Round 13 - Monza

cool ca ben , prends la ferrari ou l arrows qui sont libres , je suis sur que Pierre te filera son set up pour la ferrari


tu peux meme recuperer une tyrell pour les 3 dernieres courses de la saison car apparemment Mickael a abandonné le championnat hier soir

Cool Ben, la Ferrari est à mon avis la plus facile, le moteur est souple, pas du tout violent et la voiture est bonne.

Je viendrai remplir la derniere ligne ce soir avec ma tyrell ...desolé pour les qualifs ...

Alors go pour la ferrari.
Reste plus qu'à faire quelques pour voir combien de temps je peux rester en vie avec ces caisses.


Edited : Oh putain, c'est un signe....Je me retrouve avec la ferrari de Jody, comme vendredi soir ou j'avais sa merco.

Bon, j'ai un soucis. J'ai bien dl le circuit. Uns fois le serveur hso trouvé et le mot de passe entré, le circuit se charge bien. J'arrive sur l'ecran habituel dans les pits. Mais pas de ligne avec ma voiture, le bouton course reste noirci. Bref que se passe-t-il?

edited : Oups, désolé, j'étais en mode spectateur. Ben débile inside

Sorry for not finishing the race, but...

i had a contact with a ligier in the second shicane, after that, my steeringwheel was completely bent ! the car was impossible to drive safe...

12eme tour, je mets un petit suppo de rien à Kimmo - Sorry Kimmo, twice in 2 races - KImmo repart mais je reste scotché dans le bac à sable et j'explose le moulin. Encore une erreur bête
Pas si grave finalement, les progrès sont là, je ne suis plus à la rue comme en début de championnat.

à bientôt pour la prochaine

PS : Merci à Pierre pour le setup.

I Just dont know what happened at this race i had tried all week to get something like a setup that i could race with
and i just could not get any feel for the car ...... All week it just felt like it had a mind of its own

I Just hope that this is not a sign of things to come ....

I had no damage but i Decided to pull over as i was a Danger to other drivers on the track sorry for getting in your way Adam and Yves , Sorry if i missed anyone ......

Tout dabord mille excuses a Vincent pour le suppo en pleine ligne droite ...perturbé de te voir revenir devant moi j'ai completement perdu mes reperes ...
ensuite je repars (derriere Vincent quand meme) mais perturbé par cette drole d'erreur je tape le rail en suivant
Volant a 45 deg j'ai bien envie d'abandonner ...mais je teste qques tours et je remonte vers la 6eme place dans des temps pas trop mauvais ...puis ....
revenu au contact de JP et Kimmo qui se livrent une superbe bagarre je suis de prèssans trop de probleme (j'evite de tenter une attaque avec mon volant tordu) ...et soudain INCOMPREHENSIBLE ....je perd des tours moteurs , je prend 1 sec au tour puis 2 ....en bout de ligne droite je perd 30 km/h ...et finallement le moteur cède ...c'est quoi ce delire???
Je pense que la course c'est deroulé avec un systeme de pannes aleatoire ... Franky je vais te peler ...
Bon pas trop grave, j'ai surtout cru que mon G25 etait mort ...
J'espere que personne d'autre n'aura de panne (si ça tombe sur Pierre avec son bol ).
allez bonne soirée a tous et a bientot .

at first I have to say big THANKS to admin of HSO and this wonderful series with F1 1979 mod. I didn´t start in lot of races till this one. I like Monza very much, I always did, no matter if it was in GPL or in some GT in GTR or rF. F1 1979 is one of top3 open wheel mods in rF for me, but in fact I never feel that I CAN drive any of these cars...

