rFactor 2 Round 5 Longford 1967 - Sun Jun 2, 2024

Hi, First race for me in this league. I'm one of the admins over at SR4L where we do mostly history stuff.
I Love Longford track so I have to take part for this race. Found the league by watching one of your live streams with Rob Milliken commentating, what a great job he does.
My goal is just to finish and try not drive into a farmers field . Who will be the first to do that in race?

Only 12 pit boxes in the pitlane. This means you could be sharing with 2 other drivers.
I do have software that I wrote that can tell everyone who they are sharing with before the race. This way you can look out for the person (or persons) you are sharing with. If you want me to do that in warmup 'John vd Geest', let me know.
I guess everyone doing 2 pitstops?
Good luck
DJC

 

I press one button and the software types the pit sharing data into my chat box and everyone gets it as if I typed it. It's instant, it takes less than a second to do.

 

Have fun Rob!

 

Sorry for the late dereg, I wont be able to make this one or the next. Ive enjoyed the series though, so hope we get more historix in the future.

 

Well, had high hopes. Same braking point but different down shifts and i didn't slow enough for the final corner. Thank you so much to Tony for your valiant effort to try and get me off the bales but my engine had already blown from trying. lol
Thought I would do better, but that's the way it goes...

 

got a good start without blowing the engine this time and was 3 wide with Michal and Matias heading down to the first corner, the porsche was no match for them in a straight line and I fell behind but under braking managed to get ahead of them both before the tunnel, was behind toni who then went wide at the corner with the open gate and flipped it, just managed to avoid him, was surprised I could match the mustangs for laptime as they were rocket ships on the straight, but both of them decided to throw it at the scenery in short order and found myself in 2nd then David had a disconnect and I was in the lead, thought the luck was finally going my way for once in this series as I was leading and could keep Michal in the cobra out of slipstream range, but then disaster struck, there was a yellow going into the tunnel under the bridge, I assumed it was Kirilov still in the ditch (which he was) but there was a white fence post in the middle of the track on the right hander just after the tunnel which was impossible to avoid which pitched me into the barrier and out of the race, I was gutted to say the least, and had to console myself watching Kirilov try to get out of the ditch (which he finally did!). It was fun while it lasted.

 

Q Ok lap, not perfect, but setup had something wrong so did a little blind change for race again.
R setup change felt great but start was super awkvard having those phat Mustangs on my way on corners and brakings so had to be super careful and that made me brake atleast 100 meters before i wanted everytime. That messed up my driving and while doing that, had to be careful since not everyone seems to be aware that different cars brake in different marks and got hit once too. Anyhow that made me do mistake and spin car.
Had to wait whole field allmost and turning car around here is no laughing matter ( or it actually probably is ) only to spin again.
All that mess had me serioous aero damage which made offpace 1.5 seconds per lap. Decided to just drive it nevertheless and was going ok until i saw @Paul Upham up there on top of haystacks.. he looked miserable so thought: "I got you buddy!" so hit reverse, tried to push him down and then he disapperared. I actually thought i pushed him over and he fell somewhere..oops my bad
Anyhow as the race progressed my pit buddy was in middle of it so had to wait for few seconds and for next one took little more fuel and pitted early.
Think i was racing for 4th spot, or had little chance for it, in the end and pushed as hard as i could. Less top speed, well i just brake later then and that worked for 52 minutes but finally spun on end stages and called if for the day.

Cant do the last if remember right as im working every weekend from now on so have a good one. Really enjoyed these cars and as season progressed, found more pace, since had more knowledge of the car. Dont practice that much on my freetime. Could have won some races too, maybe 2-3, if all went optimal during the season but messed it up, with beer or stupid work or spinning around.

cheers,

Toni

 

Grats MIchal for the win!. Congrats to my teammate Mark on second! One up for the team. I decided to go fishing I'd say for over a minute it felt like? I was last and everyone was gone! Caught some trout. Next lap, seen the Kiril and Paul catch some jealousy and decided to hit the same pond. Good fishing there. Anyways, not a bad race considering where I finished. Wanted to bring up a point of patience. At the start, the majority were braking. I was waiting in line like many others since the road isn't wide. There were quite a few that had no patience and couldn't wait. Bunch of people off-roading Come on guys. It's a long race. And then, as you expect, crashes everywhere. I had to dodge cars left and right and then that's when I said, forget this, I'm going fishing. It's dangerous and your putting others at risk. Patience is key. I know these are hollow words for some but come on. After that field trip, everyone was cool and enjoyable. Other than that, It was fun with all.

Cheers.

 

What a mess (not surprising - I remember that massive pile-up with the mclaren M23), I avoided everything of that by driving carefully but suddenly after my last stop, a disconnect struck. Cannot catch a break although I am not the only one this time, and shared pain is les pain, I guess...

Im looking forward to Bathurst and what will go wrong there.

 

I'm very sorry I didn't make the race today without unregistering, but my mum passed away suddenly this afternoon and I just got back home. Hope you all had a good race.