rFactor 2 Round 2 Mont Tremblant 24 H - Sun Sep 20, 2020

Simon Kingsbury · Sep 21, 2020

I also enjoyed this one, 10 litres of fuel cost me a surprising possible 3rd position but better pit strategy saw Jens go passed whilst sat in the pit box!! I also don't think that race times should change as we all knew the format on sign up, I think it is the same in all leagues sign ups just don't bother to show up, don't understand why as you're wasting everyone's time.
I know both Albert and Maikel had their reasons not to race on Sunday so I will mention the unregistering or letting you know on the forum, i don't think they realised.

Well done to everyone the track was a tricky one but not as bad as my first impressions!!

John vd Geest · Sep 21, 2020

Barrett Erickson said: ↑

It's the reason i felt compelled to be a bit of a bully with you, John, with that T8 pass .
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Only your speed was intimidating
I was full of wonder through-out the race how you and Johnny could be 1,5 seconds quicker than me. I was like ... "how is that possible that I'm that far off ...". And I thought I had a good setup haha.

Edit; ooooohhhh you both were on the LeMans aero .... Didn't even think of that.

John vd Geest · Sep 21, 2020

Barrett Erickson said: ↑

As for the rest of the post-race report:

When the day began, i wasn't feeling too good about this race.

I thought i knew the track sufficiently, and I've had 4 or 5 races in the M8 since the "BOP update" that had ruined my base set. But i ran all of them with the LeMans package, mostly because i couldn't solve the problems i had with the standard downforce package and, while i'm pretty confident that the new LM base set is working, I figured this track needed the standard downforce package.

So i started my practice early, and discovered that not only did my LM shock and spring settings not work well with the standard downforce package, but i didn't know the quirks of this particular version of the track all that well either. So i was scrambling.

Eventually i got it into the 28s and took a break for lunch.

When i returned to the server, as expected with more cars on track, the grip levels seemed lower, but a couple ticks of wing solved that without sacrificing lap times, so, good to go, right?

Except Q was in the dark...

Now, i knew this was going to be because i'd been on the server when it transitioned, but did i prepare for it? Did i do even one lap in the dark to see what i could or couldn't see? No, of course not. I'm a lazy dumb shit. But thanks to a long and private Q session, i did manage to eventually get comfortable enough to claw my way to 2nd on the grid by taking chances i never would in a race (like holding the fast pedal down thru T1).

As for the race...

Johnny pulled away in the first stint. Especially when the proto's started coming thru. The timing favored him and he played it very well. Then that fortune reversed a bit later as i caught a few breaks from the lapping protos. It was all great fun!

We were approaching cars in our own class when my pit window opened and my crew chief said i'd come out in clean air, so i went for the undercut. Thought it was a brilliant maneuver as i saw the gap to Johnny (who hadn't stopped yet) closing to the point where i might have come out 7 or 8 seconds ahead after his stop, but then i screwed up by getting too close to John v G in that high speed right hand kink and thought it would be a good idea to down shift where i'd never down shifted before. Brilliant! Went into a half spin and cooked my rear tires, which were shit for the rest of the 2nd stint, giving me big time oversteer. I mad A LOT of mistakes trying to deal with that, losing up to 2 seconds on some laps. Johnny, having stopped, eventually got by when i made a huge braking mistake, sending me off-track, just before my pit window opened again.

The new tires were the thing, and i set about trying to close the gap to Johnny (who hadn't made his 2nd stop yet) to the point where i might again take the lead.

Unfortunately, Johnny then had some trouble about the time of his second stop and wound up making two trips to the pit within a lap or two. I wound up with a huge lead just when i was thinking were were on for an epic closing stint battle. Lots of fun up to that point, expecting a lot more at LeMans.

Grats to Paul! A good day for BadVoicesRacing!
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You're a good story teller, Barrett. Good read

John vd Geest · Sep 21, 2020

Simon Kingsbury said: ↑

I know both Albert and Maikel had their reasons not to race on Sunday so I will mention the unregistering or letting you know on the forum, i don't think they realised.
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I don't know the reason why someone doesn't show and doesn't unregister. All I (we) see is someone no showing up.

It would help if they at least announced their absence on the forum. Then I (we) would see that they've forgotten to unregister, but made an effort.
Or ... if they had good reason, go to the forum after the race and let us know they couldn't race. I don't have to know why of course.

Barrett Erickson · Sep 21, 2020

John vd Geest said: ↑

Only your speed was intimidating
I was full of wonder through-out the race how you and Johnny could be 1,5 seconds quicker than me. I was like ... "how is that possible that I'm that far off ...". And I thought I had a good setup haha.

Edit; ooooohhhh you both were on the LeMans aero .... Didn't even think of that.
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Oh no, not me. I stayed with the standard package, it just took a long time to get it somewhat stable, and lots of wing to get it thru the corners.

Simon Kingsbury · Sep 23, 2020

John vd Geest said: ↑

I don't know the reason why someone doesn't show and doesn't unregister. All I (we) see is someone no showing up.

It would help if they at least announced their absence on the forum. Then I (we) would see that they've forgotten to unregister, but made an effort.
Or ... if they had good reason, go to the forum after the race and let us know they couldn't race. I don't have to know why of course.
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Fair comment John I understand where you're coming from

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