Hi,

congratulations to all of you who finished the ETCC '72 Silverstone event yesterday. And thanks for everyone for extremely fair driving.

It was so fun to drive the Corvette there and it was quite competent too.

I was able to catch P4 in qualification and my start was well enough to take me to lead for 4 laps. Then Sebastian Schramm got his BMW's tyres warm and I could nothing but surrender.

Then lonely driving till I had some fun with Howie Hartgas and his BMW before my first scheduled pit stop. Unfortunately Howie was a bit too eager to pass me, touched the back of my Corvette and made me spin just before I was to head to pit-in. But no hard feelings Howie, that can happen...

Had later fun with B8man and his Capri - even swapped positions and the very next curve vise versa and later again.

My 3 stop strategy worked well and the tyres lasted well to up to 2nd stop. Every time I dropped somewhere near 10th during my pit stop but after some laps I climbed back to top-3.

Did no errors and everything went well up till lap 58. I was in the middle of the main straight when my computer suddenly freezed, sound looped and that lasted for some 10-15 seconds. Then I got out of that state to continued my way but I was dropped into some psychedelic world. All the colors of track and surroundings were twisted. The track looked either white or black-white striped and those segments were wider than the track itself. After half a lap I could nothing but retire - I just couldn't drive "blind".

It was so bitter to retire from position 4 after 1:40 h but that's life, some things just are out of your control...

This same has happened to me once before. That was in Alfa-Cup at Misano but then I could drive through those couple of laps left in that twisted surroundings.

Yesterday I tried to study the reason for that and I noticed that despite I had checked "Suspend automatic updates" with my anti-virus/firewall software it still had downloaded some individual update to the virus database at that very moment. I couldn't find any proper explanation what that "Suspend automatic updates" should actually prevent, but I think next time I'll stop that service that takes care for updates to be sure that "lightning" does strike me third time.

See you at next event!

Cheers,
Timo

...the miracle says one day the Corvettes will win a race in ETCCs series. Maybe in Le Mans? I hope so, you guys have to do real work and yes we had some funny curves Timo.

A BIG SORRY to Thunder. I touched his "back" in the first round?! and he has to battle through the field.

...and thanks to the CSL Team for the first Capri victory


Cheers

B8man

B8man wrote:
...the miracle says one day the Corvettes will win a race in ETCCs series. Maybe in Le Mans?
Le Mans? I thought the 2 "unused" flags in ETCC'72 series poster were to tell us that there still are races left in Austria and Spain. Or was that already a promise of another season!?

To simulate the real ETCC'72 season (Click) in Spain the track should be Jarama but since we are lacking Salzburgring in Austria (Actually the 2nd race of that season which we have skipped so far) I though perhaps we were to drive Österreichring 1970 instead.

Cheers,
Timo

Right Timo, we're going to visit Spain (Jerez88) and Austria(Österreichring79). LeMans will be the Bonusrace in addition to the 24H Race 1972 were most of the ETCC cars took part.

Cheers

B8man

Für mich war das Rennen leider schon zu Ende bevors angefangen hat...
Der Countdown fing gerade an als das Bild schwarz wurde und nix mehr ging. Dabei hatte ich mich so auf das Rennen gefreut. Und die Trainingszeiten liesen auf ein spannendes Rennen hoffen.
Hab das Problem zurzeit öfter, dass das Bild hängen bleibt, keine Ahnung woran das liegen könnte.
Ich hoffe am Sonntag läufts besser.

Bis dahin.

Gruß Michael

Jop, war ein Klasse Rennen mit vielen fairen Zweikämpfen.
Eigentlich liefs bei mir auch recht zufriedenstellend, zumindest bis zur Runde 68. Da meinte mein Rechenknecht dann es wär genug für heut, wiiiesoooo nur??

Jep, it was a funny race with lots of fair competion.
My race was pretty satisfying too, up until lap 68. There my PC thought it was enough racing for today and froze, oh whhhhyyy??

B8man schrieb:

...and thanks to the CSL Team for the first Capri victory


Cheers

B8man

nana B8man, ich denke da kannst du mal in erster Linie dem Eventplaner danken, der die Rundenzahl so festgelegt hat, daß die Capri nur zweimal tanken mussten, während die CSL dreimal reinkommen mussten. Ach das warst du selber? Ein Schelm wer Böses dabei denkt Nix für ungut, man muß ja auch gönnen können, ne?

Timo, really a big Sorry for that incident. In fact I intended an overtake attempt at that point, but did not expect you to turn into the pits. But as you said, things like that can happen. Nice speed with the corvette by the way, also by Thunder.

Great racing all of you!

War echt frustrierend gestern.
Am Start kam Käse nicht weg, vermute Verbindung unterbrochen. In Runde 2 dann von B8man gedreht. Dann folgten 42 Überholvorgänge ohne Probleme bis MRopi quer über die Strecke wenden musste. Über PM geklärt.
Hätte ne Menge Punkte für die Vettes geben können. Das wurde aber verhindert, leider.
Im Moment bin ich noch so gefrustet, dass ich nicht mal weiss, ob ich die nächsten Rennen noch fahre.
Mal sehen.
Sollte das ganze wiederholt werden, im nächsten Jahr, fahr ich ein anderes Auto. Obwohl die Corvette inzwischen Spaß macht. Aber in der Regel muß man ja einmal mehr an die Box und wenn dann noch was passiert ist man ohne Chance.
Allerdings tun mir die 914 Fahrer noch mehr leid, dsa geht ja kaum was.

Jedenfalls wäre in Silverstone nur etwas von Vorne gegangen mit der Vette.
Wie Timo ne 3 Stopp Strategie hinkriegen wollte weiß ich auch nicht. Meine kam nur 16-17R weit.
Macht Stopps in Runde 16,32,48,64. Will aber nichts unterstellen.

Gruß Thunder

Howie_Hartgas schrieb:

nana B8man, ich denke da kannst du mal in erster Linie dem Eventplaner danken, der die Rundenzahl so festgelegt hat, daß die Capri nur zweimal tanken mussten, während die CSL dreimal reinkommen mussten. Ach das warst du selber? Ein Schelm wer Böses dabei denkt Nix für ungut, man muß ja auch gönnen können, ne?

Incidence with car #21 under investigation

Rennleitung schrieb:

Incidence with car #21 under investigation

LOL
Jetzt wirds ernst!

Liebe Rennleitung (?),
lass ma stecken.

Hi,

tjl wrote:
To simulate the real ETCC'72 season (Click) in Spain the track should be Jarama but since we are lacking Salzburgring in Austria (Actually the 2nd race of that season which we have skipped so far) I though perhaps we were to drive Österreichring 1970 instead.B8man wrote:
Right Timo, we're going to visit Spain (Jerez88) and Austria(Österreichring79).
Is there some technical reason why Jerez '88 has now changed to Valencia National? Or why don't we drive Jarama '79 that would be closest to real?

I'll drive what's told but just wondering...

Cheers,
Timo

hi Timo,

in case of the Spanish round you'll appreciate the change. Jerez is quite hard to drive with your heavy metal ride

I change the track due to hard FPS Probs in Jarama and a general prob with possible rounds in Jerez.

cheers

B8man

P.S. Take a look on the website tonight, next race after the Spanish round comes soon