1987 BATHURST 1000 [November 4th]

OK, 2nd stint over, we're approaching the end. This time everything went perfectly.

My apologizes to PHILIPPE MARTINELLI for a hairy situation we had on the fastest section My car was 2 laps down and I was faster, so I was unlapping myself and never thought he would defend his position, so we went into the quickest turn almost paralell and touched. Fortunately he controlled the car well and nothing happened.

Again sorry

quelqu'un pour faire un petit classement provisoire ?

1- Truffini 118 laps
2- Audran +19s
3- Arisi +30s
4- Beaufrère + 3 laps
5- Bende + 74s
6- de Mautor + 4 laps
7- Burlaka +74s
8- Estrela +78s
9- Kedzieski + 5 laps
10- Haarstadsveen + 6 laps
11- Pirlot +1s
12- Martinelli +72s
13- Ibanez + 8 laps
14- Larrad + 9 laps
15- Muscat + 16 laps

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End of 2+3 double stint, bit shabby due to lack of sleep, stoked with how well my teammates are driving.

Car has accumulated so much panel damage by now that the top speed is deficient by about 20 km/h.

Whatever happens in the rest of the race, I've been glad to finally race head-to-head with Lorenzo, Guillaume, and Martin in a Sierra. Couple of fantastic battles of pressure there. Somehow with the slow car and after 2 spins, 2 pitlane glitches, and getting bogged in the sand trap, we were still in the lead. Think the final flat tyre might put paid to that though!

Great race and congratulations in advance to the winners, and thanks very much to my two epic teammates CortyGT and Matt Brinson.

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

1- Truffini 118 laps
2- Audran +19s
3- Arisi +30s
4- Beaufrère + 3 laps
5- Bende + 74s
6- de Mautor + 4 laps
7- Burlaka +74s
8- Estrela +78s
9- Kedzieski + 5 laps
10- Haarstadsveen + 6 laps
11- Pirlot +1s
12- Martinelli +72s
13- Ibanez + 8 laps
14- Larrad + 9 laps
15- Muscat + 16 laps

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Why aren't we on that list We are still going in 9th I think.

Oscar.

Yes you are, don't know why Gui forgot you

Seems like a glitch, as Estrela and Ledzieski is driving the same car

Quote :

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What IP, port, password? It refuses my connection

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

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What IP, port, password? It refuses my connection

IP : 91.121.135.76
Port : same as default


What a fight for the win!! less than 20 laps to go !!

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

1- Truffini 118 laps
2- Audran +19s
3- Arisi +30s
4- Beaufrère + 3 laps
5- Bende + 74s
6- de Mautor + 4 laps
7- Burlaka +74s
8- Estrela +78s
9- Kedzieski + 5 laps
10- Haarstadsveen + 6 laps
11- Pirlot +1s
12- Martinelli +72s
13- Ibanez + 8 laps
14- Larrad + 9 laps
15- Muscat + 16 laps

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Merci
Hyper serré devant

je fais une tentative rfactor monitor, j'aurais du y penser plus tot, quel c..

I need a high octane drink! I only wish I could have been closer to speed with my teammates. Well, I kept all the body panels on it and based on how "slow" one or two of the Sierras were at ~ 1 hour to go I would say my time differential came down

Again great passing by you speed monkeys with only one exception but his impatience cost him more than me so we are even. Your front bumper can be collected at my doctor's office after it is removed from my trunk.


Edit: with Lorenzo's car clean on the front end and 2nd & 3rd missing front clips I think Lorenzo is going to walk this one all the way to the bank.

Congrats to the winners but a special thanks to Ben for having me along as co-driver. Even though I had to drive my stint with my wheel turning dead left (alignment was off after a shunt), I can't have asked for a better teammate. You drove a hell of a race and I am glad to have been a part of it even if I was less than fantastic. I appreaciate you guys having me and I hope to participate in more HSO events in the future!

Congrats to Lorenzo and JP for a great drive! Had a shaky first stint myself, but the second was far better. Trevor and Carl were excellent teammates! Looking forward to doing another enduro one day; this was a great first experience!

Sorry but you'll have to wait for the final results ^^

Roy Magnes wrote:

Seems like a glitch, as Estrela and Kedzieski is driving the same car

Yes, I was with Matias in the same team
We finished the race in 8th, ~ 20 seconds behind 7th.

thx for the event. it was huge fun for me .
thx to everybody, especially to organization
congrats to the winners
we'll see next time

Congratulate to everybody as SIMCO's teams.
Thank you for this special organisation. We were the best not sierra

But how i told yesterday sierra is unbeatable in this version. Maybe with 100kilo. Maybe with more equal cars its could be more intresting


You can find us on this page: www.simcompany.hu (or https://www.facebook.com/Simcompany ) and if you have a nice organisation like this just leave a message on chat

Regards
...us

Congratulation to Winners.
About ours team are perfec TEAM great Organization by Alberto, great driver like Mike, and me with few mistakes and we have defeated the Carl Team ! I was slow in final stint anf Greene was very fast! I could lose the position.
Thanks to Frank and all HSO for this event!

