Round 5: Dubai National

[Attila Domján]

Pre-qualy started, server is open, discuss the happenings here

[Gregory Degreef]

i wait a new link for DL the RDVC skin pack...
new pc= all loosing... :/
my fault.... i know....

Edit: its ok, i have find the pack... cya on track...

[Christopher Aponte]

where is the rest of FO team?...will they quali still 2night?.....
only 24 drivers did pre-quali...

[Rickard Norgren]

It is only Ian who not have done a lap in prequal, Thats becouse he must work, so no racing at Dubai for him :-(

[James Johnson]

doing mine now

[Christopher Aponte]

oh man that sucks...

[Yoeri Gijsen]

I will join this time. I got home from Brno in time and have done a couple of laps. I love this track with this car.

See you in G1

[Roy Carless]

Originally Posted by Christopher Aponte

oh man that sucks...

Yep he was not happy when he found out

[Christopher Aponte]

Time now for what you guys are expecting ;)

[Roy Carless]

It's all down to grid position coz it's a tight old track :bike:

[Simon Trendell]

I'll be the one staying on track trying to get positions from those falling off. Could be a few I think.

[James Johnson]

just doing a time to get in so the pre qually time isnt my best

[Patrick Speleman]

Lost connection in the warmup session.
Could not connect annymore :-(

[Toni Talvitie]

stupid pitcrew wouldnt do anything for my car. dunno if i can be arsed to drive this
shit anymore.

[Gregory Degreef]

I am really angry at me! I had to make 3 stops , first I am do wrong tire and forget to change rear wheels, the second I forget yet to change rear wheels, then a 3 stops instead of only 1 ... : (
i want to say big SORRY for trouble in the middle of the race, my screen was bloked.
i dont know from where this coming.sry to all tath i have "disturb"...

[Robert Schon]

Hello boys
I am excited. My first long race. I am satisfied but I saw "end flag". Thanks Hansi on behalf of help.

[Gary Lennon]

Qual: 8th Finish: 7th

Glad to be back on a dry track,kept with those ahead in the very early stages,but eventually got dropped off and had a nice battle with a couple of guys closing in on me,pace dropped off a bit early for my liking on a no stop strategy with hard tyres all round,the latter stages were just staying on the track and losing places,i was glad when it was over and the tyres made it to the end.

Grats to podium guys and as always thanks to the RD organisers .

[Danny Pattiwael]

I had a decent qualify. 11th while my teammate Mark made it to twelfth.
Start was ok, and I could keep up but was soon overtaken by a few people, including Mark. I saw him battling in front of me, and suddenly saw him off the track, think he was nudged off. I suddenly noticed people doing pitstop and slowly but surely gained some positions. I even got 2nd with a gap of about 18 seconds to first. Eventually was overtaken again, so went 3rd, but the guy who just overtook me suddenly had left a nice smoketrail behind him, so I was guessing, not to try to re-overtake him, and just waited for him to get real slow, and get passed easily. Suddenly I saw a black smoketrail. In my rearview mirror this time...Dammnit 17 minutes before end, on 3rd position again....engine overheated. I talked to Ramon about the HUD on screen. I seem to have set off my engine health meter, so I didn't get any notice of the fact that my engine was goin to blow soon.
Anybody got an idea, where in the game to switch on that vital piece of information???

I enjoyed the race, especially the battle between Ramon and Yoeri...very exciting :-)
See you next race, and for those who didn't know yet, it going to be a night race
Think I'm gonna need a co-driver to assist me :rally_drive:

Cheers !

[James Johnson]

i had my radiator on 3 and i blew up with 14 mins to go the track got hot i too didnt get a warning

[Tom Ilsbroux]

Originally Posted by James Johnson

i had my radiator on 3 and i blew up with 14 mins to go the track got hot i too didnt get a warning

Impos to overheat it on Radiator 3, i had mine on 1 and the temp never got into the RED. Next time be carefull on downshifting

[Rickard Norgren]

Congratulations to the win Roy, You had an awesome pace on your only set of tyres, Very impressing


I had an very bad qualify, could just not get a decent lap done.
So 14th on the grid was it,
After start had gone, was it only one thing to do, try be aggresive and overtake as many as possible, easier to say, then do it for real, It is an hard track to find good overtakings, so I had some very good battles at the beginning stages,
Then I got stuck behind Gary, Could just not find a way to pass him,(good drive there Gary) So i went into pit and changed tyres.
Seems I gained a lot with an early tyre stop, Could pass Gary easy when I catched him upat the ending stages, Some guys blew there engines and suddenly was I 2nd.
Much better then I expected,
My radiator was at 1. Revs at maximum, lost 2% of engine during the race, so no problems with overheating

[Patrick Speleman]

I’m very disappointed that I couldn’t start the race.
At the moment that server switched to next session from the warm-up I lost connection.
I qualified on the 11 place and that’s not bad for me.
I did about 800 practice laps for this race.
Somebody told me that I had lag before that my car freezes.
Also I experienced that the server was synchronizing from time to time.
What can I do to prevent this happening.

