ACC Endurance Series Round 4 @ Laguna Seca - Mon 20th February 2023

[Piotrek Blaszczak]

Thanks for the race. Unfortunately, I won't start with you anymore. I'm too old for this kind of racing
My absence will be good for everyone

 

[Taj Johal]

Well at leat we don't have to drive Laguna again this season

 

[tabletmctablet]

That was soo hard, I was so slow, found it super hard to get out of the way for everyone and cannot apologise enough to Tom, I'm really sorry for my silly error that wrecked your race.

 

[Jay Clarke 66]

Well at leat we don't have to drive Laguna again this season

Amen lol.

 

[SwannyUK]

First off well done to anyone being lapped, I have no idea how you would even start to think about letting people through around here!

Secondly, sorry to anyone that had a bad race on this track - I had no idea it would be this terrible when adding it to the calendar. If you're frustrated after tonight I don't blame you, just blame me for picking the track, take a drop score and move on to the next race.

Congrats to the podium and well done on the win Enrico.

Huge apologies to Ricardo and Johann. I was about 8 tenths behind Ricardo going in to the braking phase of T1. Before I knew it I was on the inside line whilst Ricardo was coming back to the second apex. I braked and tried to avoid contact but was too late - stopped in the middle of the track for a split second after the contact and was a massive parked boat for Johann to hit. I feel like it was yours for the taking tonight Ricardo and I messed it up for you, sorry again.

Thanks for the racing Rob and Carlos, had some good laps trying to find my way past.

 

[JohannS]

What a wild race! Sorry again for bumping, Chris and Will. I could've reacted faster and avoided those accidents. It is a tough track to race on, but still somewhat fun. Looking forward to the next races!

 

[Trox]

Thanks for the race. Unfortunately, I won't start with you anymore. I'm too old for this kind of racing
My absence will be good for everyone

You waited for me and let me by, you done the right thing. Its a tough track and up top of the corkscrew is a hard brake without high ABS setting i think.

I doubt Johann was ready for a car pointing the wrong direction at the time lol

Don't sweat it, its part of racing and if you're 42 your younger than me!

Sorry Brook, I rolled forward and hit your door during this but i didnt affect your line by the look of it, if I did I improved it

Unfortunately, my car took quite a bit of damage and something was off cornering, couldn't get faster than high 24s, so i decided to just repair the damage as it felt like i was ready to lose it on any of the fast corners.

Had a decent race with Andre and Brooks at the end

 

[RicardoJorge92]

Huge apologies to Ricardo and Johann. I was about 8 tenths behind Ricardo going in to the braking phase of T1. Before I knew it I was on the inside line whilst Ricardo was coming back to the second apex. I braked and tried to avoid contact but was too late - stopped in the middle of the track for a split second after the contact and was a massive parked boat for Johann to hit. I feel like it was yours for the taking tonight Ricardo and I messed it up for you, sorry again.

Hey Chris, don't sweat it. I was trying a different line to try and pass Enrico, which was not very predictable.
Made a lot of mistakes myself, so I have only myself to blame for missing out.

 

[CarlosB]

Thanks for the race, well done everyone. I managed to avoid the crashes in front of me and in a couple of laps I was surprinsigly P4 pushing Borowik for P3. Then Jorge and Chris past me and they didn't give me a chance to rejoin. The last laps there was a great fight between Borowik and Chris and I was expecting a mistake of them to go through, which happened last lap with Chris going wide up hill. I then thought I didn't deserved P5 so I let him go. Happy with my P6 though.

 

[RicardoJorge92]

For my own race.

I feel like it was a bit cheating taking the porsche into this one. I am not experienced on these tracks, nor ACC, so I have been trying different cars to see what I might stick with for the next seasons.

I had 0 laps coming into this week, so I decided to practice knowing it was going to be a tough one. I pracitec a lot..

Quali was awesome, very close to Enrico without the advantage of the Porsche! Awesome lap dude!

Going into it leading, I didn't even know how to lead us into the start! Enrico was braver than I was into T2. Then there was the incident with Chris.
Was following the 2 other M4s in 3rd and 2nd, but I made a few mistakes and one dropped me to 8th.

Managed to pick up the pieces into 3rd before the round of pitstops, but going into my box, I didn't see the arrow due to other cars, which dropped me back to 4th a bit behind. I also underfueled massively by mistake.
Caught up to Robert in 3rd and he was awesome to race with. Gave me the squeeze up the first hill, which I interpreted as "dude, how do you intend on going past here?" I didn't, was just putting pressure!

