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SCC - Ferrari 355 Challenge Series - Series Complete, results posted!
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good races last night , apart from the first race when my lovely wife decided to go through the filling cabinets looking for god knows what , and asking me all sorts of questions , and i really took my eye of the ball.
and looking at jeffs video im kind of glad i started near the front of the grid for the second race so i sort of missed out on the bump fest.
good times set by all i think .
ty jeff and look forward to spa , where i think my 3rd place will finally slip
and looking at jeffs video im kind of glad i started near the front of the grid for the second race so i sort of missed out on the bump fest.
good times set by all i think .
ty jeff and look forward to spa , where i think my 3rd place will finally slip
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Another enjoyable night's racing you guys. I came into it a little more confident because I like the track and had managed a lowish 1'43 during the bit of practice I got. As usual, I hadn't managed to do many wet laps so I was disappointed to see it was raining for the qualy laps but I was happy to end up with a 5th place position on the grid.
My start was good and I was right on the tail of Jeff coming into Cimini. I was planning to get a good run on Jeff on the following straight but in my eagerness I gave it too much welly on the exit of Cimini 2 and ran wide into the dirt. This allowed Kemp through and I ended up in a nice little battle with Bullie for a while. Eventually, I got clear and put the head down to catch up with Kemp. I made up a fair bit of ground on him and managed to pass when he went off around lap 10 or so. After that it was pretty uneventful as Jeff was around 12 seconds up the road and it stayed at that as we were running at pretty much the same pace.
I certainly couldn't say that the wet race was uneventful!!
In the first three laps I suffered from 3 seperate banzai attacks at the hairpin! Maybe I was being too cautious at it and leaving an inviting gap to aim at but in each case the kamikaze did kindly let me repass! Early on lap 3 I was up to 4th but then Bullie went off at Cimini and I arrived as he was coming back on to the track and I rear ended him. The collision sent me sideways accross the track and poor Jeff had nowhere to go so he broadsided me and ended up in 9th with myself behind in 10th. The incidents continued to occur! On lap 4 at Soratte I rear end Jeff and on lap 5 I come accross carnage at Compagano! I could see that a number of cars had gone off so I thought I would make up some places but as it happened I couldn't avoid colliding with Rhino after I found him stationary and sideways on the track!
After all that things started to go my way. I was in 9th and I managed to make a good pass on new_soul at the last corner and then kemp went off at Curva Grande so I was up to 7th. A couple of corners later I couldn't believe it when Bullie, Vompatti and Alan went off together and I was up to 4th behind A***re!!
4th became 3rd when A***re went wide at Soratte on the next lap but at that stage I knew I wasn't going to gain any further places as Fingers and Henrik were miles up the road. My hope was to hang on to 3rd but after a while I noticed that Alan had made his way up to 4th. At that point I remembered he had eaten his Galaxy bar before this race and I distracted myself wondering which Galaxy it was where he bought it!!
Needless to say he caught me but after all the madness I have to be happy with 4th particularly as the fastest wet lap I had done in practice was a 1'49 and I managed to do a 1'47 during the race!
Thanks again Jeff.
My start was good and I was right on the tail of Jeff coming into Cimini. I was planning to get a good run on Jeff on the following straight but in my eagerness I gave it too much welly on the exit of Cimini 2 and ran wide into the dirt. This allowed Kemp through and I ended up in a nice little battle with Bullie for a while. Eventually, I got clear and put the head down to catch up with Kemp. I made up a fair bit of ground on him and managed to pass when he went off around lap 10 or so. After that it was pretty uneventful as Jeff was around 12 seconds up the road and it stayed at that as we were running at pretty much the same pace.
I certainly couldn't say that the wet race was uneventful!!
In the first three laps I suffered from 3 seperate banzai attacks at the hairpin! Maybe I was being too cautious at it and leaving an inviting gap to aim at but in each case the kamikaze did kindly let me repass! Early on lap 3 I was up to 4th but then Bullie went off at Cimini and I arrived as he was coming back on to the track and I rear ended him. The collision sent me sideways accross the track and poor Jeff had nowhere to go so he broadsided me and ended up in 9th with myself behind in 10th. The incidents continued to occur! On lap 4 at Soratte I rear end Jeff and on lap 5 I come accross carnage at Compagano! I could see that a number of cars had gone off so I thought I would make up some places but as it happened I couldn't avoid colliding with Rhino after I found him stationary and sideways on the track!
After all that things started to go my way. I was in 9th and I managed to make a good pass on new_soul at the last corner and then kemp went off at Curva Grande so I was up to 7th. A couple of corners later I couldn't believe it when Bullie, Vompatti and Alan went off together and I was up to 4th behind A***re!!