Bravo à tous les participants et aux vainqueurs, à JP, enfoiré, qui gagne dans les 2 classes.
Bravo à l'organisation, malgré le soucis de configuration du serveur.

Pour notre équipage M3 #45 (Martinelli-Paulet), ce fût une bonne course. On part 20ème, Philou fait un joli premier run, en grappillant des places, et me donne la voiture dans de bonnes conditions chronométrique et au niveau carrosserie. On avait hésité entre médium et hard pour les pneus, on est parti en médium. Mais Philou, au bout de son run, m'informe que c'est tendu en fin de run. Du coup, on modifie nos setups pour faire les relais suivants en hard.
Je fais mon relais sans encombre aussi, en remontant petit à petit sur Carl, et dans le tour ou j'allais être au contact, il rentre au stand. Mince, y'aura pas de bagarres sur la piste.
Philou reprend le relais, fait un run éblouissant de régularité et au niveau chronométrique aussi.
Le pov' Franky n'ayant pas pu faire un tour sur l'autre voiture du team, à cause d'une déconnexion chez Greg, on lui offre le 4ème run. Après quelques tours à chercher ses marques, avec notre setup, il prend les choses en mains, et nous rapproche de l'équipage belge, en alignant de jolis chronos à son tour. Il me laisse la voiture dans de parfaite conditions à 40 s des belges, pour le dernier relais. Malheureusement, je vais dans ce run, aligner de bons tours, qui me font reprendre du temps, avec des fautes si grossières que même mes chats en avaient honte en regardant l'écran. . Dommage, il leur restait un arrêt, et on aurait peut-être pu passer, même si l'écart entre nos 2 voitures étaient tout de même très important pour les quelques tours qui restaient.
On finit 12ème, 4ème de notre classe, on est content de notre performance. C'était la première endurance sur rfactor pour Philou, bravo à toi, tu as été un parfait équipier. On remet ça?
Personnellement, je me suis éclaté dans cette épreuve, bien pris au jeu.
Pour la retransmission , j'ai fait comme j'ai pu, mais ma connexion avait du mal quand je pilotais, raison pour laquelle j'ai du couper le broadcast sur mes 2 relais et celui de Franky. On va essayer de tout faire pour s'améliorer sur ce point là .

Une super longue soirée pour moi et Yves hier soir.

Nous manquions de roulage pour cette épreuve aussi notre ambition était de mettre notre Sierra noire et rouge dans le top 10. Contrat rempli et au delà de nos exigences, du reste, puisque nous finissons 4ème (aidés, il est vra,i par les déboires de nos infortunés compagnons de piste) ! Ce qui équivaut à une petite victoire pour nous !

Pas de problèmes techniques particuliers (relais, PC et connexion que je redoutais car la mienne fait des siennes depuis samedi). Juste un truc étrange, après le premier relais, notre Sierra tournait à 2 voire 3 secondes des temps que nous faisions lors du Warmup. Malgré les réparations complètes, elle n'a rien voulu savoir la bougresse, on plafonnait sous la barre des 2:19...

Ce n'est pas si grave ceci dit, nous nous sommes bien amusés tout de même et on accroche en super résultat !

A noter la parfaite correction de ceux qui se faisaient prendre un tour. Merci à vous

Merci aux organisateurs de nous avoir offert cette charmante soirée et à la prochaine

Ben Paulet wrote:

On finit 12ème, 4ème de notre classe, on est content de notre performance. C'était la première endurance sur rfactor pour Philou, bravo à toi, tu as été un parfait équipier. On remet ça?

Je te l'avais dit mon Ben, que l'on serait bien mieux classés que pour les qualifs...

Je me suis bien régalé, même si je n'ai pas eu trop de bagarres directes (sauf avec Alberto... çà été très chaud... j'ai bien cru que j'allais dans le mur sur ce coup-là... Merci pour tes excuses Alberto , mais des bagarres à distences j'en ai eu plusieurs, soit pour grapiller qq secondes sur les précédents ou pour en perdre le moins possible sur les poursuivants.

J'ai fait deux ou trois fautes sur mes deux relais et chaque fois vers la fin, la voiture est plus légère, on va de plus en plus vite et on dépasse la limite, mais je n'ai tapé qu'une fois de l'arrière, dans un tête à queue avant le tire bouchon... Sur 70 tours environ çà peut aller... J'avais surtout peur de casser la voiture dans le premier relai et que Ben ne puisse pas rouler, là je m'en serais voulu.

