1985 Bathurst 1000 [December 7th]

Feel so sad at the minute, Was having a fantastic drive, the car felt great, had great pace was comfortably lapping in the 2:20's all through the stint, Entered the pits to swap drivers to Alberto, And some f****** AI driver hi-jacks the car and won't do anything other than turn right!

Really feel we could have challenged for the class win, but it not meant to be

Feel sorry for Alberto as he didn't even get to drive the car.

Thanks for the great support Alberto and Carl, wouldn't have been possible without you. We'll get them at the next one.

And thanks to HSO for organising this great race Can't wait for the next endurance next season.

Well, just done my second stint and handed the car to Ghovand, and we are having huge problems that we don't understand, the car will start the stint normally, reaching the usual 280 kph top speed, but after a few laps every stint, the engine performance drops massively and we struggle to reach 265 kph, and with no push from the engine our lap times are about 3 seconds per lap slower.
That problem did not happen in the first stint, but since we did our first pit stop it has been happening every time.
And now after this last pit stop a Stop and Go falls on top of us.
I guess it's the essence of endurance racing!  Despite having all this trouble, we're still fighting for the win against the Hungarian's Mustang, and really enjoying the race.

Ricard Suanya wrote:

Well, just done my second stint and handed the car to Ghovand, and we are having huge problems that we don't understand, the car will start the stint normally, reaching the usual 280 kph top speed, but after a few laps every stint, the engine performance drops massively and we struggle to reach 265 kph, and with no push from the engine our lap times are about 3 seconds per lap slower.
That problem did not happen in the first stint, but since we did our first pit stop it has been happening every time.

That's a weird thing in rFactor indeed.

To sum up, when you hit a wall, you can damage your car and then lose top speed. When you change the driver, the car is completely new. But even one little scratch on a wall and the damages from the first stint are back. Nothing you can do about it

We have the same problem with JP actually.

Martin Audran wrote:

Ricard Suanya wrote:

Well, just done my second stint and handed the car to Ghovand, and we are having huge problems that we don't understand, the car will start the stint normally, reaching the usual 280 kph top speed, but after a few laps every stint, the engine performance drops massively and we struggle to reach 265 kph, and with no push from the engine our lap times are about 3 seconds per lap slower.
That problem did not happen in the first stint, but since we did our first pit stop it has been happening every time.

That's a weird thing in rFactor indeed.

To sum up, when you hit a wall, you can damage your car and then lose top speed. When you change the driver, the car is completely new. But even one little scratch on a wall and the damages from the first stint are back. Nothing you can do about it

We have the same problem with JP actually.

It must be that then, because at the beginning it runs perfecty and suddenly we drop 20 kph for apparently no reason, but weird thing is, the acceleration is also actually worse, like we lose horsepower, not only top speed.

I'm not sure, but i think just had connection lost.

Ricard stay on ts mate, i had a connection lost.. my internet is acting up heavily, sorry mate this is completely out of my control , but i loved working together with you, everything went near perfect

Connection lost

I'll post the results later next week.

Martin Audran wrote:

I'll post the results later next week.

Don't forget we have side views for the results

Well this was a tough race for us.
Pretty awesome start from the end of the grid. Fighting to 1st place....and connecton losts are comming to many teams

Nice job by Dániel, and János, yep and by me

I would like to offer our win for our league mate, friend Ádám Pető, who passed away in brain fever, on this friday at the age of 20th. He was an enduro motocross champion and his motto absolutely fit here, fit to endurance racing.

The competition takes until the checkered flag.

Merci l'équipe HSO pour cet event
merci à tous ceux avec qui je me suis arsouillé
et bravo à tous les participants

Thanks to hso for great event,and we managed to finish the race

First a BIG Thank you to the Orga of Historic Simracing for this fantastic event.  

But sadly we had big trouble with rFactor during the race.  
At our first pit stop we wanted to make a "normal" driver change too.
We make everything normal but then after the stop we had suddenly two cars on the server..
After a moment of confusing we saw that Benni Steffens car was not in the scoring table and he left the server.  
After that happened he restart everything (PC, Router, rFactor)but at our next pit stop it didn't work again.
I could select Benni in the Pit menu but at the Pit Stop there was no "Massage that I lose control or he get control".    
We tried it again and again and again (every second lap, 4 times in a row) but it didn't work.
Than I had to drive my third stint and Benni changed at last his name in the userdata,  but that didn't fix our problems too..

We drive rFactor endurance races for many years, but we never had a problem like this.
We maked 20 driver swaps in practice last week.  Anything was fine..  

Benni was training over 200 Laps and of course he is really disappointed that he couldn't drive 1 Lap in the race.  


I really hope that you guys will look in the server xml  to see that Benni was there and trying everything to get in our car.



