Round 4 - Indianapolis (May 22nd)

How did I run out of fuel

Meh, not much joy for me this time around.
Had a good start, could gain some positions, had to trade them again, then had a pretty nice battle with Ludovic Tiengou and Michal Janak, but a few laps before my first scheduled stop, I spun out in T1. Hit nothing, just when pulling back to rejoin, I slightly hit the inner wall. I brought forward my first stop and went on. Second stint was good and I could make up some ground on other non-Offy cars in front of me. Jonathan Acerclinth went off when I was about two seconds behind him. But I touched the walls twice slightly around lap 60, though nothing serious. Second stop around lap 80, stop was good, back to track, had my competition still within extended sight, but the car was still quite a handful to drive with full tanks, and that caught me in lap 86, when I brushed the wall and blew the right rear tire. Luckily I could limp back to the pits, bit repair service, two laps lost and last of the running cars. Great, I had a different idea of my evening. Didn't took long and I could pass Claudio Navonne, but I was about a lap behind Lee Simpson. But soon, he had to pit too and I was then able to pass him too. Towards the end of my stint, I was closing in on Jakob Fredriksson and Ludovic or Richard Wilks?. I already had them ahead of me but I had to pit. I took a quick sip of water while the pitcrew was busy, and got a bit nervous, cos I couldn't fit the lid on the bottly properly, so I tried hard to get out of the pit, but unfortunately, a bit to hard. There went my engine. Barnacles!

Well, better luck at Milwaukee, I guess...

Oh well, was good while it lasted

Was being lapped by a string of cars on lap 76 or 77 when I didn't see a 3rd car of Jan in the line and squeezed him in 2. I didn't notice any contact (saw on the broadcast we did touch) so thought all was well.
Noticed the car was somewhat loose so took it a bit easier on the following turns but seemed to be good to go.

Came to the middle of one and began to exit the turn when it suddenly snapped sideways, something that's not happened since before I was given help with the setup so clearly the contact must have damaged my left rear. Was unable to save it and flew into the barrier on the inside.
Big sorry to the 2 guys following me, pressed escape but it wouldn't eject me off the track until I was stationary

I hope your car is ok Jan.

I'm so disappointed right now

too sad race for me, i was too afraid after start and nerved after 2 restarts so i gave my positions and then started pick the pace later, same oponents i got easy but some nearly 1s slower on laptimes were too hard to overtake, then samoone who was lap before me didn get easy and lost too much time for battle for position with nearest competitor, and finaly on 4th stop didnt saw that there is no fuel add (4th pits are not in setup) and lost whole 1 lap and then was no chance to gain another position

Congratulations to everyone...Great race, I watched the whole race and the racing was fantastic..Way to go with that Kingfish Offy Jan!!

Apart from an early scrap with David and the all too short fight with Jason, the race was rather uneventful for me, especially the second half I had nobody to run with. The car handled well and got the top 10 finish I was aiming for; fifth place might have been possible had I been less conservative with the car but I felt a little less points is better than no points.

Well, i think i couldnt have done any better. Best Offy, inside top 10, even beat some offy boys, i guess things can only get better now!

Sorry about input problems with my wheel at the start. I can't switch gears.

Great win

Never believed I could win this because I only qualified 6th. The race went really well, had a good start, overtook some cars but A. Forster was already 10 secs in front, no clue how he did that? He pitted early so must have been low fuel set

Had no real problems with backmarkers, like Senna used to do I went true it like butter..sorry if I scared somebody on lap 58

@Mike Becnel very sorry I did not saw you coming in at the 2nd pitstop, seems you did not lose any considerate time there?

Thanx HSO admins and Jason White in particular for organizing these events..it's so close to the real stuff! You all earn a

2 hours 44 minutes race...gratz all finishers!!!

Technical info: All race long I used 3rd gear until 8900 rpm. Only for the last 22 laps I have used 4th gear just to prevent a possible engine problem. Radiator on 4...temp never went above 105 celsius.

@Scott actually the HSO admins waited for you when you first left the server, then you came back in but left for a second time right at the moment  the admin restarted the race!

Jonatan Acerclinth wrote:

I hope your car is ok Jan.

i didnt notice any contact. No damages during the whole race.

Congrats Peter, Dana and all the rest, great race.

Michal Janak wrote:

and finaly on 4th stop didnt saw that there is no fuel add (4th pits are not in setup) and lost whole 1 lap and then was no chance to gain another position

Did the same mistake as you. It cost me a position. I was battling with Jacob quite all along the race and I was keeping him behind. Without that stupid mistake....well in fact won't have change a bit. I'll still finished out of the points.

Got a great first stint with a hard fought battle Mickael and Martin. The Chevy can't keep the pace of the Offy and barely the Foyt. But in corner it was great and the Eagle is very smooth. Finally the engine to suck methanol a bit less than the others. Could have done the race with a 4 pit stop apart for my stupid mistake .
Second stint was really a boring one. I was alone all along. no great mistake. The car was as smooth as I could hope and never put me in danger.
The third was a nigthmare. I began to loss my concentration from time to time (bloody autistic mind). To worsen the picture my arthrosis waked up at half the race. I then made quite a few mistakes banging the wall; nearly loosing the rear a couple of time. I nearly crash the car when I was trying to relaxe my sours wrist and fingers. The only thing that kept me in the loop was the battle with Jacob. I knew he had to pit before me and I've to had a 40s gap with I pitted myself. Mission done...but damn pit crew management I forget to add fuel.
I finished damaging my front wing on a loose tyre (possibly from Glen's car).

