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Subject: Re: Sebring 2012 Season 3 Sat Oct 06, 2012 6:09 am
Happy with the car? I will race today too, yesterday race was disaster for me
cyrilp
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Subject: Re: Sebring 2012 Season 3 Sat Oct 06, 2012 6:59 am
YES ! more than happy !!! i tell more later
but i'm a little worry about tonight: i feel very strange, like if i were "drunk". I hope i'm not starting a flue or something else !! the problem is it's very difficult to drive ! and tonight is my last chance to score points at sebring :-( i hope i will manage to drive ! it's stupid because i have read more of the book and i can see how it help me already but i'm just strange, like in a numb... let's try more !
cyrilp
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Subject: Re: Sebring 2012 Season 3 Sat Oct 06, 2012 7:15 am
YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i don"t know if you will belive me but i have had like a "revelation" thanks to the book: after reading the chapter on the different type of corners and how to take them (before a straight, after a straight,...) i realized 80% of my corners line were wrong !!!!
and putting in application what i have learned in the book seams so clever now once on the track !
to bad i'm not in a good shape because i would have something very good i think !
it's a very good feeling each time you feel that you have understand something more !!
cyrilp
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Subject: Re: Sebring 2012 Season 3 Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:08 am
saso i got hit too was 12th, almost no mistake
SloEdge Admin
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Subject: Re: Sebring 2012 Season 3 Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:11 am
I'm really pissed off, guy was way to far behind to made a clean pass, i even let him more then enough space in case his an alien and can really break that late... but he nailed me , and the worse thing is he was able to continue :S I hope next race will go official... if not, i'm done with fight for 1st place in championship :S
cyrilp
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Subject: Re: Sebring 2012 Season 3 Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:13 am
so am i !!!
SloEdge Admin
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Subject: Re: Sebring 2012 Season 3 Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:20 am
That's what cheer me up
cyrilp
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Subject: Re: Sebring 2012 Season 3 Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:45 am
lol
definitvly not my evening: wanted to watch a movie in my homecinema: my pioneer receiver is dead !!!!
nuhq
Posts : 293 Points : 331 Join date : 2012-08-19 Age : 41 Location : Helsinki, Finland
Subject: Re: Sebring 2012 Season 3 Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:51 am
Too bad for your accidents.
I'm starting to feel this car isn't that great for racing. The draft is so minimal that the only way to pass someone is by pitting better, divebombing or the other guy making a mistake. This leads to suicidal attempts to pass and races beeing quickly over for unlucky guys...
One would think the real car creates more draft. But I don't know.
nuhq
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Subject: Re: Sebring 2012 Season 3 Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:54 am
BTW, what happened to Scott?
SloEdge Admin
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Subject: Re: Sebring 2012 Season 3 Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:55 am
Hmm should we try FW31 next season ? But i guess every high downforce car have same problem with overtaking.
I don't know... i was so pissed off and just close iRacing I thought he finish the race ....
nuhq
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Subject: Re: Sebring 2012 Season 3 Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:58 am
No he disconnected when there was about 5 laps left.
My race went really well actually. Roope, me and Scott were very close the first half of the race. I managed to pass Roope in the pits (he got a speeding penalty) and got a good gap to Scott by going to pits 2 laps later than him. Really happy for 4th place.
SloEdge Admin
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Subject: Re: Sebring 2012 Season 3 Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:59 am
Nice, at least someone of us finished the race...
nuhq
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Subject: Re: Sebring 2012 Season 3 Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:19 am
SloEdge wrote:
Hmm should we try FW31 next season ? But i guess every high downforce car have same problem with overtaking.
I talked to Riku and he said that the draft used to be better but some oval-guys have complained draft being too big so they have tuned it down.
He also said that in FW31 the draft is better, but the car in front also gains some speed so the straight must be very long (Spa) to make a pass.
cyrilp
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Subject: Re: Sebring 2012 Season 3 Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:32 am
a blank week for the championship
SloEdge Admin
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Subject: Re: Sebring 2012 Season 3 Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:35 am
Me too...oh well, so i have time to test FW31 to see the difference between f1 and indy car.
cyrilp
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Subject: Re: Sebring 2012 Season 3 Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:36 am
i was wandering the same thing: why no draft ??? it's so unrealistic !!
SloEdge Admin
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Subject: Re: Sebring 2012 Season 3 Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:43 am
I have problem with drag at SPA too but I was sure it's setup issue, but now i'm sure it's car issue. But to be honest, yesterday i had chance to score some good points but i was just to greedy :S ....season goes on, lesson learned
sbig
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Subject: Re: Sebring 2012 Season 3 Sat Oct 06, 2012 11:03 am
nuhq wrote:
BTW, what happened to Scott?
I made 2 stupid mistakes. During the first half I realized that I wasn't going to be able to pass you on the track so I decided to change up my pit strategy a little, pit a lap early and hopefully get by you that way. Stupid me messed up the entry and got a 15 second penalty for crossing the cones coming in If not for that I think I would've gotten by (my F3 showed you 14.5 ahead after you pitted).
With Roope's penalty he was only a few second ahead of me and by 10 to go I was within a second. He was slow in T1 on one lap and I was right on his gearbox exiting hairpin, hoping to maybe get a run on him into T10. I must've hit a curb though cuz the car just jerked left on its own and put me in the wall
Oh well, it was still a fun race even if it didn't end well. I won 2 of my other 3 races this week so can't really complain too much