Game: F1 2010 - The Game by Codemasters. Click here to buy it directly from Steam
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F1 20xx - The Game Leagues (Archive)
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Game: F1 2010 - The Game by Codemasters. Click here to buy it directly from Steam
Class: Formula 1
Track: Various Tracks (Ralf Eiden Style = random selection)
Weather: Dry
Opens: 19:00 GMT
Ends: Do we?
Password & Rules: click here
Well, where to start… another frustrating as hell night and on reflection if anything probably felt worse than Silverstone where at least I didn’t waste over half the race before getting diddly squat out of it.
Firstly the quali and race… Was not overly concerned to see the forecast even though not having put a wheel on track in anything other than dry conditions, tweaked my setup for the likely wet conditions in the race and then ran 3 or 4 laps in the rain to start with to get a feel for conditions. Left myself with one lap to put in a time which wasn’t great but I was happy enough with it and wasn’t too worried about where I was starting the race (I was considering no quali run in the dry anyway…) as I was set with my strategy for a dry race and if it rained knew it would shake things up a fair bit anyway.
Starting on primes I got away a bit sluggishly and wanted to avoid any issues into that first corner so was last of the pack as we went through there but settled down to a long race and was soon up into the top 8 and enjoying a chase of my new team mate for the day (Mark). Kept close for a while but had a charging Red Bull soon on my heels and got a little nudge in the rear around turn 3 pushing me wide and allowing Mark a little breathing space. Held Rob off for a short while before he made his way through and then I settled down leaving a bit of a gap and watching the two of them ahead battle it out. I had a feeling it was going to give me a chance if I kept them in sight and sure enough as I approached the final chicane a couple of laps later I found the two of them stricken across the track, had to take quick avoiding action to pass them into the chicane but made up two places in one hit. I think that put me up into about 6th or 7th at that point. Alex was next to figure on my rear radar and we proceeded to have a nice little tussle with me on my primes determined to make it as difficult as possible for him on his options to get past (re-playing in my mind the real GP earlier in the day lol). It was a lot of fun and he had several goes at various points on the track, with me just doing enough to keep him behind me, making my car as wide as possible but eventually he got me, going outside into turn 1 and getting better grip on the way up the hill and just about made it through on the inside as we went round. Nice one Alex I enjoyed that
Next up we had the safety car for Karls bollard incident, bit of a killer for my two stop strategy if it had stayed dry but more so for my feeling that I would gain a stop over the option guys as they would likely need to pit for fresh rubber before the rain came so I made my way around the track and pitted for a set of options to see me through to the rain. That came fairly soon after (can’t remember which lap…) and although initially thinking I would stay out as long as possible to go straight to wets it got heavy pretty quickly and I struggled badly through the chicane so decided to forego that idea and dive in for inters. Right decision and on my out lap I came across a badly struggling Nick between turns 5 and 6 on options (I think) who my engineer told me had a drive through penalty and no front wing so was clearly on for a long drive back to the pits. Then I found a scrabbling Red Bull (Gavin) on the same lap, trying to avoid the inters I would guess like at Silverstone… so I was quickly up two places in one fell swoop. Rob was the closest car to me after that, just a couple of seconds adrift with Alex in 3rd place about 18 seconds up the road. So very handily placed in 4th and feeling pretty happy with the situation I was putting in decent laps, keeping the gap to Alex stable, up to 20 seconds at one point but then back down to 17/18 and holding once I got my braking sorted in the conditions. The gap to Rob was opening up steadily now as well (around 8+ seconds) and it was all looking pretty comfortable as I started lap 32 (I think it was 32) and then suddenly.. Lost Connection… couldn’t believe it.. again!! Sat there for a minute, answered Colin on XBL who saw that I was suddenly in the frontend rather than the race, gathered my thoughts and then walked away from the desk… seething for the second race running.
Feeling a bit lost this morning not having any laptime data to play around with so my usual post-race Monday morning is out the window.
Well done to Mitch on the second win and Alex and Mark for the other podium places. Good job to all the others who finished but especially to Robert for a good solid race, well deserved. Feel bad for Karl and Richard for the bollards, I knew somebody would cop it from them hence my warning about them earlier in the thread. Can’t understand why they are still there.. what is so difficult about fixing that. My view is that all is fine until they get hit and replaced… then that’s when the start to cause problems.
