1978 BRDC International Trophy - Silverstone [Nov 22nd]

TV coverage:

https://youtu.be/Os4TZJfp-vc

My race was over when I spun on lap 1 at turn 3. I punctuated it with about 12 to go by doing it again. I was barely catching Richard but I know he was taking it easy with a double digit lead.

Congrats Richard on the win and Cup! Off to IROC!

Now I need a nap!

Thx for link. I'm waiting for the end of treatment from youtube.

That was a fun race! My ATS wasn't fast, but at least predictable. Did not think I could contend for a podium finish, but the fact is I lost that chance by spinning, not by being slow. So that's good!

Congrats Richard for the Cup, and thanks for the TV coverage! Great commentary when Gregoire crashed just in front of me!

Thanks guys, it was great racing these cars as I wasn't at HSO when we used the 79 mod.

Had a couple of scary moments, a spin and then Marc F squeezing me onto the grass when I tried to lap him but other than that the race was quite peaceful and I tried to take it easy and look after the tires and engine.

Congrats to David for making the great mod! The detail is superb and it was great to see such beautiful cars.

See you all at the next one.

It was a very eventful and enjoyable race. My M23 was rather slow in the straight line, but it took nothing away from the fun  I was lapping as high as P3, but wasn't able to hold Raul in his Lotus behind me for too long. Unfortunately, i touched him while exiting the chicane and spun him around. I decided to wait for him, so i dropped 4 positions down and gave up some 10 seconds, but it resulted in a magnificent battle with Raul and Gerard. Amazing stuff, really intense racing. Raul made a small mistake on his own. Then Gerard outbraked himself in the penultimate lap while passing a backmarker, so i was fortunate enough to win this tree-way battle. It was an amazing race, thanks to everybody, who made it happen. Looking forward to next event

PS: My father just wrote that he DID watch the live feed and actually enjoyed it! Although he's not really into motorsport and he doesn't speak french at all

Congratulations Richard.  
Petr you did well to get up to 3rd in the M23.
After the first few laps I had a quiet race in my M23 to finish 8th.
Also thanks Ben I've just watch the video.

Bravo pour le Live

Marcus

la prochaine fois que tu m appelles Gregoire gare a toi

et le " avec son sponsor Durex qui lui correspond si bien "...  " il parait " ...


chouette live

Congratulations The Coxter! Ups i mean Richard , and great job Ben! Great cars, great mod, i'm even unrustying my french!

Screenies up

http://historicsimracing.org/en/resultatscourse/1131

Who is this Furious Mike person? Does someone have a bug in my office and can hear me discussing things with many 4 letter words??

Jason White wrote:

Screenies up

http://historicsimracing.org/en/resultatscourse/1131

Those screenshots further reinforce the magnificent work done by David Sabre on this mod.


Edit: Just noticed I was tied for fast lap with Richard. Wow! Damn that spin on lap 1 really hurts now

It was still great to watch you storm through the field in the TV coverage Mike Damn these cars look good, and drive nice too, i gave them a try, well done all around David!

Thx guys for your nice feedbacks about TV coverage. I found myself not very good, but I'll still do better next time.
Sorry also to have flayed some names, specially Petr
Thx to Jason for the differents skins display during the broadcast.

Ben Paulet wrote:

Sorry also to have flayed some names, specially Petr

It was a Petr saga... but its cute! Your enthusiasm is present and its really nice to wathc and listen, even I have no understanding for Franch at all (except few words)...

great job! I watched the whole race just after the race!

Raul did you use the Hard tires for the race ?
The soft tires lasted the race distance, I did say during qualifying that I was going to use the soft tires and I posted in this thread. Sorry that I said use hard tires before.

David Sabre wrote:

Raul did you use the Hard tires for the race ?
The soft tires lasted the race distance, I did say during qualifying that I was going to use the soft tires and I posted in this thread. Sorry that I said use hard tires before.

Oh, David, its not your fault.. Yes I used hard ones, I was too afraid to start to loose the car reaching the end, and since I had that pole, I was thinking that hard ones are going to bee better choice, since ma pace was just slightly slower than "gentile" pace with softs...
The problem was those hards were not up to the task for passing all the grid, at least not with the car in my hands...

My main problem is that I cant judge in which point tyres are "gone", since my driving is pretty lousy, and not consistant, and very often I make some mistakes and put that on worn tyres, which is often beyond the real situation... For example, are tyres with 40% same as ones with 70% wear... if you know what I mean..

As every other race, this one is a lesson too
1. Do not get connection lost during qualis
2. Try more laps with softs
3. If there is no blue flag in the top left, the guys behind you are not to let pass you

but fun is here, and Im enjoying it, and, of corse, thank you for advice, it is very valuable to me, as this one, as the one the other day on the track

The soft tires lasted longer than was expected, I was able to do the same laptimes at the end of the race as at the start of the race. As the tire wore the fuel went down so laptimes stayed the same (with careful driving). We will look into whether (or not) to modify the tires.

David Sabre wrote:

The soft tires lasted longer than was expected, I was able to do the same laptimes at the end of the race as at the start of the race. As the tire wore the fuel went down so laptimes stayed the same (with careful driving).

Well, I noticed, so its easy for me to be smart now

I was improveing lap tymes towards the end of the race, but not enough to follow or pass the ones in front of me, even faster in some points (thanx to Chapman), but it looks softs were better choice in the end..

Another thrilling race guys, I love these cars and would be great to do season with them.
Like to thank Yves for his setup which was more planted than mine, I didn't expect to be 3rd as there was a lot of faster cars/drivers who qualified a head of me, who failed to finish.

Well done to Richard and Mike. Look forward to the next one.

Ben Paulet wrote:

Sorry also to have flayed some names, specially Petr

I've never realized that my name is such pain in the... mouth Don't worry, you're doing a good job. Actually, the written form is even more confusing, as there are two signs above the last two letters, which you don't know about. But it should sound like this:

I guess H is impossible to pronounce for French speakers, for English speakers it's pronounced H as Hotel, the rest is "lavaatsch". So anything close to Hlavaatsch or lavaatsch is perfectly fine

Anyway, it looks like i'll be taking part in more and more races. I love it here at HSO and i finally have a job that allows me to race at least each second week, sometimes even more than that. Sadly, CART is a bit too much to chew for me, but all the other cars are exactly what i like. See you more often

Continue to come in our races, I have to improve my pronounciation.

Quote :

I guess H is impossible to pronounce for French speakers, for English speakers it's pronounced H as Hotel, the rest is "lavaatsch". So anything close to Hlavaatsch or lavaatsch is perfectly fine

Don't worry in two broadcasts more Ben will have given up and invented a nick for you, same as Richard The Coxter Coxon, Furious Mike Becnel etc so he will nt need to learn pronouncing Hlavac

Ben pronounces Becnel perfect with a hard K for the C

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