Qualification was great fun for me! after few months without online racing I was happy to have a cahnce to start with Brabham! Finaly my time was far better then I expected I can do. 8th place on start was great too.
I was looking fwd. to this race, but my small son don´t have good evening today, so I wasn´t sure if I can start. Finaly I manage to start but I didn´t change radiator settings, so I blew my engine right on the start stupid mistake, but no problem at all for me, I was happy for 8th place in quali, anything more will be like a cake so...this evening without cakes (at least I won´t be more fat then I am right now )

I don´t know if I will start in any more races this season, and to be honest, I am not sure about next seasons too, as I wrote in at the start of my post, I never feel save driving these beasts. Maybe there will be other championship (for example with F1 91 which I am in love with right now ) where I woud like to start, so I hope we will see on track again one day

Standings are updated on the site .

je voulais assurer une 3eme place c est fait,je ne pensais pas déboucher en tête à la chicane,mais carlo me reprend sur la ligne droite suivante,imparable avec son moteur alfa,je fait un quart de la course second à 5s de carlo et à 2s devant greg,j assurais un peu ,championnat oblige,et attendais de voir si les pneus de carlo allaient tenir ce rythme pour éventuellement tenter quelque chose sur la fin de course,bêtement je veux lapper vincent rieux au milieu de la 1ere chicane et je me mets en travers en accélérant une roue sur le vibreur ,contact de face avec le rail et aileron avant arraché,je repart avec 20s de retard et arrive à conserver un rythme de 1 39 jusqu au bout avec une auto sous vireuse
bravo à tous pour les bagarres dantesques et pour le bon esprit général bravo carlo et Grégoire pour leur duel sans accident

Pierre Labédan wrote:

je voulais assurer une 3eme place c est fait,je ne pensais pas déboucher en tête à la chicane,mais carlo me reprend sur la ligne droite suivante,imparable avec son moteur alfa,je fait un quart de la course second à 5s de carlo et à 2s devant greg,j assurais un peu ,championnat oblige,et attendais de voir si les pneus de carlo allaient tenir ce rythme pour éventuellement tenter quelque chose sur la fin de course,bêtement je veux lapper vincent rieux au milieu de la 1ere chicane et je me mets en travers en accélérant une roue sur le vibreur ,contact de face avec le rail et aileron avant arraché,je repart avec 20s de retard et arrive à conserver un rythme de 1 39 jusqu au bout avec une auto sous vireuse
bravo à tous pour les bagarres dantesques et pour le bon esprit général bravo carlo et Grégoire pour leur duel sans accident

You need 3 more points and you'll be champion, great season so far m8

It was an amazing flat out race ended with a win in my home GP

After a bad start from pole i managed to take 1st from Pierre at Roggia and built a 5s lead until about lap 20, when Greg took 2nd place.
His pace was awesome, he closed the gap and we started another great battle, when he went past i tried everything to stay with him and force him into a mistake, which came with just 5 to go, i retook the lead and a 3s advantage was enough to finish the race in front
Greg you absolutely deserve a win after 4 2nd places in the last 5 races , well done , tonight you really gave me a hard time

And i'm tied with Gui for 2nd in the champ, but next are 2 tracks which are not good for the Alfa (especially Watkins Glen), and the scoring system isn't helping me at all (need to finish 3rd or better to score)

See you in Montreal!!

Just wanted to apologize, completely forgot about the race

Boy what a race!

Where do I start? Vincent, again, it's no problem mate. Nothing much else happened than you owe me a new pair of shorts.

That was one of the most exciting races I have ever done. That's all thanks to JP. It's hard to put in typing, but we had so much fun. We raced eachother from pretty much lap 1. There was a short period of time when Vincent was between us, but after lap 12 we were unspearable. My turbo would make sure I would stay in front on the straights, a lot of grinding teeth and butt-cheeks in every corner to stay in front. Occasionally JP would pull off the most amazing overtaking move and left me gawking. :O Very clean passes, some times several times in one lap. We both made sure there was never any contact between us, a few times was close but I was never worried, at all. You should have seen us go 2 wide through Lesmo when Greg and Carlo had lapped us... I always knew where JP was (mostly tucked in under the Renault rear wing) and I felt he knew where I was.

He got to study the Renault behaviour from very close behind so he knew where to attack, and you know what? I knew too, where he'd make an attack. After a bunch of laps, I started to prevent that by turning up the boost in various places, just enough to make sure he couldn't slipstream me And when I made a mistake, JP was oh so quick to take advantage. I tell you people, I swear JP grew some kind of a 6th sense, he always seemed to know what, or when, I did something different. I swear because it is impossible to stay that close to eachother for so long without even the slightest tap. A blink of the eye and he was right beside me, or in front of me taunting my dear Renault. "Catch me if you can " Renault responded: "MmmbaahweeeeEOOKAYYY" But like I said, he had plenty of time to study and memorize exaqctly where I would brake, accelerate or turn. If I missed any, by ever so little, he was there Fucking brilliant driving!

