Round 3 - ADAC Trophäe [Feb. 27]

Results and replays are up

Not much else to say than "bugger" and then walk away.

Was doing allright-ish considering I had been practicing the betonschleife the weeks prior to the event as I didn't know and couldn't see that there were a road straight ahead after T1

Spent Q trying to learn the track and set a respectable time, neither went to plan

During the race I think I was doing allright, was up to 11th at one point, sorry Ludovic for hitting you on lap one into the hairpin, was way to overoptimistic with my brakes and when I realized I was braking to late I didn't think about letting up on it and avoid you and I ended up hitting you and spinning you out. I hope you aren't to angry with me for this

The biggest killer of the night was the curved brakingzone for one of the corners, which saw me get sideways and go into the barrier 3 times and spinning once. And that, with 3 laps to go, only had 2 litres of fuel left so went into the pits to fill up, forgot to set it to not change tires and not repair damage so 211 seconds later, I could go again, and with that a lap down and noone to fight with

Well done to everyone, was nice to see some of the racing. Thanks Ludovic for the battle we had and also thank you to Giuseppe S for our battle in the middle of the race. Was quite fun

Cheers

That was a proper boy's night in of racing!

I really enjoyed both races. I had some great battles with Antoine in race 1, and really enjoyed trying to catch the battle between you and Oscar

Race 2 was a little bit of everything! I had an awesome battle with Alessio, after encountering two other wipeouts. One from 2 Alfas (missed who you were), and the other a very unlucky Peter Blom. Having been fully involved with both incidents I somehow managed to make it through without any major damage! A great battle with Alessio ended when he made a brave move in the first hairpin, which I very much anticipated!!

I can also imagine when me and Peter blasted past either side of you full speed, after your mistake Alessio - must have been scary!!!

This racing is why i LOVE Historix and am pouring all I can into this league!

Jon Hicken wrote:

Race 2 was a little bit of everything! I had an awesome battle with Alessio, after encountering two other wipeouts. One from 2 Alfas (missed who you were), and the other a very unlucky Peter Blom. Having been fully involved with both incidents I somehow managed to make it through without any major damage! A great battle with Alessio ended when he made a brave move in the first hairpin, which I very much anticipated!!

I can also imagine when me and Peter blasted past either side of you full speed, after your mistake Alessio - must have been scary!!!

This racing is why i LOVE Historix and am pouring all I can into this league!

My pants were a mess after spinning at that corner. I saw you and Peter come into the corner, and I'm moving at around 5mp/h. Didn't know where to place my car, but thankfully you both got by safely!

My overtaking move was purely accidental, I missed my braking spot and instead I was trying everything to avoid an incident Fun battle though, at times I thought I had cleared you only to look to my left or right and find you still beside me in your black Abarth.

First race on the other hand was a disaster. I came into the first hairpin at racing speed, then a yellow flag suddenly flashes up and Arnaud's car is in the middle of the track. Damage to the car, and I tried to pit but unfortunately the pits don't work 6 laps later, and I'm extremely bored and 1 lap down

Anyway, I'll take my 6 points!

Race 1 i got on the server late was having problems with the track it took ages to load
started from the back had some really nice fights and thought my way up to 12th ...

Had some great laps with Yves ,Paul and the last lap with Vincent was very exciting ..

Race 2 was a disaster i had a setup all sorted but i found the transformation from the Big alfa
to the slower alfa almost impossible i spent all the warm adjusting the setup so i could just complete a lap
was struggling with awful understeer ... Literally got a setup i was happy with on the last 2nd of the warm up ...

The race started really well and i took several minis my confidence was starting to grow so i started to push more but got to the start finish straight and hit a wire fence post and boom engine .suspension, wheels all dead ...

It was a shame as i was really getting the hang of the slower Alfa .

The track may have had a few glitches but i love it ... Hope we can race here again ...

Cheers HSO

The biggest boo boo of the race goes to a one Oscar Hardwick, for his very sensible overtake on me and Antoine, with a 30mph speed difference...

Jon Hicken wrote:

The biggest boo boo of the race goes to a one Oscar Hardwick, for his very sensible overtake on me and Antoine, with a 30mph speed difference...

I am so damn talented...

That said very nice day for me.

Race 1 : Starting from 11th and 3rd in class. Not ideal by any stretch but in the Camaro I can do no more that I have been doing recently. Anyway, I got a fairly nice start and managed to move in behind Jon and Antoine by the end of lap one and by the end of lap 2 I was ahead of them both.

