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It was a somewhat tricky track for the season finale. Short but dangerous in the F1 79's! One slip and you almost always end up in disaster. The grass is so slippery that the barriers / walls may as well be right at the track edge, as Milan mentioned 'like Monaco'.

I couldn't do more than about 10 laps maximum before smashing my car up in practices! Though often I end up that way but then raise the focus level tons for a race, to be sure of safety and survival. Though this is tougher than other tracks to achieve that succesfully!

Qualifying the Lotus79 on a short track means you can run Rad_1 on a few tracks, and this is one. But to do just one flying lap without smoking you need to baby the car around the outlap, though it is worth it because for Mosport Rad_2 down to Rad_1 is worth close to one full second in lap time!
So I did my first run with Rad_2, which was quite a good run, and then I was going to do a Rad_1 run but then couldn't be bothered having to do the very slow out lap and went with Rad_2 again instead. I expected to see Milan run faster late in the Qual session, and probably take pole, but he did not.

The race all went to plan - almost. More focus... no crashing... good pace and safety. The car was set up very well so I kept pushing it to the max every lap, and as the fuel got lower I was thinking "I should get a 1:08 somewhere soon" and then I did finally make a boo-boo and messed up Turn 2 with about 3 laps to go when I clipped the inner left 'edge' which threw the car into a high speed spin just after the half way point of the turn!! It was very lucky that I crashed so much in practices as it meant that I knew how to deal with problems at almost any track areas! Not that you can save many successfully, but it saved me this time!
So luckily I got to race on to the finish unscathed! Phew!

Well, that was a great race. My mind and body are absolutely worn out from so much practice this weekend. I put a great deal into preparing for this race because my girlfriend was out of town camping and without her to supervise me, my sim racing intake can reach dangerous levels.

Qualifying went well as my first flyer ended up being a pole lap, beating David by a few hundredths or so. Sadly, he wouldn't have any of that and went out for one more flyer and took the pole (and the lap record) from me by .006! It was crushing, but I was really happy to be in the front row and best of all with my teammate right behind me so I didn't have to worry about getting bumped by anyone taking a risk.

The start went as expected and I came out through the first set of turns behind David. I was sure he was 3-stopping from his practice stint lengths, but I figured he was on mediums at least, maybe hards, since he wasn't like a whole second faster than me. Turned out he ran softs which ended up working to my advantage. I tailed David very closely for the first 10 or 11 laps without making any attempt to overtake, but I tried to make him think that I was considering it so that he'd drive hard and gobble up tires while I coasted in his draft. It worked perfectly and, as it turned out, being in his pocket for the first stint reduced my own tire wear a lot. His tires started to lose grip around lap 12 or so and mine were in perfect shape for driving still, so I made my move in the final turn and made it stick through the next complex. We had some really crazy side-to-side action for the first half lap but after I had the position sealed in the T5/6 left/right sweeping section, I knew he would back off to save tires and he did.

I can only recall one really scary moment which was later in the first stint when I was starting to decide to attack David, I came in through T15 (the last turn between the two straights) and had more speed than I expected to have on David and I bumped him ever so lightly in the rear end. It was really soft so I am hoping he didn't take anything from it. I, however, took right front suspension damage. It didn't change the handling in any way, but when I went for my first pit, I forgot about that and my stop took 12 seconds because of the damage which I didn't need fixed in the first place. If I had lost by less than 6 seconds, this would have been a dire oversight!

Skipping forward, the rest of the race was really solid for me and nearing my final pit stop, I had about 18 seconds on P2 Tim McArthur. I really didn't think I was going to make it out in front of him after my final pit and I was pretty sure that if I didn't, I'd have blown the win because he surely was fast enough to hold me off. Fortunately, I made it into T1 with about 1.5s on him and used a little boost to keep him off of me while my tires were still warming up. The gap started to grow as I lapped really hard on my 3-stop tank so that I could create some space.

With about 5 or so laps to go, my gap started shrinking from 6s into the 3s range and I was worried that he was boosting it up to try and make a last minute kamikaze run. I just put my nose down and concentrated and managed to maintain a 4-5s gap until he spun with around 3 laps to go and then I wound it down to boost 1 and rolled it home without any fancy business.

