AC Formula Abarth @ Donington National - Sat 21 June 2014

Gary Lennon · Jun 21, 2014

Sign up please, hopefully im not too late this time...

Bram Hengeveld · Jun 21, 2014

@Benjamin Hellmann you can keep quoting the same message but that won't change the fact you'll need to re-apply for a license here

dgreen2298 · Jun 21, 2014

Sign me up pls if that ok

Ömer Köse · Jun 21, 2014

Sign me up, please.

Rupe Wilson · Jun 21, 2014

dgreen2298 said:
Sign me up pls if that ok

Hi
First you need a free driving licence found Here

Jose Martínez · Jun 21, 2014

Sign me up pls

Brian McManus · Jun 21, 2014

il have to sit this one out guys something came up.

Enjoy

Ollie Aina · Jun 21, 2014

Sign me up please. If it's not too late.

Rupe Wilson · Jun 21, 2014

SERVER IS UP and password sent have fun guys

dgreen2298 · Jun 21, 2014

Rupe Wilson said:
Hi
First you need a free driving licence found Here

I am just waiting for a reply I was a licenced member at one time but now It seems like the account got deleted

Rupe Wilson · Jun 21, 2014

@Gary Lennon you have 3 minutes to join the server

Rupe Wilson · Jun 21, 2014

14 driver booked on the server all present and accounted for

Andrej Svajger · Jun 21, 2014

@Fernando Deutsch sorry for that 2nd lap incident, was letting all of the field pass by and you were so far behind i didn't even watch my mirrors anymore...
But those penalties are just ridicoulous, with some mods to the curbs, this will be a great track to race.

Jose Martínez · Jun 21, 2014

Thank you all for the race and sorry for my mistakes. Special thanks to @Fernando Deutsch for help me with the setup. I improved my time around 2 seconds.

Ricoow · Jun 21, 2014

To me this was my best race ever. First ever podium finish on RD

The car just seems to suit me.
Q: 7
R: 2

The one hour qualification gave me a lot, and I mean a lot of crashes and spins. Barely could do 2 laps without them. I was afraid for the 25 laps of the race, but I managed not to spin at all.
First lap was almost clean, Fernando spun out on the final corner and took a few cars with him (also mainly due to lag). The mayhem barely hit me and I could continue in 4th position (after coming at the chicane in 7th

).
I do have to mention one thing, and it is very important so here are my awesome bold red letters:
WHEN YOU SEE A CRASH HAPPENING IN FRONT OF YOU, SLOW DOWN!!!!
A few drivers did brake and avoid the crash but as a result of some blind adrenaline junks, the alert braking drivers got slammed from behind which ruined their tyres and their race. The medium tyres that lasted only just long enough without spinning around the track.

After that I had some close battles, dropped to 5th, raised to 3rd, and also gained some places due to others making mistakes. For the first time in my life I was able to attack P1 but turn 1 did not give me enough space and I had to back off, after which Omer just drove away like I was nothing (1:05.*-1:06.* vs 1:06.8-1:08.*). Rami in the meanwhile wore off his (probably soft) tyres and lost a lot of time which created this huge gap to P3 and leaving me with a big enough gap to easily reach the finish in P2.
However in lap 19 I made a mistake at the chicane which allowed Gary to close in on me. I pulled away again and was safe when a spinning (and lagging) backmarker struck Gary (or at least slowed him down a lot). Easily drove to the finish afterwards.

I am so happy, first ever RD podium and hopefully more to come.
Must not forget to mention that I have never raced these machines online before (only practiced it a few times) and never ever drove on Donington before today. Really proud at this achievement

Guys thanks for the great and honest fights up front and my next target is to win a club race

EDIT: Also great to see how backmarkers can influence a race. Normally I am the backmarker and getting out of the way is my thing, but now they went out of my way just fine, kudos for that

Blake Courtney · Jun 21, 2014

sry I was off pace, first time on that track try put togather setup. hope I got out everones way fine. any one get replay plz post, ty.

Fernando Deutsch · Jun 21, 2014

Thanks Andrej, and no problem. I know sometimes is hard to know if cars are coming or not.

Glad it helped Jose.

Ömer Köse · Jun 21, 2014

Bad start into the race for me. I used all of the track width when braking for the final chicane, but the white line apparently has way less grip, so immediately started sliding with my cold hard tyres. I tried to recover it, while at the same time flying over the curbs, no chance. Was just a passenger there and ended up in the middle of the chicane exit and couldn't escape either. Sorry to anyone who crashed me.

Was fun climbing my way back up though, good racing.