I still feel I could have caught Seb for 2nd, but had to save fuel due to my miscalculation. Came home with a podium, which I'm super happy with!

Concrats to Sebastian and Enrico!

 

[SwannyUK]

Thanks for the race, well done everyone. I managed to avoid the crashes in front of me and in a couple of laps I was surprinsigly P4 pushing Borowik for P3. Then Jorge and Chris past me and they didn't give me a chance to rejoin. The last laps there was a great fight between Borowik and Chris and I was expecting a mistake of them to go through, which happened last lap with Chris going wide up hill. I then thought I didn't deserved P5 so I let him go. Happy with my P6 though.

I wondered why you pulled over. That's really kind of you but it was my mistake that put me behind so you fully deserved that place. You kept in striking distance and it paid off. I'll give you the place back in the scores (if I forget just let me know)

 

[SwannyUK]

For my own race.

I feel like it was a bit cheating taking the porsche into this one. I am not experienced on these tracks, nor ACC, so I have been trying different cars to see what I might stick with for the next seasons.

I had 0 laps coming into this week, so I decided to practice knowing it was going to be a tough one. I pracitec a lot..

Quali was awesome, very close to Enrico without the advantage of the Porsche! Awesome lap dude!

Going into it leading, I didn't even know how to lead us into the start! Enrico was braver than I was into T2. Then there was the incident with Chris.
Was following the 2 other M4s in 3rd and 2nd, but I made a few mistakes and one dropped me to 8th.

Managed to pick up the pieces into 3rd before the round of pitstops, but going into my box, I didn't see the arrow due to other cars, which dropped me back to 4th a bit behind. I also underfueled massively by mistake.
Caught up to Robert in 3rd and he was awesome to race with. Gave me the squeeze up the first hill, which I interpreted as "dude, how do you intend on going past here?" I didn't, was just putting pressure!

I still feel I could have caught Seb for 2nd, but had to save fuel due to my miscalculation. Came home with a podium, which I'm super happy with!

Concrats to Sebastian and Enrico!

Jeez, I had no idea you had to battle back through with fuel saving too! What a drive.

 

[huggybendy]

For my own race.

I feel like it was a bit cheating taking the porsche into this one. I am not experienced on these tracks, nor ACC, so I have been trying different cars to see what I might stick with for the next seasons.

I had 0 laps coming into this week, so I decided to practice knowing it was going to be a tough one. I pracitec a lot..

Quali was awesome, very close to Enrico without the advantage of the Porsche! Awesome lap dude!

Going into it leading, I didn't even know how to lead us into the start! Enrico was braver than I was into T2. Then there was the incident with Chris.
Was following the 2 other M4s in 3rd and 2nd, but I made a few mistakes and one dropped me to 8th.

Managed to pick up the pieces into 3rd before the round of pitstops, but going into my box, I didn't see the arrow due to other cars, which dropped me back to 4th a bit behind. I also underfueled massively by mistake.
Caught up to Robert in 3rd and he was awesome to race with. Gave me the squeeze up the first hill, which I interpreted as "dude, how do you intend on going past here?" I didn't, was just putting pressure!

I still feel I could have caught Seb for 2nd, but had to save fuel due to my miscalculation. Came home with a podium, which I'm super happy with!

Concrats to Sebastian and Enrico!

I was looking forward for a great battle during the race, so unfortunate. The Porsche could be very fast there, but certanly not easy to drive, so well done. In the first two laps I was struggling a lot with tires temp sliding everywhere with the M6, sorry I know you were suffering behind me with more speed and that at the end caused the incident, it wasn't an easy situation for both. Then I found a good pace so I think it could have been a good battle, anyway races are never perfect and it's part of the learning progress for everyone, tough races like this are the most useful in the long term. Congrats on the pole and fastest lap (I tried to stole it from you but wasn't able for like 0.050 sec ).
Thanks everyone and good race.

 

[RicardoJorge92]

I was looking forward for a great battle during the race, so unfortunate. The Porsche could be very fast there, but certanly not easy to drive, so well done. In the first two laps I was struggling a lot with tires temp sliding everywhere with the M6, sorry I know you were suffering behind me with more speed and that at the end caused the incident, it wasn't an easy situation for both. Then I found a good pace so I think it could have been a good battle, anyway races are never perfect and it's part of the learning progress for everyone, tough races like this are the most useful in the long term. Congrats on the pole and fastest lap (I tried to stole it from you but wasn't able for like 0.050 sec ).
Thanks everyone and good race.

