Round 7 : Österreichring [April 7th]

Je viens de formater mon disque dur je dois tout réinstaller d'ici la course, j'espère que ça passera...

Frank Verplanken wrote:

Je viens de formater mon disque dur je dois tout réinstaller d'ici la course, j'espère que ça passera...

Si tu ne perds pas ton temps sur le forum, ça passera

I Cant believe how quick this M1 season has gone only 2 races left after this one
should be a good race tonight ...

Pfff disco ... After all the rush to reinstall everything in time and such a nice championship spot at stake ...

Pfff, c'était pas ma soirée.

Alors que j'avais une sixieme place que je gérais bien tout en économisant mes pneus j'ai du rentrer aux stands car je m'étais trompé avec l'essence. Comme je n'avais pas prévu de m'arreter, je n'avais pas reconnu les stands et je ne savais donc pas ou il fallait etre à 100 km/h. Bien sur, je rentre beaucoup trop vite et je me prends une pénalité. Je fais le stop&go et je me reprends un autre stop&go avec 10 secondes de pénalité supplémentaire. Je repars, et là, il y a encore un "carré avec des fleches rouges" au haut de mon écran et comme je n'ai pas vu de troisième pénalité expliquée, je me dis que c'est un bug du jeu et je décide de continuer. En passant la ligne je me retrouve DQ et il était écrit que je devais faire un "drive through", sais pas pourquoi ...

Enfin, y a des jours comme ça ...

Nice race for me i not had mistakes I saw Carl in my mirror but i cant compete with him!
Congrats to Tiago and all!!

Gianluca Desposito wrote:

Nice race for me i not had mistakes I saw Carl in my mirror but i cant compete with him!
Congrats to Tiago and all!!

THX Gianluca your too kind know one's ever said that to me before

After making a complete hash up off the start i continued i had Franck Tripey right behind me
at a safe distance i locked up the car and lost control and i think in the panic to avoid hitting me
he might have locked up and spun as well ....

I Pulled over to late him pass as i thought this was only fair and then continued my race from last place
had some great fights with Franck T , Bruno,Patrice ,Ben and most of all Gianluca ...Really enjoyed tonights race ...

Tried really hard to catch Yannick are lap times where very similar and he was impossible to catch
then Carlo Spun so i was catching him and in the excitement made a small mistake at the Chicane
so had to settle for 8th Place only minor points again but a very enjoyable race THX Guys

My race =

More explanations tomorrow ^^

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

My race =

More explanations tomorrow ^^

Come on Gui spill the beans .......

Did anyone else have Sasha's name come up while they where racing
he was 34 seconds behind me at one stage very weird ....

WD Tiago and all finishers

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

My race =

More explanations tomorrow ^^

Ditto.

Carl Larrad wrote:

Gianluca Desposito wrote:

Nice race for me i not had mistakes I saw Carl in my mirror but i cant compete with him!
Congrats to Tiago and all!!

THX Gianluca your too kind know one's ever said that to me before

After making a complete hash up off the start i continued i had Franck Tripey right behind me
at a safe distance i locked up the car and lost control and i think in the panic to avoid hitting me
he might have locked up and spun as well ....

I Pulled over to late him pass as i thought this was only fair and then continued my race from last place
had some great fights with Franck T , Bruno,Patrice ,Ben and most of all Gianluca ...Really enjoyed tonights race ...

Tried really hard to catch Yannick are lap times where very similar and he was impossible to catch
then Carlo Spun so i was catching him and in the excitement made a small mistake at the Chicane
so had to settle for 8th Place only minor points again but a very enjoyable race THX Guys

LOL Carl !!!
I can't risk to keep yourself behind, I tried... but I would have made a mistake !
And nice battle with Gibelin on first laps his error it did not take.

Hell of a night for me, not only for the result but for the adrenaline

First few laps of the race was with Gui and Sasha but it is realy hard to follow someone in the first chicane without bumping some of the kerbs (sooner or later). I made that mistake and fell a little behind and Martin and Carlo caught. Martin had a little contact with my car which I'm really sorry it happened; it damaged my car so I presume it damaged his too

On the 2nd turn Martin went to grass and lost control. We hit again and this time with catastrophic results for him; again sorry, really sorry.

Then the rest of the race was a complete lottery, I was fighting with Carlo and loosing time for Sasha and Gui, I knew this could not happen but I couldn't shake Carlo from me. At the 17th lap if I'm not mistaken Gui went for his pitstop, I checked my tyres and maybe I could do it without pitstop, but it was too risky, so I went for mine not to loose any more time to Gui. Carlo kept on the track which made me feel good

After that I knew Gerard wouldn't been able to fight back due to his heavy wear on the tyres and saw Gui exiting the pits. I thought "How nice, maybe there's still a chance" , I went for it and then....BINGO.... Gui's mistake.

I passed Gerard on the main straight and I was cool till the finish line on lap 25.

Just want to say Well done everyone; sorry Martin; Thanks Carlo for the fight and finally..................

Hehe grats for your first win of the year mate .

Oh BTW, sorry for not answering back after fthe finish guys.... Ex-girl on the phone so was really concentrated on the call if you know what I mean

Race to forget as early as possible

It's the first time in this Procar season that i'm within 0.5 secs behind the fastest drivers, qualified 3rd with a great lap.

