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Okay does that mean that points won't be awarded for last sunday's grand prix?
7th GTP F1 World Championship (F1 2010 edition) * SEASON FINISHED :'''( *F1 2010-2016
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Okay does that mean that points won't be awarded for last sunday's grand prix?
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Yep, nothing counts from last week, including my maximum 35 point haul 
EDIT:
I'm afraid that due to personal reasons, Jerry has had to pull out of our championship. We all wish him the best 👍
If anyone knows anyone who might be interested in this championship then please let them know about it. So long as they are clean racers, are committed and are likely to make an effort with the championship then they are most welcome.
EDIT:
I'm afraid that due to personal reasons, Jerry has had to pull out of our championship. We all wish him the best 👍
If anyone knows anyone who might be interested in this championship then please let them know about it. So long as they are clean racers, are committed and are likely to make an effort with the championship then they are most welcome.
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Hi guys,
sorry that i haven't uploaded the video yet but there is a lot of work in queue at the moment and at night I'm decorating the nursery for my son. But you know, if it would have been a real f1 championship race with points, the video would be online already ;-)
Best regards
DarkPSI
sorry that i haven't uploaded the video yet but there is a lot of work in queue at the moment and at night I'm decorating the nursery for my son. But you know, if it would have been a real f1 championship race with points, the video would be online already ;-)
Best regards
DarkPSI
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I would totally join this man, but I'm always @ work when you guys are racing
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Hey guys, recorded a 10% race around Melbourne....have a look and let me know what you think. It's also in 720P HD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF5em6IreA0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF5em6IreA0
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That's awesome quality Tom 👍
Hope you'll be able to get some footage of the race tomorrow.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
Just a message to all participants, the clocks move forward tonight in the UK so the race is effectively an hour earlier for everyone. I really hope everyone can make it because as you know Jerry has had to pull out of the championship and James can't make it tomorrow night either. I hope the other 10 racers will be able to make it though 👍
Also i'm not sure if i'll be able to start up the game at 19:30 bang on so please be patient if I am a few minutes late. Infact, if everyone could agree to the start time being moved to 19:45 just for tomorrow night this would help me a lot. Please let me know if this suits you.
Thanks
EDIT:
I'd like us all to welcome Shark33 our latest addition to the roster, and a veteran of the 6th GTP F1 Championship. He'll be joining Tom at team Jordan for the rest of the series.
Hope you'll be able to get some footage of the race tomorrow.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
Just a message to all participants, the clocks move forward tonight in the UK so the race is effectively an hour earlier for everyone. I really hope everyone can make it because as you know Jerry has had to pull out of the championship and James can't make it tomorrow night either. I hope the other 10 racers will be able to make it though 👍
Also i'm not sure if i'll be able to start up the game at 19:30 bang on so please be patient if I am a few minutes late. Infact, if everyone could agree to the start time being moved to 19:45 just for tomorrow night this would help me a lot. Please let me know if this suits you.
Thanks
EDIT:
I'd like us all to welcome Shark33 our latest addition to the roster, and a veteran of the 6th GTP F1 Championship. He'll be joining Tom at team Jordan for the rest of the series.
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GTP 7th F1 World Championship - Round 2 - Australia
Weather - Wet qualifying, dry race with light showers towards the end.
Qualifying Results:
Pole - Shaggy Alonso (Tyrrell) - 1:26.602
3rd. Baumi27 (Brawn) - 1:27.845
5th. - NumbPhase (Hesketh)- 1:29.613
7th. Tombrooks97 (Jordan)- 1:31.376
9th. Manios22DC (Brawn)- 1:33.125
Race Results:
1st. Shaggy Alonso (Tyrrell) - 42:36.063
2nd. DarkPSI (Benetton) + 3.2 secs
3rd. NumbPhase (Hesketh) + 71.2 secs
4th. Baumi27 (Brawn) + 76.2 secs
5th. Upuaut (Brabham) + 2 laps
6th. Tombrooks97 (Jordan) + 2 laps
DNF. Shark33 (Jordan)
DNF. DOUQA (Hesketh)
DNF. Manios22DC (Brawn)
Race Footage
courtesy of DarkPSI:
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3:
Part 4:
Race Report
Qualifying:
Qualifying was particularly dangerous this week given the rain and Albert Park's propensity for big accidents which are especially easy to make if you are a bit too eager on the exits of any of turns 4, 7, 10 or 13. The lap times amongst the leaders began in the 1:31's and came down dramatically as the rain eased off a little. For myself, I initially used a compromised set up for the unknown conditions and fuelled up for 3 flying laps. The first two were really banker laps but I ran out of room ahead on track at the start of my third so this became my in-lap. Going out again for the final run I opted for a more oversteery set up as the track was improving and even though the lap times came down, so were everyone else's and the battle for pole position looked really nip and tuck. Thankfully, I hooked up a good lap of 1:26 on my final run without any mistakes which was enough for pole.
