rF2 BMW M1 @ Nordschleife - Wed 7th April 2010

[Viljar Parts]

Nice race and congratulations Ryan

Race was good. Only 2 mistakes, but at least get quite same laptimes and didn`t expect third place

 

[Harald Stadler]

That was not a good start for me here at RD :frown: In practice and quali before the official event I drove my normal laptimes. Then Ryan chatted something about "2 mins until official practice"...what the heck ?!?! I just forgot that Germany is +2 hours to GMT after changing DST... After that concentration and driving rythm where gone. No timed lap in the practice (or one? I don't remember...too much crashes), just one safe lap in the quali... I was lucky to grab pole by just half a second... And finally, an unforced error on an easy part on the track which lead into a highspeed crash. The car was heavily damaged. I hardly managed it to come into the pits after some more spins^^. P5 is the result of two more errors because of the now completely lost concentration.

Nevertheless, it was a nice race! Thanks to Ryan and Toni, it was harder than it looked like in the beginning of the session. Gratz Ryan for winning! And also to all others finishing the race. I am looking forward to racing on wednesday in the V8! There, I am not as fast. I am still about 2-3 seconds off the pace... I'm not used to the V8Factor mod. For me, it is a bit...strange...with setups.

Regards,
Harald

 

[Ryan Callan]

Hadn't done any practice prior to the event, aside from a quick test for event setup and struggled a little at first.

Qualified P2, after improving my lap speed all the time. However, it could easily have been pole, on my best lap which looked like being a 33 I clouted the inside wall at Mini-Karoussel and almost came to a complete stop . 2nd was fine though.

Race: It looked to be a straight fight between me and Harald but Nords never works like that . First two laps we were mainly nose-to-tail, a few errors from myself kept us a second or so apart. Then I had a slow-motion spin, the worst kind and lost 15 seconds, losing 2nd to Toni too. Caught and passed Toni, he was vrey sporting. Then long way behind Harald, and a slightly damaged car meant all I could dowas keep him honest and hope for a mistake. Which came on lap 3 - first I saw yellow flags and a whisper of an engine note, two corners later I passed Harald, who now had no rear wing.

Now the race was mine to lose, but I committed mistake after mistake, my concentration was akin to that of a ADHD 7 year old on Pro Plus. Car was buggered, but I just managed to hold off Toni to take the win. It's a good job I had raw speed, because I kept bloody spinning.

A win that left me feeling very unsatisfied as I knew I didn't drive well.

Thanks to those that showed up

 

[Lee Palmer]

That was amazingly hard work Didn't have the confidence in the car to go quicker so was easily slowest on track, was knackered by the end but it wasn't a bad drive tbh just slow. Thanks to Ryan and RD for the event .