Round 2 - Interlagos

Arf, désolé de vous avoir fait faux bond sans prévenir, mais je suis rentré des Folles Journées de Nantes plus tard que je ne l'avais prévu !

Mille excuses.

That could have been a great race! Very intense fighting for positions.
But then I missed a brake point in lap 23 and hit Adam from behind. My apologize to Adam, I hope your car got not too much damage. I hate it when I make such a stupid error and someone innocent had to suffer from my error .

No problem Gianluca, it was nothing compared to my own error in lap 23.

It's OK Thomas that could happen... I decided that I will finish the race, but unfortunately the damage was heavy, every left corner meant powerslide/spin-off... I managed to damage the front left of the car which balanced the car a bit, but still undriveable, made some spins and quit... But again Thomas don't worry that was a racing accident.

By the way guys check out the start - textbook start from mighty Rebaque.

Épuise par cette course,je pense que les 210 litres d' essence ajoute au choix des hard ont complètement transformes le bon comportement de la brabham en course,souvirage en entrée ,survirage en sortie,et pas de grand changement quand la voiture est devenue plus légère,je pensais que les soft ne tiendraient pas la course et c était une erreur. bravo tiago bel exploit

Excellent win Tiago ,Had great Fight with JP And Jean for few laps,made it an interesting race

Huge tiring awesome battle with Greg again like at Buenos, but i managed to keep him behind and bring another podium for Arrows

I just have to regret that little spin i had in the first half of the race which costed me a chance to battle with Frank for 2nd, but i was really pushing hard and a mistake can happen, most likely when you're under pressure from behind

Grats Tiago really uncatcheable tonight, i'm looking forward to battle with you when i'll got the A2,but there's still time

See you at Kyalami!!

again

Wasn't really expecting to be so strong tonight, but I guess I got this win mainly because it was an error free race; I was very consistent the whole race. I guess it was just my day tonight

Really happy and motivated

Nice results !
Congrats Tiago and Franky !
Looks like the battle for the last points was really something ! Well done Roman, in the points again, and Carl for climbing from 23th to 6th !

And it looks like there was no big issue at T3 in the first lap (I have yet to see the replay).

Damaged car before I could get to the start finish line at the start, because someone still doesn't know how to accelerate after like 2 seasons
The rest of my race was a poor attempt to damage even more my car, the only thing that saved my race was some good battles with Steve, Jan, Jieffe and maybe others I forgot.

j'ai pu faire que 5 petits tours avant de faire une petite faute en voulant éviter Laurent , je tape le rail et j'ai la direction tordue
Point positif , je commence à réussir à piloter sur ce mod et à régler cette Williams
Phase suivante , allez vite avec !!!!

I was able to make that 5 small tours before making a small fault by wanting to avoid Laurent, I type the rail and I have the twisted direction
Positive, I begin to manage to pilot on this mod and to settle this William
Following phase, go fast with!!!!

pour moi un départ de fou , je ne sais pas vraiment comment mais sur les 200 metres entre la grille et le 1er virage , je suis passé de la 6eme a la 3 eme place , apres la 2eme ligne droite , Franck étant scotché a mon aileron arriere , je décide de m 'écarter et de lever le pied pour le laisser passer . a partir de la va s 'en suivre une bagarre de dingue avec Carlo , Pendant les 8 premiers tours , on s est dépassé une dizaine de fois au moins je pense , aucun des 2 ne voulant rien lacher jusqu a ce qu il me touche par l arriere cela ayant pour effet de m envoyer en tete a queue .
Je repars et arrive a reprendre les 5 S perdues sur lui dans cette mésaventure , une nouvelle bagarre s engage pendant 2 tours avec encore des dépassements , puis je finis par reprendre le dessus et tours par tours arrive a faire augmenter mon écart milliemes par milliemes , et la arrive ce putain de 29 eme tours , ou une erreur de concentration me fait rater un freinage , petit passage de l herbe , et Carlo en profite pour me reprendre la 3 eme place , une nouvelle fois je repars a la chasse , dans le dernier tour je reviens a moins de 0.5 s mais c etait trop tard donc je finis encore une fois avec la médaille en chocolat

dernier point mon choix de pneus hards comme mon oncle n a pas était le bon , c etait un petit coup de poker , il n a pas fonctionné

Grats Tiago for your Victory , Franck and Carlo for the podium , and all finishers

