rF2 Wednesday August 12th 2009 - Le Mans Series GT2 (Porsche) @ Bahrain

[Sander Hogendoorn]

What a race, great racing! :smile-big:

Qual: Well Sander did an amazing time with 1.59.668 and well it was possible for me to do but it had to be a good lap and luckily with 1 min to go I set 1.59.644, only 0.024 sec quicker, but was enough to get pole :smile-big:.

Race: I started good, but I saw smoke from my engine, it ran abit too hot at the start lights.....so there I was smoking engine and a few fast guys behind me......I didn't run the engine high in the revs hoping the engine would cool down quickly. It did and I was able to continue......I was a bit getting used to the setup and well the darkness didnt help much, lost a spot to Sander but now I was able to follow him instead of having to find my way in the dark hehe......so I was following and we made some overtakings, which was very fun .

After the pit, again my engine was smoking, but so was Sander's and I took it a bit easy, cause I didn't want to blow it up. But after that I was able to catch Sander and made the pass and kept it till the end for the win. :victory:

Great race all, specially Sander since I had some great fights with him :smile-big:.
Thanks RD, Bram and other people organising :thumb:

Amen :thumb:

@ Ivo: yes I actually forgot to shut down my engine hehe

 

[Wilfred vd Brink]

Little tip to shutdown your engine while pitting.

Too nervous to shut it down hehe .

 

[Ingemar Petersson]

My ****** interenet shuts down everytime there's some good racing going on .Getting a bit pissed of at the moment on my supplier but when i called them they say there´s no problem it must be on my side..........

 

[Ramon van Rijn]

I was very disappointing with my performance in the first place. Was 5 seconds slower and slowly gaining some speed.
In the beginning of the qualify I was still 3+ secs slower then Sander/Wilfred, but ok could never match those, but 3 was just too much.

Then I learned to take the Aston setup I used on Vitus. Worked much better and I was finally learning the track a bit.
In the very last minute I could climb the ladder from 11 to 6th spot on the grid with 2.02.0x Very pleased for a while.

Until we started and I lost control. It was not the first time, since I already spun 1001 times during practice and qualify.
Sorry for the trouble I caused. Tried to put it in reverse to get out of the way but already some guys thought lets take the difficult route along him
Sorry again.

Don't know exactly what happened next, but had enough spins after that initial one
Then finally I was going in a rythm and gaining on Martin Vrba. Till he braked surprisingly early at one time and I could almost not avoid him. Only thing I could do was throwing my car in a spin. That was easy since I practiced it enough
Unfortunately Martin could not avoid my dancing Porsche but at least he could continue without much trouble.

Then I had to close the 4 seconds gap again and it was paying off. Slowly I sneaked up Martins Porsche were the heat was maybe too much for him. He made a mistake and I could slip through. Then I think he made another mistake and I was safe as long as I didn't spin.

Finished the race, don't even know at which position.
It was a disappointing event for me overall because of my bad driving, but still I had fun in the end.

Glad I signed up and finished the race.

(3 races in a row where I had massive damage in the first 10 mins.... hmmm, learning curve my ass)

 

[Martin Vrba]

what a mess!!! i had more collisions and offs in this race than in all other club events put together i really suck at driving porsches...

Ramon: watching your car going backwards in front of my bonnet was priceless it was a nice battle, but then i didn't blip the throttle enough whilst changing to 2nd gear and i went off in a spin

car was totally shot after all the damage it received throughout the race, so i slowed down and brought it home 8th

at last, i would like to apologize to Neil... we had a little tap in the last corner, i thought it was nothing, but in the replay i saw that i pretty much took him out... really sorry for that, hope we're cool

 

[Peter Duivelaar]

Here are the promised screenshots! Not very high quality, but it looks ok.

 

[Kevin Ascher]

I had soooo much fun!

Practice: Surprisingly it didn't take me that long to become familiar with the track and do some decent laps. I thought I was well prepared for the race.

Qualy: My worst session.
Couldn't hook together even one decent lap and so was 1 second slower than my best practice time by only doing a 2:01.4.
P4.

Race: I made a mistake by chosing hard tires so I was quite off pace and though I could of kept up with Gary, I made a mistake by trying not to kiss his *** and spun.
So my flow was gone but after two more spins and finding myself in P7 i finally came back to my senses and started to chase Peter, Ferry and Tim who were directly in front of me.
Worked out well as I could get past the spinning Ferry and past Peter.
But then I was stuck beind Tim
Well, not really stuck, I think we were fighting for about 6,7 laps, then caused by some bad driving I lost contact to him and pitted.
Chosed medium tires this time and put full amount of fuel into my tank ( had started with 70 which was a perfect calculation as I ended the race with 3l of fuel xD). But then I noticed my crew was also fixing the damage which costed me more than 20 seconds :S.
Came out of the pits as 12th.
With the medium tires I was being very much faster and after others had pitted too, I found myself back in P6.
With mine, at this time very good speed and the engine boost turned up to 3 I could get past Tim and later also get past Peter when they were spinning.
Had to drive a bit of a defensive line when Tim was behind me but with about 10 minutes to go when Peter had spun and came directly ahead of Tim back on track I knew that my 4th position was safe and I cautiously drove it home.

One of the funniest races I had for months!
Looking forward to race Tim and Peter again tonight at Nords!

 

[Neil Gault]

at last, i would like to apologize to Neil... we had a little tap in the last corner, i thought it was nothing, but in the replay i saw that i pretty much took him out... really sorry for that, hope we're cool

ye no worries, was going to reply to your sorry at the time but being a rfactor newbie i forgot how u chat in game :embarrassed: and my game crashed at the end of the race so i left before i wanted to. It was just one of those nights, even teamspeak was down for me, forgot about the ip change and rfactor has been playing up so i did not want to go to desktop to replace the teamspeak ip address.

I also spent a lot of time myself last night with my arse pointing the wrong way :embarrassed: I have only driven the rfactor porsche cars once before and that was with the PCC_997 mod and with it you have to work to keep your tyres cool but with this mod i had the opposite problem as my tyres were very cold. I also forgot to add the lines to the ffb ini file as i swapped from leoFFB just before the race, but from what little i have seen of this mod it has lots of potential and i look forward to getting to know it better.

 

[Ben Tusting]

Can someone pm the results please.
Thanx

 

[Amir Vodokotlic]

agh sounded like a good race...had to work but some of you are freaks the max I could manage was 2.02.x in practice while some of you were doing 1:59 :bashful:

 

[Ben Tusting]

I still need the results

 

[Kevin Ascher]

Come on guys can't we just put it together by everyone saying what he knows? Can't be that hard.