rF2 NEW! Truck race @ Norisring'08 sunday 26-10-2008

[Gary Lennon]

Oh what a HONKING good time there tonight in my first ever rF event,as a recent convert to the broad church that is "rF" it was great,endearing me even more to this beautiful sim.
Dunno how the hell i ended up starting 5th,but was very pleased with the lap that secured it,shame i slewed into the pitwall to my right doing a terrible start dropping down the order a bit,dont ask me what the hell actually happened through the race though!.,,ive no ideaound:...it was just a big frantic action packed blur of huge brightly painted trucks going everywhere,a series of flukes dodging my path through helped me reclaim some lost ground at the start.
I done my pit and opted for fronts change and my 20laps of fuel to go to the finish,but i didnt know when my pit was done,,,,i sat like a plank for too long i think,but out in 7th i think?,and got on with it,the longer the race went,the more comfy i felt with my "Big-Rig" and due to others misfortunes ahead i ended up finishing 3rd!!.....Lovely :dance:.
Gratso Ramon and Ben good stuff mateseace:
Many Thanks Patrick and Andrew for this awesomeness,we want more trucks i think? :clap2:.

 

[Ramon van Rijn]

That was a nice event

Practice went well, qualify not. Too much traffic to get a good lap and later on I could not get the rhythm to steal the pole. I was still happy with my 3rd or 4th spot (don't remember).

At race-start i was lucky that I practiced the start earlier today, so was immediately 1st after T1
Was good fun till we met some backmarkers. The damn trucks are very slow in avoiding an accident and a backmarker didn't see me.
This happened a couple of times during the race and got some crashes with others and the wall because of this.
Logically of course, only a tiny bit of mirror to work with. No problem guys
Daniel was doing an early pitstop, don't know if he needed repairs or so but he did the pitstop and saw him doing another stop some laps later. I guess stop/go?

I did my pitstop in lap 24 as planned with 17 remaining laps of fuel. It worked out great. Exit the pits in 3rd position with number 2 going in pits a lap later. Could get the 1st spot just before Mark did his pitstop. So I had a comfortable lead of 12 seconds till the end.
In the very last lap my left front suspension broke and I crashed into the wall. Lost 6 seconds but could still finish and win the race.

Black Visor Motorsport stole the whole podium, great work Ben and Gary
Our first event was a promising start hehe

See you next time guys, thanks for the great fun.

 

[Ben Tusting]

It was a good laugh

Not to sure about the track a bit small

BVM 1,2,3

Nigel you're a let down

 

[Daniel Plaikner]

Qualy:
Had a good pace tonight with the trucks :dance:. 0,600 faster then P2 eace:on pole :dance:.

Race:
Start was bad. Ramon overtaked ne into T1. Then close racing and a lot of fun. I tryed sevral times to overtake, but alwys made some mistakes, LOL. Also good battle with Robert eace:. Lots of fun tonight. After a mistake of Ramon then I earned p1 eace:. Then I decidet to do my pitstop...

I'm so stupid I cant beliieve it:dizzy::wacko::shocked::doh: I was 6 times in pits with 4 Drive throuh penaltys. I think thats a new record in asininity. After the 6th time in pits I realised, that the pitlane begins where the traffic light are not on the withe line a few meters in back :doh::dizzy:. :censored:
I still can't believe it :nono:.
I tryed then to push like the hell my truck. Was on p14. Regained quickly to the man infront of me, but a few times I hit the wall with my right front. I thougt that truck is robust and its no problem hitting the wall a bit... but then 7 laps to go, I braked normally into T1 and the right brake broke :suspicious::ohwell: lost controll and full speed into the wall. :wacko: . Tryed to pit and repair it, but that dont work. So againg into the wall and race :suspicious::ohwell:over

Lots of fun tonight and I'm surprised of my pace with trucks I would be awsome if we had more events like that. Its really close racing with trucks and really funny .

Here some statistics if you want to look at:

 

[Nick Carnell]

Brilliant racing all, was doing really well until pc locked up and found myself stuck in a barrier.Can we have another please Andrew.

 

[Andrew Evans]

guys, this one was all patricks work, so kudos to him! :thumb:

 

[Bruce Saltzman]

Thanks guys for the opportunity to race with you. These trucks are awesome fun. Too bad I can't drive them yet. My race ended quickly but had some fun in practice. Sorry for anyone whose way I was in. It's been awhile since I've raced. I thought big, clumsy, slow trucks would be good for a start. Apparently they require a bit more finesse then I thought and brakes that need to warm up a couple laps before they're any good.

Kudos to RD guys for putting this together. Hope there's more in the future.

 

[Florian Goubaud]

I love the stat!!!!!!!! beautiful!

 

[James Yates]

Couldn't get on with them at all in the race and hit a few people so sorry about that. On lap 10 i slid it into the wall at turn one and bent it a bit and thought i may aswell leave, rather than carrying on hitting people by accident.

 

[Patrick van Driel]

Thx to everybody for another fun race guys !!!:woot:
Started 6th or 7th and after 2 corners up to 4th....but that didnt last long
Someone in front of me lost it and i couldnt avoid him so wrecked my steering.
Had to pit earlier then planned and brought more fuel to try and finish with my truck. Race was going well i think i had Mark A for 25 laps in my mirror and managed to stay in front of him. Then i think Mr Holman got in my way there and i crashed again another pitstop to try and get back .
Well 9th in the end was fine by me and a great race with a full grid eace: The Trucks will return !!
Cya all in next race ,Cheers !:wave:

 

[Grant Powell]

Wow these trucks where a blast.

Q14 and finished P10 so was just happy to finish LOL.

Lap 1 had me giggling to myself as we played pinball with our big old trucks.

Track choice i thought was excellent as although quite narrow the barriers i think kept a lot of us on the track at times so promoted closer racing.

After playing this mod it has me wanting more rfactor and those that have seen some of my posts will know i have moaned quite a bit about rfactor so only good has come of this i think

So roll on the Go karts on Tuesday just now need to find some time to practice them eace:

 

[Tim Ling]

Anyone have the replay file? I'd love to watch the race

 

[Nigel Atkins]

Anyone have the replay file? I'd love to watch the race

here you go Tim, might have to wait a short while for an admin to authorize it replay

 

[Tim Ling]

thx Nigel

 

[Mario Rocha]

After the race, I see the post with the setup for this track.

40 Laps with default........

Very fun this race.

 

[Bruce Saltzman]

here you go Tim, might have to wait a short while for an admin to authorize it replay

Terrific, the embarrassment for me now continues on in a permanent record.

 

[Patrick van Driel]

Terrific, the embarrassment for me now continues on in a permanent record.

Lol

 

[Gary Allen]

That was excellent. Qualified in 15th and finished the race 6th. It took a few laps and a few collisions with the barriers to get the feel these lumbering beasts but once I found the breaking points I really started to enjoy it . Please let's do it again. Hats off to Patrick for a really enjoyable event.:yo:

 

[Martin Bulgin]

I thought this would be good fun and it was, started 7th and finished 5th and had some good battles along the way, look forward to the next truck race.