Round 2 - Coupe de Printemps [Jan 28th]

and a big sorry for that bad recovery after my spin in Nogaro.
Saw it in the replay and it was a really bad one.
Was trying to turn the car more on the left side but than I was suddenly in the middle of the track...

Jan told me, that Benni will absent for this round. (Marlboro Rover)

Can I reserve that car Martin?

Or you gonna do these things?

Ok you can have the #3 Rover for this race then

Martin Audran wrote:

Ok you can have the #3 Rover for this race then

I'll be around with the trusty 635

The server is up

I will not be racing as I don't feel well enough tonight.

Présent.

will not be able to race

Booted for mismatch, but the game never notified me I had a mismatch error?

Well i wasnt booted, but my race was over in the first corner, someone pushed me hard into the barriers, the car was a bit damaged

Alessio Campigotto wrote:

Booted for mismatch, but the game never notified me I had a mismatch error?

The server said "Vehicle collision mismatch", I never saw that before

Had some awesome fights after ruining my qualify (13th). 6th in the end, while giving everything to catch Coxon, just barely didn't make it, awesome run by him keeping it on the track.

Cya in a week

I was very pessimistic ahead of qualifying, but eventually I had a pretty good race. Lots of fights, and much better pace than I had expected. I didn't seem to hurt my tyres much either. All in all, I'm satisfied with this 7th place.

Made a great start and before i knew it i was up into 15th place from 22nd fighting some of the quicker drivers for a few laps until i made a stupid mistake on the hairpin bend ..

Had some great laps with Yves , Alberto , Philippe ,Erric ,Yannick and others .
I Spent quite a few laps chasing down Yves and as normal had some nice laps with my usual friend Philippe
I Was sorry for Yves near the end of the race i think he let me though as i was getting closer but i think we where both struggling for grip and he spun  
Yves Hope it was not my fault ...

Thanks All very nice racing
congrats all finishers

Alberto that R5 seemed very quick in a straight line

Martin Audran wrote:

Alessio Campigotto wrote:

Booted for mismatch, but the game never notified me I had a mismatch error?

The server said "Vehicle collision mismatch", I never saw that before

I have no idea, I have the Production 85 and 635i fix installed so I don't think I'm missing any files? I think this problem happens when there is a missing or edited .veh that appears on the server which the player does not have :/

Alessio Campigotto wrote:

Martin Audran wrote:

Alessio Campigotto wrote:

Booted for mismatch, but the game never notified me I had a mismatch error?

The server said "Vehicle collision mismatch", I never saw that before

I have no idea, I have the Production 85 and 635i fix installed so I don't think I'm missing any files? I think this problem happens when there is a missing or edited .veh that appears on the server which the player does not have :/

Do you also have all the default files that you need? As in the main TCL mod installed?


I'll have a thinking time about it and see if I can come up with any other reasons for that to appear, I've seen it before and it's usually due to a missing vehicle file of some sort....


Race Report will come a bit later tonight, need to cool down with a bit of Soda first, that was a hard job keeping the pace up and the car on the track

Results are up

Richard Coxon wrote:

Results are up

Well done Bud

Richard Coxon wrote:

Results are up

!!! Absolutely great race !!!

Qualifying was great, never expected to be at the front end, but i expected a bad race beacause of missing power.
Had a very bad start again (i think i have to live with it for the rest auf the season...) from P5 to P13.

After some laps i could close the gap and had stunning fights with all of you guys from P7 to P13.

I hope there will be no less fun at the next race, because:

!!! Absolutely great race !!!

Merci, ce était super!

Apologies To Steve for my ham fisted overtaking attempt right at the end, I didn't mean to run us off the road I just couldn't get the rover turned in enough, really sorry for that.

Would have been a great race otherwise, had a good qualifying lap by my standards and a really intense touring car race for 34 out of 35 mins.

Think i'm starting to finally get the hang of the Rover so looking forward to the next one to try and get it right

I saw the lap times on the hotlap list.
I was the first with a 14.1

The 2nd fastest Rover was 5 tenths slower and Martin wrote, that he won't compete in this round.
So I decided to do a bad qualy lap...I didn't want to drive alone for 28 laps.
This was a bit optimistic... , becasue JP had a really good pace.

Started from 21st place. The grid was full of cars, but somehow, I managed to pass a lot.
This track was suited perfectly to the Rover, so there was no need to do any risky moves.
I tried to pass everybody with better momentum and better exiting from corners.
It worked well, all of my overtakes were clean (hope so... ).

Had a nice little battle with Richard for the 3rd place. Than he made a mistake and I passed him.
Jan let me through with an early braking...basicly, he gave me his 2nd place. Why Jan, why?
I expected some great battle...

There was only one more opponent to the top. The gap was around 7 secs. between JP and me.
I thought, that it will be an easy job to catch him. But for some reason, it was really hard to kill that gap. I had 14-15 laps to catch JP, but he did great lap times (14.7-15.1).
Maybe my medium tires gave up or simply just this was the maximum for me.
Finally, I managed to reduce the gap from 7 to 3 secs.

Anyway, this was great fun, I did nice overtakes.
Well done to the field! Everybody behaved well against me. It's good to race against clean and fair drivers.
Congrats to JP for the win and congrats to Jan for the 3rd place.
Also congrats to Jonatan (my OSR teammate) for the great climb up!

Thank you Martin for the organisation!

I hope, there will be a free seat for me for the next round too.