ARCA Sim Racing

James Johnson · Oct 27, 2009

Christopher Aponte said:
well well
I cannot believe this
leading nicely most of the laps, then got screwed by my own teammate (the second time)........James your fired lol
manage to be in front of all accidents....had some really really close call and was able to save it
pushed together with pat up to the front...got bumped hard by adam...haha np....
just see when your getting to fast behind the person and use a bit just for a split second a bit of braking :wink:

with final 12 or so to go, saw a message of ben & james trying to go high on me....with their damage I said nah don't need to defend....but wrong...james pushed ben to hard which ben got my right quarter panel.....that send me to the wall with a flat front right on the backstraight...
waay to go James....super lol

in the end finished 8th 1 lap down.

grats Bert for the win...up to daytona

I didnt screw you the first time at talladega. ;o

Edit: BTW i actaully hit Ben off center on bumper and it wasnt actually a hard bump good ole Replays.

Christopher Aponte · Oct 27, 2009

lol
use brakes....always use brakes lightly and never lifting off the gas.....that is what I do and that is why I went pretty fast up front lol

if not mistaken the physics have been altered a bit that the car is a bit more sensitive to bumpdrafting......literally i think now you can get your hand out and spin others

James Johnson · Oct 27, 2009

Christopher Aponte said:
lol
use brakes....always use brakes lightly and never lifting off the gas.....that is what I do and that is why I went pretty fast up front lol
if not mistaken the physics have been altered a bit that the car is a bit more sensitive to bumpdrafting......literally i think now you can get your hand out and spin others

already working on my own setup for tona base is razor's but i dont like them too much now tbh.

Patrick van Driel · Oct 27, 2009

Ah! Good to hear Bert won :cowboy: Grats m8 well done !!
And Daytona will be mine :damnit:

Steven Palmer · Oct 27, 2009

really enjoyed the race last night. After a few early yellows, there was plenty of pedal to the metal green flag action. Had an unfortunate incident where I was bumped into the back straight wall pretty much killing the car (lost a good 5mph down the straights) but still enjoyed the sprint to the end after the last yellow. Daytona should be good. :good: WD Bert on the win. TS surely did help :wink2:

Jai Spencer · Oct 27, 2009

Yes thank you SIm Factory, my account can update again, but the install will just take time im affraid. Slow inter plus lots of updates, one after the other, i hope to be ready for next monday, but i have no way of telling if it will work again, gulp!
Wish me luck!

Jai

Ben Tusting · Oct 27, 2009

My plan worked,

Me and bert worked as a team at the end(I was screaming in TS HIT ME HIT ME

) so after he did hit me, we managed to get ahead of James, so just b4 the finish line i backed off so bert could win

grats Bert :good:

That was the best Arca race so far

Bert Van Waes · Oct 27, 2009

TX All, especially Ben...

What a last three laps that were eh... My god. When we crossed the finish line it was goosebumps everywhere. Bjorn screaming in the mic that i can do it, Ben directing me up front... Real good stuff guys!!

Indeed the first part was rather yellow, but the whole field felled pretty good. From 13th place i decided to follow James i think. And he had an amazing first few laps. Being just on his tail i was wright behind him on the first yellow. 9th place.

But after that yellow alot had a bad start and we were losing the first group, I was inbetween Gerard and Maurice, and Maus called me. To form a group. I tried but your car seemed to be to much damaged Maus, sorry mate.

After that lots of fights with Steven, wich eventually came to a hit from me to him. Like Christopher sais, the braking eh. Sorry Steven. Once you are in the drafting spot the car can just suddenly have something extra and hop, you tap the other just a nod to hard. And that was the case here.

Could avoid another biggy after around 40 laps or so. Eric, Bjorn etc... All had problems and it collapsed all at the same time, just infront off me. The road went clear after that and i was in 4th i think.

Last pit and i move up to second. Exciting. Last green was massive long almost 20 laps??! and man, i was losing places for like 15 laps long. Once you get on the outside it's hard to creep back in somewhere. But the fun thing was i put 5% more tape on my last pit. And it was helping.

In 8 position with some laps left, i tucked the inside, got into a slipstream, and started flying. Half a lap later i'm 3th, behind the fighting between James and Ben. And then it started...

Bjorn enjoying the race on the background, Ben shouting at me, others enjoying this too. All eyes on me from TS... Boy, that's nervewrecking man!!! lol. Eventually i picked up Ben's idea and wham, we choose the outside and went for it. 2 laps he had for coming back, and he did once, but not enough... Amazing stuff. It all fitted in for me yesterday. Tx guys, tx alot Chris for the patience etc

second win now in Arca but the first one is nothing compared to this one. Arca is going up a level in my book... WOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!:fwd:

Andrew Evans · Oct 27, 2009

cool report, as ever, dude :thumb:

Steven Palmer · Oct 27, 2009

Bert Van Waes said:
After that lots of fights with Steven, wich eventually came to a hit from me to him. Like Christopher sais, the braking eh. Sorry Steven. Once you are in the drafting spot the car can just suddenly have something extra and hop, you tap the other just a nod to hard. And that was the case here.

No problem Bert :good:

Bert Van Waes · Oct 27, 2009

Daytona next week

btw, did anyone say Days Of Thunder??

Bjorn de Haas · Oct 27, 2009

great race bert man you deserved it all the way and yes i was watching it with wooooow what is happening here. cant wait for the next one

Christopher Aponte · Oct 27, 2009

Monday November 2 2009 @ Daytona

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