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RDOWC S1 | Round 4: Campo Grande | 25 January 2012

Discussion in 'RD Open Wheel Championship' started by Bram Hengeveld, Dec 19, 2011.

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    Scott Webber

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    haha it's cool isn't it.

    time to update my avatar i think
    Scott Webber, Jan 23, 2012
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    Bram Hengeveld

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    Server is up, see you guys in a bit :)
    Bram Hengeveld, Jan 25, 2012
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    Leonardo Ferreira

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    We´ll be there;)! Please don´t bring your rocket engine:p
    Leonardo Ferreira, Jan 25, 2012
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    Scott Webber

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    so much overtaking, i messed up on the first few laps and was almost dead last with bram, we both worked through the field, was the best race i've had with GSC.

    it's a shame Bram and my team mate got taken out, i watched the replay and i ain't impressed, end of the matter there.

    Jack Nicholls i would have loved to battle you near the end of the race but i was so low on fuel i had to save my fuel and draft you, i saw you was quite slow on some corners, i take it you was battling with your tyres?

    Great race guys, just a shame about a few incidents :)

    the most overtakes I've ever done in this game lol.
    Scott Webber, Jan 25, 2012
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    Jack Nicholls

    No Scott, I was just massively slow. Did about 20 laps of testing, so was nowhere near the pace. I came out with a 6th place just through race craft really. Great fun again though and some nice battles.
    Jack Nicholls, Jan 25, 2012
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    Leonardo Ferreira

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    Qualify = 8th
    Race = Last

    My god! I can´t believe that I did this. So sorry Bram and Ken. I didn´t go on brakes, my throttle pedal locked up, and I go into desperation, and when I saw Bram in my mirrors it was too late. If RD wish to take a punishment action about this, you guys are on your right, I will understand. I just want to leave this facts clean enough for a better judgement. After the crash I go into the pits, make the repairs, but was useless, my steering box was pending to the left and I believe crashed something mechanical because I had no mechanical grip after that, only stayed on track in respect for Bram´s efforts to make this league possible. I never gets some overlaps before than today. Was a shame because this one is a very knowed track for me, I was expecting for a great result and get this s***. Congrats to Anders for this fantastic victory and Bram for the championship, at least I didn´t destroyed this.

    Once again sorry.
    Leonardo Ferreira, Jan 25, 2012
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    Anthony Levene

    Well that was fairly disastrous...I beached the car on lap 1 T1 like a noob and then it took so long to get it out of the sand I was being lapped by T4 of my first lap :(

    But overall it's been a fun series...thanks to Bram & the crew for making it happen :)

    BTW if you get stuck in sand reverse is the way to go...took me about a minute of going nowhere in 1st to work that out though!
    Anthony Levene, Jan 25, 2012
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    Bram Hengeveld

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    This could have ended a lot worse.

    As expected there was no starting light for me so again everybody took off with me standing on poleposition picking my nose. The first corner I visited the gravel where I joined Anthony so had to start from 15th instead of 1st.

    On the straight I don't know what happened. I was side by side with a car trying to keep in a straight line when somebody slowed down and literally rammed us of the road. No clue if this was a really bad connection or something else but the car was totally damaged in the first lap.

    A driver, that obviously didn't read the rules, was blocking and swaying on the front stretch and that costed a lot of time to get by. Had to push maximum to overtake everybody and after a few laps I was in 3rd behind Robert and Remco but at that point I asked already too much of my tires and I struggled to get passed them and to secure my gap I needed to make a proper pitstop.

    The gap didnt became bigger than 5 seconds but I couldnt finish the race on such tires to made a stop with 26 minutes to go. Of course stalled my engine because of my ridiculous long first gear :D and finally took off.

    It looked that apart from Dave Begley nobody was planning to come in so instead of expecting to come back in 4th or 5th I found myself in 9th or 10th position so again I had to overtake everybody. In the hairpin after the long straight backmarkers weren't paying attention and I was forced off the track into the gravel losing another 10 seconds on Robert and Anders in the front.

    With 20 minutes left they were 29 seconds in the lead and hotlap after hotlap with a damaged car their lead became less and less. With a few minutes on the clock I overtook Robert and lost the position again after I almost spun myself in the final corner.

    Had to fight him again and after overtaking there was only 2 minutes left to catch Anders. Actually when the clock struck zero I thought we still had one more lap to go but the flag was out: second.

