rF2 Honda Civic @ South Shore - Mon 16th March

Gijs van Elderen · Mar 12, 2015

Server: RACEDEPARTMENT.COM HONDA
Cars: Honda Civic
Track: South Shore (GP-Layout)

Weather: Dry
Road condition: Rubber on track were possible
Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel use : Normal
Mechanical failure: Time scaled

Assists:
Auto-clutch: Allowed

Practice: 20:00 GMT
Qually: 20:20 GMT 10 min
Warm up: 5 min
Race: 30 min

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Gijs van Elderen
Matej Lakota
Frederic Schornstein
Ante Markic
Joao Fernandes *
James Early
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Note: Please sign out well in time (at least 1 hour before the practise session begins) if you're unable to make the race. Thanks!

Gijs van Elderen · Mar 12, 2015

Server is UP

Matej Lakota · Mar 14, 2015

I love Jacarepagua from my GSC days, so sign me up Gijs with high hopes, it will not be just a dogfight between us

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Frederic Schornstein · Mar 16, 2015

Matej Lakota said:
I love Jacarepagua from my GSC days, so sign me up Gijs with high hopes, it will not be just a dogfight between us .

Ok, then I will try to join as well today. No idea what track that is, but I will figure it out

Wolff Lynx · Mar 16, 2015

Sign me up as well

Joao Fernandes · Mar 16, 2015

A maybe for me. I will try to be there in time for qualy.

Gijs van Elderen · Mar 16, 2015

Frederic Schornstein said:
No idea what track that is, but I will figure it out

Frederic Schornstein · Mar 16, 2015

Gijs van Elderen said:

Looks like a mix auf Abu Dhabi and Silverstone. Still dont get it

James Early · Mar 16, 2015

I might as well join, i'm in!

Richard Hill · Mar 16, 2015

Sign me up if not too late please if it downloads in time that is

Richard Hill · Mar 16, 2015

Damn it sorry not going to be able to make it

Frederic Schornstein · Mar 16, 2015

Damn the download is relatively slow. Dont know, if I get it in time

Matej Lakota · Mar 16, 2015

Two spins in one race? Maybe I am getting too old for this

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Thanks all who joined tonight and dare to drive something slower than GT3 cars.
It was great evening as usual here and I am looking forward to more races with slower, but sometimes really hard to drive cars ... two spins in half an hour ... c˙mon

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Wolff Lynx · Mar 16, 2015

It was fun, as Matej says, something different

I wasn't expecting such snap oversteer, this was my first time driving a front-wheel-drive racing car. Matej sent me a setup, with that the car was much more reasonable, thanks for that!
In the race I only had one spin on lap 3 or so.. after that I started getting into the groove and began to catch James. He made a mistake which meant there was no fight, unfortunately. I finished in P4, not bad.
I also liked the track, it had a nice flow, except for the extremely tight hairpin :O

James Early · Mar 16, 2015

Wolff Lynx said:
It was fun, as Matej says, something different
I wasn't expecting such snap oversteer, this was my first time driving a front-wheel-drive racing car. Matej sent me a setup, with that the car was much more reasonable, thanks for that!
In the race I only had one spin on lap 3 or so.. after that I started getting into the groove and began to catch James. He made a mistake which meant there was no fight, unfortunately. I finished in P4, not bad.
I also liked the track, it had a nice flow, except for the extremely tight hairpin :O

As soon as I saw you were catching up I thought "I will not be pressured into a mistake" and then the next corner I went wide and you went past, oh well...

Wolff Lynx · Mar 16, 2015

Yeah, it will probably happen to me when our roles are reversed so don't worry

Joao Fernandes · Mar 17, 2015

It seemed everyone was still learning the track so i didn't feel alone.

Looking at the lap times Matej was way ahead so my fight was with the other drivers or so i thought.
I did a poor start but managed to keep it close to the front and after some laps i saw that Matej had spun so i took first place.

Knowing that he was really fast i didn't expect to stay there until the end but still pushed tying to save the tires for the final laps. Every lap i saw the gap getting shorter until he spun again. A little breather but too soon to feel comfortable.

In the end i took it to the finish line in first place but it was really intense seeing that gap disappear every lap and trying to keep a fast and consistent pace until the checkered flag.

Nice track with good flow and some tricky corners.

Frederic Schornstein · Mar 17, 2015

Already had a bit weird engine sound the day before. It sounded like the sound was clipping or something sometimes really annoying. Yesterday I think I found the issue as it was still existent and I realised that I have heavy spiking on my throttle. It never keeps really still in the position it is in, so I think that caused the weird engine sound sometimes.
I hope I can fix it, but new pedals have to come sooner rather than later. It is the fifth time I have to fix pedal spiking, but before it was always the brake.

Matej Lakota · Mar 17, 2015

Joao, your pace at the end was really at high level and I didn˙t have a "weapon" against you. Grats for your drive

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Funny thing happened to me during race. I was so focused to my drive, that I didn˙t care about my tires and at the beginning of last lap, my front right tire was, if I remember well, just above 10%. Right, everything should be OK, because I pushed to the (my) limit, but in last 10 or 9 laps, my pace almost didn˙t drop. So for next races I will switch off TrackMapPlugin, because in the case when I don˙t know condition of my tires, then all is the same for me; green or in red, laptimes are the same, because I don˙t care

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... a little joke