1986 Le Mans Sprint [October 26th]

Alessio Campigotto wrote:

Qualifying was a surprise getting it into the 3:04's, Race 1 was great with a fun battle with Ricard and Race 2 was a mess Got too close to Austin, tried to avoid contact and swung right too quickly. Threw the car into the wall and spun across into Martin, huge apology Martin So disappointed with myself

Sorry alessio that was part me to, i was gonna let u by

Quali - Best lap hit by traffic...

Heat 1 - Excellent getaway! Then...

Braked too late for the first (proper) turn! From then on, damage made life difficult, especially when holding off one of the 3.0 Porsches  Then my brakes gave up into Indianapolis and my front-right got caught in the fence

Heat 2 - Quite possibly the most chaotic start I've ever witnessed in a league...
Admittedly, I was part of it too - I was caught out by how slow some of the cars were off the start and I took Svenja's wing off, then I looked in my wingmirror and saw her spinning round and oh.....
Avoided the carnage at turn two, then Steve blasted past with no rear wing! Then I was caught out with how early he had to brake and had a very lucky escape myself. Then had another lucky escape (and another 3 positions in a flash!) at the Porsche curves, avoiding the remains of another collision!
After that, very quiet race, made positions as those ahead crashed. Very satisfied with 4th at the end of that heat

Austin Johnson wrote:

Alessio Campigotto wrote:

Qualifying was a surprise getting it into the 3:04's, Race 1 was great with a fun battle with Ricard and Race 2 was a mess Got too close to Austin, tried to avoid contact and swung right too quickly. Threw the car into the wall and spun across into Martin, huge apology Martin So disappointed with myself

Sorry alessio that was part me to, i was gonna let u by

Np Austin, you held your line, I don't think you did anything wrong really

I think Matthew should be awarded a 1 race ban for displaying such Horrible Music

Results and replay are up on the website.

Overall standings here.

Sorry for the mess after the first qual, I don't know what happenned with the server

I'm not happy about the starts crashes, especially in race 2

Richard Coxon wrote:

I think Matthew should be awarded a 1 race ban for displaying such Horrible Music

I agree with that

Well I have to say that was the most enjoyable event I've done in quite some time, the car and track combo was always going to be good and a nice result for me made it even better

Went for a very soft easy to drive setup, with a bit more downforce and even hard tires to make the car more predictable over the run. Lost a fair bit down the straight (was 'only' doing 206mph) but I could hold onto and catch most cars I saw in the Porsche curves. which was nice. the car felt really nice to me too.

First race survived the chaos and just kept pounding round for 8th.

Did the same in the second and got 6th

I know I didn't get that on pace but I had fun driving a great car on a great track

Thanks to all for a fun evening

Martin Audran wrote:

Richard Coxon wrote:

I think Matthew should be awarded a 1 race ban for displaying such Horrible Music

I agree with that

Hey!!

Dave Miller wrote:

Well I have to say that was the most enjoyable event I've done in quite some time, the car and track combo was always going to be good and a nice result for me made it even better

Went for a very soft easy to drive setup, with a bit more downforce and even hard tires to make the car more predictable over the run.  Lost a fair bit down the straight (was 'only' doing 206mph) but I could hold onto and catch most cars I saw in the Porsche curves. which was nice.  the car felt really nice to me too.

First race survived the chaos and just kept pounding round for 8th.

Did the same in the second and got 6th

I know I didn't get that on pace but I had fun driving a great car on a great track

Thanks to all for a fun evening

Thats what its all about Dave Well Done

Dave Miller wrote:

Well I have to say that was the most enjoyable event I've done in quite some time, the car and track combo was always going to be good and a nice result for me made it even better

Went for a very soft easy to drive setup, with a bit more downforce and even hard tires to make the car more predictable over the run.  Lost a fair bit down the straight (was 'only' doing 206mph) but I could hold onto and catch most cars I saw in the Porsche curves. which was nice.  the car felt really nice to me too.

First race survived the chaos and just kept pounding round for 8th.

Did the same in the second and got 6th

I know I didn't get that on pace but I had fun driving a great car on a great track

Thanks to all for a fun evening

Nice 4th overall Dave!

Crikey I didn't realise I'd done that well

Great fun in both races.
Qualifying went very well, considering that i had to do it with medium tyres because softs overheated too much. Lost pole in the very last minute to Alessio, who pulled a brilliant lap out of the bag.

