Hmm, looking at the replay it looked difficult for Marc to avoid. Maybe it was lag but niki seemed to take forever to react to the start? Or was Marc too early?

Were the cars all too close?

Quote from PaulC2K :

yeah, its J. Di for goodness sake!
[edit] and your line-up ordering isnt quite the right way round :- lfsname, real name, nationality [/edit]

I'm such a noob!

I'll fix it now...

#06 spdoRacing
GT1 FZR

Hawku, Heikki Jaakkola, Finland
Misan, Teemu Hirvonen, Finland
MarcG, Marc Gassner, Germany
memph1s, Steffen Stanger, Germany

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#34 spdoRacing
GT2 FZR

joshdifabio, Josh Di Fabio, United Kingdom
.deFINe., Jari Mattila, Finland
CarstenH, Carsten Hörenbaum, Germany
Paddi4, Patrick Schülter, Germany
Ghost_CZ, Martin Silhánek, Czech Republic
K.Dingeling, Christoph Hofbauer, Germany

Please don't shorten my surname to 'D. Fabio' :P.

Last edited by joshdifabio, Thu 2 Oct 2008, 22:18.

Quote from Becky Rose :

The same car that later crashed avoiding the spun Massa, choosing not to hit the red car and sacrificing his own race...

He didn't need to hit anything - he simply got distracted or didn't react quickly enough.

DJ - just one tip really for future interviews.

When interviewing a number of people at once it would be helpful if you named who you were talking to. Once or twice you asked a question and we weren't really sure who should answer, which resulted in one or two of us talking over one another and sometimes long pauses.

Anyway, thanks for what you're doing - it's always great to have a stream to watch when you're following a race .

And anyway, on the video posted by Locovich it does seem that he was spun by a lag-touch, doesn't it?

Protest against #24 by #19 - spdoRacing #1.

The incident occured on lap 1 turn 3.

Yes, I was certainly hoping that there would be some kind of layout for this chicane.

Hopefully in the not-to-distant future the chicane will have a touch of realism added to it and will be slowed down a lot.

Quote from three_jump :

That would depend on if you count the green behind the colored part of the curb still as curb or already as run-off area.

According to the image posted by MoE - that area appears to be considered as part of the curb.

Good signing guys .

Made a slight change to our line-ups. (Which are two posts above this one)

Team Name: spdoRacing #1
Car Number: 19
Drivers:
T.Hirvonen [Misan] FIN
M.Gassner [MarcG] DEU
Reserves:
C.Hörenbaum [CarstenH] DEU
J.Di Fabio [joshdifabio] GBR

Team Name: spdoRacing #2
Car Number: 41
Drivers:
M.Šilhánek [Ghost_CZ] CZE
H.Jaakkola [Hawku] FIN
J.Mattila [.deFINe.] FIN
C.Hofbauer [K.Dingeling] DEU
Reserves:
P.Schülter [Paddi4] DEU

Last edited by joshdifabio, Thu 25 Sep 2008, 17:48.

Lame :P

It's a shame not to see SK & PM, and one or two more. Nevertheless, thank you for giving us the chance to run in both classes .

Quote from Bob Smith :

I like. Idea++;

Hooray for original suggestions, who'd have thought they were still possible?

++Idea; for greater efficiency? :P

+1 from me too.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Kimi's conditions were the closest to Hamilton's in Q2, and, well, they're 14th and 15th on the grid.

The current Ferrari is notoriously poor in the wet due to its easy treatment of the tyres.

Edit: Wtf, this is the Spa thread still!

Quote from JCTK :

the only consistent thing about the FIA is their inconsistency...

as far as I could remember only Nick Heidfield got a penalty for driving someone off the track (DC at Bahrain) since I started watching F1...

If they always allow that type of driving, surely that means that they're being consistent..?

Edit: Anyway, taking the line when another car has minimal overlap, such as with Kimi and Lewis, is acceptable and fair in F1. Kimi did not drive Lewis off the track - Lewis decided to try and stay beside Kimi, even though Kimi was clearly ahead and was obviously going to take a tight line through the second part of the chicane. This type of driving is seen at every GP, and imo, with these guys being the best drivers in the world, it's perfectly fine.