4th became 3rd when A***re went wide at Soratte on the next lap but at that stage I knew I wasn't going to gain any further places as Fingers and Henrik were miles up the road. My hope was to hang on to 3rd but after a while I noticed that Alan had made his way up to 4th. At that point I remembered he had eaten his Galaxy bar before this race and I distracted myself wondering which Galaxy it was where he bought it!!
Needless to say he caught me but after all the madness I have to be happy with 4th particularly as the fastest wet lap I had done in practice was a 1'49 and I managed to do a 1'47 during the race!
Thanks again Jeff.
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👍 What a classic. I think you should add that one to your sig. 
You know, I REALLY wasn't doing it on purpose. But then suddenly it was working. So the only thing I can think of is that I misspelled his name--probably just transposed a letter. Since there's no history backlog in text chat (you can only see what was posted) I have no way of knowing WHAT I actually typed instead of Arvore. And I couldn't be bothered in trying dozens of combinations to try and figure it out. But needless to say, one of them is something the PSN finds entirely disagreeable.
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C'mon now Jeff we both know You programmed Your PSN chat to censor my name after that banzai move with 365 GTB\ 4 @ Infineon
P.S:Those were hard fought races,ahh good old days...
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Yeah. I mean, after the race I thought I may have been a bit clumsy, but I see from the video that on those occasions it was not really.
At 1:52, I went for a gap in the Esse, but the door closed, which you were probably entitled to do (although maybe you didn't notice my move). At 3:21, I saw you taking the inside line, so I decided to swing around the outside, but your car drifted a bit to the outside line into my line. Then at 3:33, when you did the amazing move on Derek, it looked like you'd continue around the middle line of the hairpin and I went to take the inside, but your car pulled sharply to the inside (probably to give Derek some space around the outside). So I suppose I classify the 3 of them as racing incidents.
Not absolving myself at all from bad driving in that race - in the incident when I hit Kemp, I definitely should have done better.
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Has anybody done any hot lapping of Spa yet? I don't think I've been on this track with the F355 in many months. I seem to remember a few of you had times on the leaderboards with the faster times being in the low 2:30s but I'm not sure if this is correct.
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I did check the times just today and yeah, fastest times were in the 2'30 (low I think) department. I didn't do hotlapping but I drove 355 Challenge Trophy Race that had Spa as one of the 3 races. Even though I felt that my last lap on the race came together quite nicely, the time in the end was 2'33. Not exactly competitive pace 
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No, I knew you were behind me. However you were much faster than I at those last laps and since it was so close to the end (2 laps if I recall), I thought it would be more wise to just let you go through rather than defending my position and risk an accident, which would ruined possibly our both races. At the time, it didn't make much difference from my point of view to finish either in 9th or 10th.
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Okay. Well, there was no risk for you to ruin my race, I succeeded to do that very thorough by myself in the first part of the race
Yes true, but it did played such a big role on the given scenario from my part, since that was my last Challenge Series race.
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I did a few laps on Sunday night after Vallelunga while I was "in the zone". The top 3 at that stage were Henrik with a 1'30.73 followed by Alan with a 1'31.00 and MHailwood with a 1'31.18.
After a while I managed a 1'31.39 but I'm sure it could be improved as I was a bit conservative through Eau Rouge and I hadn't made any changes from my Vallelunga setup.
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Apparently, a whole minute! Jeepers!
You must go through a wormhole or something.
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Aliens always find the wormholes!!
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I just thought it was easier because if somebody says "Jeff", looking at the list of awkward and lopsided PSN IDs, they might have no idea who 'Jeff' is. While on the other hand, calling somebody JJ when JJaisli is on the list would be more logical. I have no relation to this guy:
Although, I could think of worse analogies and drivers.
If 'Al' was short for Alien it should be written as "Ale". But this would be even more confusing as those who don't know Al(an) might think we were ordering drinks or accusing him of drinking. Things will become even more confusing in the coming months as people refer to him as "Bug" or "Beetle" or "Musca domestica Linnaeus". Or simply "The Fly". Needless to say, he did that one to himself.
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It's even worse than I realized. Some other (in)famous JJs include:
1) J.J. "Star Trek" Abrams
2) J.J. "Yee-Haw" Yeley.
3) J.J. Jan Johnston
4) And even Jimmie "J.J." Walker
D Y N O M I T E !
Hmmm..."Jeff" is starting to sound better and better...
1) J.J. "Star Trek" Abrams
2) J.J. "Yee-Haw" Yeley.
3) J.J. Jan Johnston
4) And even Jimmie "J.J." Walker
D Y N O M I T E !
Hmmm..."Jeff" is starting to sound better and better...
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