Le fait de partager la course avec des copains est super motivant, j'en oubliais que j'avais mal aux mains vers la fin des relais, tellement j'y étais...
Merci à vous les gars

Merci pour les compliments et on remet çà quand tu veux Ben

Bravo aux vainqueurs et merci à l'organisation (pour le deuxième départ j'étais bien moins tendu, c'était une bonne idée finalement

A la prochaine

Well that was great fun! (could it be different at Bathurst anyway?)

Third after a poor start, I spent the first twenty laps of the race trying to pass Lorenzo. I was a bit faster on the mountain, but he was a bit faster where we can overtake, so that was not easy Thanks to the traffic in Forest Elbow, I managed to stay in his slipstream an overtook him in the Chase. (in fact that was my second attempt here, the first one was... messy Sorry for the little trip in the sand Lorenzo... and I think Trevor, who was right behind us, laughed a bit seeing that )

I was then in the second place, far behind Ben (very nice run with clear track at the beginning of the race, no mistakes and great pace ). But at this moment, I spotted a little problem with our "setup". Gui and I used the default one (except the gearbox), which was good early in the stint, but it appeared that it was hard on the tires after 15/20 laps
So I slowed down, and made a big mistake at the Dipper, which cost me 15 secondes to restart, 40 secondes to repair, and still after that the suspension was broken

It was in lap 25 or 26, I did 5/6 laps before I passed the wheel to Gui. The car was not still well repaired, so he did the best he could with what he had. And he did pretty well, closing the gap with Dan and JP

When I get back behind the wheel, I found a brand new car, with all his speed. I pushed hard during 33 laps, I managed to overtook JP for the second place 4 or 5 laps before my pitstops. But just after my restart, I hit the wall in the Cutting, and the car was messed up again I did 33 laps in this stint, closing a bit the gap between Ben and me, but losing time to Lorenzo.

I took the lead for 3 laps when Ben had his troubles, and gave the wheel back to Gui for the end of the race. He did well until he had tires problem and had to let Lorenzo go for the victory. A bit disappointed by my big mistake in Dipper which cost us the victory, but it's part of the race.

Thanks to all for coming and making this race such a great event, congrats to all finishers

ps: lappers was nearly perfect with me

Just like Philou, the restart was a good thing for me too because I was feeling much more confident after the red flag. I even tried to overtake two Sierras on the start, only to see them blast past in the mountain straight Greg soon overtook me as he was a bit faster, I tried to hang to his tail as much as I could but at the same time I had my hands full with challenges from Matias, BMW, Dmitri, Alfa, and Mark, Nissan. It was great fun ! Until I crashed my car in Dipper trying to follow the Nissan's pace Lost a full minute I think with repairs and shit, and then tried to fight back with a wounded car for 10 laps or so. I then handed the car over to Lorenzo who did a great race lapping some 120+ laps on both the winning Sierra and the little Merc He managed to climb back up the class B field with a great pace

Unfortuntaly we had lost two majors contenders due to disconection problems : Buksha/Soldatov and Goissen/Verplanken were now out of the race, but I still had to worry about Estrela/Kedzierski and Burlaka/Ljubchik, so I kept pushing Eventually, I managed to put a 1mn gap on the latter team so JP just had to cruise to the finish in first in class However, the fight was intense with Janos Hegyvari | Balazs Kiss | Imre Bende and their Nissan for 5th place (and first non-Sierra). Imre was slightly slower than us while Janos was definitely faster, so first Janos caught me back, then I caught back Imre, and evntually with 10 laps or so to go Janos pitted and exited the pits just in front of us, but unfortunately he was too fast on new tyres for JP to fight back, well done guys Without my mistake in the first stint, we could have claimed 5th place, but 6th overall and 1st in class is pretty good already I'd say

Grats to my teamates Lorenzo and JP who did a tremendous job to win overall and both classes It was great to be driving with you guys. Well done as well to the podium finishers, and all the teams who finished and had fun in this event. Now bring on Wellington for some more Endurance racing, I hope we'll have an even better field!!

Gianluca Desposito wrote:

Congratulation to Winners.
About ours team are perfec TEAM great Organization by Alberto, great driver like Mike, and me with few mistakes and we have defeated the Carl Team ! I was slow in final stint anf Greene was very fast! I could lose the position.
Thanks to Frank and all HSO for this event!

I was giving Trevor live intervals over TS3 using the stopwatch on my iPhone. If only we had a few more laps...
Great drive by you guys. Maybe we'll see you again in the 500k.