Had a bad start and i was back in 6th, but i managed to pass Martin at T1, passed Frank at T3, was trying really hard to gain on the leading trio, but Martin could follow me quite easily and we had a good battle until we caught Tiago.
I managed to pass him, but Martin went out trying to pass him.
Then Tiago began catching me and we had a great battle for 3rd until lap 17, when the leaders went to the pits for fresh tires and Tiago too.
I realized i was in tyre trouble too and i went to the pits on lap 19, but completely forgot about the 100kph speed limit, so i had a stop/go penalty, came back to the pits two laps later for a DT penalty, but then i only realized that it was a stop/go, went to the pits again and i was 7th, the guys in front were just too far ahead to catch them, finished on that position.

Quite disappointing race also for the champ, with 2 races to go i'm now 16 points behind Sasha, the champ leader

See you in Zandvoort!!!

Tour 21,premier quatrième au 25 tour
Sasha,me passe dans les derniers virages,je loupe le podium,mes pneus était mort(un carré rouge).
Bravo au podium et a tous les pilotes.

Salut a tous
Bravo a Tiago et au podium.

Soirée sympa pour moi
Je sais pas si je commence à comprendre un peut cette caisse,
A la fin du champ.
Philipe étai un peut plus vite que moi,
Je le suivais à 2s pendant un moment, puis je fais une erreur
Et perd 5-6s que je n’ais jamais rattrapé
Je voyais bien Carl a une encablure derrière que j’ais put contenir
J’ai eu peur quand Carlo est ressorti des stands a 3tours de l’arrivé
J’avais les pneus qui faisaient déjà un peut la gueule.
Mais j’ai put tenir jusqu’au bout.

Zand est un circuit que j’adore en GPL
Je ne l’ai pas testé avec la M1 mai on dirai bien le même.
A bientôt.

Yannick

Gérard Ryon wrote:

Tour 21,premier quatrième au 25 tour
Sasha,me passe dans les derniers virages,je loupe le podium,mes pneus était mort(un carré rouge).
Bravo au podium et a tous les pilotes.

Bravo pour avoir réussi à faire la course sans changer de pneus d'ailleurs, perso c'était impossible, à la mi course il me restait plus qu'un carré rouge

Tiago Malafaya wrote:

Oh BTW, sorry for not answering back after fthe finish guys.... Ex-girl on the phone so was really concentrated on the call if you know what I mean

Yes I guess she heared you just won a race and wanted to come back living with you

That was quite a crazy race last night !
Sasha did a great lap in quali, I couldn't have beat it even with all my best sector times, congrats!
The start was ok, clean, I did not lose any positions and even managed to lead the first lap. Sasha took the lead back in lap 2, dont remember how actually
I was a bit anxious he could open the gap easily considering his qualifying speed, but that was not the case, I could follow him quite easily without taking too much risks at the bloody chicane. I eventually took the lead back when he made a small mistake at the chicane. Later I think he outbraked himself at the same spot, that gave me a comfortable 8-9s lead over Tiago.
Around lap 10 I realized it wasn't possible for me to do the whole race without changing tires, so I pitted on lap 17. But I totally forgot there was a speed limit and was penalized with a drive through, which I served 3 laps later.

Despite being penalized, I went out of the pits just behind Gérard who was actually leading the race, but with very old tires, so it was still looking pretty good for me. But in the infield section of the track, I've been surprised by Gérard's braking distance, and spun to avoid him. Really a stupid mistake, he was on used tires, I should have been much more careful
I lost one spot to Tiago in the process, managed to catch Gérard a few laps later and finish 2nd, obviously disapointed but well, Tiago won and I finished ahead of all others championship contenders so that was a good evening for me after all

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

Yes I guess she heared you just won a race and wanted to come back living with you

It really wasn't to congratulate me for the win so now I consider myself a free man...
Still struggling a bit so please take it easy on me

Hang in there mate

I will mate, thanks for your support

Well a disappointing race for me all in all really.

My qualy lap was pure grit, I came into this race thinking it's about time for me to win another race to really cement myself as a rightful championship contender. Being out of town and all that I only started practicing Wednesday and used all my inner push to get the pole. I was hoping to take advantage and drive away in the race but that was not the case. Gui was very good in race trim and pushed me all the way. By lap nine my tyres were already pretty shot and that chicane (the devil in his most evil form) was the first thing to begin showing me I would not have an easy race. That gave the lead to Gui and began to think how in the world I could last this race without changing tyres as I didn't expect other people to come in, I thought it was just that aggressive driving style of mine. Anyway, had I prepared better I would have pit in a bit earlier and drove careful but steady from that point and probably would have had the race. But I stayed out and began having a LOT of trouble keeping the car going as I wasn't backing off enough for the tyres which cost me a lot of time with my spin. I remember catching Gui again but that damn chicane caught me out again under braking, and it really killed my spirit.

Anyway, luckily it was an eventful race and after my stop I just pushed 100% and made it back to third. All in all a podium is the least I can expect at all so at least I fulfilled that, but I really needed to win this race. Two to go, I'm leading the championship and need to win at least one more race to feel comfortable. Other than that a podium as usual and I should be alright.

Well done Tiago , if she didn't take you back after the win she's not the one for you!