Sim Racers 4 Life - T290 Season - Round 5 - Mosport - Reports

[gorgias1976]

That vid made me decide to go for rF2 and thing i thought back then was this guy is racing soooo fast i will never be able to give him a fight.
Well today i could ;D, dear Gorka you're still a lot faster then me but i was able to fight you today and it was a blast for me. In the end it's your own fault by posting that vid back then

I was as surprised as glad to have you giving me such a great battle, defending really well and making no mistakes in it. I even had to go to the pits really early as I saw I would end up behind you all race.


My report.

Qualifying
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I don't know why my setup for this race worked better as laps went by, being around the 4th lap when the car started performing its best. This also happened during this session. At first I was trying to get the time on the first laps but just couldn't. Finally, with more rubber on track I went for a 4 lap stint and in the 4th lap a super time came, giving me pole position. I was really surprised about it as it didn't feel as a good lap compared to others I had done.

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Race 1
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With the problems Rik and Robert were having I was feeling more comfortable having to start without them on my tail (sad for them, let's hope problems are gone for the next events).
I had a good start and drove carefully for the first laps until I had to go to do my pitstop at the end of lap 8. On the outlap I reached Rik Naumann having the bad luck that he was having a bit of a lag (well it wasn't actually lag, it was as if server was missing some of his feedback). Right at the hairpin it seemed as if he had missed it and gone a little wide on the grass but suddenly his car reappeared right in front on me. Just could do nothing to avoid him and spun losing a big bunch of seconds (no one to blame, this things happen).
So the next lap I found David coming out of pits right in front of me. The next 11 laps it was a hard and sweatty battle trying to find a way past David but it was really difficult having to deal with the understeer you get behind a car in the fast corners of this track. And the couple of times I was able to get his draft on the straight he defended well on the inside (he was really fast there even when I was carrying only 8 degress on the rear wing)
So finally the race ended and I finished 2nd, a good result but not as good as I would have liked.

Race 2
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I really screwed the first 3 laps. No excuses, I was really out of focus and made 3 mistakes that costed me 4 places.
Being so much out of concentration I decided to go for a very early pitstop and reset my mind during the 25 seconds of tire change and refuel.
I went for 16 consecutive qualifying laps for the rest of the race that, at least, were good enough for regaining 2nd place.

Full race 1 onboard camera:

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