Round 3 - Thruxton [February 6th]

C'est pas mon genre de venir chouiner sur le forum, je me suis déjà fait sortir comme un malpropre en course sans que l'on m'attende, j'ai toujours laisser le bénéfice du doute en regard des post que pouvaient faire les gens, j'ai jamais rien dit!

Mais la déjà il me met un tampon au démarrage , ensuite j'ai regardé sa course, il est pour le moins agressif!
Peut-être que j'aurais du faire la même action sur la sierra qui était en difficulté devant moi! ça aurait évité les problèmes?

Chaque fois que j'ai sortit quelqu'un, j'ai toujours eu le respect de l'attendre! En tout cas il me semble...

Quand à la vulgarité, il y a un post vulgaire et une attitude vulgaire, chacun son trip! En plus la vanne est pas de moi mais d'un humoriste...
J'ai gagné 4 malheureuses course, j'ai toujours eu le respect envers mes adversaire de prendre conscience de la raison pour laquelle j'avais fini devant!

Bref...

2nd race out of 3 ruined at the start.... oh dear, this not going well

Very, very bad race

But I must ask something

In qualy I was the last, but near of other racers, but in race was impossible to ride to others speed, the Corollas crashed on first lap, overtakes me very easily and I wasn't able to ride behind them

I saw the replay and some Corollas (one of the first lap accident) riding over 220kph and mines cannot surpass 202kph without crashes or touch at full throtle on back straight

I saw in qualy that I was the only one who have "Bathurst" Class Car and don't know if this car have less power or what happened, I'm not very good driver, but I know to drag, and was impossible to made yesterday to other Corollas

All race I passed looking behind for not bother other racers and try to finish anyway

Are you sure you had the "TRD Engine" upgrade on Jon ? That surely explains the gap in performances with the other Corollas

Jon, there is an engine upgrade for the Corolla, you musy add it in the "Customize car" menu

So nobody has a clue what happened with the starting grid? I was annyoned to start in front of Ben, when he had got the pole in Q

Btcc

Normal qualifying...next corolla in front is too far from me..

Race:i was hoping to finish better...in last laps a collision from the back caused by Bellanger made me spinning and going off road losing many positions...i had not my position back...

Anyway,funny event as always..thanks to all and Hso.

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

Jon, there is an engine upgrade for the Corolla, you musy add it in the "Customize car" menu

So nobody has a clue what happened with the starting grid? I was annyoned to start in front of Ben, when he had got the pole in Q

Exactly...i made 231 kmh in the end of straight...

Man... that explains all!!

I raced with basic Corolla!!

I didn't read anywhere to upgrade the car... I saw braking and turning I were near from other cars but in straights...

Anyway, Watching my times and knowing those are with very poor car, makes me wait for next race with another vision...

Bit sad because I didn't enjoy so much my first race of the year but happy because I really can compite with the other drivers and know I'm not very bad driver like I thought by times yesterday

Thanks for explanation

See you on track!

Jon Lasa wrote:

I didn't read anywhere to upgrade the car...

It's in the rules, but nobody read them.

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but nobody read them.

Why should we? The admins remind them to us constantly, so there is no need to bother

Well yesterday Franky was talking of just ignoring the questions which have an obvious answer in the rules topic, that might be a good idea then.

En BTCC, je prends un bon départ avec un passage sur l'herbe pour éviter l'accrochage des grosses. Je me retrouve P4 au 3ème virage, avec beaucoup de chance. Petit à petit, les grosses vont me rejoindre, à commencer par Pierre, puis Gui, que je vais tous laisser passer dans la descente. Ce qui va me causer quelques frayeurs. Je pensais le différentiel de vitesse entre class A et B plus important, et du coup, en les laissant passer, je me retrouve à la limite de les bumper au freinage en bout de ligne droite. Bénéficiant d'une petite marge sur mes opposants directs retardés par les fracas du début, je vais terminer la course en m'efforçant de ne pas faire de bêtises. Au final, très content de ma course.

En Cater, je m'amuse comme un fou, vraiment de la récré ce mod, même si les résultats ne suivent pas forcément avec 2 courses moyennes pleines d'erreurs.

Ma course BTCC était une misère Déjà je m'excuse auprès de tous ceux qui ont été impliqué dans l'incident au départ, dès que les feux sont passés au vert, mon jeu a freezé, causant un bordel monstre pour tous ceux juste derrière moi.
Ensuite je sais pas si c'était les hards que je n'avais jamais utilisé juque là, mais je me trainais salement j'avais du mal rattraper Pierre et son tank ou même Franky en fin de course.
J'ai trouvé la Sierra horrible sur ce circuit et j'ai du faire environ 77,673 fautes durant la course, mais bon j'étais jamais seul donc je me suis bien amusé quand même

En Caterham arsouille avec JP en première course, puis 2 erreurs qui coutent cher en 2ème, et malgré 5 victoires je passe 2ème au champ avec ce barème infâme. Bien plus sympa ce circuit en Caterham qu'en Sierra en tout cas. Et on y revient dans 4 semaines.
My BTCC race was a shame First I have to apologize for the mess I created at the start, my game froze at the green lights I used the hard tires for the first time and was really really slow, I had a hard time catching Pierre's boat or even Franky at the end of the race.
I found the Sierra terrible to drive around this track, I must have made something like 77,673 mistakes in the races, but well I was never alone so I had fun anyway

In Caterham, good battle with JP in race 1 and 2 costly mistakes in race 2, so that even with 5 wins i'm now second in the standings thanks to this great scoring system The Cat was just so much more fun to drive than the Sierra on this track, where we'll be back in 4 weeks

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

It's in the rules, but nobody read them.

