2008 RD Touring Car Championship (RACE 07)

[Attila Domján]

Okido, here it is, i cant wait for the movies out of those races!!!!
It was a dogfight all the way, and very very clean from what i saw, even if at one moment at lap 1 Race 2 the nose of my car was pointing backwards in a spin as my ass invited Greger for a kiss... well, we humans need to brake a bit before the corner....

Group 1 replays

 

[Antoine Morin]

race 1, bad start and I didn't drive to good but it ended alright and was fun.

race 2, got spun and was way behind everyone and really never caught up. I drove horribly 2nd race and didn't even deserve the place that I got.
Congrats to the podium guys and all else that did well. See you next race.

Sorry William for the spun ...i just stayed on my line and saw you taking the corner...i thought you saw me ...

It was a disaster for me too ... better race next time

 

[Marcel Hulsbergen]

Well done, Peter, i hope i will do ot ok this evening too, it's only G5 but we are all so close, whitin 0.5 sec. I hope my Alfa will perform well.

Atti, grats with your final position, you did a good job and i am sure one of the next races you will manage a P1.

 

[David Garcia]

Haha, this is the most brilliant race report I've seen in my life!

Also offtopic, sorry, but this deserves a post :d

:angel::bike: :circuitzolder: thanks! Glad you like it guys !

 

[Theo de Bruin]

My race report in the links:

QUALY: Acapela Group's Winter Talking Bunny : Text to Speech / TTS Demo

RACE 1: Acapela Group's Winter Talking Bunny : Text to Speech / TTS Demo

RACE 2: Acapela Group's Winter Talking Bunny : Text to Speech / TTS Demo

:bike:

LMAO!!! Brilliant!

 

[Henrik Horvath]

i have a good idea, can we race with ghost mod? haha

 

[Paul Bordeau]

not great race for me because my setup is bad

I think that marco ho and sergio jorge are too aggressive and it causes a lot of accident it's bad for the race very bad :brancard:

 

[Thomas Jensen]

Sergio jorge

he write - Sorry, thnx all the race, it was very anoying

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Haha David this was your best race report ever I saw you had troubles keeping up the pace in race 1. How did i know? Because i was just in front of you running turtle speed too after a tab from behind in round 1 which caused me to continue with a wrecked car.

The second race was great: i had a superstart which brought me from P16 to P8 or something in the first lap. The following laps i got in the rhythm and drove fast towards the podium. In the end of that race my tyres were totally worn out and i made a stupid mistake trying to stay in front of that chevy that was chasing me. In the uphill right corner it happened: spin (my own fault) with the beemer and i was looking around me if i could see people coming up that corner, i had no place to go because i was scared to hit cars coming back on the line, so i decided to wait and let the top 8 pas. Then a Honda crashed into me and that was too much. My wheel couldnt steer anymore to the right (25 procent i think) and i had two more laps to go in ueberturtle speed losing and losing and losing positions which eventually brought me P17 i think

 

[Attila Domján]

Sergio jorge

he write - Sorry, thnx all the race, it was very anoying

maybe he is just simply not good in english? do not get annoyed that soon, try to think sometimes with the head of the other players.

 

[David Garcia]

Haha David this was your best race report ever I saw you had troubles keeping up the pace in race 1. How did i know? Because i was just in front of you running turtle speed too after a tab from behind in round 1 which caused me to continue with a wrecked car.

Yes Bram, bad luck with the tab. I saw you for 3 or 4 laps ahead of me, dissapering. I was not able to find the pace as you say I selected the wrong setup to Race1. In race 2 it was solved.

My race reports will be as this from now on, a bit of humor is always a good thing.

 

[Wido Rossen]

Absolutly briliant David......
Can she do live comment as well ?.......lol:jumping:

 

[Thomas Jensen]

Hey Attila

You misundastad me

It was 5 times in every minut both in qualify and in the race he writes that

like the buttom for those words was stuck.. serious

Nothing to do with not good in english at all, nothing!!! just that is was written A LOT!

 

[Attila Domján]

for a long time i did not had such a good laugh, thx David!

 

[Attila Domján]

oho, then it is different, chat during qualy and race is basically not allowed, unless there is a significant and important reason for it. Saying sorry please guys do not make during races in the chat, you can do it afterwards here in the forum.

Now i understand it Thomas, u r absolutely correct in this.

 

[Peter Boszormenyi]

Sorry for not participating guys, but how to make an absence without internet connection?...