Me and Antoine ran pretty close together for a number of laps until I finally broke away a little. Throughout the race I think we lost the BMW in class and on the last lap I passed an injured Peter in the Capri. Later that lap I joined in and got a puncture of my own a few turns from the end but still limped home for a win in class and 7th overall. FANTASTIC!!!

Race 2 : I didn't know what to expect at all from this race. Qualifying filled me with quiet confidence but the start of my race said otherwise. Falling back to 3rd by turn one I fought back through to retake the lead going on to lap 2. From there I got my head down and moved clear of JP without too much hassle setting a new pb of a 15.8 along the way.

All said and done this race went perfectly for me and it was nice to be on a more level playing field when I am now used to being on the back foot in TC1 on pace. Still, a double header at a track I really was not keen on. WOOP!!!


Thank you everyone for the good racing and very sorry Antoine for blasting down the outside in the first race. I had my first of many derp moments just then in that race.

See you all next time out.

Oscar.

Alessio Campigotto wrote:

I feel the incident in the first race was partly my fault, I was indecisive where to put my slow car, sorry

No no! You did very good but I lost my concentration by looking at your pretty car-ass slowing down...the Capri is not very forgiving at late braking and I braked too late so I hit the wall and had a flat left front tire

Championship standings updated on the site

Frank Verplanken wrote:

Championship standings updated on the site

Hi Frank! My good friend Christian Bergmann is german...could you chance his flag in front of his name?

Some great racing but very disapointing outcome for me last night.

In race 1 I was battling hard with Jon and Oscar, with Christian in the mix at some point. I was much faster than Oscar in the twisty section obviously, but tantalizingly slower in the straights. And since he was powerdrifting like hell in the corners, his car was basically covering the whole width of the road, so no way to go through Impressive driving! Just one WTF moment as Jon pictured above, when Oscar chose the outside to overtake I saw him at the last second but still managed to keep it on the road Eventually with one lap to go I smashed my car on the outside fence in the last turn, how stupid can I be

In race 2 I was considerably faster having got to grip with the track, and started 3rd. Lost a few places at the start, fought back to 4th. And got the better of Gui after a silly scrap, amazing shit! With one to go, in the exact same corner, I was confident I could stay in front even though he was not far behind, but once again I ran wide and disintagrated the car, same corner, same lap

Too bad, but I had good fun anyway, hopefully I can finish a race next time

Well done to those who were fast, and all those who finished

course médiocre en TC2 pour ma part
les points positifs je ne finis pas dernier et je ne me fais pas prendre de tour de retard mais je rate les points de peu
logique vu qu'il y a plus de pilotes par catégorie lors d'un meting à 2 courses sprint

la TC3:
bon depart de nouveau mais je pousse malencontreusement Jon Lasa avant le virage mais il se réaligne grace une autre voiture et à mon grand soulagement l'incident s'arrete là
en revanche au 2e tour je me fais shooté par Giusepe Saccia par 2 fois je le klaxon furieux! pas un plis il file....
je sais que je suis lent et n'arrive pas toujours à garder ma tuture (droite) sur la piste et que je suis un peu dangereueux pour ces memes raisons mais bon là....
je viens de regarder le replay et en fait c'etait pire que ce que je pensais
enfait il en shoote un autre avant moi sans meme chercher à l'eviter genre pousse toi de là tu vois pas que c'est moi le plus rapide et ensuite c'est à mon tour, apres une 1ere poussette qui me déséquilibre(déja qu'il m'en faut peu)il fini le travail sur le coté (t'as compris? quand j'arrive tu te pousse ou c'est moi qui te pousse)

le reste de la course: j'ai jon devant moi pendant une bonne partie (à une dizaine de sec) mais j'arrive jamais à me rapprocher je finis par me shooté tout seul comme un grand surement un peu découragé

en tout cas merci encore à tous et surtout aux organisateurs et bravo à tout les finisseurs en TC3 (seulement 9)
à la prochaine pour de nouvelles aventures

So, good morning everyone!

