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Phew, thank god!

After reading all this stuff about the race I am so so so glad....


....to see you can have fun without me! I must say I was a bit getting tired on having to "pull the cart" all the time, because sometimes you are a tough audience. :tumbleweed:

But I do my best as I like to say. :boxing:

Congrats to all who finished and .... finished! :woot2:

Congrats Scratchy with your win! :stroke:

L56 Out....

I'm taking a week off. With force feedback disabled I managed 3 3rd places driving with 1 hand, whilst the other was petting a cat, playing the piano or... I rather not tell that....okay, you win, while the hand was suppressing a yawn.

Racing while being able to follow the Turkey-Croatia match on television is not racing.

The only excitement is the start and pitting. A total waste for this great car. Esp seeing that the UF1000 is next :-/

Hmmm... How come I am 2 seconds faster in the 1 hour race, with a full tank, than I've been all week? Must be the wind!

The wind of luck was good for me also. I spun in lap 8 or 9, loosing a place to OldBloke and seeing Verner disappear in the distance and had to calm myself down. Took the place back from Oldbloke and thanks to his and Lameducks misfortune the gap became large enough for me to spin again without loosing places this time. Well, I lost it to Verner, but he had just pitted and I still had to, so he would have overtaken me anyway.

Quite happy with 8th place (I believe) some of the front runners ran into punctures, chicane barricades, each other or a combination of those and I settled into 6th place. Then Verner must have made a mistake because the 20 second gap all of a sudden was 5 seconds. I caught up to him and wasn't too keen on overtaking, because we were comfortably going around, with no treads from the back.

Would I be in front of him, I would start pushing myself over the limit. Sadly (and to my luck) he missed T1 and with a 10 seconds gap I went into the last few minutes of the race and finished 5th.

I understand that this was only possible because we missed some of the fast ones like Venca and Romus. Where was yous!!?!?

Good race all! Enjoyed it and it definitely did NOT feel like an hour. AT ALL!!!

L56 Out...

For once, I will kick it off then!

For me it was a relatively easy and uneventful race. Qualifying almost last, driving up to 12th and being tapped around - by a person who did it several times that race and called them "racing incidents" :g:- at the start of the race didn't change much for the end result.

I fought my way back up and benefitted from other's back luck (including a certain disconnect, leaving me with more points of which the irony does not get lost on me). At the end I finished 9th.

9th was the best I could do. I had a 30 second gap to number 8. The last 20 minutes I saw Vobler reeling me in and then letting me go if I was some kind of fish. I do smell though...I felt *relatively* save, because with Vobler you never know.

Recap: Didn't look forward to the combo, but in the end I'm satisfied with the result. Good racin' all!

L56 Out...

And here is my angle:

Had a fairly uneventful race, but not to say I didn't have fun! Because from last weeks early retirement to this finishing was a world of difference.

Yes, I got lapped a lot, but I also lapped a lot myself which went very well. The only scary point was wen Venca and Deetz were about to lap me. Try finding a point to let them pass without ruining their great race (judging from then spectating doorman's lively comments about it) was very difficult and it was the only time I felt a bit uneasy because I really wanted to not get in between that. Yes, Willi was winning, but the fight (and possible loss) was elsewhere.

I pulled away from Oldbloke fairly early in the race. He luckily converted back to mediocre level :byebye:from last weeks alien status to give me a race. The last 15 minutes he was gaining on me. I was being lapped by aquilifer, and he was being lapped by Iron, but then Aqui unlapped himself again as Iron became slower and Aqui's pace suddenly also dropped. But to a point that they were driving around each other in different laps and actually holding me up. Not their fault, but because I'm not a fan of unlapping myself with the possible concequences of that, I stayed behind them, watching Oldie get closer and closer.

But time was on my side again and I crossed the finish line before he got dangerous (which seems to be always at the end of the race for me)

My final position was 11th and as Oldbloke said "the first looser" becuase there are no points after 10th. Thanks mate!

Anyway, I didn't look forward to the race after last weeks, but everyone was brilliant and I only messed up once and didn't even spin the car more then 90 degrees. I'm still pleased!

(....that my competition didn't score any points either)

And here entereth L. Head held down in shame....trying to make excuses for his mazely 10 minutes of his - what should have been a - race...

I deliberately qualify at the back becuase I'm have afastacargorafobia (being scared amidst large groups of fast cars) and then trying to make up for it during the first few laps. I expected this race to be a repeat of the previous races to have a battle up and around Oldbloke and BigFatCat. Oldbloke however turned alien and qualified somewhere in the top 5....and BFC was nowhere to be seen either. Anyhoo: I started my race, second to last, just before RocketRon....

At the start I think I overtook Doorman and oOOOOooOOo00OOO000oooo (Ben for insiders) and all was well, until Slider46  took out Vobler, I had to lift off and immidiately Doorman overtook me (overtaking under yellow! Boooo! :boxing:) and RocketRon was not far behind. I put in persuit and soon found I was faster than Doorman at most corners, but as the saying goes....it's no use being fast if you're stupid.

I pulled up along Doorman in lap 4 or 5 (excuse me for my poor memory but I'd rather forget this race anyway) to find the door rightfully kept shut and instead of backing off I pushed too far with me ending up in the barriers, nearly missing one car and hitting RocketRon (sorry 'bout that)

I had to limb a whole lap back to the pits for repairs. By this time I was lapped and so I rushed out of the pits, confident the race was not over. Well, something was over! That being my speed over the speed limit in the pits. So I had to do a drive through which went just dandy. :ranting2:

To make an already long boring story a little longer: I spun again, having to wait people go by (I was already 2 laps down) and then I spun again and saw -what looked to me- 120 yellow triangles coming my way. The safest thing was to sit tight and let all of them pass at which point my hearth sank and I couldn't motivate myself any longer seeing I was also over 45 seconds behind my next opponent. I already felt like a accident waiting to happen over and over again, so it was best to pull out.

And what is worse than feeling like a miserable git? Being a miserable git and see others have fun so I just had to run out before anyone saw me cry! God I hope no one saw me crying! :crying:

Sorry about that. Better luck next time.

[Seriously, my cheeks hurt from smiling and my stomach hurts from laughing. This was a funny night! .. :roflmao: and the races were good too]

Originally posted by delanvital@Feb 4 2006, 12:11 AM
Seriously, my cheeks hurt from smiling and my stomach hurts from laughing. This was a funny night! .. :roflmao: and the races were good too

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  No, thank YOU!!! It sure was a great night! For a Friday night worth of holding plastic steering wheels, that is!

L56 Out...

p.s. Hello?