Round 8 - 200 Meilen von Nürnberg

finished both races 8th place...all I could do here, not my kind of track.

Quali: 4th, good

Race 1: Blasted into 2nd then gave JP some trouble - after taking the lead, guess who(!) demolished my defence and stormed away... Proceeded to have a titanic battle for 2nd with JP - this was interrupted for a bit when he slammed into me at the last corner. We then continued our awesome scrap right to the last lap... approaching the first corner, he's on the right, I'm on the left, he moves in the braking zone and WHAM! No more podium

Race 2: Good start, left Speedy Gonzalez and JP to their own fight, then proceeded to have a lovely fair fight with the BMW (sorry I forgot your name! ). Made a mistake, but got 3rd back with an opportunistic move when he was held up by a backmarker  Few laps later... WHAM! Clipped the inside of turn 3, spun and stalled Got it going again and pushed hard to try and catch Jan... Wheeee! I spun again!! Then I went and annihilated Peter to get back the 7th place which I had when chasing down Jan, could be worse

So, a battering evening of racing, hopefully the rest of the season will have less damaged bodywork on my car

Matthew Allington wrote:

Then I went and annihilated Peter

wot?

Fantastic racing throughout!

But first things first: I did a complete cock-up of qualifying! I crashed while warming up my tires! Stupid, stupid, stupid. Meant I had to start last!

Well, that wasn't a big problem in race 1. Because of the chaos in the first corner, I gained 11 positions in one lap. Then I had several very good battles on my way up. I reached 6th place, then there was a great scrap for 5th, until I cocked-up again in T1 and crashed. 10th in race 1 was okay however, I started last after all.

Race 2 was not as easy to gain places right at the start. No start crash, so I have to battle with everyone this time. It was a lot of fun! Some places was gained due to others mistakes, but they were not many. It was a great race throughout. Finally managed 4th, very close to 3rd. Very pleased with that!

Great battles on track, and very courteus backmarkers letting us by without trouble. Thanks everyone!

Wow I qualified way better than expected. And then got the expected tail pipe visitors

Race 1 was bad as I had my brakes set wrong. No idea why I did not notice that in practice. Spun 3 times.

Race 2 started well but I saw a hole that was apparently not there. Not sure if Mr Weber got pushed or there was a glitch. Sorry for mating with you!

Heat 1 was a disaster for me. Started on the outside of row 5, so I decided to swing wide in T1 to avoid any melee. That turned out to be the wrong choice; a car stopped sideways in the turn forced me wide and into the outside tire wall. Right front was now flat so I limped around for repairs and new rubber. Emerged 1 lap down for the inevitable blue flag extravaganza. At least I stayed out of everyone's way with no problems. 21st place after a spirited dice with some guy named "Frank"

Heat 2 was a different story altogether. Start was clean as a whistle and found myself settled into 12th by lap 2. Then a 3-car accident at the right-left bit promoted me to 9th (this time the wide approach worked). Had a fun battle with Ben for a bit, but then he streaked away. Ran 11th until right before the end when Mr. Ryon slipped by me. My tires just weren't up for a late race challenge.   12th place and more points on a track I hate; I'll take it.  On to the next round....

Aaaaah, j'ai oublié qu'il y avait une deuxième course !

Et bien, c'est ma sanction d'avoir sorti Richard !

Matthew Allington wrote:

approaching the first corner, he's on the right, I'm on the left, he moves in the braking zone and WHAM!

Yes, and you surely kept your line under braking

Jason wrote:

Ran 11th until right before the end when Mr. Ryon slipped by me

You can call me Gérard, Jason.Traduction Google,tu peux m'appeller Gérard.

Course 2: Désolé Jean-François,pour t'avoir envoyé dans le rail.

My car started darting all over the place on hot tires, then hit a wall and punctured one. Bull.

2 nicely races on this track that I rather hate.
I never finsished a race in the first part of the standings on this track, and yesterday 11th/27 in the first run and 10th/23 in the 2nd. Very happy for that. Some nice moments with Jason, Gerard, Jean-Marie, Richard. Thx to the lapped, nice behavior on the track. And grats to podium.

Mike Becnel wrote:

Wow I qualified way better than expected. And then got the expected tail pipe visitors

Race 1 was bad as I had my brakes set wrong. No idea why I did not notice that in practice. Spun 3 times.

