FBMW: Brands Hatch

Congrats to podium.

Wow, this was a great battle with a 7th position that I did not expect. I qualified 12th but, as usual, lost 2 spots in lap 1 so I had to regain my starting position from laps 2 to 4.

From then on it was a calmed race for me, climbing up till 9th place in lap 6 or 7 and remaining there opening a gap with 10th. I was more than happy with that until, 2 or 3 laps before finish, I saw Nick was in the sandtrap and found myself 8th. Pity for Nick, he couldn't get out easily.

Thinking that 8th place was great, in last lap Jack looses his car in T1 trying to overtake Jeffrey and there I go, 7th place. Jack could get back to race again right behind me, but it was 16 seconds between us and that was too much even for him to catch me in one lap.

Great race, can't wait to go to Silverstone for final event of the season.

Cheers.

What a race, my heart is slowly slowing down :D.

Was surprised to get pole as Jack was doing 26's. I was happy that Robert got in between me and Jack, as I hoped that would be a buffer, but that only lasted 3 corners :).
So I thought..oh crap, here we go again, and it wasn't long till I had Jack all over me.

Few times we were side by side heading for T1, and often T2 as well. I had to defend hard to stay infront. The gap never became bigger than 0.8. So I beg you Jack, don't put so much pressure on an old man, my heart is weak :D.

Last lap we were also heading side by side into T1, but Jack hit the curb and lost it. That was a shame for the race as it would have been a very tense last lap. Good for the championship tho :).

Good racing again Jack, hard but fair :).

As can be seen by the screenshots, us 'Sharkies' Nick, John and myself had a great battle all the way from 1st to last lap. We all led at some point or other between the three of us. It was a blast and great fun.

What racing is all about :)

Nice win Jeffrey and glad to see the heart hasn't given out ;)

Good race everyone.

Tremendous Shark battle between Dave John and me through most of the race, running two wide, three wide etc but managed to do it without hitting each other.

I know I was at the front and the back of it at least twice, unfortunately T1 caught me out in the end running in too deep trying not to cut across Dave and sand castle making ensued.

Shame about the sticky gravel otherwise this is a cracking track, then again if you don't go in it it is not a problem!

Sat there trying to get out as Jack spun to the inside, seems like that battle with Jeff was a cracker as well.

Any more grief on Teamspeak when I crash and there will be some ejections however :-]

Sorry to John, my car was damaged pretty bad and I had to pull off the racing line to let one of the leaders through, I clipped the kerb in turn 1 which spun me round.

Thought I'd reversed off the racing line but you just caught me as you came past, hope the damage wasn't too bad.

I've not done any racing of any kind for about 12 days and my computer desk is wonky and my racing shoes are knackered so I had to drive barefoot, which felt very strange.

Was hoping to just finish in one piece and was doing OK early on, by lap 10 I was in 11th place and thinking some points might be possible, but I touched some grass and lost it in one of the fast right handers. Hit the barrier hard and the car was almost undriveable after that.

Amazing how quickly you get rusty with these things really, congrats to everyone who finished!

Ah what a race. Nice to be on the pace again even though I still cant 'drive' the track lol. Had another rubbish start (the norm) and then me and Pablo set off to work lol. He was drifting like a penguin on ice out of soem turns yet every time I did, Id usually of made a mistake before lol. Did pass him and then I screwed myself by having trouble wi a lapper I caused. Then me and Pablo were still going at it, only touched once and christ it was ace. Then I went and shot myself and lost a chance at 3rd but hey 4th will do. 2nd shark boy is a good title. Roll on spillverstone

Hats off to pablo again, cleanest battle Ive had in a fair while but I will now stick some aero on my car to stop being slipstreamed so many times lol

And hats off to nick and jack for dumping it in a great way. Was quite a sight coming from paddock seeing one facing each other :P

Well i could have played it safe on that last lap and just followed you home Jeff, but i was having too much fun not to try to go around the outside :D - paid for it of course, but if you're gonna try to be Lewis you've got to go all the way and cock up spectacularly as he did as well :P

Until this morning i didn't even have rF working - my PC broke down last friday, so the old chap has spent the entire weekend rebuilding our old one to get it working so at least i could make the race .Downloaded someone's Limerock set of R2P and was away into the 28's straight away and just changed the gearing and wing's and job done. So not too down tbh as i picked up more points than i thought i would this time yesterday.

Grats Jeff with the win!

I was surprised that my last qualifying lap delivered me P2 on the starting grid. I knew Jack could go a lot faster, so I didn't make it to difficult for him to pass me. Blocking him would have lost me time to P4. With Jeffrey and Jack battling in front of me they lost some time and was able to follow them closely the first half of the race. Enjoying their fight, hoping one of them would make a mistake.. Made a mistake myself few laps later at dingle dell, but could keep it out of the barrier, without losing a position. Settled in for P3 after that, was surpised to see I finished 2nd actually. Unfortunate for Jack, good for my championship points! :P

Frustrating race for myself. Got a decent start, running just outside the points and was settling in nicely. On the second lap I was letting Francisco Gutierrez (IIRC) through before one of the fast right-handers, took a wider line than usual, and simply ran out of road. Result was a fifty second trip to the gravel trap. By the time I got out, I was running last, with the leaders closing in.

That I managed to finish 11th says more about OTHER drivers trip to the gravel traps than it does about me.

Wow, what a great race! I had a very good and clean battle with Martin, it lasted almost the whole race. It was one of the best battles I had with rFactor. I did not a good qual but I did a good start, so I was 4th in the first turn, I fought with Martin for 4th position but he spun when the race was almost finished, Jack did a mistake so I finished 3rd.

By the way, I've done a video of the race, check out this post.