rFactor 2 Round 1 Road Atlanta 2021 - Sun Jan 9, 2022

This is a great version of the track, superb quality mod and great work by the author.

 

wow i,m speechless thought tonight was my night ater a good qual and a good start

 

Just before qly my peddles failed and the same again in the race. Sorry about the collision who ever rubbed fenders with me. The accelerator stuck.
My first race in 6 months and equipment failure let me down. Oh well. Always the next race.

 

Headlights diqualified...wasnt even dark yet. F**k that.
On a side note, final stop would have been just dash and splash, no tyres needed so think i had everything under control + drove really nice.

So ill quit this nonsense of sim racing, go do burial for my stupid wheel and go play Destiny 2 where i can punch people in face and they die, or use my hammer rather..

 

Man.....was 2th ...on GTe class 44 laps and ..go to pits 34 sec..after ..stop and go....i enter the pits...another stop ang go...pffff... By the way ..great race !

 

Good racing all. Congrats to winners in LMP2 and GTE. Grats to podium. Good seeing my teammate Paul in podium with me.

Just couldn't find a clear path for Q. Got second which is good. Race started off good. Carl decided to give me first as I think he was caring to much speed and cold tires into the turn. In turn a lap later, I said why not, I'll give Toni the lead. Hold my beer, watch me avoid the GTE's and loop it at the same time. Mission accomplished. Came out last but the race was long so just drove and had fun. I pitted and a few laps later, Toni pitted. He came out right in front of me so the race was on. One sec he was in front of me, the other, he was gone. Why is Toni always getting in fights with the stewards?

Good racing GTE's. You guys did excellent. I just have to learn where to be more patient and where to make the pass. Not a single contact with anyone so that was great. A few laps to go, someone forgot their wing in the middle of the track, bam, right front fender damage. But the race was pretty much over by then.

Good seeing such a healthy pack of people here. The more, the merrier.

Later guys.

 

Toni I think you can set the lights to come on automatically. Actually I forgot to do that myself, but I will for the next one. I have suffered this error twice and I am still here. Stewart's?

 

defo looking forward to next round

 

Well that race was something else!

I was confident of a decent finish if I kept my race clean but I never imagined I would win the class!

Got in a decent amount of practice, did an hour of running at night as well just to get used to it. I didn't manage to do any running against AI traffic which I normally do so a tiny bit apprehensive about that before the start. The GTE's are rockets in a straight line once they get up to speed so are not always easy to pass,

Qualifying was ok, I managed slightly faster laps by myself (I think I did an 11.6 but it wouldn't have made any difference to the starting position) but managed the traffic the best I could and got a decent lap time in.

Got a good start and up to 3rd in class, then tried to keep a gap to the two in front who were setting some great lap times, however I wasn't worried because as soon as we hit traffic we would probably close up anyway. Which turned out to be the case.

I'm assuming Rui had a coming together with someone? Because he dropped out quite early, then Giuseppe had some issues....and suddenly I was in the lead! lol.

So I just tried to maintain the gap to @Roger Hinds because I know he's very fast but he must of had some problems too because all of a sudden he lost 40 seconds to me. Which then became a lap.

So I just tried to maintain a decent pace, no risks in traffic and bring the car home. I was lapping in the 15's which wasn't great but was doing the job. At the end of the race I was mentally shattered, lol.

Traffic was ok, really didn't want to risk passing into the esses although the real cars would do it, and I had maybe half a dozen incidents happen in front of me that nearly required a change of underwear.... Otherwise all good

@Michael LaBelle I think that was me mate. I was right up behind a GTE when he jinked out and I had you right in front of me! lol. I think I picked up a bit of aero damage (hence the lapping in the 15's maybe) but otherwise got away with it, bad luck with your technical problems and hope you sort them soon.

The Oreca always seems to deliver the results for me, a bit of luck involved of course but I'll take it as I'm pretty sure once Rui and Giuseppe get up to speed they'll be unstoppable.

The next race in the wet will be interesting for sure, the GTE guys are going to be wrestling their cars a lot so the prototype drivers will have to be super careful when lapping.

I was going to do myself a livery for this league, not sure whether to now in case changing liveries brings bad luck! lol.

 

Congratulations for the winner and runner ups of the classes.
The race was Murphy Theory existed for me. Wrong formation lap filings cost me remain back of the grid just after started. When I got at back of lmp2 class tail, all went wrong with challanges and after couple of touches, have ot be retired.
Though formation laps rules mentioned capital and thick on first post, it is absolutly rubbish struggling at the start to apply double file. LMP2 grid was not formed as mentioned just before the start ( last turn ) that made advantage for some cars and disadvantage for the others. That is small but existed serious results.
That is all I can say for this race for me.