Very clean racing, no closed doors, no blocking, nada. Curtious and safe. Oh and pretty damn quick. I know I gave the Renault all I had, and it felt like, for a change, I was driving the car, not the other way around... Of course the very unpredictable handling made sure I stayed awake. Believe me, the bastard thing does have a mind of it's own. You think everything is fine, you are in control and all of a sudden the thing bites you right in the face, with fury. You know, like the kind of guy who'd rip your arm off and beat you to death with it. Or a Pitbull...


Anyway, I could go on for ever about our epic battle, I hope it will go on some movie, ^^ *wink wink* so you all can watch the highlights of that.

Carlo said he'd look at the replay, I told him "Cool, but you know it's about 50 laps..."

Congrats Carlo, Greg and Pierre. I hope some day there will be a few more of us to challenge you lot. I bet a couple of Arrows' would have given you a run for your money, with their regular drivers, but both somehow found something more important to do... Shameful...

See you in Canada. I was thinking about lending my Renault to someone else for the last 2 rounds, so I could make up my mind to what to drive next season. I love the Renault, but half of the season is so painful with it... But we'll see about that

Love your summary Kimmo

I don't know what I can add to Kimmo's post. This race is probably in my personal top 5 of great races, along with Oulton Aurora, and Brno DTM, both with Gui and Martin.
It's not yet my birthday, it's Gui's ( ), but it's a nice gift. Thanks Kimmo and well done Carlo.

Well, JP, when are we going to do it again? It sucks that the race is over already... I want to do this at least once a week, when it is done like that. Going to download the replay, make a cup of coffee and watch it, right now...

By the way, remember when we were exiting Parabolica, and came up to lap Jan?

Sorry Jan if we scared you, but mate, next time please don't make it so easy on the followers so that it is unexpected. I do know you only wanted to help, you are one of the most curtious drivers on a racetrack, but to lift off there is dangerous.

I have said it before and I'd like to say it again. Lapped cars, you really don't have to make sure the faster guys can make a pass - at any cost - it's their job to make their way around you. It is always easier on the faster car when he can see the speed difference and plan where the overtaking will take place. Of course, after tight places like a chicane or something, it is very nice if the lapped car moves off the line and lifts a little to let the faster cars pass. But imagine the horror when you nail the throttle at the apex, getting ready to slingshot by a lapped car, only to find out it slows down rather than accelerates...

This time I had to steer left, still in parabolica... But nothing happened, just more stains in the shorts, so don't take it wrong Jan, I am not calling you out or anything, just some friendly advice. For your own safety as well.
I really hate when someone tries his best to have a great time and stay out of trouble, and feels he has to move out of his way to help others, and then end up in a wall.

And I've said this one before, I'll say it again. The guys who turn up, race after race, fight and battle with shit cars all season, really deserve some creds. I hope next season all the best cars are reserved for you. Williams, Ligier etc. Too bad the championship based on what car you drive is gone. Maybe take that up again next season? The team championship is pretty much useless because there is basically just one team who can win it. A team with 1 crap car really can't battle with a team with 3 great cars...

