Round 2 - Coupe de Printemps [Jan 28th]

Nice evening, nice fights, somewhat brutal and sometimes ugly, but I had great fun !
I was good until I got run over by Greg, losing 7-8 positions and all the benefit of my fierce race (but no problem Greg, already forgotten, et merci de m'avoir attendu!)

I'm unhappy my Mustang is so fast, because everyone will hate me before the end of this championship
Next stop for me: Montlhéry !

Carl Larrad wrote:

Yves Hope it was not my fault ...

Pas de problème, Carl , mes pneus étaient "kaputt" !


Comme je le craignais, les lignes droites d'Albi ne sont pas faites pour la GTV (je crains le pire à Monthléry et Dijon ! Va falloir prévoir écharpe, bonnet et gants pour éviter le rhube !)
Qualif. correcte, à ma place, sans plus, ni moins.
Départ plutôt pas mal, je passe en quelques tours de la 16ème à la 11ème, un top 10 peut être envisageable.... au prix de pas mal (trop !) de risques aux freinages qui m'entraînent souvent soit en tête à queue, soit trop large.
Pendant ce temps, les pneus chauffent, chauffent, et c'est la descente inexorable au classement jusqu'à l'antépénultième place. Bref, c'était la grande illusion pour ma petite GTV, ce soir !
Heureusement, quelques passes d'armes très sympas... avec un peu tout le monde (en fait, tout ceux qui ont fini entre la 10ème et dernière place ! )

Bon, allez, pages jaunes.... préparateur moteur Alfa, voyons, voyons....

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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 think he was waiting for you, so he could have some battle at the top, but you didn't catch up quick enough. Probably too short race  Don't do that slow qualy again when he is on the grid, you will not see him again in the race

For me it was a nice evening, wrestling around my R5. Decided to race with a safer (And slower) setup and while sometimes I regretted it, overall on the long run it was the right decission with a difficult car like this. The beginning was quite fun, the R5 shoots from standing as if thrown from a catapult and I got to the middle of the field even if not pushing it too much in the busy grid (Left tires on the grass but two on the road ), then I let the quicker people go by without blocking and waited for someone who was in my rythm. There was some fun demolition derby with 635s at the back, and avoiding one that was rejoining the track I went out briefly and lost the pack (Sorry for crossing in front of you François, I relaxed the wheel grip to avoid the car entering the track and it shot out - The Maxi is a beast).

Then I had some fun with Carl and many laps at the end on a great fight with François Beçancon. Truly a gentleman driver many thanks!   

The Maxi is slow and hard to drive, but when you get it right and have someone in similar times, it is a delight.

Alberto, it was a pleasure to try to follow you Clean and fast! What a manificent championship!

Jean-François Bovy wrote:

I was good until I got run over by Greg, losing 7-8 positions and all the benefit of my fierce race (but no problem Greg, already forgotten, et merci de m'avoir attendu!)

ouai JF je ne t ai pas attendu , car tu es sorti de la piste dans le triple droit suite a ta bataille et un contact avec un concurrent et que tu es revenu sur moi apres ton retour en piste alors que je tentais un dépassement par l interieur .  bon ce ne fut pas bien grave car 500 m apres on s est retrouvé tous les 2 ensemble  dans l herbe au freinage de l epingle  

sinon résumé de ma coure de 4 eme a 16.17.ou 18 eme ( je ne sais meme plus tellement j ai ete ridicule )  tout est dit

bravo a JP  et aux podiums

mention spéciale pour mon petit Ben qui je trouve fait de tres belles courses sur ce champ , s il s appliquait un peu plus en qualif , je suis sur qu un podium est envisageable ( 1.15.7 en best lap race bravo  )

Greg Goissen wrote:

mention spéciale pour mon petit Ben qui je trouve fait de tres belles courses sur ce champ , s il s appliquait un peu plus en qualif , je suis sur qu un podium est envisageable ( 1.15.7 en best lap race bravo  )

Ouaiiiis, y' m'a fait un freinage de ouf    au virage du parc    !
Vexé, j'ai voulu lui rendre la pareille, je me suis sorti au virage suivant    !

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il a des arguments percutants : il arrêtait pas de balancer toute sa collec' perso  
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par les fenêtres pour distraire ses adversaires et néanmoins amis et gagner ainsi des places !

François Besançon wrote:

Alberto, it was a pleasure to try to follow you  Clean and fast! What a manificent championship!

Je vois que tu as pensé à rajouter ton nom de famille à ton prénom de player, merci . Pourrais-tu aussi stp virer les deux cédilles et les remplacer par des 'c' normaux ? Les xml de rFactor et notre site n'aiment pas trop ce genre de caractères . Merci !

Frank Verplanken wrote:

Je vois que tu as pensé à rajouter ton nom de famille à ton prénom de player, merci . Pourrais-tu aussi stp virer les deux cédilles et les remplacer par des 'c' normaux ? Les xml de rFactor et notre site n'aiment pas trop ce genre de caractères . Merci !

C'est bizarre, parce que pour Jean-François (Bovy) et moi, ça marche bien.

C'est OK Greg, je pensais vraiment que tu m'avais attendu, juste avant qu'on se rate au même moment à l'épingle

Yves Plaçais wrote:

C'est bizarre, parce que pour Jean-François (Bovy) et moi, ça marche bien.

Ca marche par ce que justement vos players rFactor sont 'Jean-Francois Bovy' et 'Yves Placais' Nous on peut dire au site de convertir systématiquement le 'Yves Placais' du xml en 'Yves Plaçais' pour l'affichage sur les pages du site, mais si c'est directement 'Yves Plaçais' dans le xml ça casse tout

Je loupe complètement ma qualif, à cause d'un excés d'optimisme au triple droite. D'entrée, je savais que j'allais voir la fin de la grille. J'essaie de pousser un peu plus fort, et me reloupe au parc. Résultat, je pars en avant dernière position. Et quand je découvre la grille 3 wide, au reco laps, je suis encore plus dépité d'avoir loupé ma qualif.
Sinon, ce triple droite, il est, pardonnez moi l'expression, bandant, quand on arrive à le prendre bien fort. Du bonheur en bitume. 
Tant bien que mal, j'essaie de me biftecker entre les voitures. Petit à petit, je remonte jusqu'à Yannick qui devait occupé la 13 ou 14ème place. En voyant un petit groupe de voitures devant lui, je décide en commun accord avec moi-même de bump drafter Yannick, dans la ligne droite, afin de grappiller quelques dixièmes (On gagnait quasi 10km/h dans la ligne droite), et de recoller à ce peloton, il doit rester 5-6 mn de course.
Bien, nous en a pris, Steve et Dave ayant dans le même temps la bonne idée de se sortir. Du coup on gagne 2 places d'un coup. Et on finit 10 et 11.

Yves Plaçais wrote:

Ouaiiiis, y' m'a fait un freinage de ouf    au virage du parc    !
Vexé, j'ai voulu lui rendre la pareille, je me suis sorti au virage suivant    !

Tu m'avais fait un intérieur "j'm'incruste" au virage du karting, m'envoyant sur l'extérieur, 1 ou 2 tours avant, et ça ne m'a pas plu.   Alors, j'ai tenté le tour d'après le virage du parc.  J'avais vu que tu freinais un peu plus tôt que moi ici, et c'est passé.

Quand au podium Greg, il me faudrait beaucoup de chance et d'épidémies virales, car il y a des gros bras devant. Mais si je peux accrocher un top 10, de temps à autre, j'essaie de le faire.

moi j'ai pas vue les revues de fesses distribuées par Ben sinon je l'aurais laissé passer

Jean-François Bovy wrote:

C'est OK Greg, je pensais vraiment que tu m'avais attendu, juste avant qu'on se rate au même moment à l'épingle

les grands esprits se rencontrent toujours tot ou tard JF ( bon ok la c etait en mode ridicule dans l herbe mais l intention etait la )

Yannick Lampure wrote:

moi j'ai pas vue les revues de fesses distribuées par Ben sinon je l'aurais laissé passer

J'étais trop occupé à faire attention à ton arrière train.

Ok Frank je ferai ça.

I didn't quite leave enough room for Jean-Francois' Mustang in the last turn and hit him in the door and went wide onto the grass at the exit. I was eager to get the power on, got the tail out and over-corrected into the wall

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

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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 think he was waiting for you, so he could have some battle at the top, but you didn't catch up quick enough. Probably too short race  Don't do that slow qualy again when he is on the grid, you will not see him again in the race

I won't do that again. I will push it on 100% next time.

Yes and as a general rule we'd appreciate if everybody ran 100% all the time. We're not too found of drivers qualifying on purpose way behind their level just for the fun of it, as it's always on the wrong side of arrogance, really. Just come and do your best, it's the least we can expect from a true gentleman driver.

