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Race Reports - Belgium Grand Prix
By: GAZZA_308 Date: May 30, 2012, 4:27 pm
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:) ;D :P 8)
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Re: Race Reports - Belgium Grand Prix
By: livolay Date: June 5, 2012, 4:12 am
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Q: 2nd. You guys need to give more room on your out laps.
R: 5th. Led from start. Pitted 2 laps before the SC for Inters.
Pitted for options under SC. Got a stupid penalty for corner
cutting the last corner even though I lost time. ??? ::) :'( >:(
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Re: Race Reports - Belgium Grand Prix
By: supanash Date: June 5, 2012, 4:42 am
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Q - 4
Not a good session for me. Had a practice at the weekend and was
in the 1.39s, but on race day... Corner cut on first run. Then a
scrappy lap for 1.41, then no time for a 3rd run >:(
R - 8?? DNF
Quali was bad, but this was much worse. Managed to get up to 2nd
after the first few laps, avoiding whatever incidents happened.
I was running a decent pace in the wet for once, sitting between
Livo and Drew. I was set for a comfortable 2nd place, and might
have been able to push Livo a bit for the win, when the safety
car comes out. This closed up the pack, but I thought I'd still
be fine for 2nd at least. But a lap or so after the restart, my
wheel suddenly has a mind of its own. Started vibrating and
making a grinding noise, and pulling left and right. It's
happened only once before, and that time unplugging it and then
reconnecting it fixed it up. If the field was still spread out,
I might have actually pulled over and done that! In the end I
thought I'd see if I could get the car to the finish. Only a few
laps to go after all.
As I was struggling to control the car first drew got past, then
angry, then, on the very last lap at turn 11, the wheel pulls a
bit right when I would have preferred to go left and I end up in
the wall. Thought I'd got the car slowed down enough to get away
with just a damaged wing, but the game decided i'd destroyed the
car.
It's incredibly frustrating as I think I'd have won the race
with Livo getting a penalty. Good thing it's only a game! :'(
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Re: Race Reports - Belgium Grand Prix
By: camstubbs86 Date: June 5, 2012, 4:44 am
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Q 3rd
did 2 stints on primes hoping that the start of the race was
dry, i had a gut feeling it wouldnt and a gut feeling i was goin
to have a shit race.
R 4th (due to moss and livo's penalties
started off the line well and got in between moss and livo,
locked up and avioded livo n went wide falling back to 6th
supanash was in front and strugglin a lil but he ended up
finding his rhtym and i stayed where i was,
lap 6 or so my engineer said the rain had eased and it tooked
like it had he said pit for inters i did worse mistake out, for
4 laps i couldnt make any apex' went straight to the back of the
pack losing over 5 secs a lap to the guy infront.
during those 4 laps i recieved a drive thru to be served in 3
laps
car started feeling reasonably well was setting purple sectors
lap 11. i caught beno at an amazing rate and was right on his
back wing but had to serve my penalty.
he went into the pits right before me clips the pit entry i slam
into him smashing my wing, doing so he wedges into the pit entry
and cant get out so i reverse and start bashing him out of the
way. :o :o
now served my penalty i had to cruise the track with a smashed
wing and re pit the next lap, i put primes on. another bad tyre
decision but. livo caught me and i left him lap me, he pits then
i get back on the lead lap.
s/c comes out a few laps later
i pitted and put on options,
raced passed the s/c to try and catch up to the lead pack,
during the s/c gazza was on the side of the road lagging then i
got thru? bizarre sorry dude.
on s/c 2nd lap i was flying to catch up at t1 i banged it into
reverse and spun allowing moss passed :'( :'( :'( >:(
couldnt catch the pack before green drops catch macca but run
out of fuel on last lap
to come 4th out of that or 6th if you dont exlcude the penalised
men i think i was qauite lucky to only finish 7 secs of the pace
haha, thats why the s/c needs to stay
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Re: Race Reports - Belgium Grand Prix
By: supanash Date: June 5, 2012, 4:58 am
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[quote author=camstubbs86 link=topic=141.msg1366#msg1366
date=1338889456]
supanash was in front and strugglin a lil but he ended up
finding his rhtym and i stayed where i was
[/quote]
Yes, I had no confidence at the start! I've had all sorts of
problems in the wet sessions we've had so far, so I was taking
it very easy. Got going in the end though.
btw, I think I figured out what was causing my problems in the
wet. At some point I must have tweaked the saturation and
linearity settings on my wheel. Putting them both back to zero
(default setting) has helped a lot.
