09-11-2015, 11:06 AM
Qually
Went out early and managed a low 35 which put me in 4th but could see I would be lucky to hold that position , I thought there maybe more time in the car as I was lighting the rears up exiting Lesmo 2 and Parabolica so I added more weight and tried again , got a nice clear lap and everything came together and I got into the 34s but I was mega surprised to find myself on pole , that was a stuffy lap by me and I bet I could never repeat it .
Race
Well I threw my hard work away in the first seconds of the race by jumping the start , DOH what an idiot , did my drive through striaght away but on reflection I should have tried to take it later , came out of pits in about 15th place and worked my way up .
Came up to Andi and Cookie , I got passed Andi ok and was starting to pressure Cookie then Andi lost it going into Lesmo 1 and unfortunately collected me and pushed me into the barrier hard , got going again car appeared Ok and was catching Cookie, but I started to notice that the car was understeering on r/h turns and cooking the front tyre , had a ding dong battle with Cookie for the next few laps and we passed each other numerous times , I just could not break his tow , I eventually managed it just before my pitstop , I pitted ok but got a 53 second stop which cost me places .
Came out again and started passing slower cars and then caught Cookie again (dammit) he must have passed me in the pits , so we battled again swopping places until we came across a back marker in the Lesmos , I tried too hard to get the speed for a quick pass exiting lesmo 2 and paid dearly by lighting up the rears and spinning across the track , saw a red car go off trying to avoid me , I think it was Jerry so apologies to him , got going again but car was not happy .
I caught Mel and had a battle with him but then something happened to my comp thats never happened before , an Adobe updater popped up and threw the screen into a windowed mode that jerked and flickered like mad , I really struggled to drive after that , managed to stay with Mel then get passed him and hold it to the finish.
Great turnout for this event and the server behaved brilliantly , only had 1 glitch when following Cookie down to Parabolica he disappeared on me for a couple of secs , but this only happened once .
Went out early and managed a low 35 which put me in 4th but could see I would be lucky to hold that position , I thought there maybe more time in the car as I was lighting the rears up exiting Lesmo 2 and Parabolica so I added more weight and tried again , got a nice clear lap and everything came together and I got into the 34s but I was mega surprised to find myself on pole , that was a stuffy lap by me and I bet I could never repeat it .
Race
Well I threw my hard work away in the first seconds of the race by jumping the start , DOH what an idiot , did my drive through striaght away but on reflection I should have tried to take it later , came out of pits in about 15th place and worked my way up .
Came up to Andi and Cookie , I got passed Andi ok and was starting to pressure Cookie then Andi lost it going into Lesmo 1 and unfortunately collected me and pushed me into the barrier hard , got going again car appeared Ok and was catching Cookie, but I started to notice that the car was understeering on r/h turns and cooking the front tyre , had a ding dong battle with Cookie for the next few laps and we passed each other numerous times , I just could not break his tow , I eventually managed it just before my pitstop , I pitted ok but got a 53 second stop which cost me places .
Came out again and started passing slower cars and then caught Cookie again (dammit) he must have passed me in the pits , so we battled again swopping places until we came across a back marker in the Lesmos , I tried too hard to get the speed for a quick pass exiting lesmo 2 and paid dearly by lighting up the rears and spinning across the track , saw a red car go off trying to avoid me , I think it was Jerry so apologies to him , got going again but car was not happy .
I caught Mel and had a battle with him but then something happened to my comp thats never happened before , an Adobe updater popped up and threw the screen into a windowed mode that jerked and flickered like mad , I really struggled to drive after that , managed to stay with Mel then get passed him and hold it to the finish.
Great turnout for this event and the server behaved brilliantly , only had 1 glitch when following Cookie down to Parabolica he disappeared on me for a couple of secs , but this only happened once .
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