27-04-2015, 09:47 AM
I was looking forwards to this race , prior to going on holiday I did a lot of practice on the last version of Nords we raced on and had a good setup I had confidence in , sadly when I got home I found we were running a different version I had never seen and my setup just did not work at all , it appears setups developed offline are totally different to those required to race online .
I spent hours driving but could not get a setup that worked , it was all oversteer or all understeer I could not find a balance , I must admit that since the new tyre model I have struggled to understand what the car is doing , either I am loosing the plot or something is not quite right .
I decided I was going to have to run with understeer , this hammered the front tyres and they would not last 5 laps so I was going to have to do 2 stops , looking at everyones laptimes I decided if I run light and drove every lap as a qually lap then I may get a 6 th or 7 th place .
I got a good start and followed Christof into the first corner , stayed with him until he went wide at a corner and then slipped through , it was working out for me beautifully at this point , I was in 3rd with no one to slow me so I could run my pace , I pulled away from Christof and by the time my first pitstop came up I had 20 secs on the guy behind me , my second stint went well and I only lost a little time behind behind a slower driver , by the time my pitstop came up I had 40+ secs over Cookie who was the next guy behind me and I was holding 3rd place , came out of the pits just in front of Cookie and made it to the first corner without loosing the place , I started to ease away from him and by the end of the lap had a 10 sec gap , I then started to think in terms of tyre saving and started to ease of a bit , big mistake , I started to loose concentration and made a big mistake at Flanzgarten which pretty much destroyed my suspension , Damn , it so nearly worked out . Oh well next time . :'(
I spent hours driving but could not get a setup that worked , it was all oversteer or all understeer I could not find a balance , I must admit that since the new tyre model I have struggled to understand what the car is doing , either I am loosing the plot or something is not quite right .
I decided I was going to have to run with understeer , this hammered the front tyres and they would not last 5 laps so I was going to have to do 2 stops , looking at everyones laptimes I decided if I run light and drove every lap as a qually lap then I may get a 6 th or 7 th place .
I got a good start and followed Christof into the first corner , stayed with him until he went wide at a corner and then slipped through , it was working out for me beautifully at this point , I was in 3rd with no one to slow me so I could run my pace , I pulled away from Christof and by the time my first pitstop came up I had 20 secs on the guy behind me , my second stint went well and I only lost a little time behind behind a slower driver , by the time my pitstop came up I had 40+ secs over Cookie who was the next guy behind me and I was holding 3rd place , came out of the pits just in front of Cookie and made it to the first corner without loosing the place , I started to ease away from him and by the end of the lap had a 10 sec gap , I then started to think in terms of tyre saving and started to ease of a bit , big mistake , I started to loose concentration and made a big mistake at Flanzgarten which pretty much destroyed my suspension , Damn , it so nearly worked out . Oh well next time . :'(
Understeer - is when you hit the wall with the front of the car
Oversteer - is when you hit the wall with the back of the car
Horsepower - is how fast you hit the wall
Torque - is how far you move the wall when you hit it
Oversteer - is when you hit the wall with the back of the car
Horsepower - is how fast you hit the wall
Torque - is how far you move the wall when you hit it