1976 F1 Season - Round 3 USA Long Beach REPORTS

[Bruce]

Must be a bug, maybe [USER=333]@bullwinkle[/USER] can manually edit it.

Cheers, been trying to find the results to put a note there, but with my memory I keep forgetting where they are.

[bullwinkle]

well it used to be you had to finish 80 per cent of laps for points please clarify

[gorgias1976]

I think we can get rid of that rule and give Bruce the points he deserves.

[bullwinkle]

ok

[bullwinkle]

All fixed I think Congrats Bruce on your first points.

[J-P SImard]

On my side i was no stop strategy. My start was clean enough and I avoided the big crash, I quickly found myself stuck behind David who was driving very well without making a mistake. He had much better acceleration than me, so I was not able to take the suction early enough to overtake him, I even made a spin behind him. After more than 20 laps, I finally managed to pass by forcing a little passage, but after I did not have a good pace, I used my tires a lot behind him.

I had the idea to finish 3rd when I jump to first place after a crash and a pitstop in front with Gorka 4 seconds behind me. I thought I could win but I jumped a concrete curb and Gorka catch me instantly and avertake me shortly after that incident, and quickly take a small lead. In the last rounds Gorka slowed down a lot and I pushed hard to finish at 1.8 seconds.

Of course I could have regrets and say that I could have won by having the free track at the start of the race or without my spin or my mistake, but the reality is Gorka made a solid and fast race without mistake and he deserved a lot more than me the win. Bravo.

Congratulations to all and see you next time.

[Bruce]

All fixed I think Congrats Bruce on your first points.

Cheers, and thanks Gorka.

I've just been looking around for proportion of race to be in the points and can't find it. I thought it was 70% thinking back to a similar race at Monaco in F3 series. I did less than 70% due to a few crashes and a lot of drive throughs. I know with iRacing for races to count one must complete 50% of the laps completed by the lead car in your divisions. They have a very complicated system of licences and divisions, needed I guess due to the many 1000s of drivers.

[Fergy]

Well done Bruce

[lamer of fortune]

wasn't there this 107% thing?

[edwin]

wasn't there this 107% thing?

That was in rl F1 Tobias, if you couldn't do a lap within 107% of pole time you weren't allowed to race.
With all the aliens here that rule wouldn't fit me