Round 5 - Nurburgring Sprint [March 31st]

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

Standings fixed

Picked up a new FL when I put on Meds, awesome

JP Campmajo wrote:

Rocky Calabrese wrote:

Well that sucks. I guess you guys had a time change. Now I am an hour late and missed the start of the race. Next time please announce that there is a time change.

It was on page 1

It's not in the first post though. I didn't realize that CET would change. Can we use GMT instead?

CET is more convenient for us, it automaticaly adjusts with DST.

How about both? GMT never changes.

But I guess it won't matter now for at least 6 months. I hate DST. I really wanted to race these cars.

Well, pretty horrid race for me today (as all could tell). Car just did the most bizarre things from time to time. Would just plow stright off with no warning, and I swear I have never felt confident under braking....

Did my best to facilitate everyone else's. Gui-I think I overfacilitated when you nudged me.

Antoine-not certain what happened in turn 2 when I opened the door for you-did I mislead you?

During the race just prior to an open lap I said to myself "Okay, this is just not working. Make a conscious effort to be smooth..."

Really put my head down...and got a 1:01.6x. Now that will steam nobody's lenses around here, but for me, on a race set it was really quite good. It was worth the other 52 laps of awkwardness.

I will be sad to see this mod go, and sad I didn't have the time to fully take it in, for like that single lap today I think I really could have extracted more from the car than I really did.

But I know if I hang around at HSO long enough -it will come around again..

To all-thanks for your patience with my driving. Really hope to me more than a motorized pylon in the nearest future...

Good race for me, I was able to put some pressure on Kevin for the first 40 laps, the gap even went down to 1s at some point, but in the end my tires were shot and I had to let him go in the last 10 laps. Still happy with 2nd behind a fast Jaguar

Well done everyone in traffic, very clean on this narrow track

See you all for more Group C racing later this year

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

See you all for more Group C racing later this year

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

See you all for more Group C racing later this year

I made 1 major mistake: I decided to start on Soft tyres instead of mediums. I could have switched later in the race, but needed to pit shortly after the half-way mark.


But the start was troublesome: Samy tried to dart through a gap that wasn't there. He spun sideways through the small gap and I thought he had lost much time.

But by T3, I saw him again in my mirrors, braking much too late, I managed to open the door just in time and he drove into the cars ahead. I had to go off aswell to avoid him and had a coming together with Jan and someone else(JP I guess), sorry about that.

I tapped Antoine into the fast chicane while trying to pass him, I flashed to say sorry to him. Afterwards, I felt bad because he might have thought I was angry that I couldn't pass him

He later spun when Jason made a poor re-join and touched the left side of his car.

By lap 24, I was fighting more with my tyres as I had noticed around lap 18 that the front left tyre had already gone below 50% A total miscalculation, but at the last race, I was just gambling.

JP was searching for a way through and when Gerard let us through before T3, he went for it.

I covered, but the small push, blocking brakes and the immense wear on my left front made me run off the track JP went through and increased the gap. I noticed Jan gained a lot so I pitted.

I overshot my pit box and lost more time too. When I came out, I was right behind Kevin anf Gui. For the remainder of the race, I was following Gui and even scored by 4th fastest lap on HSO!

I finished 6th in the end, could have been 4th or 5th with a better strategy.

Qualifying was shocking, dunno how you can do 57 without crashing. I was hoping to beat Gui, JP and Antoine, but they all beat me

David Jundt wrote:

I covered, but the small push, blocking brakes and the immense wear on my left front made me run off the track JP went through and increased the gap. I noticed Jan gained a lot so I pitted.

You moved over towards my car under heavy braking, there wasn't much I could do I was already there.

"already there" = alongside?

I couldn't see it exactely.


Outbraking at that hairpin is dangerous though. Only need to brake a little later and run off.

After lapping Gerard, I didn't quite expect the move into T3 though

Not a great race for me, but I'm cool with the result anyway... Had a good start but overshot my usual braking point in turn, and collected Jan Titz, sorry about that mate, really am I let you through first chance I had some 20 laps later.

So as Samy had been striking, I found myself in 2nd place, with Kevin quickly pulling ahead and Gui right on my tail. He overtook me before long. No way to follow, but I could keep David and JP at bay, despite being slightly slower than them. The good run ended when I ran into Jason who was rejoining the track in a dangerous spot (sometimes I wonder if you even own a wheel Jason, I mean you seem to spend more time off the track than on it, and it's always a scary moment when it comes to lap you, it's been so for more than a year ). So then I was 5th, then the tyres were cooked, so the second part of the race was all sliding and drifting, with a few hairy moments

After David pitted I was 5th right behind Jan and JP, I could follow them, but made two mistakes which prevented me to rank any higher, too bad... It was arguably a very difficult track for these cars, no time to rest and the front tyres were taking a severe beating.

Well done to the winner and to Gui for the title, great fun with these cars, hopefully we have another nice enduros soon

Antoine,

What caused you to spin when you tried to pass me at turn 2?

Just want to make certain I didn't mislead you on the flash to pas...

No worries James, I just lost the car under braking Was having a hard time finding my braking point when following another car since it was on the ground

Antoine de Mautor wrote:

No worries James, I just lost the car under braking Was having a hard time finding my braking point when following another car since it was on the ground

Just glad you didn't find your 'breaking' point....

Cheers...

Oh It seems I only get just now the irony in your posts... If there is any? I'm not sure, what's your point ? If no harm was intended, please forgive my paranoia!

Antoine de Mautor wrote:

Oh It seems I only get just now the irony in your posts... If there is any? I'm not sure, what's your point ? If no harm was intended, please forgive my paranoia!

All in fun Antoine...

See you on the tack soon....

Quote :

please forgive my paranoia!

Knowing you a bit, it's the secondary effect of driving something with a turbo and more modern than the 70s

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

Quote :

please forgive my paranoia!

Knowing you a bit, it's the secondary effect of driving something with a turbo and more modern than the 70s

The Jaguar has no turbo, thank god! Bear with me though, I misread your posts James sorry

Back to preparing this year's Tour de France, featuring, VERY OLD cars

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Alberto Ibañez wrote:

Back to preparing this year's Tour de France, featuring, VERY OLD cars

As Old as me Or Older

I'm not giving it away yet

Antoine de Mautor wrote:

I'm not giving it away yet

Ohhhh

Antoine de Mautor wrote:

Back to preparing this year's Tour de France, featuring, VERY OLD cars

Good.

...because it seems I can't win any races outside of it

"la vie est dure"

"if winning was easy, everyone would do it"

Indeed, but don't let Chris Amon read this...