Congrats to everyone who survived this and congrats to the winners.
meisterjäger
Yeah, we probably all made a couple of mistakes this evening. Coongrats to Pete for holding it all together in the second and most important race.
Steve Hayward
I'm sorry to everyone who got involved in the big crash of race 2, in the village. Due to a small mistake i ruined many peoples race. Congrats to everyone who survived this track.
Flashor
Good fun in race 1 all, particularly the late fight with @Pete Bondurant and @Tyler Van Beek.
Valentin Knechtel
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6th race of the 1991 F1 season took us to Japan, on the mythical Suzuka circuit. 18 entrants were competing for the win but it was the inevitable Jayden HW who once again took pole position. Followed by Ony and Adamike99, it was a Ligier trio that locked the front grid.
The current choice of tires was split between medium and hards, letting us think that some might think one stop could be faster.
The start went very clean while the most noticeable thing might have been Rolf Biber and Tom Zeeuw gaining several positions in the first corners while Vanderspeed and Tyler Van Beek went into unfortunate spins. As a good battle was on its way, Adamike99 lost the car in the Spoon curve, then Pitman's visor broke lose and sent him off track in the Snake. It was Florian Masse turn one lap after to hit the wall in the first corner, meaning that 3rd, 4th and 5th drivers on the grid crashed right at the beginning of the race. Potatohedron needed no more to secure his position hight on the board as he went also ahead of Linus Jonsson. At the back, Evegeny Morozov suffered a difficult start despite a good qualification at P10 and retired early, as well as Gilvil77 and Tyler Van Beek.
Approaching mid race meant that medium started to wear out and the pit stop ball gets underway. Fresh new tires allowed several drivers to climb up the leaderboard until the end that saw a dramatic outcome. A mechanical failure forced Jayden HM to pit, losing his first place to Potatohedron, who had a particularly consistent race while Adamike99 overtook Florian Masse in the last lap for the 2nd position. Race results showed also a very good race from Tom Zeeum, Doenerfan and Pete Bodurant, gaining 12, 6 and 5 positions compared to the starting grid. Best lap was claimed by Ony and his Ligier.
(Race Report written by Florian Masse)
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florian that was awesome fight at the end
Adamike
game crashed but i at least had a good fight with Tomzee
Jayden HW
Yeah I definitely had some moments, car was very nervous in the slow sections
Potatohedron
That was really cool but you were so fast ! I couldn't do nothing... Anyway I enjoyed every minute of this race. The car was good, the feeling was great and the track is so fun !
Florian Masse
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Congrats @meisterJäger to the wins! Fully deserved them!
Flashor
No problem so it was very interesting and close last lap.
meisterjäger
Considering my few practice laps, I got two unexpected results today: P3 and P4. Nice results. I am happy and will grab a beer now. Many thanks to my Mustang
pitman
Nice race, a lot of fun
gilvil
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For this 5th race of the 1991 F1 season, we move to Portugal on the picturesque circuit of Estoril.
Inevitable since we started at Interlagos, Jayden HW qualified on pole, followed on the front row by pitman. After a clean start, it’s Campbell MacDonald who launches himself the best, climbing from P18 to P14 in one lap. Lap 2, however, is more turbulent, as Florian Masse spin in Curva 3 and fall from P4 to P14, while Vanderspeed crashes at Parabolica Interior and Natan Veksler locks the brakes, making contact with Evgeny Morozov and Technoluddite at Orelha.
The first half of the race shows and incredible pace from Jayden HW, who create a comfortable 20sec gap with his follower, Nik Likar. At halftime, the pack is still grouped from 2nd to 9th place, before the pit stop routine. Indeed, the grid was divided between the choice of Hard and Medium tyres. However, the choice of Hard tyres did not seem to pay off as the race pace on these tyres collapsed earlier than expected.
Anyway, the battle went on until the finish line as Nik Likar and Adamike99 fought it out for 2nd position, while gilvil77 and Linus Jonsson chased Pete Bondurant for 5th. At the end of the race, Jayden HW, Nik Likar and Adamike99 complete the podium. Linus Jonsson takes the best lap in 1.14.8 and Tom Zeeuw makes an impressive recovery, finishing 8th, 13 position higher than his starting position.
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damn this was hardest race of this league so far at least for me
Adamike
no stop wonder > lets go
Jayden HW
I wanted to no stop but the tires just died.
SpeedingRed
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never felt that slow with the Mustang on any track…
Duderei
Amazing 2nd race with the Alfa's that was a serious battles
MackAttack
Crazy races! With a lot of nice fights.
meisterJäger
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This weekend's race was the occasion to gather on the mythical track of Spa-Francorchamps, where 23 drivers took the start under a rare enough to mention, blue sky.
Only 2 drivers started with softs, including Linus Jonsson starting on pole position, while 10 drivers were on hards and 10 on mediums. So tyre choice and pit stop strategy would play an important role during this race.
As the cars rushed down the track, a slowdown at the raidillon caused a pile-up including several cars, while Linus Jonsson and Adamike99 were already opening up a gap.
Then, 8 minutes were sufficient for Adamike99 to overtake in the Combes section and take the lead of the grand-prix, which he will not give up until the finish line. The rest of the race showed that the choice of tyres was crucial, as softs and mediums quickly overheated on this challenging layout, forcing some drivers to pit earlier than expected. 6 drivers suffered from the difficulty of the track and had to retire before the end of the race.
On the finish line, the podium was shared between Adamike99, Linus Jonsson and Pitman while the best lap record went to Linus Jonsson. Also worth mentioning are the performances of Steve Hayward and Tom Zeeuw, both gaining 13 places to finish 9th and 10th, as well as Technoluddite, who climbed 7 places to enter the top 5.
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I noticed the 2 stop was good in this race, but it failed me because I started on the softs
Linus Jonsson
Totaled the car in the fast left before the bus stop. Complete disaster of a race
Florian Masse
I can’t believe I managed to salvage 6th afer literally being airborne after raidillon
Potatohedron
What a race. Pretty exhausting. […] My first podium since a longer time! Feels good
pitman
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very brave move meisterjager, taking the inside line into T1, you held it well on the grass after going wide at the exit
franglais
Sorry lucent, I did not expect you to slow down that significantly and had no chance to avoid contact imo.
Müesli
@Anthony3146 Was that you in the Fairline? Great fight to the finish on race 1 !
MackAttack
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Unlucky at the start because damage costing me like a second per lap, but hey I got a podium at the end.
Linus Jonsson
Damn what a nice race !
Flow
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Damn, i made my second race messy. You start over driving that heavy Mustang and you pay for it.
Steve Hayward
In the meantime it was a super tough but super fun race!
Anthony3146
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Damn it I hope during the next races I found out how to drive this thing with full tank fast
meisterJäger
good race while it lasted, my engine got rly bad damage and i went to repair it (mistake). thanks anyways guys!
Arthur
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