Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 3, Enna - Aug 14

[cb95amc]

Very much a race of two halves for me......Started out quite steadily and was running in about 6th for quite a while, and was even starting to almost enjoy it.....

Unfortunately after my pitstop it all went a bit pear shapped....Managed to spin in the last corner, and found myself off in the sand.....Took me almost an entire minute to get the car out again - the bloody thing would not move. 
After eventually getting out (Having been passed by half the field) I was just entering the first corner when I was informed by my pit crew that my splitter had gone......which explains why I completely missed that corner then.  Had to limp back to the pits (losing even more time).
Despite being in there for a while for repairs the car never quite felt the same, particularly as I seemed to lose a lot of top end speed (was barely able to make it to 6th gear on the straights).

Managed to make up a couple of spots in the last few laps, primarily thanks to Fozz, who seemed to have a bit of a 'mare towards the end of the race.

Looking forward to Brno now......

[PaulW]

Lol my config cheerfully tells me my Athlon64 3500, 6800GT and gig of RAM are "below requirements" every time I fire it up 
Guess it's the onboard sound

[Don]

Nice set up Paul.(jealous here)
Don

[Zacari]

Quote from: Muorali on Today at 12:28:40 AM
Quote from: Zacari
Well that was quite fun in the BMW, qualie'd 16th but I wasn't expecting higher!  The parade lap was a bit of a farce, ended up having to do over 200kmh on a couple of occasions to keep up.  Is it always like that near the back?

Thats impossible - I kept the formation lap to way Way below 80 mph, some occasions I was cruising at just 60. CHeck the reply if you want.


Probably there was too much "concertina" going on in the middle of the pack - in the slower cars it can prove quite, ahem, challenging to keep up with the snake once it starts to flex.

Yeah I think it was mainly caused by a 'frozen' ferrari in the complex before the first chicane, then as everyone brakes for the chicanes it all gets strung out.  I'm sure the guys up the front were keeping it tight as far as they could.

[[ZiP]Tyf]

*cough*

Surely a bunch of nice people here, because I was definitely expecting someone to mention a 'bastard of a 575 driver', lol! Whom, you guessed it , would have been me! 
Just got home a couple of hours before the race, noticed Enna was on tonight and thought, nice, I like that track, let's give it a go in something else than the Bi-T! I was wrong!
Used the default fast setup for a 1:38:xx then changed loads and managed a 1:36:xx, which I was happy with because I wasn't going for a win, just a nice 60 minute drive in the midfield in a different car... Or so I thought. Changed setup to a 1 stop and tyres to med/hard. Practiced a couple of laps at the end of qualifying and warm-up and it felt good. Again I was wrong .
Spun coming out the corners after the 1st fast chicane, rammed into the wall and with that had lost my orientation a bit. Felt I was in the way and started moving to get the hell out of there... Mistake #3, I was actually driving it straight onto the driving line and well, we all know that point of no return... lol Where you can hear the other cars engine sounds and know you're not going to make it, hehe! Didn't see who I hit or who I was getting into trouble, but I'm sorry guys (must have been more than one!? ). Pitstop took 3 minutes or so which gave me time to do some laundry and dishes . Back on the track the car just wasn't the same. 26 Minutes or so into the race I spun again out of the same corner . The 575 I guess just doesn't have the traction of the Bi-T  . I think I hit someone again this time and was really feeling quite bad about it by now, limped back to the pit, another 2-3 minutes for doing laundry and told myself that as a punishment I had to finish the race!
Which I did in 15th spot. So even without the inevitable penalties I didn't score any points! Phew Just about the only good thing for me in this race!

Oops, nope not true... JonM won AGAIN! Woohoo! Way to go m8! 

T

[PaulW]

Saw you having a nightmare in the 550 Tyf- I bet there were some 'interesting' Flemish swear words in your house last night

[[ZiP]Tyf]

Sorry Tyf, no contribution to ZIP from me tonight.  :'(

Not a problem m8, hope you sort out your pc soon. Maybe post on the ZiP forum about it, so I can spend some time on it as well .

T

[Matjaz Plotajs]

Thx Simon
    So why in previous races have I never needed to turn the engine off?

Paul

If you leave the default buttons assigned to ignition and starter the game turns off the engine automatically. But if you change this default buttons the game gives control to the driver. That was my experience in Barcelona for the Sim Challenge league when I was leading the race and couldn't stop my engine when pitting and had to retire. 

[Paul968]

If you leave the default buttons assigned to ignition and starter the game turns off the engine automatically. But if you change this default buttons the game gives control to the driver. That was my experience in Barcelona for the Sim Challenge league when I was leading the race and couldn't stop my engine when pitting and had to retire. 

You are joking? And to think that I only changed mine recently because I'd heard something about needing to turn the engine on in a pitstop! Whoever decided such a thing needs their head examining

thx for letting me know anyway

Paul

[[ZiP]Tyf]

Simbin is the new abbreviation (thank someone for the spell check button ) for mental institution in Sweden I heard! 

T

[Matjaz Plotajs]

You are joking? And to think that I only changed mine recently because I'd heard something about needing to turn the engine on in a pitstop! Whoever decided such a thing needs their head examining

thx for letting me know anyway

Paul

Same thing happened to me. I was testing this option of turning the engine off manually just to see if it is any quicker and then decided that I would rather leave it to the game but I allready changed the default buttons so when I pitted I was adviced to turn off my engine. Of course I couldn't remember what buttons did I assigne for this... stupid thing I know. From then on I always turn off my engine manually and it works great for me.

[[ZiP]Tyf]

[Moderators note: this is a response to a post which has been removed.]

Uuh ROFL was my first response!  (And then some )

T

[Paul968]

I'd just like to say, please can we have no more comments on this thread. It will almost certainly be locked first thing tomorrow and doing this in public wil just inflame things. Muorali, if you have a problem then make a polite appeal to the mods.

Paul

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Muorali's post removed in it's entirety and topic unlocked again.

He did not submit an incident and therefore has no right of appeal - I've pointed this out until I'm blue in the face, and Muorali has been around long enough to know.

In addition, the use of abusive language is explicitly forbidden by the forum rules.

I'm hereby publicly placing Muorali on notice that his on and off track behaviour has attracted the attention of the moderators, and any further transgressions will result in serious consequences. I'm not going to let one bad apple spoil it for the rest of the bunch, and I've already warned Muorali in private about his driving.

[[ZiP]Tyf]

Ok, on with the show then. I was crap in the 575! And should have reported myself for causing some mayhem on the track! Nope, this time it wasn't my awesome jokes in the pitlane but some seriously deluded driving out of some corners. Sorry I didn't have the time to complain about myself, the idiot, but I'm sure I'll 'score' some penalty points down the line!

 

T