Division 2 Season 3

That sucks white I thought the 4 NLR drivers were gonna hold everyone up while one of us made a break for it

I can send you the replay Stu or post it here somewhere. I think you'll get protests, was pretty wild back in the pack from what I saw.

I threw it away after a few laps, had a half spin and my tyres were stuffed for another half a lap. Completely ruined my rhythm and then it was just trying to get home in one piece.
Made a couple of passes near the end and climbed up to 6th, but pretty annoyed with myself and how pathetic the PD tyre model is.

On to next week, championship looks done for me already.

That was a race that I'd rather forget. Qualified 5th?. Opening laps were mayhem. Got settled and after being dropped down to 7th, managed to claw my way back up to third. Was keeping Cob and Nat in reach and started thinking about the undercut when it happened. Ran wide out of turn 2, right rear caught the grass and looped the car. There was a gap back to 4th place but it wasn't enough for me to get the car straight again so had to wait for the entire field (bar 1) to go by. Pitted on lap 9 and put my head down for some quick laps to try and catch the pack back up. That might have worked, but I lost it in the tunnel all by myself, and then Crunch must have had an issue somewhere as he found his way to the back and we had a massive battle. (great racing) But ultimately i think it slowed both our pace. Beau dropped back to us and now that it was a 3 horse race I was going to pit and find clean air again, but the other two decided on the same thing, so I pulled back onto the track and did one more lap. It was enough to pass and gap Crunch and in a lap or two I was in a fight for position with Beau. That spot changed a lot until I was able to pull away and hunt down Motorsports. Managed to get by with a lap or 2 to go, so managed a top 10 finish, which is better than I thought I was going to get.

I'm pretty sure I redressed any issues I caused.

i got shunted off, got it recorded, check who later, will be a protest though if i feel the same way about it after looking backk

I can use my PVR to show you easily, ill have it uploaded to YT tommorow

Well I have mixed emotions after that race.....

Qualified 7th after my close to PB 1st lap dropped down the grid from poll. Get a decent start up to 6th in to turn 1 have to ease off a tad to prevent going into the rear of 5th then I get pushed onto the grass on the exit as 2 tried to push up on the inside and make it 3 wide . Just like that I drop 5 or 6 places. By lap 4 I had been pushed and prodded by everyone in the back few and was loosing a ton of time. So my original pit strategy of 13, 26 with no fuel on 1st and 50 on 2nd went out the window and pitted lap 4 just to simply get some clean air. Laps 11 through 14 come along and I get to see just were I stand with respect to the rest. I had made up 5s on the leaders who didn't appear to suffer from getting held up in traffic and I simply flew past the rest of the field. A then lonely cruise to the finish line. 18 lap stints were far from ideal as I had to run an extra 1/4 of a tank of fuel than I normally would and after 10 laps the tyres begin to noticeably wear and by 15 you've gotta go 10-15k's slower to keep her off the grass..... While I'm happy with the result, I'm still disappointed in my race. As if i had been allowed to run my original strategy I knew I had consistent 1:08.5's in me and a best of a 1:08.2 after the 1st pit instead my best lap was only a 1:08.6 with the last 5 or 6 laps of each stint in the mid 9's.

Well done Cob and Nat. Not looking forward to the sprint round as I cant simply get out of everyones way by pitting early....

Not bloody likely

Another round of push and shove..
I qualified 9th I think after an 08.8 which was a decent lap time for me. The field was so damn close!
I got a very average start and ended up a few spots ahead after some door-to-door action in the first couple of corners.
Pitted on lap 13 and 26 or 27, and both of them weren't great because my pit box was so far back in the lane, alike Crunch's spot.
Ended up finishing a decent 7th place which isn't a too bad result on my part, even though I felt I could have been about 5th if I was more consistent.
I was pushed off line a few times and off the track twice but I'm okay with that. I understand it's only racing incidents and they aren't too malicious, just need to be a little more cautious.
Congrats to Cob for the victory and props to Natman for your pace, and also CAGM for that improvised change in strategy.
Cheers guys and will see you next week for the sprint round.

