14-05-2018, 04:31 PM
thmxvr, post: 24962, member: 630 Wrote:Belgium, my home race, a track I know well and enjoy to drive but suck at keeping the focus level required to survive.
Race 1. Starting 9, I was in the middle of the pack very aware it was not the best spot for survival, the start was very slow and safe, cars around all waiting to get up to speed and through eau rouge and raidillon safely. Accelerating for the kemmel straight and the down hill but still everybody driving safely respecting a safe distance with the car in front. Coming to Burnenville way slower than expected, even for a first lap, the guy in front pushed wide slammed into a house and came back bouncing onto the track. I was the first to collide with it but not the last. I don't even know if someone behind made it past the wreck site. My car had still all wheels on and it looks like I might have been able to limp to the pits, unfortunately there was no escaping the backyard of those fine Belgian people.
Race 2, Starting 19 I could go really easy without fear of being rear-ended, so that is what I did. Crash in the middle of the kemmel straight far in front of me, I brake in emergency, and managed to stop the car with a couple mm to spare before impact. Maneuvering, re-accelerating, I was now all alone. I pitted at the midpoint and exited right on David Cruicksand's tail, I could follow him without any issue and even had to lift a few time, but I wasn't loosing time so decided to stay put (at least until the ending stages of the race). After a couple laps we came into les combes to discover a car parked in the middle of the track. David went right, I went left, I thought 'at least one of us will survive' but I was wrong. I tried to limp to the pits with my steering totally bent, but could not and lost a wheel a bit later.
I put the blame onto the "crash physics", when hitting a house wall flat at 300kph, I expected most of the wreck to be in the living room, or disintegrated, not to bounce back in one piece and go pinball murdering the other cars. https://forum.studio-397.com/index.php?t...ics.60082/
Sorry there, the crashed car was me. I was having gremlins real bad, the game had crashed to desktop and I could hear stuff but had to close the browser which had opened over the game. I closed it to see you both crash into me.
I propose that next season we do Le Grande Circuit instead of Spa, I think there would be more finishers.