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Re: Race Reports - Belgium Grand Prix
By: angryman Date: June 5, 2012, 5:05 am
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Q 8th: Just didn't have pace here.
R 2nd: Race started smoothly, this was my first no assists race
in full wets, found myself up into 5th position without having
to pass anyone on track spun on lap 13 an broke off the wing,
lost a position on way to pits so pitted for inters. Lap 15 the
SC comes out as I get to the final chicane so duck in for
primes, try and catch the pack and have a big gap to 6th so pit
at end of that lap for options, I catch the pack at the end of
this lap since no one pitted I pit again to have a fresh set of
options. This paid off as I overtook macca on primes and started
to chase Drew. He pulled away a little but then caught up to
Supanash who I caught upto at the start of the final lap.
Managed to get past supanash with DRS under brakes and then had
to hold off Moss to finish on track in 3rd, Livos penalty
putting me up to 2nd.
Was an intense final stint, heart was racing haha, couldn't
believe I had the pace to finish on the podium. Glad the safety
car was chosen to stay ;D
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Re: Race Reports - Belgium Grand Prix
By: Moss Date: June 5, 2012, 5:24 am
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[quote author=camstubbs86 link=topic=141.msg1366#msg1366
date=1338889456]
on s/c 2nd lap i was flying to catch up at t1 i banged it into
reverse and spun allowing moss [/quote]
Oh man that was the reason I got a 20s penalty :(:'(
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Re: Race Reports - Belgium Grand Prix
By: drewdawg727 Date: June 5, 2012, 5:39 am
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Will do my race report later when things at work calm down, I
seemed to have walked down into some huge problems so I will
have videos/report up when you guys wake up in the morning! ;D
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Re: Race Reports - Belgium Grand Prix
By: Moss Date: June 5, 2012, 6:19 am
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Ok guys here's my race report
Q: 1st, had a decent lap 1:39.9
R: my setup for wet was great, had a very poor launch and lost
1st place to livo, but I followed very close by until the last
chicane of lap 2, livo went wide so I tryed to sneak in on the
inside, no aware of how heavy my foot was pushing throttle spun
and hit the wall lost my front wing, had Togo arround lap 3
slowly then pitted by mistake I chose the inters, so I had to
pit the lap after then did the same mistake, I didn't know that
to choose wets u have to push the left arrow, on my third pit
stop got it right and just drove hard (I didn't want to give up
after all because anything could happen)
Livo was close behind so I tryed not to make a mistake but with
frustration I was doing lots and lots of mistakes, like
downshifting to neutral and braking late, I lost a lot of time.
Then the rain started to ease so I pitted for inters, I got
lapped but that same lap I caught livo and passed cam stick
behind him to overtake stubs, then one lap later the rain
stopped so I pitted again for primes.
Then s/c is out everyone pitted so I decided to pit for options.
Me and stubs were very far behind so I followed him to catch up,
all of a sudden I get a penalty for illegal overtaking (20s).
When the s/c came in I was 5 seconds behind the pacK.
I caught up to macca and overtook him in t17 18 at blanchimont.
My move was kinda aggressive but I thought macca was struggling
with fuel, and the arrow showed that he was already behind so I
stick to my move, sorry macca. Frustration was killing me
I caught up to angry and stayed close behind him to the finish
line.
So that was terrible, if I didn't do that mistakes could've won,
I had a great setup especially for the rain.
Drove 1 lap with a broken wing, 6 pit stops + unfair 20s penalty
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Re: Race Reports - Belgium Grand Prix
By: camstubbs86 Date: June 5, 2012, 7:33 am
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yer sorry bout that moss i was trying to go gang busters to
catch the pack went into neutral and instead of qwikly goin to
1st i went into reverse haha shit cunt
vid up soon
will have many things funny and fun. especially beno being
wedged into the pit entry reminded me of austin powers getting
his golf cart thingo sideways in that hallway haha i had a good
chuckle
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