AC GT3 @ Paul Ricard - Sun 03Jun18

[Dennis Phelan]

650s please!

 

[Luan Garcia]

Out,sorry.

 

[JoelK]

I'll make it.

 

[Sharjeel]

@Eugene Abramoff I know it's late but any chance I might still be allowed to sign up?

 

[Eugene Abramoff]

@Eugene Abramoff I know it's late but any chance I might still be allowed to sign up?

Sure, what do you wanna drive?

 

[Sharjeel]

Thanks mate. A 650S please.

 

[Eugene Abramoff]

Thanks mate. A 650S please.

Added!

 

[Celtic Pharaoh]

Sorry for last minute sign up Eugene. Can I have a Mercedes? If its too late, no problem

 

[Eugene Abramoff]

Sorry for last minute sign up Eugene. Can I have a Mercedes? If its too late, no problem

Sure

 

[LUC4]

It's top late for me. I'm sorry

 

[Fernando Deutsch]

I am on the brink not to enter the race. I am attending a customer emergency. Still will do the best to be on the race.

 

[Fernando Deutsch]

OK, I will be in now

 

[Chris Down]

That was a really amazing race, I was sweating buckets at the end (and not just because of the heat!). Special shoutout to those who were blue flagged -- I didn't hear about anyone having any issues all race, this isn't always an easy track to yield on outside of the straights, but you you guys were fantastic nonetheless.

I went for 1 set of mediums + 1 litre extra to last the race, but clearly having some softs about was the better strategy today. This meant that by the last couple of laps, @Fernando Deutsch and @Tronneh were closing in on me at about a second a lap. By the final lap @Tronneh got my slipstream in the Mistral Straight, and I thought it was all over... but somehow I just about held on with my "drift-ready" mediums. One more lap and they definitely would have had me.

I'm more than pleased with third given the circumstances. Great race everyone! As usual, here's my onboard:

 

[Dennis Phelan]

@sanx Sorry for the bump, didn't realize your were there. The second bump was the shock of realizing that there was a first bump!

 

[Fernando Deutsch]

I was lucky to get on the event on time as I was solving a production issue with one customer.

Did not qualified that bad, but still not where I wanted to be, and once again, another great start gaining a couple of places, one lap later an incident in front of me allowed the position 4. I knew one or two of the ultra fast guys got involved in some incidents, so was a matter of laps to got passed by them. Most of the race was fighting with @Tronneh and his very fast Lambo on the straights, where I was not that fast but was way better on the last sector. We interchanged positions a couple of times but at the end I could not hold him while we were pursuing @Chris Down McLaren, who was brave (or crazy) enough to decide not to change tyres. On the very last lap @Tronneh catch him at the end of Mistral straight and I was able to position myself very close on the next turns, unfortunately going wide a couple of times, and finishing on a drag-race at the main straight to finish on position 5.

Very cool and fun race for me. Back-markers did a remarkable job letting people by. One driver particular on the main straight did a perfect job slowing down enough so both did not lost that much time and/or compromise our race lines. Big thanks !

 

[sanx]

no problem Dennis its happens