16-02-2015, 07:56 PM
Hi
New Player in a new league!
Qualifying:
Qualifying went well. For some reason I was faster on Race day than in practice. Set a good banker lap at the beginning of the session. 2nd run did not better it. Started appropriately mid field.
Race1:
Started well and managed to move up a bit. I think there was a bit of rubbing turn 2, and ended up between Jerry and Andi. Outbraked myself at Parabolica on lap 2 letting Jerry by, however I was able to out accelerate past Jerry again on the straight, and started to pass Andi from the draft, both cars in 5th gear 178 mph, when Andi moved to the right(not sure why as there was plenty of room) and I get punted off course and down the blanked off banking lane of the old track?? Can't go forward or backward without a DQ. Race done.
Race 2: Started at the back. Reached turn 2 just as all havoc breaks loose. Although not being able to avoid some crashing cars, I was able to get through. I was keeping up when Dave came up to pass me, he said he misjudged the braking and I was bumped head on into the end of the guard rail. After that the car was slower and steering not feeling right so I made a pit stop for a 125 second repair and tires. On exiting the pits and getting back into track, all of sudden someone was swerving to miss me and some how managed to come back and collect my car for another big off. Got back on and was following the other car until someone else had an altercation with the two us before turn two which caused another off again and hit again by someone who could not avoid our spinning cars.
Carried on after that, but car was 10-15 kmph slower on the straights and 2-3 seconds slower on the lap time to finish 11th.
I had hoped for a better showing.
Thanks to Nikos and Paul and anyone else who helped to get me in the race. Nikos was a great help.
For,whomever does the League website access, I still cannot get access to the League website to add a profile. Don't know why, but I get an access denied reply when I try to log-in?
New Player in a new league!
Qualifying:
Qualifying went well. For some reason I was faster on Race day than in practice. Set a good banker lap at the beginning of the session. 2nd run did not better it. Started appropriately mid field.
Race1:
Started well and managed to move up a bit. I think there was a bit of rubbing turn 2, and ended up between Jerry and Andi. Outbraked myself at Parabolica on lap 2 letting Jerry by, however I was able to out accelerate past Jerry again on the straight, and started to pass Andi from the draft, both cars in 5th gear 178 mph, when Andi moved to the right(not sure why as there was plenty of room) and I get punted off course and down the blanked off banking lane of the old track?? Can't go forward or backward without a DQ. Race done.
Race 2: Started at the back. Reached turn 2 just as all havoc breaks loose. Although not being able to avoid some crashing cars, I was able to get through. I was keeping up when Dave came up to pass me, he said he misjudged the braking and I was bumped head on into the end of the guard rail. After that the car was slower and steering not feeling right so I made a pit stop for a 125 second repair and tires. On exiting the pits and getting back into track, all of sudden someone was swerving to miss me and some how managed to come back and collect my car for another big off. Got back on and was following the other car until someone else had an altercation with the two us before turn two which caused another off again and hit again by someone who could not avoid our spinning cars.
Carried on after that, but car was 10-15 kmph slower on the straights and 2-3 seconds slower on the lap time to finish 11th.
I had hoped for a better showing.
Thanks to Nikos and Paul and anyone else who helped to get me in the race. Nikos was a great help.
For,whomever does the League website access, I still cannot get access to the League website to add a profile. Don't know why, but I get an access denied reply when I try to log-in?