Critical Mach Monza 350k

George! I am so sorry! Were you going to let me thru on the inside? I was going to follow you thru the corner, and when I realized you were slowing, it was too late! I stood on the brakes, but BAM! Again, sorry.

Congratulations to Brian and Marko.

I still don't understand the pit stops. My strategy should have worked, but they filled me on the last stop. So not only did I sit there too long, I was slow from having full tanks. Hmmm.

That was a blast. Great racing. Except for me running into George.

Well things were just hotting up when I lost connection. I'd had a really good race with the 575 of Milan and then the 550 of Maurice. We had an incident after 4 or 5 laps of close battling when I got the exit out of the first chicane but he seemed to get into a slide as I went up the inside. There was contact and I thought I'd managed to straighten him up but no, he went right round and I paused wondering what to do. Eventually decided it was probably a racing incident and got going again only to lose my connection a few seconds later. Was fun while it lasted, especially side by side with Maurice going through Ascari. Sorry to Milan who got caught out as I had to slow on the exit so as not to run into Maurice.

Not the worst race I could have had, but this was still pretty bad.

I spun on my own on lap two, thankfully I wasn't an obstacle for anyone for too long, but I had a rough time coming back up through the nGT field. Don, you must drive with a mouse or something.

I settled into a decent pace, but I've got shite for setup knowledge with the RSR at Monza. I was clearly running too much wing, and also running RPMs too conservatively, as everything with wheels had me on the straightaways. I only made time through the chicanes.

Sam K. and I had a great battle as he closed on me with ten to go. My front softs were worn to the cords. Mr. Plow, that's my name, that name again is Mr. Plow. Unfortunately, our great little closing-race scrap was interrupted by an overzealous passing attempt through Lesmo 2 by Conduruta in a 550. Hello sand.

Well done Brian and Marko... Looking forward to the next event! Enduros are the only way to go.

What a Endurance race, Im speechles.
After first couple of laps and battles with Darren I tryed to avoid chicane slowing cars ahead of me and lost control of my car. Then hit hard the barrier and my F575 was a half one :). I need an early repairing pit (7th lap) and exited in dead last 21th position nearly a lap down. (picture added)
After that my race was a mission ;)................

... and I finished 3rd with just 4 seconds behind the winner wow.
F575 rules,
Grats to winner Brian and Marko in GT2.

Cristy: Where were you coming from on lap 1? You came sailing through from miles behind. Watch your braking next time on the first lap. Could have been a lot worse.

-here was an apoligee, but this is a racing incident so nothing to apoligize about-

Had a nice battle with Darren. Just watched the replay to see what happened in t1. seems like he clipped me at the exit somehow. After watching it for about 20 times from different angles I think I'm going to call it a racing incident as well. He thought he was clear but unfortunately GTR2's contact detection thought otherwise. Why is the contact detection box sticking out 20cm on all sides??? Nothing would have happened when it would have followed the contours of the cars.

Managed to keep it together for the rest of the race. When I went into the pits for the pistop I didn't slow down to the pit speedlimit in time, so I got a stop&go.

Finished 7th, not too happy about that.

*snorts*

They should rename this the "GT-Ferrari (And Competitors) Challenge". :P

Didn't do much of a qualifying but what a race it turned out to be, pushed really hard through the whole race and had some great fights with John Passmore , Mark McLean and Tristan Bayless ... thx dudes 8).

Traffic was on my side today and i could catch up the car in front of me every time while GT's were going through , otherwise it was very even going and very slow progress towards the front. Marko Jozef disappeared early on and i didn't see him after that , he was on a different league with 1 sec faster lap times but i could give the other competitors a run for their money and damn what a endurance race it was :).

GT's were mostly great , only had 1 or 2 small taps but nothing to complain about... I tried to be predictable with my lines and at the same time tried keep my right to take the corner if i was ahead when entering into it , there were couple of times i could almost hear the comments :D when a GT car had to stuck behind me through the corner , but that's the way it goes.. win some and loose some.

Didn't expect this to be so intense race what it turned out to be , pace felt more like in a 10 lap sprint than an 350 km endurance race heheh . Really happy to take the 2nd place after such hard fights , thou i got a bit help from the lapping GT's when the battle was most intense with Tristan and that was a bit shame. Tough luck for Mark McLean too with the disconnect , it was a good fight until that :|.

Congratulations to both winners , Brian Farley and Marko Jozef as well as the rest of the podium finishers.

Cya in next one hopefully ... thx all, enjoyed the race.

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Samuel

No worries Michael. That Saleen just doesn't like curbs and I didn't want to hold you up with Christi close behind you. So I choose to make room. But no harm was done and I do hope that was the same for you. For the rest ... a gamefreeze ended my race in lap 53 of 60. All the work for nothing, so I'll leave it to that.

Qualy was perfect but things changed for the race
I did too many mistakes on track and in the pits but it was still good fun