Sim Racers 4 Life - Lola T280 Season - Round 11 - Longford-Reports

[1959nikos]

Come on guys, give them to us

I crashed at 1st race looking at what was happening to people following me (typical).

Lets hear what happened to you.

[bullwinkle]

1st race a mess after bad qual. had no rhythm at all and counted at least 6 off road incidents I am sorry if I ruined anyone's races was horrible.
Race 2 was better started second and after the three supermen passed me I was able to run a clean race and finish 4th. Again sorry to all I messed up.

[gorgias1976]

Though I had practiced the minimun for the event I found that the setup I used when we raced in Sebring worked really well here, so I only had to change the gears and forget about setting up the car.

Qualy
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Everything went better than expected. After DjC did a 2.00.9 in practice I thought that would be too far to reach. But during qualifying I found the car was lapping pretty well in little fuel allowing me to take more risks and reaching a 2.00.6 getting pole position.

Race1
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Clean start at the front and getting enough distance with DjC to prevent him taking my slipstream. Things were going quite well until at lap 5 at the Long bridge my car lost a bit of stability at the bump and lost the line at the next corner kissing the fence enought for a big crash. Car got big damages in suspensions, losing the rear wing and having all sort of trouble trying to get back in track (those white poles getting under the car...) so decided to retire in such damage and embarrasment.

Race 2
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Starting 10th behind DjC, David Coyne in 9th got a massive wheelspin and lost some speed. For a moment I found myself being in the middle of a David left-David right sandwich so I backed off to the left to avoid a crash in this narrow roads. Approaching the first corners thing went well and clean through there. Going carefull watching the cars ahead until after the Long Bridge someone lost it there and avoiding him I gave a little push to the tail of the car ahead (Juraj?) who took a walk on the grass, sorry.
Laps went by as we overtook some more cars and quickly I was in second position behind DjC. At the end of lap 5 I took my pitstop. Thanks to a quick stop (24sec) and new fresher tires pushing hard in the outlap, when I crossed the finish line using Rick's draft I found DjC coming out of his pitstop still at a lower speed. I took the lead there and kept it to the end, great taste.

[cookie]

Qauli- managed a pb 202.5 for 4th -i was pleased

Race 1 - Jerry got the jump on me at the start and then made an early pit. i took 30 seconds in pits- too long -and came out just behind jerry after my pit- i was catching but made a late mistake and had to settle for 4th -

Race 2 - started in traffic and got bogged down a bit-missed an early brake mark and caused a crash-sorry- made some errors but emerged from pit stops ahead of jerry- after the bridge i touched the right side sand - thought i was ok -the car was straight- i tried to coast out of it -but then like a catapult was shot across the track and into the fence, finished with a damaged car

all in all a good event but i prefer the longer races ....

[gorgias1976]

For the next season with the F2 we can poll what length of races we want for the league.

[jerry 33]

busy week - so this report is a little late

qually went well - I wanted to get into the 2:02's and I did - YEAH! ;D

first race I got a good start and the race kind of came to me (read above posts from Gorka and John - thank you both) so I got a PODIUM! ;D first for me, second for the team - I am still smilling ;D

second race - let's just say I got moved around a bit... (had to pay back the race gods for luck in first race :-\ ) finished 5th behind tim in 4th - good points for the team..
Congrats to my fellow podium finishers (damn, that feels good to say ) and Thank YOU to all that make it happens..
now, on to the Glen!

[Axe]

Going carefull watching the cars ahead until after the Long Bridge someone lost it there and avoiding him I gave a little push to the tail of the car ahead (Juraj?) who took a walk on the grass, sorry.

Do not worry I did not notice your touch I went on the grass because of light contact with spinning car which you were trying to avoid too. But this little episode did not influence seriously my R2 I was able to screw it up by myself, did not need a helping hand :-[ >