A good nights racing:D
Qualified 7th, just outside my PB.
A reasonable start gave me an initial dice with Ben & Mille and after extricating himself from last place 'Somebody' (SB) caught up by lap 8. He overtook me at the line at the end of lap 11 but I nipped inside under braking for T1 to regain the place. Ben & Mille were still in sight some 3 secs or so in front. Mille pitted early and SB got by again on lap 13 so I decided to pit, coming out some 30+ secs behind and some 14 secs in front of Mille, who over the next few laps brought my lead to less than 10 secs.
I was trying to maintain a decent pace whilst conserving the right front. Had to keep reminding myself not to push too hard.
By the end of 23 SB pitted and I had managed to get in front by nearly 4secs.
Only 10 minutes to go and I had more glances in the mirrors than on the road ahead!
By lap 25 the gap was less than 3 secs.
By lap 26 it was less than 2
By lap 27 I had maintained the gap and for the first time the tyres were good. Very thin but very green.
Lap 28 the gap-1.3 secs, Ben pitted so I gained another place & HerrnRettichsDad ran out of fuel.:sad:
Lap 29 and the hour is up, but I've still have another lap to do and 'Somebody' is right up my chuff 0.28 secs behind.
At the very end I held him off by 16/100ths of a sec and in 5th place:yahoo:
Congrats to Manny and all who finished. Great racing :D
Qualified 5th and got passed Ben into T1 on lap 1, that was my only position change for the race :). It was a good race though, had Ben hounding me for the first 20mins or so until his tyres got too hot and I started to pull away. I didn't have the pace to hold on to Dee and Deetz up ahead, they pulled out a few tenths on me every lap. Set my tyres to change at 50% wear which caused me to get a new front left at my pitstop, made no real difference for better or worse, just lost a couple of seconds on Dee.
Good combo, had some nice races through the week.
Well done to Manny, Deetz and Dee. :yahoo:
Qualified third but got pushed wide into the first corner back to fifth behind Sean, I pushed him for a while until my fronts overheated and wouldn't cool down for the rest of the race, I managed to keep Somebody behind me during the middle section of the race which was fun until he pitted, I pitted with five mins to go and sat there whilst the tyres got changed for no reason and lost two more places to finish seventh.
Stupid faulty tyre physics made this combo frustrating, I wish Scawen would pull his thumb out of his bum hole, this long awaited update is getting boring now.
Yea.. what a lovely race!
Connected to the server about 60 sek. before the race started, and missed the qualy. But then i hadn't any pressure on me at the start, and started to chase the others. HerrnRettichsDad braked to late at some corner and i passed him, and then i catch up Slider, and passed him too aftar some chasing.
Then the real fun begun.. had some nice fight with Lameduck for som laps, and we passed eachother some times, until he pitted. Then i was closing in to Jamin. Had some realy nice battle with him for several laps, then i hit some tyres at the last corner/chicane before the oval-sector, and it became some gap between us again.
At that time Dee was close behind me, and i knewed he allready had done the pitstop, so i decided to do my pitstop and not holding him up.
Then the stupid pitcrew started to repair some minor damage, that i diidn't even was aware i had.... had forgot to check if repair was on/off :doh:
And i come out behind Lameduck, and started to hunt him again.
Tried a little too hard at first, and did some mistakes then, so i "slowed down" and then my laptimes come back again..
Saw Jamin pited, and he had the same stupid pitcrew as I had, so i passed him when they changed his tyres...
At the same time i was closing in at Lameduck and cathed him at the last lap, but couldn't overtake him, so he was in front of me, when we passed the finishline...
Very nice battles there with Lameduck and Jamin.. :) and thanks for a very "kul rejs".. :byebye:
Good race despite the locked diff thing!
I enjoyed the first 25 minutes very much, nice fights with Somebody and Lameduck (who gave me a really hard time to pass, I only managed when he went wide), then I was closing on Jamin when... I remembered I had to take the key off the door to let my wife in later on.
I used an early pitstop and raced to the door, but it cost me around 20 seconds I think.
I tried to get back on Lameduck after that, digging into the gap down to 10 seconds, but then killed the engine downshifting into T2.
After that I was able to do 2:03s at best, a pity because the tyres were starting to cool down nicely.
Boring second half hour, empty glass (silly long straight :D), popcorn engine... but I brought it home!
Thank you very much Easyed for the setup, it was a very good base!
Congrats all, Manny was way too fast this time.