rFBMW: Suzuka #1

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Two race for me which were average as I really had not had time to practice too much. Well done to all podiums.

Both my races were blown opportunites tonight.
Qualified a respectable 7th.

Race 1: Got a good start but despite that was passed. Then lost a couple more places later in the lap. Had myself a lame low-speed spin out of the hairpin into the inside barrier which bent my steering and took off my nose. Then did the rest of the race like this and still came home... erm 8th was it... cant remember.

Race 2: Another good start and was running 4th for abit. Had a scary moment with Jack and Dom into Turn 1. I was alongside Dom all the way down the straight and it wasnt until we were entering Turn 1 that I saw Jack (who I couldnt see from the inside across Dom) had taken us both round the outside and poor Dom got sandwiched into a spin. I was feeling a comfortable 6th until 2 stupid spins in the Degners onto the slow bumpy stuff ruined my race. Had to fight back a bit and had a nice little dice with Neil before coming home 10th.

Very tough race for me - had Zak on my gearbox all the time until about halfway when i really dug hard for a couple of laps to try to break the draft and that went ok and Zak dropped off by a second then he made a small error at Spoon which allowed me to take it easy for the last few laps.

Painful...

Forgot to put my race setup in and therefore had zero straightline speed. Eventually crashed in the esses.

Something came up, meaning I couldn't do race 2.

Was a decent opening race, had some clear track in qualifying - one of the benefits of a long layout. Managed 13th with a personal best time.

Got off the line slowly and dropped a few places. Ran with Neil and Rob for the opening segment of the race, was passed by Janos and Jack but jack went off in turn one - but he'd be back lol.

Dodged a couple of cars mid race, ran wide in the esses and simon went by but span in Dunlop and narroly missed him through the smoke. Drove clean laps to the end - was passed by jack again and ended up 11th after passing Mike Dos Santos on the last lap.

I quite enjoy this track. Was never able to put down a lap in qualy like I did in practice, but still had a pretty good start position. Going into Degner on the first lap I followed too close, had to emergency brake and while no contact or swerving occurred I missed my turn in and managed to let someone by, Dominik I think. I actually let someone else by too going under the bridge when I was still on the skirts, but I managed to take the inside line and out brake them into the hairpin. Got past Dominik after spoon a lap or two later, but it was messy, I got the inside line for the fast left hander, but with the drag and weird angle I the front just couldn't handle it. I pulled a kimi and ran along the outside assuming I would get passed, but Dominik had similar issues in the corner since we were both taking it at the same time. After that it was mostly calm, I spun and let Dominik and someone else by, but I took the second place back eventually and Dominik spun a little later on.

All in all quite a bit of fun, I just wish I had kept it together a little bit better near the beginning. I think I had the pace to stay with the leaders when they were fighting, but once they spread out a little I knew 3rd was as good as it was going to get. Congrats Jack.

A lot of fast guys were missing on this event and I thought that this was my chance to end high in the grid, but I spun so stupidly and let my 3rd place to Justus who deserved that.

I want to thank Rob Clenshaw for letting me pass him twice although he wasn't a lap behind. Really appreciate that!

Not happy with 4th place especially after 12th in the race #2

Well, my graphics card had a hiccup on lap 2 and replaced my mirrors with the asphalt texture. I couldn't see anything that was behind me so I was going on what the reported gap was and the sound.

I didn't want to cause any incidents so when you were very close, I decided to let you through rather than try and battle to keep a car behind that I couldn't see.

Heheheehee, you should have a "Look Back" button next time if that happens!

Hey guys, it seems that some of us had texture issues after computer tilt, was that cause of track,server,our computers or something else??