Mr Tippet, if you have the time and dedication to write a full race report with similar passion, to be shown on the RSR homepage, PM me and we'll talk

great idea. It would be great to have a report for each race in the homepage. Maybe even with some nice videos to show, just like the one we saw lately.

First words come to Andrea who was magnificent yesterday in race organizing and people support (I wish to have same boss at my job). That was my second official race as team member of Vermin Racing Team that made me feel more nervous and be more responsible for the result I have to achieve . Qualification was amazing. Few people were within 0.1-0.2 second and a little better lap can move you 2 or 3 positions up. I literally feel like this is a real F1 quali. All the way I was close to my teammate Richard and we changed in order during the whole session. I did set my best time at A1 but unfortunately it didn’t come to official Rank since servers weren’t connected to that service.

Start of the race was pretty good. Not sure why but I often have a pretty good acceleration during start procedure and run even better that some famous aliens here. I did overtake car or two and was faster than cars ahead but decided to avoid risk and pass first corner safely. Richard, Davide Z, Marco W were behind when we arrived next very slow right corner. Davide Z made aggressive overtake attack there, his car color has some similarity to Vermin so I thought initially that it was Richard. So few laps after we run pretty same speed with Davide. Don’t remember exactly what happens next (race was full of events) but Davide Z and Marco W were again behind me and Marco was fighting to overtake Davide. According to Rank Marco should be 1-1.5 seconds faster than Davide and I was impressed that he stuck behind him for so long time. Ahead me in 4-5 sec gap run Peirs S. I think I was losing about .2 -.4 sec each lap comparing to his race pace but that was amazing for me since in my Netkar carrier I never run so close for long time to famous drivers

Around lap 8 or 10 I made silly mistake at last corner due to some oversteer. Davide and Marco passed me and I got just in front of Richard. We run pretty close for 4-5 laps, some sectors I was faster, other sector – he. My strategy was wrong as I decided do 2 stops. Never know without good experience what is the better 1 or 2. After stop I moved to last place, not good but not a tragedy as well (as I was satisfied with battle I was able to participate in first laps). I tried to push on new tires thinking that I can overtake Richard when he make his own stop. Surprisingly his race pace on old tires wasn’t that bad. He runs around 1.15-1.16 same as me on new tires. When he made his own stop he returned just 1-2 sec ahead me. Wow – that was like real F1 again for me as it looked similar to pit-stops strategies when cars before/after pit stops and long runs come close again. Few laps after I made one more small mistake and lost 3-4 sec. Then Richard had his own problems and got behind me.

Next amazing thing was last 3-4 laps. Davide Z had some problems at final part of the race so that he was running behind me before the end of the race. His speed was better than mine and he getting closer and closer to me. On main start-finish straight he attempted to overtake me in first right corner. He runs a bit wide and then pushes throttle too much so that car was oversteered and he lost position. I finished 9th what pretty reflected my overall speed. Great race, great feelings, great community so looking forward for next season!

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Slava - Great race report! I added it to the Vermin Racing website too, Looking forward to having you as a team mate next year aswell! Hopefully we can build from this year and be a stronger team next year.

Tip

a thought I have about the low FPS: Probably using a wide FOV (range of view out of cockpit, I use 60 FOV) needs a higher performance of the PC too
as if you just would use 45 FOV for example, but of course I doubt -if I had tired a lower FOV- that this would have saved me from the big freeze.

@Tippet: great -again such nice high quality-report- ! You seem to be very talented in spontaneous writing and very quick , it always appears as quick as like you've finished the report in 5 mins just
directly after the race/chat, incredible.

Thanks I try and write them up quickly, whilst I can remember the action on track and so people are still excited to read them.

I use a high FOV too, so in future might try lowering it if I get the slow down as bad as I did at Autumn Ring. Great tip!

Tip

Pobb R Tippet wrote:Thanks I try and write them up quickly, whilst I can remember the action on track and so people are still excited to read them.

I use a high FOV too, so in future might try lowering it if I get the slow down as bad as I did at Autumn Ring. Great tip!

Tip

note:
upps, just saw I did a little error and posted my latest posting in the 'wong' topic, it should land in the Autumn ring topic of the other series, which it was all orginally related to -and where the biggest problems
at FPS were-, but ok.. .