CART 1998 - Elkhart Lake 200 [June 24th]

I badly hit the wall on the right corner after the bridge, and broke my suspension. Tried to repair but after my pitstop, even if the speed was back, the car was very scary on left corner. As I didn't want to interfere with someone else, I left

Not having turned a wheel on this mod since the last race we did with it (wherever that was ^^), and having joined the server just 4 minutes before the end of the warm-up, I didn't expect much of this race to say the least . Still, nice few laps with Matt, Sanjin and Carl. Sorry Carl for the bump in the warm-up lap and the turn 3 block in the race .

This is the day I could kill someone if I find out who it was

I started carefully and went well despite losing some positions to faster cars till I got too close to Philippe while braking and had to spin to avoid contact. Sajin caught me and we had a really nice fight til I managed to pass him. And just then, as I exit the last corner and accelerate for the straight, the telephone rings and someone had forgotten it in my desk, behind my monitor I was shocked by the sudden strong ring and spun stupidly in the straight

The car got damaged even if not losing wings, I pitted to repair but it was not well driveable as the wheel wasn't centered and pulled to the left, so I quit.

Thanks to Sajin for the nice and fair fight

Pity that we don't run this mod more often

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

Pity that we don't run this mod more often

True. i know about the problems rFactor have with oval racing and all, but maybe some day the admins could give the mod and a oval track a chance. i used to race with this mod in a league and i can't remember one single time we had problems.

bon, j'espère que je ne vous ai pas trop géné, mais je me suis bien amusé pour cette première course. J'ai cassé un peu trop rapidement ma suspension et mes mécaniciens n'ont même pas été foutu de la réparer !

Diego Dário wrote:

Having missing both qualifying sessions, i started in the far back of the grid and managed to avoid all of the initial accidents. But the race ended quickly for me unfortunately.
Ben hit me from behind just before the turn that leads to the pit straight, and my car went directly towards the wall. With the left wheel lost and the front wing broken, i couldn't manage to get ouf of the sand to try a repair in the pits. Ben fairly waited for me (thanks for that m8 ), but only a truck could get my car out of the escape area.

My apologies for this bump. I should have to take more safety gap before the turn.

Frank Verplanken wrote:

Not having turned a wheel on this mod since the last race we did with it (wherever that was ^^), and having joined the server just 4 minutes before the end of the warm-up, I didn't expect much of this race to say the least . Still, nice few laps with Matt, Sanjin and Carl. Sorry Carl for the bump in the warm-up lap and the turn 3 block in the race .

No worries Frank it was 50/50 into turn 3 ...But don't bump me up the arse ever again

A Big Sorry to Diego at the start i'm really sorry i did not mean to hit you

Ben Paulet wrote:

Diego Dário wrote:

Having missing both qualifying sessions, i started in the far back of the grid and managed to avoid all of the initial accidents. But the race ended quickly for me unfortunately.
Ben hit me from behind just before the turn that leads to the pit straight, and my car went directly towards the wall. With the left wheel lost and the front wing broken, i couldn't manage to get ouf of the sand to try a repair in the pits. Ben fairly waited for me (thanks for that m8 ), but only a truck could get my car out of the escape area.

My apologies for this bump. I should have to take more safety gap before the turn.

No problem, it was a accident and you acted fairly despite of this.

My first top ten finish, albeit due to attrition. But I'll take it

Had a lackluster start, as my heart was ready to leap out of my chest the first two laps. Once I settled down, I had a spirited run with Carl (he eventually got by). The first time I got lapped by the leaders, I got clocked from behind from a Ganassi car, not sure which one. At some point, I had a spin of my own and damaged the steering. The car was pulling to the left, and I was doing everything I could to keep the car pointed the right way under braking. This is likely what led to contact with Lorenzo on a few occasions (my apologies) ran 9th until I had to pit for fuel, nursed the car home while trying to stay out of the way.

Congrats to Gui and Lorenzo; I'll have to watch the replay and see the finish...

