The Caterham 7 Nordschliefe 200kms. Race Finished.

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From my last practice session...solo at dawn...
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I'm out to much stuffing around learn how to organize things better, could have been good

Excuse me, who are you?

Sorry, but I don't recall you being in, I didn't get confirmation from you or any type of feedback.
So how about you help and give feedback rather than just be dis respectful.

Also, I don't recall you being in the race when we ran it last weekend after you posted that you would like to join in. And you haven't even sent me an FR. I think you should organise yourself first before you dish out rubbish.

Thanks for coming.
 
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Currently the race is underway, and yes I am here... DISCONNECTED!!

Got pole, and has just started my 4th lap about 50 secs up of 2nd place and again my Caterham hit mechanical problems.
Can someone trade me for one of theirs??

Thanks to those who showed up and good luck for the rest of the race into the darkness at The Ring...

I'll keep on trying... but the GT5 server is irritating man!
 
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I keep getting the timings wrong, thinking it was the next day, and what happened to the practice session for the morning of 30/03?
 
I keep getting the timings wrong, thinking it was the next day, and what happened to the practice session for the morning of 30/03?

Do you know what AEDT is? There was no planned practice for the morning of the 30th (not that I organised one) I am always at work at that time.

Seems you're getting very mixed up... don't know how, as your based in the same country as the timezone that I'm using.
 
Here's a quick race report by Rumbles!

Was a good race, pity you missed it MrTopCat. Flood came back from about 2m (after 2 laps) down to win the race. Bad luck Seido on your disconnect too, you were thrashing us.

Mini race report:

Lap 1: Was running OK considering I was running a transmission not set too well. Had a good initial battle with 11C. Pricy dropped off the pace really quick, then disconnected, bad luck mate sad
Lap 2: Not the best of laps, had a couple of off-road ventures trying to push too hard, but had another good battle or two with 11C (American GTP member).
Lap 3: Did an OK lap again, another couple of good battles with 11C but nothing more too eventful to mention.
Lap 4: Lost it hard a couple of times, dropped me back about 1 minute behind 11C, Seido disconnected, otherwise I would have been 1:50m behind the lead.
Lap 5: Pitted on this lap when I intended to pit on L6. Bad mistake!
Lap 6: Took over 11C as he pitted when I meant to, the plus side is I am now in the lead with a 25+ second lead!
Lap 7: Another few of off-road ventures, lead diminishing fast!
Lap 8: My lead has been driven out of me (my own fault), now down to 7 seconds. Another off and Flood, who has made up over 2 minutes and passed 11C now passes me. I really need to work on reducing the mistakes when I have pressure on me!
Lap 9: Flood pulled out to a 28 second lead, 11C about 15s ahead of me. My 1 lap premature pit has cost me big time; my arse doesn't want to hold the road & my tyres are suffering (the spins didn't help earlier). Damn bad 5/6 gearing is sticking it to me to the very end!

The up side is: I finally broke my podium cherry since becoming a member of ROOZ, third felt as good as winning big_smile I also found out after the fact that although I was running RM tyres, everyone else seems to have been using RS. At least I had some good pace considering the difference in grip levels, nice to finally have some pace lol

And even better, my Caterham is finally fully broken in, 206 BHP!

BTW Seido, it never became 'too' dark. It always had just enough 'natural' light right to the end, unlike when we raced the enduro at Le Mans. If the in-game race time started at 7:30 though, we may have seen full darkness smile
 
It was a good race, too bad Seido got disconnected. I don't know that any of us would have caught him though.

Good race report by Rumbles, great recovery and drive by Flood.
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Flood's Finish

The last two laps had some great battles for first and second.
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3 Way Battle for 1st

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More of the Battle

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Even More of the Battle

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Last Lap Battle for 2nd

The battles were clean, I don't think anyone bumped me the whole race. 1st through 3rd were separated by less than 30 seconds at the end!👍
 
Great Live, thanks for putting those pics up, awesome. Atmosphere looks great... just as I was hoping.

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks again for racing!
 
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