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« Reply #30 on: July 12, 2005, 10:13:05 PM +0100 » |
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Mike Wrightson
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« Reply #31 on: July 12, 2005, 10:30:00 PM +0100 » |
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Phew!!! Qualified 3rd (nice ) and got jumped by Bernie in the Bi-Turbo at the start with Truetom in behind me. We stayed like that for much of the race until Bernie got past Shark then Shark had a go back and the two collided! I nipped past Bernie only for him to outbrake me later on in the lap and get 3rd back. Then we were all in a line as we came to lap a black Ferrari on the main straight. When we got to the end of it, I braked a bit early and so did Bernie. I was too close and nudged him at T1, spinning us both We both recovered and duly finished 3rd and 4th as we had been before. Sorry Bernie. That battle was too good to end like that :'(
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« Reply #32 on: July 12, 2005, 10:53:13 PM +0100 » |
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That definitely had a little extra "frisson" over a fun race and was all the more enjoyable for it. As I've said I'm off pace at Barca and so was pleased to get a PB 1:46 in qualifying and start 8th.
I found out why my times are fractionally off- I brake just slightly too early in comparrison to everyone else. Really enjoyed a tough fight with Iain, Pops and Fozz for about 4 laps- we swapped places a few times there eh guys? I was generally faster out of the corners but compromised when it came to the big stops Barca has. Eventually got to the front of that bunch and promptly spun it while trying to figure out if my tyres were too hot or not- they weren't before the spin but certainly were afterwards. Let everyone go by and rejoined.
Eventually Dave caught me up and overtook me, made a mistake at the last corner and I grabbed the place back. Got a big shunt from behind at the big stop into turn one and we both made our aquaintence with the barriers. Why does it take so long to get out of the sand there? No worries Dave, haven't looked at the replay but definitely felt like just one of those things. I can't believe, however, that you did a stop/go- you nutter! Impressed to bits with that. Let a few people past and found the car still worked! Bonus! Tailed Jam for a few laps but just couldn't pass you m8.
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Give a man a fish- he'll eat for a day. But give him a fishing rod and... he'll break it up for firewood, or just possibly, swap it for a fish.
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Bernie Lomax
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« Reply #33 on: July 12, 2005, 11:05:04 PM +0100 » |
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NP Mike, like u say a great battle, we both got going in the same postions as pre spin so no harm done really.
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« Reply #34 on: July 12, 2005, 11:06:59 PM +0100 » |
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Race report: Tootling around on formation lap and touch the inside of the curb on turn 3, instantly happy when i didn't go off because I really wasn't totally concentrating then... Hang on, somethings up, wheels a bit easy to turn... Oh SH***T, thats bad, Force feedback seems to have turned off, not just off but totally disabled so I don't even have a "spring" to help me. I contemplated retiring but figured I'd see how I go. At about lap three, while still getting used to my new highly spinny wheel, I braked later than Brian Needham into Seat and I think Brian slowed his car down to a greater degree than I was capable of near the apex and I just tagged him in at the rear left spinning him into the gravel (sorry), this was just a stupid move. A few laps later I was slow out of the final corner and Iain got a good run at me, I looked back using the look L&R buttons to see his progress and and oooo that's a mistake... I start wobbling all over down the pit straight and without any FF to direct me back to centre I stuggle to get it lined up again (I'm honestly not trying to block here, I'm wobbling down all the straights to some degree!). Anyway Iain tries to go up the inside into Elf and I seem to tag him, I have my doubts that I was the root cause (watching the replay I notice he was spinning already) but decide to let him through later on as soon as its safe. While thinking about this I mange to let PaulW get close at Repsol by just totally arsing it up, and then did the same thing at Seat letting him through, I don't usually make it so easy... I then noticed that Iain was behind me and I decided to let him through at La Caixa which nearly goes all wrong because PaulW spins infront of me meaning i have to crawl around him and let Iain up 2 places, I on the other hand find that PaulW has stopped spinning