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Haha,

we raced right to the finish of the match


i raced 3 or 4 laps in qualifying with a setup that someone of you sent me (3 guys in fact, THANK YOU)

in these three laps i had to learn track and mod.
1 51 or so

(pac west, reynard merc firestone)

then in second quali i drove 3 laps 1 48 or so and 3 laps in warm up lol


arrived 5 minutes before race start, had to assign a button for rngine mapping change


it was all not so good by me, the siebert setup was perfect but i cant drive.

i went next to sthe track amny times and spun but elegantly (lol) avoided the wall with a 26° steering lock and no change in the speed sensitivity.

at the end i was really closer to the limit only 3 seconds off pace (or so) lol

but had to drive the whole race with booster one.

much to go, i am not in racing anyways and i see i lack many ability.

but for jumping into cold water place 5 wasnt too bad. with boost one i think i couldve even run faster and 1 45 werent too bad.

needed 30secs repair in pits also.

some guy braked really hard in the second time i lapped him he also brakled so hard. the crash was a misunderstanding because two cars lapped him and i avoided.

you cann see it in the replay.


thats all the race.

was nice and i tried to drive leaned to the chair with my back so it wont hurt so much

il oved the daydreaming of driving a merc much more than my pace

but in the end it was fun i could even countersteer and slide a bit. lol

ok mate next time I'll try and aim at not so private parts of your car !

Jason White wrote:

My first top ten finish, albeit due to attrition. But I'll take it

Had a lackluster start, as my heart was ready to leap out of my chest the first two laps. Once I settled down, I had a spirited run with Carl (he eventually got by). The first time I got lapped by the leaders, I got clocked from behind from a Ganassi car, not sure which one. At some point, I had a spin of my own and damaged the steering. The car was pulling to the left, and I was doing everything I could to keep the car pointed the right way under braking. This is likely what led to contact with Lorenzo on a few occasions (my apologies) ran 9th until I had to pit for fuel, nursed the car home while trying to stay out of the way.

Congrats to Gui and Lorenzo; I'll have to watch the replay and see the finish...

Ok now i understand, no worries m8, i was just a bit angry after the race because i had a great pace and couldn't use it properly

And now my race..good start on boost 1 trying to save fuel as much as i can, it was working well until the first contact with Jason, that time it was my fault, sorry m8, i spun and rejoined 9s behind Gui.
The gap stayed the same before his first stop, i pitted 2 laps later for a 18s stop (dunno why, i got some damage but i chose not to repair it) and i rejoined nearly 20s behind.
I turned up the boost to 3 for the 2nd stint, i closed just 5s on those 17 laps, i had lots of troubles in traffic..

I had a good 12s pitstop and i rejoined 12s behind, from then boost 5 all the way, i closed 1s a lap and finished just behind Gui, well done m8

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

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Ouah c'est trop beau.

Tout d'abord, mes excuses à tous et en particulier aux administrateurs de ne pas avoir participé aux qualifications . Le jeudi c'était prévu car j'avais une course sur GTR2 mais ce samedi j'étais en retard pour un travail sur un diaporama qui devait tourner pendant un concert ce dimanche matin . Heureusement j'avais roulé sur le serveur et préparé le set de course . Je n'étais pas du tout stressé pour le départ. Manque de course en monoplace quand même, je n'en avais plus fait depuis 2 ans . Au début, j'étais un peu surpris de la vitesse des voitures qui me prenaient 1 tour. Je me suis assez vite habitué, mis à part l'incompréhension avec Philippe qui ne comprend pas de quel côté je me range pour le laisser passer . Désolé Philippe , tu me tapes de l'arrière et puis tu sors de la piste . Mon intention était vraiment de te laisser passer, j'espère que ta course n'a pas été gâchée à cause de cet incident . Sinon remontée de la dernière place pour terminer à la 9 ème. Grâce à des abandons en majorité mais aussi quelques dépassements et petite bagarre très agréable . Le dernier tiers de la course en dispute pour la place avec Jason qui finit dans le même tour que moi . sinon, je prends 7 tours, lol, ça fait longtemps que je n'ai plus roulé en monoplace avec les E.T. de chez HSO . Depuis un certain champ F1 1979 Aurora en fait . Je me suis bien amusé , content d'avoir tenu jusqu'au bout et finir la course . Merci à tous, mes excuses à ceux que j'ai peut être gêné . A bientôt,
Merci à l'organisation .

