Round 15 - Japan Grand Prix [Nov 10]

Bah! Gotta pull out of quali, and at the last minute, too!
Will be there for the race, though!  

Can I switch to the Fondmetal for this race please?

Ok!

Quali launched

Started out quali using a borrowed 32 inch tv from our bedroom...it didn't help my time-I got a 1:42.xx.

4 laps gone...

Returned it to the bedroom and returned to my dinky 12 inch monitor.Got down to business and flipped it on its roof (roll hoop) out of the final chicane on my hot lap....

7 laps gone

Headed back out, renewed focus, but botched the hairpin. Now in the mid 1:41s

9 laps gone

Was using hard qualis up to this point. Swapped to softs and got ready for a final go at it.

Up until the carousel turn before the long back straight it was probably my best lap ever in this mod. Got off line in the carousel and on the power late may have hurt my top end, clean through the chicane for a...

1:40.088  

I'll be in front of a lot of guys I shouldn't be at the start. No worries. I'll be watching my mirrors carefully...

Always use your soft qualifying tires, Just be real slow on your out lap, Great lap, See if we can resume our race!

Well, I qualified.

Assuming 11 people join us tomorrow, I guess 15th out of 26 isn't bad

Joshua Anderson wrote:

Well, I qualified.

Assuming 11 people join us tomorrow, I guess 15th out of 26 isn't bad

The Fondmetal is a tough car to make speed in, Joshua..

and if past history holds true, just finish and you'lll be in the top 10. Lots of attrition for a multitude of reasons.

I meant 15th out of 26 for qualifying.

But, okay - I'll be sure to try and finish.

James Knowles wrote:

Greg-I hope you will be qualifying today...

Your 34.xx in T1 is just shocking..

I can't break a 36.xx to save my life...

here you have my hotlap 1.37.950 ( désolé je ne sais pas comment on regroupe tout sur la meme vidéo )

  bloody hell Greg! You must have big balls going that quick into turn 1, Im braking well before you and just hanging on! Well done on a great lap

Nice lap Greg   Can i ask u .. are u using paddelshift or H-shift ?

Tres joli tour Greg, on sent que tu maitrise bien la "bête"  

Quand je compare mon tour au tien, j'ai l'impression de rouler au ralenti  

Greg-merci.

I sat in on Greg's qualifying lap at the last venue, and I think a great secret to his speed is how very late he brakes into turns...it was beyond belief....but great fun to watch.

It was as if he threw out an anchor-at the last possible moment...

Sorry for the very late report but I'll be absent and I was looking forward to this race    

Good luck everyone and I hope that you will enjoy yourselfs

Race server launched

Race was doomed from the start...

The threat of watching my sister in laws newborn had been looming all day long, just never received confirmation of the exact time.

After the kids ignored several phone calls (communicating with them as I was trying to do laps-pointlessly) I was finally informed that my mother in law was in the driveway waiting with the baby.

Parked it...was looking forward to this one, but just not the time...

Woot! Great fun!!     
Made a brilliant start, kept it clean, great battle with Phillipe!  
Blotted my copybook by crashing at turn 1...  

See you guys in Adelaide!

Well, that went well...

I had no grip, my FFB failed, and I stuffed it into the wall. So, good race then

Just as I did the FL, I went off at T1 and crashed.

I dislike the behaviour of these cars when you're on the edge, it seems impossible to drive more than 1 lap on the limit.

I drove the LE '94 mod yesterday at the same track, and boy, it was so much more fun and nice to push the car. And even though it was LE, it never felt as weird as this mod.

I just can't seem to find a setup to eliminate the misbehaviour of my car...

That's the 2nd time in a row I crash from possible 3rd  

So that was that   Now i´ve had  enough of this Brabham ..... Its behaving like a woman to unpredicable  and making no sense at all  . 

Is there any possibilty to get my old #26 Ligier back for the last round ?

Anders Nilsson wrote:

Is there any possibilty to get my old #26 Ligier back for the last round ?

Team-mate!  

Did a Mark Webber and my car was not automatically flipped back over so...end of my race from 6th