Round 3 - ATCC Round 3 - Symmons Plains [Sept 23rd]

I apologize to Matthias and Jan for a few errors that I had during the race.
I forgot to change some settings on the gearshift and especially on the brakes for the race and this led me into making some errors, I hope to better prepare for the next race, a greeting to all


Quiero pedir disculpas a Matthias y a Jan por unos errores que tuve durante la carrera .
Se me olvido cambiar unos ajustes en el cambio de marchas y sobre todo en los frenos para la carrera y esto me llevo a cometer varios errores , espero poder preparar mejor la proxima carrera , un saludo a todos

I changing my tyres , soft for medium and my car has became a s*** whith soft my car are great, high fuel tank laps 0.57 (not bad) but medium lap after lap my tyres loses grip and i crash...

Richard Coxon my Rfactor are good now, after reinstall, thank for the help in the server, the practice 1 to qualy because the ''no chat'' rule i can't respond you. Sorry about that.

This was an interesting race.

Qualifying was not the one I'd expected. Only one shooting lap, however, it was enough for P1 in category I had a remote hope to get in top 5. Theoretical PB (56 low) could have done that, but I couldn't do it, my next two laps were garbage.

Race went okay, 8th pos (category 1st) until the middle of the race, where I had a serious miss-shift at last turn, back to 12th (category 4th), lets get battling! I saw a Volvo guy going off at last turn and Mr. Wilks also. I imagine what could have been if we had been gathered... 3 Starions and a 635... Next half race was spent trying to get Richard C. It the very beginning of the race, I realised, he had a great race pace, we made similar laps, sometimes he made mistakes, sometimes me. So it could be clearly seen that a great race was just about to begin. I was right. At the last corner, somebody, made a tricky rejoin to the track and that was my luck, unfortunately, Richard spun out, during a contact with me. I didn't even know that was the last lap, I started decelerating to wait for him, and I sow it's checkered flag. We discussed as a race incident, he lost a little stability, me as well, my right wheels were on the exit curb.

I really enjoyed it, and as I see, another power track is coming with Wanneroo.

Cheers

Results are up

Sorry for the delay

Its looking very tight at the top, only 5 points separate the top 4 drivers

Jonatan Acerclinth wrote:

Qualifying:

.... was expecting the Rovers to at least hold one of the top 4 grid slots.

Yeah completely messed up quali, 55:6 would have been possible but made mistakes und little bit traffic on first fast lap which lead me to drive into the wall tzo the first straight....
On my last try i got the time on Sector 2, but lost it under breaking and landed behind the hedgerow.

Race:
I got hit in the back at the first hairpin (don't know who it was, perhaps i can ask Richard C. to look for it  )

rFactor showed me a "red" rear left, and car was very tricky. Managed to get positions against Jan und José, José lost his car on the hairpin and hit me on the same spot as in first lap, but i don't think it has gotten more damage from that  
I hoped to catch up to JP, but i dont think that would have been possible.

But later a mis-shift on the first corner from 3rd gear to first lead to a spin , so i lost this position again.
Some Laps later i made the same mistake as in quali, but managed to stay on track, now the car was symmetrical damaged.  

At the last part of the race Philippe was the third guy to hit me on the same spot again at the hairpin - @JP: i think this time i got a "bullseye" painted on my rear

Championship looks great, thank you for all your effort here at HSO!!!

Sorry Matthais but it was me who hit you

I gave myself 20 whips as punishment

Matthias Weber wrote:

@JP: i think this time i got a "bullseye" painted on my rear

I'm not surprised. This time I was in front of the angry pack, but I saw things in my mirrors, and it looked like there were some argy bargy moments and divebombs

Alan Forster wrote:

Sorry to Jean-Francois Bovy and anyone else who was involved in the incident on the straight after turn 1, my game stuttered then froze for a second coming off turn 1 and when it unfroze I was staring at the wall! Was then stuck sideways on straight with a big pack of cars coming!

It was indeed a big hit, i did not believe i could keep racing after that, but i could finish the race.
And no worries, i had already lost all hope in the race by myself with a big crash on another wall earlier
Beside all that, nice funny race