Round 5 - BRDC international Gold Cup - Oulton Park [Nov 2nd]

Finaly, Finaly after 3 unluck races (one big stutters, one DQ for nothing and CTD on 1000km) i seen the finish and on 10th place

Congratulations Matthias.

My rear tyres were worn and I just gave it too much throttle on the corner exit.

Martin Lacina wrote:

Phillipe, do you expect that i will go ou the ruf after your knock?? I was surprised. Not so hard contact but with fatal consequences. For me it means another unfinished race.

Je suis désolé Martin, je ne pensais pas que ta voiture se retournerait comme elle l'a fait...

C'est entièrement de ma faute et si je dois être sanctionné pour çà je l’accepterai.

Je te présente encore toutes mes excuses Martin.
Sorry very sorry

Finally, I reached the finish of a C2 race with all panels still attached to the car. I found a good setup in qualifying and lined up third. After a few laps I was in second, then I lost confidence and gradually dropped down the field. I didn't feel like being overtaken left and right under braking so I tried my best to keep every gap closed and make the car as wide as possible. It worked well, Richard still got through but it took David a lot more laps to finally catch me accelerating out of the hairpin. Sorry to the people who got sick of seeing that red thing doom up on every corner.

Martin Lacina wrote:

Phillipe, do you expect that i will go ou the ruf after your knock?? I was surprised. Not so hard contact but with fatal consequences. For me it means another unfinished race.

On this occasion, I'd like to say sorry for the bump over the crest down the straight to Knickerbbrook, wasn't quite straight over it and my front tyres didn't grip. That was a scary moment

Matthias absolutely trashed me with the same car, big OUCH

Had two-half spins that were rather unnecessary, but at least pulled a last-lap-determination pass out of the bag, passing Juha around the outside and with more momentum to Knickerbrook.


Great battle, but the car didn't feel right in my hands and getting around the hairpin was so hard. Always needed first gear to not drop revs too low, but had to shift back up to 2nd a bit too early.

Not to bad of a race, qualifying was bad as ever...

had a couple of short battles at the start, and some scary moments at the first couple laps with cars spinning (very) near me. found myself in no mans land for quite some time. until at the last few laps i closed in to visual range of Philippe and Martin, which was short lived because i suddenly saw Alba going for a roll at turn 2 (i wasn't sure if i should laugh or feel sorry for him) which put Philippe out right behind me which made the last few laps intense with some short battles while being able to enjoy the great battle between David and Juha up ahead. but at the second to last lap i got to greedy on the throttle while being on David's/Juha's rear and spun at the last turn putting me back to 9th. all and all can't complain about the result with another top 10 and 3rd in class in the bag

looking forward to next round again

Results and points are up 

Dylan Canton wrote:

(i wasn't sure if i should laugh or feel sorry for him)

I belive that from the rear it had to looks funny.

So, just a few days ago, i won my first race at HSO which was a 1000 km race and today, at a one-off appearance at the BRDC, I picked the wrong car  
Yeah, apparently I picked the LM84 and not the WEC84 version of the ADA

Pascal Mikula wrote:

Yeah, apparently I picked the LM84 and not the WEC84 version of the ADA

Not apparently, you did. I had to edit the XML to get your car to show.

Race startet with a small heart attack on Lap 2  





After that race was really great, made no mistakes this time and big luck at the end with David Sabre losing his rear tires.

I don't think i would have been able to overtake Jacob, if he didn't make that mistake on the last corner.

Absolutely no problems with my tires, car was well balanced, but evil on the brakes like any race.
Knickerbbrook and the section after it is amazing.

Never thought about winning when qualifying 11th, but without the tire disadvantage in the race the car is competitive. Had so much crashes in trainings session, during race my mind seemed clear.

Need a beer now, see you next time.

Not often can you see two cars on the roof. It must be the "Czech roof riding day" today, as I hit the armco in the first lap and landed on my head (I expect high marks for artistic impression from Pascal ), then Martin went upside down, too. Anyway, big thanks to the HSO leadership for changing the track. It was absolutely the right thing to do and you handled the situation in the best possible way. As always

Petr Hlavac wrote:

Anyway, big thanks to the HSO leadership for changing the track. It was absolutely the right thing to do and you handled the situation in the best possible way. As always

Thank you Petr. It is very nice to read such comments. 

Oh....

I was gonna mention there was something that made me worried: When using cockpit cam, I could not see ANY mirrors from my seating position, no wonder I didn't notice that.

David Jundt wrote:

Oh....
I was gonna mention there was something that made me worried: When using cockpit cam, I could not see ANY mirrors from my seating position, no wonder I didn't notice that

Well, it didn't prevent you from being the most entertaining driver of the race. I watched the whole thing after my accident. Oulton Park is an AWESOME spectator's track and you were the one to watch

L'objectif de cette course :
- garder la tête du championnat ou, au moins, garder le contact avec Ray.

Pour cela :
- gagner la catégorie "rotatif".

Comment :
- en faisant la pôle de la classe,
- en faisant un bon départ, en ouvrant traditionnellement la porte aux Classes A plus puissantes,
- en tentant de résister à Richard qui me pique au freinage mais tire tout droit pour un passage dans l'herbe,
- en mettant quelques autos entre lui et moi pour freiner sa remontée car il est plus rapide que moi,
- en gérant correctement l'usure de mes pneus.

Les bonus "chanceux" :
- David, avec ses pneus usés, se loupe à l'avant-dernier tour, m'offre la 2nde place au scratch
- Ray disparaît durant la course (qui lui est-il arrivé ?) et m'offre la tête du champ !

Objectif atteint !