Round 4 - Diepholz [March 10th]

J'arrive un peu tard ce soir donc absent pour la course ... Dommage, elle etait sympa cette piste

Really, really disappointed. This was the best chance I've had yet to score points at HSO, and it was over within seconds of the start As expected, there was a fracas at the chicane on lap 1; I slowed for the yellow flag, then almost lost it exiting the chicane on acceleration. Everything was routine by the time I arrived at the hairpin -- Then, Abat Hernaez punted me into the right side barrier. I pitted to fix the resulting damage, kept it under the limit. Then, I was astonished to find out that rFactor was not counting my laps! Made five or six tours, and the lap count still read two! It was clear at this point that I was either disqualified or the server had an error of some kind. By this time, I was thoroughly frustrated, so I quit out.

I would like the admins to take a look at the lap 1 incident, I think Abat should have been more careful with 65 laps to go.

That could have ended much better . I guess i was more tired than i thought Been working all weekend until this evening . Relaxed for a sec and the car got sideway and into barrier . No whisky for me il guess. or i might have one to ease my pain . Cya next time

Well that didn't go too well, two slip ups in the slalom and associated repairs put me too far down to be classified by the end so parked it just before halfway.

oh well always next time

God what an awful track and race. Too many chicanes, including the moving ones.
Oh well, that race was the perfect definition of a stolen win

Jason,

You likely entered the pits too late. Happened to me many times in practice. Laps do not count until you enter before the sign I took a picture of on page 1.


OK race for me. I knew I could not survive pushing as hard as I can so I aimed for 52 second safe laps especially on the chicane mid back straightaway. I never flipped so that is a small victory.

Edit: Cool I scored 2 points!!! Awesome.

bonsoir
superbe soirée,super circuit ,belle baston avec watman bravo a lui pour a voir fini la course.
a part que jp campajo ,me dit que je suis une chicane mobile ,mais c est le seul a ne pas attendre juste deux seconde que je le laisse passer il prefere couper c est plus simple,alors avant de me traiter de chicane mobile regarder vous avant.
a bientot,et merci pour la soirée

Alors la, rien compris.
1er tour, je tape et je crève, du coup je m'arrete aux stands, je perd donc 3 tours pour les réparations.
Jusque la tout est normal.
Par contre lorsque je reprend la piste, mes tours ne sont plus comptés.
Une fois la course fini je m'aperçois que sur le moniteur je suis dernier sur cause d'accident.
J'ai vraiment rien compris donc si quelqu'un peut m'expliquer quel est le problème, merci.

Bravo aux finisseurs.

Mike Becnel wrote:

Jason,

You likely entered the pits too late. Happened to me many times in practice. Laps do not count until you enter before the sign I took a picture of on page 1.

Dammit. You're probably right.

@tagli : Tu manques pas de souffle.
Alors tu commences à l'épingle en ouvrant en grand puis en braquant sur moi d'un coup. Ok. Puis, tu avais toute la ligne droite pour lever à peine et me laisser passer car j'étais à côté, mais non, tu préfères résister.
Quand on se fait lapper tellement de fois qu'on compte même plus, on peut faire un petit effort pour laisser passer les autres. Mais pas toi, à chaque course tu es une plaie à doubler, ô chicane mobile que tu es.

JP Campmajo wrote:

God what an awful track and race. Too many chicanes, including the moving ones.
Oh well, that race was the perfect definition of a stolen win

I wanted to steal it too

Looks like except Tour de Auto I can't win anything

I ran into Shaun on one lap, but couldn't really go anywhere, sorry. Then I had to avoid him again at T1 and lost 2nd to JP which was the race win too

Ah well, with Gui spinning right before the flag fell, I can't be too unhappy with 2nd

Philippe Bousquet wrote:

Alors la, rien compris.
1er tour, je tape et je crève, du coup je m'arrete aux stands, je perd donc 3 tours pour les réparations.
Jusque la tout est normal.
Par contre lorsque je reprend la piste, mes tours ne sont plus comptés.
Une fois la course fini je m'aperçois que sur le moniteur je suis dernier sur cause d'accident.
J'ai vraiment rien compris donc si quelqu'un peut m'expliquer quel est le problème, merci.

Bravo aux finisseurs.

Vous avez entré les stands après l'entrée légale. Tours ne comptent pas par la suite. Même arrivé à Jason.

Results and standings are up, they could be provisionnal due to Philippe's problem.

Philippe tu as fini la course donc ? Une idée de ta place à l'arrivée si tes tours avaient été comptés ?

Mike Becnel wrote:

Philippe Bousquet wrote:

Alors la, rien compris.
1er tour, je tape et je crève, du coup je m'arrete aux stands, je perd donc 3 tours pour les réparations.
Jusque la tout est normal.
Par contre lorsque je reprend la piste, mes tours ne sont plus comptés.
Une fois la course fini je m'aperçois que sur le moniteur je suis dernier sur cause d'accident.
J'ai vraiment rien compris donc si quelqu'un peut m'expliquer quel est le problème, merci.

Bravo aux finisseurs.

Vous avez entré les stands après l'entrée légale. Tours ne comptent pas par la suite. Même arrivé à Jason.

AH, ok
Merci Mike, la je comprend mieux.
en fait j'ai pas capter l'entrée des stand.
je m'en souviendrais pour la prochaine.

