Mosport Skoda

Very nice, perhaps the most fun i had in a race in a long time. Didn't get a perfect lap in qualy, but managed 2nd on the grid. Too much wheel spin off the line, but could defend my 2nd place into T1. Couple of laps later i was able to overtake for the lead, led a lap or so, but then dropped back to 2nd - 3rd. Very close top 3, nice fighting with James and Sam throughout the race trading some paint :) and cool overtake move for 2nd on the outside with two to go. James got away a bit in the end with me and Sam fighting for 2nd, grats to him.

Uff...I don't know what to say. To many rookie drivers who didn't even bother to test the track before the race.

Q: 10th place, just couldn't go faster on this track.

R: Start was ok and I gained couple of places. Drove on 8th place when two drivers in front of me touched and spun in last corner. To avoid them I quickly turned left to the grass and got stop&go penalty for cutting the track (but wait...there was no corner there...lol).

I stopped in pits and continued on last place. Here I could see how bad some driver can be. They were just to unpredictable so I punted one and I went to pits again.

When I came out Linton passed me for a lap. I managed to keep his pace. And you won't believe.....we were driving very close and nothing happened!!! Because he knows how to drive a car!

I just hope I'll have better qualifications in the next race, cause I really don't want to start in the middle of the pack again.

Congrats to podium!

Sorry guys for not showing here tonight....my adsl provider's server was down so i couldnt connect... :(((
sorry for all that was on waiting list...
its sadly for me and H-P team, couse i think i have had lap times for at least top 5 finnish.. :(((

Fantastic battling with Sam and Alexsandr till about 15 mins to go, Where i was able to pull a 4 second lead as they we're battling very hard.

Awesome, close racing guys, kudo's ;-]..

Thanks to the back makers who we're very polite throughout.

See you next round.

P;s Hope to see you up there Marko, and thanks for the P/word Tim. ;-]

I had a great Q for 6th.
Got off the line kinda slow but was already haveing fun with some great drivers that know how to give and take.On lap 2 I got spun in last corner,but keeped going only giving up 3 or so spots.then on the very next lap on last corner had no where to go when Kolomiets felt like making my day even harder.sat facing the wrong way till the field had gone pass.got going again in 24th place.was making my way back up the field...Intill someone spun and came up into me.Sat there again facing into the wall till i could get back out on track.In the end I came home 14th.Not bad!!
Felt very good in the car and had a race pace to do alot better.
Great Win James!!! And TY for all your help today!

DL-ed the track today and got to drive it 30min before Q.

Q: relatively good time, considering I shaved a second off of my practice lap - 7th place

R: not so good start, because there was no place to overtake those, who weren't so good off the start line. In T2 my rear-right wheel went on the grass and spun me..managed to come back in 15th pos. After 2 laps I was back in 6th, because of some crashes in front, battling with Pearson...good fight, sorry for the touch. The rest of the race was boring because I was a bit faster than Pearson and a bit slower than top5 (10s in front). A big mistake before the end didn't cost me any places, so I fairly happy with the resut :)

See you next time ;)

Hello to all, I usually do not write much after the race, but I have to mention some moments in the race. Qualifications and the race was tense and good except that the driver Tomas Slavik destroyed a lot of pleasure to other drivers. I do not want to be tough, because even I am not a very good driver, but I think that this young driver must to consider the inclusion in the future races. Your youth age and inexperience in these races can not allow to you such behavior on the course. I looked replay, not all but only the beginning and end of the race and collected a lot of situations and errors which accuse you. It was the punt, a false rejoin, cutting curves, withdrawal other routes, etc. Please think about this article because I was not comfortable for someone to put in this position, but after all, boy, you are compromise yourselves with your way of driving, not with my complaint. Maybe some drivers your guilt does not connect with you, than accuse someone else which is not to blame for your errors. Tomas, I'm sorry but I was thrown off from track with your fault, it would be fair at list to apologize for all the mistakes that you have caused, and the first, attempt to understand the rules and learn to drive. I am with much less errors apologized to other drivers for destroy their ranking in the race. Understand this as advice and not as a threat. Maybe I am not suitable to give advice, but someone has to point out the errors so that all enjoy the races. Sorry for my bad English. Good luck.

Congrats to the podium.

I really had to cool off before I wrote my report.

Qual: Didn't get a clean run... for some reason I just couldn't put it together.

Race: Got a great start. Ended up 11th after the chaos at the hairpin. Worked my way up to 8th or 9th and had a great battle going until Kolomiets decided to serve a Drive Thru at the last minute taking out myself Kurent and Malanga. Had to pit for damage, got a DT for speeding in the pits AFTER repairs. Effectively killing my race.

GUYS PLEASE!!!!!! Practice before the race and show up prepared. Do a few Drive Thru's in Practice... run a 5 lap race to get used to traffic. Use some common sense. Even if its 30mins PRACTICE.

Hope to see you all at the next one.

I'm going to defend Kolomiets, for a sec. I nearly made the same mistake in offline practice earlier in the week, there is a real nasty bump going into the pit lane and the way I saw it he slowed down enough, but had a real shallow entry and he hit the bump just right (or wrong) and it shot him back into the racing line and BAAAAM!! you have a disaster.

I just felt it was an honest mistake that anybody could have made in the heat of the moment, aliens and all. I'm sure he meant well, after all he was doing his drive through like he should have. I guess it's easier for me to say since my race I wasn't ruined by it...but show some mercy. Just put yourself into other peoples shoes and see it through. No reason to incriminate anybody.

Anywaaays, thats my 2 cents on the incident.

This was my first rfactor race. I picked the Skodas because everybody was running them. Easy car to drive, fast easy track. Should be good right?

Oh the humanity! Sometimes I though I was in a rolling demolition derby. I got punted during the harpin drama and I'm pretty sure the guy behind me didn't do a DT. Gotta let the official's scrutinize that one.

Later on I got punted again going into that same turn and took off the front of my car. The rest of the race was spent bumperless, but I still had enough to catch a few people.

The last few laps were spent battling to get by a back marker who felt he shouldn't be passed under any circumstances. Intense racing but I could have been going for 14th not dicing it up with his weaving ass.

All in all a good race. Congrats to the podium.