Race:
Because of wet qualifying, all the drivers had the opportunity to run different race strategies. Since I had pole position and hopefully clean air, I decided to start on the primes - which also gave me insurance if I was getting held up by anyone on soft tyres that I could run in clean air once they'd pitted. I also knew i'd have to turn my engine down in the final third of the race so having the options on at this stage would hopefully negate this disadvantage. Most of the guys behind me seemed to go for the regular strategy of a short first stint on the options which worried me greatly as I knew i'd be at a pace disadvantage in this first phase of the race. What also worried me was the possibility of having a puncture in the middle of the race on the primes - it's probably not as disastrous if this happens near the end of the race because hopefully at that stage you've built up a lead over a lot of the guys behind.
Come the race start DOUQA lined up beside me in 2nd and seemed to make a better start, possibly having better traction out of those soft tyres. I should have moved right to cover him but instead opted to brake late on the outside and try to carry better speed through turns 1/2 so that I didn't get nailed in turn 3, but I clearly braked too late and ran wide onto the grass so Douqa had track position already on the run down to turn three. I let him go and decided to try and play the long game. For the next few laps I stalked Douqa with DarkPSI following close behind me after he jumped Baumi27 at the start. The 3 of us were covered by about 1.5-2 secs during this spell though it has to be said that it felt like DarkPSI was closer to me than I was to Douqa. My hope was to ride out this period where they had the initial grip advantage until their soft tyres started losing performance and mine came into their own. Dark seemed to be gaining on me heavily through turns 11/12 as my primes were just refusing to bite into the tarmac through this high-speed section.
I started to close up a little more on Douqa when disaster struck for him and he dropped it under braking for turn 3 so I took the lead with Dark close behind. Dark was holding on closely and was very hard to shake off which made that whole first stint feel a bit jittery. Had a couple of hairy moments when the Lotus of Shark33 spun on the exit of turn 3 which distracted me and I had a big oversteer moment, allowing Dark to close up again just as I had been eking out a lead. Also going through the final two corners there was contact between the back-markers of Upuaut and Manios22DC who both spun here though luckily were both quite easy to avoid and Dark behind me was held up possibly a bit more than I was.
By the time Dark pitted on lap 10 I had about 3 seconds over him but felt relief as I now started to stretch my legs as the lap times came down into the 1:26's. Luckily during this phase I didn't have any real issues with traffic. My tyres were starting to lose performance by about lap 17/18 under braking and I pitted on lap 19 and turned the engine down. I came out of the pits around 4.5 secs ahead of Dark who remained in 2nd but I had a big boost in pace and was able to go over a sec a lap faster on the fresh options despite the engine being turned down. I was able to build up the lead to around 8 seconds fairly quickly but it wasn't to be all plain sailing.It started to rain around lap 23 which could possibly have thrown a cat amongst the pigeons, though thankfully for me it was never heavy enough to have to switch to wet tyres.
I had a real heart in mouth moment with a few laps to go when coming up to lap tombrooks97, he didn't seem to realise I was close behind him and I had to really do a proper overtaking manoeuvre on him through turn 8. He then locked his brakes into turn 9 and punted me off track into the gravel though thankfully I kept the car facing in the right direction and was able to carry some forward momentum. This reduced my advantage over Dark to just 5 seconds and fuel became critical in the final 3 laps and I actually ran out on the final lap at turn 14 and finishing just 3 ahead which was a bit close for comfort but relieving none-the-less.
