I hit the tyre wall at the end for no good reason, lost control of the car, broke my suspension and lost a potential 3rd place. I'd say I receive the "Idiot of the Race"-award for that one.
Holy shit I came 4th!!! and it could have been 3rd!!!
Quali was awful, had no front end grip at all, started one but last. Decided to absolutely cane it for the first lap. Started 10th, finished lap 1 6th
Had some fantastic battles with chris and Yann, who managed to get past and get away.
Then I found that my 4th gear ratio was simply shocking - coming out the last corner I had no power at all. Then chris had a collision with the brazilian bloke (Calvin?) and went off. Then, well, congratulations to boothy for rolling a FBM And I also wish to hug you very very much. That brought out the SC, so the 30 second gap to the top 3 went down to zilch.
TBH I got a shit restart - yann got miles ahead of me, but i was miles ahead of the #616. Then I found that yann was soooo slow in a straight line, and I got pretty close to him. Then I started reeling off 58.5x, 0.8 seconds faster than my quali time
Then darryn made a mistake (I know - shock horror!!!) and I got past. Because of this, I couldnt attack yann any more and instead spent the last 3 laps just blocking darryn! I think i went a little too aggressive sometimes, but did well to keep him behind.
Thanks to chris for some fantastic racing, aswell to Calvin (?), and sorry to yann for maybe punting him off the road on lap 3.
Onwards to Blackwood RX, and yes, I think I might actually do rather well at this one - PB 1.10.3
Thanks to all for this round, that was a very clean and nice race. Actually I don't really remember the bump of the start, but don't worry David, we had a lot of contacts during these opening laps, that's a part of racing. I had some nice battles during this race, especially with J@kto. David and Darryn sent me a nice present during the last laps of the race : the 3rd place! Ah, thank you guys, that was kind...Anyway, can't wait for the replay of this race, I want to see how to roll a FBM.
See you all in R6, I really like rallycross. But actually I can't bear that "anti-cut" system, that automaticly gave me a penalty during practice just because i put 4 wheels on the grass....A LX layout would be clearly better.
Thanks to all for great race. I had no free time for practice, so i went with baby only today two hours before race, but my times was very fast. In all probability because i had no ballast for this race .
In practice i had second, in quali i had second too and in race i had for long time second behind Fastwalker, which went own category race mile before me and others. But then safety car was on track and after restarting race Fastwalker had problem with tyres (probably).
At first i striked back attack from third and then, in last lap, in last corner i overtook inside Fastwalker and finished first.
Chrisuu01 - It was 72 C.Aquino (calvinaquino) that bumped you out. It was wrong of him, but you could argue that you only had your front wheel level with his back wheel, meaning you should have backed off. You would never have overtaken him on that corner anyway.
Also, sorry for that tap near the start. If it's any consolatin, I lost a couple of places because of it!
The following cars did not follow proper qualifying pitting procedures (telepitting/telepectating without permission) and will have the following penalites for Round 6:
Car 82 (fastwalker) - x2 - 4 Grid Spot Penalty
Car 111 (TJLRacing) - x1 - 2 Grid Spot Penalty
Car 222 (Chrisuu01) - x2 - 4 Grid Spot Penalty
You have until 0700 GMT on 29 September 2008 to post a protest that you wish the Race Director to look at. If none are posted by the deadline, the results will be made Official.
Woot I was highest climber (well, to be expected tbh :P)
And I easily got highest top speed Ty for the draft greybull, and for the good fight.
Poor chris was stuck behind me for like 15 laps, he got past but then i just cut back on him and he was stuck behind me again.
It tried to do a mansell down the home straight behind greybull, but he had so much more front end grip that he went round the outside and still came out infront!
i actually had more speed than him coming out of the last corner
dont know if i would have passed him, but it would have been alot closer if he didnt push me on the grass
@ Chrisuu01: My apolgies man. That was the last thing i wanted to happen in that race. (me causing an accident). After that i even tried to give you back the position..
But well it was the best race i ever had in lfs this year... I could be the highest climber if i didnt got disconnected (from 12 to 7 and catching the 6th) and i was using the baby setup with weak brakes and 30% fuel =D
Well, that's motor-racing. We had a lot of contacts and tight passes yesterday with these cars, and I think that every racers were involved at least once in this sort of incident. Shame that it maybe costed you the victory. But at least, you collected 30 points in this race, so it's the same than Jelinek. Hope we'll see you next time, you were certainly the fastest guy of the two last events.