Round 2 - Norisring [Feb. 10th]

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

There's a Sauber free for the rest of the series if you wish to join full time Ben

Oh nice! Yes please, I'll take the Sauber.

Alright You can drive it tonight if you want.

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

Alright You can drive it tonight if you want.

If it's alright with you, I'll test the car out first and see, as I've been practicing all morning with the Porsche.

ça sent les embouteillages aux heures de pointes

Ben Warren wrote:

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

There's a Sauber free for the rest of the series if you wish to join full time Ben

Oh nice! Yes please, I'll take the Sauber.

You like taking my cars don't you Ben! Good luck with the beast! im sure you'll do it justice!

Absent ce soir, PC down

Antoine de Mautor wrote:

Absent ce soir, PC down

Oh wait...one less person lapping me

Looking ok for this one so far. That said Gui is looking mighty mighty fast in his 962

The race server is launched, quali starts in 30min

Désolé d'annoncer mon absence tard ce soir mais je viens de rentrer du ski et j'avais zappé de prévenir...

Sorry guys I had to retire - my rFactor crashed. My race wasn't going well anyway. Frustrating.

I'm sorry if my car was in the way at that point. My game had basically minimised and I could not get it back up. Knowing my car was near the outside wall on the last corner I tried to keep it there and get out of anyone's way. I didn't hear any contact at the time but I hope I didn't mess anything up for anyone!

My steering wheel stopped working so I had to dnf

I managed to hit the left wall exiting the chicane and red lined the front of the car. When I pitted to repair I got a drive through just to add to the fun

Man this reminded me of a Nascar race...and I do NOT do Nascar any more.

Y U NO PIT

course à oublier pour moi, debut de course n'importe quoi pour ma part

Desolé Yannick, je m'en veux d'avoir ruiné ta course, j'ai fais n'importe quoi, j'ai voulu me dégager, et j'aurais mieux fais de pas m'emballer....

"Different lines" - Martin Audran

Going nearly sideways with locked tyres isn't taking a different line my dear Martin

If I hadn't opened my steering you might have crashed into me.

What are you pushing for anyway? Gui is too far away and Oscar has cooked his tyres, there's no need to be upset so fast when you can't win but only lose

I had to be careful more than once, Mr Bousquet also nearly crashed into me...


But otherwise a successful race with 6th place. I didn't get to close in on JP and Yves in the end.

Et encore 1 point arraché ...
Parti 20eme rapidement Jon m'atomise mon arriere, je perd le contact avec tout le monde mais la voiture marche toujours bien...
je remonte jusqu'en 11eme, et la c'est Simon qui marrache l'avant en sortant d'un TAQ
les pneus chauffent alors beaucoup et le feinage doit se faire plus tot ...par contre je prend 312 dans la ligne droite
encore un point a l'arrache, c'est ceux qui font le plus plaisir !
Bravo Gui pour cette belle victoire ...un instant j'ai cru que Martin avait perdu a cause de moi ...heureusement non !
bonne semaine a tous

Results and standings are up on the website

David Jundt wrote:

"Different lines" - Martin Audran

Going nearly sideways with locked tyres isn't taking a different line my dear Martin

Did I say otherwise? No, I apologize for this, I lost the car. But with other drivers I'm afraid I had scare them because I dived very early in this first turn, and that without losing the car, that was my regular racing line

David Jundt wrote:

What are you pushing for anyway? Gui is too far away and Oscar has cooked his tyres, there's no need to be upset so fast when you can't win but only lose

Thank for the advise, but I know what to do when I'm racing

@Franck: c'est moi qui m'excuse pour la grosse frayeur à 2 tours de la fin.

My race: pretty well until I spun in the first turn, breaking my suspension and causing a puncture. After my pit, I was 3rd, I managed to overtake Oscar with his nearly dead car? and finish the race with my steering wheel 30° on the left

Congrats Gui and all finishers, thanks to all lappers

Patrick Marucco wrote:

ça sent les embouteillages aux heures de pointes

Tout à fait, Patrick, et pourtant je trouve que ça s'est super bien passé ! Y'a que chez HSO qu'on peut voir ça !

Sinon, belle perf aux qualifs, belle perf au warm-up, belle perf en course, ne pas s'affoler quand les furieux veulent passer... pour mieux les repasser 30 tours plus tard.

Une course sage, solide... comme j'aime. Bref une belle soirée.

Merci à tous et bravo aux vainqueurs et aux finisseurs !

That was bloody hard work for a backmarker constantly getting blue flags and being warned about being penalized
slowing down on the straights to let people past is just not natural
Tried to be as helpful as possible and not get in the way ...

On the other hand had some nice laps with Joel early in the race
simon in the impressive little Lancia and Gianluca both whom retired ...

Other than the constant blue flags it was quite a nice race but look forward to a proper track ...

Well Done Gui and congrats all finishers ...

Glad to see the back of this round

Had a hard impact with the wall early on and lost 111 seconds in the pits getting repairs. From then on it was a blue flag festival. I sincerely hope I was not too big of an impediment for the front runners.

Je confirme pour les embouteillages, par moment celà ressemblai à la Place de la Concorde aux heures de pointes mais fort heureusement tout c'est merveilleusement bien passé
De l'arrière c'etait tres beau à voir et comme sur ce circuit finalement il y a de nombreux points de depassement possibles, j'ai pris du plaisir

De plus si j'ai bien tout compris dans le réglement, comme je partageai le stand avec Gui, nous devons egalement partager les points de la victoire, merci Gui

Heureusement que tu (Gui) n'as pas eu un besoin préssant de t'arrêter au stand vers le 25eme tour car j'y etais bien et je l'ai occupé pendant l'équivalent de 3 tours
J'ai trouvé nos mecanos un peu lent pour changer un radiateur abimé, il faudra recruter du personnel un peu plus efficace pour le prochaine course

Pas de probleme particulier à part ce probleme de radiateur, la voiture roulait comme une horloge et j'ai souvent été dans les roues de Jason

Bravo au podium, aux finisseurs et à HSO pour l'organisation

A complete nightmare of a race to me.... I hope I didn't loose my touch setting up the car

Spent all morning working on a setup for the Porsche, but then ending up taking the Sauber, setup tweaking was still taking place during Qualifying. Couple of tenths off where I should have been, but I'm sure that applies to a few drivers.

We were still in single file and with quite big gaps between cars when we started the race which confused me a bit, but it probably ended up being a good thing as we could have a clean start. Had some nice battles in the beginning, with a few occasions being pushed into the wall, but nothing terrible.

Then at the final hairpin, Gerard Ryon completely messed his braking up and crashed hard into the back of my car, ripping the rear wing off, and forcing me into an unplanned pitstop that lasted over 67 seconds. Race for points, or at least close to them was over then. The car was pretty badly damaged even after that, and braking stability was lacking the rest of the race. Still enjoyed a few decent battles though, but 19th wasn't what I'd hoped for.

Still, I love the mod, and Hockenheim should be a good track for the Sauber! Thanks all.