The new web is AMAZING, congrats Guillaume great job

P.D. My Porsche doesn't show on the Interserie

I'm glad I won this one, that was one tough one-week long battle with Lorenzo
I went for 3 17-laps stints, and thought I had the race in the bag after the first pitstop when I had a 17s margin over Lorenzo. But I lost time in traffic in the second stint, and Lorenzo managed to go longer on fuel in each stint, and had a very short and fast last stint. I took easy in the last laps, didn't feel very confident with the worn tires and finished with only 1s ahead

I uploaded some screenshots of the race on the website, if somebody wants to post his own on the forum, i'll upload them on the website. (size 800x640)
Content d'avoir gagné celle là, ce fut une bataille épique, longue d'une semaine, avec Lorenzo
Je suis parti pour 3 relais de 17 tours, et pensait avoir la course dans la poche après le premier pitstop quand je me suis retrouvé avec 17s d'avance sur Lorenzo. Mais j'ai perdu du temps dans le traffic dans le deuxième relais, et Lorenzo qui avait économisé du fuel pendant les 2 premiers relais a fait un dernier relais très court et très rapide. J'y suis allé molo dans les derniers tours, pas très à l'aise avec les pneus usés et garde au final une seule petite seconde d'avance sur Lorenzo sur la ligne

J'ai uploadé quelques screens sur le site, si certains veulent en poster sur le forum, je les uploaderai sur le site ensuite (taille 800x640).

Splendide le nouveau site HSO
Bravo les gars

Gui the New website is Excellent the hall of fame and all the classifications is a brilliant idea .....

There are a few little glitches but im sure you can iron them out ....

1st Class Job you have been very busy

Congratulations to the 10 finishers. The screen shots look great.

yea nice race. at start was really fun. I hit someone in t2 from behind but noting happen. than i got hit from back to. good is to have 50% damage.
I have nice racing with Franck and Alberto and some others.
I even get in Gui way when he was lapping me 2nd time. sorry.

Later I get tired and I did 3 big mistakes and damage car. field has pool away and than I quit, car was to much damaged.

I had few hours to test car on track. so that was biggest problem.

Thx for race.

Il y avait longtemps que je voulais faire une course sur ce mod, je l'avais téléchargé et jamais installé... Dommage pour moi car c'est un très grand plaisir, j'aurais pû en profiter plus tôt...

Course très sympa et bien rythmée sur ce beau circuit, de belles bagarres avec mes fidèles compagnons de bastons (Alberto et Gérard, Carl n'était pas loin non plus), quelques erreurs mais pas trop (pas de problème Bernard, notre malentendu ne m'a pas pénalisé ne t'inquiète pas ).

Seule ombre au tableau, mon cafouillage dans les derniers tours pour faire un arrêt de plus dans les stands par crainte de tomber en panne d'essence... Est-ce que je me suis arrêté trop tôt l'ors de mes précédents arrêts ou est-ce-que je consommais plus que les autres (mon boost était sur 5 et je l'ai laissé comme çà pour la course...)...
Dans les derniers tours j'ai tenté d'économiser un peu en tirant moins sur les vitesses mais la jauge chuttait quand-même vite, donc je me suis résolu à passer aux stands alors qu'avec mes tours de retards çà devait passer, mais dans le feu de l'action je n'ai pas réalisé...
J'avais pas mal d'avance sur Mathieu à 10 tours de la fin mais il me passe sur la ligne alors que je suis dans les stands... pour le gain de la 6ème place...

Bravo Gui pour ta victoire merci et bravo HSO pour l'organisation et le superbe et intéressant nouveau site

Eh oui Philippe il fallait diminuer le boost pour faire la course en 2 arrêts, au moins sur 3, 2 pour être tranquille.
En plus c'est risqué pour la durée de vie du moteur.

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mon boost était sur 5 et je l'ai laissé comme çà pour la course

No wonder I couldn't hold you off at all

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il fallait diminuer le boost pour faire la course en 2 arrêts, au moins sur 3, 2 pour être tranquille.

Interesting. According to my calculations, I was able to do the race with boost at 4, maybe only lowering it to 3 for the last 5-7 laps of each stint It seems the combination of the more fuel efficient mercedes engine and my driving style is good, so far in all mods we have run I seem to use less fuel than most people

Bon excusez moi pour mon ignorance mais comme je vous l'ai déjà dit je débute en la matière. Alors je vais poser une question certainement idiote pour vous : qu'est-ce que vous appelez "le boost" ?