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a start for me crazy, I do not really know how;) but the 200 meters between the gate and the first turn, I went from 6th to 3th place. after the 2nd straight, Franck being taped to my rear spoiler, I decide me aside and slow down to let him pass. From 'il take a crazy brawl with Carlo, during the first 8 rounds, it s is exceeded a dozen times at least I think, none of the 2 not wishing to let go: top:: top: up to what he touches me by the back it has the effect of m send spun.
I leave and come back to the 5 S lost on him in this misadventure, a new battle s calls for 2 laps still overflows, then I finally get over it and turn by turn has come to increase my distance thousandths by thousandths, and sometimes the fucking towers of 29 th or a lapse in concentration makes me miss braking, small portion of grass, and Carlo took the opportunity to resume my 3 rd place, again I go back to hunting in last lap I was back less than 0.5 s but was too late c: SMIL20: e doncj finished again with the medal of chocolate.

latter hards my choice of tires didn't like my uncle was good, c was a small gamble, it didn't work: SMIL20:

Tiago grats for your Victory, Frank and Carlo pour la podium, and all finishers: yaa:: top:

bonne course avec un début très chaud et de belles bagarres
j'étais en tendre, et pour moi c'était trop juste, le dernier tiers de la course était très difficile
pas loin de l'accident par deux fois en début de course (dont un face-à-face avec Vincent ), j'ai pu accrocher Steve et JP
ma très belle bagarre avec ces 2 pilotes se termine sur un tête-à-queue, ma seule vraie erreur de la course
mais c'était bon et très serré, très propre aussi malgré une petite touchette ou l'autre
après ça, fin de course calme et posée pour assurer le drapeau à damier
bravo master Tiago


good race with hot first laps and fierce fights
i had soft tyres, and it was not good for me, last part of the race was very difficult
not far from the accident twice, early in the race (including a face-to-face with Vincent ), i could keep close to Steve and JP
my very good fight with these 2 pilot ends with a small head-to-tail, my only real mistake of the race
but it was good and very tight, very clean too even with small contacts
after that, calm end of race to see the checkered flag
grats to master Tiago

Happy to race here again, managed to carry the car home in a very good position. Hope i wasn´t a nuisance when being overtaken, tried to stay predictable. Thanks faster cars for waiting for good spots to overtake, excellent racing standards

Pneus arriere trop froids, je perds l'arriere dans le 1er tour, je touche le rail à l'arriere droit et Jieffe m'en remet une couche à l'avant droit. J'ai beau chercher, je ne me trouve aucune excuse
Aprés ça, je sousvirais à mort dans les virages à gauche et j'ai mis une vintaine de tours à m'y habituer. La course a été plaisante malgré tout, with great battles, mostly with Carl, but, once more, my wheel decided to fall off my desk and it was over for the battle.

Bon finalement, malgré cette erreur, j'ai de bonnes raisons d'espérer ...

Je ne peux pas être mécontent de ma course d'Interlagos, je finis à la place que je mérite sans plus, 13ème... Je finis ce qui n'est déjà pas si mal en F1-79 (même si je suis à 2 tours du vainqueur).
Mes performances ne me permettent pas grand chose de plus, avec des tours en moyenne en 2 35...

J'ai foiré mon départ, en passant la 2 trop tôt, j'espère que çà n'a pas trop gêné derrière? Je me suis retrouvé 20ème à la fin du premier tour, çà vaut bien la peine de faire le 14ème temps des qualifs .

Je suis remonté peu à peu au grès des abandons et d'un ou deux dépassements, malgré deux fautes qui auraient pu m'être fatale, une à mi-course et l'autre vers la fin et au même endroit, dans le virage qui commande la remontée vers la ligne de départ. J'ai glissé jusqu'au rail extérieur et touché des roues avant et arrière en même temps et de façon bien parallèle au rail ce qui n'a pas endommagé la voiture

Je ne regrète qu'une chose c'est de n'avoir pas pu bagarrer avec d'autres concurrents... Je pensais qu'avec Vincent Rieux ce serait le cas, il était à une douzaine de secondes derrière moi dans la deuxième moitié de la course et il remontait mais il a dû abandonner, malheureusement pour lui... Comme les pilotes devant étaient tous bien plus rapides que moi, je me suis retrouvé un peu seul, mais sur ce magnifique circuit au volant de cette F1 je n'ai pas eu le temps de m'ennuyer

Bravo à Tiago et au podium (Franky ) ainsi qu'à tous les finisseurs.
Grats HSO

Great field and great race yesterday, so nice to see 16 out of 25 starters finish a 100-minute race , so grats to yall ! But more grats to Tiago, you were just supreme yesterday mate ! By the way you did the same results as me last year in these two South American races... I hope the rest of your season will be better than mine tho !

I was very happy with my second place on my favourite track of the championship. I had not slept in 24 hours at the time of the start so I was a rather pessimistic re my chances to finish the race to say the least ! I had a good start and with Roman and Pierre kinda missing theirs I was 5th (from 7th on the grid) in turn 1. The superior handling of my Ligier enabled me to pass Carlo and then Greg kindly let me by . I was now third but I thought Tiago and Vincent were too fast for me and that Greg and Carlo would soon catch up with me. As it turned out Vincent spun out in lap 2 and Carlo and Greg seemed to be involved in a fight that was enabling me to keep the gap between me and them.

