Round 3 - Thruxton [February 6th]

Philippe Martinelli wrote:

... le chassé croisé avec Vincent qui me dépasse de quelques centimètres sur la ligne d'arrivée... Bravo à lui

Merci . je me souviens aussi de mon freinage Ave Maria en BTCC où je parviens à te faire l'intérieur au freinage avant la chicane. Pas mal du tout sur le replay. Sur le coup, c'était " Aie Aie Aie, dans quelle galère je viens de m'embarquer !!! ".

A part ça, soirée très sympa. Je passe pas loin du top 10. C'était pourtant l'occasion à ne pas manquer avec le gros crash du départ. La Rover Lenteur Vitesse est très amusante et le comportement était en progrès.
Caterham. bin, pas terrible, je surchauffe les pneus et j'ai un mal fou à finir les courses.

Allez, vivement la prochaine.

I'll try to give some emotion to C Class on next race with my overpowered hachiroku! (or sprinter trueno)

Frank Verplanken wrote:

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 .

I think it'll be hard to win the champ. anyway, with Ben in the M3 and Jesper in the Sierra, they are fast!

What I wonder about is how it happened. I qualed 3rd in the C-Class at Silverstone, and was 2nd fastest in the race. I put down lots of laps before Oulton Park, was fastest there. But I honestly didn't have a lap on Thruxton before I joined the qual-session.
Have I just been "lucky" that Matt Richards and Fabrice Bouchasson haven't raced after that race, or maybe everyone put down alot of practice before the first race, but not much for the next ones.

I'm slightly curious as I've never experienced being fastest in anything before, this is a new situation for me!

Oh, and I have no problems with getting more weight, as long as all is kept fair. I have no problems with it

Jon Lasa wrote:

I'll try to give some emotion to C Class on next race with my overpowered hachiroku! (or sprinter trueno)

An expert speaking

Thruxton race report by Jon Hicken is up on the website

bon je suis toujours aussi mauvais.
pourtant j'etais à peu pres en forme mais il est vrai que j'étais encore moins entrainé qu'à l'habitude(2 3 runs 15 minutes avant de me connecter et sur un circuit inconnu)
ne suis je pas au moins trop dangereux en piste....?