Super soirée pour moi, même si elle ne fût pas assez longue à mon goût.
Dans l'après-midi, je demande si je peux une avoir une voiture, je fais 4 tours d'entraînement pour voir à quoi ressemble le circuit, et voir comment se comporte la voiture. Malheureusement, personne ne me rejoints sur le serveur, ça me démotive un peu pour faire des tours de pistes supplémentaires. Je me dis qu'on verra bien comment ça se passera le soir.
Je mets à profit l'heure d'essai pré-course, pour essayer de trouver des repères de freinage pour la course, et comprendre le comportement de la voiture. Puis Pierre P. fait son apparition, et comme un sauveur me passe un setup Ferrari. J'ai beaucoup de mal à faire un tour chronométré pas trop ridicule, car à chaque fois je me fais avoir dans le dernier virage qui mene à la ligne droite des stands. Je me sors lamentablement.
Puis vint le départ. Alors là, je n'ai rien compris. Comment se fait-il que je ne sois pas dernier sur la ligne de départ, car je n'ai pas fait les séances de qualif. Bref, ça me trouble un peu de voir du monde dans mes rétro, surtout, que venant faire une pige, je ne veux pas influer sur la course de pilotes qui ont fait tout le championnat. Je loupe mon départ ( J'avais oublié de tester un départ-arrêté avec cette caisse ), résultat, je n'ai pas appuyé assez fort sur le champignon, et ma voiture est resté scotché sur la ligne.
Je fais quelques tours, ou je m'éclate. Puis à la 2ème chicane, j'arrive légèrement trop vite, j'hésite entre droite ou gauche de la pile de pneus. Ben, faut pas hésiter
J'étais vraiment dégouté de casser la voiture comme ça, car, j'arrivais à remonter après chaque erreur que je faisais, sur mes prédécesseurs, et je m'amusais vraiment beaucoup. J'ai pris un pied incroyable à piloter cette caisse. Peut-être aussi est-ce du au setup de Pierre qui m'a bien facilité la vie. Merci encore à toi.
En tous cas quel contraste avec la course Hors champ de Donington, ou j'avais essayer ce mod, et je trouvais ça presque inconduisible, et bien plus dur que le cart 98. Mais Hier quel pied, le kif, le bonheur, l'extase, la jouissance, ahhhhhhhhhhhh j'en ai mis partout
Si Olivier Phillips ne veut plus de sa Ferrari pour la prochaine course, je me retenterai bien une petite aventure avec elle.

For the first time since starting out in this series I was actually racing someone. It was challenging getting ahead and then trying to stay ahead of Patrice in the Rebaque. But then my car got inconsistent braking for the Ascari chicane.
It would do one thing one lap, then another the next as I tried to compensate for what happened the lap before. It ended up with me stuck on a kerb with both driven wheels in the air...

Why not at Montreal
Yeah that was close with Jan. Usually, I would have gone in the middle and see what happens, but somehow I decided to stay behind this time, and it was a good idea because the door just shut on me from both sides

I don t have words for to decript this race just AMAZING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The same than usually , I needed 10 min race for to take my concentration , I need to work on this , after this time I was at 8 second than Carlo and 2 second than Pierre , on the 19 lap , Pierre spin front of me and I took the 2nde place , Carlo was at 6 second front and i decided to give all ... after 6 laps I was in the gearbox of Carlo and from there began a TITANIC BATTLE !!!!!! 3 times the braking 1st chicane, I passed him but i having cut the chicane, I returned him the 1st place immediately , between the laps 30 and 46 we were wheels on wheels all time for exemple on the 45 laps we overtook 4 times in the same lap for the lead with the first lesmo wheels on wheels this lap is just AMAZING on the replay but my problem on this race was the top speed of afla , Carlo was more 10 kmh faster than me ,I needed to be any time in his aspiration , and for that I had put the downforce to a minimum , and my car was very nervous about the braking phase

for conclusion , I was a bit disappointed about this 2nd place, but I have given everything, I couldn't go faster, I was all time at the limt of adherence.

Yesterday evening, the stronger won , congratulations Carlo


Guys if you have time watch the replay lap 28 first chicane , lap 32 first chicane to , and after all laps betwwen 40 and 46 just amazing battle

I spun like a jerk at the Roggia chicane on lap 1 and damaged the car. I hit Christian too for which I apologize . I rejoined last and hopped to the pits to lose 65 seconds repairing the damage. I rejoined one lap behind the leaders and in front of Kimmo and JP who were 4th and 5th. I spent the rest of the race pushing as hard as I could but climbed back up to 8th only due to the poor attrition rate up front. Kimmo and JP never caught me, I even increased the gap so this gives me lots of regrets as I could have had a nice and easy 4th here .

Grats to Carlo for the win and to all involved in the numerous duels of the race !

I feel bad for forgetting about the race

I was feeling very comfortable with the car despite having low downforce (F-3/R-2) and was being able to lap the circuit very consistently in the trainings I've made