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Steady.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
sounds like it was a good one
anyone get replay footy?
Start: 10
Finish: 8
Ugh first off, I have to apologise to Jerry in the Renault. I just
plain underestimated how heavy my Lotus was from fuel, Prime tires,
and large brakes. Completely buggered up T1 for two drivers. No one likes to be the jerk who mucks up T1 and this race that was me, unfortunately.
Anyway let's get ready for everyone to have his feelings hurt next week, because we are heading to the blue-walled hell of Valencia. No run offs, no escape, killer oversteer on off-camber corners coming up
EDIT: Can I just add that on my last flying qualifying lap that Jerry was sitting on the racing line down the back straight doing about half my speed which ruined by best lap
Gutted not to have had another lap to catch the other two and reclaim 4th and also gutted to have the mistake that lost me 4th in the first place.
Also, tombrooks committed a dodgy move at the chicance on the last lap where he simply ran wide through it, preventing any chance for me to catch him and letting him almost beat Baumi too. I don't know whether this was simply missing a braking point but being the last lap and that situation obviously makes me suspicious. I hope this isn't a regular occurence.
I purposely slowed down to let you through as i was on my outlap, im pretty certain i was off the racing line
There was no need for the mini outburst on Mic, not cool.
At the run down to turn 1 I accidently nudged into the back of kcheeb who seemed to have a slow start off the line, lucky it was fine and he carried on going straight. Then at turn one two guys spun out clipping kcheeb and sending him off track too. My only option was to cut that corner and kcheeb did the same. I came out infront of him but left him take back his position. Recieved a penatly off the game for illegal overtake though .
Kcheeb and Tom's pitting then allowed me to catch up with them as I started on the primes. I managed to get infront of kcheeb after he seemed to let me pass (maybe he thought I was Pipeslice or one of the front guys) and managed to build a gap which I then ruined on my in lap .
Managing to catch back up with kcheeb and I could see a battle brewing up like in our practice yesterday. Luckly and in a way unluckly for me he then pitted allowing me the easy pass.
I ended up 5th only a few tenths behind teammate Baumi but I felt I could have managed 4th as I was on a much better lap at the very end of the session but I baulked at the last chicane when I found Mutu travelling very slowly on the racing line and in the braking zone for the chicane. Although I didn't hit him or anything (he was ghosted) it really put me off and I ended up invaldating the lap in the chiance.
Ah well.
I had my pit stop (although it was a buggy pit stop, where the game decided to spin my wheels all the way down the pit lane) and continued for a good 5 or so laps until...
But pipeslice was all over the place in front of me and I was left with no choice but to avoid him and almost overtake him (and he almost pushed me straight into the wall at one point). I'm happy to let people past to lap me but I do have my own race going on and I don't appreciate being forced into the wall. If you are going to lap me, be prepared for me to unlap myself because I'm not going to hang about behind being slowed up.
I think these are a little harsh words as i made a genuine racing mistake.when i over took you i messed up my braking for the next corner causing me to go wide and then in eagerness to get going quickly i oversteered heavlily on the exit,a very common error.If this nearly put you in the wall then im sorry but it was never intentional.Also
if i make a big mistake after lapping you like i did, i would alsways expect you to overtake me back,and i would then have to re catch and overtake you again.
Qualifiying:
It was in the wet so it was always gonna be difficult.I knew from some posts Darkpsi was fast but boy was he fast.I managed a 1:14.2 i think
and Darkpsi did a 1:14.0 so it was close but i knew from my pace that he was very fast in a certain part.( the last chicane).
Race:
Got a good start was in second behind Darkpsi and was nt involved in any incidents with anyone at the start.It was apparent that DarkPsi was very fast from the start.I made a few minor errors on the first couple of laps letting him create a gap of 3-4 seconds.I monitored my pace with Darkpsi through every lap,and i could match him around most of the track but every time on the last chicane he would pull out atleast 0.5 sec on me ,which i just could not get my head around,i kept on saying to myself he must be cutting the corner ,and then it became clear at the end of race that Darkpsi had got 40 secs penalty for cutting corners and 10 secs for pitlane speeding.I know Alot of people like Montreal but for me its not that great, theres just to many corners that feel like they could be cut.Anyway theres not much else to say about the rest of my race just stayed in second counting down the laps,just the one issue with ardius but thats it.
look forward to next week.
I'm not looking to cause an argument and it's over now anyway but I was quite frustrated hence the mic outburst but I apologize if i'm wrong but from my point of view it was on my line, see you in Valencia! 👍
1:19:906 Jerry_ORUK
thanks man - watching qual now
wow Ken you are driving so much better that when you first joined - brilliant. Some great racing with Baumi at the end of the first video there.