24-06-2013, 11:06 AM
Here comes my race report.
Qualy
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As far as I remember (will review my lap later) my fastest lap was on the limit at the chicane with two wheels just above the line. I was concerned as I didn't remember if being over the line was legal or not. I asked twice at warmup but received no answer. Luckily later I checked doing that was perfectly legal.
not happy with my grid position as I wasn't the fastest wingless car, Rikard took ahead of me by a single tenth.
Race 1
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Starting 7th I gained some positions due to others not doing the best of starts. Being pressed by Bart trying to recover his lost positions I got some big sliding at final curve causing him to undeliberate hit me and put me to the grass and losing some places there. At the next lap at turn 2 Bryan took some contact with another car and lost his speed. I tried going through the outside, heading to the chicane where two cars together don't fit.
I had >half car ahead of him and he had the inside. None of both decided to back off and we made contact. I fiercely hit the tire wall (which in this latest version of the track is a solid moveless wall) and that caused that much damage I just couldn't even try to go back to pits for repairs.
Race 2
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Starting last I did a good start and took some good positions. At the first corners I saw many cars had crashed too and that brought me to the top ten. I saw DjC was approaching behind me and considering he was unfairly set to start penultimate when he sould've started second, I decided to draw a wide line at the righthander hairpin and let him by at the exit.
I then kept not too far away from him, watching his battle with Yerke and then approacing lap 7 for my pitstop which took 49 seconds. The remaining 7 laps was in no man's land just to finally end 5th.
Race3
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Another good start which helped me overtake some cars and head for turn1 looking for the safer inside line. Anyway, Robert Hedlund (sorry if it is bad spelled) made a wierd start heading to the outside left side of the track with no one around, losing control and causing a big mess ahead. Even braking early enough a pile of crashing cars went ahead of me and brought me flying high above the sky and being thrown outside the track barriers.
Trapped in a cage I found that some fences were fake and after a lot of time lost and a seriously damaged car I managed to find a way back to track. Car was that damaged that I went walking through the grass between curves as at least I could keep it straight there. I got two cut warnings there and finally I was able to get to the pits for a 150sec repair.
Went back to track after repairs and outlapped a couple of slower cars. Trying to outlap one of the new drivers he lost control at the braking after the fast section and went straight into me, causing my car to get flipped and damaged again. With the damaged car I kept on racing (sorry Neela and Nikos for bothering you again outlapping) until I met again the same driver who did a strange braking almost going to a halt at the penultimate lefthander crashing both again, being thrown again to the tire pack. and deciding to retire as it was effortless driving (then a CTD came when exiting to monitor, hope it didn't cause any lag).
Qualy
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As far as I remember (will review my lap later) my fastest lap was on the limit at the chicane with two wheels just above the line. I was concerned as I didn't remember if being over the line was legal or not. I asked twice at warmup but received no answer. Luckily later I checked doing that was perfectly legal.
not happy with my grid position as I wasn't the fastest wingless car, Rikard took ahead of me by a single tenth.
Race 1
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Starting 7th I gained some positions due to others not doing the best of starts. Being pressed by Bart trying to recover his lost positions I got some big sliding at final curve causing him to undeliberate hit me and put me to the grass and losing some places there. At the next lap at turn 2 Bryan took some contact with another car and lost his speed. I tried going through the outside, heading to the chicane where two cars together don't fit.
I had >half car ahead of him and he had the inside. None of both decided to back off and we made contact. I fiercely hit the tire wall (which in this latest version of the track is a solid moveless wall) and that caused that much damage I just couldn't even try to go back to pits for repairs.
Race 2
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Starting last I did a good start and took some good positions. At the first corners I saw many cars had crashed too and that brought me to the top ten. I saw DjC was approaching behind me and considering he was unfairly set to start penultimate when he sould've started second, I decided to draw a wide line at the righthander hairpin and let him by at the exit.
I then kept not too far away from him, watching his battle with Yerke and then approacing lap 7 for my pitstop which took 49 seconds. The remaining 7 laps was in no man's land just to finally end 5th.
Race3
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Another good start which helped me overtake some cars and head for turn1 looking for the safer inside line. Anyway, Robert Hedlund (sorry if it is bad spelled) made a wierd start heading to the outside left side of the track with no one around, losing control and causing a big mess ahead. Even braking early enough a pile of crashing cars went ahead of me and brought me flying high above the sky and being thrown outside the track barriers.
Trapped in a cage I found that some fences were fake and after a lot of time lost and a seriously damaged car I managed to find a way back to track. Car was that damaged that I went walking through the grass between curves as at least I could keep it straight there. I got two cut warnings there and finally I was able to get to the pits for a 150sec repair.
Went back to track after repairs and outlapped a couple of slower cars. Trying to outlap one of the new drivers he lost control at the braking after the fast section and went straight into me, causing my car to get flipped and damaged again. With the damaged car I kept on racing (sorry Neela and Nikos for bothering you again outlapping) until I met again the same driver who did a strange braking almost going to a halt at the penultimate lefthander crashing both again, being thrown again to the tire pack. and deciding to retire as it was effortless driving (then a CTD came when exiting to monitor, hope it didn't cause any lag).
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