Fail.

E: Wow I didn't even speed in the pitlane I think, LFS failing. http://i.gyazo.com/91045e0f04beee16a24f546ff1d27cff.png http://i.gyazo.com/5693c3a664628568c1c9966409bf8928.png

and for the record this is what it is meant to do, done in a mpr btw http://i.gyazo.com/ddd7fd67926d4602efb5818a45ea7183.png

Oh well not like it's possible to remove an in race penalty post race I guess :/

Last edited by IsaacPrice, Sun, 7 Sep 2014 20:49.

Looks terrible IMO. It looked much better before to be honest, maybe it just takes some getting used to.

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Quote from CodeLyoko1 :

I'd rather have to rely on skill than on luck. Also you might have noticed on other races (like GTWS), patience isn't something I have :P.

But wrapping up LFSCART for me. I could keep trying racing road courses with FO8 and simply keep causing wrecks, but I'll just have to accept it that I'm not a good FO8 driver. I hope that for the kilimonjaro challange there will be another prac session or something (or I'll just get a slow kungsbury in front of me, also helps training wreck avoidance) and see if I can drive that decently. I can keep trying to blaim the car or other drivers for my results, but I need to stop with that. I'll have to realize that I'm just not a good enough FO8 racer.

Patience is a skill too, a very important 1 .

And well with the driving standards, tyres are very heat sensitive so keeping temperature at safety car speed is just as important as when racing and much more difficult. Some things can be avoided yeah and that's what the protest thread and admin teams are there for but with ridiculously high wind, a unforgiving track like FE3 and safety cars that always make the car very slippery to drive on the first few laps of a restart are a guarantee of accidents no matter how good the drivers are.

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Well, for me I think it's the problem that the aero wash is so massive that its almost impossaible to evertake. That makes qual extremely important. But I'm not a good qualifier, so will get stuck behind slower cars. So, I think the fo8 is just not for me

Q isn't that important, being patient is. Especially with that high wind it's very difficult to be on limit so you just have to wait for the car in front to make the mistake. Oh and pro tip, don't then crash with 2 laps to go after being patient for the entire green flag run up until that point.

At least there is no wind :banana_ra

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Regarding the official Round 1 results - I think someone's copied the KY500 results by accident for the "gaps" column. I mean I know I'm slow, but I'm not 7 laps down slow.

The nations cup is also a bit messed up

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I will have to remember the chance of a SC is now twice as high when deciding strategy. And no, don't complain I am being somehow racist - most people would say it's more than twice as high

Would people question Rosbergs racing brain? Yes I think so. He lost a piece of his front wing and would have lost valuable points to Hamilton. Obviously it wouldn't have been as big a drama fest as it has been though.

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Not good enough. I'm disappointed. 0/5 must try harder

No, when you go off the track you have to rejoin SAFELY, not just at the earliest opportunity. Once he was off the track, he had to rejoin safely - not at the earliest possible opportunity and continue to attempt to overtake Hamilton. I see your point but it isn't the same as Spa 2014.

And that makes it okay to t-bone the other car into the wall?

Hamilton could and with hindsight should have done something differently considering the situation of that race even if it was at the end of the day Maldonado's fault they crashed. The weakness you are showing is knowing when he is beat, not knowing when to give up and when to take the safe points rather than risking everything for a few extra points.

I don't really see it as Hamilton who took the risk at Spa, and considering that I don't even like the guy and am usually against him, and haven't even watched any post race stuff to be "brain washed" by I think you have to have some serious bias to see it differently. But that's just my opinion and we'll have to agree to disagree I suppose

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Hamilton and Maldonado Valencia 2012. I know this clip isn't a direct comparison to the incident on the weekend (because in this clip Maldonado is in a much better position), but it's worth posting anyway, as an example of Hamilton's inability to handle certain situations.

Yes but that incident is also probably Maldonado's fault, he tried to rejoin the track and bottomed out and drove into the side of Lewis... The only thing Lewis did wrong was not accept the fact he was probably going to get overtaken anyway because his tyres were dead, and took a risk that wasn't worth taking.