I fell asleep around 1900 CET, and woke up today 1300 CET. Sorry for that.

qualification pas terrible mais je n'attendais rien de ce coté là,

pendant le warming avant le course mon pied tape très légèrement le Pc qui se plante immédiatement, oups
grosses sueurs, le redémarrage est très laborieux visiblement il s'est passé des choses pas sympa coté disque dur

1ère course
départ correct, cependant je me retrouve avec des pilotes plus rapides que moi et je comprends rapidement que la patience n'est pas leur qualité première, je suis poussé , je commets des erreurs puis je finis en beauté avec un "connection lost"

2ème course
je n'ai jamais roulé avec la mini, je n'ai pas de setup, merci aux deux pilotes qui ont partagé le leur
cette fois ci c'est rFactor se plante,
je pars en queue de groupe, au début du 2ème tour petite erreur de pilotage, je touche et... je crève (je ne pensais pas que c'était possible)
dans les stands pas de mécanos, donc je continue
je fais la course en roulant en crabe, je roule moins vite mais je finis

vivement la prochaine course

philippe

une catastrophe pour moi hier soir.
dans la première course je pense pas avoir embarqué quelqu'un dans ma sortie,
par contre dans la dezieme course je sais que certain mon percutés quand j'ai touché les barrières
je suis sortie le plus rapidement possible j'espre vraiment que tout le monde est reparti
sinon j'en suis vraiment vraiment désolé c’était involontaire.

bonsoir
pas de soucis Jonatan Acerclinth,de plus vous m avez rendu ma position,se fut tres fairplay de votre part,merci.
sinon la course bien passer avec une bmw toujours difficile a conduire mais avec de l entrainement sa passe tout seul,bravo a tous les finisseurs et au podium,decidement philippe bousquet reste imprenable avec son escort,il est tres fort sur se mode.
a bientot

As promised..the pictures of both races!

Race start: turn 1






End of lap 1: Philippe Bousquet already in a big Lead






David vs Goliath!



Race start TC3 race



Turn 1

Yay, my little Abarth storming to the front on the first lap

Great pictures as always Peter!

Encore une très bonne soirée pour moi hier soir.

Lors de la première course je me suis senti un peut seul avec mon Escort.
Je comptais sur Yannick pour me mettre la pression comme a Zolder, mais il a eut quelques soucis et du coup, j'avais personne a mes trousses.
J'ai donc juste géré ma course pour éviter de me sortir.

Dans la deuxième course avec la Fiat, j'ai tout de suite vu qu'il aller être difficile de me battre contre les Alfa.
Je parviens a me qualifier 5e et lors de la course je me suis bien régalé a essayer de maintenir un bon rythme pour ne pas trop me faire larguer par les Alfa de Guillaume et Antoine.(pas facile du tout)

Merci et bravo a l'orga et a tous les concurrents.

PS:Désolé a tous ceux qui me parlent sur le chat en Anglais, mais sans un traducteur, je ne comprend pas tout, c'est pourquoi je ne peut pas toujours répondre.

Yannick Lampure wrote:

par contre dans la dezieme course je sais que certain mon percutés quand j'ai touché les barrières
je suis sortie le plus rapidement possible j'espre vraiment que tout le monde est reparti
sinon j'en suis vraiment vraiment désolé c’était involontaire.

C'est clair, ces barrières ne pardonnent rien, un vrai empilage
De mémoire, il a du y avoir Vincent, John et moi. Je crois que seul John a pu continuer.

Dommage, on avait tous fait ensemble un 1er tour bien sympa !

Yves Plaçais wrote:

Yannick Lampure wrote:

par contre dans la dezieme course je sais que certain mon percutés quand j'ai touché les barrières
je suis sortie le plus rapidement possible j'espre vraiment que tout le monde est reparti
sinon j'en suis vraiment vraiment désolé c’était involontaire.

C'est clair, ces barrières ne pardonnent rien, un vrai empilage
De mémoire, il a du y avoir Vincent, John et moi. Je crois que seul John a pu continuer.

Dommage, on avait tous fait ensemble un 1er tour bien sympa !

arf j'avais peur de ça

me sortir seul c'est pas bien grave mai sortir 2 ou 3 pilotes c'est une cata pour moi
comme je l'ais dis c'était involontaires, mai je tien a vous présenter toutes mes escuses pour avoir ruiné votre course

Peter your screenshots are awesome especially like the one of the start of the TC3 race that was mental

Yannick Lampure wrote:

comme je l'ais dis c'était involontaires, mai je tien a vous présenter toutes mes escuses pour avoir ruiné votre course

Pas de problème, Yannick !
Les courses s'enchaînent tellement vite qu'on oublie très vite notre microscopique déception !

à bientôt sur les pistes !

Oscar must have felt like this when driving his Camaro:

In both races i had too much problems of connection...too much lags...a disaster...that explains all...
So i apologize to all...especially to Philippe Marot and Cyril.