All in all an extremely tense hour's racing which felt much more like a real F1 race than Bahrain did - they were both brilliant in their own ways.
I don't really know what happened to Douqa, I remember lapping him when he seemed to just drive straight into the gravel at turn 3 to get out of my way almost as if he wasn't even trying to make the corner at all. He then left the race, the chat lobby and then logged off. I'd really appreciate it in future if people leaving could at least say something, even if only briefly to say what had happened. I know this isn't always possible but it would save me worrying whether or not they got disconnected or just decided to leave.
Manios totalled his car unfortunately so can't be included in the points. Shark33 seemed to give up half way through the race for some reason and carried on only as a spectator.
Unfortunately it looks like DonkeyFuzz may possibly have to pull out of the championship so i'm afraid we won't have any fancy points tables to use if this is the case. Here are the standings currently in any case:
Drivers Championship
1st. Shaggy Alonso - 60 pts
2nd. DarkPSI - 56 pts
3rd. Baumi27 - 42 pts
4th. NumbPhase - 34 pts
5th. DOUQA - 19 pts
6th. Upuaut - 16 pts
7th. Jerry786 - 12 pts
8th. Internet_User - 12 pts
9th. tombrooks97 - 11 pts
10th. Shark33 - 3 pts
11th. Manios22DC - 2 pts
Teams Championship
1st. Tyrrell - 72 pts
2nd. Benetton - 56 pts
3rd. Hesketh - 53 pts
4th. Brawn - 44 pts
5th. Jordan - 26 pts
6th. Brabham - 16 pts
Weather - Wet qualifying, dry race with light showers towards the end.
Qualifying Results:
Pole - Shaggy Alonso (Tyrrell) - 1:26.602
2nd. DOUQA (Hesketh) - 1:27.611
3rd. Baumi27 (Brawn) - 1:27.845
4th. DarkPSI (Benetton)- 1:27.906
5th. - NumbPhase (Hesketh)- 1:29.613
6th. Shark33 (Jordan)- 1:31.342
7th. Tombrooks97 (Jordan)- 1:31.376
8th. Upuaut (Brabham)- 1:32.170
9th. Manios22DC (Brawn)- 1:33.125
Race Results:
1st. Shaggy Alonso (Tyrrell) - 42:36.063
2nd. DarkPSI (Benetton) + 3.2 secs
3rd. NumbPhase (Hesketh) + 71.2 secs
4th. Baumi27 (Brawn) + 76.2 secs
5th. Upuaut (Brabham) + 2 laps
6th. Tombrooks97 (Jordan) + 2 laps
DNF. Shark33 (Jordan)
DNF. DOUQA (Hesketh)
DNF. Manios22DC (Brawn)
Race Footage
courtesy of DarkPSI:
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3:
Part 4:
Race Report
Qualifying:
Qualifying was particularly dangerous this week given the rain and Albert Park's propensity for big accidents which are especially easy to make if you are a bit too eager on the exits of any of turns 4, 7, 10 or 13. The lap times amongst the leaders began in the 1:31's and came down dramatically as the rain eased off a little. For myself, I initially used a compromised set up for the unknown conditions and fuelled up for 3 flying laps. The first two were really banker laps but I ran out of room ahead on track at the start of my third so this became my in-lap. Going out again for the final run I opted for a more oversteery set up as the track was improving and even though the lap times came down, so were everyone else's and the battle for pole position looked really nip and tuck. Thankfully, I hooked up a good lap of 1:26 on my final run without any mistakes which was enough for pole.
Race:
Because of wet qualifying, all the drivers had the opportunity to run different race strategies. Since I had pole position and hopefully clean air, I decided to start on the primes - which also gave me insurance if I was getting held up by anyone on soft tyres that I could run in clean air once they'd pitted. I also knew i'd have to turn my engine down in the final third of the race so having the options on at this stage would hopefully negate this disadvantage. Most of the guys behind me seemed to go for the regular strategy of a short first stint on the options which worried me greatly as I knew i'd be at a pace disadvantage in this first phase of the race. What also worried me was the possibility of having a puncture in the middle of the race on the primes - it's probably not as disastrous if this happens near the end of the race because hopefully at that stage you've built up a lead over a lot of the guys behind.
