JTCC 1988 - Sugo 300 Km [May 26th]

Alberto will start for us.

je n ai jamais reussi a me mettre dans le rythme , mal aux yeux , pas de plaisir je prefere faire echap , la fatigue surement merci Ben pour ce chouette open , bravo a tous les finisseurs et les vainqueurs

Wow that was hard race for me ... as I had suspected the setup was going to be too understeery once the tires lost grip, and so it happened. Kept up well with Joel and the guys for some good laps, but then started cooking tires and the softs simply stopped working, giving me horrible push on corners. Had to lift and go much slower, and couldn't even defend from Jonathan with his Supra, or even make the best of his errors (Apologizes if you felt I went wide on T1, tried to leave you more room but the car would not cooperate). The car simply refused to turn in and even abruptly lifting when the nose was pointed in didn't make it slide to make the turn. It was really painful driving and I didn't enjoy it at all

Apologizes also to Tiago while lapping me, signalled you with lights to pass but you rear ended me instead of moving left for the inside as I had expected.

Anyway, gave the car to Mike without damage (Apart from some scratches from being rear ended) and without having been out of the asphalt even once, which was my objective. Had I been driving alone, I would have fought harder at the start of the race, but sharing a car you feel responsable for allowing the other co-driver his share of race, so I did not want to push my luck. When I come back to the BTCC in Donington, now that will be something different

Thxs as always HSO for the organization.

Results are up

it was great! but i had a big mistake, i fell into a hole (bug) and i got a puncture. i tried to run the best lap in last laps, but i was too slow for it

Ricard Suanya wrote:

Well, I'm very happy with my lap, third place, only behind the unbeatable Sierras.

beaten - tick


I didn't expected this. I thought i will get a third or fourth place, but i won

Truly sorry if I seriously someone prevented! I tried to behave more adequately, however monstrous excitement near the opponent's car did its job. Nonetheless me today was acquired important experience, which I still severely lacking. Thanks to everyone for the interesting race !
My congratulations to the winners !

Gara andata malissimo.
Ho faticato tanto, fatto moltissime prove, ma non sono riuscito a trovare un set up adatto al mio stile di guida.. Per la gara ho provato a fare una modifica dell'ultimo minuto ma la ho clamorosamente sbagliata..
Macchina allucinante ... incontrollabile..Dopo tantissimi errori , ho deciso che era il caso di premere esc..
Guillaume una domanda.. non si potrebbero aumentare le M3 o le Mercedes 190 per la prossima gara o aggiungere le Bmw 635?
Vorrei partecipare alla prossima gara del TCL HSO..ma di certo eviterò la Sierra..proprio non riesco a guidarla..
Grazie in ogni caso, correre con voi è sempre un piacere.

Race gone bad.
I worked so hard, did a lot of tests, but I could not find a set-up suited to my driving style .. For the race I tried to make a last minute change but I blatantly wrong ..
Car hallucinating ... uncontrollable .. After many mistakes, I decided it was time to press esc ..
Guillaume a question .. you could increase the M3 or the Mercedes 190 for the next race or add Bmw 635?
I would like to participate in the next round of the TCL HSO .. but of course I will avoid the Sierra .. I just can not drive it ..
Thanks in any case, running with you is always a pleasure.

Thanks to the HSO Admin team,It was my second RFactor race.I had a fun,Crashed and got lapped so many times i lost count,Hopefully i didnt cause much of a rolling roadblock & got out of most peoples way

I had great fun racing with the bigger cars during my stint, then handed the wheel to Ben and had great fun commentating his driving style

I want to begin with a big sorry to Alberto and Mike. It was me who rear ended you when I missjudged at which speed you would take the corner before the corner leading onto the back straight and I unfortunately didn't have time to react and avoid you as I was climbing the curbs with almost the whole car and jumping onto the tarmac


Apart from that it was a fairly lonely but fun drive around a terrific track

Had a great start jumping a couple Boffa in the Sierra and 1 or 2 GrB cars as well so I'm very happy with that.

After a few laps I ended up in a great battle with Jean-François, Joël and Albert with Frank not that far behind in his Supra. I decided, that as it was for overall position, that I wouldn't let everyone past but battle for the postition as I knew that my racepace wasn't as strong as many of the competitiors (not enough laps to get a good enough set going) and I was defending hard, but as far as I could work out during the race, fair to try and keep my position with a few small "hurry alongs" (light taps midcorner where the Supra wasn't very strong) from Fean-François and once from Joël before, after Joël had been able to pass Jean-François when he got slightly held up by me, he missjudged my midcorner speed at the tight right hander after the backstraight and sent me spinning onto the infield.
With no speed to talk about I couldn't do a thing to stop the spin and I was sitting there reading a book waiting for it to stop

After that I was trying to drive as quickly as I could but couldn't catch up to the group ahead but managed to catch Albert after his tires were gone and had a few laps with very good battles with him, both before and after the incident mentioned first in this post, happened.

Well done to all the lappers I came accross as well, mainly Vadim and Lee, both did a very good job at making sure to get out of the way of anyone lapping them. Brilliant work

As for me I hope that I didn't hold anyone up too much. Was still trying to go as quickly as possible hoping that I would start catching up to the guys ahead so might have been a bit overambitious with waiting until the lapper got close enough

Was good fun throwing these TCL cars around this track which I haven't driven before now but deffinitly is among the best I've driven with these cars. No where near Lakeside, Mount Panorama or Wellington, but absolutely among the top 10's

Well done to everyone that took part, it wasn't an easy race


Hope to see you all next time and with a lot more of the battles I saw during the opening laps

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

Apologizes also to Tiago while lapping me, signalled you with lights to pass but you rear ended me instead of moving left for the inside as I had expected.

