Round 1 - Coupe de Pâques [Jan 21st]

hi, hi, l'est jolie ma petite GTV sur la grille !

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Heureusement qu'il y a des virages, car en ligne droite, les gros moulins m'enrhument, et qu'il se sont battus comme des chiffonniers, j'en ai lâchement profité ! (mais ça va pas durer !)

C'est corrgié

Frank Verplanken wrote:

C'est corrgié

Merci Frank Content de te revoir !

Results and standings updated on the website.

Richard Coxon wrote:

then Roy caught my back end and spun me.

Never hit you until you were in a full spin. Nowhere I could go...

Thanks for the racing, awesome debut

Not including the spin, it was a superb race. It was pretty close and crowded in the bottom half of the top 10.

Pretty difficult race for me after a long while with no simracing. Was never really happy with the balance of the car and my pace overall.

Good laps tho, with Steve, Ben, Jukka... All were faster than me but a decent mistake-free race gave me 10th. At some point, Jukka and caught and overtook Greg who seemed to have very bad tyre issues, well worse than us anyway ^^ Thanks you Jukka for your sportsmanship, few occasions were you could have forced your way through and you didn't, class act

This series looks like fun unfortunately I just started a new job were I probably will have to work on wednesday nights, so I will likely miss most events...

Grats to my man JP, and to all finishers

Roy Schroten wrote:

Richard Coxon wrote:

then Roy caught my back end and spun me.

Never hit you until you were in a full spin. Nowhere I could go...

Thanks for the racing, awesome debut

Never implied you did it intentionally, i knew you probably couldn't help it.
Well done on your debut podium.

Richard Coxon wrote:

Roy Schroten wrote:

Richard Coxon wrote:

then Roy caught my back end and spun me.

Never hit you until you were in a full spin. Nowhere I could go...

Thanks for the racing, awesome debut

Never implied you did it intentionally, i knew you probably couldn't help it.
Well done on your debut podium.

Thanks Really enjoyed our fight, shame it ended like that

Great to see so many different cars in the top 10

I need to practice with the R5, it's a peculiar car that needs to be driven differently and setup correctly. I hadn't almost touched it before the race, but it improved nicely with some changes in rear springs.

Sadly I spun on the first lap while avoiding the crowded braking area and went back, then spun again stupidly (My error, too optimistic with the throttle) and lost contact with the people who were in my times.

It was a bit lonely after that, but Laurent had also fallen back and we raced each other in the distance on a bit of a "concentration contest". The race being just 35 minutes it was not bad and kept me on my toes

Very happy of my race. Qualy in 10th, I finish 6th.
Very rare situation for me, I was in front Martin, Toinou, Frank, and Greg on the finish line. Some days I scared me.
One of my best results in race with only one car class. Very happy to share a fighting moment with Jukka, Toinou, and Richard during the race. And to do interior to Greg was nice too. Thx guys to have let me dream.

Good job indeed Benny, you looked like at the top of your game out there yesterday ! 2015, the year of the Paulet ?

As for me it was a very pleasant evening. I was not planning on racing this year as my desk is not fit at all to host a G25 and my gfx card is slowly dying and usually gives me those scary 'blue screens of death' when I venture into launching rFactor. However, seeing Antoine, Martin and Yan leaving the HSO chat to go on the server at 8pm was too much for my mental health and I took the G25 out of its box, and set all the game's details to the lowest possible settings (DX7, no anti-aliasing, low resolution, basic details ). Incredibly it all worked ok and no grey smoke came out from my PC as I strongly suspected there would be .

Having not touched a wheel in many, many months, and with the odd driving position my desk implied I was not hoping to set the track on fire and in fact I did not . Still I was happy with my pace and had a good time . Spent most of my race defending my position and had some very nice laps with Enric, Richard W and Mick . Early on I was following the group comprising Ant and Ben, but a rather dirty crash recovery from Jan forced me into the grass and I lost contact with them. I don't think I could have kept up with their pace anyway, but that recovery was a textbook bad one Jan .

My main problem was with my sound settings which I didn't have time to set up properly, so I couldn't hear my engine at all when running with other cars which was not very convenient to say the least . But anyway I finished where I belong I think so it's all good.

