Rfactor 2 Celica GTO '87 Sandown October 5

[zedarchitect]

Oct 5, 2016 9:53:00 GMT -8 F1Fan07 said:

Gonna be a few people in the gravel I predict! This car doesn't like the tight stuff.

I am not sure I can make it but I like the tight stuff

[robbmc]

I am out for dinner this eve and will miss this race. Have fun guys.

[F1Fan07]

I couldn't get any heat into the tires... no grip, bad races.

[AngeloDS]

Tough event!

First of all, I want to say Im sorry to Jeff about our incident in Race 1. I meant no harm on that one, mate.

I felt a lot better at this track than at the previous one, and enjoyed 2 wins. The first one, I had a huge fight with Jeff. In the first laps I wasnt feeling confident to push, and was making some mistakes, which gave Jeff the chance to overtake me. It was a tight move, difficult to judge, but fine by me. Was my time to push him, and I did my best to overtake him back, which isnt easy at all at this track.
Eventually we had a collision, when he left the door open on the inside and I took it...but then he decided to get that line and I was already commited to it. Its not nice when this happens, but most of the time I race against Jeff things go pretty clean, and we´re always racing close and hard, so I suppose eventually we will collide.
Anyway, hard fought one for me, and he still got 2nd right behind.

On Race 2 things went a little better for me, but no less difficult. This time Rich put a lot of pressure on me all race long, and the only reason I stayed ahead was because I had a better compromise on the setup for straight line speed, which gave me the edge. Nevertheless a tremendous fight having to keep full focus all race long with him on my rear bumper all the time!

Thanks Jimmy and GBR for this race.

[Dan W.]

The racing here tonight was a lot of fun. Had some good battles with Jimmy both races, did way better then I had thought I would, even with the car being a handful, it was an awesome race.

[neverender158]

Results and Standings updated - gbr.proboards.com/thread/4264/celica-gto-results-standings

During practice Dan was kind enough to share a tune with Joe. Joe mentioned that it felt better under braking so I decided to give it a go.  It did feel better than the tune I was working with and even got me into the 1:08's.  

Race 1 went pretty well for me until I spun at turn 1 and dropped me from 3rd to 6th. I was able to climb back up to 3rd but Dan gave me a hard fought battle and but on the second to last lap Dan was able to get around me in sector 3 and I couldn't catch back to him.  

Race 2 was about the same and I had Dan hot on my tail from the start. I goofed again at turn 1 and Dan was by me. Luckily I didn't take any damage and I was able to get right back on track and bring the fight to Dan. He must have tweaked his tune a bit because on the front straight he had much more speed.  He would tease me with a slight bobble here and there but it was never enough for me to get close enough for a pass.  The one time I did attempt a pass on the front straight Dan played it smart and guessed correctly that I would take turn 1 wide.  

This car and track combo would be so much fun with a grid of 15+.  I know we could have possibly had 13 if Robb, Boza, Chris, David, and K Juliet were able to make it but I understand that real life gets in the way.  

I am really looking forward to Pukekohe as the t rack is a similar layout to Sandown.  

[zedarchitect]

I was helping my daughter with her homework until 9:20 and was wiped. I haven't done any simracing for several weeks.

[Dan W.]

That tune was Joe's Jimmy, I just tweaked the diff to make breaking easier for him, but in all honesty I ran my tune from Winton for the actual races.

[richmink76]

Great racing all.

Race 1 I screwed up T-1 and couldn't get my mojo back!

Race 2 I pressured Angelo the whole race but couldn't pass.

Fun stuff.