Automobilista 2 Round 6 Olton Park Fosters

Discussion in '2002 BMW Turbo WBS' started by Rob Milliken, Nov 11, 2025.

  1. Rob Milliken

    Rob Milliken Administrator Staff Member Donator

  2. Simon Barnes

    Simon Barnes Pro Driver

    Apologies Roman for getting in your way at Lodge.

    Bit of a night. I was on my way (in real life) to swimming session when I hit a concrete kerb and destroyed my front tyre. Someone has knocked the reflective bollards off earlier this evening and it was literally a death trap. It was totally invisible in the dark on a wet night. Two drivers ahead of me had pulled up with flat tyres.
    Limped home on a flat (luckily not far). Decided to race.
    About ten minutes in, the front door bell rang. Dogs went ape shit, wife came upstairs to tell me that her brother had called round, then went downstairs and left door open leaving dogs bothering me. I had to pull off the road, get out of my rig and throw the dogs out before closing the door. Must have touched something and lost my track map and telemetry. Couldn't figure it out. I was still a bit stressed when Roman caught me and I couldn't get out of the way in time. I was do relieved to see that you seemed to have survived.

    I enjoyed it once things died down and got a surprising 6th! Oulton is such a nasty track, full of traps. Great fun in this evil little BMW.

    Cheers guys.
     
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  3. Neil Wood

    Neil Wood Pro Driver Donator

    Another SteamVR "critical error", race ruined.... FML!
     
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  4. Rob Milliken

    Rob Milliken Administrator Staff Member Donator

    I heard there is a new Steam VR headset out now, saw it while browsing VR last night :D
     
  5. Rob Milliken

    Rob Milliken Administrator Staff Member Donator

    Dang Simon!! Haha what a night .. :rolleyes::D
     
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  6. Roman Granatovich

    Roman Granatovich Pro Driver

    oh yeah, i was lucky today, but in general the streak isn't the best, a couple of days ago i even left the race (at least it was a test one for the championship), i try to never leave a race, no matter what happens, but it was a real nightmare there.
    I crashed into every car that spun in front of me, no matter which direction I took to avoid them, they were carried away in that direction. Today, I also couldn't get around Simon, it was terrible. But I still managed to finish the race normally.

    Thanks to Rob for hosting the championship and everyone for their participation and competition.
     
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  7. Philipp Pichler

    Philipp Pichler Pro Driver Donator

    Oh dear. I do not know why, but this track was even more difficult than ones before. (Even though it looked easy for Roman, as always) Made an costly error after José passed me, although I have no idea, why I spun and gave him a slight touch, enough to cause him to spin. Maybe just a bit to fast. I waited for him but of course, I cannot give him his position back. It seems that he had a disco too, tough evening for him. I am sorry for that.

    I then tried to recover, after Brian spun out and I passed Oli, Neil was re-entering the track after an error and suddenly I was in second. Tried to stay there but somehow I spun out and damaged my car. Cannot explain that spin either and after passing Oli again, I got back to second, because Neil disconnected. Lucky me and as said, thanks for hosting

    I recorded the spins and my two overtakes (good job Oli btw), just in case someone wants to take a look what happened.


    Regarding Hermann, not sure how much you understood. He was not happy with the car (same for all) and said he wanted to watch football/soccer (Germany vs. Slovakia) instead. Of course, I cannot help a football/soccer fan probably no one can :D Although, he brought the team luck, its a qualification game for the world cup, Germany had to win it to qualify (last performances were not so good) and right now it looks very good. Anyway, enough offtopic.
     
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  8. Martyn McClune

    Martyn McClune Pro Driver

    Usual spun out on cold tyres while just pacing with everyone on lap one . Crashed again a short time later heavily hitting barrier . Back to the pits and the drawing boardo_O
    Never really got to grips with this after AMS2 update a few weeks ago
    Congrats to series winner :)
     
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  9. Brian Donald

    Brian Donald Pro Driver Donator

    A challenging car to drive and keep on the black stuff but I eventually managed to get a decent setup for the last two races.
    The other races were just all over the place and I felt like packing up lol:(
    Finishing third in the series made it all worthwhile. :)
    Thanks to Rob for setting up the series and also all those who took part.
     
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