[Ramon van Rijn]

WOW! What a race. The fighting I had all race is worthy for a good video

Started 4th on the grid, a bit surprised; but also not. Did my pre-qual with only 3 hotlaps. The rest was outlaps and race setup testing.

For some reason I cannot push the car to the limit in the first 2 laps (cold tires/brakes) and others can, or they take too much risk lol.

The beginning of the race was a long fight for defending the position. I think I dropped back to 7th place when I finally was in a good rhythm. The guys in front of me pitted and I was hoping to do a non-stop race on medium tires.

At one point everyone in front of me pitted/crashed/blowup/etc; I was leading and Roy was closing in fast. His setup was much better from the last corner till T1-T4. Then my setup was good enough to increase some tenths again.
After making a mistake in the last turn it was an easy pass in the end for Roy. Some laps later I received a tire worn message for my left front tire. Had to do a pitstop to avoid a plat tire. The fighting in the beginning was probably too much for my tires.
Only changed tires (to soft) and was back on track in a disappointing 9th position.

But at that moment 2-3 seconds each lap faster. The guys in front were no match against my new born tires. Could reasonably climb the ladder again up to 4th position. Around 10 mins before end, we had a very nice and fair touringcar style battle till finish. I think I was still a second faster but Youri defended his position good enough to stay in front.
Had a few possibilities to pass, but I did not want to force him on the grass directly after therefor he could fight back. I like it to be fair ;)
In the double chicane or how its called, he was at a time struggling for grip and lost his speed completely. Could not avoid him and tapped him around.
Of course waited for him to recover and we continued the fight till the finish.

Great battle Yoeri, it was a pleassure to be part of it. Finished 4th, better then expected.

Lost muchos engine health btw due to the big fights. Then you have to rev it very high at some points which will damage the engine a bit. Started with 97% and ended with 85%. Radiator on 1; but still on qualify max revs

Thanks everyone for racing; enjoyed it!

[Neil Gault]

Congrats to all who finished, and well done the top 3 guys. :party0018:
Myself i had an OK start, i started with hard front tyres so was very happy to be able to hang on to the pack in front of me while opening a gap to those behind right up to around lap 20odd then i lost concentration and made some small mistakes :sign0007:.
I knew i needed to save my tyres so did not push too hard and just tried to keep a steady lap time but i still managed to get 2 tyre warnings before the race finished and i think my front left was up around 45 when i crossed the line.
I also had my rad at 1 and i think i only lost 2% and i know one of them was when i was half asleep and changed down one gear too much :sign0161:but going by the way some of u guys downshift i ain't surprised to see some engines blow, just as well we are not using time scaled damage as there would be some short stints with it switched on :dd:
As this track is so hard to pass on i had hoped to help my team mate more by fighting for position better and holding up those trying to case him down but by that time i had no tyres left to fight with and was easy meat for anyone that wanted to pass.

So i enjoyed the race fine apart from my last lap on the second last corner when i got thumped from behind and spun by someone who being 3 laps down his race had finished so i have no idea wtf he was trying to do.:censored2:

[Tom Ilsbroux]

FO 1/2 Nice race again guys, top drive Roy, Rickard Damn nice one, :alla::alla::alla::alla::alla::alla: lets keep up the good work:party0012:. Very proud.
My race started very nice, Qual 2nd, was affraid some time i would have pole . Don't like to start in pole as then you have the whole pack pushing and i had no idea how fast i was in race conditions.
I had to do some last minute changes to my setup as i wasn't confident enough with it. And it worked great, could put pressure on james and was able to pass him, wow not easy as i had a fairly high wing. About half distance i could pull up a gap to 2nd but wen tyers where worn i was strugling abit so i desided to pit.
And then it went wrong, still pissed about it, as usual i enter the pitboard without reading and then noticed my car tank was beeing filled to 100L. Screamed to my pitcrew but they didn't want to stop stuppid assholls . This kinda meant i could wave a vistory goodbye, lost 25sec just by the fueling itself and then was loosing time each lap as my car was to heavy. Tried to defend as long as i could but no use car was to slow in full tank and my tyres where scredded defending.
Still got 6th place. Damn it would have been nice a 1/2/3 . Still gutted loosing in a stupid way like this, rather crash out then loosing in the pits.