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RE: ARI Fun Race #14 Malaysia - Paul Swire - 18-11-2012
Well what a great last race for the series. Will do a detailed report tomorrow.
RE: ARI Fun Race #14 Malaysia - Johnny - 19-11-2012
Soo here comes my race report on the Malaysia event:
Quali: After struggling in my first few Laps out, the seconds few Laps out were much better...reducing the tire pressure gave me a bit more Grip i think. Thus i was able to get my first .25 Lap on Malaysia: an 2:25:662. On the third few Laps out, i wasn’t really able to reproduce that. Concentration was gone and i was too much on all these slippery curbs.
Race 1: I wasn’t really prepared for the 69 Liters i put in the car at the start. My gear ratio on first was much too long which led to an dreadful start which again led to David Coyne overtaking me before the first corner.
After that i tried to force that heavy rear end through all the corners Malaysia threw at me...but it was no good: after having to let Marcel pass me at the end of lap 1 the rear end turned around on me half way through lap 2.
The following 3 laps were just watching the Fight between Coyne and Marcel in the distance, but then lap 6 held a special challenge for me: “crew ready for pitstop”....ummm....uuh...how the heck do i get into the pits??
i just noticed on lap 6, that i never had pitted in malaysia ever, and that i also never had seen a pit entry - since you don’t notice it when driving through the last hairpin normally. So i began to search for a pit entry from the second to last corner on
after finally finding the damn crew in the damn pits i promised myself never to do that mistake again...we will seeRace 2: At the start of race 2, Coyne hit my back a little bit after missing his braking point to T1. Luckily i was just sped up a bit, not turned around by this shunt.
After that, marcel and i played a tandem for 6 laps. Him in front, me in the back, lap after lap after lap. i think the biggest gap we had was 6 tenths, but mostly it was less than 4 tenths. I had some small chances to overtake him, but considering he needed the points for the overall-ranking, i didn’t want to wreck him....so i needed a secure chance for overtaking him. But you guys know marcel...he never makes a mistake. So some aborted half hearted tries to overtake was all i did. i hoped for the pitstop to decide.
In tune with our similar laptimes, we also had the same pit-strategies and entered the pits end of lap 6 - with only few tenths between us. Sadly my lazy old pit-crew wasn’t up for all this hectic racing and took two seconds longer to fill up my little tank than it took marcels pit-crew. I wasn’t able to undo that in my last lap, so it was place 2 all over again.
Race 3: After a good start i was making a good progress through the field. Only overtaking Paul Wickham was quite tricky, since he seemed to have had quite some lag. I nearly took him out with my overtaking move - apologies for that!
Now i was on P4 and already smelled a great race in front of me...but my heavy rear end had other plans again: second to last corner on lap one i was facing backwards again. This lost me two places.
After that it was chasing after the leaders and in lap 5 i had restored the classic situation: Marcel on P1, me on P2...dammit! But this time i wasn’t all that kind with marcel - he already had two wins this weekend, so it was time for fighting!
On the last corner of lap 6 - we were both headed to the pits - i was able to leap past marcel into the now well known pit-entrance. This time around, my pit crew was a little bit more motivated, so we both emerged from the pits like we entered them before: Me on P1, Marcel on P2.
In that last lap the rear-end took revenge for all the bad names i had called it in the hour before. It did step out several times and worst of all, in the very last corner of the race. I had to take the hairpin in one big drift making room for the last attack of Marcel. We raced down the Straight, side by side, nose to nose...but in the end i was one nose short if winning...so we had the same result as in all races: Marcel 1; Johannes 2
RE: ARI Fun Race #14 Malaysia - deecee52 - 19-11-2012
Race 1
Decided to fuel 2 laps then 5 thinking I would get a good start and stay near Marcel , Johannes and Djc and also stay away from the pit scramble at half distance , nearly fell of my chair when I got a cracking start and took the lead (I think I surprised the aliens with my warp drive) , I managed not to throw myself at the scenery and pitted still in the lead , came out on clear track and just got my head down and drove , that got me a third place.
Race 2
Marcel was waiting for me , I got another start but Marcel blocked the inside and Johannes boxed me in , tried to swerve outside but lost the backend on the brakes and dropped to last on the first corner , after that I just picked my way up to 4th .
Race 3
Got another great start and was up to 2nd by the first corner , chased Mel for a lap and then got through when he went wide , pitted again on lap 2 came out with clear track and again drove to 4th
So finishes my first ever online league event , its been great fun and a pleasure to race alongside a lot of very friendly and helpful racers , thanks guys and a big thanks to Bryan/Paul/Dany at Ari for setting this up :-* , I look forwards to season 2
RE: ARI Fun Race #14 Malaysia - gorgias1976 - 19-11-2012
A hint for season2. If not changing tires, the later you stop the fewer seconds it will take you on pits (less fuel aboard). You could gain between 20-30 secs.
That's why I think tire change should be mandatory, otherwise there's only one possible strategy, stop as late as posible, as little fuel to refill takes a lot less time than filling the hole tank. When tires are mandatory pit time increases nevermind which lap you are pitting in, so more different pit strategies can be taken in the race..
RE: ARI Fun Race #14 Malaysia - Johnny - 19-11-2012
@ gorgias:
yeah i did some speculating on that one too: this weekend i only fueled up 10 or 11 liters in a stop...still got between 27 and 29 seconds Pitstop.
At Portugal i fueled up about 40 to 50 liters and that took about 47 seconds. So yeah, thats your 20 seconds gain
BUT: with all the fuel in your car, at least i am about 3 secs a lap slower and the risk of spinning is much higher (as seen in my two spins this weekend)
So after this weekend, i somehow tend to fuel up shortly after half distance next time. best balance between all that.
RE: ARI Fun Race #14 Malaysia - gorgias1976 - 20-11-2012
I calculated only a second slower per lap, but as I did not race I have not been able to test it properly.