2024-10-06 Class A #9 Talladega Superspeedway

grats BR18! hahahhahaha

erster green pit verkackt und dann war das rennen durch. lucky dog nicht bekommen, da ich am pushen war....

Biggest thx to Kelvin Mace for pushing. I love you!

Alles was schief gehen konnte, ging quasi schief.
Bezeichnend der Treffer in Lap 106, wo selbst bis zur linken Wand ausweichen nicht gereicht hat.

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Biggest thx to Kelvin Mace for pushing. I love you!

Glückwunsch

Kelvin hat ALLES gegeben würde ich mal sagen.

Congrats Björn!

Had to drive with damage, hoping for one more caution. That thankfully did eventually happen.
I did not want to just move over to the back of a group for fear of losing the draft.
Eventually the caution came, and I could get the remaining damage fixed.
Somehow finished 9th, I shall take that after restarting the long run in 39th, with a bunch of damage.

I would really like to note how the drafting in these cars works and makes it fun.
If you find yourself as one of the first three cars in a line, you have a job:
- Leader, drive so you can be pushed (try and take your friends with you when you switch lanes)
- Second driver, push when you can without blowing up your engine
- Third driver, you are the enabler. Stay very close to the rear bumper of the second driver so he can actually push.
Too often in this league I feel just out of luck, when I end up with one of these three being someone that does not know how this works (or just plain refuses to try?). I can understand some might not know, but for the love of good oval racing, please learn this!
If you are the second or third driver in line, just chilling, you might as well just not show up (if you ask me).

And I share this in hopes of improving the racing and fun for all involved.

And sure, early in the race some fuel saving and taking it easy will happen.

But I am mostly talking about all the small groups that form after.

We got rid of the big one because we saw that from the second lap they were in a line of three, we wanted to get rid of that first accident, on the restart the group broke and we had to recover more than 10 seconds to regroup with the leaders, when making the stop a driver made a mistake braking too late, not allowing me to turn in my box and since then the whole race I was lapped.

After being on one lap the whole race, this p10 feels like glory to me, I guess the same glory as Manuel Lange's p7.

I had planned to drop off in the last 3 laps so as not to interfere in the fight of the leaders, but I saw that Manuel's ass was too appetizing.

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Congrats Björn!

Had to drive with damage, hoping for one more caution. That thankfully did eventually happen.
I did not want to just move over to the back of a group for fear of losing the draft.
Eventually the caution came, and I could get the remaining damage fixed.
Somehow finished 9th, I shall take that after restarting the long run in 39th, with a bunch of damage.

I would really like to note how the drafting in these cars works and makes it fun.
If you find yourself as one of the first three cars in a line, you have a job:
- Leader, drive so you can be pushed (try and take your friends with you when you switch lanes)
- Second driver, push when you can without blowing up your engine
- Third driver, you are the enabler. Stay very close to the rear bumper of the second driver so he can actually push.
Too often in this league I feel just out of luck, when I end up with one of these three being someone that does not know how this works (or just plain refuses to try?). I can understand some might not know, but for the love of good oval racing, please learn this!
If you are the second or third driver in line, just chilling, you might as well just not show up (if you ask me).

And I share this in hopes of improving the racing and fun for all involved.

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Correct, as much as I know how to push with this vehicle, if there is no one behind me or not close enough, I cannot push to the maximum.
Roland did a great job of catching the leaders, if he wasn't within 0.0 he couldn't catch the leaders.
If you don't know or understand the air bubbles, imagine the side bounces, I recommend you all to look for information about them. It will help you a lot in this kind of circuits.

What a finish. I have Jose to thank for getting P7 in the end.

I'm happy that we both made it into the top 10 in the end.

Jose pushed all the shit out of me. Pretty strong. And it was rewarded with the deposit and we were back in the lead lap.

Really cool. It was a lot of fun fighting for the lucky dog, or staying ahead of the leading group.

