Round 5 - Avus [June 11th]

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if there is a free car, I would join the race tonight.

Mark Barresi wrote:

if there is a free car, I would join the race tonight.

If I understand right, Didier's and Anders' cars are free for this race. Since #13 is somewhat lucky for me, I'll take the #13 and you should be able to join in Didier's #33 for this race (Pending confirmation from admins of course )

Yes, Mark, pick a car from an absent.  

Ben Paulet wrote:

Yes, Mark, pick a car from an absent.  

Ok, thx. I take BMW number 33 as Joshua suggestion.

J'avais oublié que nous étions mercredi.   
Est ce qu'il est possible de participer ?

Pourquoi tu pourrais pas participer, t'as déja ta voiture  

Cant join server, Says session is closed?

Race server launched.   

ça laggait et ramait à mort

Mark, Simon and Gerard.......Absolutely so sorry......Shocking!! I wasnt trying to outbrake anyone, and on both aoccasions braked much earlier, but something I struggle over, and that is letting off the brake when locking up....and the incident at the chicane, I just didn't have presence of mindto bail out and go straight on.

Shame I couldn't make Race 2

Race 1 was okay though, got a good start but then FPS dropped. Sorry to Roy for the punts :(I decided to part it after whacking the barriers in the chicane for the second time.

Oh well, maybe I'll do better if I get the chance again in future.

my pedal is not responding which costs me 10 km/h on the straight. No use racing like that sorry guys.

Shit that was a short second race, pedals support screw got loose and went out at the chicane   Car not really damaged but had to screw everything back in place and it was going to be a huge loss of time, so I decided to quit   

Race 1 wasn't going bad till I got pushed from behind at the last turn and was sent to the back. Had some nice scraps with other guys there, but was hoping for something better. People were really missing the braking points, but from what little I had of race 2 it was certainly much better   

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

People were really missing the braking points

This.

Race 1 was a lot of fun! Made a huge start from 9th, and was fighting for 2nd early on. Then I was starting to feel that soft tyres was a bad a option! Started driving badly and fell back as long as to 8th. Then my driving got better and I was 6th at the end.

Race 2 was a disaster. Made a bad start and was down to 13th, but fought back to 8th after two laps. Then I was became very disappointed at one of the top drivers that made a really, really stupid move at the chicane: he had spun and rejoined by driving off straight into my path. No idea to keep fighting after that.

Cya all next time!

I really enjoyed the first race, from feeling very unconfident to getting the right feeling for the car in the first few laps. I was not fast, but keeping it on the road and collecting positions as others had misfortune. This way I gathered my way up to 15th

For race 2 I forgot to change the geering longer on the car, and as I found out that I got distracted, braked waaay to late for the chicane, and wrecked the engine.

I will be back for the next race, I want more fun on a circuit with corners aswell :p

pas bouclé un tour de course ce soir
et j'aurai même pas atteint l'épingle en 2ième, plus envie
victime collatérale d'un coup d'accordéon/tassage en milieu de paquet, et d'une touchette malchanceuse au cul, je me retrouve nez au rail et j'abandonne... j'ai vu le foirage démarrer mais j'ai pas cru que ça allait freiner ainsi... c'est venu de la gauche, il y a eu une vague, tout le monde s'est décalé à droite sur ceux qui s'y trouvaient... une Merco noire repoussée sur Ben et moi par devant, une Merco noire derrière pour me finir, j'ai vite eu ma dose   
désolé Simon si je t'ai gêné de t'avoir gêné

à bientôt...  

I'm very sorry to whoever caught me (Jacob ?). I've been surprised by the early braking in front, and given the gap with the cars behind, I thought I had enough time to get the hell out of the racing line  

THAT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!!   

Great stuff, at least from where I was at. Shame I made so many mistakes else it would have been 2 easy 6th places  

Results are up.  

Very fun event   Lots of action, and a lot of outbraking duels into the hairpin!    

Race 1 I got through the hairpin with no problem and actually gained some places, but then I totally cocked up the chicane.  Face-planted an ADAC brick; my apologies to Richard for the mild T-bone that ensued; glad there was no serious harm done. Rejoined in 13th and began battling with Carl and Imre.  Was holding my own, but the medium tires then started to go off and I was struggling to find grip. Jonatan caught me with a few laps to go and we had a fun duel to the flag. Beat him by only a couple of feet for 12th place!

Race 2 I took a middle line through the hairpin and came out surprisingly good. But then came the chicane, and this time the car right in front of me hit a barrier (poetic justice maybe). I took a square hit on the nose, and although my handling was unaffected, I'm sure the car was a bit slower in a straight line. Jonatan and Gerard got by and I had to settle for 13th. Hard tires were definitely the better choice, though.  Will file that away for a future high-speed DTM run...

Great event! Thank you HSO  

Standings are updated.  

Jason White wrote:

...the medium tires then started to go off and I was struggling to find grip ...Hard tires were definitely the better choice

Say what?   

I did the first race on mediums and they lasted the full stint with all dots in green   

For the second I switched to softs but I had not enough time to check if they lasted or not.

Oh well, I know I'm slow, but still I always seem to use proportionally way less tires and less fuel than most people   

I had medium tires for the 2 heats. Always under 95°C for the entire races.