Melbourne rFBMW

Internet connection gremlins ..... disappointed.
My quali was looking like 2.04.odd and connection failure in last sector.

Mid race, another connection problem.

Messy first lap also which was embarrassing. My apologies to Karsten and Collin :( Not my finest moment!

Well done to all

JW

Had connection problems during quali, at the start a driver in front stalled and i hit him, no where to go :(, suffered with suspension damage had to retire D:

I think we might have set an attendance record, yall must have gotten those emails from R2P like I did kickin my azz for attendance, lol.
That said the shot of 30 cars into T1 was awesome, great driving there.
Had great dice midway with Canta. We had even times and we traded bobbles but the gap stayed until Sykes showed up to harass him and let me pull a gap to the end.
Great race all!

Nice to get my first win for Phoenix but I wanted the clean sweep and Mike cost me that ;( I knew I would be close to the front but I was gutted that I couldn't even get near my PB but it still put me 2nd on the grid very close to Mike.

Then I knew I had to nail the start to hold any chance of victory and whilst I nailed the start and the consequent first lap, Mike had a shocker and I was comfortable from then. Think I had a 2.5s lead after 1 lap. Then I failed lap 2 and got a wheel on the grass going into quick chicane and turned to save but clipped the anti cut and it gave me front wing damage all race but nothing to stop me going quick.

After that it was just keep it on track which I managed til my stop which seemed oddly long compared to peoples and then push hard for a 58 as a fastest lap but both times I was on for it someone came out in front of me whilst lapping them so that put a damper on it but other than that, lapees did good job and am chuffed to have won. Hope I can win the champ now only thing to aim for :)

Can't believe I bloody "missed" this.

From the start the car felt good but a bit slow. With a BIG amount of preparation I finally got it up to speed and found a spot on setup.

With the lap time I had in practice I'd have made 4th on grid. I couldn't do a decent time in qualy though: Did my first benchmark lap just to warm tyres up and had an accident in the second lap. Since it takes 2 min to do one lap and qualy is only 10, especially with all the traffic it gets pretty much impossible to get another decent run.

I wanted to get a screenshot of the accident as one of the speed bumps shot me 10m into the air but I couldn't, apparently my Rfactor is not recording qualy replays. Is that normal? I thought it should record it.

Still, my warming up lap yielded me a 6th on the grid, which was already fantastic considering the lineup and the field size.

Then, when moving from qualy to race, my Rfactor simply froze. The computer was still running but Rfactor completely froze for several seconds.

Once it came back the race had started! I clicked on race and my car was in the pits; I went for a pit start anyway, respected the pitlane speed, but as a first timer I didn't know the pit exit light was red! When I saw it I went for the brakes but I couldn't stop the car in time and it *just* got into the track. omfg, I was disqualified for that.

Huge disappointment after all the work, it's just unbelievable =/ And with the new computer :(

I had an amazing start from 7th managed to squeez to 2nd before T1 and I though I can finish in top3 but after 2-3 laps in T6 I took to much kerb and losted.
So I'm really happy with my 6th place, although I had massive understeer and considering that was my first ever race in this mod.

Qualifying was difficult with a huge traffic on track but I did a clean lap to get 4º place.
I did a poor start, and after few turns I was 8º. I think I had a good pace and after some good battles, some crashes in front of me, and good pit stop I finally have finished at podium.

Tom, I believe it was me that came out in front of ya.. I went off and was in a half controlled coasting slide as I came back on track, luckily the car grabbed soon as I hit the asphalt and we avoided incident. I was paying attention to you the whole time and figured you still had ample room, srry to startle ya though..! :)

Would have made this a 33-car field but lost track of time on the evening and hadn't remembered the password. Quali began, I was locked out the session. Whoops. Had pace to be in top half of the field, looked like fun.