MX5: Laguna Seca

I can't finish my fast lap in qualif.
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First time I see it in R2P.

In race I have a good start but I find a wall in front of me.
Socco Ricci your car is very solid. LOL

Some Punts and....
The guys u finish first START TO CHAT
Many CHATs during the race.

Come on guys. THERE ARE OTHER RACERS OUT THERE.

Lets see what the race Stewards do about it.
YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN'T CHAT.

The chat from me was accidental Mario. I had lapped two cars in the closing laps, that confused me a bit and when I pressed enter I realised not everyone had finished.

Strange victory really. I got a DT in qualifying for coming up on a slower car way too hot and hitting him off. Took pole on the lap before by 1.180 seconds?! Crazy.

Start was pretty easy, got away well and from there the gap just increased. I was on TS with James all through the race, as he was letting me know what position he was in etc. I decided to take it easy, but even that seemed fast. almost every lap was a low 1:40, without a major mistake.

On the final lap I came to lap Mike Hanson, and we got a bit caught up with each other as it seemed he was braking in the middle of the track after the corkscrew, and I tried to slow down and move around him but it was too late, no worries though Mike, as it seemed my 20 second lead was enough :)

Good result, bumped me up to 4th after missing the last race and taken the team to 24 points ahead of Pheonix in the standings.

Well done guys :)

Frustrating race for me.

After having to sit out of quali I knew the start would be important. Managed to get into 5th after T1 which was fantastic, however I found it impossible to over take Curcin, which left me wide open for Nikola to over take me. It was then a Hatchell-Pennine MDB Train behind for about 6 laps, whilst Liam, Andrew and Nabil pulled away.
Eventually Nikola and myself managed to get through and catch onto the back of Nabil and Andrew, unfortuantly Nabil lost it at the Corkscrew allowing us both through. We then begun fighting amongst ourselves finally resulting in me outbraking myself and letting Nikola through, with Nikola returning the favour on the next lap. Then things got abit close and unfortuantly Nikola took a spin :-(, leaving me to hunt down Andrew, managed to gain the 7 second gap within 3 laps and get passed to bring her home 2nd.

Not bad really. Bit sore from it, but an enjoyable race.

PS: Guys you know the rules, please don't chat, its amazing how distracting it is! Just wait a few moments yeah? :o)

Congratulation Liam and the podium finishers.

This was a unprepared for race for me. Earlier today I come to practice with a few others here and I notice a problem with my peddle. The brake lites kept flashing on for no reason. I knew I had to do something about his before I race any other race. I put the TV on James while I tore apart the peddle unit. By the time I got it all fixed I had to go to another race.

After 90 minutes of racing I was almost late getting here. Just in time to qualify. But I had no setup. Ran out there and did two laps and parked it. I had to walk around lol I was sitting for two hours straight and about to race another 30 minutes..

It was fun and I was determined to do it even though I was tired of driving. The last lap I was entering the Corkscrew with 4 others then the chat started LOL damn lucky I stayed on line.. I did look at the chatbox and it wasn't a good time for that.. Remember guys just because your race is finished it's not for others.

Very fun race, having qualified 7th the race looked promising, even with the fast cars coming from the back. Soco was sideways in turn one, went to the outside to avoid him, but as i moved wide he was collected and pushed further out and i had nowhere to go and collided with him.

Now at the back of the field with a car that was slightly damaged, but wasn't too far from my pb pace. Passed some cars when they went off but caught up to Inaki.

From then a truly great battle broke out, swapping positions and running two wide for the best part of 10mins. But i ran wide in four handing the position and a margin to inaki, clawed it back only to spin in the corkscrew.

I was now a fair bit back, was charging up to inaki passing Simon and Javier after spins. Both of them followed me in closing in on inaki.

Coming into the final corner of the race i threw the car to the outside of inaki and make the pass, Doug ahead had ran wide on the exit so i had a run on him with inaki on the inside and javier on the inside of him charging to the line. In the greatest finish for me on R2P.

Congrats to Liam for the win

Apologies for the chatting in race issue, I was the first. I was so pissed with myself at almost spoiling Liam's win that I forgot about everything else.

Starting last would never make it easy for me as I'm not a fast driver I just lucked into a top-3 at the previous event. Avoided the turn 1 trouble and rose from 16th to 10th, even 9th for a moment when I passed Rocha, but then my lack of practise showed and I dropped back in the next few laps to 12th and was following Cases for a while. Then my pace improved and I was closing back down on the big battling group infront gradually. It felt like they all made errors at the same time very close to the end that I rose from 11th to 7th in one straight, as a couple of guys ran wide out of the last turn and then I had to squeeze past them and a guy facing the wrong way. Down the straight into T1 and Hegan and Rocha touched making a nice little gap for me to pop through the middle of into 7th (see top picture - I'm the yellow car). Happy enough result to still be hanging onto 3rd in the championship and not be having to start the next race at the back lol.

Stewards - next time please be aware who is out on the last lap when Q time is out! I was on a fast lap too. ...

Didnt get a good start position so I span in the first sector. After that it went just worse and worse. Lucky to finish were i did. And my car was pretty damaged ;)

EVENT RULING

THREE DRIVERS DISQUALIFIED FOR CHATTING DURING THE RACE.

As per URL Rule #10: "Chat Etiquette - Chatting is restricted to pre-race practice and post race. Chat during qualifying or the race will result in a DQ."

Guys PLEASE read the URL League Rules. There are only 10 rules, and only a few of them are "On Track" related.

Personally it doesn't make any difference to me, I started the chat so fair play, but it is unfair to DQ someone who responded, that would just be instinctive.

Liam I am really sorry for getting you DQ'd. Won't happen again though as I won't be racing on R2P again. The stewarding and application of penalties is just not good enough. People get jumped on for genuine heat of the moment mistakes while others regularly get away with outrageous actions that spoil the race of others.