Race 1 was a nice fight with Alessio from start to finish, we were very close, but when lapping Joshua, he spun, I couldn't avoid him and lost my front spoiler. I thought my race was over, but the car turned into a rocket on the straights, it was quite a bit slower in the corners, but overall my pace improved so I could eventually win the race.

Race 2 started with a great battle between Balazs, Alessio, Austin and me, with Martin just a bit behind. Alessio and Martin crashed first and after a while it was Balazs who slammed the wall, so only Austin and me remained in the fight until the end. My car was quite damaged from some small crashes, and trying to follow Austin I had a bigger crash in the penultimate lap, so I took it easy and finished second.

Good fun, and thx Martin for the event.

Lightning speed congrats Ricard
Alessio did you swallow some nitrous
that Qualifying lap was insane

Yea that was a great race! My first outing in these machines and i did better than i expected.

First race was crazy, that first corner makes for a crazy start! I was just trying to keep pace with Alessio and Ricard they were blazing fast. Just tried too keep smooth so the tires would stay on the car and had some nice battles with Balazs. I was about 7 sec off the leaders on the last lap and the inevitable happend while pushing to hard in the esses, i spun a complete 360 and kept it going Luckily i was able to hold 3rd


Second race was also a crazy one. There was some great battles up front!!! between all of us. That was awesome. Sorry again Alessio i looked at the replay i did move down a little but that was to only let you around. Couple guys crashed and before i could blink i was battling Ricard for first place. Eventually got around him with 2 laps left..... probably because he had some damage, then i just tried to keep it smooth for the remaining 2 laps and it was a success

Overall great race some minor hiccups but its racing right.These cars are really fun hope we can all get to race again

Thanks HSO for putting on another great race

Merci, Martin, pour ton dévouement   , tu nous as fait passer une belle soirée !    

Bon, t'aurais quand même pu éviter de sortir    à mon poste dans la deuxième manche, en plus à l'endroit le plus craignos pour aller te chercher (c'est mon avatar qui t'a inspiré ? ), y' a pas pire ! Enfin, tu peux venir la chercher dans le sifflet un peu plus bas !

Martin Audran wrote:

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

Don't forget race 2 guys

Bah.... t'es la toi

Rentré trop tard et pas fait un tour d'entrainement

Race 1 went well for me,after getting through messy start had good battle with richard and Yves,was happy with 4th in end.2nd race was disaster,someone punted me off in first right hander at start which took my rear wing off,got going again and hit 222mph on mulsane straight ,then clipped kerb which spun me into wall and race over.Well done to Ricard and Austin great wins

Haha Yves oui c’était pour te faire une dédicace que je m'y suis sorti aux deux courses Bon pour la deuxième je l'ai un peu cherché, j'avais une suspension cassée depuis le contact avec la voiture d'Alessio et j'ai voulu passer à la même vitesse qu'avec une voiture saine Bravo pour ta 3ème place au général!

@Gui: oui je m'en doute, je te taquinais

Thanks the organisation. It should be better, but I'm sick, and I had a hard headache so the concentrate to this cars was too much for me.
Grats Ricard, awesome speed.

I made a short video from the R1. I would like to make from R2, but my fraps don't want to, so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loArLO6H_0g

Nice short video Balazs.
On which we can see a nice short cut from an yellow car.

Very cool event!

But i never get a feeling for this crazy car, even after some practice... no way So strategy was clear, floor it on the straights and try to get round that corners somehow

In Race 1 i could avoid all the crashes. At the end i managed to stay in front of Dave for many laps, well he had the slower car but it was good fun pulling away on the mulsanne and then try to stay in front at the corners But then in the last lap some corners before finish i spun without any pressure and lost that place to Dave.

Race 2 again could avoid the crashes but after some overtaking i couldn't catch up the racers in front did some lonely laps and crashed at about lap 7, did a full lap to get to the pit for some duct tape but didn't work out so i had to retire.

So over all a very nice comeback to HSO, i'll be back!

Ben Paulet wrote:

Nice short video Balazs.
On which we can see a nice short cut from an yellow car.

I don't know that guy

Balazs Kiss wrote:

Ben Paulet wrote:

Nice short video Balazs.
On which we can see a nice short cut from an yellow car.

I don't know that guy

Balazs Kiss wrote:

I made a short video from the R1. I would like to make from R2, but my fraps don't want to, so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loArLO6H_0g

Wow I hit that wall harder than I thought on lap 1. Thought I had collected someone else but I see I did not. Probably ruined 3 race seats though, mine not included.