Japanese Classic Racing | Season Finale at Suzuka | 5th Nov '11
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Manuelos
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- Belgium
- GTP_Manuelos
My race report:
Lap 1-4: I start in 2nd place. I had a decent start and went into turn one still in 2nd place. I got a small push from "The_Boyce" but it didn't do any harm. "GTP_MadMax86" was out in front while "TeamLotus_Eclat" was having a fight for 3rd place with "The_Boyce"
For the next couple of laps, I'm trying to hold to "GTP_MadMax86", I'm 1sec behind, but I can't get any closer to make a move.
Lap 5: "The_Boyce" takes 3rd place and starts to close in on me while I'm still 1sec behind the race leader.
Lap 9: I'm running wide in the midlle of the track causing "The_Boyce" is within 1sec of me and I'm 2.2 behind "GTP_MadMax86" now.
Lap 13: "The_Boyce" is right under my wing now and he's looking to make his move. In turn 1 he passes me on the inside
Lap 14: While I try to keep up with 2nd place, he goes to wide in turn 1. I see me chance and I can outbrake him into turn 2 wich puts me back in 2nd place. While we were battling, "GTP_MadMax86" managed to create a 3sec gap.
Lap 15: I feel that I'm losing to much time while battling to hold on to 2nd place, I decide to pit.
Lap 16: I'm lucky when I'm leaving the pits, no slow traffic in front of me, and no one behind me. At that point I'm 5th.
Lap 17: I try to make up as much time as I can while I'm running all alone.
Lap 18: While "The_Boyce" is pitting I manage te sneak past him, only just
Lap 19: I manage to make a 1.5sec gap on "The_Boyce" because he's still on cold tyres. "GTP_MadMax86" is 3.3sec in front of me, while "Sumo098" (p1) and "TyrrellRacing" (p2) still have to make their pitstop.
Lap 20: Closing in on "TyrrellRacing" fast. I dive inside on turn 4 and grab 3rd place 3sec behind "GTP_MadMax86"
Lap 21: I'm trying to push as hard as I can to try and close the gap on the leader. While I'm doing this I have opened a nice gap on "The_Boyce" (+3sec)
Lap 22-25: I'm not really closing in one p1 and I have a nice gap on p3.
Lap 25: I finish 2nd, 2.134sec behind "GTP_MadMax86" and 2.720sec in front of "The_Boyce", and I'm quite happy with that result
Starting grid:
Turn 1:
Passing "The_Boyce":
Pitting:
Finish:
And some others I took:
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Lap 1-4: I start in 2nd place. I had a decent start and went into turn one still in 2nd place. I got a small push from "The_Boyce" but it didn't do any harm. "GTP_MadMax86" was out in front while "TeamLotus_Eclat" was having a fight for 3rd place with "The_Boyce"
For the next couple of laps, I'm trying to hold to "GTP_MadMax86", I'm 1sec behind, but I can't get any closer to make a move.
Lap 5: "The_Boyce" takes 3rd place and starts to close in on me while I'm still 1sec behind the race leader.
Lap 9: I'm running wide in the midlle of the track causing "The_Boyce" is within 1sec of me and I'm 2.2 behind "GTP_MadMax86" now.
Lap 13: "The_Boyce" is right under my wing now and he's looking to make his move. In turn 1 he passes me on the inside
Lap 14: While I try to keep up with 2nd place, he goes to wide in turn 1. I see me chance and I can outbrake him into turn 2 wich puts me back in 2nd place. While we were battling, "GTP_MadMax86" managed to create a 3sec gap.
Lap 15: I feel that I'm losing to much time while battling to hold on to 2nd place, I decide to pit.
Lap 16: I'm lucky when I'm leaving the pits, no slow traffic in front of me, and no one behind me. At that point I'm 5th.
Lap 17: I try to make up as much time as I can while I'm running all alone.
Lap 18: While "The_Boyce" is pitting I manage te sneak past him, only just
Lap 19: I manage to make a 1.5sec gap on "The_Boyce" because he's still on cold tyres. "GTP_MadMax86" is 3.3sec in front of me, while "Sumo098" (p1) and "TyrrellRacing" (p2) still have to make their pitstop.
Lap 20: Closing in on "TyrrellRacing" fast. I dive inside on turn 4 and grab 3rd place 3sec behind "GTP_MadMax86"
Lap 21: I'm trying to push as hard as I can to try and close the gap on the leader. While I'm doing this I have opened a nice gap on "The_Boyce" (+3sec)
Lap 22-25: I'm not really closing in one p1 and I have a nice gap on p3.
Lap 25: I finish 2nd, 2.134sec behind "GTP_MadMax86" and 2.720sec in front of "The_Boyce", and I'm quite happy with that result
Starting grid:
Turn 1:
Passing "The_Boyce":
Pitting:
Finish:
And some others I took:
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- Finland
- GTP_MadMax
Pretty much , overall good race for me without any off-track time.
This is what I remember from the race:
I got good launch into the turn 1 taking the inside line.
First couple of laps I went easy on the tyres just to get them warm up.
After that I did 1'09's till lap 9 , after which my lap times dropped to 1'10's .
On lap 17 (I think) I pitted for new tyres and came out of pits taking 3rd or 4th place.
Again few laps of tyre wam up and the rest gunning it to close in the 18 second gap to Sumo.
Once I was up to 2nd I started chasing Sumo , gaining about 0.7 per lap and in the last laps before he pitted I caught up to 1.5-2 seconds / lap.
Back in first place at lap 20 something , few more laps to go and I saw GTP_Manuelos closing in.
I focused on the driving , ignored splits and gap times just focused on the track.
Last lap , last corner I drove near the pit wall to greet the unexistent pit crew.
MadMax
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- xNikodemusx
Great stories and really nice pics (too bad i was too far behind to be in most of them). I think I'll have to change my story. I definitely didn't start 8th. I started last and I have no idea where I got that other idea from ^^ Anyway after the start crash I was really dead last.
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