Anyway, more in a bit……
Firstly the quali and race… Was not overly concerned to see the forecast even though not having put a wheel on track in anything other than dry conditions, tweaked my setup for the likely wet conditions in the race and then ran 3 or 4 laps in the rain to start with to get a feel for conditions. Left myself with one lap to put in a time which wasn’t great but I was happy enough with it and wasn’t too worried about where I was starting the race (I was considering no quali run in the dry anyway…) as I was set with my strategy for a dry race and if it rained knew it would shake things up a fair bit anyway.
Starting on primes I got away a bit sluggishly and wanted to avoid any issues into that first corner so was last of the pack as we went through there but settled down to a long race and was soon up into the top 8 and enjoying a chase of my new team mate for the day (Mark). Kept close for a while but had a charging Red Bull soon on my heels and got a little nudge in the rear around turn 3 pushing me wide and allowing Mark a little breathing space. Held Rob off for a short while before he made his way through and then I settled down leaving a bit of a gap and watching the two of them ahead battle it out. I had a feeling it was going to give me a chance if I kept them in sight and sure enough as I approached the final chicane a couple of laps later I found the two of them stricken across the track, had to take quick avoiding action to pass them into the chicane but made up two places in one hit. I think that put me up into about 6th or 7th at that point. Alex was next to figure on my rear radar and we proceeded to have a nice little tussle with me on my primes determined to make it as difficult as possible for him on his options to get past (re-playing in my mind the real GP earlier in the day lol). It was a lot of fun and he had several goes at various points on the track, with me just doing enough to keep him behind me, making my car as wide as possible but eventually he got me, going outside into turn 1 and getting better grip on the way up the hill and just about made it through on the inside as we went round. Nice one Alex I enjoyed that
Next up we had the safety car for Karls bollard incident, bit of a killer for my two stop strategy if it had stayed dry but more so for my feeling that I would gain a stop over the option guys as they would likely need to pit for fresh rubber before the rain came so I made my way around the track and pitted for a set of options to see me through to the rain. That came fairly soon after (can’t remember which lap…) and although initially thinking I would stay out as long as possible to go straight to wets it got heavy pretty quickly and I struggled badly through the chicane so decided to forego that idea and dive in for inters. Right decision and on my out lap I came across a badly struggling Nick between turns 5 and 6 on options (I think) who my engineer told me had a drive through penalty and no front wing so was clearly on for a long drive back to the pits. Then I found a scrabbling Red Bull (Gavin) on the same lap, trying to avoid the inters I would guess like at Silverstone… so I was quickly up two places in one fell swoop. Rob was the closest car to me after that, just a couple of seconds adrift with Alex in 3rd place about 18 seconds up the road. So very handily placed in 4th and feeling pretty happy with the situation I was putting in decent laps, keeping the gap to Alex stable, up to 20 seconds at one point but then back down to 17/18 and holding once I got my braking sorted in the conditions. The gap to Rob was opening up steadily now as well (around 8+ seconds) and it was all looking pretty comfortable as I started lap 32 (I think it was 32) and then suddenly.. Lost Connection… couldn’t believe it.. again!! Sat there for a minute, answered Colin on XBL who saw that I was suddenly in the frontend rather than the race, gathered my thoughts and then walked away from the desk… seething for the second race running.
Feeling a bit lost this morning not having any laptime data to play around with so my usual post-race Monday morning is out the window.
Well done to Mitch on the second win and Alex and Mark for the other podium places. Good job to all the others who finished but especially to Robert for a good solid race, well deserved. Feel bad for Karl and Richard for the bollards, I knew somebody would cop it from them hence my warning about them earlier in the thread. Can’t understand why they are still there.. what is so difficult about fixing that. My view is that all is fine until they get hit and replaced… then that’s when the start to cause problems.
Anyway, more in a bit……
Name : Dean Ragan
Car Choice : MCLAREN
Teammate (if applicable) :Andrew or Steven if there have me!! want to have a good run @ the constructors championship.
Team Name (if applicable) :
Car Choice : MCLAREN
Teammate (if applicable) :Andrew or Steven if there have me!!
want to have a good run @ the constructors championship.Team Name (if applicable) :
Q: 6
R: 1
Some really great close racing when the track was dry, had an incident with Gavin sending me into the gravel at the start of the back straight thanks that stupid side pod glitch sending me from 2nd/3rd to 5th, but Karls' incident bringing out the SC really played into my hands giving me the advantage to get after pitting for fresh Options... then the rain came down, Gavin and Nick had a moment which gave me 2nd for the most part, but Richard was really quick and really consistent in those conditions and by the time the stop for a second set of wets on L42 came he had a minute lead. Knowing that I had no chance of catch him as I did not have the set up for the wet I just focused on keeping my place and bringing the car home... Then L56 happened and Richard was out of the race
Tried to let Nick and Gavin's fight go on ahead after they un-lapped themselves from me but I don't think they wanted that to happen Still trying to figure out exactly how Gavin got that 20sec penalty as I'd let him have a good few seconds gap to stop that...
