Round 3 - Scribante Summer Races [February 5th]

Please tell me that the problem is my Ralt...   

Can I have the #20 plz?

 

Absent ce soir mais j'ai un certificat medical   

aaaaaa ...AAAA ....TCHOUM !

 

Présent   

Sorry, Going to have to pull out, gaming computer's developed some rather problamatic issues that I can't fix tonight.

Probably for the best I've been away from racing for too long, have t think too much about what i'm doing in the car

Présence incertaine ce soir...pas sur d'être là à l'heure   

After going through the entry list in "Entry list" thread to check what cars were free, my intial choice was the #5 car, but when I checked the Driver listing in the "current track" thread, I noticed the #5 car had infact been taken, and so settled for the #20 car. Then later on, looking through whole thread, I noticed the #5 car had been abandoned. Just to make life easoer for the powers that be, shall I stay with the #20, or would it be wise, from a competative view to, if possible, change to the #5 car?

I prefer the livery of the #20 car, but I am partial to Gitannes, and the stats look better. And so far I have a better laptime in the #5, though I have been fiddling with setups, so havent done any conclusive back to back testing.

Also, is it possible to remove rear wing from the center mirror in "roll bar" view?

Présent   

I'd rather have you stick with #20 Mick if it's ok for you

Race server launched, qualifying starts in 5 minutes. Pass : hso76

Good race to you all, I can't make it tonight   

bonsoir

un peu en retard pour confirmer
mais suis bienla ce soir

Rfactor plante a la fin des qualifs.

En course, j'ai beaucoup trop de Lag (à cause de la fumée je pense), je préfère faire échap avant de percuter quelqu'un.

Dommage, j'avais un super feeling avec ce magnifique circuit!

plutôt bonne qualif, je bats mon meilleur temps.  
petite erreur dans la derniere courbe, je me retrouve en fn de peloton, apres 3 ou 4 tours.
Je commence a remonter, et au moment de vouloir titiller Carl, le moteur qui explose en pleine ligne droite  
Dommage, comme le dit JMarie, le circuit était vraiment top.

On verra sur la prochaine.......

Frank Verplanken wrote:

Race server launched, qualifying starts in 5 minutes. Pass : hso76

Good race to you all, I can't make it tonight   

ah Frank, if you were there tonight....

That's one to forget Philippe was badgering me from behind as he had lost a few positions we touched twice into the last corner in the braking zone so i thought it safer to let him pass on the straight ... A little further on some cars made mistakes and i was making up places all the time  ... Had a nice fight with Pascal and could not get passed until Martin came along to lap us and i cheekily ducked in behind him and i managed to pass Pascal  ...

I held 12th place for many laps but as the cars behind me closed i made a stupid spin and unfortunatly for Philippe i was the car in the way again and we both lost are front wings ... Sorry Philippei nearly hit the ESC button but thought well theres only 10 laps left so i carried on a little further i see Philippe retired , the car was driveable with no front wing but then all of a sudden I Lost Connection ( and that never happens ) it just was not meant to be tonight ...   

I Liked the track but i found the fog and the brakes clouds very tricky to deal with ..

Sorry Philippe if i ruined your race  

Carl Larrad wrote:

I Liked the track but i found the fog and the brakes clouds very tricky to deal with .. 

I saw that during qualifying, so I decided to turn SFx off

Ouf, Rfactor a planté après le drapeau à damier...

Bravo à Martin et ceux devant pour leur performance !
Pour ma part, j'ai fait toute la course avec Yves et c'était chaud chaud ! Il était vraiment régulier et j'avais du mal sur certains virages. Heureusement, sans appui, je pouvais le passer assez facilement dans la ligne droite mais je commettais toujours une faute qui lui permettait de repasser devant. Il a finalement fait le freinage raté qui m'a permis d'avoir 1.5s d'avance à 5 tours de la fin: un boulevard, quoi...
Bravo et merci Yves pour cette belle bagarre de nerfs !

Tiago Malafaya wrote:

Carl Larrad wrote:

I Liked the track but i found the fog and the brakes clouds very tricky to deal with .. 

I saw that during qualifying, so I decided to turn SFx off

I Was going to turn mine of but i left it to late and i was worried i was not going to get back on the server   

It was actually quite scary i was half expecting a dragon or something
to come charging out of the mist at me  

Race results and championship standings updated on the site

Another race full of.... augh.

Binned it on lap 7 after spinning and hitting the wall. I'm starting to think I shouldn't be in this series to be honest - 3 DNFs out of 3 races is not a good thing...

Carl Larrad wrote:

It was actually quite scary i was half expecting a dragon or something...

  I guess that will be the discussion of the week   

Well, the driving/racing was fun, but coping with cars catching me up was a nightmare. I have my rear wing blocking the middle mirror in "roll bar" view and in cockpit view, the mirrors didn't seem much better. I figured, with "roll bar" view I had less blind spots, but in hindsight, maybe cockpit view would have been the way to go. Normally I do practice with AI to get familiar with other traffic, but left entry to this series 'til the last minute.

I hope I dealt with blue flags ok. I know there were a few iffy moments in qualy, but with the exception of one musunderstanding in race @ fast left hander before last turn, all seemed well? I was having to rely on player relative bar in vottom left and rear view button.....very distracting. I'm going to have to do some practice with AI. Letting faster cars by is one thing, but going it wheel to wheel with limited rear view......eeech!

Grat Martin, Tiago and Gregoire......and thx again HSO team

Edit - Watched replay, and from cockpit view, the ,irrors dont seem to bad after all. I have only seen them when they are empty of cars, asn assumed they werent up to much.

Sorry Vincentm it looked like I was letting you pass, then cut you off, I saw you from a distance a few seconfs ago, but had no idea you were so close already. Glad there was no contact, See above for poor excuse.

Bon résultat avec cette 4è place, même si la course fut assez ennuyeuse, mise à part le début de course ou j'arrive à coller quelques tours à Martin, Tiago et Greg (désolé pour la poussette au T3   )
Pour le reste de la course, y'a qu'à regarder la page des chronos hotlap pour comprendre  , 
Pas assez rapide pour suivre le trio de tête, mais suffisamment pour maintenir à distance un autre trio...
Bref, je termine logiquement à la 4è place.

Bravo Martin    et au podium   
Merci HSO, à la prochaine.