and is now facing the correct way so I don't even get to take advantage of his mistke Thankfully it seems PaulW is a little slower than me and I start harrassing him a little... He eventually makes a mistake into the corners between Seat and Campsa spinning into the wall. I quickly close the gap to Iain which takes me about three laps, at which point when I get really close there's a Vertigo parked right before Campsa, Iain goes to the left taking a bit of grass and a few sparks, I think briefly about going right but I'm really focused on Iain's rear so follow him skimming the grass around the Vertigo, thankfully its not moving very fast (if at all, probably noticed us) so it doesn't cost either of us anything.... Back to Iain, Who I'm behind for about another two laps before he shafts it at exactly the same place as PaulW. I do two more laps with reasonable effort and noticing that I'm about 10 seconds up on whoever is behind me, probably Iain or PaulW both of whom I was felt slightly faster than, and about 20 seconds to the guys infront, with no FF decide just cruise the rest, I'm probably 0.5-1sec off my race pace anyway because of my FF problem. The rest of the race was totally uneventful except a touch of grass into La Caixa which made me miss my braking point, thankfully I kept it all cool, and didn't lock and just did the wall of death thing around the outside. In the end I think 6th was a pretty realistic and deserved finishing position for me this time out, although I wonder what my penalty will be for the Brian Needham incident... Perhaps I (quite rightly) will lose some time/places for that. Fozzmeister PS. I've submitted my incidents to the FMI, is there anything else I need to do?
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« Reply #35 on: July 12, 2005, 11:27:56 PM +0100 » |
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Bernie & Mike!
The little spin you two had cost me 3rd place! You were spinning and as I was about 2 sec behind Mike I said: "There's my chance!" Came through and just about made it when Mike nudged me and I also spun. When I recovered I was back in 5th place.
No hard feeling though, I didn't deserve better than 5th place anyway. Best I could do was 1 sec behind Mike but otherwise I was about 2 - 3 sec behind - all the time, lol ! So, 5th is just about right as 6th (Fozzmeister) was quite far behind.
I must say I was a bit dissapointed with my performance. I practiced in the afternoon and I made 1:44:7 in the race with AI. Looking at GTRank I was expecting to go for the top but just couldn't get enough speed together. All in all I'm ok with the fact that I didn't screw up - that spin wasn't caused by me. Good race and the guys who I lapped let me through very smoothly, very fair. Thank you! Hopefully other races will be like this.
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« Reply #36 on: July 12, 2005, 11:36:54 PM +0100 » |
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Race results are available here: http://www.filsca.com/results,gt,1000253,1361,2657,221,0Mike Cooper isn't showing up as registered for the NGT Sprint league, so I've had to exclude his result for now (I'll re-upload when this is fixed). In the driver standings it's also awarding seperate points for the G2 & NGT classes, which we're looking into.
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« Reply #37 on: July 13, 2005, 12:01:02 AM +0100 » |
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It was 9:30 when I realised this race was running......BUM
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« Reply #38 on: July 13, 2005, 12:27:41 AM +0100 » |
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I was initially gutted at my 19th place but in retrospect, I'm taking a lot of positives out of the race. Happy to report absolutely no technical problems The excitement building through practice and qualifying was fantastic, definately a different feel than the fun races. Q'd in 10 which was much better than I'd anticipated, then had 3 brilliant laps handily in 9th following Fozz, Iain & PaulW. They were 'fully involved' in the racing, great to watch. A big confidence booster knowing I could keep pace there (at least for a while!). Then, disaster; managed to spin, hit the wall and a busted splitter and a puncture was the result and I lost a lap in the pits. Must have just pushed a bit too hard, desparately disappoining as I'd run about 50 laps over the last few days and not managed to make that particular mistake once. A lesson to be learned about unscheduled pit-stop's too. I'd not paid any attention to my pit strategy so I ended up with a totally full tank of fuel to boot which didn't help... Have to apologise to Paul968 as I made a right pig's ear of letting him past on the last lap, hope it didn't give you too much cause for concern, I was horrified until I realised there was going to be no contact Absolutely brilliant fun, can't wait 'til next week! Pops.