    Happy with the championship, but not happy with the race. Really wanted to make it a 3 out of 3.

    Edit: I see the post of Leo below now (was typing when you posted it). No problem m8 don't worry.
    Bram Hengeveld, Jan 25, 2012
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    Robert Wiesenmüller

    Grats Anders, flawless performance and grats Bram, the championship goes to the best driver. :)

    I screwed up a bit when I was leading and ran wide, costing me the lead and maybe the title, but otherwise I have been really lucky in other situations and it was a real surprise I was still in the title hunt. From my perspective this was my favourite league ever, because it offered everything. Especially loved the different strategies. I really, really hope we will do a F3 league again.
    Robert Wiesenmüller, Jan 25, 2012
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    Leonardo Ferreira

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    My god! I can´t believe that I did this. So sorry Bram and Ken. I didn´t go on brakes, my throttle pedal locked up, and I go into desperation, and when I saw Bram in my mirrors it was too late. If RD wish to take a punishment action about this, you guys are on your right, I will understand. I just want to leave this facts clean enough for a better judgement. After the crash I go into the pits, make the repairs, but was useless, my steering box was pending to the left and I believe crashed something mechanical because I had no mechanical grip after that, only stayed on track in respect for Bram´s efforts to make this league possible. I never gets some overlaps before than today. Was a shame because this one is a very knowed track for me, I was expecting for a great result and get this s***. Congrats to Anders for this fantastic victory and Bram for the championship, at least I didn´t destroyed this.

    Once again sorry.
    Leonardo Ferreira, Jan 25, 2012
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    Leonardo Ferreira

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    You can´t imagine how sad I am about this, man. I´m really happy with your support.
    Leonardo Ferreira, Jan 25, 2012
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    Stefan Woudenberg

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    Qualy was bad, just 13th. Was hoping for a top 10 position to start from. Warm up gave me the feeling I could be in the top 10 with the pace I had with full fuel load.

    Race start was really bad, lost a few positions, but due to the troubles for others came out 9th after the first corner. People past me, I passed some people and had a small incident with Kieron who almost took me out.:( Making his team mate close the gap to me which he took. Will not report it as "at the end I got the position back" :D
    Anyway, it was all pretty close and intense racing from that point, so I decided to get some fresh rubber and popped up behind Scott. Closed the gap to 2~3 seconds, to not get too close and make a mistake and give away 8th position. He made the mistake and I overtook him for 7th. :D
    Was happy with my pretty steady pace and could drive home the car without any damage.

    Great driving for Anders who took the win. Congrats to our well deserved champion Bram and I really hope we all see eachother in a second F3 season. :)

    Hopefully Dave recruits me again to be his team mate again. :)
    Stefan Woudenberg, Jan 25, 2012
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    Anders Nilsson

    First race this series i actually got away without problem so i didnt have to fight my way from the back. And a victory to top it off , feels awesome :D . Thx for organizing the league and thx to all competitors. Hoping for a season two and grats to Bram to the championship real strong performance .

    /Anders
    Anders Nilsson, Jan 25, 2012
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    Leonardo Ferreira

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    You made a great championship Robert, you should be proud my friend. And thanks a lot for this beautiful BrawnGP car that you made for me.
    Leonardo Ferreira, Jan 25, 2012
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    Noel Spence

    thanks bram for holding this league was great fun in all races , and congrats to you for championship and all that took part , and congrats to anders on his podium:)
    Noel Spence, Jan 25, 2012
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    Bram Hengeveld, Jan 25, 2012
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    Bram Hengeveld, Jan 25, 2012
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    My best ever league race, i thoroughly enjoyed it, the driving was superb from all, i think i set a record for the most overtakes in a race for me :D

    Well done kieron on the points, you done the team proud my man!

    Stefan awesome driving by you, i enjoyed our little battles :)
    Scott Webber, Jan 26, 2012
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    Ken Hunter

    Firstly....Bram a great thank you for this awsome series. A hearty congratulations on your overall win.

    Leo, no problem about the incident, only gratifying thing was, we never took Bram out and that was most important.

    I too had to visit the pits for what felt like a long week-end, to replace my rear wing, but the car did not handle properly after that and i managed to loose it in t5 and went carreering into the fence loosing body and suspension parts.

    At this stage i was feeling very despondent and decided to retire completely....

    Great driving everyone and thanks again for a great series.:)
    Ken Hunter, Jan 26, 2012
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