I was uber disappointed about not taking pole, but the win sure made up for it. APR is in position to challenge for the Team Championship now leading into Canada.

good qualy but no fantastic

in the warm up lap i was trying to save as fuel as I can, but I forgot to warm brakes enough and also in T1 I braked in the usual point. xDD
Result: I went straight in T1 in first lap and lost 9 places. A novice mistake lol

At 3 laps to go I saw that I need to save 1.5 liter to finish the race, arggghhhhhh, at least P2 was 44 seconds behind...
I was trying to save fuel when the time counter change from 1minute and few seconds to --:--:-- YESSSSS, buffff, I breathed deep and crossed the finish line at full revs!!!


in all the race i see a much better behaviour of overlaped drivers than ostersleben, and also now I know the absence of blue flag rule ;) Thanks and grats all

Pd: how to made 1 stop?
easy, gearing at 6500rpm, long gears and smooth driving (and go a the sand in the first corner xDD)
seriously, maybe the F575 is more fuel saver? I have to check it

I was in the mood for something a little different, so I skipped going for the Freisinger RSR and instead picked 360 GTC. I thought I had pole locked up - with a 0.002s gap to Joco - but then he improved by a few tenths.

I thought he would slowly build a gap to me in the early laps. That didn't happen, it seemed like he was slipping and locking up occasionally. I caught him and we had a major battle for almost 20 laps. Around 5 passes back and forth, including 3 within the space of one lap. Joco's passes were rather brave latebrakings, and I figured instead of closing the door firmly I should take it easy so I gave enough room. When I passed him for the 3rd time, I got enough of a gap and then started edging away.

After my stop there weren't any major problems, I was just enjoying the track and pushing all the way. Sorry to Vladimir for the hit late in the race. I wasn't sure if you intended to let me past, and then my brakes just locked up...

Congrats to Pablo for the GT victory.

Seems like the whole server crashed. I was smashing my head to the steering wheel as I thought it was only me who disconnected. After that I refreshed the server list and saw there was 0 ppl on the server.

However, perfect race for me after the worse qualifying. My engine blew up and I got only one time-lap which was full of mistakes. Luckily that was enough for 3rd place. Congrats all the finishers and thanks for chasing me, Klock.

Tough race. First victory with the big boys.
Great battle with Claus and Pablo at the beginning. After the pit it was so close with Claus, he got 9 seconds better than me at pits. I put a little too much fuel, had about 10L left.
The car was flawless.
Too bad I won't be able to race in the 550 anymore.
I'll try to do the best with the others too.

I'm not sure what happened during qual. I figured slicks were the proper choice and went out with them. I did two nice laps, and then I found out I was almost two seconds ahead of p2. o_O

In the start I got a useful gap to George. I just did my laps while saving a bit of fuel. After my stop Pete was starting to put pressure on me, and he and my other teammate Johan seemed even faster than me. With 11 laps to go I realized the race would be 35 laps, not 36, so stint 2 wouldn't need much of fuel saving. Therefore all fuel economy went out of the window.

With a few laps to go Pete had caught up with me, and my team boss was screaming on the team radio:"Let Pete pass for the championship, let Pete pass." It was something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlPrj9a88ME Unfortunately my radio wasn't working... at all. I have no idea why it malfunctioned.

Nevertheless, I withstood his pressure and maintained my lead to the flag. Congrats to George for a nice controlled NGT win among G2 cars.

Yeah ... Ari described that very well. A controlled win between the G2's. Never expected to be 2nd on the grid but that put a nice buffer of two G2's between me and Claudiu, Milan and David. The first stint I drove flat out and saw my lead to them increase every lap. After the stop I took it more easy letting Pete, Johan and Tom pass and just watched my lead to Milan to stay safe. That all worked out pretty well so ofcourse I'm happy with the result. Grats to the guys from OTH for a dominating race in G2.

Wasn't too sure about racing this event. Came home from a grueling day at work 30 min before the race with no practice. Fortunately, I recently ran this same track with these same cars just two weeks ago so I had a decent setup waiting for me to use. Made a few changes to the dampers and strategy and was ready to go...

The car was very comfortable and fast but I wasn't able to grab the pole. AJ and Jordan ran excellent laps and I knew I had to have a hell of a car to be able to win this one.

The start was hectic. We were bunched up on the starting line so I had to maneuver quickly after the green lit up. In turn 1, AJ ran wide and went up on the curbs which sent him back. I chased Jordan for a lap until he spun in T2. From there, all I wanted to do was just keep the car under me and not commit any stupid mistakes. Traffic was very numerous but courteous so I was quite thankful for that. Nice solid race and it appeared to have some good racing through the field as well.

Justin, no probs, man. I was in no rush so I just waited till I had an opening. I had planned on getting ya down into T3 before sector 2, but I caught a little bit of the curb in T1 and lost some ground to ya. No issues at all...

Maciej was so much faster in quali and so was his racepace. I was running about 8 secs behind him when suddenly I saw him frozen on track which handed me 1st. Half a lap later he was 7 secs behind me so it seemed he got things going again after that huge lag. A lucky win for me ... but still a win. Great racing there Maciej and good to see your misfortune didn't turn into a DNF.