Round 6 - GP Automobil-Club der Schweiz [May 6th]

The fuel tank on the Porsche is in the front, correct?

Had thought of running a full load of fuel to see how it would balance the car-but not certain if I will get in another test session for the race.

Cutting my brake pedal sensitivity from 50% to 25% has helped a great deal-but thisis a car to be caressed rather than ravaged...

No ham-fisted driving with this German mistress...

yep James... You should have been on Mont Tremblant with the trans-am cars!!
You call it muscle cars... I would have to disagree, since you have to drive it with your fingertips

I must say I've just pick on Tiago for just being beated by Lorenzo
... just trying to fire things up a bit... as usual
C'mon Stig...

Shit Gui is also on a 911s
2.18
What can I do?? you shure you're running on regular petrol?

... disregard found teh answer

Jean-Louis
you kill me!!

David Cid wrote:

Jean-Louis
you kill me!!

i have just change my setting for pedals !!
i have never seen , its possible to change this !!!
and at Nivelles race i dont understand why i was bad in strait line ,
because i had always the N between the gear and speed no good !!!!

but the race is tonight !!!!

ta changé quoi ?

Greg Goissen wrote:

ta changé quoi ?

dans modifications , j'ai mis 3 pédales et boite en H ( je crois que c'est cela)
alors que je roulais avec 2 pédales et ça me mettais la vitesse au point mort entre chaque rapport
c'est en regardant le replay de Gui que j'ai remarqué qu'il passait les vitesses sans le neutre entre !!!

ok merci

What time will the race be ending in England? The Milan derby is at 7.45, so I'd like to catch at least the end of it??

9.15ish I'd say

Last half hour, good, present!

Reduce you signature size please Alessio

Hey Jean-Louis,
I use 3 pedals all in manual no auto cluch. auto blip off, auto lift off... so I'm not gonna have the neutral issue, will I?
I mean I didn´t quite understand...

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David Cid wrote:

Hey Jean-Louis,
I use 3 pedals all in manual no auto cluch. auto blip off, auto lift off... so I'm not gonna have the neutral issue, will I?
I mean I didn´t quite understand...

No, if you use the heel&toe setting, you don't have that delay between gears

Well I screwed it royally ... after not having turned more than 5 laps of training, had a pretty bad qualifying and was unable to find pace with cold tires. However I did a reasonably good first race, and started the second with good hopes. Had some fun fighting again with Greg and Ben, (Sorry if I was all over the place Ben, I was not comfortable at all with cold tires and the setup I was using ) including some comical moments like when Ben and me overtook on the stadium Diego each on one side His Ferrari had lost traction exiting a turn, and Ben and me were coming in the heat of our battle and found him in the middle, so each one went one side. Sorry if we were admittingly a bit wild Diego fortunately we didn't cause you to spin or damage, but it must have been a scary moment .

Then I found myself racing alone behind Gerard Ryon but started having problems controlling the car, maybe lack of concentration, so I first jumped a chicane, then went out once and had to follow Greg again, and finally went out and again and damaged the rear suspension. Game over. It's pretty sad to have survived the Ring to get a 3rd place and now screw it like this here, but such is life

--> H1 RESULTS <--
--> H1 REPLAY <--

--> H2 RESULTS <--
--> H2 REPLAY <--

It was a tough racing intro to the Porsche for me today.

Race 1 just caouldn't get the first chicane right. Off a few times then pranged it mid race on the right front-it wasn't terminal, but SEVERELY impacted my left hand turns. Just struggled to the checker.

Race 2 things felt a bit better. Finally got it together into the first chicane, but had a couple of offs at other places, and the gravel trap on the back stretch is IMPOSSIBLE to get out of it. Did a few decent laps and felt okay with the car at the end.

Left the race and thought "Well, if it wasn't for the high speed braking going inot he first chicane you would probably have done okay. Maybe the next track will be kinder....."

Then I checked the schedule...

Monza.....

Hey Alberto I know how you feel.. after the race in the ring
I was so not me today... 1st race crash alone twice.
Second race at the start lost my ffb on corner1 and not seeing Phillipe we crash... Shit I'm rely sorry Phillipe
I'm feeling kind of sick today ... Luckly Im going in Vacations for a week.
Im really ashamed of my both races after good training during the week
Congrats Lorenzo, Tiago and all the finishers.

I havec mixed feelings after those races. i did some decent laps in training. On 1st race, i was really frustrated because i was bumped on the side by a yellow porsche ) just before the chicane, lost some places and then i got stucked behind dario and his ferrari. He was struggling with his car on the braking zones but was too fast for me in the straights. Finally, we had a few laps of fighting with carl and then i screwed up and david passed me in the last lap just a few turns before the end. Was close to get my position back but he hold on.

2nd race was more fun still with carl and a few porsches. I got just behing franck and in the main straight line, i was so close to his bumper i pushed him when braking. I think he hit the wall, because while waiting for him thinking he went straight, i didnt see him come back so after a while i slowed down to let him go through. Finally i fought with him and carl again.

OVERALL STANDINGS

Pos	Driver	Car	Laps	Race Result
1	Lorenzo Arisi	Chevrolet Corvette	20	45mn22s97
2	Tiago Malafaya	Chevrolet Corvette	20	+19s40
3	Frank Verplanken	DeTomaso Pantera GT4	20	+1mn06s57
4	Guillaume Siebert	Porsche 911ST	20	+1mn10s17
5	JP Campmajo	Porsche 911ST	20	+1mn12s08
6	Greg Goissen	Porsche 911RS	20	+1mn54s82
7	Ben Paulet	DeTomaso Pantera GT4	20	+2mn04s81
8	Antoine de Mautor	Porsche 911RS	20	+2mn14s92
9	Jean-Louis Petillot	Porsche 911ST	20	+2mn29s33
10	Steve Parker	Porsche 911RS	20	+2mn41s70
11	Carl Larrad	Porsche 911ST	20	+3mn24s08
12	Laurent Binet	Porsche 911ST	20	+3mn37s38
13	Philippe Martinelli	Ferrari 365 GTB/4	19	47mn19s51
14	Franck Mercurio	Porsche 911ST	19	+1mn17s92
15	Konstantin Paul	Porsche 911RS	18	46mn08s62
16	Marc Florkin	Porsche 911ST	18	+06s28
17	Diego Dario	Ferrari 365 GTB/4	18	+1mn38s16
18	James Knowles	Porsche 911ST	18	+2mn20s32
19	Gérard Ryon	Ferrari 365 GTB/4	18	DNF
20	Alberto Ibanez	DeTomaso Pantera GT4	18	DNF
Rtd	Gianluca Desposito	Porsche 911ST	13	DNF
Rtd	David Cid	Porsche 911ST	10	DNF
Rtd	Alessio Campigotto	Porsche 911ST	6	DNF