2008 RD Touring Car Championship (RACE 07)

Daniel Juncadella · May 13, 2008

do you guys think 1.40.7 is enough for group 1?
What is that BMW beast, who won in istambul, doing (lap time)?

Eckhart von Glan · May 13, 2008

Gary Lennon said:
yet somehow we all do,everytime,stretching those PB times a little bit better than we think possible,

totally agree on that one, just bested my old PB by 1.5 secs (in steps of 0.2, bit by bit) only to find out I am in pos130 sth. with another 2 secs to go for grid4

However, I have reached the end of my tether technically, haven't got a clue how to push / pull / squeeze / handle the algorythms any other way ... couldn't go this fast for more than two laps either, in race in grid8 Sunday night I'll be back to 1:46s

Mark A Warmington · May 13, 2008

Gary Lennon said:
...somehow we all do,everytime,stretching those PB times a little bit better than we think possible....

Yep - I kept trying and trying and managed to match my PB of a 43.1. Then I tried a little more - thinking about each sector and where I thought the time was and 42.9.

Hmmm... kept thinking harder and fixed the middle sector a little and 42.7. Fixing middle sector seemed to break sector 1. Went back and fixed sector one and 42.285 - my new PB - almost a second faster than I have ever been on this track.

But I probably will only be good enough for group 5 or 6.

Peter Eriksson · May 14, 2008

Finally i see that a Honda probebly will make it to group1, me like, well done Pirro Chun

Warren Dawes · May 14, 2008

Briefing Round 2 & Round 1 Incident Report.

Download Briefing Round 2 (including Incident Investigation Results from Round 1).

Warren Dawes · May 14, 2008

Round 1 Incident Investigation Results now posted

Please read the Incident Investigation Results in the Round 2 Briefing Document here:
http://forum.racedepartment.com/wtcc-news/3945-read-all-briefing-incidents.html

Attila Domján · May 14, 2008

Daniel Juncadella said:
do you guys think 1.40.7 is enough for group 1?
What is that BMW beast, who won in istambul, doing (lap time)?

Do not worry Daniel, i think with this time you are safely in group 1.
At Istanbul the 2 Team Redline BMW-s were at the top, with Greger Huttu sim-racing icon being the fastest, 2:01.2xx.

They are still yet to make the pre-qualy, you can expect them to see at the top again, breaking into 1:39...

William Yunck · May 14, 2008

Great work guys, you put a lot of time into these reports. Thank you. Everyone donate please.

David Garcia · May 14, 2008

Where the pre qualy results/lap times can be seen?

Attila Domján · May 14, 2008

Site Navigation/Livetiming from the top menu, there at the bottom there is a big Pre-qualy button

David Garcia · May 14, 2008

Chanks Atti!

Attila Domján · May 14, 2008

David Garcia said:
Chanks Atti!

Chour welcome

Mikael Larsson · May 14, 2008

It's sooooo close to set a 1.40 lap...WHY?!?!?

PB is 1.40.93 and I thought I could beat that but it doesn't seems to help driving lap after lap after lap. Oh no...improvements NONE.
I think I'll be at the verge of...hmmm..distinction maybe

At least fall back to group 2 this time. 1.41.050 so far and just 1 tenth would race me up to 10th so far instead of 18th. Sure is...this will be a close one too

Attila Domján · May 14, 2008

oh ye it is close like hell, until Greger buddy decides to set a time.

I was also on my current time after 15 laps or so, felt there is still around 0.2 improvement possibility in it, so kept on driving and driving, almost 100 laps at the end, tons of 1:40.5-6 again, but no improvement... well, thats it then.

David Garcia · May 14, 2008

This is my post Ner 1000 in RPM/RaceDepartment... what a better place to post it than in my team presentation thread?

I am very proud of my team mates!!! :thumb: