Round 10 - Toronto Indy Grand Prix [July 5th]

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Greg Goissen wrote:

présent ou pas ( dependra de si on me propose un programme que je jugerai plus sympa  ou pas ...  )

j ai ma reponse  je n arrive vraiment pas a me faire a la puissance de ces caisses en pneus froids et le plein , au start , sortie du V1   2 spins evites de justesse sur l acceleration, je perds 3 places , me colle dans l aspi du 3 eme qui me tasse severe dans le mur a l entree du V3 .... SC du a un crash derriere qui me permet de pitter pour faire reparer ( suspension arriere droite jaune ) mais ca ne la pas repare , de la voiture tres instable de l arriere , je repars dans les derniers , remontre tres vite 3 puis surpris par le message d un nouveau YELLOW , je touche legerement les pneus a l avant dernier virage , je creve mon arriere gauche et la stupidité du jeu " interdicition de pitter puits fermés et message driving too slow auquel je ne peux rien faire du a mon pneu creve....? donc je pit quand meme et la de nouveau penalité pour avoir pitter puit fermé mais impossible pour moi d accomplir un tour complet , pneu crevé et avec le message driving too slow .... abandon fin de soiree pour moi

seul point interessant de la soiree ma 65 eme pole

My apologies to Dave Miller. I tried to avoid your car, but could not make it. I will retire from this series. 2 mistakes in 2 races that affected other drivers is too much.

WIN THE RACE ON THE FIRST LAP!

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that is not a good strategy. My car was a bit of a handful after that melee. Then I made a silly mistake under caution, which totally screwed the car. Lasted about 40 laps.

Good luck everyone else, and hope to see bigger grids after the summer break!

Don't worry Arturo, Incidents happen sometimes, I should Probably apologise to Jason If I pull out on you in the first yellow, I looked up the track but obviously didn't see you coming.

For myself I'm left wanting more, so i'll be looking for another car for the rest of the season.

Well... few things..

First, my appoligies to somebody I hit, from the back, on the hair-pin.. Im not having your names "on", so I dont know who it was, I think I blew you rear tire... I started to brake even before you, but somehow, you slowed down more sooner.. I tried to avoid..

Second, it is really incredible what some drivers are doing during the pace lap, before the start, and during yellow flags... I was hit from behind in the opening lap, com'on!!! Its rather frustrating when you have to be more worried during the yellows than in the race!

And third, An idiot I am.
from 5th to 4th instead 6th, and then to make it sure, to 3rd gear.. my sweat was dripping in my eyes, i tried to to wipe it with one hand, and hold the wheel and upshift with the other...  which reminds me on an P.W.Long Mules song, which sad: "Boy, let me tell you what, you can wish in the one hand, and shit in the other, and see which one fills up first!"
Too bad, since I really enjoyed this track...

well, congrats to all finishers which are to be.

Great racing track and great mod...

  Results are up. Working on the points now..

No worries Dave.  I had another project I needed to work on today, so I just shifted gears and did that. 

first DNF of season

I am quite disappointed with this race

qualif: i manage to do a good lap to be on the 1st half of grid P6 on 14 starters

race: outside line (left on track) at first corner, i wanted to go on Inside line i go behind Jacob Fredriksson
and i got pushed back in the left wall, front nose broken i restart last
i finsih the lap and there is the 1st SC
i wait for the open pit sgnal to go repairing my car but at this moment dave miller is in spin on track at pit enrty.

i think i got a penalty (too severe stop & go 10 sec) because i  overtake the 2 slow cars on track when entrering pitlane.
very disappointed.

so i restart last but race in long

end of 1Safetycar and an of one
i tried to do my stop and go but not possible so the pitcrew did a tire change and refuel
i didnot have time to rejoin the SC so i start alone

after 2 laps under green (yes!) i do my penalty S&Go 10sec

i rejoin the race in middle of pack, at pit exit i am challenging Gerard Ryon (i think) who is too agressive at 1st corner he touches me but no crash we can continue

a bit later an other safety car the 3rd one.

at restart i did a mistake in cold tire at turn5 and at boost 2/5 (in my mind before race i said i should stay at boost 1/5 all race) but for restart i wanted to push
it is my mistake
it ends my race with front left Wheel removed
try to repair at pitbox but not possible to put a new Wheel.
So i retired.

my point of view : message to the drivers: this mod and the power of the cars is very difficult to handle on a long race (90 min in general) and we are just 15 drivers.

