American Grand Prix

Looking at the replay, on lap 3 David went off at the tight left hander, and as I came into the corner, his car suddenly appeared on the track in front of me, the contact causing me to loose my front wing. Hope I was not too much of a mobile chicane after that, but I didn't want a DNF.

Congrats to the podium.

Got a slap going into T1 but managed to hold it, early doors was looking good as Pinnacle sat 2-3-4, then Zak span and I had Jan all over me but unable to make it stick, thanks for letting me back past after one attempt.

Finally managed to spin myself somehow and lost my front wing having given Jan pretty much nowhere to go. Apologies as this seems to have compromised your car a little as well.

With damaged suspension as well was then a case of a damage limitation and managed to do 2 long stints and hold on to sixth in the end, although best part of a lap behind where I should have been.

Grats to podium and thanks to Allen for another good setup.

Well done all for finishing !

Decent Q, but got off to a slow start and dropped from 3rd to 6th. Lost about 4 seconds to the leaders while in traffic for a lap or so, and then I had a black screen which cost me another 15. I was hit during this time and lost my splitter, and also dropped to 11th. I guess it was Anthony who got screwed by this the most. I figured out recently I need to turn my fan speed to 100% with Rivatuner in order to prevent these black screens, but forgot to do it before the race.

Worked my way through the field and kept my fingers crossed for a few small miracles. At some point in that first stint, or maybe the start of the second, a driver lost control and damaged my front suspension. Even with the damamged suspension and lost splitter, I was lapping slightly faster than the three drivers I was chasing. Gave a lot back on pit stops though. :( Late in the race Zak had an off I guess, and I was able to just get by for 3rd, with 11 to go. Had a 1.3 second lead, and held him off and managed to get on the podium after an eventful race.

It was a fun race because of the challenge, but I really wanted to battle it out with Tristan since we hadn't raced each other in the F1 series much lately. Even with the damage, I had the pace needed, but apparently not the brains.

Congrats to Tristan, Allen, and Zak.

I struggled with the slow hairpins here the entire race.

First I set the car up to take them in the lowest gear, but halfway through the race decided to reduce front wing and try them in 2nd gear. While it was slower, it felt more controllable to me when putting the power down out of the left hand corner.

I was expecting more from myself for Q, but a front row spot is definitely acceptable. A great lap from Zak.

At the start, Zak got away first and I followed him for the initial lap. I got a run out of the infield and onto the banking, and took his position down the front straight beginning lap 2.

It was very difficult to maintain my gap to both Zak and Allen. In the first stint, I could not pull away to more than 10 seconds or so. However, the pit entry looked like it caught its fair share of people out, and when I reentered for my second stint, the gap had grown considerably.

From there I worked on my rythym while also trying to sort out the aforementioned hairpins. By the end of the third stint, I had about a half a lap advantage.

Shame about David's troubles. I also recently discovered rivatuner, as well as the magic of opening windows to vent the heat nVidias cards give off.

Great work to everyone on their preservation skills. Not often an F1 event has no DNFs.

See you guys at Fuji.

No problem Nick. It did cost me damage and lost about a sec worth of pace with a funny handling car afterwards. But I'd like you to know how frustrated I was after not being able to complete that pass 5 times in a row :)

Whoever designed this track should have had a swift kick in the nuts. Prime example of how shit infield tracks can be.

Grats to podium

Heh yeah that was fun, don't know how I managed to keep you off five times, but was a great battle out there.

Bah. Very pleased with my qual lap. Not often (if ever) I'd qualify in front of Tristan. Driving round the first lap with a massive smile on my face. Soon went though when I spun just going into the hairpin which dropped me down behind Nick and Jan. Had a few attempts at passing but Jan held on well round the outside of turn 1. Eventually Nicky spun and Jan went one way and I went the other and got past both of them then pulled away.

Stayed 3rd for most of the race then after my stop began closing in on Allen. Was quite determined to try and get back up to second and as a consequence, spun at turn 2 in a strange manoever where the car skidded, left, right, left, right several times before finally facing the wrong way and letting David past. Despite being on boost 10 for the last 5 laps or so, couldnt make up the time and finished 4th.

Especially gutted as I only need one more podium to get my 100th R2P podium and in the last 2 races I could have had it. Missed friday by about 9/10ths then chucked it at the scenery today.

First time out in F1 and while it was tough, i enjoyed it. Spent most of the race fighting George Pol. Got past him at turn 1 early in the middle stint. He shadowed me all the way to the second stops. I stopped a few laps later and emerged with a 8 second lead over him. And that was that. Kept it clean to the finish.

Maybe one of my best F1-races ever. No mistakes, good strategy and fast stops. But it wasn't enough to get into the points with no DNF's at all. It means I have to work harder in this field of great drivers to score points. Grats to the podium and everyone else on a great performance.