rFactor 2 Round 3 San Francisco (DX9) / Sun Oct 13, 2019

Race Day PW set on the Champ Page

 

I hit a complete bumper lying on the road in the braking zone and spun into the wall. Otherwise I would have made it without a scratch. Put my wheel off-centre.
Grats to Gert-Jan. He seems to know how to setup these cars

 

Great Race guys !
Great combo John I would have never thought this would be so much fun ! Crazy fast insane street driving .. If you have the time watch Johnny G on the replay lol , drifting like a mad man .. was epic watch heh..lol
& sorry Johnny for my road block on lap 1 , I did like Toni & brushed the wall but hit a gap & flipped the car ,,steering was bent so I knew it was an insta-pit for me ..not the strategy I had planned for I hope you didn't get to much damage !

Took my 55 sec pit stop & came out dead last 1/2 a lap back ..
The Toni was Flying after Gert lap after lap :
As the race went on I found myself gaining spots as 'The Streets Of San Francisco' started in on the field ! I saw body parts all over !
Someone in the chat asked "what happened to Toni?" as he explained above the walls have nooks & cranny's .. I think hes selling body parts on e-bay :
By this time I found myself in 5th with a 24sec gap to 4th ! dam not last anymore after sitting upside down lap 1 ! I was happy !
I saw the gap was closing so I knew my pace was good I just had to keep it together !@! white knuckling every lap ..lol finally I could see 4th up ahead & noticed he had some damage lol no fenders .. as I was closing he lost grip & slammed into the wall gaining me yet another position !
Next position is a podium ! this got me even more fired up ! It was Johnny G drifting his way around the city ! he had a 30 sec gap on me but I knew he had damage as the gap kept decreasing for the most part but he was holding on! even as he bounced off the walls so with the time left I knew there was no way I could catch him .. unless ..
Yard sale !
I could hardly believe I was now gifted a shot at the podium ! all I had to do was not crash ..lol That's when JVD showed up in my mirrors !! he was about to lap me ! I decided I was going to try to hold him off until it was inevitable, as I did start getting blue flags but I had tweaked the set to get better gearing in the slow turns and seemed to be able to hold the gap well enough to not force him to slow his pace & .. He was on me pretty good tho but the blue flags would go away in spots :
Grats to all the survivors ! totally stoked on a 3rd place here !! woo hoo ! never did I think ,while I was sitting lap 1 upside down waiting for the game to 'right the ship' so I could 'limp to the pits', I would be on the podium in 3rd !
Fun stuff guys Thanks !

 

That was a true run to victory Rob. Well done

 

The cars were too far spread out and there were too few people to make a video interesting. This one didn't qualify.