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Iain
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« Reply #39 on: July 13, 2005, 01:34:33 AM +0100 » |
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was well good!!! i was stuggling with frame rate, have been in a couple of games dont know why! was a little dissapointed to be well off my normal times in quali but never mind! started 7th odd i forget lol PaulW was behind me, and going faster and i was going faster than fozz at the start, so that was quite interesting Paul was having some cracks at me and i was managing to keep him back for a while first time i got near enough to fozz i had to avoid a slow car so i lost a bit of time, i think this was where PaulW got in front, which was kinda useful, as he was the fastest at the time, he caught fozz and their battling let me catch up again, i cant remember exactly, but i think paul got in front then i tried to make an ambitious move past fozz and span fozz must have got used to his tech probs at this moment and he started battling with paul so i again caught up then to my luck, Paul went a bit off line and span, also fozz seemed to go wide and must have had to slow down to stop a crash or something, so i went off on my merry way started to relax a little bit as i was in front and i had just done some pressured driving, which was my mistake as fozz had started catching fast i gradually heard his engine getting louder and louder, and i was hoping to maybe put the moves he ususally tried on me when he is in front except disaster struck and i just rive into a wall i dunno why, but after that i was settled in 7th nice race when i fix my pc the next one will be better
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fozzmeister
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« Reply #40 on: July 13, 2005, 09:13:31 AM +0100 » |
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then to my luck, Paul went a bit off line and span, also fozz seemed to go wide and must have had to slow down to stop a crash or something, so i went off on my merry way
I was trying to let you through! I thought I spun you into turn one on the same lap, so I went wide (there's always grip up there on that corner). Unfortunately it all went pear shaped when PaulW spun totally blocking my path... I had to crawl around him to the inside to avoid contact. Still it was about this time when I was just really starting to get comfy with my spinny wheel and could start pushing a little instead watching my wheel to see how far i'd turned it! Considering my problems I was well happy with 6th Fozzmeister
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« Reply #41 on: July 13, 2005, 09:22:33 AM +0100 » |
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it was a good race, but i completely sucked big time, managed to finish on 16e , but started on 17e place, so that is not that good, don't know what it was but couldn't get the speed up. and had some hardtime to keep the car straight when braking.
ahh wel next better, and barca isn't my favorite track anyways.
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« Reply #42 on: July 13, 2005, 09:46:11 AM +0100 » |
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I was distinctly dissapointed with my qualification, Id done a few 47's in practice in race trim, then in qual I got bitten by the 1fps bug, had to drop out and come back and only had time for one lap, so qual was 16th. Sneaked past Dave at the start, then one more and from then people seemed to drop like flies, think I got upto 9th, then spun under pressure from a black 360 filling my mirror, rejoined in about 13th only to be tagged and spun again. Ended in 15th, which is a positive I guess, since I at least went forward from quals. Have to say that I was shaking like a leaf in the 1st few laps trying to fend off Dave and the 360, and I really really need to extend my braking points, I seem to lose soooo much into the heavy braking that its just not real. Roll on Magny.............better get some practice me-thinks
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« Reply #43 on: July 13, 2005, 09:54:40 AM +0100 » |
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Rather a contrast with recent races for me, in that everything went perfectly! I knew I was in with a good shout, having found a peach of a 360 setup a few days ago, and as it turned out I got pole by some margin. I did feel that there was a bit less grip in qual, as the tail was a bit lively - did anyone else get that impression? The race was fairly uneventful, as I gradually eased away from Simon and the chasing pack. The backmarkers were very polite, although I had a couple of moments. First when Rufbtr let me past at Seat by slowing down and staying wide, where I wasn't expecting it and could easily have locked up and rear ended him (luckily I was on the ball and ducked down the inside). Although this way probably helps me by losing least time, I'd suggest waiting till round the corner and then just let me past by not accelerating as hard. The other moment was on the last lap with Popa, when he stayed on the left to let me by into La Caixa, but missed his braking point and nearly took me off mid corner The best thing here would have been for Popa to stay on the racing line and let me move off it. As long as you just blend out of the throttle a touch to let me get by then its much safer. Anyway, all's well that ends well - 10 points in the bag and roll on Magny Cours! Paul
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« Reply #44 on: July 13, 2005, 10:07:54 AM +0100 » |
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sorry paul but i had too take it slow, otherwise i would have spun, and maybe took us bout out.
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