Didn't really know how to feel afterwards... Happy with the second win on the trot but not getting it how I would of wanted kinda sours it a little... But on the other hand it's brought me within 33 points of Karl
Well done to Alex for holding onto the podium place as it seemed his fight with Mark was a race long one, and congrats to Mark or Gavin for 3rd...?
I don't know how we're doing it, if Mark isn't counted Gavin should get the points if not then Mark gets them we can't do it any other way it would could ruin a really close fight between the top 9 and just not counting the place or points is out of the question as far as I'm concerned, you can't have a results table show 1-2-4.
Really looking forward to Hungary as it's a track I'm normally pretty good at
R: 1
Some really great close racing when the track was dry, had an incident with Gavin sending me into the gravel at the start of the back straight thanks that stupid side pod glitch sending me from 2nd/3rd to 5th, but Karls' incident bringing out the SC really played into my hands giving me the advantage to get after pitting for fresh Options... then the rain came down, Gavin and Nick had a moment which gave me 2nd for the most part, but Richard was really quick and really consistent in those conditions and by the time the stop for a second set of wets on L42 came he had a minute lead. Knowing that I had no chance of catch him as I did not have the set up for the wet I just focused on keeping my place and bringing the car home... Then L56 happened and Richard was out of the race
Tried to let Nick and Gavin's fight go on ahead after they un-lapped themselves from me but I don't think they wanted that to happen
Still trying to figure out exactly how Gavin got that 20sec penalty as I'd let him have a good few seconds gap to stop that...Didn't really know how to feel afterwards... Happy with the second win on the trot but not getting it how I would of wanted kinda sours it a little... But on the other hand it's brought me within 33 points of Karl
Well done to Alex for holding onto the podium place as it seemed his fight with Mark was a race long one, and congrats to Mark or Gavin for 3rd...?
I don't know how we're doing it, if Mark isn't counted Gavin should get the points if not then Mark gets them we can't do it any other way it would could ruin a really close fight between the top 9 and just not counting the place or points is out of the question as far as I'm concerned, you can't have a results table show 1-2-4.
Really looking forward to Hungary as it's a track I'm normally pretty good at
Name : Ben Milden
Car Choice :lotus
Teammate (if applicable) : @Rob McEwan
Team Name (if applicable) :
Car Choice :lotus
Teammate (if applicable) : @Rob McEwan
Team Name (if applicable) :
Name : Andrew Wood
Car Choice : Ferrari
Teammate (if applicable) : Daniel Cornelius Hemmings
Team Name (if applicable) : TBD
Keep it rollin Boldy ....
Car Choice : Ferrari
Teammate (if applicable) : Daniel Cornelius Hemmings
Team Name (if applicable) : TBD
Keep it rollin Boldy ....
Hope you don't make any knee jerk reactions Peter Hooper, still alot of racing till the end of the season buddy. Chin up
Oli Peacock
Sim Racer
Only if you stay connectedHope you don't make any knee jerk reactions Peter Hooper, still alot of racing till the end of the season buddy. Chin up
lolMy letter to Vijay is in draft form at the moment, but nothing kneejerk... slept on and considered.
I might be able to do some in the morning Aus time (about 9 hours from now). I'm hosting private lessons on how to race laggy drivers
I am very experienced and look forward to teaching
Oli Peacock
Sim Racer
I might be able to do some in the morning Aus time (about 9 hours from now). I'm hosting private lessons on how to race laggy drivers
I am very experienced and look forward to teaching
It's quite simple to be honest, but when applied it's not racing as i know it
Jamie-Lee Mayers
PS4 F1 Lead Commentator
Sorry guys, Josh is gonna walk with this one. At least the battle for 2nd should be close...
Man I miss racing online on this game. Stupid internet.
Thanks for the great battle, Shane! It was fun!
Name : Jasper Vermeulen
Car Choice : Force India
Car Choice : Force India
Which Teammate I get is not really important for me guys. I'm happy with everyone!
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