Last edited by joshdifabio, Mon 8 Sep 2008, 02:42.

Lee,
Thank you for the considered and well thought-out apology - of course myself and the team appreciate and accept it wholeheartedly.

Looking forward to Round 8,
Josh

Congrats Messy and the rest of the team .

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Phil, as I'm sure you saw, was hurrying to catch up to the queue (following the u-turn) when the green flew. He definitely used his momentum to his advantage, but he didn't drop back intentionally to get a run. The situation was complicated by the fact that the Warbirds driver 3 cars ahead didn't get on the gas in a timely manner (note the huge gap from him to the next car ahead).

Surely that is completely irrelevant? Or can you just drop back a few hundred metres and then 'catch the field up' right before the green? The fact is that when the race went green he had a massive speed advantage which he used to pass a number of cars. That was cheating, end of. Surely it was as much a violation as Misan following a car too closely and then attempting a pass which did not appear at all risky at the time?

I didn't want to post again but well, I couldn't stop myself.

I somehow knew that the report was not written by you, Ben, but to read something which seems to have been so disrespectfully and erroneously compiled just makes me sick to the stomach.

I won't mention or blame anyone else, but Lee's ignorance and short-sightedness reflects badly upon your whole team.

I don't know who wrote the Round 7 race report on core-racing.com - but I'm very disappointed by the frankly slanderous nature of it. I have a great deal of respect for Core, but lying about a rival driver in the public medium simply to damage his and his team's reputation is just totally out of order.

The report seems to mostly focus on our car - or, to be precise, one of our drivers; Misan.

Please, whoever wrote the report, check the ****ing replay and tell me where, after the incident, Misan "backed across the track in front of traffic". He waited until the entirity of the main body of the field had passed him, and was absolutely nowhere near impeding anybody in that manoeuvre.

The report the goes on the imply that the incident cost our team nothing, and cost the Core team badly. After the stop-go penalty, we were an entire LAP off the lead of the race, and were well down on your lead car who, given an incident-free race, we would have been comfortably up on.

I also think it's total crap to blame the incident on Misan in a way that suggests it is cut-and-dried. Look at the replay and you will see that many cars were driving very close at the restart, with some drivers even anticipating the start. While Misan was too close to the car ahead, that was not the sole cause of the incident. Watch him from the chase view and you'll see that when he pulled out of Hugo's slipstream, he was only committing to pass one car, and he was doing so in the only place on the track where it's possible to pass a driver of similar ability.

The main reason for the severity of the incident was the server. Review the first safety car incident and you will notice how crap the server actually was.

If you want to see the incident which was most deserving of a penalty on any of the race starts, check P.Diaz on the initial start driving 30mph faster than all of the cars ahead of him on the start. That was 10x worse than what Misan did and I'm sure even the wanker that wrote your report could see that.

Last edited by joshdifabio, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 23:13.

Quote from Migz :

Bassicly i think we should have a new quote function.
Currently when we click the quote button it loads up the reply page. This is really annoying if you want to multi quote people, you then have to open multiple tabs for each quote and then copy&paste the quote's into one window.

What i think we should have is a quoting system like the http://gmc.yoyogames.com quoting system.
On there when you select the quote button it doesnt load a page, the button goes red and you can keep on reading the thread and if you want you can click on more quotes without loading a new page. Then when you click post it will have all the quotes that you selected.

I've attatched some screenies of what i mean.

1st screenie shows only one quote being selected (top one) and one quote not selected(bottom one)

2nd screenie shows two quotes selected (top and bottom one)

3rd screenie shows the reply screen after you select two quotes and hit the reply button.


Im sure this would be a useful function to alot of people.

Maybe I'm misreading your post, but doesn't this forum already have that feature? The small button with a '+' symbol, immediately to the right of the 'Quote' button is for multi-quoting.

Edit: Too slow!

Quote from aroX123 :

I would like to join :P but i'm GTM +01:00 i dont know when it is

The test race starts at 2200 Norwegian time, which is 6h 25m from the time of this post.