RACE 07 Racing Club (Merged)

[Attila Domján]

Hya all

As a start lets kick some WTCC cars after the pause period.


Time: 19.00 GMT / 20.00 CET
Practise: 30 min
Qualy: 30 min
Race: 2*10 laps
Weather: Dry

Track: Istanbul
Cars: WTCC 06 and 07

Server name: RSC # RPMnet.org
Password: spa


Server 1 - RSC @ RPMnet.org #1

1. Attila Domján - Chevy
2. Gareth Hickling - Peugeot
3. Pauliebhoy Harrigan - Seat Leon
4. Gregory Degreef - BMW E90
5. Mehmet Arikan - Seat
6. Jerome Benard - Alfa Romeo
7. Cristian Haba - BMW E90
8. Christian Deparis - Seat 07
9. Jens Hoeppner - BMW E90
10. Patrick van Driel -Seat Leon
11. James Yates - BMW E46
12. Jari Vinnari - BMW E90
13. Marcel Hulsbergen - Alfa 156
14. Peter Böszörményi - Seat Leon
15. Kent Karlén - Chevy 07
16. darron miller - Peugeot
17. Michael Herrmann - Alfa 156
18. Nico Major - BMW E90
19. Rami Kaukola - BMW E90
20. Christopher Aponte - Seat LEon
21. Simon Trendell - Peugeot
22. big daddy Morpheus Lightning McQueen - car tbd
23. Baron-Rouge[NO-B] - Seat Leon
24. ingemar petersson Seat Leon
25. Nevermind - Seat Leon

Server 2 - RSC @ RPMnet.org #2

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[Adam Vaughan]

LOL Nice one Jason :L i thought the winner got the expansion pack?!

Me too. I prefer this way though. Just nice to now that just if you take part and have a clean race you may be rewarded. :good:

 

[Adam Vaughan]

Really want to do this. After the brands hatch indy race I thought if i dont win it im going to buy it. So iv just bought it and now just waiting to use it. If im up on friday night and theres space at the beginning of practice can i post here see if I can jump in guys?

 

[Mark Birney]

The purpose of it is to encourage racing, not winning. If 1st place wins it, people will be desperate to get 1st.

 

[Jason Parks]

Big thanks goes out to Race Department for this.......Although terribly slow, feel kinda bad for taking the prize!!!

Just goes to show even though 8 laps down, just keep plugging away!!!

Thanks to all who raced and again to Admin and ALL RACE DEPARTMENT DONATORS for making this possible.

 

[Simon Trendell]

This wasn't paid for by RaceDepartment donations

The moral of the story is never give up. This competition would not of gone ahead if the only way to do it was to give it to whoever finished 1st because there would of been mayhem on track and some people just would not have bothered turning up.

 

[Andrew Evans]

cheers nico, mate :thumb:

 

[Jason Parks]

This wasn't paid for by RaceDepartment donations

Lol my bad but cheers anyhow guys

 

[Adam Vaughan]

Big thanks goes out to Race Department for this.......Although terribly slow, feel kinda bad for taking the prize!!!

Just goes to show even though 8 laps down, just keep plugging away!!!

Thanks to all who raced and again to Admin and ALL RACE DEPARTMENT DONATORS for making this possible.

Lol. On the replay jason is hitting everyone off. Hes going past people side swipin the lot of em. lol Only jokin well done jason. I wouldnt of give up if I knew it was random but good idea simon.

 

[Dan Coldrick]

Gotta say that the wet track (combined with no practice :shock made it a tad difficult to work out the braking points so I think everyone was slightly more prone to mistakes involving other people. Was very surprised to qualify in P6 as I'd been running at the back for all of practice.
First lap I was tapped off in druids and lost a few places, down to 12th I think, but understandable in these conditions and not a problem . While I was focussing on the wet so much I managed to brake down to second gear for where the track joins forgetting it was the indy circuit :excruciating:

Caught up to 4th place through various mistakes from other people then slowly dropped down again while others moved up. Dan caught up to me and unfortunately I got a another tap - neeaarly managed to hold it but when I came to the grass between the kerbs I lost traction and span. Thanks for waiting though Dan If I'd realised you were quite as close as you were there I would have left a bit more space
As other people pitted I made it all the way up to third, but I think leaving it to lap 30 was a mistake as when I came out (near the back) my laps were quite a lot faster. Spent the rest of the race behind Neil G really, got lapped near the end and finished 8th.

