I just watched the replay of todays race, and it was like a destruction derby. What happened guys?

I did an offline test-run afternoon: narrow track, long straights with 1st gear turns on their end, concrete walls, no gravel traps.
I couldn't do 2 decent laps in a row with the Escort here. On the empty track, offline! Scary! 35 laps without error, with others on the track? Overtake someone, without body-contact? Mission impossible!
So I decided to skip this event, didn't want to ruin others race with unsafe driving.

Now I downloaded the replay: many crashes in the first lap, traffic jam-like situations, 3-4 survivors for the last lap... One guy made a mistake the others has no room to pass him, 'cause of the extra narrow track.

IMHO a TC-65 car would been a better choice for this cramped, narrow circuit: slower speeds -> more time for plan-B, when things go wrong.
The Escort is a twitchy and nerveous car, not suitable for this circuit. I think even the Cobra is a more predictable and forgiving car.

Any opinions?
What was the race like from the inside view?

Sorry about my bad English!

Adam

Yup Re it was tin hell out there, he he!
As you say a better choice would have been TC-65 cars.

Personally I love the track as it is quite exciting to drive but not with twitchy cars.

Cheers.

Gee-Deeman

I think even St. Petersburg would been safer for an Escort race: there are "parking zones" beside the turns, and more room to solve tricky situations. Or Russian Ring: very similar layout: slow and tricky turns also, but you can run off the track, and cannot bounce back to the others. Maybe more survivors could have finish the race.

Hi guys!

Adam....from my point of view...you missed something

It was really something like a demolition derby but I had the most fun ever than on any other event in the past. The track is very challenging and the Escort is sometimes a little bit tricky to handle, but to my tast more easier than the Cobra. I like this "dog bone" and wonder what happened with Cobras I liked this event because it was not so important to be fast but trying to bring the horse safe to the hutch. Very challenging and salutary for me, so I finally reached place 7 after on pit stop, two crashes with great luck because the car still worked. Many of the expert drivers dropped out. I recognized this with a little smile from the greenhorns point of view.

My best placing in an event so far with my (first) own car in a very challenging event....more than I could dream of.

Regards

Jochen

Congrats for the result Jochen!

I felt my driving is too dangerous for other racers on that track, with that car, I didn't want to cause a big pile-up at a long-distance event. It's a bad feeling to ruin someones fun even in a 5lap race.

But, watching the replay maybe I was wrong: I wouldn't been more dangerous than most other folks!

Moin zusammen (Hi together),

in that case Jochen had the idea, to establish a kind of support ("Driving-School" for beginners) here on the Bude (see here http://www.altbierbude.de/component/ option,com_fireboard/Itemid,99/func,view/id,10517/ catid,3/lang,de/ (sorry, it's in german language !)

Hope you, and all the other english spoken guys here on the "Bude", will support that idea!

I think it would create more fun during "Events", especially for "Newbies"!

If you have any further Idea regarding "Beginner-Support", send me a message, I'll contact you asap.


Thank you in advance of your support,

Holgi