rFactor 2 rFactor 2 F1 1979 Round 1 Race Reports & Screens

The race was fun while it lasted. Finishing up lap 1 I got a phone notification. Went to reach for the phone to move it out of my line of sight and accidentally downshifted. KaBoom! Race over. Gutted. I'll see ya'll at Zolder stronger than ever! The only way from here is up, haha!

 

Good race. Sloppy on my end though, was not able to get used to the racing setup quickly, I hit Michal on T1 (sorry bro ) and I had to pit for repairs at lap 2 after realizing I lost my front wing after another mess at T2.

Grats to Dino and podium guys

But overall, the race was good. Would be nice to have warmup just a little longer (maybe 5 mins at most?). Car was a fun beast. On to the next race Also, the schedule is nice, better to have an very early morning race here in PH than a very late night race.

 

10 mins more than enough. In the other leagues I join in, warmups are usually only 5 min

 

But the penalties will be revealed right? Or you penalize people in private?

 

That was a fun first race of the series. I could only join during qualifying because of the password drama. I had to quickly set up my mic to ask around in teamspeak, but I hadn't used it in forever and something wasn't working, but big thanks to Barret Erickson for reacting to the chat and letting me know the race pw just in time to make it

I had done my practice beforehand to judge the different cars in the mod, so joining late wasn't a problem. I was in a slightly pissed mood in q which I think helped with the laptime actually

Race was smoother then expected, only one small off-track excursion somewhere towards the end.
I think Michal did very good with the Ligier here. I initially wanted to take that car too; but when I matched the laptime with the Williams in practice after just 3 laps and still had less tirewear doing so, I chickened out and took the safer option

 

Ah, so this is where the party is. There I was, staring at the general discussion page wondering why no comments or reports were made on the race...

Had a fun race. Hit a nice time in qualifying and put myself in 6th position. I raced on hard tires, not expecting softs to be racing tires, so I was in for a surprise when people pitted around the halfway point. I took a look at my tires, wondering what everyone else was on about... Oh well, seems I have to try them softs at Zolder. I think I also drove around with too much downforce. That was very neat in the middle sector, but quite difficult in the first one. Dino was way out of reach, but I was happy to snatch away a position or two in the end, earning me the third step on the podium. The hard compound worked just fine, allowing me to consistenly drive 1:09s with the occasional excursion into the 1:08s and 1:10s. Glad to see the race lasted no longer than one hour though... Another lap and John would have blasted by!

I'm looking forward to Zolder and I'd also very much appreciate a 5 to 10-minute Warm Up session to get drinks, a toilet break and some starting practice to get into the rhythm. I was kind of surprised to jump straight to race. It worked out though, so no complaints here!

 

As I said, I had some incidents in this race.
1 - Lap 1, T1, with Jose Casanovas. I hited his car from behind, and now I think I know why: I think he trashed his engine before t1, was so slow... and i couldn't avoid him.
2- Lap 4, T1, with Michał Mazurek. We touched... could not see he was so near in my camera view (didn't see his car until my spin).
3 - Lap 39, with Nick Phillips. He came very fast from the left side (could not see him - when i did was too late).

Incident 1 and 3: I thought that maybe the fault was mine, that's why, to be safe, I did two drive trough in the end of the race

Incident 2: I thought Michal had the blame.

Incidents 2 and 3: Funny, I run with triples and the view angle from my car and the view angle from outside the camera are very very different. In my view, they are both racing incidents

Cheers all!