Rather high rate of attrition in this one :th_dead:. Enjoyed it anyway since the wet mixed things up

Thanks for the race

Had a good battle with you Matt was good fun!

Sorry about the tap.

James, don't worry about tapping me. You were alot faster anyway, I was only holding you up.

Thanks for the race guys :clap:

 

[Simon Trendell]

Thanks for having me last night guys, I had great fun. Was looking forward to getting one up on Bram for beating me in the GT Sport race but unfortunately he had to leave

I had unusually good pace here but Falkenberg is a fantastic FWD drive track. Managed to get as low as a 49.7 in qualifying (there is a 49.5 there somewhere) for 1st on the grid, despite having my DSL connection reset 10 minutes before the end meaning I had to get another lap in.

Race 1 was a solid run, managed to get off the grid and into turn 1 first and pulled away. Peter was holding on but pushed slightly too hard and lost it, from there I kept it together to finish 1st.

Race 2, starting 8th of 9 in a very fast field, my aim was to try and get my first double victory
By the end of the 1st corner I'd managed to move to 3rd... just. Then set to work on catching Peter & Matt. As they battled I closed in, until I was close enough to have a go at Peter, but some excellent defending saw me take a good 7-8 laps to get past on the final lap of the race, a nice attempt to get 2nd back by Peter was seen off in the final corner to finish 2nd and therefore 1st overall in the points.

Again, thanks for having my insomniac self last night

 

[João Andias]

Will start with my usual thanking to the organizer (Simon Trendell) and RD for another fine event.

Competition
SEAT 2007 (T. Monteiro original skin)

Qualifying

Dumb me, I forgot it was superpole so only noted it when was already with car moving in the pit.

Went for it with fuel and setup to be fast on the 3rd lap, being superpole did my (secure) best on the 2nd lap, a high 49 wish gave me 2nd on the grid.
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Race

Surprise, surprise, the track was dump… decisions, decisions! Went with my dry setup with one more wing and slick tires.
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With the dump track the BMWs (RWD) on 2nd and 3rd row jumped right in front and I dropped to 5th straight away.

Until the 5th lap the race for 2nd and positions after was kind of a scrap, with many mistakes and very close racing between many racers. All the time Henrik Horvath was building an impressive lead.
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After that 5th lap the things settled for me and I was left in 3rd with Mikael’s BMW right in front. We had an interesting and close run for many laps after. I didn’t want to disturb him much as I though the race for 1st (unless something strange happened) was lost and wanted to open a gap to the 4th, Mark Birney’s Honda. We stayed like that (the gap was sometimes 1.5 secs, others .2 secs) until he went to the pits on lap 28.

I stopped on lap 30 and did a mistake entering the pits (I was used to a dry entering) the result was a damage suspension.

Changed the tires and entered the track right after Mikael’s BMW (2nd) and just in time to see his bad luck wile lapping Pascals Cerqueira. This last made a typical FWD mistake at turn 1 and after hiting the protection his car was catapulted back into Mikael’s BMW. Has I avoid the 2 I could see in my rear view the BMW had lost its front splitter.

Right there I knew the much awaited (by me) fight for the 2nd place was not meant to be
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With the 1st 35 secs in front and the 3rd without the front splitter I just cruised around and the only thing demanding my attention was my damage front left suspension, as the SEAT was not behaving well wile braking in the bump going back into the large circuit (last S).
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Comes the end of the race I was 2nd with the 1st almost a lap away and the 3rd over 20 sec behind.

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All in all, a nice race, the dump track throw the things a bit out of the deck.
My "fight to be" with Mikael Hellen never sow its finish and I would have preferred to be 3rd (for instances) but with a good fight with him to the end .

Thanks to everybody that participated, a big congratulations to Henrik as he was in a class of his own (there were times he was faster a full second than anybody else) and congratulations to the other podium finisher (Mikael).

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[Gary Lennon]

Well Done Jason Parks :good:

Hope you enjoy your new STCC add on,and i think the method of choosing the winner was spot on too,great job Simon setting all this up :good: .

