Round 3 Thruxton - Sun May 3, 2020

Can’t say I saw that, but was a general announcement made for the rest of the field?

 

It is in BTCC!

 

I did ask the question at the end of warm up but didn’t get a response in time!

 

I didn’t get the chance!

 

At first I had good sensations and a good pace, but a couple of incidents made me lose positions and I was punished with a drive-through. I lost positions and also concentration for the race. One of the incidents resulted in a Drive-Through penalty that there was no way to comply. Regarding the truck that occupied my pitstop, It has not been a problem. I could go through it and stop .
On the other hand, it has been curious to see how many of you cooked your tires on the fast corners. you left a trail of smoke and the typical smell of burnt rubber. ; p
Congratulations to the podium.
Cheers and Gasoline

 

Good qualifications - first line.
Nice race, especially the first part, eventually P3, but could the position be better? Could the strategy be different?
Probably yes or not? I didn't know I had a choice, I missed these messages. (Who reported the problem?)
Congratulations to the winner - good tire management. Paul, how much is left of the front left tire?
I destroyed the front left tire, chasing Toni first,Then trying to run away.
In general, I have the impression that this Finn is haunting me in every series I take part in

greetings

 

I had made about 3 or 4 messages about my pit box being behind the fence to the guys that came in server later like I did, I changed cars and then I could just get my nose in to my new box. Then Barrett mentioned the problem and then there quite a few msgs with John finally waving the mandatory pit rule for this race.
Not that I had much seat time since I only noticed I wasnt red light until just over an hour before race, but I was way impressed with the tire management of the no stoppers. Especially since no one would have tested tire saving(?)

 

I feel a bit guilty on this win. It never sits well with me when rules are changed just minutes before the green light but sometimes problems don't come to light until those final minutes when enough people have joined the server. This shows how important the driver briefings are. One suggestion is to repeat the rule change in the 30 seconds were sat on the grid and or to ask people not to chat or drive in the warmup when the admin is giving the driver briefing and to always use capitals to highlight the fact this is the briefing and pay attention. Ou can always extend the grid wait timeand do the briefing there. This maybe a better moment when more people will be paying attention. Feel sorry for those guys that missed the rule change. I nearly missed it as I had to leave the server in warmup to reset my wheel. Very difficult to do anything about the rule change at such short notice so I put a full tank in and went into tyre management from the start. There was still enough left of the front left but it was well into the red. Forgot to look at the final % left stat.

On a different note I once again saw ghosting eg cars appearing in front of me for a split second that were in fact no where near me an after image if you like. Also had a load of sound issues when I was in the pits. These were identical issues to Tuesday night GT3 race although no where near as bad. With only 22 cars on the grid I was surprised to have these issues. Did anyone else suffer any problems?

 

On a separate note, was it just me that suffered drivers who weren’t racing me for track position making it very difficult to get past them. I think at least on 1 occasion I got alongside Nuno, who promptly moved off line and into the side of my car. Even if fighting for track position/place, that’s poor conduct (apologies if it wasn’t you Nuno). Maybe a blue flag rule might be useful....where a drive through is given if you fail to comply. Don’t like too many rules really, but if drivers can’t apply proper etiquette, maybe they need to suffer some of the consequences.