1983 Kyalami 1000 Kilometres (Oct 30th)

big, big disapointment, all worked well, was on 2nd place and not losting much , Martin connected to me and i wanted change hud to setup menu , hit yellow button on MOMO and game CTD

Steve Parker wrote:

jan sorry about mix up when passing you,didnt realise you were going to pit.As for the race was cruising behind 3rd car when i rolled it avoiding a lapped car that didnt see me coming.

Steve,my apologies, and very very sorry, there , much of my mistake... too closed view to see wen you arrive.

Dommage, un disque de frein casse au 190ème tour, j'étais 6 avec la petite URD, mieux que dans mes rêves... devenus cauchemars !
Content de ma course malgré tout !

It sucks not to finish the race this way, especially after such a nice fight with works Porsches. On the other hand, my best friend's mom just died of fucking cancer aged 55, so there are certainly worse things than not finishing a race

Thanks to everybody involved for your effort, energy and enthusiasm to put such event together. Hats off to you guys

I just wish we repeat a race like this one sometimes soon.. this is HSO in its purest form!!!

nous aussi, casse de frein après 220 tours de course... drôle de surprise en bout de ligne droite
on était parti pour faire 6ième ou 7ième, avec un demi-relai encore à faire... inespéré!

à peine déçu cependant, c'était un très bon moment, belle ambiance avec un beau tombé de nuit, bonne course avec une tactique 'longue' qui nous a fait participer au top 10 tout le long, on reviendra!
merci HSO, et tous mes voeux de victoire à Gérard

I'm happy for one reason, and sad by other... Briliant race my teamate did a incredible strategy. The car was perfect during the race. After 85 laps and car reaction is same the first laps at 2nd stop , driver swap I dont know how or why Bruno receive car control and the car did not move . Worst thing in this situation is: Apparently  lag or something that did not work. Control bug, pedal bug or something type... Even with Bruno taking the controls looked like a ghost car. Become a ghost car  The race's end ... I'm so sad to Bruno, He did strategy, car setup, spotter task, and he is a good frined good pilot and he did all thing team needs and oportunity to receive control it happened and the race going to moon.  

Anyway, I have gratitude for everything he did. Bruno deserves deserves drive more than me,


My chock with swap fail is: We realized various hot swap tests, in tests never driver swap fails, even warm up never fail. During the race failure happened

I think without Jan's computer troubles we would've been best non-956. Had the car hooked up, very low fuel mileage, and Jan has a steady pair of hands. Bummer.

Great event nontheless!

Raul Jereb wrote:

I just wish we repeat a race like this one sometimes soon.. this is HSO in its purest form!!!

OOOHH YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES  

Greatest race EVER! Thank you everyone SO F*CKING MUCH!!!!

Really THE BEST EVERRRR and I'm so glad this is my FIRST HSO WIN together with Raul Jereb!

Pit Stall occupied by a CK5, Drive-Through pentalties because of speeding and absolutely wrecked tires? No problem!

Of course it's bad whatever happened to Gérard at the end, I got told he lost his front bodywork but he and his team got the second place after their other car wanted to become a fireplace so Congratulations to them too!!

Hi,
thank you all guys, it was tough, but I survived and we finished the race

to all, and big big thanks to gents who made this race happend. I enjoed every second.

Very cheap front left Nimrod Brake Assembly for sale, suprisingly cheap though it did serve it's purpose and more on lap 168'ish when it failed...

Longer report to come later.

The monitor goes to off during the race, and lucky to not make damage to the car.
Congrats to All!
Grat and great Ludo and Alberto for this magic experience!

Thank you HSO for organising this!

Fourth place is an unexpected result, having never done an endurance race before. These things tend to last beyond my attention span.

Being stuck with the less powerful Joest car we were never going to be near the front of the grid, not with me driving it anyway, so the plan was to take it easy and avoid any incident. I worked out a plan for 5 stops, me doing the first 135 laps and Michael the remaining 110.

My first stint was the most interesting one. I did a few laps near Jason in the 956, and ended up between the LC2's, with a few seconds separating me from each of them. After 45 laps I realised I'd been using less fuel than expected and by stopping later than most people I suddenly found myself at the sharp end of the field. A quick recalculation made me realise we could pull off a 4-stop race. Once the second stop sequence arrived, I even found myself in the lead for a short period.

The C2 field meanwhile was behaving impeccably, leaving plenty of room when being lapped and all very predictable. My only issue was with a red car, not sure if that was a C2 or C1, which outbraked me into Crowthorne after I tried to lap him. He got back in front and when I thought he left room at Clubhouse it turned out he didn't and I hit him. Sorry to whoever it was, but I had no idea you'd take the inside line back.

Upon handing the car over to Michael, I was still in second place behind the remaining Martinelli/Ryon/Paulet 956. A computer problem dropped him to fourth, but lucky to still be in the race. After that I tried to manage our race using the Youtube broadcast, hoping the cars in front had to do one more stop. By the finish we were nearly a minute short of the podium. Maybe we could have finished higher in a works car, or without Michael's problem, but I'm still very glad we made it to fourth.

