Le Mans

Punted on the 2nd formation lap and once the green was given I went to pits for one minute repairs. When re-entering track I ran the red light and got instant DQ.

[Edit by TM to clean up the language a bit]

Edit by Finn: HEY! Language wasn't that bad. Besides the monkey was kinda cute.

So, there I was, driving along a straight piece of road in 3rd place when suddenly and without warning all I could see was sky and tree tops. WTF??? By the time everything corrected itself, the car was damaged beyond my enthusiasm to repair it.

Well the formation laps were disastrous for everyone. Obviously rFactor doesn't realise on formation laps everyone isn't going to be nose to tail like it wants us to be.

Race was going well, eventually ended up with Scott and we were closing on Tristan a few seconds a lap due to bump draft on the straight. Then after the 2nd stop we were pushing really hard to catch Tristan, Scott's rears locked up going into Mulsanne. So i waited for him as it would allow us too catch up to Tristan again quicker rather than me carry on and slowly wait for scott. Then on lap coming out of Tertre Rouge i lost the back end, hit the wall and spun across the track. I carried on, car felt fine, certainly didn't look it and i could only get a top speed of 170mph down it.

Scott was waiting for me to catch up but i knew with my car damaged and needing a pit stop so it could get some top speed back i couldn't help him to catch Tristan and i was gutted that i couldn't tell scott to not slow down for me. I pitted, and had to go eat my tea before it went cold, came back and tried a few more laps but speed was gone, and i got distracted coming into the corner just before the brow on Mulsanne straight and hit the wall, blew the engine and ko'd the car.

It was a good race for me at the start, i was sure we'd slowly and eventually catch Tristan and make it a 3 horse race but it was not to be. I hate not finishing a race and i've had too many.

Looking at the season schedule next season they look good, and don't really require people to team up and bump draft all the way around like at Le Man. Cya guys next season and well done to all those that finish the race.

That was my first decent length race. Period.

The start was a complete and utter shambles. It looked to me as though rFactor was actually getting confused and spouting out all kinds of mad crap. I know I kissed someone from behind and I got a whack (which broke my rear suspension) which lead me to add a fourth stop to my planned three.

There were a couple of idiotic moves made during the race, one person in a yellow car caused a big shunt early on being stupidly impatient.

Otherwise, my race was a quiet (although very enjoyable) introduction to "full length" races, before this the longest things I'd done were the rFCC events I've done this season.

Hope I didn't hold Tristan or Scott up too long when they were lapping me, I tried to be considerate as possible without being a push over.

Sorry Johan, I hit you on the 2nd pace lap.

The game kept telling me I was going to slow and telling me to follow drivers I didn't even see in front of me. So I was trying to catch up a little and the pack bunched up, my screen warped, and my car was inside yours. It screwed me up too. Took about 10 mph off my speed.

Sorry again. Jerry

One second it kept telling me to drop last and the next second to catch up as I was going too slow etc. etc. No worries, Jerry.

1st post salute is for the game. :)

Fun race. Qualifying was a disaster, and I got damage on the formation lap (manual formation lap next time PLEASE!!!), so it didn't look good at the start, but I quickly worked my way from my 12 starting spot up towards the lead pack. My favorite moment was on lap 3 when I had Sam bumping me (4th and 5th) and we drafted straight passed Pete and David on the long straight!
In truth I didn't have the pace to beat Tristan today, but me and Sam should really have caught him, had I not made that stupid mistake locking my rears into Mulsanne. We still should have caught him after that, but Sam lost the backend through tertre rouge and it seems that was it. I didn't mind waiting for him because I was never going to loose 2nd, and I was never going to catch Tristan without him, but I was gutted that he was too damaged to carry on.
Pretty much just hotlapped after that (managed to get the fastest lap on the very last lap thanks to Scott B's rocketship!!!)
As I said, fairly fun race, at least for the first half.

Cya next time!

I got a stop go for overtaking before the start line when we went green (noob!). Did half a lap and thought damn its going to be boring taking that and then racing alone with no one to draft with, so I quit.

Indeed, what will shortly be called "Startgate" was not good. Got some rear-end damage first lap leaving the car tricky to get round fast corners. On the second time round I got a drive through for overtaking a car I was actually behind on track, the penalty later vanished for no reason I could spot.

I realised I'd have to take an early stop and see what the pit guys could fix, the car ended up driveable but 5mph short on top speed, so I just drove it home from there.

Apologies to Scott B for running into the back of you on lap 2/3, I was trying to figure out if I could take a penalty and fix the car at the same time and missed my braking point. I hope it didn't do too much damage.

Finally drove an almost mistake free race. One brain fade at the end of the Mulsanne, fortunaely with no damge. The first lap is another story, actually an old story, punted part way through the opening lap by some guy trying to win the 2hr race on lap 1. When will these guys learn. 27 cars, close quarters, possible warping or lags, you need to be a little cautious on that first lap. The same guy passed me in the pits doing his drive through. End of rant.
Actually went from 23 to 10. My lap 1 pitstop to repair a missing wing put me out of sequence and I had hopes it would cycle me through to a higher position at the finish as it did several times during the race, getting as high as 7th.
Still a good result for me in spite of lap 1 and all three of our team finished the race.