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| Race Reports - Indian Grand Prix | |
| By: GAZZA_308 Date: February 13, 2012, 1:47 pm | |
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| :) | |
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| Re: Race Reports - Indian Grand Prix | |
| By: drewdawg727 Date: February 13, 2012, 5:22 pm | |
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| Beware everyone - the McLarens are coming 8) | |
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| Re: Race Reports - Indian Grand Prix | |
| By: Moss Date: February 14, 2012, 3:51 am | |
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| first of all, again im going to say im sorry to macca for | |
| screwing his race on the first corner. i hope he doesnt take it | |
| personal, i wasnt trying to make a move on him, just a | |
| miscalculation on brakes, he brake a little earlier than i | |
| thought he would i tryed to stop the car but having abs turned | |
| off my car locked and i smashed into him. this is not how i | |
| usually race, and i will try my best not repeat it again. | |
| qualifying report - 2nd | |
| 1st and 2nd run, my car wouldnt handle right, so for my last run | |
| i did a slight change to my setup and it worked right for me and | |
| got second on primes. | |
| race report- 1st | |
| as u guys know what happened in the first corner, my car spun | |
| and rejoined being at last, i had a penalty to serve, so on | |
| first lap i passed some cars that had spun off, and gained | |
| positions to 5th, i served the penalty on 2nd lap and started to | |
| gain on beno until they pitted. | |
| lap 11 i pitted for options (it was a big mistake) i forgot to | |
| change them to primes, so i went on and made up some time on | |
| macca, passed him a few laps later, then i passed andrew on lap | |
| 14 or 15, made up some time on andrew, then i saw livolay taking | |
| second from andrew. | |
| lap 17 my tires were gone, but i didnt pit because i know livo | |
| had a 2 stop strategy, so i just stayed out until i fully lost | |
| grip, livo was gaining on me a second a lap. | |
| lap 19 i pitted for primes after making a huge mistake 2 corner | |
| before the pits, and while the pit stop i got stuck due to | |
| traffic, and joined track with only ;ess then a second ahead of | |
| andrew. | |
| on lap 23 livo exited the pits 3 second behind, i knew he was | |
| gonna gain on me due to fresh tires, so i pushed the car to the | |
| max (so much that in some corners i was slightly going of track, | |
| he got right behind me on lap 26, we had a good fight for a | |
| couple of laps, he made this win so much harder for me, my gear | |
| ratio helped me so much, im not very happy with the win but | |
| things like that happen i just gotta be carefull next race and | |
| not let it happen again. | |
| DOD is livo, great driving, he had this little over me, my | |
| qualifying is great but in the race i know something is wronge, | |
| im losing my tires fast so il try and fix that issue i have. | |
| thanx to macca for the understanding, great personality cheers. | |
| #Post#: 828-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Race Reports - Indian Grand Prix | |
| By: drewdawg727 Date: February 14, 2012, 4:42 am | |
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| INDIAN RACE REPORT ASF: | |
| Q: 5th; 1:21.9, had a pretty crappy run in quali, I was running | |
| low 21s on the laps where I barely cut the corner but whatever. | |
| R: 3rd; I completely misjudged the lights going off, and Josh | |
| was ahead of me in no time. I saw pretty much every car on the | |
| grid but Paul get taken out at turn 1...and then got around Paul | |
| about 2/3rds of the way down the long straight (and got driven | |
| into the side of by him also, what was that about Paul?). When I | |
| reached the right hand curve in sector 2, the car was turning as | |
| if I had no front wing...it was terrible. I noticed that Paul | |
| was doing a fair job holding up Ben and then eventually Macca as | |
| well, so was hoping to use that to my advantage. By the end of | |
| my options stint, Macca was about 1 sec behind me, so I thought | |
| I was quickly headed for a downward spiral through the field as | |
| the race went on. | |
| Exited the pits and had 5 seconds on Macca somehow (?) and it | |
| wasn't before long that he had the gap closed down to 2 sec. Saw | |
| that Moussa was closing on Macca very quickly and their battle | |
| allowed me to gap them a bit, but Moussa came flying past me on | |
| L14 on the DRS straightaway. Couldn't even hold a candle to him, | |
| he was 5 sec ahead in 2 laps. Livolay was also catching Macca, | |
| disposed of him, and disposed of me as well on L17. He didn't | |
| pull away as quick, but on my in lap: 19, saw that Moussa had | |
| spun out on the right hander before the final turn, and I | |
| followed him right into the pit lane. | |
| Side note: As I was losing fuel, I thought that my setup may | |
| begin to come to me, and after a while I would be getting around | |
| the track better but it was quite the opposite. I felt like the | |
| setup I had was terrible, and I think I should have given myself | |
| different springs...but oh well. | |
| Exited the pits with just a second or two between us, and again, | |
| Moussa was gone in 2 laps. L23, Livo exited the pits and | |
| collectively, the duo disappeared ahead of me. Tangled with Ben | |
| on L25 when he exited the pits and did a horrible job moving off | |
