18-02-2013, 12:51 PM
Race 1
Got a good start and followed Gorka and Marcel into turn 1 , I stayed with them for a couple of laps but then they started to drop me so I just got my head down and tried to drive cleanly , I was pitting on lap 6 so on lap 5 I went to request a pit stop but I had forgotten to reassign a button after changing wheels , I spent the first half of that lap pressing various buttons and driving slower which allowed Fergy to close me down ,
Pitstop went ok , could see Fergy a couple of seconds back but coming out of turn 3 which I took flat I just drifted a little too wide and caught the grass , this started a tank slapper and at that point I became a passenger , when the car had finally made up its mind which bit of barrier it liked the most , it speared into the Armco on the inside of turn 4 and bounced across the track , unfortunately I took Fergy out (sorry) and that was it race over , car was too badly damaged to continue .
Race 2
Got an Ok start but got baulked a bit and didn’t make any places up , made a few places before my pitstop which went ok , was coming down main straight and could see Fergy accelerating out from his pitstop and we made turn 1 with me ½ a car ahead , Fergy stayed alongside me between 1-2 and we went into 2 side by side , I could see that if I held my line there would be contact so I took to the grass (you can only take out the race director once per meeting) , on rejoining I could see a car gaining quickly so I stayed left but we still touched (sorry john) I had no damage so drove to finish .
Race 3 Hero to Zero
Got a brilliant start and was in second place behind my teammie by turn one , Vito pulled over and let me pass (you didn’t have to do that Vito) and away I sailed, approaching my pitstop I had 6.5 secs over Gorka so I thought I could be in for a top 3 finish ,then my one working brain cell overloaded and crashed , stupidly I accelerated too fast out of pit lane and got a drive through , I drove the next lap rapidly expanding my database of swear words only to enter the pits too fast and get another drive through , its amazing the number of times you can get the F word in a sentence when you really try ! , after that I drove to finish and hid under my dash blushing brightly . The word dummy springs to mind .
Another good meeting with a great turnout , nice one Paul/ Bryan thnx for setting it up again .
Got a good start and followed Gorka and Marcel into turn 1 , I stayed with them for a couple of laps but then they started to drop me so I just got my head down and tried to drive cleanly , I was pitting on lap 6 so on lap 5 I went to request a pit stop but I had forgotten to reassign a button after changing wheels , I spent the first half of that lap pressing various buttons and driving slower which allowed Fergy to close me down ,
Pitstop went ok , could see Fergy a couple of seconds back but coming out of turn 3 which I took flat I just drifted a little too wide and caught the grass , this started a tank slapper and at that point I became a passenger , when the car had finally made up its mind which bit of barrier it liked the most , it speared into the Armco on the inside of turn 4 and bounced across the track , unfortunately I took Fergy out (sorry) and that was it race over , car was too badly damaged to continue .
Race 2
Got an Ok start but got baulked a bit and didn’t make any places up , made a few places before my pitstop which went ok , was coming down main straight and could see Fergy accelerating out from his pitstop and we made turn 1 with me ½ a car ahead , Fergy stayed alongside me between 1-2 and we went into 2 side by side , I could see that if I held my line there would be contact so I took to the grass (you can only take out the race director once per meeting) , on rejoining I could see a car gaining quickly so I stayed left but we still touched (sorry john) I had no damage so drove to finish .
Race 3 Hero to Zero
Got a brilliant start and was in second place behind my teammie by turn one , Vito pulled over and let me pass (you didn’t have to do that Vito) and away I sailed, approaching my pitstop I had 6.5 secs over Gorka so I thought I could be in for a top 3 finish ,then my one working brain cell overloaded and crashed , stupidly I accelerated too fast out of pit lane and got a drive through , I drove the next lap rapidly expanding my database of swear words only to enter the pits too fast and get another drive through , its amazing the number of times you can get the F word in a sentence when you really try ! , after that I drove to finish and hid under my dash blushing brightly . The word dummy springs to mind .
Another good meeting with a great turnout , nice one Paul/ Bryan thnx for setting it up again .
Understeer - is when you hit the wall with the front of the car
Oversteer - is when you hit the wall with the back of the car
Horsepower - is how fast you hit the wall
Torque - is how far you move the wall when you hit it
Oversteer - is when you hit the wall with the back of the car
Horsepower - is how fast you hit the wall
Torque - is how far you move the wall when you hit it