ÁJ LÁV UPC ...................................................................

 

[David Cuthill]

Thanks for the sympathy from the guys above. It gives me some faith after the sort of race that makes you wonder why you bother.

Race 1: Started from pole with a 2:04.1. Got a poor start leaving me in second going into the first corner. Steve Emmons dives up the inside too late as I turn in, pushing me off the track (I realise he probably had no option here) . Chaos all around as I get back on track in 8th place and am then nearly taken off again. I'm up to 7th after another incident in front and heading down to the last corners of the first lap with a good gap to the cars behind. I think I'm safe as I turn in when Luis Nieto seems to use me as his brake and side-swipes me onto the grass. I can't control the car as it slides back on to the middle of the track, straight into the path of a group of cars, causing another pile-up and sending me back off the track. It's only the first lap and I've had four smashes so far - not long to wait for the next one. Over the line, up the hill after turn 2 and Jose Cesar goes off track in front then back on track straight in front of me (not his fault). I spin off again and the car is now pretty damaged. I did manage a few clean fight after that with Joe Man and Xose - thanks guys and brought it home in 16th.

Race 2: Well it couldn't get any worse, could it? - wrong again. Got off the grid well this time but straight into more chaos in turn 1 and spin off track again. Get back on and head around turn 3 where Lu Chan is side-ways in the middle of the road and it's impossible to avoid him. I plough straight into the side of his car leaving mine a bit of a wreck including a lost splitter and a wheel 45 degrees at the wrong angle. I manage to limp round for the rest of the race into 17th place.

 

[Oliver Wickens]

Qualified 13th, could of gone abit quicker but wasnt too bad. I had done some testing on a race setup but at last minute decided to switch to something else to try and haul myself up the grid come the races.

Race1: Starting midpack was always going to be interesting, but luckily managed to get round lap one ok. My tires took are while to come on making it hard to move up the field, which meant i stayed p13 for the opening laps. As race went on the car felt more balanced and was able to start looking for position gains. Great clean racing untill the last lap, which henrik has already described, lost two positions in the last corner but i wont go into anymore detail here.

Race 2: Starting 10th got a decent start to hold off a few bmws, was able to maintain position for the first half of the race, agian whilst waiting for the tires to come up to temp. Just about able to latch onto the group infront and concetrated on picking them off one by one. wasnt easy at all but pleased with finishing 6th.

Still need to find alot of speed to get to where i want to be, but for now, quite satisfied
Thanks to everyone who organised and provided a great event.

 

[Kevin Ascher]

So here is mine:

Qualy:
Managed it to do a 2:02.997 which is really okay for me and started from the 7th position.


Race 1:

Had quite a bad start (only won one position in the beemer) and then I wasn't driving agressive enough to defend myself against the agressive drivers coming from behind.
So when I was ALREADY on p11 after 2 laps (I think) I decided to drive harder and don't only look for the safety :ambulance: .
So I managed it to overtake one driver ( I don't remember who it was) and drive on the 10th position into the last corner............
Then it happened:
I saw two chevies and a BMW in the last turns coming nearer and nearer from the front.
So in the last turn I put my f yahfhaf3564 cking foot on the throttle and tried to come trough the BMW and Gio to the front.
But then the BMW pushed me to the outside and so I also pushed Gio and he also had been on the very outside so he touched the gras and fell back to p11.
So I finished on p8 and was very happy for the pole in race2.

Race2:

Had A REALLY BAD START (I think it was because I had been so excited)
and after one lap I already got past my Scott Michaels and Peter Eriksson.
Scott flew away and I got stuck behind Peter. We were fighting for about 8 laps but I just couldn't overtake him.
Then in the 8th lap I saw him in my mirror GREGER HUTTU coming from behid with an incredible pace.
While he was coming nearer and nearer I almost managed it to get Peter past in the last turn of the 9th lap but I went on the gras and had problems even to control my car.
Here also Greger overtook me and 2 or 3 turns later Peter, too.
Then in the 3 lefthanders Peter made a huge mistake and went to wide so I decided to pull into the middle and try me best.
I think I didn't touch Peter and it was a fair move.

At the ending I want to appologize for Gio.
I really feel sorry for you and I ABSOLUTELY can understand you.
But I still think it wasn't my fault.


GreetZ
KA

 

[Jacco Cornelissen]

Yeah, there where quite a lot sorry's I thought it was more funny then annoying But yes you have a point here Thomas there where too much sorry's