car became very oversteery.

Fun race for me, finally being able to hold on and not drive around alone, eventhough I needed a softer compound to achieve that 

Despite a good start and some great head to head with Jeff during the first three corners, on the braking of the fourth corner I was a bit overambitious, forcing Jeffrey to widen his line to avoid my car. We had a light 'exchange of paints', so I decided to lift up the gas a bit and let him pass again. Great mistake  

I checked the replay about this, and it was typically AC. There was hardly any contact, but during the race it sounded like a huge impact. So no worries, nothing happened .

As ever, Massimo will not leave a commen on this thread but he thanks Jeff for the great duel. I was in TS with him and Gavino and after the race he said us: "When Jeffrey passed me, I put the heart in the attempt to take back my position, and this time I wouldn't let him to be placed in front of me."
It's very difficult to pass this guy when he feels like this. He is a bit competitive by his nature

What I didn't get, at some point I felt like he let me past. He didn't accelerate coming out of a corner and as soon as I went by, he followed me. I thought he might attack me to slow me down so that Matteo could close the gap. Few laps before the end my car went into drift mode and he past me again, but again he didn't drive away and seemed to be slower than normally through corners. I thought I was stuck in a tactical VDA strategy 

[Mark J]

Pretty upset about Stephan W. though, 23rd lap out of 25, he went super wide into the 2nd corner; i just made the normal racing line there since as I said he went very wide, and then he just turned into me full gas, making me lose 3 positions... most probably not intentional, but come on..

Note the lap and time in the replay and report in the incident report section on here. I don't want people being bashed off without consequence - to make them think twice next time.

Yes , i see that Stephan W   was something like incorrect to others during they lapped him. It was very dangerous for all 3 cars here who was around .. Hi wasn't have any real battle but continued to stay on track very close to guys lapped him in they's very hard real battle.. I am in hope and sure that hi will check and correct his behavior next rounds  

Guys on the results page at the bottom of page is an incident report button. Watch the replay and note time of any incident and report it. A moderator will not watch the whole race replay to find your incidents. It's a clean efficient process. 
To SRW - use more caution/less aggression when you are being lapped. You don't have to leap out the way but you should still let them past cleanly and safely.

[ChrisR]

Pretty upset about Stephan W. though, 23rd lap out of 25, he went super wide into the 2nd corner; i just made the normal racing line there since as I said he went very wide, and then he just turned into me full gas, making me lose 3 positions... most probably not intentional, but come on..

Note the lap and time in the replay and report in the incident report section on here. I don't want people being bashed off without consequence - to make them think twice next time.

I didnt see it, but i can imagine the situation.. and i can understand the irritation.. but! If you see someone going wide then imo you have to drive considering every eventuality, if you just keep driving normally its the chance you take that they may take you out.

[Manteos]

What I didn't get, at some point I felt like he let me past. He didn't accelerate coming out of a corner and as soon as I went by, he followed me. I thought he might attack me to slow me down so that Matteo could close the gap. Few laps before the end my car went into drift mode and he past me again, but again he didn't drive away and seemed to be slower than normally through corners. I thought I was stuck in a tactical VDA strategy 

I can assure you that I always exploited Massimo as a faithful squire during our italian champs with Power & Glory but in this champ we have no team strategy at all, and if I had catched him I would have fought like there was no tomorrow
The fact that you find so often between us is saving us by some spectacular crash instead. So I must thank you twice Jeff

[Baikal]

Onboard from the middle. First 4 laps and last 3 laps is a thing 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVX_IMVb-gg

[Jeffrey]

I can assure you that I always exploited Massimo as a faithful squire during our italian champs with Power & Glory but in this champ we have no team strategy at all, and if I had catched him I would have fought like there was no tomorrow
The fact that you find so often between us is saving us by some spectacular crash instead. So I must thank you twice Jeff

In that case, I will leave you 2 fight next time and overtake you when you both end up in the gravel 

[phspok]

Had almost no practice time, and I was even slower than usual.
Had tried med tyres, but forgot to swap back to softs for the start, and so was struggling
with grip. I thought the version without that daft chicane near the end would have been
a better choice, it's like that insane chicane after the star at Monza. Just my opinion.
Was spinning too easily so quit after taking damage.

[Bob]

   Even with all the mistakes I make on a Wednesday evening the racing just gets better and better. Thanks to all, had another great evening on SROUK.