Round 1 - United States GP [Jan 13th]

Karel Marciniszyn wrote:

Mike Becnel wrote:

Frist calculate how many laps you can do in 2 hours (race limit).

Regear the car and change your low end shift patterns.

So you mean I should have longer lower gears??

btw. Mike, did you make any more setup changes for a race?? Liek somthing to make the car behave better on that horrible bumbs?

That and limit down shifting to 2nd in some corners.

Yes - made a major change today that allows me to brake much later. My brakes were FUBAR.

Quali #2 has started

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

Quali #2 has started

And guys: He said NO chat, and that means NO chat.

Pant pant pant. Damn that was stressful. I am slow but happy with my lap. Close to my best practice lap.

Edit: Thank you Eric Campillo for the move over when I caught you.

When the qualifying session are on, you can follow the laptimes and the grid on the hotlaps page : http://91.121.135.76:27012/rTop100Factor?max=100

Well this one was much better ... thanks to Greg, who gave me a setup that allowed to understand what I had been doing wrong all the time with mine! These cars really need re-learning lots of things

Made two 4 lap attempts that went out reasonably well, and a 3 lap attempt that I screwed royally as I was already confident of having a good time and reduced wing a bit more. With the lap I did this evening while training on the server it would have been provisional pole, as it is now I expect to land in the 2nd or 3rd row, but that's OK for me

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And guys: He said NO chat, and that means NO chat.

Yeah , it certainly distracted me during my first attempt, but I have no complaints because that was the quickest one. Still, not even saying "hello" would be the best to do, specially with these fast cars.

Anyway, see you tomorrow, will be a really exhausting race and I'm still unsure wether 220l will make the distance or not

Mike Becnel wrote:

Pant pant pant. Damn that was stressful. I am slow but happy with my lap. Close to my best practice lap.

Edit: Thank you Eric Campillo for the move over when I caught you.

of course,was blue flag...

Improved my time a bit, But still off my fastest practice time, Anyway will be fun tomorrow, Tough to overtake so hopefully no silly overtaking attempts hopefully

Good luck to all who qualifies/Takes part as this is going to be a tough one.

I'm a bit disappointed with my time

But the race is long

Congrats Lorenzo

Improved my time from yesterday by couple of tenths, very happy with my performance and against all the odds I made it into the race tomorrow

Martin Audran wrote:

I'm a bit disappointed with my time

We all are a little bit disappointed with your time !

Great grid, grats to Lorenzo and Alberto ! Looking forward to watching the race tomorrow !

=> STARTING GRID <=

Did not qualify :

27 - Eric Campillo (Ligier)
28 - Simon Wattman (Fondmetal)
29 - Abat Hernaez (Arrows)
30 - Marc Florkin (Modena)
31 - Jorge Alonso (Coloni)
DQ - Patrick Marucco (Williams)

keep going quicker all the time which is a positive! and wow! talk about cutting it fine lol I feel bad that my friend Simon did not qualify maybe he can have my place

just wanna wish all of the participants of this race , good luck, I am still having some pc issues.

Apres un petit apero c 'est beaucoup plus compliqué de rouler en ville ...m'enfin je m'en sors plutot bien a la derniere tentative, pas trop loin des ET ...
A demain ou la course dera longue (esperons le )

ps : a 3 dixieme de mon tour ideal, c'est mieux Gui hein ?

He bien on peut dire que j'ai tout donné sur mon tour ,j'améliore de 5 dixieme par rapport a mon meuilleur temps des essais !
Je reste tout de meme a 2 secondes de mon coéquipier

If I should ever miss the cut and be around for the race, would somebody mind if I offered myself to the commentary booth as guest?

I think some advertising on ISR, etc. would be cool to have a bigger audience.


I improved thanks to Greg, but still just 1s from him. He's a demon in that Minardi.

David Jundt wrote:

If I should ever miss the cut and be around for the race, would somebody mind if I offered myself to the commentary booth as guest?

Yes I would, you're way too talkative and it's gonna be French only anyway And you're qualified, you're 14th!

Ok now let me remind you that the race to be on the starting grid is not totally over. Even if you are qualifed, you have to be on the server tomorrow before the warmup starts at 8.55 PM.

If you are not, the first non qualified drivers (27th to 31st) will be allowed to take your spot. The driver with the 27th time gets the first spot, the driver with the 28th time gets the second spot, and so on.

The drivers with no qualifying laptimes can still try to qualify tomorrow during the last practice session, but to be in the race, they would need a qualified driver to be absent, and all non-qualified drivers to be absent as well, which is quite unlikely.
Donc maintenant que les qualifications sont terminées, laissez moi vous rappeler que la course pour être sur la grille n'est pas tout à fait finie. Même si vous êtes qualifiés, vous devez être présent sur le serveur demain avant que le warmup ne démarre à 8.55 PM.

Si vous ne l'êtes pas, les premiers pilotes non qualifiiés (ceux de la 27ème à la 31ème place) seront autorisés à prendre votre place. Le pilote avec le 27ème temps prendra la première place disponible, le pilote avec le 28ème temps la deuxième place etc etc...

Les pilotes sans temps de quaifications peuvent essayer de venir se qualifier demain pendant la dernière séance d'essais libres, mais pour être sur la grille, il faudrait qu'un pilote qualifié soit absent, et que tous les pilotes non qualiifiés le soient aussi, ce qui est peu probable.

lol...after changing the steering wheel setup I was able to make it c ca 2 sec faster then omn thursday...but as always I forgot one small detail...that quali ended at 22:30...so I connected to the server cca 30seconds before the endof quali...I hope I won´t be fired for my late arrival to track

Antoine de Mautor wrote:

David Jundt wrote:

If I should ever miss the cut and be around for the race, would somebody mind if I offered myself to the commentary booth as guest?

Yes I would, you're way too talkative and it's gonna be French only anyway And you're qualified, you're 14th!

In contrast to the forum, I'm actually a bit quiet when it comes to talking on a stream. Okay, that improves once I get a feel for it...

French only, so you want to appeal to watchers that understand French? Not even the standings? *Sadpandaface*

C'mon, even at Le Mans we get English, German and I think Japanese once per hour...

But even the ACO Le Mans Newsletter via email doesn't care and mostly sends it in French only


...yes, but Greg is about 1.1s faster and surely around P8!

apparement c est de famille les aperos ...

je me suis barré d un pour etre present pour les 30 dernieres minutes , mais bon 2 petits... ricard , m auront permis de me détendre mais pas d etre plus rapide j ai fait 4 fois ce matin 1.22.7 et la impossible de le refaire mais bon avec des si on refairait le monde ... , le fait de disposer que de 4 tentatives est un nouvel exercice que j ai pour l instant pas mal de mal a appréhender ...

well done Lorenzo and gui ( so close ) Alberto

Bon Frank Williams ne va pas être content

Pas une bonne semaine pour moi coté simu, je rentre du resto avant 22h, je me connecte au serveur le temps d'installer mon volant et là je casse la grosse vis de fixation
J'ai un 2eme volant à la cave mais le temps d'aller le chercher et de l'installer, la qualif etait terminée

J'essayerai de faire mieux au Brésil
Bonne course pour demain
Allez Williams et allez Alberto

Pas de bol Pat On penserait que Williams fournissait du meilleur matériel à ses pilotes.

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it's gonna be French only anyway

So what am I going to do after the first corner?

j/j I hope that my race will last much longer