Good lord... the group-c cars are as mad as badgers to race Phew! ... and I don't think I technically finished. My readout said 15th place although I think I made it to the end. I think the server presumed I killed myself in a barrier. Not too sure these cars are for me.

Can I please ask if i actually finished? If not that is fine. And many apologise to you David, I was trying to let folks pass as well as i could, i fear it was my fault . Oh well, it was good experience overall maybe if I take any positives away from this race.

bonsoir
vous dites que moi je suis une plaie a doubler,je suis tres fairplay,c est que vous etes pas patient ,vous vouler passer a tout prix,vous vous croyer au dessus de tout le monde.
pour les prochaines courses c est sur que vous aurez du mal a me doubler.
a bientot en piste

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

Results and standings are up, they could be provisionnal due to Philippe's problem.

Philippe tu as fini la course donc ? Une idée de ta place à l'arrivée si tes tours avaient été comptés ?

je ne sais pas du tout combien j'aurais pu être.
Tout ce que je sais c'est que j'ai dépasser mr hutchinson 7 ou 8 fois, mais le chronos me remettais toujours a 2 tours derrière lui.

Shaun Hutchinson wrote:

Good lord... the group-c cars are as mad as badgers to race Phew! ... and I don't think I technically finished. My readout said 15th place although I think I made it to the end. I think the server presumed I killed myself in a barrier. Not too sure these cars are for me

LOL

you got pit entry screwed also. It is a bitch to pit properly. Note the early email from Gui, he was accurate in his assesment of F'd up pits here.

Mike Becnel wrote:

Shaun Hutchinson wrote:

Good lord... the group-c cars are as mad as badgers to race Phew! ... and I don't think I technically finished. My readout said 15th place although I think I made it to the end. I think the server presumed I killed myself in a barrier. Not too sure these cars are for me

LOL

you got pit entry screwed also. It is a bitch to pit properly. Note the early email from Gui, he was accurate in his assesment of F'd up pits here.

Is not so bad, I'll count this one up as an experience for the future.

Ludovic Tagli wrote:

bonsoir
vous dites que moi je suis une plaie a doubler,je suis tres fairplay,c est que vous etes pas patient ,vous vouler passer a tout prix,vous vous croyer au dessus de tout le monde.
pour les prochaines courses c est sur que vous aurez du mal a me doubler.
a bientot en piste

Mais t'as pas compris un truc coco. Tu es lappé, t'as un drapeau bleu, tu bouges ton cul ! Ca sert strictement à rien de résister.
Tu as résisté entre l'épingle, et le moment où je te double à la chicane. Et comme on peut imaginer que c'est pas au milieu de la chicane que tu aurais laissé passer, c'était soit je coupe pour te doubler, soit je te fous dehors. La prochaine fois je te mets dehors, ca fera une chicane en moins.

bonsoir
vue ton franc parler je comprend mieux ton comportement en piste.

pas très motivé à préparé cette course, je m'en sors pas trop mal.

absent pour la suivante bonne fin de champ

Course pas facile, j'ai bien failli tout gâcher en faisant un beau vol plané dans la dernière chicane Dans les derniers tours j'avais quand même 5-6s d'avance sur JP et pensait tenir la victoire facilement mais je perd toute mon avance en évitant Gérard en galère dans le slalom. Avec JP juste derrière je repasse au boost 5 mais je glisse beaucoup trop avec les pneus usés, et spin dans le dernier tour sur la partie glissante du circuit

Bon un peu déçu de perdre la victoire bêtement, mais tant pis, 3ème c'est suffisant pour être champion une course avant la fin

Du coup Diepholz devient mon circuit préféré, à chaque fois que j'y cours j'y gagne un championnat.
Bravo JP, David et les survivants
Not an easy race, I almost totally screwed it up when I went flying at the last chicane In the last laps I still had a comfortable 5-6s margin over JP and thought I had the win in my pocket, but lost all my advantage trying the avoid Gérard in the slalom. With JP right behind me I switched back to boost 5 but was sliding way too much on old tires, and spun in the last lap on the slippery part of the track

Disapointed to lose so stupidly but well, 3rd is enough to clinch the title on race before the end
So now Diepholz is officialy my favorite track, as everytime I race here, I win a championship

Jason White wrote:

I would like the admins to take a look at the lap 1 incident, I think Abat should have been more careful with 65 laps to go.

I don't really like members posting videos of incidents on the forum Jason, as usually people with nothing to do with the incident tend to give their opinion, and things can get messy. You should have sent me a PM.

But you posted it so I'm going to answer here. I don't think Abat did anything reckless here. You cut the track in front of him, going from right to left, and under braking you went right again. I'm not saying it was intentional blocking (I know it wasn't), but for Abat behind you it's hard pick a line and a braking point.

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

Jason White wrote:

I would like the admins to take a look at the lap 1 incident, I think Abat should have been more careful with 65 laps to go.

I don't really like members posting videos of incidents on the forum Jason, as usually people with nothing to do with the incident tend to give their opinion, and things can get messy. You should have sent me a PM.

But you posted it so I'm going to answer here. I don't think Abat did anything reckless here. You cut the track in front of him, going from right to left, and under braking you went right again. I'm not saying it was intentional blocking (I know it wasn't), but for Abat behind you it's hard pick a line and a braking point.

Understood. Next time I'll send a PM.
And in hindsight, you are correct, I didn't help matters the way I was using the road.