Race 2 started well but I saw a hole that was apparently not there. Not sure if Mr Weber got pushed or there was a glitch. Sorry for mating with you!

Hello Guys, had a lot of fun yesterday, althoug my Races didn't go well, because i made two bad starts (but i never imagined to start from 2nd in my first race)

Race 1: someone hit my back in first corner, so got to do a lot of overtaking, but everything went well.

Race 2: I think it wasn't your mistake Mike, had a nice fight, but sadly i shiftet in first gear (instead second gear) at the moment i had a small contact, so i went straight right into the wall resulting in a flat tire.

I'm looking forward to Salzburgring, if a Sierra is free again. Next race i'll miss because of vacation in Japan :-)

Matthew Allington wrote:

Quali: 4th, good

Race 1: Blasted into 2nd then gave JP some trouble - after taking the lead, guess who(!) demolished my defence and stormed away...  

Race 2: Good start, left Speedy Gonzalez and JP to their own fight, then proceeded to have a lovely fair fight with the BMW (sorry I forgot your name! )

János Hegyvári the name what you forgot my teammate

Matthias Weber wrote:

Race 1: someone hit my back in first corner, so got to do a lot of overtaking, but everything went well.

It's me, I apologyzed yesterday after the race. Sorry, Matthias my brakes were too cold and I too. I slipped during the braking.

yo Balazs, I'm wondering were you got that speed from. Obviously you are a very talented simracer but for sure you must have an edge on us setup wise. Can you give us some tips on setup with these cars?

Peter Blom wrote:

yo Balazs, I'm wondering were you got that speed from. Obviously you are a very talented simracer but for sure you must have an edge on us setup wise. Can you give us some tips on setup with these cars?

thanks. ( Don't think I'm big face now, but I have [ and few other SIMCO guys] the opportunity to race in real race car but I need sponsors...'cause I haven't got 8 million FT ~ approx.: 26 euro a session in a suzuki swift cup. Hard to find sponsors in Hungary. It's just still a dream.
Little informations, Imre Bende is a manager at Apex Racing Team http://www.apexracing.hu/ and he is managing Gábor Tim as how he could. )

I like the hard suspensions in most of the mods, but this is not that mod.
(Norisring, and Nurburgring setup: I think the soft spring rate on front and hard at back, and 40/10 roll bar is good (for me its sure) 2 or 3 bump and 6-7 rebound front and back (depends on the bumps on the track.

I have a basic good setup, which is made at beginning of the session, so after few laps I know what I need to change in my setup. If not, there is Imre who is very good at create setups.

I had zero practise and was too late to quali, a good thing, i had my fun in the back and no way i could keep up with frontrunners here. I find the tracks uninspiring to say the least, it looked good and was fun though.

Also, it was good fun figuring out to whom to give the blue and who to race for position.
hectic stuff if u have blue flags waving at you half the time. Some intense moments swerving around wrecks as well, and lots of "trading paint" with the pack.

Thanks for that, Roadrunner - us Coyotes might stand a chance of keeping up with you now!

super première course, j'adore l'intensité du DTM sur ces petits circuits (foireux) à 4 virages
j'ai dû gérer les pneus et l'essence très tôt, j'ai pas pu attaquer comme j'aurais voulu mais ça n'a fait qu'ajouter du piment aux bastons

bon début de 2ième manche, réglages adaptés et bouchons évités, puis je me fait tamponner par Gérard droit dans le rail (no problem Gérard, 'fait ièch sur le coup, mais il semble que je freinais prudent à cet endroit aussi...)
résultat: voiture bien en vrac, j'ai continué quelques tours avec le volant tordu à perdre des places sans pouvoir résister, et puis alors stop!
les soirées DTM, c'est chaud-froid pour moi depuis la reprise, 'va vraiment falloir changer ça

encore merci HSO, great job as usual

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(Norisring, and Nurburgring setup: I think the soft spring rate on front and hard at back, and 40/10 roll bar is good (for me its sure) 2 or 3 bump and 6-7 rebound front and back (depends on the bumps on the track.

While on the server I sent my setup for anyone, and it was more or less like Balazs suggests. Not that everyone will like it, that depends. I know Frank and Ben for example like cars with stiff fronts because they tend to use a lot of trail braking and the rear sliding, but some aliens like Balazs and Pierre Closset prefer stiff rears in the car, especially at slower tracks.