Round 4 - 200 Meilen von Nürnberg [Feb 24th]

My performance has reached new, unexpected lows. Sorry everybody

David Jaques wrote:

power outage and disco here too (everything went out, power, internet, etc.).  big storm over here, gusts over 100km/h.  aside from that, my shifter started acting up during the race, so i was having a major battle even before the disconnect.  such a shame, felt like i had prepared well and was ready for a solid race.

dave

It sucks!!! Fortunately it didn't hit here that bad.

After everything that had been going on, that I had been involved with, in the last couple of races, I just had one aim in sight tonight: a nice, clean, safe race. Some points would be cool too.

So very pleased of how this race turned out. Norisring is a track that I can drive in my sleep, I could pretty much visualize the setup and my driving before I even turned a wheel, and that translated well into pace. 3rd in qualifying, made a great start, and had the pleasure of leading the first five laps. I was not right on par with Grant or David, but I could defend my position, and when David DNF'd, I could fulfill my wish with having a nice, clean, safe ride home.



Thanks everyone, see you next time!

Yves Plaçais wrote:

Désolé, Timo,   je suis arrivé d'un peu loin, et t'ai touché.  

Je t'ai vu sur le toit dans mes rétros. Du coup, je suis rentré aux pits pour abandonner...et c'est là que j'ai vu que tu étais reparti ! Tant pis pour moi...

De toute façon, après un bon départ, je me suis retrouvé dans une embrouille, avec une piste complètement bouché et ai du passer de la 10ème à la dernière place, le moral en avait déjà pris un coup.

Je fumais un peu au moment mêmes. J'avais regardé le retro en commencant le freinage et croyais que j'avais toute la place pour faire le virage. Je t'ai jamais vu arriver.

Cela étant dit, en regardant le replay, il faut avouer que j'ai fermé la porte seche. Pour moi, responsabilité partagée. Race incident... en ce qui me concerne.

Evidement, Voigt risque de voir les choses autrement...

Angers... c'est pas un peu la région du Grenache et du Syrah? Ca pourrait arranger les choses...

Timo

Timo Vermeersch wrote:

Cela étant dit, en regardant le replay, il faut avouer que j'ai fermé la porte seche. Pour moi, responsabilité partagée. Race incident... en ce qui me concerne.

Evidement, Voigt risque de voir les choses autrement...

Angers... c'est pas un peu la région du Grenache et du Syrah? Ca pourrait arranger les choses...  

Timo

Sans rancune, Timo, avec toutes mes excuses !

Results, points and replay are posted on the website.

My sincere apologies to the event organisers - I was fully intending to race, but I slept through the alarm I set. I'm very sorry for the slip up.

Ah was wondering what happened to you! 

Yep, guess getting the timing right with such a crazy time zone difference is hard, so it's OK since you confirmed first and now have explained your absence. Hope to see you again at Hockenheim 

Lots of good racing today.
Sorry to Ray for the tap , I can't get the brakes to work very well on this car, it just locks-up.
I thought that the race was over on the first lap when I exited the chicane to find a car across the track and I couldn't avoid it. Luckily I was able to carry on but lacking a bit of top speed.
I tried to pass John towards the end but I just didn't quite have the speed.
I managed to lap 0.5s faster in the race than in qualifying.
9th place finish from 19th place start.

The first one of the Procar races that I've enjoyed.

Thank for the TV coverage.

since a long time had great fun with the regulars
david Sabre riddal, ( never knew which lol ) , Gerard en ofcourse Brian

since i cannot figger how to run without autoclutch which i always do in rfactor it
feels like a speed penalty my car has in AMS but overall i crawl abit forward
the Q lap was more luck then skill to get p15

the track bumbs were nice but the M1 in general feels way to soft to me
also the stock setup has too much limitations and rebound /bump of shocks should be adjusted aswell
aswell the brake map and adjustable Coast settings in the dif
Not sure what KPA pressure you guys use but to prevent those crazy tire smoke even with 82% brake pressure , which is insane in this mod awell prevous 71

track messager went crazy, blue flags all over the place so what the hell AMS and AI!


cheers

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also the stock setup has too much limitations and rebound /bump of shocks should be adjusted aswell
aswell the brake map and adjustable Coast settings in the dif

You couldnt adjust any of that in the real car.

The results table
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That wasn't the result I was hoping for. I qualified well in 6th, but my race setup turned out to be less competitive than I'd expected. I managed to hold 7th for a while until I outbraked myself at the S and dropped back to 10th. Jason Whited was closing in towards the end but I took the final point home.