Grats to JP and all finishers (i.e. everybody except Martin ). Nice to see many new names racing with us yesterday, all of them clean and (mostly ^^) fast drivers .

My start was very terrible, but i saw Steve suffering the same way with the FWD.
Had some nice/clean fights and a small mistake, so i ended where it startet. P5 was possible, so i'm looking forward to the next race, although i think the track is to fast for the Ford.

Many years since my last race with HSO!
It's true, it is here the good place to find a very good level and a good spirit.
Ever bad in english, sorry for that

Content de te revoir parmi nous François ! Par contre stp il faut absolument que pour ta prochaine course chez nous tu roules avec un player nommé "François Besançon" et pas simplement "François" Merci

Frank Verplanken wrote:

Grats to JP and all finishers (i.e. everybody except Martin ).

As I'm a conscientious admin I wanted to check if the retirement device works well for this new year, and it does

Congrats JP and everyone

... Je m'en occupe dès que possible Franck

Ma qualif ratée, je partais en fond de grille (25), pas facile de dépasser sur ce circuit...

De super bagarres avec Laurent et Benni Steffen au début de course, puis un long moment derrière Yannick que j'ai maladroitement conduit en tête-à-queue vers la fin de course... Désolé Yannick!!!

Dans les quelques derniers tours je rattrapais le "Mythique Admin" revenant Franky, qui n'a pas oublié les bases de la défense en course-auto... Ce qui a profité à Enric qui me passe sur la ligne d'arrivée de quelques centièmes de secondes... J'aurais pu gagner 10 places en course sans cela, dommage, neuf c'est déjà pas mal, je tacherai d'être un peu meilleur en qualif la prochaine fois...

Course très sympa, merci à tous (encore pardon Yan...).

Bravo JP et le Podium  et Monsieur Paulet

Merci HSO, à la prochaine

no problème Philippe
j'avais du mal a te contenir, de toute façon tu serai certainement passé quand même  
j'ai juste fait quelques conneries derrières qui m'ont coûtées pas mal de places, pas grave

En parlant de conneries, j'en ai fait une belle en début de course, raté mon freinage en bout de ligne droite et heurté (je ne sais pas qui ) mon prédécesseur. J'en profite pour présenter mes plates excuses.

soiree cauchemardesque pour ma part , et encore le mot est faible

comme d hab avec TCL je n ai aucun probleme en qualif , 3 eme position a 2 dixiemes de la pole en commettant une grosse erreur lors de mon tour . puis vint la course et la c est la catastrophe pour moi .
les 3 premiers tours tout va bien entre le 4 et le 6 eme ca commence a partir en live et a partir du 7 eme c est tout simplement la mort pour moi

mes pneus avant sont montés jusqu a 188 degrés entre le 7 eme et le dernier tour ( 188 avg et 174 avd pour etre precis ) c est juste impossible a piloter , c est comme si je roulais avec les pneus crevés , plus aucun grip sur le train avant , plus aucun feeling sur le freinage , plus aucune possibilité de réaccélerer en sortie de courbe l'agonie tout simplement , a meme potentiellement en devenir dangereux pour mes collègues

j ai beau tout essayer niveau set , sur les suspensions , les barres , les ressorts , le pincement , les pressions de pneus rien n y fait c est pareil , je sais que 95 pour cents de mon probleme vient de mon "style" de pilotage et que tout simplement TCL n'accepte pas ce " style " et j ai beau "essayer " d en changer , de le modifier mais rien n y fait et plus les pneus montent plus je me retrouve enfermer dans une spirale infernale pendant 14 tours je me suis fait déposer par l'exter , par l inter parfois par 2 pilotes en meme temps n importe ou le circuit c'était déprimant

je pense malheureusement qu il n y a rien a faire pour moi , je vais me laisser une derniere tentative lors de la prochaine course , mais bon sans espoir cela fait 3 ans que j insiste et que j espere mais la je suis arrivé au bout du bout c est encore plus rageant car j aime beaucoup ces courses et cette formule que je qualifie de RDV détente arsouille amusements du mercredi soir entre potes beaucoup plus que d autres champs que je qualifie de " plus serieux "

bravo a JP et au podium et jolie course de Ben et beau dépassement sur moi a la sortie de l'épingle .

Looks like Martin's side view is absent from the starting grid on the main website