I just readed (again), I suppose, when readed for first time not pay enough attention and when I reinstalled all pc and install all mods again, forgot to re-read all again and was nervous for back to races...

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

The Cat was just so much more fun to drive than the Sierra on this track, where we'll be back in 4 weeks

I 100% Agree but the BTCC race was strangely so much better than qualifying was really happy to finish in 12th place ...

Had some really nice laps with Vincent and Gregoire I was supriesed to keep them company for awhile Vincent was awesome in the Rover at this track , shame he was not rewarded with some points ... Well done to David for scoring in the 635 also ...

The Caterham races where a blast had some nice laps with so many people was enjoying my fight with Ben in the 1st race and was really happy to finish in 8th place then in the 2nd race we returned on the track once more and i watched Franck and Ben crash into each other ... Had some nice laps with Yves also ...

I Was not sure why i started 17th in race 2 as i finished 8th in the 1st race ...

Désolé, j ai carrément zappé cette course.
Promis la prochaine je serai présent

Je tiens à présenter mes excuses à tous ceux, Ole compris évidemment, qui aurait pu être choqué par la forme que j'ai employé pour exprimer mon mécontentement!

After much talk about me beeing to fast in the Corollas, I decided to test the M3 on thruxton. Found myself considerably slower with the M3. It might just be my driving style, but the M3 felt... sluggish and with extremely much understeering on this track!

But, there is no doubt that me and the Corolla is a perfect match!

Perfect match it looks to be indeed . But we will have to do something about it however because you are proving much too fast for the rest of the Class C drivers. I'm afraid some will get bored of being trounced at every race and will stop coming eventually - which means at one point we're certain to have less that five Class C cars starting and therefore you'll only score half points which will kill your hopes for the title anyway. However, moving you up to Class B is not possible as there are no free cars available at the moment, and it would be a bit harsh for you too re the championship. So I think the fair thing to do is keep you in Class C but give you some weight penalty. I'll do some tests to see how many kilos of lead we're gonna screw on the floor of your Corolla and will let you know .

En BTCC j'ai fait une course extrèmement sympa où je suis passé au moins trois fois de la 15ème place à la 19ème et inversement... C'était génial... J'ai regardé le replay hier et je me suis encore plus régalé

J'ai eu beaucoup de chance, je suis passé au travers de toutes les "embrouilles", et il y en a eu pas mal dans cette course, la bagarre entre les trois classes au dela de la 10 ou 12ème place du général a fait rage... Du grand plaisir de mon côté.

Je dois remercier mon ami Ben P., qui d'ailleurs nous a "oubliés" (en classe B) pour être poli, qui m'a passé un setup "du feu de Zeus" grace auquel j'ai gagné 2 secondes au tour... Cà veut tout dire et notament que je me serais" traîner" sans ce réglage... Merci merci merci l'ami

Sans compter qu'indirectement, la similitude d'apparence de nos voiture à Ben et moi, a trompé le pauvre Alberto, ce qui m'a fait gagné une place dans le dernier tour en ouvrant la porte en grand (mais je serai passé devant quand-même ).

En Caterham j'ai eu deux courses très différentes, la première une cata et la deuxième assez sympa.
Impossible de tenir la voiture dans les trois derniers tours de la première course... J'ai mis 30L. d'essence dans le réservoir avant la deuxième course et le comportement était bien meilleur et seul le dernier tour fut très compliqué, avec le chassé croisé avec Vincent qui me dépasse de quelques centimètres sur la ligne d'arrivée... Bravo à lui

Bravo à tous et merci HSO

Philippe Martinelli wrote:

Sans compter qu'indirectement, la similitude d'apparence de nos voiture à Ben et moi, a trompé le pauvre Alberto, ce qui m'a fait gagné une place dans le dernier tour en ouvrant la porte en grand (mais je serai passé devant quand-même ).

Quel filou ce Philou. Content d'avoir pu t'aider un peu avec le setup. On a regardé ta course en replay avec Frank, du bien joli spectacle, tu nous a offert, avec Jonantan, Ole, et Teemu.

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Perfect match it looks to be indeed . But we will have to do something about it however because you are proving much too fast for the rest of the Class C drivers. I'm afraid some will get bored of being trounced at every race and will stop coming eventually - which means at one point we're certain to have less that five Class C cars starting and therefore you'll only score half points which will kill your hopes for the title anyway. However, moving you up to Class B is not possible as there are no free cars available at the moment, and it would be a bit harsh for you too re the championship. So I think the fair thing to do is keep you in Class C but give you some weight penalty. I'll do some tests to see how many kilos of lead we're gonna screw on the floor of your Corolla and will let you know .

If that gives you more options, I don't mind switching for alternate races to his Corolla while he drives my M3, specially in tracks I hate (Like Thruxton). As long as I can drive at Donington my M3, the rest of tracks I don't really care that much. Since I am short on time and BTCC is always just before the F1, I´m not able to train and set the car up properly to make Ben sweat a bit his victories, so I just race for fun. But fun I will also have with the other Corolla guys anyway.

Nah you're too fast for Class C regardless of what amount of training you can put into a race, and anyway we want to minimize as much as possible people switching cars to keep it as close as possible to the real stuff - you and Ole switching cars every other race doesn't fit in that picture . But thanks for the offer anyway