I finished with a wounded but brave car. I finished broken and in pain. But I finished . I've done two third of my objectives there... being qualified, finishing the race. Only miss the final one : get the points.

Well done to Peter , Welcome to the club and you bring the trophy back to Europe again   

Well done to Dana , i was hoping to challenge you, but i lost a lot of time behind Jason when we was battling (All fair and great fun  ) and i never could really close the gap after that.

Well done to Ray  , we had some fun battles, i was hoping you may have to pit again for a splash and dash but it wasn't to be.

Special mentions to Richard W, Great job on getting the Foyt engined car into the top 10 
Shame for Alberto as i'm sure you could have challenged for the win.
Shame for Mike too, it seems bad luck at Indy has found you again.
Alan Forster on getting pole, and then having some great pace, it seems your strategy let you down slightly though.

Well done to all finishers too, it was a long grueling race.

Congrats to Jason though for this fantastic event! Thanks to Ben for the excellent direction, a great job all round by the admins, and this event has made me realise even more how much i love this mod.

Ludovic Tiengou wrote:

Michal Janak wrote:

and finaly on 4th stop didnt saw that there is no fuel add (4th pits are not in setup) and lost whole 1 lap and then was no chance to gain another position

Did the same mistake as you. It cost me a position. I was battling with Jacob quite all along the race and I was keeping him behind. Without that stupid mistake....well in fact won't have change a bit. I'll still finished out of the points.

This what happened to me also but I stupidly thought that I could squeeze another lap out of the fuel but no . Such a bad feeling.

A great event all round, top job guys, I'll be back next year.

Despite not having any pace, that was a great race! Thanks for hosting, and congrats to the podium finishers! Some very impressive performances, and I'm glad that I wasn't involved in any significant incidents. Just making 3 stops wasn't enough when the car is a second too slow on every lap, but glad to have finished like this.

there was something weird at about 110th lap, i was driving mechanicaly or what, after cca 5 laps i asked me, " Hey where I get here and what i am here doing?!" maybe hypnotized by the walls and engine sound, no shifting , no gas leg movement

Well, best of the full season runners ain't bad.

A lonely race, overall, though. Racing on track was essentially over for me by the end of the first pit cycle so I dug in, aimed for consistent laps, and tried to minimize pit times. Other than some overly territorial traffic, it was smooth sailing.

A bit smoother than I like, though, so now I'm very much looking forward to the return of wheel-to-wheel running in Milwaukee.

Well done to all finishers!

Jan Kowalski wrote:

Jonatan Acerclinth wrote:

I hope your car is ok Jan.

i didnt notice any contact. No damages during the whole race.

To be fair I couldn't see any damage on my car either nor did I notice we touched during the race, it was when I checked the replay after I went off that I saw that we had actually touched, probably my left rear to your main pod as you didn't notice any damage.

@Peter - no loss at all on that pit. I just swung in wide as knew you wouod be coming out about when i got there. i had one extra lap of fuel just in case i had to abort to miss you. murphys law we were next to eaxh other!



Did I chat at exit? Was whispering to alberto. F me if I typoed.

Mike Becnel wrote:

Edited:

My results say it was Francois R that I hit. Now that will sit like a fart in church if so. All I know was it was red, broke and not hitting $%^^&ing escape. Francois was it you?? Replay soon...

Bumped...I think I misidentified who I mated with at high speed. Francois??

yeah was me top 10 gone and a podium for you waisted for both

the car suddenly lost it under low fuel 1 lap before my final full pitstop and tapped the wall
then i got hit by i dont know who and wanted to get the hell out of there to the inside for pitting cause the car was still good for pit repair  but then in a blink i got hit again think must be you then, i pressed in all panic f1  key instead of esc but was too late.

before all that it was a very nice CLEAN race with good racing by all
some hariy moments but he thats racing

next year new try
congrats Peter, this month belong to the Dutch!

François Remmen wrote:

yeah was me top 10 gone and a podium for you waisted for both

the car suddenly lost it under low fuel 1 lap before my final full pitstop and tapped the wall
then i got hit by i dont know who and wanted to get the hell out of there to the inside for pitting cause the car was still good for pit repair  but then in a blink i got hit again think must be you then, i pressed in all panic f1  key instead of esc but was too late.

before all that it was a very nice CLEAN race with good racing by all
some hariy moments but he thats racing

next year new try

So you knowingly out of control steered across the track hitting two cars in the process ending my day. You were foolish and should pay. You could have steered to stay against the wall and nobody would have hit you. Instead you hit two people. All May long you have been accusing others of every incident you were involved in. I am sickened it was you who took me out. Stupid performance and there can be NO excuse. I had 2nd or 3rd in the bag.


Sorry Pascal L for thinking it was you.

Results up

think watch the replay cause i didnt move across the track i was a sitting duck and if i remember correctly i saw a car comming to me(you) i pressed per accident f1 key instead of esc

François Remmen wrote:

think watch the replay cause i didnt move across the track i was a sitting duck and if i remember correctly i saw a car comming to me(you)  i pressed per accident f1 key instead of esc

I watched the replay sir. You were up against the wall going backwards with your wheel cut to the right which steered you into one minor contact, you kept the wheels turned right and continued across the track and got me. For the love of God Francois at least admit when you $%^& up. Did you forget you said above you were headed for the pits? Sure enough your wheel direction confirmed it!!

I'll let Jason/others sort you out.