it should be good to get in our mind the "give and take spirit", especialy on this tricky small Toronto circuit.

i did around 100-110 laps of training but just few laps on green flag...


note for admins: at Laguna Seca, Safety car was out for 3 laps, here 4 laps

But the main problem was the Safety Car speed,  it was to fast (i read the GDB 185 kmh for formation lap is it the same speed when ful course yellow ?)

after 1 st corner safety car go fast and at turn 2 it slow a lot

when i retired on the race, i watched it a few minutes. lap 19 dave miller has hit by the back Under yellow by the LOLAT98 driver Arturo who was driving fast to queue the line because the game tell in the chat box to drive faster (i had this message a lot when out of pitlane).
then when 2nd corner comes it was a big strike with different speed. dave around 80 kmh arturo 250kmh.


for the end of season if i can help on this point i 'd like to.
edit: i think on road course safety car speed should be 80 to 100 km/h
on speedway 120-150km/h
i don't know how was the first 3 oval races (miami,motegi, milwaukke)  in the begining of year but for evey driver enaged in the championship
those speed should be the same that way driver won't have to adapt and learn a new safety car speed.

Points are up, but the drivers table still will not let me award points to Arturo 
No clue why this is happening. If Frank or Martin could have a look, it would be much appreciated 

Well, I got a huge tap on the left rear suspension from the guy that can't stand to be second. Whenever a car is in front, he needs to push him. Not the first time he does that to me either.

As a consequence, my car was a lot slower... I survived to get 2nd, but it's kinda annoying to have to fight for the title against that kind of people.

Jason White wrote:

Points are up, but the drivers table still will not let me award points to Arturo 

All fixed for you Jason, I believe he should have 5 points in total?

4 points for 9th + pole at Milwaukee, it looks correct to me.

Thanks for confirming

Richard Coxon wrote:

Jason White wrote:

Points are up, but the drivers table still will not let me award points to Arturo 

All fixed for you Jason, I believe he should have 5 points in total?

Yes. 1 point for his pole at Milwaukee and four from yesterday.
Thanks man

Jason White wrote:

Richard Coxon wrote:

Jason White wrote:

Points are up, but the drivers table still will not let me award points to Arturo 

All fixed for you Jason, I believe he should have 5 points in total?

Yes. 1 point for his pole at Milwaukee and four from yesterday.
Thanks man

No problem

Out of curiosity, how were you able to get it to work? 

In the cars name, Lola-Cosworth T98/00, It has a slash. On the points table the site doesn't like these, So i replaced it with a dash ( Lola-Cosworth T98-00) and it then works.

I only knew it was this issue as we had the same problem with the URD in the BRDC C2 championship

I think Mathieu Leclerc is right, I couldn't believe that so many crashs happened in the first laps.
C'mon guys, this was nearly a two hours race, why do you risk everything directly at the first corners, when only so few starters compete.

I saw that crash JP, could not believe that you both were driving after that.

Sadly I made a mistake right before pit entry (was adjusting fuel an forgot to brake) and lost my front wing. Without that P2 would have been possible, but I think JP was faster at the end.

So nice result for me, I think with a full field it would be 5th place. Hope I will be that fast on next track, too.

JP Campmajo wrote:

Well, I got a huge tap on the left rear suspension from the guy that can't stand to be second. Whenever a car is in front, he needs to push him. Not the first time he does that to me either.

As a consequence, my car was a lot slower... I survived to get 2nd, but it's kinda annoying to have to fight for the title against that kind of people.

It is a very sad situation when you feel that the only way to race another driver is to let him pass at the first possible opportunity.

To finish first, first you have to finish.

JP Campmajo wrote:

Well, I got a huge tap on the left rear suspension from the guy that can't stand to be second. Whenever a car is in front, he needs to push him. Not the first time he does that to me either.

As a consequence, my car was a lot slower... I survived to get 2nd, but it's kinda annoying to have to fight for the title against that kind of people.

JP, it could have been me... Im not sure, if it was arround lap 30.. but I was never 2nd.. i think 3rd was top I was, and then lost it...

Again, if it was me, my appologies, even there is no excuse for mistake like that.. but it happens.. Im doing my best not to crash myself, and anybody else.. after all, Im still a rookie...

Nono don't worry it wasn't you. And if it was you, it'd be annoying, but it'd be a mistake.
You were lagging a lot (ping around 300-400), which helped you a lot in defending your position but I managed to overtake you at the one point where your ping went back to normal