| the racing line and instead took us out into the sand at | |
| T1...great driving by Ben as usual ::) | |
| This put the gap to the duo ahead at around 10 sec, and I | |
| noticed Macca was gone behind me on one of these laps (guess he | |
| served a penalty). Turned the fuel down and coasted to a 3rd | |
| place finish. | |
| DOD: Gonna give it to both Moussa and Livo since I couldn't tell | |
| which one of them drove better. However, I find it absolutely | |
| remarkable how I run (decent) laps, and two drivers that get | |
| taken out at T1, get a drive-thru penalty, manage to come | |
| through the field and put 20 second gap on us. How is this | |
| possible? I knew my setup wasn't great...but I didn't think it | |
| was THAT bad. Really goes a long way to show how this auto gears | |
| deal really gives a huge advantage, that is the only thing that | |
| I think made this possible. | |
| #Post#: 829-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Race Reports - Indian Grand Prix | |
| By: livolay Date: February 14, 2012, 7:03 am | |
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| Q: 4th - Only did one flying lap on primes which was mistake | |
| ridden ::) | |
| R: 2nd - 1st turn I managed to avoid Macca getting spun by Moss. | |
| Apologies again to Gazza for Turn 3. | |
| I wasn't expecting you there on the exit of the corner & | |
| couldn't stop in time, I think it's my 1st deserved penalty of | |
| the season. | |
| So I had spun & was last when I did my drive thru with Josh | |
| ahead. | |
| Lap 2 - I passed Josh but then lost traction & position again at | |
| end of sec 1. | |
| After Lap 3 I turned my fuel up & went for broke finally getting | |
| into a rhythm. | |
| Managed the overtakes using DRS on the straight. | |
| Unfortunately with my worn tyres my driving got sloppy & I had | |
| to back off through sector 2 as I had got about 5 cnr cutting | |
| warnings up to my last in lap. | |
| When I caught up to Moss on Lap 26 I was using all KERS & DRS | |
| with Rich mix but my 7th gear ratio was to short & the closest I | |
| came was when I came up next to him on the inside but I had to | |
| brake earlier to make the apex. | |
| My fuel level went to red with a few laps to go & I seemed to | |
| lose time to Moss at certain points of the track but gain on | |
| others. | |
| Last lap I was racing to the limit getting on Moussa's gear box | |
| when I would exit each corner but he managed to pull away each | |
| time. | |
| Was great racing & Moss won by 4 tenths in a nail bitter. | |
| Like him my race was riddled with mistakes & I wasn't happy with | |
| my set up either. (TT set up didn't transfer to race) | |
| DOD - Drew for the highest finish of the clean racers. ;) | |
| #Post#: 830-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Race Reports - Indian Grand Prix | |
| By: GAZZA_308 Date: February 14, 2012, 11:16 pm | |
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg8isvbqwrE&feature=youtu.be | |
| Start of Indian Grand Prix | |
| #Post#: 831-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Race Reports - Indian Grand Prix | |
| By: GAZZA_308 Date: February 14, 2012, 11:29 pm | |
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| Q- down the back of the grid on Primes, thought I might stay out | |
| of trouble for the start as I have tangled with Livo for the | |
| last 3 races and received a drive through each time, everyone | |
| went wide on the first turn so I went through behind Beno in | |
| 4th, came to turn 2 and BAM, Livo spun me and I'm back to last. | |
| I put my head down to recover some places but did not have a | |
| good set up and was sliding all over the place so had to take it | |
| easy. Ended up finishing 5th, got to be happy with that. | |
| Driver of the Day would be Livo, good job mate. :) | |
| #Post#: 832-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Race Reports - Indian Grand Prix | |
| By: macca9899 Date: February 15, 2012, 1:33 am | |
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| Q= 1st R= 4th | |
| Had great lap in quali and shaved 9 tenths of my personal best | |
| so I was wrapped. My first pole of the season woohoo ;D | |
| Race was a different story however and I did not drive well | |
| after my spin in turn one as I was so pi$$ed off. I just couldnt | |
| concentrate and that is something that I need to work on. I have | |
| no hard feelings towards you at all Moss, at the end of the day | |
| it is a game and I know that is not your style to take people | |
| out. And I appreciate your apology mate, it is so easy to do at | |
| the start of a race and as carefull as we all are it happens | |
| from time to time. I was just gutted as I thought I had the | |
| potential to finish better than I did. Never mind there is | |
| another race next week and I will try to get up there again. I | |
| guess I cant complain as that was my first turn one incident for | |
| the entire season. | |
| Anyway had a few battles throught the race with Beno, and Paul | |
| and fought hard as I could to catch drew which I was doing on my | |
| first stint on the options but the car went away from me on | |
| primes and I couldnt gain anymore. I then got a drive through | |
| for corner cutting which really put the nail in the coffin ::) | |
| Sorry I cant remember much details but I guess thats the | |
| important stuff 8) | |
| See you next week guys. | |
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