Thanks dude, no need for apologies, that's racing! Due to other mistakes, I wasn't able to get back. But it is as you say, it's on these types of races we learn the most.
Looking forward for more of this!

 

[rborowik]

My Race Report

Not great in practice, couldnt get into the 1:23s

Quali wasnt much better but started to get back into the flow of the track. I enjoy the circuit but its so tough, once you lose the flow you just lose time until you get it back.

I started 9th I think, behind Andrew Sebastien. I got a good start but had to back off as there was nowhere to go, got to the inside for Turn 2 and overtook Andrew, made up a few places with him following me through including through the crash at T1 between the leading pack.

With that I was up into 2nd with Andrew close behind. I made a couple of mistakes and dropped back into 3rd, about to lose that to a Porsche with 35 minutes left on the clock. I pitted early to get the undercut and some clean track. It worked as once the pitstops cycled through I was back upto 3rd but with a 5 second gap to 4th.

The last 15 minutes of the race were incredible, Chris caught me up in the Bentley and I knew he was quicker than me from qualifying. I watched his line as he caught up and worked out where I had better corners and where I would be under attack. From there I just tried to make sure I could be slow on apexes where he was quicker, preventing him getting a better run on me into the next corner.

The lapped traffic made this even harder, well done to everyone that got lapped for keeping it clean but it was so tough to battle whilst working our way through anyway, its just the challenge of this track.

A couple of times I thought Chris was past me but I managed to hold onto it heading into the final lap. He was so close on my bumper at the last left before climbing to the corkscrew, clipped the sausage kerb and exited right. Gutted as I think we would have been side by side at some point in the last 4 corners of the race.

Happy that I finally have a good result this season!

 

[Piotrek Blaszczak]

@Trox What I wrote sounded wrong. I don't feel sorry for anyone but myself. I have been racing with you since 2008, there has always been a high level of culture at the track. I'm tired of waking up at 4:00 CEST every morning. In the evening during the race, due to age, concentration and fun from racing are missing.I'm not done with my career yet , but I need to sort things out

 

[Trox]

@Trox What I wrote sounded wrong. I don't feel sorry for anyone but myself. I have been racing with you since 2008, there has always been a high level of culture at the track. I'm tired of waking up at 4:00 CEST every morning. In the evening during the race, due to age, concentration and fun from racing are missing.I'm not done with my career yet , but I need to sort things out

Ah I see, 2 hours in front isn’t much fun

 

[Piotrek Blaszczak]

well, I start racing at 22:00 CEST, the race ends after 23:00 CEST, then a quick bath, and about 4 hours to sleep. Then you have to go underground 1050 m. Work in air humidity of over 90 percent. But I like these jobs.However, as you get older, you feel these sleepless nights

 

[Trox]

well, I start racing at 22:00 CEST, the race ends after 23:00 CEST, then a quick bath, and about 4 hours to sleep. Then you have to go underground 1050 m. Work in air humidity of over 90 percent. But I like these jobs.However, as you get older, you feel these sleepless nights

Yea, I’m pretty crabbit at the best of times never mind on 4 hours sleep! Take it easy mate, hopefully you’ll be back!

 

[McFlunch]

My race report

Started in the back as I couldn't get under 1:25 Managed to be 10th or something like that after the little "battle" at the start But then someone spun in front of me, took out one car, which I managed to avoid but I ended out of the track and 16th/17 But no damage.

Then I get back to 12th or 13th position, and it's my turn to spin as I put to much gas in the exit of T4 (exact same place where I ended out of the track earlier ). I made this mistake as I wanted so much to get back in the race, but frustration and hastiness don't mix well in racing I guess Ended last and this time I got light damage, so decided to pit early (18 min into the race).

I spent the rest of the race being lapped by some (hope I was not a PITA on track) and doing my laps in 1:24 / 1:25 , got severe damage in Corkscrew as I was trying to leave space and ended braking too late So pitted a second time.

Then still lapping in 1:24 / 1:25 until the end and finished 13th (some crashed too or abandoned).

Not a good race from me, but I enjoyed most of it and it was fun ! I still have to learn to deal with frustration and little mistakes, but it's really cool to race whith people like you with a good spirit and a really good level

Starting to practice on Zandvoort tonight as I never tried this track @SwannyUK Will it be rainny / random weather ? Or do we bring our sunglasses like yesterday ? (please, I love sunglasses )