V8: Eastern Creek (Euro)

Lost connection when we changed to warm up !!

Why?!?!?!

Force feedback went limp at start of race. Was OK for prac and qual! Feels like I'm driving with a wet noodle in my hands.

I cannot drive car without heavy FF so had to drop out on 1st lap! : (

This has happend before, can't figure this one out.

Dan

Man that was fun, found myself in 3rd after quali 9th or 10th. Was really enjoying it but tyres die real quick and by lap 8 it was costing me 1.5 to 2 secs a lap. Pitted lap 13 but blew the entry and got a stop and go, will have to practise that for next season. Great racing, congrats to winner.

what a fun race. first lap was intense. dodged serveral sideways cars, and got a few dings and lost some downforce. that made the first stint very interesting, but i made it with no wrecks :)
the rest of the race was pretty smooth. ran as high as 2nd at one point during pitting cycle rofl, but i managed to run top 10 almost all day.

towards the end, i started having brake fade. i adjusted the bias, but it took several laps to get it right, and that cost me a couple of positions. once i got it to where it was stable, i was still having to slow down way early, so i could not keep up.

had a few nice clean side by side fights along the way though, added to the fun :). can't wait till the next race. hopefully on a track with some banking.

Bugger!

Qualified in second coz I couldn't get a decent lap together. Was 6 10th's at one point but blew last corner.

Race went well, had a lot of fun chasing Janko and leading him now and again as well. 7 laps to go, fresh tyres, perfect amount of fuel and in the lead. Cue double down shift into first at the hairpin!!!!!!!! ARSE!

Well done Janko nice race m8 shame I messed up it would have made the last few laps much more interesting :)

Well done all...

Stroll on S5 :D

What a nice race. Only made 1 no-spin lap in qual, but was ok for pole. I didnt start OK as usual... and ended in 2nd behind Andy, with Tolga on my back. Was very interesting racing at that point.

Had nice battles with Andy all the way through the race, but at end it was me finishing infront of him :). Great race for me, hope all other had fun too! Need next one soon, for some more battles against Andy :).

I have to say sorry to one of backmarkers, i hit him while lapping him (turn 5). We were 3 wide with Andy at that time. I should of altered my braking point a bit more. SRY for that bump.

That was a fun race. Qualifying went pretty badly since I ran it with 86L of fuel. Then I realised, came in to dump some fuel, went out again. And of course the session ended when I was halfway through my hot lap! Might have shaved off a few tenths.

I managed to avoid most things at the start, except I slid wide at T2 into Graham Kerr. Sorry about costing you a few places there, the car understeered badly on the cold tyres. After that, settled in chasing Paul, but made a mistake after a few laps and had to work really hard until the first pitstop to keep Graham behind me. Of course, then he passed me in the pits. Now somebody can tell me the right thing to do here. I was side by side with Graham coming out of the first pit stop, me being a wheel's width behind. Am I allowed to run along side him? I ended up falling behind him just to make sure.

Passed him again when he went a bit wide in T3, and had a nice battle with him afterwards. Thank you for managing to avoid me a few times as I was a bit erratic.

Anyway, went in to the second pitstop a second or so lead over Graham. Must have hit the pit limiter some odd number of times because it didn't go on. Actually I wasn't sure if it was on since these things have no blinking lights inside the car! Crawled along at 20 km/h trying not to speed, but then ended up going over 40 km/h anyway, somehow I avoided a penalty. Then they put fuel in my car when I didn't need it. It was a bloody disaster. When Graham came out of the pits the next lap he was 12 seconds or so in front already. Battle lost. Well done to your good finish.

After that, I caught Bertrand and had a few laps trying to pass him unsuccessfully. That was fun. Then came a black car with headlights on which caught us after a few laps. I was planning to see how I would let the leader through, or if I could somehow keep trying to pass Bertrand. Eventually he got close enough and I let him through. I was not too impressed to find out that was a pass for position.

So, to Tom O'Gorman, please follow the R2P etiquette next time and only switch your headlights on when you are the race leader, and try not to flash them when you are behind somebody. I certainly would have made you work a lot harder for the pass.

Bertrand's off in T1 gifted me 6th. So all in all, a good race until the 2nd pitstop, and then all my usual little mistakes came out :(

It was nonetheless a very fun race, and well done to the top finishers. Tim's posted setup wasn't a bad start!

Oh Well - a lesson learnt for me tonight. NEVER EVER let an incident (however frustrating) allow the blood pressure to creep near to boiling point... and expect to race these brutes successfully!

Had an OK qually which placed me 3rd behind Janko & Andy. My start was on the button, and into T1 had got alongside Andy, but chose to back out - after all, it's not won in the first corner... but it was certainly lost in the next corner when I'm ceremoniously spun by my team mate. Ah well, no biggie, shit happens... I've got 38 laps to pull a half decent result, plus of course my teamie will be waiting up ahead anyways, and we can run together. Errr NO - he's buggered off up the road... and THAT's where I just blew a fuse! I'm sure all my passes coming back through were clean though (I haven't watched the full replay yet). All OK until I catch Bep and after a lap or so manage to catch him into the last bend a little quicker than I thought I would. I was already braking, but we did make contact - thankfully no damage, and no time lost from either of us - Sorry Bep.

Except now I really lose the plot - and to cut a long story short - manage to cop not 1, but 2 Stop/Go penalties! I'm pretty sure a Top 10 was salvaged in the end though.

Grats to Janko, Andy, and Tolga on the podium. I was looking forward to a great race. Great result for Graham as well - 4th... Well done! See ya's next time.

i had to drop out due to pc just dying on me. totally random, just finshed reformatting.

i watch the whole race as i was at andy house. looked very close between janko and andy but the better driver on the day won i feel.

ill catch the next 1 i hope and i'll try to be around for the whole of S5.