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« Reply #30 on: August 31, 2006, 09:51:15 PM +0100 » |
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Had a cracking race, really enjoyed myself. Qualied at a lowly 13th as i just couldnt get into the 1:05's despite the car feeling good. Race was excellent from start to finish, only made one error, early on, when i clipped a bollard/kerb going through the first chicane and had a spin onto grass, dropped from 7th to 12th or 13th. Then fought my way back up past people and seeing others go off throughout the race length until i got myself upto 6th place and closing on 5th with only a few laps to go. There was only a 2.3 sec gap with a lap or two remaining but unfortunately i got held up a little by one back marker, costing me a second or so, and then blocked by another on the last lap, causing me to go into a spin to avoid rear ending him Totally sure it was no fault intended, i think the guy just froze hoping i would go around him but he just chose the wrong line to do it in, no biggie. ...alas it allowed the Capri in front to scamper across the line un-molested. :'( On the whole, the back markers were great, moving off line wherever possible and its a tricky track to get out the way of in some places. Very happy to bring the Porsche home in 6th with a grid of the capris present. Great racing.
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« Reply #31 on: August 31, 2006, 09:53:18 PM +0100 » |
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I'm struggling to import the results - could [24-7]james and DMN please let me have your forum names Edit - Worked out [24-7]james is James
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« Reply #32 on: August 31, 2006, 09:55:35 PM +0100 » |
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First of all congratulations to winner LeH and second place Pero Second, thank you Ruskus for the fair fight man, every time i remember we did that chicanes, side by side, without touch each other, wow , great drive Ruskus. Third, what the hell you´r thinking Minton? I´m not the fast guy in Ladder, but i really had some hope for this event. I managed qual in 4th (without practice) so i choose a conservative setup (soft, for some grip in those fast corners). When i saw you dancing all around in my mirrors during warmup lap....i thought, carefull m8 with my rear Then in 1st lap you tap me once, i managed stay on track (almost spun), next lap you tap me (harder this time) and this time i couldnt handle to stay on track . I believe it was a unintentional race incident, no problem m8 :'( Any way, i found myself in 11th place :'( fortunatly i had 34 laps to try to recover In a general way thanks all for the fairplay behavior one more time Cheers
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« Reply #33 on: August 31, 2006, 10:03:50 PM +0100 » |
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Second, thank you Ruskus for the fair fight man, every time i remember we did that chicanes, side by side, without touch each other, wow , great drive Ruskus. Yeah, I remember that. I was looking behind...no Ribeiro, I was looking to the side...no Ribeiro . So I stayed to the left, and took the second part of the chicane so tight as possible, leaving room if you were there. After the chicane....kikeboo, there was Ribeiro . It was a few times I had no idea where the guy behind was, this Vette is so blind allround. I saw lot's of interesting fights, so vid could be good.
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« Reply #34 on: August 31, 2006, 10:06:04 PM +0100 » |
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« Reply #36 on: August 31, 2006, 10:17:07 PM +0100 » |
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Sorry Dave, it was not my intention do that, i only posted a comment with no evil thoughts , at least by my point of view Sorry for that dave, sorry Minton And once more, sorry if my bad English sometimes................expose something weird
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« Reply #37 on: August 31, 2006, 10:20:31 PM +0100 » |
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Replay and Provisional Results are now up DMN
Thats me. Sorry if changing names caused confusion. It's not a huge issue but justs holds things up a bit, especially if I can't guess
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« Reply #38 on: August 31, 2006, 10:25:46 PM +0100 » |
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Hahaha - good point - though I did place a little clue in my sig
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« Reply #39 on: August 31, 2006, 10:30:48 PM +0100 » |
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Good racing guys, hard and fair! Had good battles throught race. Again qualied badly...again talking to g/f on phone...had only 5 mins to qaulify. Only managed 14th being to conservative. Was excellent race with so many but in particular, Pribero, Assissino and ruskus. Side by side for the best part of 15 laps or so. When suskus spun i was hard into braking into T1 and couldnt avoid u dude, soz. Damaged my car in the process. I wouldve hopefully taken the two GS drivers for 3rd place but spun on what must be the "smallest most vicious curbs imaginable" Excellent/fun race for me from 14th to 5th...tx
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« Reply #40 on: August 31, 2006, 10:36:37 PM +0100 » |
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Indeed Radius, we had one fair fight as well ; Thank you
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« Reply #41 on: August 31, 2006, 10:52:52 PM +0100 » |
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I was awful in the one. Car felt good in practice yesterday, and today, back end was out all over the shop, especially after the second chicane. Im a really sorry if i got in anyones way - i had an urge to re-create 'disney on ice' at various intervals around the track. Had a stupid drop in FPS again, started off with around 60/70 in qualifying, then dropped to around 25 during the race - does anyone have any ideas what this could be?
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« Reply #42 on: August 31, 2006, 11:27:53 PM +0100 » |
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Man, chicken tonight ? I was the only Vette out there. ...... It was very hard to be somewhere near competitive with the Capri's and 911's, and impossible for the whole race. IMO the points need to be more in favour for this car in the future, so not this race (before people start to think wrong). Well it was good of one of the front-runners to take a car other than the fastest for a change! The points adjustment is nowhere near accurate, I just pick a car that's likely to put me in the mid-field. There's no way the merc at the last event, which was 3 seconds a lap slower than the Healey and the Alpine, was adjusted properly. Unless it's based on time rather than position I don't think it ever will be. The choice of cars definately adds to the events though
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« Reply #43 on: September 01, 2006, 12:33:34 AM +0100 » |
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Well it was good of one of the front-runners to take a car other than the fastest for a change! The points adjustment is nowhere near accurate, I just pick a car that's likely to put me in the mid-field. There's no way the merc at the last event, which was 3 seconds a lap slower than the Healey and the Alpine, was adjusted properly. Unless it's based on time rather than position I don't think it ever will be. The choice of cars definately adds to the events though I always try to pick one of the less good cars. I look at the scoring system, and I pick the car with the highest multiplier with which I can drive somewhat competitive. That's why last time I took the Escort and this time the Vette. My best races were with this "system". You often have to fight hard to be upfront. It's very boring and a waste of time if you lead from start till finsih, and all you do is lap others, IMO. Winning is great, but if it didn't cost a sweat, there is no satisfaction to it.
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« Reply #44 on: September 01, 2006, 08:44:45 AM +0100 » |
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Totaly understand what your saying Ruskus but people want to drive cars they enjoy driving. At the end of the day this is a racing game and id prefer to drive a car that feels like a racing car, the Vette just feels like a poor handling heavy road car with loads of grunt.
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