But let's compare to that. Lewis left more space in the exit of the first part of the corner at Spa, had much better tyres - in Valencia 2012 his tyres were shot, they weren't in Spa. Oh and Maldonado was a lot further alongside than Rosberg, Rosberg opened the steering as a natural reaction seeing he had lost the corner, then thought about it and didn't want to just give way.

It's a general problem with being on forums discussing F1, people defend their favourite driver, or attack drivers they don't particularly like and just keep twisting the truth in an attempt to fit what they want to see but in this case it was Rosbergs fault, no blame at Hamilton's door IMO. Racing incident? Probably. But when it is your team mate who you are fighting with for the championship, and cost the team the win with both drivers and it's 100% your fault then yeah that is a big deal.

I'm not even a Hamilton fan, in fact I dislike the guy. I think he's a massive tool to be honest. In certain instances I have been defending Rosberg here this season, and saying Hamilton was taking advantage of the fact he is his team mate and forcing him into a position he had to back off. But that wasn't close to what happened here, Hamilton covered the inside and drove normally, Rosberg forced himself into putting a mm of his front wing alongside Hamilton on lap 2 of a race. Rosberg will end up regretting that because there is still a long way to go in the championship and if you start to lose some team support now, that is arguably a bigger factor than the 18 points.

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To be honest, there have been too many of these types of incident in Lewis career. His mentality is to leave it up to the other driver to avoid the crash, and in this instance Nico decided... "you know what, I've done this in Bahrain and Hungary, I'm just going to stand up to him" and we see the result.

I'm actually glad, and find it quite funny that the British Media is running stories about the FIA punishing Nico, it just shows how pathetic the media is in this country.

The media is pathetic in this country, and it's quite difficult to listen to if you don't support a British driver. But I still don't really see the side of it where Lewis didn't leave him space, this time the move Rosberg was trying was never on in a million years and it was just clumsy to leave his front wing there like that. It was luck that it ruined Hamilton's race and only slightly compromised his.

I get the feeling Merc feel it was fueled by the Hungary affair and that is why they are so angry about it, though. The incident itself - while being Rosbergs fault was just a racing incident and there is no way it will get penalised and I found it quite odd how harsh Merc were on him. I expected a wishy washy statement and "we will discuss it internally", clearly there is more to it behind the scenes than we have seen.

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Teemu I hate to break it to you - but your man crush is unavailable mate and you'll never have him.

Kimi was 21, Verstappen will be 17. Although in experience they are fairly similar, it's not really the same thing. As a person you mature a lot in that time and also the standard expected from rookies is a lot higher than it was 10 years ago - even though there is less track time.

I'm not questioning how good he is, but it is 1 thing to be super fast and be able to drive an F1 car as good as anybody at a young age, it's something else to be able to handle the crap that goes on in the midfield as if he makes some unforced errors, the media will be on his back straight away and make his life difficult.

If he gets a good start, I'm sure he will be just fine. It's just how he will handle adversity if things don't go great straight away that I'm worried about. There will be added pressure too because Kvyat is also highly rated and I imagine the reason they have rushed him through is due to a feeling that there could be a Red Bull seat available in a year or 2. I hope he does great, with Alonso and Kimi approaching the end of their careers there will be a superstar void to fill. I just hope they don't all stick with Red Bull, I don't want to support them. Ever.

Anyway...

My race wasn't particularly interesting.

Q went okay, I probably should have run a .2 with my best split to sector 2 but I braked a bit too late for the chicane and ruined it. Luckily few other guys didn't get it right and Mikko did an awesome job to get the pole.

My start was decent, I knew that Mikko hadn't raced properly for a long time so would be a bit cautious and sure enough I passed him at the end of lap 1 and didn't really look back from there. I wasn't sure if I should take new tyres or not at the pitstop under caution because I have a lot of bad experiences on cold worn tyres with the FO8 and if there was another safety car I wouldn't have much of a gap to pit and change tyres.

Anyway it worked out great for me and the other drivers who could have kept it close had their own problems this time. Fern Bay with wind should be pretty exciting.

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