Ford Escort RS2000 @ Riverside - Thu 12th Jan 2012

[Stuart Thomson]

Server name: RACEDEPARTMENT.COM GTL
Class: Ford Escort RS2000 (default)
Track: Riverside (download)

Race1 Nascar layout​

Race2 Can Am layout​

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Practice start time: GMT 20.00
Qualification start time: GMT 20.20 (single lap)
Race start time: GMT 20.30 (15 laps)
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Practice start time: GMT 20.50
Qualification start time: GMT 21.00 (single lap)
Race start time: GMT 21.30 (15 laps)

Note1: Drivers must download and install this skinpack (extract into GTL\GameData\Teams\GTC-TC-76\Ford Escort RS2000). Please choose model & skin at sign up.
Note2: RS2000 & Mexico models are the same performance - both are available to use
Note3: We will be driving at 17:00 in game-time, so hopefully the floodlights will come on during the races

Server password: click here
Racing rules: click here

 

[Roland]

Enjoyable nights'racing that was! And from reading the other race reports I deffo gotta check those replays as apparantly I missed quite a bit of hilarious action.

First of all, welcome back Warren! Good to hear from you again!

I didn't have really fond memories of the RS2000 from my last attempt @ Burubi, and the main thing I remembered from Riverside is that last time around in the Boss302 I prematurely ended Tim's race. So, plenty of room for improvements there...

Quickly more or less randomly picked a RS2000 setup from the RD site, and entered TS just in time to hear Eck and Stu mention Ecks unusual but very clever gearing layout. Combining both turned out to work great!
After a few troublesome practise laps I slowly got the hang of the Escort. Come Q1, at the top there was Stu and Eck, then a BIG BIG gap, and then me in 3rd! Happy!

Despite the very long 1st gear I had a good R1 start, got off the line no problem only looking ahead, so I had no clue of most of the mayhem happening behind me. Clearly Thommo's pace was too much for me, but running crash-free laps while some others couldn't got me a solid 2nd place.

P2 and Q2 didn't go that well, broke rules 1, 2 and 3 on my outlap. :oops:
Started R2 from behind, but was lucky again to not get involved in any start- / 1st lap accident. Passed Jacob in L1 to end up in 2nd place again. This time with Eck chasing me, passing me , spinning , chasing me again , going off again which granted me enough margin to keep my 2nd place until finish..

So, I had two rater lonely races, but I made friends with the Escort, and results were very good! But seriously, my two 2nd places are more a true reflection of the amount of bad luck some others had than anything else; still I quite enjoyed it..

Thanks! to Thommo for the event, Grats to him as well for the double win! Thx all, cya next time.

 

[UMC 22]

... broke rules 1, 2 and 3 on my outlap. :oops:

Are there some extra rules that I am supposed to be following? Followed the link in the OP but that's just RD's golden rules, of which 1 and 2 are nothing to do with practice/qualy.

 

[Stuart Thomson]

That was a TeamSpeak joke last night.

Rule1 - Don't hit the tyres
Rule2 - Don't hit the tyres
Rule3 - See rules 1&2

 

[UMC 22]

Lol, thanks.

 

[Hans Sneep]

Could not get the car on speed,wat ever I try everyone came blasting by had the feeling to be in a different car lol.
after 6? laps Senad was "playing" with me hit one of that half round things that stick out the sand ?? an that kill the engine so "race"
overon my self.
To ease of my frustration take my dog out for a walk helps most of the time !!

 

[Senad Subasic]

after 6? laps Senad was "playing" with me hit one of that half round things that stick out the sand ?? an that kill the engine so "race"
overon my self.
To ease of my frustration take my dog out for a walk helps most of the time !!

Playing? I wasn't intentionally slowing down, if that's what you mean. I couldn't get the gears right too.
My gears were so long in race 2, that I barely managed to get out of the sand trap in 1st

 

[Hans Sneep]

Playing? I wasn't intentionally slowing down, if that's what you mean. I couldn't get the gears right too.
My gears were so long in race 2, that I barely managed to get out of the sand trap in 1st

Senad wat I mean is when you passed me on the inside of the last turn I was trying to keep up with you an the result was going off after turn 3? to fast an hit the concrete tyres,had the feeling you were much faster then me so I wrote "playing" between " " .

 

[Senad Subasic]

Ah. Nah, sounds like we were pretty much in the same situation, people flying past me as well.
I was just trying to take those first few corners more aggressively, no braking. Sometimes it worked, and sometimes I ended up stuck in sand