Congratulations Björn.

Schönes Rennen für mich als "Gaststarter"

Von P15 weg direkt auf der Inside ganz nach hinten gereicht worden. Gerade als ich nach aussen ging um mich mit den Teammates zusammenzuschliessen kracht es vorne, konnte mich aber ohne Kontakt ganz oben durchmogeln, Glück gehabt.

Konnte mich dann in den Top 10 festsetzen und hab einfach abgewartet und easy gemacht und beobachtet was da so für Moves abgezogen werden
Irgendwann dann hinter Gabriel geshuffelt worden und entschieden mal versuchen nach vorne zu kommen. Funktionierte super und ich konnte die #16 in Führung pushen und mich auf P2 setzen, kurz bevor es zum pitten ging.
Den Stop genagelt und in Führung aus der Box gekommen. Von da an Flat Out stehen lassen ganz vorne und mal ein paar Leadlaps gesammelt, bevor es dann nach hinten ging in der Spitzengruppe. Wollte Outside versuchen nach vorne zu kommen, hat aber nicht gut geklappt. Also wieder einsortiert für den Moneystop.
Joa und da wurde dann mein Rennen in die Tonne getreten. Schön angebremst, alles gut, aber die #88 zieht zum pitten direkt rüber und gibt mir schön 60sek. optional Frontdamage. Direkt übel offpace dadurch, konnte nur mit Mühe an der #33 & #88 dranbleiben.
Die Yellow war dann gut genutzt mit abreparieren des Damage, aber es war noch immer spürbar dass ich nicht mehr konkurenzfähig war. Also ganz hinten im Feld ins Ziel gerollt und noch ein paar Plätze gutgemacht durch die Crashes in der letzten Runde. P15 am Ende.

Grats Björn! Von 40 auf 1, Hammer

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mit Mühe an der #33 & #88 dranbleiben.

Um dir auf deine Frage im Rennen zu antworten was wir vor hatten:

Wir dachten das wir am schnellsten sind wenn Maik mich schiebt da wir mitbekommen haben das wir am Anfang in der Gruppe sehr langsam waren. Dachte mir das du Schaden hattest. War nicht so leicht uns in die Position zu bringen, deshalb sah das bestimmt lustig aus. Leider aber die #71 dadurch verloren und am Ende halt trotzdem zu langsam.

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... Leider aber die #71 dadurch verloren und am Ende halt trotzdem zu langsam.

Hab mich schon gewundert, was Ihr da veranstaltet. Musste teils lupfen, damit ich den Wagen vor mir nicht abräume und dann war der Geschwindigkeitsunterschied einmal zu groß und ich bin nicht wieder ran gekommen.

It's funny how easily you twerck the rules to always punish me for doubtful reasons.

Did a perfect braking on a pit-stop, almost an 0x to #88 which I seriously doubt he even got any damage.

None comment for an excesive braking for the drivers in front which were at 80kmh way before the cone. None sanction to #53 turning #33 who damaged my car with 50sec of optional repairs. Really would like to know what problem is in your mind to protest that braking and calling "optimistic" what was an almost perfect braking is a very unconsidered comment from the stewards.

Optimistic is braking in the spot, going though traffic not colliding to anyone but an 0x in the line who didnt even lost control and I seriously doubt any damage? You kidding.

Practice pit-stops and do less non-sense solo lap in practice sessions in SS folks. Shame on you.

¿A change to punish #76?? Go for it, you'll get it approved. Always you'll get it approved. When I protest anything.... "race incident", "driver behind could do nothing", "we considered not taken an advantage", "accident in front and not able to avoid?.... punish him again"... you're full of this kind of repertoire which I am tired of. Got the penalty but shame on you.

#53 turned a car in front causing (again) caos.... no problem. No protest, no sanction. Everything is fair here.

Very tired of this. Shame on you.

How about appealing the penalty instead of complaining on the forums week in, week out?