UKAC Season 16 Season 16 RSR Challenge - Pau - Sep 23

[Jos Ogos]

I had a lot of fun yesterday.

First, I must acknowledge Maxime's help with the setup that helped me get my lap times in the reasonable zone (1:28) and gave me a chance to be relatively upfront at the start of the race... It's hard to overtake here.

The first lap defined 95% of the race for me. The accident at Lycée hairpin between Lorenzo and Fabri pushed me to the left and I couldn't close the turn enough which wasn't great but then I was hit by Mark that was suffering similarly from understeering (I believe). In any case, nothing really changed there for us. Mark went ahead and I found myself in a very compromised parallel run with Maxime that played it very respectfully as we were approaching that terrible left corner at the top of the hill  . 

Mark's error in the last part of L1 was my opportunity to be in P5 and the rest of the race was perfectly described by Mark in his comment. I had some lap time management and pressure from Mark at the end to keep me focused.

I leave the video of the race in my youtube channel for those that want to see 'consistency'  from my viewpoint.

I'm delighted with the podium! 

Video of the race: https://youtu.be/DEf0Z-yX8PA

All the best.

[Fabri Fibra]

Maxime, I had not the control of car because the session ended  

Anyhow sorry.

[Mark J]

I had a lot of fun yesterday.

First, I must acknowledge Maxime's help with the setup that helped me get my lap times in the reasonable zone (1:28) and gave me a chance to be relatively upfront at the start of the race... It's hard to overtake here.

The first lap defined 95% of the race for me. The accident at Lycée hairpin between Lorenzo and Fabri pushed me to the left and I couldn't close the turn enough which wasn't great but then I was hit by Mark that was suffering similarly from understeering (I believe). In any case, nothing really changed there for us. Mark went ahead and I found myself in a very compromised parallel run with Maxime that played it very respectfully as we were approaching that terrible left corner at the top of the hill  . 

Mark's error in the last part of L1 was my opportunity to be in P5 and the rest of the race was perfectly described by Mark in his comment. I had some lap time management and pressure from Mark at the end to keep me focused.

I leave the video of the race in my youtube channel for those that want to see 'consistency'  from my viewpoint.

I'm delighted with the podium! 

Video of the race: https://youtu.be/DEf0Z-yX8PA

All the best.

I agree with all of that except the bit about me hitting you. I do believe you hit those outside concrete bales and bounced back into me as I exited the hairpin    but nice video as always 

[Jos Ogos]

I agree with all of that except the bit about me hitting you. I do believe you hit those outside concrete bales and bounced back into me as I exited the hairpin    but nice video as always  

Thanks Mark. We might be both right. My car indeed bounced back after hitting the bales but there was really not space in the track at the left of your car... Anyhow. Great race.

Actually, I forgot to add that you can see this at 0:48 in my video (I think).

All the best,
Jos Ogos

[IbnSolmyr]

Maxime, I had not the control of car because the session ended  

Anyhow sorry.

Ouch, I get it my friend.  Wasn't serious anyway of course, but surprised me that you could do that just for fun.
That end of session "out of control" phenomenom always bugged me by the way. 

[FullMetalGasket]

Apologies for the late moderation - I hadn't actually realised there were reports.

Please take note of the comments about braking in this instance and that all possible avoiding action should be taken in similar occurrences.
While I appreciate there will be instances when you feel a car has just pulled straight across into your line - even if you're correct in that feeling you should still take all avoiding actions available to you.