Come the race start DOUQA lined up beside me in 2nd and seemed to make a better start, possibly having better traction out of those soft tyres. I should have moved right to cover him but instead opted to brake late on the outside and try to carry better speed through turns 1/2 so that I didn't get nailed in turn 3, but I clearly braked too late and ran wide onto the grass so Douqa had track position already on the run down to turn three. I let him go and decided to try and play the long game. For the next few laps I stalked Douqa with DarkPSI following close behind me after he jumped Baumi27 at the start. The 3 of us were covered by about 1.5-2 secs during this spell though it has to be said that it felt like DarkPSI was closer to me than I was to Douqa. My hope was to ride out this period where they had the initial grip advantage until their soft tyres started losing performance and mine came into their own. Dark seemed to be gaining on me heavily through turns 11/12 as my primes were just refusing to bite into the tarmac through this high-speed section.
I started to close up a little more on Douqa when disaster struck for him and he dropped it under braking for turn 3 so I took the lead with Dark close behind. Dark was holding on closely and was very hard to shake off which made that whole first stint feel a bit jittery. Had a couple of hairy moments when the Lotus of Shark33 spun on the exit of turn 3 which distracted me and I had a big oversteer moment, allowing Dark to close up again just as I had been eking out a lead. Also going through the final two corners there was contact between the back-markers of Upuaut and Manios22DC who both spun here though luckily were both quite easy to avoid and Dark behind me was held up possibly a bit more than I was.
By the time Dark pitted on lap 10 I had about 3 seconds over him but felt relief as I now started to stretch my legs as the lap times came down into the 1:26's. Luckily during this phase I didn't have any real issues with traffic. My tyres were starting to lose performance by about lap 17/18 under braking and I pitted on lap 19 and turned the engine down. I came out of the pits around 4.5 secs ahead of Dark who remained in 2nd but I had a big boost in pace and was able to go over a sec a lap faster on the fresh options despite the engine being turned down. I was able to build up the lead to around 8 seconds fairly quickly but it wasn't to be all plain sailing.It started to rain around lap 23 which could possibly have thrown a cat amongst the pigeons, though thankfully for me it was never heavy enough to have to switch to wet tyres.
I had a real heart in mouth moment with a few laps to go when coming up to lap tombrooks97, he didn't seem to realise I was close behind him and I had to really do a proper overtaking manoeuvre on him through turn 8. He then locked his brakes into turn 9 and punted me off track into the gravel though thankfully I kept the car facing in the right direction and was able to carry some forward momentum. This reduced my advantage over Dark to just 5 seconds and fuel became critical in the final 3 laps and I actually ran out on the final lap at turn 14 and finishing just 3 ahead which was a bit close for comfort but relieving none-the-less.
All in all an extremely tense hour's racing which felt much more like a real F1 race than Bahrain did - they were both brilliant in their own ways.
I don't really know what happened to Douqa, I remember lapping him when he seemed to just drive straight into the gravel at turn 3 to get out of my way almost as if he wasn't even trying to make the corner at all. He then left the race, the chat lobby and then logged off. I'd really appreciate it in future if people leaving could at least say something, even if only briefly to say what had happened. I know this isn't always possible but it would save me worrying whether or not they got disconnected or just decided to leave.
Manios totalled his car unfortunately so can't be included in the points. Shark33 seemed to give up half way through the race for some reason and carried on only as a spectator.
