rFactor 2 Round 4 Fuji Speedway - Sun Aug 4, 2024

Grats Nick and podium. Good race all.

Apologies @Toni Talvitie for the contact on lap 2 I wasn't trying for an overtake, just my line into the last corner was tighter and it brought me into you.

Pretty lonely race, didn't have the pace for the top 4, but knew the strategy would bring me back a little after the pit stop.

 

Horrible race on one of my least favorite Tracks.
My strategy was going long in the first stint and push in the second with softer tyres.

The second part was overoptimistic, because I struggled at lot to get up to Speed. In the Race it was Not that Bad anymore, still the slowest car on track. Ok I was a Bit faster than the rain Tyre runners but I did not see that Comming. I assumed, Caitlin is trying the ultimative fuel saving strategy and avoid any stop.

Probably I should have tried that, because anything would have been better than my second. Not sure if it was the high boost Setting, or the softer tyres respectively Both but anyway - it was Not just slower, the car wanted to Crash every other turn… I Hope that will be better next time.

 

Those extra 3 mins are disastrous for me.

 

Q: managed a low 27, which I didn't expect, but was only enough for P8. So my lap time was probably because of good track conditions
R: It was really fun racing first 10 mins, a lot of overtaking, good, fair racing. About 10 mins into the race, there was a contact from behind (I belive from Kostas) and I spun and lost 10s.. I then drove a good race till the end with good consistency. But at the pit-stop I forgot to turn of damage repair (from the bump earlier) and I had 20s longer stop.
I made the first stint with 1.25 boost and some lift and cost, trying to make sure I can do second stit with a bit faster pace witch I did, and cut the lead of P6 from about 20s and finished P6. A good race, except unnecesery bump and a pit error. Enyojed it a lot, just like the other 2 races. Unfortunatly I can't make it for Spa, so I wish you all a great race and see you in Mexico!

P.s.: Rob thanks for a great commentary, allways great to see the replay! (You can call me Daks if it's easier to pronounce )

P.s.s.: anyone can share a replay?

 

rfactor replay here> https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ar1le3g5Xwssgz8omfmlakBC8DgU?e=fApqtL

 

Yeah, that was unfortunate, just a little touch but probably at the moment you went on the throttle so you spun.. I thought for a moment I could push you and line you up again and let you go

 

Sorry for my late post race.

Congrats Nick for the win, podium for finishing well and to all the drivers finishing on a very long race. you guys are to fast.

Qualified in the top 5 so I was happy. A damn pity for Maddie as I know the exact feeling of moving before the lights go out. It's a bummer but it's happened to all of us. Race went well. Toni was faster than me for the majority of the race but when he would catch me, I think maybe he was catching dirty air. Nerve wracking when someone is hounding you. To the point of just giving up the position haha. I did make contact with Nick. I had passed him so I assumed the sweeping left hander was a clean drive to the apex and then everyone shoots out from there but Nick decided otherwise and took the inside line or more of a straight shot to the apex. Racing incident occurred. No one was intentionally doing wrong. Just good hard racing. I am biased on what Toni wrote as it's true, I was taking the normal line of that apex and the race was long so some more patience could have been taken? It also doesn't matter as he came back and destroyed us all. Anyways, I enjoy racing with everyone here as it is what it is, good hard racing on everyone's part. I watched Rob's broadcast and everyone was duking it out. Some real bumper/pushing . I'll try and stay away from that haha. I was also hoping for a top 5 so a win in my book.

Cheers everyone.

 

Thought it was a bit brave to not change tyres at all haha. Guess it saves a bit of time and the tyre dropoff isn't too bad @Johnny Gutierrez

 

It does save time but on the other hand, you're also risking those that do change tires and blow your doors off toward the end. @Maddie Shepherd

 

Watched the race (some of it live, with Rob 'Murray' Milliken - nice work Rob). Good race. Congrats to the podium, but driver of the day was undoubtedly @Maddie Shepherd. Astounding drive, cutting through the field like a hot knife through butter!