rF2 British Touring Car Cup @ Brands Hatch - Thursday 29th October 2015

Frederic Schornstein · Oct 28, 2015

Gijs van Elderen said:
And tomorrow?

I still have the old club race schedule monday, wednesday, friday in my head

Tomorrow looks better^^

quicksilver384 · Oct 28, 2015

Omg. I only just noticed this. Please put me down as a maybe ill comfirm later tonight

Marius Neverauskas · Oct 28, 2015

i am in plz

quicksilver384 · Oct 28, 2015

Im in

@Daiman Patel please can you be a pal and tag me for btcc races please

quicksilver384 · Oct 28, 2015

@Craig Patteson @Genci Estebanez @Nobkins up for a bit of BTCC??

Craig Patteson · Oct 28, 2015

How did you know I had r factor haha

quicksilver384 · Oct 28, 2015

I didnt lol just a guess.

Craig Patteson · Oct 28, 2015

well I do have it haha put me as a maybe

Genci Estebanez · Oct 28, 2015

quicksilver384 said:
@Craig Patteson @Genci Estebanez @Nobkins up for a bit of BTCC??

Thx for tagging me and I'd love to make it but I can't tomorrow

Kresh · Oct 29, 2015

please sign me up. Thanks

TobiasR · Oct 29, 2015

Sign me up. Now to download all this stuff...

Gijs van Elderen · Oct 29, 2015

Tobias Röhner said:
Now to download all this stuff...

Login to the server, you'll see.

TobiasR · Oct 29, 2015

Gijs van Elderen said:
Login to the server, you'll see.

I know, but my internet is slow and it takes ages

Frederic Schornstein · Oct 29, 2015

damn daylight saving time change. Just wanted to join and saw the race is running already

quicksilver384 · Oct 29, 2015

Why can i never finish club races??

Stenne · Oct 29, 2015

Good race! Thanks all.
Had a huge spin on lap 2 but managed eventually to get back on the track. The rest of the race went without incidents and I kept fairly consistent lap times at mid/high 1:34's (1 sec faster than my quali).

Well, a bit slow but consistent and no (well one) incidents. I also felt I handled the laping cars OK as well (or?)

. So, I'm happy with the day and learning all the time.

Took a quick look at you fast guys at the replay and realised that I don't really use the full width of the track and probably lose a lot of time and speed, especially in the fast corners and the exits. Something I have to work on.

Tero Dahlberg · Oct 29, 2015

Stenne said:
I also felt I handled the laping cars OK as well (or?).

I don't want to be harsh or ruin your day, but when I lapped you, your timing and place was pretty much perfectly wrong for changing your line

Generally the best idea is to just stay on the racing line and when the faster car makes his/her overtaking move, you make it easy for them.

Tonight when I caught up with you, I decided to take a tighter line out of the corner when you seemed a bit slow in and got a bit deep/wide, and thus slower at the exit. But right at that moment, at the exit of the corner, you decided to let me have the racing line and pulled in front of my car and I had to avoid hitting you

The idea of pulling over is fine, but you also have to time it right. Or at least make sure you don't do it when the car behind is too close to avoid you. And at the exit of a corner isn't a good place for it either. You want to do that on a straight, after a corner and before a corner.

But generally the fastest (in terms of lost laptime) and safest way for both cars is that the slower car stays on the racing line and the faster car does the "hard work"

Just to be perfectly clear; I'm not mad or anything. All good

Stenne · Oct 29, 2015

Thanks for valuable feedback Tero. I'll bear your words with me to the next race.
No offence taken. All fine.

Stefan Woudenberg · Oct 30, 2015

Had an awesome evening.

Thank you guys!

Did not really had the pace of the aliens, but could keep a nice pace. Matt came just before the race so I hoped I could follow him, but he way too fast for me. Making a mistake in the second corner costed me 3 positions. Joern (?) (Sorry don't see you name on the sign up list) was gaining on me fast as he had pitted after the first lap. I could defent my position really well for many laps, but made a mistake in turn 1 and lost my position to him. I decided to try to keep up with him and... I could.

After some laps he made a mistake and I could gain my position back. It was a clean fight and I loved it.

A lap before the finish he ma a move on me and toughed me, which made my car spin off. And he waited for me to gain back my position.

Awesome action mate, but you don' t have to drop back that far.

As I said loved the cars and track.

@Daiman Patel , please more of this stuff. Maybe the btcc at Croft

Matt Horst · Oct 31, 2015

My first rf2 race in almost half a year and it was lots of fun.It actually was good fun starting last and working my way through the field.Had a legit shot at second the last couple laps but i made a mistake in turn 2 and had a small of track.Thanks for the race and i hope i can catch more rf2 events this winter.And agree with Stefan these cars almost need to be raced once a week there that good.