Race 4 Aston GP January 16 Post race discusion

[Cawwa]

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[Psymonhilly]

bah my worse race to date in the series :( engine died after a short time and i lost a good amount of top end speed (5-10mph) and slowly turned my car into a GT2 with Nos :razz:
last few laps was fun and i struggled past xenoa and slowly tried to catch sidi :thumb:

[R.Kolz]

Qualified 5th with a 2.40.xx and was satisfied about it.

Slept a little at the rolling start (expected a /RCM) but kept 5th position. After an incident lap 1 in the chikane beteewn NIKI and Di Fabio I found myself on 3th position. The two XRR´s in front of me were slowly pulling away and and Di Fabio´s FZR got closer to me on 4th position. For a long time it looked to me like in the front of the field one was fighting for 1st place and 3th place but Di Fabio, close behind me, did a minor mistake about lap 10 and once more saw myself 5 secs. in front of him. After my pitstop lap 17 I as well realized some minor engine damage on my FXR ,3-4 km/h lower top speed. I´ve checked the replay and have no idea why this had to happen.
As a result my laptimes dropped from about 2.41-2.42 mins. down to 2.42-2.43 mins. for the last 18 laps whicj IMO cost me a possible second place.
Di Fabio once more closed the gap, overtook me, but unfortunately for him he pitspeeded, got a DT and at the end I finished 3th place.
Victory to Jonesy, once more great driving.:thumbsup: Very good pit strategy,race and second place to DeFine. Congratulations.

[Psymonhilly]

"grabs popcorn and awaits the new LFS lemans GT1 champion to say a few words" :D:thumb:

[joshdifabio]

Thanks for organising this, and sorry to Niki for the incident on lap 1.

Nice race Kolz, when I made that mistake I think I damaged my engine in T1 on the next lap; my first sectors were a lot slower after that. It was a shame as I wanted to see how my pace was towards the end of the stint.

My pitstop was a joke really. I forgot to engage the pit limiter and then didn't bother after I stopped the car. I haven't driven the XRR before until recently; and you can't actually see what gear you're in as the wheel blocks the dashboard. I had been trying to get away from the pits in 4th gear or something! After a few seconds I got the car moving, and forgetting that I hadn't engaged the limiter I got a stop-go penalty.

I had a nice battle with Define later in the race. Sorry for almost taking you out when I pitted, I had to change my pit settings and drifted over to the left slightly while I was doing it!

Thanks to the admins for organising it too :).

[Cawwa]

The results are up: http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=37796 ... :D