It was a misunderstanding from us both I guess; while you were signaling me to pass I was already at your right side, if I tried to go to the right side, it would be suicide, but nevermind; a normal racing incident, I wasn't even angry about it

Per Alberto the car was pushier than I expected. Offline it seemed much more balanced. My only real mistakes were minor pushes off track when using my practice brake points. Still, it was a clean race and I kept the spot I was handed by Alberto. I never touched anything which was a miracle by itself. Fun race and big hats off to the guys who drove the whole race. Iron men!

Hi! Sorry, I could not start in the race, my net connection was totally gone 15 mins earlier than the race start. It's quite annoying for me, because I really looked forward to this race... Next time, I hope I get more luck (or more kB/s )

Btw, congrat to all!

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

I had great fun racing with the bigger cars during my stint, then handed the wheel to Ben and had great fun commentating his driving style

Nice race with a podium to finish. Thanks Gui to have done the biggest part of work. And thx for your driving lesson by TS.
Still thx to all the drivers, nice behaviour on the track, and good spirit.
Gratz to Balazs for your win.
Some very nice battle to watch with Ricard, Tiago and Gui.

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Per Alberto the car was pushier than I expected. Offline it seemed much more balanced. My only real mistakes were minor pushes off track when using my practice brake points.

And you were lucky to do the 2nd stint, as I gave you the car with mediums I had destroyed my softs by lap 17 of 40 in my own stint

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want to begin with a big sorry to Alberto and Mike. It was me who rear ended you when I missjudged at which speed you would take the corner before the corner leading onto the back straight and I unfortunately didn't have time to react and avoid you as I was climbing the curbs with almost the whole car and jumping onto the tarmac

No problem mate somehow I saw it coming ... you had to drive the sh*t out of the Supra and I had an undriveable car already, so it was a matter of time before the huge difference in cornering style/speed brought us together. That's racing

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It was a misunderstanding from us both I guess; while you were signaling me to pass I was already at your right side, if I tried to go to the right side, it would be suicide, but nevermind; a normal racing incident, I wasn't even angry about it

Thxs, relieved to hear that It didn't help eother that we were into a series of corners with little space between them, and I had to drive, keep my line, check the mirrors and loose a hand from the steering wheel to activate lights and signal you the pass. I happened to do it and slow a bit to facilitate things while you were already committed to pass on the other side

j'avais vraiment pas le setup pour aller loin. En qualifs, ça a fait un peu illusion, mais en course, après 10 tours seulement, l’arrière voulait passer devant dans tous les virages.
En tout cas, j'ai regardé l'essentiel de la course et je me suis régalé Merci Ben pour l'organisation

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No problem mate somehow I saw it coming ... you had to drive the sh*t out of the Supra and I had an undriveable car already, so it was a matter of time before the huge difference in cornering style/speed brought us together. That's racing

Ok.

No worries for our T1 contact, it didn't cause any damage, just more fun

I hope that I made up for the contact with the racing I gave you prior and after that contact and that you enjoyed the driftshow as I was drifting and sliding quite a bit during the last few laps

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

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It was a misunderstanding from us both I guess; while you were signaling me to pass I was already at your right side, if I tried to go to the right side, it would be suicide, but nevermind; a normal racing incident, I wasn't even angry about it

I meant left side

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I meant left side

I knew the accident was caused by your dislexia, and driving a british car with the driver at the wrong side wouldn't certainly help

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hope that I made up for the contact with the
racing I gave you prior and after that contact and that you enjoyed the
driftshow as I was drifting and sliding quite a bit during the last few
laps

Sure

My strategy worked great after all.

Great start and jumped right into the pack. After I had cleared most cars, I was 10th. I was chasing Greg and Roma was chasing me. I caught Greg when he made a mistake, he'd end up battling with Roma(giving me over 15s advantage) and retire in the end

I rose as high as 2nd through the pit stops, I made it to lap 60 on full tank and decided to put on Softs. It worked very well as I was hounding Ben and Antoine just laps later. I overtook Ben when he made a mistake, but had a great battle with Antoine before I managed to get by and extend my gap to him.

4th place is better than expected, but I wasn't the one shining in Class B... we were all destroyed

Thanks for the event!

mes excuses à Jonatan qui m'a touchette l'a fait spiné vraiment desole... l'arsouille fut trop court, j'espere que tu ne m'en voudras pas d'etre reparti aussitot
sinon, ma course j'ai donné ce que je pouvais pour un resultat mediocre. tiens je ne comprend pas pourquoi je n'avais pas la possibilité de mettre la 6 dans mon setup comparé à certaine bm
mais bon c'est pas une excuse, c'est mon niveau qui fait ce que je suis sur piste, mais je me suis bien amusé et j'ai tenu jusqu'au bout les 2heures passées

impressionnant Balazs, 2 podiums ce soir là pour lui non?

Non seul le classement par classe compte

Medium tires? No wonder i pushed so much in the turns ! I guess my lines were easier on the tires. I did 3 full runs in practice on softs and they did well.

Joel Sixou wrote:

mes excuses à Jonatan qui m'a touchette l'a fait spiné vraiment desole... l'arsouille fut trop court, j'espere que tu ne m'en voudras pas d'etre reparti aussitot

No need to worry Joël, it was an honest misstake

At the time it happened I wasn't happy though

I was very slow midcorner due to my setup and you hadn't been behind me enough to know what speed I was going to have