ROUND 12 - ADAC Hessen-Cup [Wednesday November 28th]

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I am sure JP would have lost if not for the tap(not saying he did it purpose, heavens forbid!). I am just saying, there wouldn't have been an opening to pass me

Yeah, and if my aunt had beard and bollocks she would be my uncle and not my aunt I guess speculation and what-ifs is what people enjoy more from sport and competitions in general ...

Anyway, peculiar evening for me ... unable to practice for the race I had to find a setup at Qualifying and it worked out well. Thanks God the track is well known due to having raced here many times, so it was a matter of finding references for the new section.

Started averagely but was very lucky to not get bottled on the right side line, so I zoomed past many cars on the left and went well into turn 1. Had to brake hard and do some zigzagging and take some paint scratches to avoid the turn 2 carnage, but got through well and found myself after Lorenzo, Frank and another M1. This one I managed to pass on a lucky maneuver that included going side by side through a full turn and then started building up rythm until settling in no-man's land, where I had a steady race with no errors at all at 1:07s except when being lapped. The LF tire was going to be killed in the race, so I took it with patience and was rewarded with a in DRT

The only annoying part is that due to having been waking up very early during these last weeks, I started to FALL ASLEEP on the race sometimes This had never happened to me, but since I did not fight anybody the track felt very lonely and I was really tired, so ... I took a nap or two on the shport straights

Apologizes to Franck Mercurio for my only faulty maneuver when being lapped, because I rejoined my line after letting a 935 through and did not see that he was also coming from behind and forced him out. Sorry!

Une soirée un peu folle mais de temps en temps ça fait du bien, ça défoule

Je me qualifie en milieu de grille juste devant les 1ere M1 GR4
Celà n'a pas servi à grand chose puisque je me suis vite retrouvé 20eme apres avoir pris un enième départ foireux

Celà m'aura au point permis d'eviter le gros crash du V2

Encore 20eme apres 10 tours, j'ai ensuite bataillé avec tout le plateau des GR4 pour remonter jusqu'à la 9eme place

Bravo aux finisseurs et merci à HSO

Rendez vous dans 15 jours pour la der

Course agréable, j'évite le carnage du début en passant entre les gouttes.
Pour le reste, je me suis efforcer à ne pas sortir de la piste, et à ménager le moteur dès que j'ai vu Frnck Mercurio en feu au début du stadium.

22 cars at the start, it's really nice to see that at the end of the championship. Thanks guys.

Superbe course, pleine de rebondissements.

Se bagarrer avec les Gr.5 sur une autre planete c'est assez déroutant au début. Mais fnalement on s y fait et le plaisir est d autant plus présent.

Moi qui roule à la ligue GT Web avec départs lancés, qualif sur un tour et où tout est tres cadré, Quel plaisir de retrouver l'essence même du sport auto, le fair play et la bagarre au naturel! comme en vrai!!

Finalement je ne sais même pas combien je termine mais peu importe! Je reviendrais!

Merci HSO

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

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I am sure JP would have lost if not for the tap(not saying he did it purpose, heavens forbid!). I am just saying, there wouldn't have been an opening to pass me

Yeah, and if my aunt had beard and bollocks she would be my uncle and not my aunt I guess speculation and what-ifs is what people enjoy more from sport and competitions in general ...

I mean it. Why should I risk too much-ah wait, why do I even tell you... It's just that I am used to the bigger leagues' rules about punting someone into a spin.

Thus I don't really feel happy with 2nd.

So, does that mean I can tap JP next race too so I can win?xD

/ I love teasing right now

Mike Becnel wrote:

You do realize JP is really Juan Pablo Montoya in disguise, correct? And Juan Pablo does not apologize, he autographs the dents he causes. And he has lots of pens!

He also nearly starts crying when he bangs his head on a television camera!

Maybe a bit off-topic, but on the subject of JP-M: Lee Morris, who raced in FSR and is currently at GPVWC, also uses a JP-M helmet. Fits him

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I mean it. Why should I risk too much-ah wait, why do I even tell you... It's just that I am used to the bigger leagues' rules about punting someone into a spin.

You can rightly criticize the incident, question if the behaviour is inside the rules or courtesy, etc, (All that is not my business but the admins', so I do not give my opinion about it) but to start off from the idea that you would have won the race had it not been for that -well, that's a possibility but you have no right to take it for granted. Doing so is just a way of trying to add importance to the argument by adding a bigger consequence, when reality you can't ensure it. It does a poor service to the base reasoning that you try to make it more important by adding something external and purely hypothetical to it. It's like asking a 1 million Euros compensation from a guy who had a car accident with you and delayed your arrival to the lottery office, arguing that you could have bought the winning ticket had it not been for the accident.

Looking at it from a different angle, I should be happy with 2nd place. I came in without much practice, just changed some things on the setup and lead most of the race(Natural talent or what?) I got a bit lucky with the problems Greg and the others got into aswell.

Btw: Is it forbidden to use LC? I know it wasn't even invented in '81, but I wanted to do a safe start and not cause an accident with the fast-starting cars of the 2nd group...


Well then, I have to win the last race of the season

David Jundt wrote:

So, does that mean I can tap JP next race too so I can win?xD

/ I love teasing right now

Well, for starters, you'd need to be right behind me, which won't happen with my new wheel
And for the record, I usually wait when I spin someone. I wasn't in the mood to do so. Plus you were in hurry to go somewhere else more important (you kept mentioning that again and again), I was trying to help

"I wasn't in the mood" - Probably the words of Pastor Maldonado spinning whoever around

I've got a G27 aswell, so go and try. After Qualifying, I was more worried than in the race itself

Hmm, Toulon? I was once at Hyeres with my family on holiday. Did some karting down there, I got a 1st and 2nd place in the two weeks I was there when the resort held their fun races

(Not to mention I beat an American that was there for a Historic Tour de Corse Rally with a Porsche)

Whoops, going off-topic.

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

Apologizes to Franck Mercurio...

No problem mate it was a crazy race with cars everywhere, but it was really funny

Grats for your