Winter testing // Essais hivernaux

I'm in. I'm all for realism so I voted for Paul Ricard

Edit: I see now so did most others I love this group of racers here, I really do.

Kimmo, by definition, and for the sake of realism... you can't keep that avatar of yours for two consecutive seasons

OK présent !

L'Enfer ou le Paradis !!

Cela va dépendre de ses humeurs.......!


Marcus...,un homme d'expérience !

Pour répondre à Frank

Marcus

Florkin Marc wrote:

L'Enfer ou le Paradis !!

Cela va dépendre de ses humeurs.......!


Marcus...,un homme d'expérience !

d'experience des femmes ou de Dieu et de ses seins...euh de ses saints pardon?

Merzario Cosworth will be there!!

I will be there, to run my first laps in my brandnew Ferrari.

Good to see so many drivers for that practice session

Not registered, but I'll try to come

Frank Verplanken wrote:

Kimmo, by definition, and for the sake of realism... you can't keep that avatar of yours for two consecutive seasons

You are right

Happy new year everybody!

Kimmo Kononen wrote:

I'm in. I'm all for realism so I voted for Paul Ricard

Although I think they used the long Paul Ricard in 1979... Must have since De Angelis got killed on the old circuit in 1986 during a test.

http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=Elio%20de%20Angelis%201975

All of the Castellet layouts were used back then for testing, it depended mostly on what the teams wanted .

Oh ok Thanks mate.

Hey I had missed the new avatar ! Is that you ?

Yeah, it's me. On a trackday at Anderstorp, last corner.

Sweet ! What's the bike ? 2-stroke 125cc (gawd I suck a bike spotting lol) ? Anderstorp ?

It's a Honda CBR600 4-stroke. Yeah, Anderstorp, Sweden. Where they ran F1 from 1973 to 1978 (Until Ronnie Petersson and Gunnar Nilsson passed away) also home for the Swedish TT (GP bikes) for many ears, World Superbike, FIA GT twice, BPR (Before it became FIA GT), Historic racing European championships a few times (Iyncluding the Steigenberger cup in 94... wow) ISRS (LeMans sportscars), ETCC, WTCC and lots of other international events. May as well mention I've been working there as a marshal since the early 90's so I know the track fairly well. It's only 5 km from where I live.

I could hardly have been wronger on the bike . Glad I got the track right tho \o/ !

Nice to be marshalling at Anderstorp. Too bad we don't have it in the 1979 championship. It was initially part of the WC schedule but was cancelled early in the season, with the passing of Nilsson and Peterson added to some dirty moves by Bernie E. You must have seen some nice racing there ! I remember how Eddie Lawson used to win there only the years he became World Champion. Also the BPR GT races mid-90s, it was so nice to see some international action back at the track.

Présent aussi mais sans doute pas toute la soirée

Frank Verplanken wrote:

I could hardly have been wronger on the bike . Glad I got the track right tho \o/ !

Nice to be marshalling at Anderstorp. Too bad we don't have it in the 1979 championship. It was initially part of the WC schedule but was cancelled early in the season, with the passing of Nilsson and Peterson added to some dirty moves by Bernie E. You must have seen some nice racing there ! I remember how Eddie Lawson used to win there only the years he became World Champion. Also the BPR GT races mid-90s, it was so nice to see some international action back at the track.

Sounds like you've been on a few races here?

No, sadly only TV, videos... and simracing .

Ahh, it's a lot better in real life. The version for GTR2 -> rFactor is crap. Layout is close but that's it. It's a whole lot of fun on a bike. Let it be a nimble but slow Aprilia 250 or a hyper quick Suzuki GSX1000R. A car is ok, but I've never driven anything quicker than a 300hp crap Saab there. Sure it's got long straights but it's the corners that makes it fun.

Ok so the track will be the Paul Ricard 1988
Session will start at 8 PM GMT+1, and finish when ... everybody will be gone

Ok donc le circuit sera le Paul Ricard 88
La séance démarrera à 20h et finira ... quand il n'y aura plus personne

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