Frist of all big congrats to Vince, Jim and Nicolas and of course to everyone, who finished at this special track! Well done! :wink:
I had some different problems, which in sum made the event a disappointment for me. :frown:
At first I had a misunderstanding with the time the 85 minutes practice (qualy) should start.
Grid order will be set during the entire practice period starting at 4am , err.... 8pm BST...
I thought that 8pm was the same time, when the league races qualifying starts. For me in germany it always was 9pm though. So I entered the server at 9:10pm, thinking I'd still have 75 minutes to qualify. I was shocked to see that there were only 15 minutes left.
(what did I get wrong?)
Ok, would still mean I could do 1 timed lap (like super pole :tongue
, which would have been challenging BUT the next problem appeared. I could only see some single fragments of my car!
The driver sitting in the air and some parts of the suspension. From some other cars I also could only see some parts ot only the shadow on the road. I remembered having the same problems in the league event at the GP track of the Nürburgring :frown: (nowhere else so far!) In the league event the problems luckily disappeared in warmup after some Alt+Tab. So I tryed some things like Alt+Tab and rejoining and lowering graphics settings... Nothing helped and time went on. I just hoped to see my car when the race starts.
At the start nearly all parts of my car and the other cars were visible now (strange!), only transparaent mirrors. So I decided to start as safe as possible and relax behind the field until the field would have streched a bit and I'd feel comfortable with the car and the track.
At the back of the grid the field was very slow in many places and when we reached the two right handers at the Flugplatz (after the jump) there were two cars extremly slow there. I decided to slip through at the left side but the car further in front made a little move to this side so we had little contact, when I passed. I don't remember who it was. I'm really, really sorry if I harmed you. :frown: I got a small suspension damage, which wasn't really noticeable.
Later I had the littel impact on Peters car, standing across the track after an incident with another car there. I chose the wrong side to pass the trouble and couldn't avoid contact even though I braked 100 %. Don't worry Peter, I didn't get any damage and I could have avoided it by choosing the right side to pass the scene. Simple racing accident. :wink:
Starting lap two I had reached a bunch of cars in front of me. It's tricky to attack without risking much and leaving enough safety margins. I followed the cars untill the "jump" at the Flugplatz. I used Jims slipstream and drove next to him on his right side. It was much to optimistic to drive side by side over the crest. Some meters before the crest I decided to cancel this move and to break to let Jim enter first into the two right handers. But even under braking the car's nose went up into the air. When the front wheels got contact to the road again it was too late. I ran off the track and smashed hard into the barriers. Car completely destroyed - race over. :frown: Luckily I braked early enough, so I didn't torpedo Jim but left the track close behind him. So no problem Jim, Absolutely my silly mistake. Anthony seemed also to be chrashed out there, because immediately his car appeared next to me after the impact. I didn't notice anything but I hope I didn't take you out?!
Finally I like to thank Peter for hosting this fine event. I hope we'll have some more of this sort into the summer brake. Maybe with more common tracks then?