@emmo46 just noticed in the tables thread you have TB with 27 points instead of 26. I'm sure you would have noticed it when updating the tables for round 2

Haha! Did anyone have an enjoyable race? Noone's posted about how fun that was yet.

Unfortunately, I'm not breaking that spell either. Race was horrid, but I really didn't think I would go so well here after just not being able to find the pace. It's a very silly track indeed.

I qualified higher than I thought I would, and the start was good, however just a few places where cornering wasn't right and I was back in the thick of the pack, something that I definitely didn't experience in the first race. I learnt where all the complaints and comments last week came from basically =) I enjoyed the pack racing a lot however. It's very different to previous seasons, and more reminiscent of what I've seen of touring car racing; passes are never clear cut, and you need to get that nose in and complete the pass over the entire turn, meaning the car behind needs to be cut off and bow down or cause a collision on exit. Never been in a race where sheer brutally was as prominent as in this one. I like it.

To that effect, after 3 laps of a brilliant battle with TB, I tried to call it quits and get either one of us to take control and lead on and have the slower car pulled along via racing line and slipstream to try to grab some additional spots. Unfortunately, we were a bit too close in terms of pace, so it didn't work well, lol.

natmanscoop, please check your lagg. It was pretty bad. You were flying through the sand traps on every single lap where I was following you at the end, and I even ran straight into you or your lagging apparition under the tunnel and got jacked off a few km/h. My race ended where your car smacked me off the road, akin to the ending of my race at Bathurst during S1 (this video has no relevance but to show the instance I'm talking about: ).

Anyway, like I said a few races back, I don't get angry when I can't put in a flawless performance myself, and I spun by myself later on in the race, so it's all good.

Thank goodness that track's over! It just didn't flow like Deep Forest or Trial Mountain does. Judging on what I saw Beau and TB do last week, I'm sure they likewise don't know how it could go so wrong.

Well at deep forrest I was definitely slow, 41st on the fastest lap sheet and that time was not far off my PB. At GVER I managed to go from mid to low 10's in pre season races to a PB of a 1:08.2 in a full length practice race without draft, I was still lacking a little on a full tank but I knew I'd have decent pace if I were able to run half a tank and fresh tyres. Both races I've managed to remove myself from the carnage either by pure luck at deep forrest or deliberately as in GVER.

Oh and not that it will make you feel any better but your qually time would have only put you 8th as I managed to just beat your time before dropping to 7th after everyone seemed to put in a killer final lap.

pretty east to back of the throttle a little when u make contact just so u dont take the advantage i had a great race at the back. i missed all the drama this week. or should i say i didnt cause the drama this week

We'll I had a much better race than last week had no pace at all in practice and qualify was 13th untill my last flying lap and got 10th woohoo. Start of the race was interesting just sat back first few laps and waited for things to settle a bit. Then a traffic jam happened in the tunnel on lap 3 and I thought f** it I'll have a go here stuck it up the Inside at the right hander and got stu and Cagme in one move, after that I was fizzing with excitement that I pulled that one off and slowly pulled away from the pack and picked my way up to third somehow. Pulled in behind Cagme after the first pit and tried to keep up with him my lap times getting quicker every lap, had a spin just before my 2nd stop lost 2 spots and got in behind beau and razor who wer going at it.
They Both went off track at turn 2 1st razor next lap beau unfortunately got tangled up with beau as he was struggling to find traction on the rejoin and slowed it up a lot to make the turn into the tunnel wasn't expecting it and tagged the back of him. Felt that it wasnt entirely my fault I
Continued on and found myself catching Tovey setting pb lap after pb lap made a small error 3 Laps to go so just backed off a bit to bring it home in a unexpected 5th.
All in all pretty good race made plenty of good passes and was contact free apart from beau. Sorry mate