 

[David Garcia]

Ryan and David come on? you cant sign out 1 minute before the start

I know and I am sorry, but I had to stay at work later than supossed to.

I really made some laps last days to prepare the race but luck was not with me today.

Sorry again, next time I will post it earlier.

 

[Gary Lennon]

A new track for me to learn,but im sure anywhere is good in them lovely R8's , Sign In.

 

[João Andias]

João Andias
to forbid NO CHAT Grrrrrr mix me..Seee you Forum rules.No race chat :sinister::sinister:

Hmm... this isn't exactly my 1st race, and I never received a complaint before.

I don't "chat" in qualification much less in race.

I thank you for pointing me the club rules, but I fail to see where I am in breaching of them.

I do however thanks people who for some reason or another facilitate my (virtual) race experience and excuse myself to those I somehow prejudice.

Even in RL (I was) I'm like that (will always be) and the only thing I can think of is if any of the administrators think my “auto-chat” (key–bind) typing is too long, I will likely change to something shorter if asked.

Right now they are bind to "Thank you " and "Sorry “.

I've a few other binds, but didn't use any of them in this race.

Some of them are specific for certain race situations and are a bit longer, I’ve used them in other (but) longer distance race events in RD and SRSG and no one complained (there is always a 1st time I have to admit).

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...3 laps to go, another Seat comes chraging behind, wasn't sure what to think as I was focusing on keeping the Honda behind, but when the Seat was only a few metres away, I get a Blue flag, try to get off the line, and the car snaps, hit a wall, and luckily back to the track. Lost my place to the Honda though...

That would be me; I was 2nd and was observing you 2 guys fighting for 4th/5th for some time. When your lap times started to drop I didn't want to lose my concentration and go higher then low 51s. So I decided to move on and give a lap.

Because of those situations, and since sometimes the in-game blue flag system is a bit " retarded" I use a quick wheel button to look behind and I race with TAGs on (they have name and classification in them).
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All the same, sorry for somewhat disturb your fight

 

[Adam Vaughan]

I think alot of people just prefer less chat if none at all. I think warning peopl of a bad accident or saying sorry is ok. i read it somewhere cant remember though. If I find it Ill post it but If you didnt no then its not your fault.

Edit: found it its in the League regulations download

Link: http://forum.racedepartment.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2

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To avoid drivers being distracted from racing chatting must be reduced to the
minimum. This means that no one is allowed to chat during qualification and race
session, unless he has important information. During pre-qualification, practise and warm
up sessions chatting is allowed.
When a race has ended and all drivers have finished, drivers are allowed to chat again.​

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- “Entering Pit Lane”
- “Leaving Pit Lane”​

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“Slowing to the Pit”
- “Damaged and Off Pace” (Advised when you are severely damaged)
- "Pass Me" (Also allowed in combination with directions and a driver's name)
- “Sorry” (In case you really are sorry)
- “CAUTION!” (In case of a major incident that is potentially dangerous for other drivers)
We advise drivers to preset these as quick-chat messages in the game.​

This article is an exception to the previous article.

 

[William Yunck]

Really want to do this. After the brands hatch indy race I thought if i dont win it im going to buy it. So iv just bought it and now just waiting to use it. If im up on friday night and theres space at the beginning of practice can i post here see if I can jump in guys?

Yes, join in Adam.

 

[João Andias]

Those are more or less is my kind of "auto-chat" binds with a few minor fluctuations.

The biggest absentee is a thanking "auto-chat", but if those are the rules and an administrator asks me, I will never thanks in an RD event again.

It wont be fun, because even on my RL racing days I would thank other racers as soon as I could no matter what. Now comes virtual racing, and there goes the gentlemen racer.

Guys this isn't judgment day, one has to be cool and as the great Fangio more or less said, "he was a tad bit quicker when he finely learned not to grip the wheel with so much strength and not grinding his teeth" and he raced (quick and) relaxed during his many racing events.

Keeping it short, if a racing club administrator tells me not to thanks, I won't, in Rome, be Roman, I can leave with that...:wink2:

 

[Adam Vaughan]

I no what you mean and I also like to say thanks.

 

[Simon Trendell]

A "Thanks" bind can be replaced by a flash of the lights in most cars (F3000 excluded for example).

Pit In & Out - Do we need them? If both cars are aware of each other then there shoudn't be a problem.