S7 2008/3/22 AS GT GTR [2x12]

[burnsy]

Date: Mar 22nd
Track: Aston Grand Touring (AS6)
Wind: Low
Cars: GTR (FXR, XRR, FZR)
Qualification: 15 minutes
2 Races x 12 Laps
Time: 17:00 GMT
Server: [FG] Racing
Password: fg

WRs:
FXR- 2:32.99
XRR- 2:34.73
FZR- 2:33.16

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[pdanev]

Was a pretty nice combo, shame about lack of people.

1st race I spun 1st corner, optimistic braking a bit, touched espn and spun. Started catching up, was doing quite ok considering the extra weight, and then just when it got really interesting I got disconnected.

I think I would've caught up to ESPN in the last corners and the finish could have been pretty interesting. Too bad... Nice moment in the race was when lonely and me entered the pits. I caught up a bit with later braking, but then I think I put the car into neutral and lost a second or so till I realized that pit is over and I'm not moving. Neck and neck with lonely on the exit, and just after the exit on the narrow path I overtook him.

2nd race was ok-ish too. Very messy 1st lap, wind, sliding, collision with lonely, cooked tires... Pretty bad. Then I lost a few times calibration during the race, luckily not that bad but I think about 10-15degrees of offset. The wind was really a pain in the ass, I couldn't do anything consistently. Braking was screwed under wind, some flat out corners etc. Few good moments with burnsy too during this race, bit of a collision in 1st corner and 1/2 a spin but nothing major. Burnsy you shouldn't have waited for me (though I know that's the etiquette), it wasn't a big crash on purpose or something, just a bit late on the braking, no worries.

[MXM]

Yeah, I usually like this track. But my setup was hopeless. It would kill the tires in 3 laps (and that's 2s behind the pace), so I went on adjusting tires just before the race and made it a lot worse...
Also I was feeling sick today, and started to get a headache, so that's why I left.

[ESPNSTI]

Good weekend for me, other than the lack of people.

First race I jumped in the lead, and thought I left enough room in turn one on the inside for pdanev, but it appears that I didn't. Sorry pdanev.
After that I was unable to hold off burnsy, but I was able to keep ahead of lonely, especially after the pit stops.
Pdanev was catching up in the end, and it might have gotten interesting until he disconnected.

Race two was weird.
In the first few laps I tried everything to keep up with burnsy, lonely and pdanev.
That caused me to burn up my tires a bit, which after burnsy and pdanev spun meant I was probably not going to be able to hold off pdanev, or so I thought.
In the second part of lap 4, I backed off in an attempt to cool off the tires and I think it worked, since I was able to push again in lap 5 and 6.

Stats and points:

http://espnsti.iridiumonline.info/LF...ults_race.html
http://espnsti.iridiumonline.info/LF...ults_race.html
http://espnsti.iridiumonline.info/LF...FGS7Points.htm

[pdanev]

Nah ESPN, no worries, I was late on the brakes, you left enough room.