Tour de France : Le Mans-Le Touquet (E5) October 17th

Ne perdez pas le nord! Le Tour met le cap sur la Belgique. Après une épreuve qui devrait valoir son pesant d'arsouille sur le formidable tracé long de Montlhéry, les concurrents du championnat Euro GT, et les autres, retrouveront le circuit de Nivelles pour une épreuve sur piste de 30 tours. Pas de changements majeurs à attendre au niveau du classement général, à moins que... Bonne chance à tous!

Driver's briefing

- During the warm-up session for each race, you are allowed to make one lap, and one lap only, from pits to pits (no timed lap).

- Remember that if you retire at Montlhéry, you won't be able to race at Nivelles ! Be especially careful with the tyres around the chicanes, they could flip your car over and end your stage!

- Between both races, you will have to leave and rejoin the server while it is reset by the admins.

- In both racing sessions, chatting is, as usual, strictly forbidden.

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Briefing

- Durant les warm-up des deux épreuves, vous pourrez faire un tour, et un tour seulement, sans passer par la ligne de départ (de stands à stands)

- Rappelez vous qu'en cas d'abandon à Montlhéry, vous ne pourrez pas courir à Nivelles ! Faites particulièrement attention aux pneus bordant les chicanes qui pourraient bien vous mettre sur le toit et vous obliger à abandonner l'étape.

- Entre les deux épreuves, les concurrents devront sortir du serveur et rentrer à nouveau une fois le serveur paramétré pour la seconde manche.

- Durant les deux épreuves chronométrées, le chat sera comme d'habitude strictement interdit.




EVENT SCHEDULE (all times CET, Paris time)

Mercredi 17 octobre :

8:15 PM - Montlhéry, Warm Up
8:30 PM - Race start, 17 laps
9:15 PM - Race end, pause
9.30 PM - Nivelles, Race start, 30 laps (password : hso72)
HSO rFactor servers informations

Antoine, is race 2 a night race?

And race 1 is Montlhéry long course? I did not see that defined, sorry if I missed it.

Long course - I see it in the main schedule page now, sorry.

No this stage is all daylight, and so will be 7 and 8

Argh, Nivelles

Point commun entre les 2 circuits, leur plus longue ligne droite se termine par une compression (creux d'âne), ATTENTION

Montlhery est tres exigeant pour la configuration PC, surtout le passage apres la compression

a tantot les "drivers"

How many deaths have there been on Montlhery in real life? That track has some horribly placed walls and abutments. I would never go there for a track day.

Nivilles on the other hand is superb although looking at the earlier race here I know I will be a tad slow.

Up to 5th in the standings?

If I had been performing better the stages before, it could be 4th I guess...

Let's see for tonight.

I will launch the server in 10 minutes, please join it as soon as you can

Antoine de Mautor wrote:

I will launch the server in 10 minutes, please join it as soon as you can

Ok now there isn't

Server launched

bon bah j'ai raté le départ à 5mn ... Bonne course à vous

Désolé pour le gros accident,je venais a hauteur de Vincent qui change de ligne,me touche,je pars vers le rail,je reviens sur la piste et Michael me percute.Fini la soirée.

Gerard I went through you both by just a milimeter! That was pure luck, wow ...

As for my race, the good news is that my system is stable, the bad ones that I never felt good driving at this track which I don't really like. In the end I made a stupid error that resulted in hitting a barrier sideways. Surprisingly, and despite not breaking the suspension, the engine blew and I had to retire

Never mind, my mind was never in racing today, with so much hurry to get everything ready in time and having been so dissapointed last sunday. Let's see if I feel more like racing and concentrated next sunday

A big thanks to all slower cars, who did a great job making room, and hats off to David Cid who drives the BMW superbly , as I could see while following him.

I was, ironically, busy doing French homework I'll be back for Sunday

For those who survived Montlhéry, Nivelles is launched

Salut a tous,
Trés courte soirée pour moi,
Coupure éléctrique et donc déconnexion.
Vraiment dégouté car les deux circuits de ce soir étaient vraiment super.

vraiment dommage, après le départ, dans la première ligne droite, Paf dans Gerard que j ai pas pu éviter

fini la soirée..


Ou bien vu que c'est quand même très triste cette histoire...

une participation a la 2ieme course?

ok je sors

A Night to definatly forget ..

