ACC ACC Season 2 Monday's rnd 9 Nurburgring 60m Sprint Cup

Really hope they fix the lobby soon, not a lot possitive about it and it seems it was down lots this week too, bad luck mate and see you next round.

My race was fairly uneventful, qualy had traffic on my first go. Then had a clear run on the last lap and gave up 5 tenths through the chicane. Race I didnt have a great start just held position then followed the terry train for the rull distance.

Also one to forget for me! For some reason I just went to pieces, couldn’t clear my head of life stuff blah blah and just never got my concentration together. Enjoyed the last two laps! Hahaha...

Thanks that was fun. I made contact twice sadly, with whom forgot, I think different cars. Meant to keep the replay but only 30 minutes are there for some reason. Anyways, if it was you, sorry for the contact into T1 and the contact after spinning when I was being lapped. Mea culpa. Both were due to lack of skill on my part.

I wasn't able to do any laps in this track until race day so I knew I wouldn't have any chance in this one. I was hoping for a top 10 and that's what I received.

You guys at the top had phenomenal speed, even with more practise I don't think I could have got close. Plus I really don't think the Mercedes, or any front engined car really, suit that track with all its tighter corners. Hopefully Paul Ricard next week will be more suited

Felt confident going into this one as I had managed to finally get this BMW to handle how I wanted it in all sectors and thought I could get up in AM class and mix it with some of the silver boys but unfortunately on two separate occasions I basically ran out of Talent that cost me and others so I apologies to those drivers I had incidents with....

I had an alright race which is nice coming off the back of 2 races where I didn't do too well. Although I made some quite dumb mistakes which would've cost me a few places. I had managed to gain some lost places with an undercut on a lot of people and was fighting Wally prior to the pits but I when I saw his spin in the pits I did kind of laugh, sorry about that wally. The second half of the race was mostly defending for me. There are a couple incidents I'm not happy about though. While defending against Asher, I had covered the inside line but he pushed his way into the inside line when the gap wasn't there (can sorta be seen in the highlights at about 8:46, though the camera angle hides it well). He would've gotten past anyway, but I feel that it was unnecessary. Then I had bad luck again when lapping a car, he lost control on the marbles while trying to let me through and unfortunately that's just bad luck.

just looked at the highlights. there was enough room there although he definately forced the issue. you kind of had 2 choices. u either needed to defend harder and not leave the car width or just give up the position especially if he was going to pass you anyway. my judgement would have been well if hes going to be that aggressive its best to self preserve and just let the person go.

Something that frustrated me last night was after being spun on lap 1 and being at the back and coming through the field. how many of the guys at the back were viciously defending position against me and a few others who were top 10 qualifiers trying to get back through the pack.

I fail to understand the point of defending vs somebody who is 2+ seconds a lap faster than yourself at the beginning of the race. its inevitable they are going to pass anyway so why hold both yourself and them up and potentially cause an incident.

I remember one particular example. I came across 2 AM cars who were about 1 - 1.5 sec apart. i was catching them by about 2.5 seconds a lap. the first guy i come to recognized the difference in pace and moved aside and let me straight through and tucked in behind best he could. second car put up a huge fight defending like mad into corners etc. after a couple corners i got a run on them and despite that he still forced the issue into the braking zone and got hung out to dry. this allowed the first car i passed to also pass him. So the guy not only cost himself time but also lost a position to the guy he was battling. and made me frustrated in the process.

Yeah, I knew that must have looked pretty funny. Now imagine me swearing and laughing at the same time.

Sorry mate, I think that was me. In the Micky Mouse section at turn 3, right? Sorry about the collision.

I love reading your posts @krunch

Hi Milk,
I did have an incident later in the race at turn 4 that I wasn't proud of and came off badly for me, but not sure what the concern is on this one. I did have a run on you out of the Esses and approached probably much quicker than we both expected. You shut the door and I had to jink, then you left room and the pass was done, no contact... fair enough in my view, so what is the issue? Genuine question mate, since I actually thought it was good hard racing.

Cheers

The only crash I had this week was cause by a cpu overheating and shutting my computer down.......didn't even finish a lap. I think this season is cursed for me. Lets see what Paul Ricard throws up....

I think with the front engined cars in these tighter tracks it's pretty much a case of max the rear wing and then add rear height until you get the aero balance back to where you want it. They all have enough power to push through the extra drag I think without a huge loss to straight line speed except maybe the Bentley but its so damn fast through the high speed stuff anyway it doesn't matter too much

Thanks for that Andy, I'll try utilise that going forward

Oh so there was no contact on your end? on my end you rear ended me and forced open the inside. Guess it was just another latency thing. No hard feelings at all though