Round 5 Crystal Palace 69

Good luck on surviving this race. It's so short and tight xD

 

Too bad that we're not running the pre-war version, that would be cool!
Really looking forward to broadcasting this one, its going to be an absolute hell

 

Hi
Im away in Greece on holiday on the 12th so will miss this round . Back for final round tho

 

I'm away on holiday for this round also, but will be back for the final round.

 

Hello guys. I've been trying to unregistered but it's not letting me for the past hour. I won't be able to make this race as I'm committed to mother's day. Mother and sisters are ready to pounce on me. . They're giving me the old stink eye.

Have a great time guys.

 

All the drivers are there, start the race. If commentary isn't ready, so be it.

Didn't have time to race due to running qualifying twice.

 

Q
I did 45.0 with 70liters but managed only 3 tenths faster with light car...

R
Had good start and little breathing space to @Michał Mazurek, saw him having little scrap on my mirrors, so I think that settled the win. If he would have been close, would been different story as he was reeling me in often during the race.

It wasnt easy tho. I picked little longer 3rd gear to play it safe on T1 exit but it made me turn in too fast into T1 and Last corner and that heated up
my left front. Most of the race lost 3 tenths in T1 because of that.

Had luxury to take traffic easy so no issues there either. Lap markers where polite aswell.

GG not sure about last race tho, im scheduled for work atm. I try to change it.

 

Here's the stream link:

Just about managed to get it started in time as we had a lot of technical options, but as Andrew said above it's better if you start on time even if the stream isn't fully ready.

 

Common issue in ancient Rome.

Hmm...have you guys recruited any Junior Admins lately... id blame him/her if you did!

 

First of all, what a track, such a damn **** I really hate it.

It was good for me to repeat the quali, because I had not enough practice before the race. But I think we learned that restart the weekend screws up everything, therefore the stream is not important enough to do that

Anyway, my race was a mess. For the first time I managed to get a clean start, but it was so close between to an incident again. I think John and someone else headed in the wrong direction. I tried to drive smooth and therefore I didn´t fight against John and Gavino. But all came to an end after I misjudged one corner and lost my front wing. P6 was possible without that silly mistake. After that I recovered in a hard fight with Gerhard an Pascal to P10 (that was a really chaotic last sector to be honest) but then one corner later i overcooked into the last turn. Sorry @Michał Mazurek I had not intetion to block you.

After that my steering was bend but I stil caught upt to Pascla, who then suddendly spun out direct in front of me. I lost my front wing again, then I chose the wrong settings for the pit stop (sorry again to teh guys I blocked in the last turn). As a result they send me out without a new front wing. Good tactic Pascal to defend you position lol (obviously thatw as not on purpose)

Really angry about meself and the circumstances I drove teh fastest last sector of all and a lap which was faster than in qual. I know nothing special with new tyres, but at least something positive for the next race. Österreichring should be way better for me that this track. Cu there.

 

I am the enemy of myself, how did I get to the finish line today? I do not know
two spins and rear axle skidding at the exit from the last bend, which caused that I accidentally entered the pits
A lot of problems with duplication that knocked me out of the rhythm, but eventually, despite so many adventures, I reach P2
The best lap in the race is nice at least that's how much Toni managed to steal today

 

Track was good, but tricky...

Except i had screenfreezes all the time on certain parts of the track... and it's especially annoying when you're going through a corner, or coming out of a corner... it caused me to make a lot of errors and that ofcourse influenced my race performance...

Managed to finish.... but i wouldn't call it satisfying when you had to deal with technical issues...

 

Q: In the first qualy run I got a 45 seconds time, my first one at this weekend. In the second run I decided not to participate and start from behind...
R: ...which was not a bad decision. There was a huge incident in front of me but I got through there without any damage, following in P6. Under the pressure of the fast guys behind me, I did too many mistakes, which yielded in P13 again where I started. But then I had a turn in my lap times. I got a good rhytm and could catch up to the guys in front of me, which ended in a fight with Gerhard, Philipp and me. Unfortunately Santini got a damage and blocked some guys of us in the last corners, I had no place and pushed Gerhard into the wall. Sorry for that . After a fight with Philipp I gave up my place since Mazurek was lapping us, but Philipp did some mistake and I was ahead of him again. But then I spun in turn 1, where Philipp drove into me. Both of us had strong damage, we had to box. Luckily I hold my 9th place, my best result so far, but Philipp lost his 10th place. Sorry

Also sorry when I blocked some fast guys. At the beginning of the race I was lapped by a group of 3 guys. I think Roos and John ended up in the wall at the end of the straight, I hope that was not my fault. I just wanted not to stay in your way.