Pacific FB: Goldenport

Great race!!

Very strong qualy, I managed to knock a few hundredths off of my previous fast time. However, it must be noted, George was faster than my qualy time in the practice session beforehand.

After getting the tires nice and warm, a solid start saw me beginning to pull away from the pack in the opening ten or so laps. Tommy C, George and Tommy G. were all battling for position. I had a few small run-ins with lap traffic along the way, but managed to conserve my tire wear and temperature through to the finish before a quickly-gaining George got too close.

Well done to Tommy G., I am very impressed at your level of improvement in the last month.

Thanks to all who moved aside during the later laps, and good race to all. Looking forward to Barcelona; A big, open and fast course like that will suit me much better than this slow, tight (and generally shoddy) Chinese club circuit.

Its been a while since I have finished last in a race. This DNF came from ANOTHER lag spike like I have been having in my previous rFactor races dating back about a month. While previous lag spikes have been physically harmless to my car, this one came on lap two and threw me right in the middle of traffic. Someone hit me from behind as I reappeared, got sent into the curbs and I went flying over the fence...DONE!

Sorry to whoever was the victim of my lag (I think it was Peter) :(. Not at all happy about it...oddly enough, the only races that I haven't had a lag spikes over the past few rFactor races were the TPSCC tests. Methinks my internet connection doesn't like too many people on board or isn't playing nicely with racers on the other side of the world. Not sure how I am going to fix it...it doesn't happen in GTR2 which is slightly ironic.

On another note...GRATS TO TOMMY GUNN ON A GREAT PODIUM FINISH!! WOOT!! :)

Thanks Conor...for the acknowledgement of what happened!
I was just stunned by the surprise event! And only checked the replay after the race to see what had happened.
Not a fun thing for either of us, but I am glad I survived somewhat ok. Phew.

One second you are 40metres ahead, between Justus and Tommy, and then presto(!!), you are moving quite slow about 1 car length ahead of me closing at Mach 10! And BAMM. Yikes.

I got front wing damage and front right suspension damage and careered off track. I almost quit out right then, but decided to drive on and asee what the car was like. It was OK overall considering, so I raced on.

Later on I had one incident brushing alongside Edgar(?) when I criss-crossed to go under him in Turn 3 for the exit and he came back across probably not knowing I would be there. It slowed us, but I came out OK and he had a bit more detriment to recover from it. Hopefully he was fine after it.

Somehow by the end I had done as per Silverstone...and gone from 7th, down to 16th, then back to 5th.

I hate these cars!! I can't imagine any real car is this bad a design!

Yeah, these things are serious shite.

To Zach B: Sorry you got spun out there. Thought I left enough room inside but you kind of understeered out into my path.
To Edgar V: Wow, just wow... :)

All I can say is I was glad just to finish! Lap one I found myself flying nose up when someone seriously slowed and I climbed right up his spoiler (sorry to who that was) then had a few of my own mistakes which gave me yellow indicators all around the car, still was drivable to take me to a top ten finish, damn crazy out there on this swift track.
Congrats to the Podium boys and Tommy G for a great drive!
Tristan, sorry for that small incident, got loose on me with all the damage I had.

Peeled my white knuckles from the wheel and checked the results. 11th!!

Slow and steady. That describes my race. This was my Formula BMW debut and I have to say that I had put alot of effort into it.

So I am alittle disappointed with myself for not driving the way I know I could. I really wanted to have a good showing, but I guess getting to the finish was a good result in itself.

I know Congratulations from the new guy probablly isn't going to make your day, but I really do mean it. I put alot of laps in just to get to my results, so I really respect the time and effort you guys must have spent and skill you top guys have.

So Congrats to everyone, and congrats to the top 3; Tristan, George and Tommy

Brian, That is an awesome picture!

Congrats To Tristan and George! I never saw you guys after the green light. I never saw Tommy C. either until he put himslf into the weeds and handed me my first podium finish. It was my best race by far but, not to worry I have no illusions of grandeur. LOL... My poor wife though had to listen to it all night and at the same time try to act like she was impressed. LOL.... Justus drove a great race and pushed me for 20 laps but, never tried an unsafe pass. He cold have taken me out several times buy trying something stupid but, instead showed real skill and a cool head......MT Gunn

Thanks Clay, i had to get something out of the race. I caught the curbing, totally where i shouldn't have been, but it made for a mighty spectacular crash.

I was doomed from the start with some suspension damage, I'm blaming the dogs for distracting me. Sorry to whoever i bumped into i hope i didn't cause you any damage. I mostly tried to stay out of people's way.

I'm clearly over classed. Some great drivers in this series.
( Depressingly good ) i watched a bunch of Tristan's race in the replay, trying to figure out what i was doing wrong. Learned a few things. Thanks for that Tristan.

I think i need an engineer, i'm sure i don't have a clue as to how to set these cars up.