Division 4 Season 4

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great championship win AOCleaner, very consistant , hope to race with you again when I find more pace

Hey Mario you might have to join us on Friday nights in our prostate academy and beer nights driver training ...?

Great season win AO well deserved indeed clearly the fastest to.
Mario far to quick in the slippery Monza hats of to you.
Well was an enjoyable challenging series and I feel its helped improve my GT6 racing online skills hugely.
Big thanks to Raceonoz crew what an awsome effort.
Thanks to all in Div 4 you are all a very clean fast professional bunch.
Look forward to catching all trackside again soon

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great championship win AOCleaner, very consistant , hope to race with you again when I find more pace
Hey Mario you might have to join us on Friday nights in our prostate academy and beer nights driver training ...?

Yeah maybe , flick me the details n I'll see if I'm available

Did you run out of fuel Jim?
I tried to give you some speed there, but it was like hitting a brick wall lol

Yeah, no fuel. Noticed that I'd be short just as I was crossing the line to start the last lap, d'oh!

Awful night of 'racing' (if you could call it that) from me, Lap 1 was great, after that another story. I think I counted 7 short-cut penalties, a pit-lane 'speed limit' penalty, and run out of fuel. It never rains, it pours.

Looking forward to a new year, new car and new challengers. Stay safe over the festive season everyone.

I have always enjoyed Monza and rain, but it's not to be this time around. It didn't help when my wheel mount came loose on lap one, and I had to support it for the first stint. I tried to fix it during the pit stop, but that didn't work and I gave up and stopped to get it right. That probably cost me 30s in down time. Oh well. But it was a good race at the beginning with ad and raedon.

Code:

    Driver            Time    Best lap
01. pinoy350        43:57.951 1:56.016  (pole+fastest lap)
02. AOCleaner74       +10.904 1:56.285
03. Tanktex           +19.610 1:56.353
04. disturboed        +28.374 1:56.112
05. raedonwolf      +1:17.139 1:58.417
06. Ad2mny          +1:18.093 1:56.944
07. emmo46          +1:50.109 1:58.790
08. ranok3n         +2:06.442 1:58.478
09. Jim_aka_TheMan  +2:06.914 1:56.936
10. X-3vi1m00n      +2:59.656 1:59.839

Code:

Fastest laps
01. 1:56.016 pinoy350      
02. 1:56.112 disturboed      
03. 1:56.285 AOCleaner74     
04. 1:56.353 Tanktex         
05. 1:56.936 Jim_aka_TheMan
06. 1:56.944 Ad2mny           
07. 1:58.417 raedonwolf        
08. 1:58.478 ranok3n  
09. 1:58.790 emmo46          
10. 1:59.839 X-3vi1m00n      

Quali did sort of go as planned for me as I knew Pinoy was mighty quick all week. Was a little surprised to start ahead of Turbo, so it was a front row start with Jim and Tank close behind ( worse case scenarios were running thru my head!) Obviously played more of a part than I had hoped as I fell back to 4th at the start before Turbo? got a penalty and I was in behind Jim and Pinoy. Closed right up on Jim after getting a good run out of the parabolica and made my move. Jim out braked himself defending which gave me a little breathing space. By this time Pinoy had a 5 sec lead so I then worked on bringing the gap down, which I did to 2.5 secs until I had a bad lap and it was up to 7 sec before I pitted.
As I exited the pits I could see Ad coming up close down the straight. He passed me just before the braking marker ( which we both got a bit greedy and copped a penalty ) but by the 2nd chicane I was on the outside of him under brakes and just squeezed past ( sorry mate, got a massive slide on turn in and we just touched ) Pinoy pitted a lap after me and the gap was down to 6 sec. I worked hard to close it down, but I could see he was lagging heaps in front of me, so I just decided to worry about my own race. I did get the gap down to 2.5 sec again but then I noticed we had some prying eyes join the room in the form of Blindman and my team boss CAGM and I hit the barrier just before the first chicane After that I just cruised home knowing I would be celebrating my first championship!
Bad luck to Jim on missing out on 2nd in the championship after a dreadful race, but big congrats to Tank on a great first season!
Big thank you to everybody for an exciting season and I wish you all the best

I surprised myself with some of those passes, but this car gives you a fair level of confidence sliding the rear out.
That side-by-side action on the last corner was pretty fun
Shame I couldn't keep the battle going for longer than a few laps.

Congrats on the championship AO it was just a matter of time and Internet stability before you took it out. Looks like a promotion for you next season. Well done mate

I qualified third on the grid which was right at the lower end of where i wanted to be, knowing i had been faster on a full tank of fuel was a little frustrating but anyhoo.
I knew I could beat AO off the line as I had been in several practice races through the week, but bloody Jim!! Holy smokes that guy had the starts nailed in this car and drew side by side with me as we split AO down the middle of us. Leading into the first chicane I had the inside line and was just ahead, I could have forced my line through there but allowed Jim to go around to avoid any grief, believing I would get him back soon enough. On the exit to the second chicane though I screwed up got a 3 sec shortcut and dropped all the way back to 6th.
Made up a spot as Ad went deep and then Tanktex got a penalty in the final chicane so I had a run on him down into the parabolica. Side by side with him on the inside. I braked fractionally earlier and as he went deeper into the corner I was able to cut back in onto the inside of the corner powering on earlier and we went up the straight almost dead level. He backed off a little at the 1st chicane, letting me through first.
I was going to pit at end of lap 7, but did an extra lap for good measure (glad I did as I don't think I had enough fuel left for one extra lap), put in 56L almost forgetting to change to softs at the same time. Next lap around I was able to jump back into third place with the undercut working very well.
Had some good battles with Jim and Tank. Tank was right up there with me in 4th, the gap would be increasing and decreasing all the time as he or I made a little mistake here and there. On lap 19 he got a slightly better run out of the 2nd lesmo and was literally on my bumper coming up the final chicane and as he was manouvering to do an inside move, as I braked there was the slightest of touches (the replay barely shows it) and I went sideways one way, then the other off into the sand. Tank got out of shape too, but managed to get out quicker and continued on. I must admit I was going to protest this but decided against it as there would be no difference in final standings had the positions remained unchanged.
Crossed the finish line in fourth and finished the season in a disappointing 5th, I thought I would have finished a position or 2 higher, but my poor bathurst result killed it.

Gratzulations to AO for the championship and also to the podium getters, well done guys.

What a good season though, from taking the first pole @ Nurburgring, to the disaster of Laguna, some decent results in the mid season and of course the win at Indy Road. Enjoyed this car. Let's see what 2015 brings us all!