Euro FT: Birmingham

Car was pretty decent most of the race, and raced with Kent for 4th for most of it. A taller 3rd gear would've been nice but congrats to Davey & the podium and, if our calculations are right, to my car owner Scott for winning the team championship. :)

Apologies for the no-show - had a "OWchallenge06.rfm mis-match". I have version 1255F retail. By the time I found the "use the 1150 rfm" solution it was too late.

A fairly tense battle during practice between 3 drivers. It turned into a bit of a mind game with a few of us doing qualifying laps. Come qualifying I was a bit surprised to have pole position. I screwed up my fast lap, could have at least had another 4 tenths up but made a few mistakes. I never managed to improve because of a mixture of traffic and lack of time.

The race was a mixure of joy and hell. Pulling away at the front, managed to get out to a 4.5 second lead. Very healthy and very nice. Rory got up to 2nd and was closing on me very slowly, but I had it under control. Then came the traffic and it was HELL. Several cars had spins and accidents in front of me, and once I even had to plough through a debris field of wings and suspension parts. When cars weren't having accidents in front of me they were generally parked on the apex are horribly slow speeds. My 4 second gap quickly went down to 1 second but luckily the traffic thinned and the laps ran out and I held it. It's probably not good for a race winner to be complaining, but man that traffic was bad.

My second win in Race2Play and my first win for Team Shark. I've only done 9 races so don't appear in the ranks yet, but it's currently at 8.165 before this race, so looking forward to a good rank battle.

Congrads to the rest of the podium, you made it difficult. :)

Congrats to the podium.

In offline practise I made 1:04's but my scenic fear made me qualify with a high 1:05. I really gotta develop a positive thinking when racing online instead of thinking I'm gonna crash if I push too hard...

About the race, in spite of an incident that made me loose my splitter in the middle of the race, I managed to climb up two spots. I think this time I let all the fast drivers overlap me easily, sorry if I unwillingly blocked someone.

Regards

This was more like a destruction derby for some drivers...
Congratz to the top 3 and cya next time.

Basically very pleased with 4th. Not much of a rF fan and my open wheel races usually go a lot worse than this. I guess since it is trainers the slower cars allow me to be more competitive. Still I was quite a ways off the leaders pace.

Qual was horrible, didn't even get into the 1:01's but for some reason was good enough for 4th.

Got a great start but it was all useless since Rory ahead of me was still when I approached, my guess is he couldn't see the start lights. Anyway I had to back off and pick my way through T1-2. I could see Sandeep behind me and was very close to Rory and Milan battling ahead.

Finally Rory got by and all our paces started picking up. I never had anything for the front 3 and was able to maintain a nice gap to Sandeep.

Grats to Dave.

Difficult to get past some drivers, and someone use totally different lines and braking (earlier than me) points, thus making me loose rhytm, that it's all with these cars!
Though, some nice battles (mid race).