Congratulations to Pascal and Raul, and thank you for providing me with the base setup which was really helpful. Thanks to Michael for sharing the car with me and the excellent teamwork. I'm looking forward to doing another endurance race with him.

Juha Bos wrote:

Fourth place is an unexpected result, having never done an endurance race before. These things tend to last beyond my attention span.

It will be third after we check the results.  I made the mistake of cutting the fuel too fine on our last stop, trying to make sure we got out ahead of you.  Dana was forced to pit with two laps to go.  That was our sixth fuel stop, meaning we broke the five fuel stop rule.  So we are a DQ.   I'm taking solace in the fact that the game ran the whole distance and the server held up fine.  Dana has my sincerest apologies.  After 1000 km, this is such a let down.

Congratulations to Pascal and Raul on an excellent race and great strategy.  

In that case, thank you for your honesty and admitting you stopped too often. I'd have parked it in the pit lane near the line though, just to get a finish, but I suppose you lost sight of it in the heat of the battle.

By the way, after managing Michael I'm now available as a teammanager, and so is my pit crew and fuel man.

That would be my first HSO podium, I'm honoured.

We will be posting the results tomorrow; we need to go through them and make sure everything is within the rules.  Gold Star points will be updated after that.
Thank you to everyone who took part!

Hm, not yet sure what exactly to think of this race.

I had to do the second half of the race, because I was working late shift, and then something still held me up. Thankfully, Juha had made his maths very well, so I knew when I had to arrive, and I liked what I saw - 2nd position. On his next stop, I took over and tried to keep up with the pace. It took me a while to get a rhythm, because I was completely cold, and I always need a couple of laps to get the hang of it. While still getting a feel for the car, I had a half spin in clubhouse, which put me into third, and soon thereafter a software problem, that put me on the desktop, but I could still hear rF working. After the initial 'WTF?' outburst, I hit the brakes, hoping I wouldn't hit something or get hit by someone else. When rF was working again, I sat right in the middle of the front straight! I had lost about 40 seconds and was in fourth now.
I soon realised, I didn't have exactly the speed to follow Dana, and no hope whatsoever to follow the works cars. But we still had an ace up in our sleeve. Juha was always making sure to check my fuel use, and his careful managing led to a four stop strategy. A podium under own power was still possible, I just had a couple of problems finding my right turn in points, which led to a a disastrous collision in the kink on the front straight - it took out the #51 Lancia. An incident I'm really sorry about.

Pit stops shortly got me first into second, and later on into fourth position again, but my pace wasn't good enough to get ahead of the cars in front of me, when they went into the pits for their fifth stop. So I ended up in fourth on track, one lap, down, 2/3s of that caused by my computer having an odd sense of humour tonight.

I total it was a fun race and interesting experience. Its been a while I did an endurance race. Was about time to do it again!

Raul Jereb wrote:

I just wish we repeat a race like this one sometimes soon.. this is HSO in its purest form!!!

Oh yes, indeed! Would love to race another enduro soon again. And Juha was definitely a good partner who helped me making this an enjoyful experience for me. Thank you, mate!

Jacob Fredriksson wrote:

I think without Jan's computer troubles we would've been best non-956. Had the car hooked up, very low fuel mileage, and Jan has a steady pair of hands. Bummer.

Great event nontheless!

How low? I was doing 1.5 to 1.7 laps with my Lancia, I was also thinking of having a shot at that title before my rF just stopped working.

Does anyone have an idea what could be the cause?

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Would love to race another enduro soon again

Be careful what you wish, in case you get it

David Jundt wrote:

Jacob Fredriksson wrote:

I think without Jan's computer troubles we would've been best non-956. Had the car hooked up, very low fuel mileage, and Jan has a steady pair of hands. Bummer.

Great event nontheless!

How low? I was doing 1.5 to 1.7 laps with my Lancia, I was also thinking of having a shot at that title before my rF just stopped working.

Does anyone have an idea what could be the cause?

Did you race with a plugin, like XD? Your fuel numbers are very detailed, maybe it has something to do with it?

Bring it on Alberto

@Juha: Well yeah, I used GID.

But on Win 7, I never had such issues with it.

Michael Drechsler wrote:

Oh yes, indeed! Would love to race another enduro soon again. And Juha was definitely a good partner who helped me making this an enjoyful experience for me. Thank you, mate!

You're welcome. It was great to race and work with you.

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

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Would love to race another enduro soon again

Be careful what you wish, in case you get it

Bring it on.

just wathed the 24 Le Mans film and then picked Porsche 917 to the Assetto Corsa and drowe temporary WR with time 1:21.965 (les than 1s to old AC WR)

the sound and FF = incredible feel of the car, hard to stay on track and keep the car unbroken (no helps, manual clutch)


little better feeling after Rfactor crash