1st Race I just overtake Philippe i think i had better gearing for the long straights and i was on the wrong side of the track when 2 ferrari's spun in front of me hit one of them very Hard .... Wrecked the Front of my car ...Nearly ran out of fuel after just 10 laps , so crawled back to the pits ... Managed to finish but a long way behind ...

2nd race started of Ok had a few nice laps with Ludovic but once again the Alpine showed its strength on the long straights
was trying really hard to catch Ludovic trying not to fall too far behind him and messed up a gear change and blew my engine

bah c'était pas ma soirée

Cela ne m'a pas empêché de m'amuser

Bravo devant Merci HSO

Gérard Ryon wrote:

Désolé pour le gros accident,je venais a hauteur de Vincent qui change de ligne,me touche,je pars vers le rail,je reviens sur la piste et Michael me percute.Fini la soirée.

Désolé, Gérard. je ne te voyais pas, mais c'etait vraiment pas une bonne idée de changer de file juste aprés le départ. Mille excuses.
3 cartons fautifs en 4 courses. C'est pas la joie. Je vais aller voir le préparateur à Grosjean, qu'il me donne quelques conseils.

A part ça, je me suis bien amusé. Avec JP à Montlhéry et avec David à Nivelles.

A+ pour la prochaine étape.

Gérard Ryon wrote:

Désolé pour le gros accident,je venais a hauteur de Vincent qui change de ligne,me touche,je pars vers le rail,je reviens sur la piste et Michael me percute.Fini la soirée.

Highlight reel worthy wreck? I will have to look at that one!


I had a great race 1 going but I made a bad downshift approaching the sand trap turn and snap oversteered into the wall. Blew my LF and had to limp back to the pits. I think I would have finished 7th pretty easily. Oh well, my goal was to just survive and maybe not get lapped. 1 out of 2 aint bad.

Race 2 was very frustrating as I was missing the same braking point over and over and over and going off track into a slow 90 degree right hand spin. I think perhaps Greg thought I was going to sweep across when reentering once - I saw you man! No way I was going to come over and tap you out. I was somewhere in the top 10 but all the missed braking points took a lot more wear off the tires than I had seen in practice and made my last 2 laps memorable in a cursing and sweating kind of way.

On to the next round!

Thanks again HSO/Antoine!

I am a bit sad.

Why?

Well, I won at Monthlery(First HSO win ). I stupidly went too far towards the end of lap 1, which made me lose ground. But after some laps, I was hounding Yves' mighty Corvette. When he made a mistake and had to pit, I took the lead and never gave it away. Although rfdynhud said my front brakes were both below 0%

BUT then came Nivelles. Good battles, 5(!) openly going for it. I was finally getting a bit of free air(Although chasen by Antoine) when I entered T1, touched the inside kerb and went on TWO WHEELS

I got it down, but they came up again, so I straightened out, which made me face the barrier(salut mon pote la barriere ), barrel-roll mid-air and land on my wheels(!) again. Sadly, the car was a kicked bucket now and I had to crawl to the pits to fix it.

Lost a lap, dropped behind Mike and David. I made it past both(David on the last lap/last chicane!) to finish 7th.

BUT: The time I won on my rivals at Monthlery went down the drain at Nivelles, so sad

But if I keep 5th, okay... Still trying to pressure Monsieur Placais, n'est-ce pas? He'll have a hard time in the mountains again, but Dimitri will be looking for more action on next wednesday. I'll try to give him tips for St. Ursanne

Sur Montlhery j'evite de justesse à la Ferrari de Gérard et je fais une course régulière et sans problème jusqu'à la 12eme place

Sur Nivelles je pouvais faire beaucoup mieux mais malheureusement j'ai rencontré la Porsche de Giuseppe en travers apres la chicane alors que j'allais lui prendre un tour
Gros choc et tres long arrêt au stand pour une réparation de fortune
Je termine tout de même encore 12eme mais à 3 t

Merci à l'organisation pour cette agréable soirée

Rendez vous dimanche pour un gros morceau

OK first of all tks for your cumpliments Alberto.
You see on race 1 I crashed due to the change of weight in the car, causing that my rear brakes locked so I went into the Wall, damaging the car quite much... pits 72 secs.
So then was just trying to finish wich I did in 14th place I guess. I know it would be better, but thats racing.
On race 2 all was going well... I was 7th, then my destroyed tires made me spin in the last chicane, and Jundt passed me
So I ended up 8th, not really bad for that BMW I guess.
One more great experience with you guys.
Tks HSO