Unfortunately it looks like DonkeyFuzz may possibly have to pull out of the championship so i'm afraid we won't have any fancy points tables to use if this is the case. Here are the standings currently in any case:
Drivers Championship
1st. Shaggy Alonso - 60 pts
2nd. DarkPSI - 56 pts
3rd. Baumi27 - 42 pts
4th. NumbPhase - 34 pts
5th. DOUQA - 19 pts
6th. Upuaut - 16 pts
7th. Jerry786 - 12 pts
8th. Internet_User - 12 pts
9th. tombrooks97 - 11 pts
10th. Shark33 - 3 pts
11th. Manios22DC - 2 pts
Teams Championship
1st. Tyrrell - 72 pts
2nd. Benetton - 56 pts
3rd. Hesketh - 53 pts
4th. Brawn - 44 pts
5th. Jordan - 26 pts
6th. Brabham - 16 pts
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So. I was too optimistic. I bought the game 2 hours before the race and had a problem with the settings. I tried to setup my new Fanatec wheel but it feels absolutely different compared to the G25. I forgot the ingame settings and the car was undriveable.
I went on 150 degrees, don't ask why. I was good with the G25. Not the fastest, but not like this. I'll try some setup and see how it works. If the problem won't be solved then I'll sell the wheel and the pedals. Or the game.
I went on 150 degrees, don't ask why. I was good with the G25. Not the fastest, but not like this. I'll try some setup and see how it works. If the problem won't be solved then I'll sell the wheel and the pedals. Or the game.
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So. I was too optimistic. I bought the game 2 hours before the race and had a problem with the settings. I tried to setup my new Fanatec wheel but it feels absolutely different compared to the G25. I forgot the ingame settings and the car was undriveable.
Oh dear Shark, I hope you're able to get your set up troubles sorted. I knew you must have had an issue because I remember you were one of the top guys in the last championship. Anyway, please don't sell the game! I'm sure you'll get there.
EDIT:
About to have a practice now for Sepang with Internet_User if anyone is interested.
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Hi @ all 
with little delay here is the hd video of our championship race in australia melbourne last sunday!
Thanks to Shaggy for the brilliant race report!
Thanks to all participants for having a great race! It was a pleasure to race against you all, it was fair and real f1 driving skills were shown by everybody!
I think this video is a real advertiser for our championship as it could be a real recording out of a f1 cam!
If anyone is interested in attending this championship, write a private message to shaggy alonso!
We drive without any driver aids and 100% fuel and grip simulation. So check our laptimes... ;-)
So enjoy the first 15 minutes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-wmEbb52wk
Best regards
DarkPSI
with little delay here is the hd video of our championship race in australia melbourne last sunday!
Thanks to Shaggy for the brilliant race report!
Thanks to all participants for having a great race! It was a pleasure to race against you all, it was fair and real f1 driving skills were shown by everybody!
I think this video is a real advertiser for our championship as it could be a real recording out of a f1 cam!
If anyone is interested in attending this championship, write a private message to shaggy alonso!
We drive without any driver aids and 100% fuel and grip simulation. So check our laptimes... ;-)
So enjoy the first 15 minutes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-wmEbb52wk
Best regards
DarkPSI
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That was utterly brilliant Dark! Fantastic quality, way beyond my expectations so thank you for this.
You're right about it feeling like a real F1 race. The first lap was extremely interesting to watch, you were really a lot quicker than me in that phase of the race but I'm proud of my defense as you were all over me like a rash at that point
Watching the first corner again, I'm actually quite glad I did run wide on that corner as DOUQA really owned it by the time we got to the braking zone. If I hadn't done this i'm sure it would have resulted in a collision.
P.S. I didn't realise just how much run off you could take for turn 11! I was cutting it a little from time to time but you were clearly taking much more speed than I was through there more often than not.
You're right about it feeling like a real F1 race. The first lap was extremely interesting to watch, you were really a lot quicker than me in that phase of the race but I'm proud of my defense as you were all over me like a rash at that point
Watching the first corner again, I'm actually quite glad I did run wide on that corner as DOUQA really owned it by the time we got to the braking zone. If I hadn't done this i'm sure it would have resulted in a collision.
P.S. I didn't realise just how much run off you could take for turn 11! I was cutting it a little from time to time but you were clearly taking much more speed than I was through there more often than not.
👍
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I can't tonight i'm afraid. I can do however tomorrow night maybe around 8:30-9:00 PM? Probably my last chance to practice for Sunday because of Mothers Day and all that. Tell me, is Mothers Day just a British thing and if not is it on the same date in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Canada etc.?
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8.30 Would be good anyone else up for it?
