Atlantic G3: Zhuhai

What can i say had a good race going and run out of fuel,one day i get it right.

Well, that was frustrating. Fought my way from 19th to 12th...then ran out of fuel. I'm not sure what I was thinking when I set my fuel level, but I had only enough for half the race. Maybe I was thinking nGT. Oh well. There's always next time :)

I started, for me, an amazing 11th position and made it as high as 10th, that is before I got pummeled by every other car behind me until I was spun out and at the back of the pack playing catch up. I didn't see a single penalty given for any of the contact given on either occasion. I've noticed that others have been complaining about this issue, and I guess I see why. I enjoy racing at R2P, I just hope things will calm down and we can all have some clean fun racing.

Blankenship, I do apologize for the rear ending, I came in too hot and couldn't slow down to avoid you.

Congrats Darren

I won!!! I won!!!

That was, undoubtably, the hardest I've ever had to work for a 5th place in my life. Holy crap.

Oh, btw, I won the Porsche race :) It felt like it, let me tell yoooo.

Never been to this track before today, had no idea it was like Monza and was a Viper track. After I looked at the Euro G3 race, I knew this was going to be painful.

45 minutes of sheer white knuckle action, with JM all over my ass like cheap cologne for 43 of those 45 minutes. I cannot express my relief that's over, nice driving John!

Whew.

Ari took the lead with a blistering start and I tried to hassle him into a mistake for 2/3 of the race but he was solid. Every time I got a run and tried to take the inside of turn 1 he kept a good pace round the outside and came out ahead. Eventually I just managed to outbrake him and took the lead. It was a good clean battle and alot of fun to take part in, grats to Ari and Scott.

I had so much indecision about which car to drive tonight and finally settled on the Porka. I don't know if that was good or bad, but thanks to some empty tanks I wound up 7th.

I had some great, white knuckle battles with some Vipers and another Porsche the first 1/4 of the race. All of a sudden, I'm running by myself in 11th. I can't see anyone in front or behind me. I ran like that until the end. The only cars I saw were the ones out of fuel.

I did have a really l o n g lag in the first half of the race. Did anyone else? My car was going fine, but everyone else disappeared. Last about 3-4s.

Congrats to the podium.

I got that also Garret i thought it was just me

Oh yeah, it happened to all 3 of us on TeamSpeak. Everyone blanked out for 2-3 seconds.
It also happened today during the Euro FBMW rFactor race to the couple of us on TS Tim.
Better check something...

I waited until now after joining r2p in April to run my first race(only been playing sim's since Nov). What a BLAST! Going fender to fender with (someone) didn't get touched once! Anyway, don't find that much pubin'. I Q5 and ran 4th for most the race and then ran out of fuel on the last lap. Lesson learned; i will try this again. :-)

Congrats to the upfront group.

-m

Thanks, Tom. I'd wondered what that was about; you came in from quite a ways back. Didn't even know there was a car back there when I got hit. Was quite a surprise!

Hadn't turned lap one to get ready for this one anyway so no biggie - besides it meant I could go find some dinner! Just got home in time, grabbed the GT3 and a setup from Valencia (I think) but missed practice & all but about a half lap of qualifying. Put in 60 liters on a guess and Figured I'd just see what would happen.

Started DFL in 22nd, but made it up to 16th cleanly by the end of lap one, mainly while a bunch of Vipers were getting their tires hot. They did and on lap two, three of em got back by, putting me down to 19th. OK, time to learn the track again. Remembered it fair enough and started to go a little quicker, and caught a bunch of cars as they were racing each other. Kept my nose clean and took advantage of them banging on each other to move back up. Finally got around Mark C. for 13th about 8 laps or so in. Trouble then was that I had some clear track ahead and didn't know my braking marks well enough since I'd just been keying off traffic before. Got sloppy and went off under braking into a gravel trap and took a while coming back out. Deep gravel!

Finally did in about 20th and was going to start trying to make back some spots when Tom clocked me, knocking me back into yet another gravel trap. Ground my way out of that one and did about half a lap (honestly thinking I'd been taken out on purpose at the time) before going off again, mainly due to just not knowing what the heck I was doing.

Figured it best to yank the plug at that point and did. On to the next one.