Finally the first real good race (pace) in AMS as i had serveral problems in the past (wheel, connection etc). I managed to use my G29 brakes in a better way (still need other ones) and was able to set up the car in the right direction. Car was very stable on the limit and therefore good to push.
Had a lot of close battles (all fair) and went up to 5th. Very happy
Lapping was good, had one moment when the car in front of me suddently lift the throttle when i was very close behind. Just drive your own race and look where the cars around you are, leave more room if its getting close. I lost lot of time in lapping at the last corner when cars were blocking the racing line (they took a wide line around the last turn for being lapped but came back onto the racing line when i was accelerating out the corner). Well but thats very difficult, still lost .5 sec every time that happend.

Yves Plaçais wrote:

Timo Vermeersch wrote:

Cela étant dit, en regardant le replay, il faut avouer que j'ai fermé la porte seche. Pour moi, responsabilité partagée. Race incident... en ce qui me concerne.

Evidement, Voigt risque de voir les choses autrement...

Angers... c'est pas un peu la région du Grenache et du Syrah? Ca pourrait arranger les choses...  

Timo

Sans rancune, Timo, avec toutes mes excuses !

Reciproquement mes excuses Yves. Si j'avais mieux regardé mes retros, j'aurais pu laisser un peu plus de place et on aurait probablement réussi le virage tous les deux.

Timo

Not the result I was looking for, and I had high expectations after becoming quite confident in the car and the times I was producing before quali.
Had a decent enough start and felt like I got the jump on a few cars, but just nowhere to go and had to back off quite a few times. Ended up getting turned around in the first two laps, but a car came along and broadsided me, shoving me heading the right direction again, but I dropped was back to somewhere around P19. A few laps later someone got sideways in the hairpin and I had nowhere to go, ran right into them and stalled the car. Took quite a long time to get it restarted so was just sitting there
That put me near the rear of the field..P24 I think. Spent the rest of my time recovering from that. Wasn't too comfortable on heavy braking, and didn't take long before I missed a braking point and flatspotted, HARD. Spent most of the rest of the race driving a jack hammer. Each and every time I'd get the tires somewhat back to normal, I'd repeat the process. ...so that was interesting, definitely kept me in focus (hard not to when the wheel is trying to constantly jump out of your hands )

Finally made it back into the top 15 at some point, and next thing I know I'm P11 with Juha about 6 seconds out ahead of me. I set my sights on P10 and started closing the gap quite quickly, but laps were running short and I pushed a bit too hard a few times. Eventually closed the gap, and then botched it and nearly stopped mid corner, which increased the gap yet again. About the time I really felt like I could close in and do something before the end of the race, the tires just completely fell off on me, car became a monster in a half lap or less, and there was nothing I could do but hold on and not kill the car (was already pushing limits anyways with the short gearing..didn't overheat much, but all that pegging the red line in 4th gear couldn't have been good for the car)

...getting pretty "good" at the P11 stuff in this series. 4 races, the first one a DNF, and now 3 P11s in a row. Keep this up, I might actually score a point one of these days

Grats up front, and there was some really good and fair racing throughout the field this time around, it seemed. Enjoyable chase (and being chased) throughout the race, definitely entertaining

Also another enjoyable broadcast (thanks guys!)...watched some of it post race yesterday but will finish it up later this evening.

I'm sure I must have had the best 1st lap - 9 places gained on L1.  Cars were spinning around me it was like Moses going through the Red Sea.  

But the pressure told and (on lap two!) I smooshed it into hairpin2.   Bollox!

Much of the rest of the time was making way for the leaders.  Good job by them, and shame for David Jaques to get discoed.

Good work (all) on the broadcast too.  Thanks everyone.

Jason Whited wrote:

but I dropped was back to somewhere around P19.

I too had made a good start. When I say good start, at Norisring, it means passing the first pin without any problem!
But, at the exit on the left, I got completely stuck along the wall with you and Brian.
I was the one who had to push you to get you back online. Otherwise, we'd still be there!

Yves Plaçais wrote:

Jason Whited wrote:

but I dropped was back to somewhere around P19.

I too had made a good start. When I say good start, at Norisring, it means passing the first pin without any problem!
But, at the exit on the left,  I got completely stuck along the wall with you and Brian.
I was the one who had to push you to get you back online. Otherwise, we'd still be there!

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

Neither me at yours 

Erm... I didn't use any smileys?

Well, I was ill after all.