But on lap 5 I took a chance and blinked my eyes for the first time in 20 minutes and spun at Ferra Dura, letting Carlo by. I really thought that my race was through by then, and although I managed to rejoin in front of Greg I could not see how I could not fall asleep, let alone not crash ^^, in the remaining 35 laps... However on the next lap Carlo gave me back P2 with a spin of his own and that was the sparkle - I decided I was going to finish this race and I did \o/ . All race long Carlo and Greg took relays in chasing me, but I was very satisfied to see I could keep them at distance. I had them between 1 and 5 seconds behind me all race long, but I never put a wheel wrong and finally allowed myself to blink my eyes a second time in 90 minutes once I was on the podium . I must say I was helped by the fact this track is really perfect for the Ligier which is the best car of the lot, and the fight between Carlo and Greg really helped me too. But I'll take the 6 points nevertheless !

Grats Tiago, nice to see you at your real level and delivering !! Kuddos to local driver Carlos Larrados for his most excellent charge through P6 ! Thanks to the very few cars I lapped, it always went as well as a lapping can go .

See you all in Kyalami !

Thanks Frank, it was just perfect yesterday

BTW thanks for the fuel info, but I guess I'll be shaking your hand from the top spot on the podium

Haha yeh I thought about that during the race and waited in vain for your spin that would make my prediction come true . I would have hated it if you had run out of fue lol !

Vincent Beretta wrote:

...et Jieffe m'en remet une couche à l'avant droit.

ha bon, on se touche?
j'avais l'impression d'avoir donné le bon coup de volant pour éviter ça... ma voiture était intacte et j'ai pas ressenti de choc
en tout cas, à un cheveu près, c'était 2 Tyrrell sur le carreau en un freinage

That was an amazing race ...

I Think the Ligier #2 driver feels very much at home in Brazil ...

Unfortunate that i had to start from the back i think if i had been nearer the front i could maybe have finished
a couple of places higher ....

I Cant complain as it was a very clean race and i had some nice battles especially with Vincent ....
I Had just got used to the fact i could climb no higher than 7th all that hard work and nothing to show for it again
Vincent was catching me very quickly which in turn made me drive faster ...

The battle was great and with 5 laps to go i was catching Pierre and Roman in front
with 2 laps to go i was visibly catching the lotus and thought maybe i have a chance at 6th ....

On the last lap i had got much closer to Roman but was thinking i cant catch him i needed another couple of laps really and then found Pierre on the 2nd to last corner slowing down i thought he must be running out of fuel luckily i managed to sneak past him and just managed to grab the last point ....

After last years race and this years i dont think ive ever overtaken so many cars on one track this has to be my favourite in the ligier ......I had just a few laps practice this year , so im really pleased to have scored a point here again ....

Congrats to Tiago another masterful performance
Well done Frank
Nice one Carlo

Well done to all the finishers and thx to all the guys that pulled over to let me past .......

THX Vincent nice battle ..

Quick English report as it's already late/early.

I knew I couldn't keep up a 2m30s-2m31s pace due to the tyres overheating slightly (I tried hards, but then I didn't have enough grip in the fast corners) and I was kind of hoping everybody would have this problem. No such luck and I slowly dropped down the field. As it's easy to forget fnishing one of these is an acchievement in it's own right, I'm not too unhappy about it.

I owe Carl an apology for sideswiping him as I re-entered the track after running wide. I knew it would be close as to you catching me due to my error and was looking/listening for you, but, due to the ristriction of the game, I never heard/saw you before it was too late. I'm sorry. No damage here, I hope the same was true for you.

Can I also please remind lapped drivers to stick to their trajectory and braking points until the lapping driver makes a move to pass? -and to not unexpectedly brake hard on the racing line? -thank you.

Race Report.
My best placing 5th on the grid.
As always, a slow start and lost positions. During the race I was sixth. I was very satisfied with the position.
The last 10 laps ahead of Carl 13 seconds. I believed that it can keep the position, but
two laps before the finish was only 3 seconds. I was very nervous I did not make a mistake.
In the last lap I got the chance to fifth position. Two points for me is very lucky.

Tiago Grats for your Victory, Franck and Carlo for the podium, and all finishers

See you at Kyalami!

PS : wrote with google translator.

Frank Labédan wrote:

Si il y a des "accrocs" en liste d'attente j'aime autant laisser mon volant et tenter une autre serie (l'endu du vendredi pitertre?).

Tu arrêtes alors ou pas ?