Regards Jan Titz and Benni Steffen

So maybe I'll write a short review for both SRPL teams. #9 Jag - Connection Lost. #31 BMW - Default setup loaded during drivers swap, so no looks for fast driving and boring, slow driving to the end.
Absolutly not the best race ever for us, but congrats for organisators, great event

Kamil Paczos wrote:

So maybe I'll write a short review for both SRPL teams. #9 Jag - Connection Lost. #31 BMW - Default setup loaded during drivers swap, so no looks for fast driving and boring, slow driving to the end.
Absolutly not the best race ever for us, but congrats for organisators, great event

Is it the same team who created the shaders pack?

Hi Kamil, I met you at the first turn. I was the driver in the car that you bumped during the braking.
Thx a lot to wait for me. For sure, it's the kind of spirit we love to find in the race.

Désolé Jieffe et Gérard, pour ce passage impromptu dans votre TS channel.
Et merci à vous.

Et merci à l'équipe Nicolas/François qui ont bataillé superbement pendant plus de 6h, pour finir avec un écart d'une dizaine de secondes. Bravo à vous aussi.

Ben different people, but the same portal

endu bien sympa en compagnie de coequipiers de chocs en la personne de Ben et Philou

belle bagarre avec la team  Sanchez |  Steimetz  pas mal de roues contre roues lors de mes relais

tres bon rythme de la team Coxon , dommage pour eux  

et pour finir une belle victoire dans notre catégorie

well done all finishers

Nous avions fait deux bon relais, puis lors du troisième crash de rFactor ... L'impossibilité de revenir nous prive de poursuivre l'aventure dommage.
Merci aux orga's expérience à renouveler

merci pour cet open qui a été très bien organisé.
J'ai pris beaucoup de plaisir surtout que je n'ai plus roulé de puis plus d'un an,
J'étais un peu lent, mais bon ce qui compte c'est de terminer la course sans casse et surtout sans crach
encore merci, a plus

Sorry for the delay, results will come this week-end!

Martin Audran wrote:

Sorry for the delay, results will come this week-end!

Grrrrr

2015 Martin.....for this I can help

Martin Audran wrote:

Sorry for the delay, results will come this week-end!

With side views?   Pretty please with sugar on top?  

Well, now that I've been able to cool down a bit it's time for a small update from the guys in the #22 BMW.


In qualifying I was struggling to get the laps together but in the end got a resonable lap in and was very happy to find out that we would be the highest starting BMW in the race


We decided that I would start the race and, as normal, my reaction at the start was close to immaculate compared to the guy ahead of me which ended in me hitting him. I'm terribly sorry for that


Sadly it caused damage to the front end which lost us a few km's of topspeed, topspeed that was increadibly important to us since we needed all the speed we could get in a straight line to keep up with everyone to then give them some preassure atop the mountain.


I drove 2 stints with a very nice battles with Steve, François and Richard, and after a few laps, Greg.
Or, well, to be fair it was them battling for the most part and me trying to hook onto their rearends

After doing quite a few laps, I think I did about 5 laps more than anyone else, I went in and changed tires and came out having gained a few positions (forgot to turn off damage? ). Drove as quickly as I could but sadly made a misstake which let Michal past about halfway into the second stint.
You did really well in the BMW, were you running Mediums/Hards and less fuel for shorter but faster stints?

Tired and with a hurting body I could finally step out of the car and let Jonathan take over.

Sadly he had a few issues and one quite big off meaning more damage and a long pitstop to fix it but as I said to him and Dave at the time, shit happens, you can just soldier on (or something like that, that was the meaning of it at least ).

We continued to drive around a bit further back after the off and then Dave took over and did a great job considering how worried he sounded before he got to drive.

Sadly, we hadn't finished an endurance event for almost 2 years and we were more and more hopeful to be able to do so but when there were about 6 laps to go, Dave had a disconnect

We all did a good job getting the car to that point which was nice but it's always frustrating to have a dc so close to the end of the race....


But, rest assure, if you have more enduros with these cars, I'm certain we'll be back, more hungry than before this event


Thank you very much for putting this event together and it was a lot of fun to do an endurance event again, especially with good friends alongside you


See you all next time

=> RESULTS <=

I would like to thank all the participants

I would also thank Vadim, Alberto and Carl for the 1985 add-on and Jason for the side-pics of the cars

I have a thought for the #29 Mustang, they were really fast in this heavy car and they surely deserved the victory (it was also a nice tribute for their friend).

Sorry again for the #52 Starion and for all the drivers who had troubles during a driver swap.

Sorry too to my teammate JP who did a great race which was ruined by my disconnection

I hope we'll see some of the newcomers again next year for open like this one (don't focus on the delay for the results, it's usually way faster but for this one it was complicated ) or maybe even for the championships