rFBMW: Indianapolis #2

Got a great start and was running as high as 6th at one stage. Got smacked up the rear 3 times, (the first time actually bent my steering!) and the second time the punt (actually from same guy I think) spun me off as well as himself and Zak. Some how I still ended 10th.

Sorry about quitting but I had to rush of and do something :(

Must apologize to Ken I spun you around in turn 1 then tried to let you rejoin ahead of me. Decided to do a drive thru anyway a few laps later. Apart from that I really enjoyed some close battles even if well down the field.

Pretty dismal second race, car was slow off the line and was swallowed up by the few cars that were starting behind me.

Missed some of the spins in the opening laps, and caught up with a group of cars. Towards the front of the group Javier and Ken made contact and Javier span across the track. He was collected by Mario and then Justus, his car was bounced to the outside of the track and I couldn't avoid him.

The impact was relatively light, and my car ended up sitting in the fringes of the gravel trap. I was completely immobilised - i'd been in many gravel traps during testing, but this was the only one the was to entomb me forever and given the small contact the immobility couldn't be due to damage i'd seemed to have found the Indianapolis quicksand pit.

Congrats to Jack for the wins

I should apologise to and also thank Dominik first for having pinched you in turn 2 on the opening lap, and for the great last two lap battle we had. Lots of fun.

So once again I follied lap 1, but this time I was well and truly last when I rejoined the track. I knew I'd have a chance at the top guys if I worked hard around the traffic, but while trying to be safe and cautious with my passes, I just wasn't fast enough to catch Dan or Jack by the end.

Also, thanks to Liam for giving room when he saw me poke my nose inside at turn 6, the carousel lefty. I should have waited, because sneaking inside when Liam was just completing his "diamond" of the corner was cheap of me.

Might join you guys for other events, but really I did this to get acclimated for the F1 event here this weekend.

Thanks everyone for the exciting battles.

I didn't quite realize how the reordering of the grid worked and was surprised to see myself even closer the the front than the first race. Start was good, made it into second, but early in the lap I got tapped really late in a corner. It's the weirdest thing because watching the replay everything is fine and then suddenly the other car nearly jumps into my rear left tire. In slow motion it just looks like driving, but in real time it looked nearly impossible to have been within the normal game parameters. Oddly enough even the wheel was turned the other way during the jump so I'm really not sure what happened.

From there on out it was a disaster. My car was still ok to drive, but I was way in the back and I can't drive like Tristan. I made my biggest mistake shortly after, I missed my braking point into T1 and through some miracle dove between two cars and bounced of one to pass both. Would have been a dirty divebomb if it was intentional, but it really wasn't. And I apologize to both Simon who I blasted past and Mario who I used as a cornering aid. Really sorry, hope I didn't do damage to your car.

Anyway, in the same corner as the first accident I got tapped again, this time from the outside, but the car was damaged this time. I was a little frustrated at this point and did some crazy drift to get by Simon again, but there was no contact this time.

This was really a crazy corner as the next time round someone spun, collected another driver and I ran nose to nose. This time the dmg was visible, but the cars was still drivable. Had some great racing with Neil Marlow, after 3 or 4 laps I set him up through the last final corners and had a great draft. Of course I timed it completely off and when I tried to go around him coming on to the straight I banged the wall. Now the car was somehow pulling both ways. Next lap, I was still close, but on that same evil corner I lost it barely tapped Neil and spun again.

After that I just nursed it home while trying to keep up enough pace to not get lapped.

Yes was a very good close battle Justus ,hope I wasn't defending too aggressively I just tried to stay on the racing line as I could see you were quicker than me.

Very happy to get the win once again - bit of a fluker, but i'll take it :P

Got away well and tried to find a bit of clear track going into T1 and was alongside Zak when we came to the smoke - he went right i went left and i drew the lucky dog on that one as a clear path emerged and sailed through into P5.

A few turns later and there was another coming together ahead and again i dodged it by taking to the grass but still picked up another spot and then just picked off the front 3 guys on the main straight to get the lead by lap 4. Dan hung on really well and i was really having to work hard to break the tow but managed it eventually and got a comfy gap and held it until the end.

Caught some damage from someone (can't remember who) on lap 1 after they lost it, and the car was massively twitchy for the whole race from the damage, so I just tried my best to keep the wheel slightly left and not straight.

Got passed by quite a few drivers because of that, but eventually I got used to it and I knew the only guy that was gonna pass me after that was Tristan.

I knew I could have held him off had my car not been invisibly bent, but it felt like I just had no grip through any of the corners ("diamond" Tristan?? :P) and eventually he drafted past me on the straight and that was it.

Still didn't end the race though, because my wheel overheated and disconnected itself going into the hairpins, meaning the car just kept on going left and left and left and into the wall. I wish I'd raced the Panoz.

A much better race for me. Found some pace (after having a 25m practice race beforehand (can we have 3 races a meeting))

Nice battle with Justus Brennen for a while (no worries about the contact, it didn't alter my race at all). Managed to keep him honest (and watch him make a few errors) and finish 15th.