rFactor 2 Round 3 Road America - Sun Feb 6, 2022

Discussion in 'S397 GTE & LMP2 Oreca Multiclass Series Closed' started by John vd Geest, Oct 30, 2021.

  1. John vd Geest

    John vd Geest Administrator Staff Member Donator

    I was got caught by surprise by Davide who braked "before" the third brake marker, where I normally brake just before the fourth brake marker.
    I guess he was being save because of the dark. Just as I was pulling out of his slipstream to brake on the left side, he already slammed on the brakes. Real shame for both of us.
     
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  2. Nassim Alaoui

    Nassim Alaoui Pro Driver

    it was super fun to commentate on the battles you & most drivers had, you guys did really well & i love the respect atmosphere going between y'all, makes it really fun to be a part of, good stuff
     
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  3. Barrett Erickson

    Barrett Erickson Pro Driver

    Great job guys (hope we can attract more prototypes to add even more color to future races).

    No doubt i benefited from the misfortune of others today. Nigel's grid entry glitch was particularly unfortunate, not only for him, but my teammate Ed who suddenly had Nigel's car sit on his hood (or "bonnet" for you Europeans :). Then i found myself with a sudden, marvelous opening in T1 after Joe and John touched and split just briefly in opposite directions. If i hadn't gone with a 6 wing, i might have been too close to avoid that. But it left me with just enough room to take advantage of the extra down force thru T5, T6, T7, T8, the "carousel" and "kink" to hold Joe off as he recovered and defended his position. No doubt he would have eventually got me...

    But then his unfortunate DQ.

    After that it was a matter of managing tires and the varying gaps to Didier and Oli, Jens and Lewis -- whoever was closing at the time -- and they all were at one time or other.

    Altogether, a fun race at a track i consider "home"!

    Grats to Jason and our BadVoicesRacing "rookie" teammate Johnny G on their wins, as well as all who finished.

    ~b
     
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  4. John vd Geest

    John vd Geest Administrator Staff Member Donator

    Barrett, let's see if you can make it three in a row. It's raining again in Istanbul haha.
     
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    John vd Geest Administrator Staff Member Donator

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  6. Rob Milliken

    Rob Milliken Administrator Staff Member Donator

    Fun and exciting race! Great job everyone & grats to the podiums! The GTE's are a lot of fun at RA & the competition was fierce! I had a good strategy but spoiled it with some bad driving lol :rolleyes: the traffic was crazy but passing seemed well orchestrated by the protos so kudos to the field! I had a great battle early on with Tom as he noted in his post race!;)
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    Then Oli joined the fight as we battled on as night turned to day' rFactor 2(rFactor2.exe) Screenshot 2022.02.06 - 23.16.07.09.jpg
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    Then Tom & I had some contact & Oli drove off into the morning light..

    Then a self-spin took me out of the fight ..
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    I was on the hard tires and decided to just grunt it out & finish the full tank stint & make my scheduled stop for gas & softs. my pace was off from slight damage & flat spots but I felt an early stop would probably force a 3rd from tire ware and more time lost so I just put my head down & concentrated on hitting my marks following the original plan.. rFactor 2(rFactor2.exe) Screenshot 2022.02.06 - 23.40.57.100.jpg
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  7. Alberto Alvarez

    Alberto Alvarez Pro Driver

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  8. Barrett Erickson

    Barrett Erickson Pro Driver

    Just give us the proper practice sessions on the server for preparation and let us spin our asses off into some kind of sim-nirvana.
     
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  9. Oli Bateson

    Oli Bateson Pro Driver Donator

    The GTE class was very tight in qualy so I was happy to be hanging on at the back at the start. Nice screen shots from Rob, it was fun fighting with you all. I think I picked up a few places due to others misfortune but I will take what I can get :)

    My first stint seemed pretty slow but I think I put too much fuel in which slowed me a bit. Its not funny when your racing and trying to do maths at the same time to work out the fuel amount for the stop :confused:. I was a bit quicker second stint and could see Jens ahead (again) who I seemed to be catching slowly, so I pushed and managed to get past eventually. He was always close behind so it was a bit nervy to the flag. Wasn't sure where I had finished but the podium is the icing on the cake of a great race.

    Grats to the podiums and finishers. Hard luck to Nigel who would surely would have had a good chance of a win without the rF2 issues.
     
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  10. John vd Geest

    John vd Geest Administrator Staff Member Donator

    News

    Because of the low entries in the LMP1, all the drivers from LMP1 are going over to LMP2 and the LMP1 class will be closed.
    This will take effect from the next round on.
     
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  11. John vd Geest

    John vd Geest Administrator Staff Member Donator

    Great job from the broadcast team. Really enjoyed the broadcast.
    Thanks guys!
     
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  12. John vd Geest

    John vd Geest Administrator Staff Member Donator

    Replace Surfers Paradise with Daytona Road Course

    Close to 20 members have asked me to organize a Daytona RC 2.4 hour event. So I had this idea:
    We can replace round 6 Surfers Paradise with a Daytona RC 2.4 Hours event.

    I will put up a poll where you can vote on this idea. Here is the link: Poll Daytona
     
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  13. Tom Parton

    Tom Parton Pro Driver

    @John vd Geest Myself, Davide & Joe were running custom HSR Skins on our Cars but could not see the skins on our fellow drivers.
    Did the server have the Skin Download option disabled? I've never know us to be unable to see eachother's custom skins on an SRO Server before?

    Just curious as it was a bit of shame when watching the stream back to not see everyone's custom paints.
     
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  14. Nassim Alaoui

    Nassim Alaoui Pro Driver

    we didn't have anything to subscribe to "skin package" but i think we saw Erikson running his own livery, so i don't know what the issue might be. hopefully john can help you out :).
     
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  15. John vd Geest

    John vd Geest Administrator Staff Member Donator

    I think it was on. I will remember to look at it the next time the server goes up. I also thought I saw Barrett's skin on the server.
     
  16. Toni Talvitie

    Toni Talvitie Pro Driver Donator

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  17. Nassim Alaoui

    Nassim Alaoui Pro Driver

    Noted haha we saw you guys on the same livery & we assumed you were teammates :)
     
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  18. John vd Geest

    John vd Geest Administrator Staff Member Donator

    Broadcast uploaded to YouTube


     
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  19. Rob Milliken

    Rob Milliken Administrator Staff Member Donator

    John, as long as we are voting to change the track for round 6 will there be the possibility to add the the new BMW M4 into the mix? I know its DLC so I understand if we can't for this series but it's an insta buy for me:D
     
  20. John vd Geest

    John vd Geest Administrator Staff Member Donator

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