Assetto Corsa Round 6 Tor Poznan - Thu Sep 17, 2020

GZ Champ!

 

That race was an absolute pleasure Toni, a fantastic race long battle where we were usually within 0.7 to 1.5 secs of each other for lap after lap.

What a corker of a last round that turned out to be. That was only the 2nd race i have ever had at this track (the other was in single seaters) but what a great track it is for racing.
Qualifying was great, with the top 6 constantly swapping places throughout and i put it 3rd on the grid against some quick guys.
Race start was good but i had to get out of the throttle a little behind Toni and that allowed 2 other cars to attack me and the green Alfa got past while Lorenzo glued himself to me along with Johnnys Mazda. Had a good fight with them for a few laps until i could get some temps into my tyres and some rhythm going. Once i did, i amazingly began to close in on Toni who had built a few seconds gap while i fought. Was surprised as know he is quick. Once i got right behind him, this began our race long fight I was glued to his rear waiting for any kind of mistake but he didnt make any under pressure. With 29mins left to race i made my under-cut pitstop for fresh boots and re-emerged in 6th hoping that those that had passed me needed to make a stop or i had lost places. This is where i made my only errors of the race, as i came out in front of Johns rusty escort on cold tyres and ran a little ragged under his pressure for a lap. I really thought i had blown the battle for the lead, just losing those 2 seconds, but i then pumped in a couple of my fastest race laps, and as each car pitted i moved up, and then i saw Toni exiting the pits alongside me and just nipped in front for T1. Now i had the pressure and pleasure of leading the race and Toni threw everything at me to get past. I held my nerve (just!) and we swapped places a couple of times with clean racing which was excellent. We must have had a very subtle difference in our setups as he was quicker in some corners while i was quicker in others. Finally, after lining me up several times in the last corner, he got a better exit and was back in the lead with only a few laps remaining. I put up a tough fight. He nearly blew it on one of the last corners with a lockup into the chicane but held it and i finished a close 2nd place. Epic battle, what a great way to end a fab season

Well done to all that participated and made the grid a fine spectacle and big thanks to JvD for organising and Caitlans brilliant coverage and big congrats to Lauren for the championship win !!

 

Tried my best, finally got a second placement in the championship, not that bad!

Thanks to John for organising and to Caitlin for broadcasting!

Congratulations to Laurent for the first place, well deserved!

 

Watched the replay this morning, fantastic is a 4/10ths gap finish after an hour of racing the closest this season?
and whohoo, i finished 4th in the championship ! Nearly finished 3rd in the series but Czabo had a good end to the race to finish 3rd and keep his place. That round1 DNF hurt me bad.

 

I like to thank all racers and Caitlin for this season, it was a blast an we need to do this again soon (different tracks ofc). One of best series I've been involved, so much variety depending track and what good looking grid. Maxime, you little bump @ turn 3 cause accident between me and someones Toyota, I think you should give our positions back there....

 

You are our honorable Champ forever

 

My first season in Assetto Corsa

I am very happy,
I am really very happy ...

... that it's finally over.

Throughout the championship, I didn't understand the Assetto Corsa. I don't feel the climate, I don't feel the car. Perhaps it is partly Alfa Romeo's fault, but rather this specific combination - me - this thing - asphalt ... it doesn't stick.

Congratulations to the winners, good track fights, great race coverage Caitlin.

Sorry John for disturbing you in almost every race, I recommend myself for the future.

I greet everyone

 

Sorry but I have to disagree : Though I did exaggerate my slight movement to the left in order to avoid any risk of collide with Laurent Londes who had been the 1st to start braking for safety reasons (my 50's design car doesn't like so much any change in transveral G, particularly under braking), leading to a slight touch on your right side, sorry for that. Still imho it didn't cause any substantial loss of control of your car and I'm not responsible for your punt onto Paul Anstey, that you would have done anyway because of a too late braking. Look closely at the replay : your heavy Mercedes comes faster to the apex than us all in spite of the fact you're heavier and at the extreme inside of the braking line. It's also the cause of my tap on your side : I knew you were at the very inside line so didn't think you would reach my height that soon in the turn entry, yet I should have let you a bit more room to get in.
Then unfortunately all this situation led to many small contacts here and there, also penalizing Michal Mazurek, Laurent Londes and John VdG a bit.

So I'm guilty for some of what happenend, but it looks obvious to me that you would have put that Toyota 2000 perpandicular to the track with or without my slight touch.

 

This looks a lot like a racing incident to me. Things like this happen on lap 1.

 

0.11 You sent me to crass 0.14 you rear ended me causing me spin, what I'm saying gentlemans give position back in that situation.... It was a racing accident thats why im not going to report it.

 

I'm really happy with this championship! The BMW was certainly not the fastest car and that makes it even more of an accomplishment. I could have won Bikerneiki (that one was close), Monaco would have been possible to challenge for the win as well (bar the incidents) and Mexico (but only because Jeffrey disconnected on that one). Other races i feel I got most out of it not really making any bigger mistakes than putting the wheels in the grass.

I must say I was quite stressed for the last race as I knew Lorenzo had really good pace there. Acceleration of the BMW out of the slow corners is not that good. What happened on lap 1 might be seen as a race incident but in my opinion going 3-4 wide in the most difficult corner of the track was never going to work. It's still a 60 minute race and the cars were all over the place. So yeah, dropped to P12 halfway through lap 1 with Lorenzo second, that was not ideal. I had to make up ground and quickly! I'm very happy about my pace throughout the race, quite consistent and no mistakes. I had a good comeback. Lorenzo has about a 10 second deficit to the BMW in the pits which is tough, but I think the Toyota is slightly quicker as well, so that might even out a bit. Finishing P4 right in front of Lorenzo was a very good result.

The battle between Mark and Toni was really good as well. Great to see Mark doing so well and putting Toni under pressure! He was slower than the other Porsche's in some races but certainly not at Tor Poznan, great showing and great driving/defending!

Thanks everyone for the congrats. Thanks everyone for participating. Thanks to John for this great series. The mod is not perfect at all but it was a lot of fun anyway and the number of participants until the last round really showed it! Thanks to Caitlin for the broadcast, good fun watching the broadcast and was funny you assumed I didn't pit until the race was almost over

Congrats to Toni for his second race win and Lorenzo and Csaba for the podium finishes in the championship!

Next one will be DRM series, I hope it will be as good as this one! The cars at least are awesome for sure!

 

Ok I'm the only guilty man in all that mayhem, I made you send Paul Anstey perpandicular to the road, I made you spin then and I'm not a gentleman driver (that's even why I gave position back to Jari Laakonen L10 while we hadn't got any contact but my overtaking attempt was quite missed).
And I'm not charged of a race report because of your merciful.
More than 10 years now that we race together Kimi ?
...

 

That first lap looked a bit like marbles in a funnel. They will bounce on each other and some will come out before others..

 

I'll be dead far sooner than that. But if I die behind a wheel or a flight stick, then it's good enough.

 

Pilot would be a too generous word probably : I just was used to fly some gliders. And I'm a fan of gliders, WWI and WWII flight sims. Reminds me something about you talking about this also isn't ?