AC Rookies: Abarth 500 @ Silverstone (Live Stream) - Wednesday March 15, 2017

[SenseR]

Great fun and a reason to start online racing again. Thanks all!! @Paul Jeffrey Likewise mate, was clean and fun and I enjoyed it

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Thanks all in both servers for joining tonight. Great fun!

 

[Deleted member 6919]

Been racing for along time, but never got round to racing with RD, so thought I'd give it a try, had a good fun time tonight, good racing and friendly bunch, will be seeing me again.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

That's great to hear @Gopher04 thanks! And see you on tracks soon again

 

[skipajz]

Thanks for organizing this.. I had a lot of fun.
As for the race.. well, mistakes were made. I was following the leading pack fairly closely behind @Paul Jeffrey in p4 before I managed to spin out.. after that I wasn't quite able to get up to speed but still in p4 I was closing on @Paul Jeffrey and @SenseR since they were battling the entire time.. only to realize I didn't have enough fuel to make it the full lenght (I was 1 litre short )
Shame I can't join you guys in the following races as I won't be at home for few weeks, todays race was great

 

[Mr Chip]

Really was an awesome race, thanks to @Bram and all, for setting it up and especially the racing. Had some amazing battles with a few people, but a special mention to whoever finished 5th (I think!) in the yellow and black car, he was all over my rear for the last few laps, and it must have been very difficult/frustrating to not try a lunge or risky move on me at times; but no some really respectful racing happened, and we were split by 10ths at the finish line!

I will put up a video from my POV (VR + TV Cam) if anyone is interested in watching, can I embed it here or link to Racetube?

 

[Paul Jeffrey]

I will put up a video from my POV (VR + TV Cam) if anyone is interested in watching, can I embed it here or link to Racetube?

That would be awesome! If you could add it to Racetube that would be brilliant, then just post a link in here Cheers!

 

[mikey79]

@Mr Chip , thanks and it was totally awesome race there in the middle !
Yeah, that was almost photo-finish i think.
I had zero fuel left, wasnt sure if i ever gonna make it over the finishline, but i did.

Thanks again, and to all of you in the middle/back, it was totally clean race, sometimes i was like, "no way, you cant drive beside me through this corner", but zero paint swapped, no dents, nothing. Amazing.
On a 30 minute race !

Wow, really. Wow.
Hope to see all of you again !

/Mikey

Really was an awesome race, thanks to @Bram and all, for setting it up and especially the racing. Had some amazing battles with a few people, but a special mention to whoever finished 5th (I think!) in the yellow and black car, he was all over my rear for the last few laps, and it must have been very difficult/frustrating to not try a lunge or risky move on me at times; but no some really respectful racing happened, and we were split by 10ths at the finish line!

I will put up a video from my POV (VR + TV Cam) if anyone is interested in watching, can I embed it here or link to Racetube?

 

[Mr Chip]

Race up

http://www.racedepartment.com/media/videos/rd-abarth-500-rookie-race-silverstone-national.24767/

 

[Alírio Rego]

Never thought i'd have so much fun with these little ones! Awesome race tonight guys and i have to apologize to @Hamed for that tap in the first corner. We were basically all race battling

 

[makan]

This race was absoloutly the best one i had participate in 2017.
Thanks RD and @Bram for this fantastic race.
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I have to apologize to @Hamed and @saeed ,they lost their positions (Hamed was fifth/sixth ) because of my Wrong Fuel calculations
1/2 laps to finish, we finished our gas and have to pull over.

 

[Keith Joyce]

Interesting race... went from 16th to last after being bundled off at Brooklands in lap 1 and that's where I stayed - I think only 16 finished? Still trying to get the hang of this darned controller thingy...

 

[Hamed]

what an amazing race,absolutely fantastic.
I have really close competition with @Alírio Rego.
On straightline and first corner @Alírio Rego was better than me,and I close to him on 2,3nd corner
this cause we have 27 minute of side by side racing
thanks all for this wonderful race and see you guys next week on Nurbugring

 

[Paul Jeffrey]

Race up

Looks like you had some fun Are you using VR in that video btw?

 

[Hamed]

This race was absoloutly the best one i had participate in 2017.
Thanks RD and @Bram for this fantastic race.
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I have to apologize to @Hamed and @saeed ,they lost their positions (Hamed was fifth/sixth ) because of my Wrong Fuel calculations
1/2 laps to finish, we finished our gas and have to pull over.

don't worry mate,it's not all done to race position beacuse that is rookie races about.
it's about learning,it's about getting use to be on track with everyone.and we have fantastic moments on track and Teamspeak.cheers

 

[Paul Jeffrey]

@Hamed you have a picture of Gabrielle Tarquini as your profile picture. You sir are my hero!

 

[Mr Chip]

Looks like you had some fun Are you using VR in that video btw?

Yes - Oculus Rift, best investment I've ever made

 

[Paul Jeffrey]

Yes - Oculus Rift, best investment I've ever made

Yup totally agree with that mate! Yesterday's race was my first club event with the Rift too. Massive fun and well worth the investment. Tell you what though, with all that pressure and forgetting to open a window, man was I hot at the end

 

[Mr Chip]

Yep, even with window open and fan on, it was hard work and I was sweating loads

 

[Brandon Wright]

Looks like you guys had a lot of fun, it was certainly fun watching! Whoever did the live stream and commentary did a brilliant job! We're looking for a streamer for the Monday night US rookie race if anyone is interested/available.

Welcome to all the new online racing fanatics, it only gets more addicting from here!