Oschersleben WTCx

Will there be a replay for this one uploaded, that was an ugly start, I want to see what happened.

What a race!!!! Good win Muo!! Nice podium Allen and Brian!

The racing was great, the game side rubbish. When I went to grid, my engine was damaged before we even went to green light (Stupid glitch). Started race and the car didn't feel to bad to drive, managed to just about get through turn 1, but on the end of lap 1 my team mate spun infront of a few of us. I tried to avoid him, and somehow drove straight into him. Had to pit for repairs and got going again. Paced myself till my pitstop on lap 18-19, put enough fuel in to go to lap 45 just incase I worked out the laps wrong. And with my damaged engine, it ran out in the pit entrance on lap 38.

Even with all this I still enjoyed the race, and hope I will be better(luckier) next race :)

Well, I did watch the replay, just to make sure what happened at T-1... I was hit in the rear bumper by CR, and the contact was hard enough to push me into *DM's rear bumper and both of us got spun around and chaos from there... *Sorry Man, it was not my fault... Then into lap 2, because of the damage my car felt really loose, went off track and had no control because I was in the curbs, tapped the brakes to avoid contact but that didn't happened... Bad race...

Congrats to podium.

Magnificent pace Muo, unbeatable. I could not do even one lap in qualy (family matters) and came back right on time to take the start.

Took it easy and avoided the T1 spin, but then a door-to-door bang with Nathan sent me to the wall. Kept my (slow) pace and climbed up to P6 before my pitstop, lost one place to Omar but was sure to recover it when he pitted after me, but then I was caught speeding in the last few meters before pitlane exit and had to take a S/G penalty what put me about 20 secs. behind Omar. After that, every time I managed to close the gap a bit I had to give way to the fastest guys lapping me.

Happy with 7th afterall.

I was going to skip this one but 5 minutes before qualifying i decided to join anyway , unfortunately steam decided to patch my GTR-E and it took forever to finish. Before i got into server the qualifying was almost over and i didn't get a time , that wasn't so bad but i only got 1 lap to test the setup. Went for Brno setup with a bit shorter gears and car wasn't bad ,quite a lot of oversteer but it was drivable anyway. Gearing wasn't really suitable thou but things could have been worse.

Had a good start but decided to back off since the 07 Oschersleben track was new for me and turn 1 was looking quite scary. Sure enough there was a pileup but i managed to slip by the wreckage , there was a slight touch to one of the stationary cars but nothing major and i got through in one piece.

Had a really close call with Omar after last turn where we both were avoiding a crash and i almost run into Omar there , but luckily we both escaped that one. I was in 5th place after lap one and tried to get into rhythm but it took several laps to get into some kind of pace , specially the 'new' T1 was difficult to get right.

Set my sights to Brian who was in 4th place but when he got past Nick ,he disappeared and the battle with Nick started. That was some fight , really close at times and Nick defended very well , i had a faster car but just couldn't find a way past him. Had a one really good opportunity but blew it by going too deep into braking and Nick sailed past me again :D.

It was interesting to see how our setups worked in the different parts of the track , i had an over steering car and Nick seem to have under steer. This went on several laps but Nick kept the lines tight and i didn't want to take too many risks with so little experience with these cars , so i just kept on chasing Nick and waited for an error which never came. Very nice driving there Nick , that was a blast :).

I went into pits just after half way but once again managed to take a stop and go for speeding , this time i had the limiter on but released it when i passed the 'traffic light' , some genius had decided to extend the limited area past the light and of course i took that damn stop and go LOL.

Well , Nick had a tough luck too and he was involved in an accident , which ruined his car so i got the 4th place after all but that was really bad luck for both of us , would have loved to continue our fight to the end.

Well , another not so good race with GTR-E but i guess i'm learning it the hard way once again :P.

Congratulations to Muo (again :D) and the rest of the podium , well done gents.

Cya in the next one, hopefully i'll have some time to practice for that one :).

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Samuel

Q-Backed out of my first two fast lap attempts as i was approaching traffic, gave myself lots of room for my 3rd lap but half way round my engine started overheating, tried to keep revs down but it was smoking badly by the end of the lap so i parked it.

R-Had a great start but Allen in front didn't and i got boxed in behind him allowing Nick to pass, tapped Nick as we exited the 2nd corner which sent me off the track but fortunately Nick managed to catch it and not spin (sorry Nick!). Lost another position or two. By the end of the lap i caught one of the Rigbys, as he exited last turn he accelerated on the kerb causing his car to spin in front of me which i hit and had to swerve to avoid him again as he rolled back into my path. Sorry to Omar and Sam who were just approaching at that point, i thought i had left enough room for Omar to get through but watching the replay i didn't and Omar had to take to the grass which lost him a position.

Car felt great all race even with worn tyres and pushed hard all race but couldn't close the gap to Allen.

Noticed on the replay i was driving with my head lights on. Sorry, they weren't meant to be on!

Nathan, not sure why you need to fight tooth and nail with cars lapping you...

Yep awesome battle Sam, tried to keep it as clean as possible whilst keeping you behind. Lots of respect for that run.

No worries Brian, that must be the most stupid first corner in all racing, and bound to lead to some contact, got a flyer of a start and glad it did not really cost you in the end.

Thought I was sorted when I got that gap on Sam but events overtook me, really enjoyed throwing these around after Daytona.

-1 lap applied to one driver for punt policy violation

well i presume this is with regards to my 'punt' on Nick philips. I know theres this no exceptions rule so im not gona bother argueing, all i'll say is he wasn't yielding to blue flags, i was behind him for 3/4 of a lap, we get to the main straight where i thought he would yield and let me through, instead he didn't so i pulled in behind him to make sure he could see me in his mirrors, and then he jammed on the brake right infront of me, far far away from the usual braking point for T1 - i had to take avoiding action and hit him in the process.

not much i can do about that. why don't you tell nick to bloody move over when a faster car is quite evidently stuck behind and trying to lap. i presume he could see the please yield sign in his game? why was he even racing me? its absurd.

i was only aware i punted him when i watched the replay too, i felt nothing in my car, didn't feel any hit, nothing. i thought i'd swerved enough to avoid him.

yet another ridiculous 'no exceptions' rule in this race2play regime. i wasn't even racing him, it wasn't even for position, it was a complete accident which was hardly my fault - how come i had no problems at all overlapping the rest of the field? every single other person yielded properly or used common sense and yielded on a straight. on the main straight i moved out several times to show my intention to past, so he could get off the throttle, but he didn't, which is why i had to pull back in because i wasn't sure whether he'd even noticed me in his mirrors.

what a joke.

shouldn't you be applying consistency as a judge and docking nick philips for refusing to be overlapped?

or please - tell me what i'm supposed to do in this situation. i'd very much like to know.

Maybe you should try reading the rules on lapping drivers Muo, you are responsible for making a safe pass, no one has to yield to a blue flag, in fact no one has to yield to you at all.