My first r2p event went better than I thought, finishing smack in the middle of the Gauss curve as 8th of 16 participants.
The racing was quite good, especially trying (unsuccessfully) to prevent George Pol from reeling me in over the last 4 or five laps. He managed a great pass into T1 after the S/F straight, I gave him some room to breathe, all fine.
However what struck me was the number of drivers quitting mid race due to a spin, error and whatnot. This should not happen, according to the on-track behavior page, everyone should race to the best of their ability and to the chequered flag.
Also, in post race chat someone was obviously rather mad at his fellow racers and talked of "wanting to kill people". I could not make out a smiley as far as I remember, so this leads me to suggest there should be a minimum entry age for joining r2p events, as this fellow sounde [... more]
Well, Pat's post on RAS finally got me to put my R2P account created in 12/2006 to some use, signing up for an F3 sprint race at Barcelona.
While I don't especially like neither car class nor the circuit, I am looking forward to meeting some simracing celebs on track again: Alison Hine, for one, I remember from a long time back, when I had my first online racing experiences in GPL, racing her (and beating her brother, who was a "real race car driver" at the time, supposedly) in a ten lapper at Monza. I felt so proud! ;-)
Also Tim McAthur has an impressive track record, but while I'm only a lowly ranking hacker, I'm hoping to add my bit to the mix tonight!