Frank Verplanken wrote:

Yes and as a general rule we'd appreciate if everybody ran 100% all the time. We're not too found of drivers qualifying on purpose way behind their level just for the fun of it, as it's always on the wrong side of arrogance, really. Just come and do your best, it's the least we can expect from a true gentleman driver.

Sorry if I caused any problem with my fake qualy run.
Most of my overtakes were clean and fair, so I hope it was not that serious.

Of course, next time I do my best on the qualy lap too.

Well.... Now that I've had the time to cool down and I can't fall asleep I'll get this done as it was a very fun race, hectic, but fun


Practice and Qualifying:

I had very little time to practice due to school taking up a lot of time for me but was still pretty happy with the race pace that I could get out of the BMW, was just hoping that I'd do an allright run in Qualy.

Sadly this was not the case as, when I did what I had done all the previous Race Laps I had done in practice, the car understeered so I found myself out in the grass between Turn 1 and 2 and promptly span it when I tried to keep the foot on the throttle

So, last on the grid, could only get better from there


Race:

The grid was very interesting, very Bathurst-esk as it was very tight and it was sort of zig-zag like in the pattern...

Anyway, got a resonable start and managed to outstart the guys around me (sorry for the slight hit Alan, tried to squeeze between you and the wall, wasn't quite able to do so ).

Got up a few places, was very cautious on the opening laps and found myself in the low 20's by the end of Lap 2.

Cruised around for a few laps trying to keep the pace up and had a couple of small fights along the way and then came across Yannick having caught him and a couple of others, sorry but I can't remember who, which we both passed and then had a big battle over 15th or so place.
Yannick was slower in the quick corners whereas he was very good on the brakes going into Turn 3 (the hairpin after the long straight) and it took me many atempts, and two let-by's after failed ones, until I finally managed to sneak up the inside at the T3 and got a resonable run out of the corner with a bit of sideways action (sorry if that forced you to back off Yannick) and also, thank you very much for a very enjoyable battle, sorry for the contact that was made, not proud of myself for all of that

I now set out to catch Dave, Steve and, I think, Matthias who was having a nice battle in the edges of the top 10. (possibly someone else was in the fight but I, sadly, can't remember, there were so much going on in the race   )

With a handful of laps to go I finally managed to catch up due to their battling and I could hook onto and take advantage of it by running around the outside at the last turn and got by Steve by doing so.

I then had the tiny bit of luck, or something like that but I'd have preffered to have a fight, Dave and Matthias came together at T3 and I could sneak up the inside and go by. After this I could pull out a small gap and was on the way of catching Jacob but I ran out of time



In the end I managed to finish in 8th place, surprised that I managed to climb that far up the grid from where I started


Thank you to everyone I had a battle with at any point in the race, organization and so on, it was very enjoyable to spend the evening racing with you all again and having some awesome scraps  

Máté Orbán wrote:

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

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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 think he was waiting for you, so he could have some battle at the top, but you didn't catch up quick enough. Probably too short race  Don't do that slow qualy again when he is on the grid, you will not see him again in the race

I won't do that again. I will push it on 100% next time.

Or choose a slower car next time.

Dave Miller wrote:

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

No problem m8,it cost us both a top 10 finish,i had usual bad start with the escort which does not want to leave the start line,was down in 17th by turn 1 managed to claw my way up to 8th after some great battles on way,still managed one point for the escort

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

Máté Orbán wrote:

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

Quote :

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 think he was waiting for you, so he could have some battle at the top, but you didn't catch up quick enough. Probably too short race  Don't do that slow qualy again when he is on the grid, you will not see him again in the race

I won't do that again. I will push it on 100% next time.

Or choose a slower car next time.

Yeah.
Unfortunately I don't have a car in this championship, so everything will depend on who will miss the following rounds. Racing here was so much fun for me, so I don't care about the car under my arse. Just let me drive something

Máté Orbán wrote:

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

Máté Orbán wrote:

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

Quote :

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 think he was waiting for you, so he could have some battle at the top, but you didn't catch up quick enough. Probably too short race  Don't do that slow qualy again when he is on the grid, you will not see him again in the race

I won't do that again. I will push it on 100% next time.

Or choose a slower car next time.

Yeah.
Unfortunately I don't have a car in this championship, so everything will depend on who will miss the following rounds. Racing here was so much fun for me, so I don't care about the car under my arse. Just let me drive something

just read in the correct part ... My car BMW M5 n°9 is free
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Wow

Thanks a lot Greg!
I'm gonna put my hands on that sweet ride.

The Marlboro bimmers closer to my heart anyway.