Nice race guys, had some fun there… an interesting and different track for sure.
For a
Nordschleife “lover” like me, I liked the fact that the track had a good “
flow” (the corner sequence), was
narrow, but all in all, at the end, I was bit
dizzy with those 52/53 secs per lap
Race 1Started 5th on the grid, after a so-so start managed to keep my position (as I think there was carnage behind me). This race was a bit lonely and spent most part racing alone in 5th. After the DNF of one of the front runners went 4th and 4th it was my final position. A natural one if a may say as the 2 front runners were .4 of second faster than me per lap, and the 3rd .2 of a sec faster, so in normal conditions I wouldn’t be able to catch them.
Race 2With the grid inversion started 5th and did a bad start dropped to 8th right away. Within a few laps, others misfortunes climbed to 5th. From here was involved in a fun race long battle with Jan Wikströn. His car was faster on the tight parts (the chicane) but I was confident with my straight line speed and the capacity of arriving quicker to the 1st corner. Had some intense moments there with him (later with Paulo too) and like many had also bad luck with some of the lappers (I even received a full broadside and my car was airborne for a few meters at a certain lap), but I guess it could have been worst and at the end I settled for the 5th stuck behind Paulo.
My direct thanks to
Jan and
Paulo, for a
clean and
fun battle (2nd race) and also
to all who participated.
Congratulations to the
winners (individual races and overall).
...If I was getting lapped and saw 3 cars steam training towards me I would get the hell out of the way even if it costed me 10 seconds. Cause you do not want to end a few peoples race let alone DECIDE the outcome of a race…
I know what you mean; I was
4th in the middle of a battle and was hit on my side by the
15th when he was going a lap down…
I was even luckier earlier as by lap
3 or
4 (yes, already) the
22nd (from memory) completely crossed my front at turn
1 without touching my car (like in a movie) when he was going a lap down.
One wonders, why was the
22nd trying to break test the
4th? The truce is, he was out of control already a few meters earlier…
the machine was taking the driver, not the other way around
Although one sees
"red mist" at the precise moment,
%$&#ing at the screen and such, one has to remember that any of those guys didn’t do it on purpose (at least with me) and I bet they are even more
gutted with the situation that I (who was on the receiving end) will ever be after a few mins.
Also (I think) we have to be sure not to scare good potencial on-line racers away, something in likes of the below attitude:
“At that club they are all addicted and go too fast and above all want me to get out of the way”
“Wish I nervously do but I end up always trashing someone”
“Damn… I better keep away from on-line racing”
The track was kind of hard for the newbie,
narrow,
quick,
short lap so
the potential for trouble was really there, I’m sure the decision to race there had into account the
spice up it would come from giving laps to delayed racers.
Being a
chronic positivist, I’m sure those who did a few mistakes gained some experience from them and next time they will be better racers.
Although there were people circulating
20 sec slower per lap then most at that race, when I type “
better racer”, obviously I’m not speaking of how quick one is… yes, you all guessed,
gentlemen driver gents:bye:
