Beiträge von Feempy
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I'm such a big idiot... A few cautions before we actually came in I was thinking of a fuel only stop, so I unchecked my tires. Then when we actually came in I forgot to check them again and basically made a double pitstop and had to restart at the back of the field....
Gratz to Daniel for the win and a strong start of the season so far.
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Terrible race from me. No point coming up with excuses. I'm just sorry....
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I think this was by far the worst setup I have ever driven. I think I was the slowest on track for the first 10-20 laps but I knew I was still turning the wheel to much, because this car just would not turn at all. The tires weren't as bad as Gabi's, but still ended with 22% RF after a run of saving tires, except for maybe 5 laps...
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I won't race tonight. I am away with a couple of friends on a holiday weekend.
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Apologies to everybody involved in my wreck. Thought i took the conservative road in the cold tires by not cutting the dogleg, but barely clipped the yellow line and the car snapped...
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I was really looking forward to this race. But I guess sometimes there is a race where everything that can go wrong, goes wrong.
It started with a black flag, before the green flag even dropped. Then I stopped in my box, while it was a drive through so I had to come in again. And in lap 60 Sven crashed into the wall and decided to cross the track with 40 mph when there were 5 cars coming. Even after the repairs the car was still incredibly loose, so after I got a few positions from others that retired I decided to park it and not risking ending somebody else's race or cause a yellow...
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FYI, for the Cali cup race they had 1 set for practice, 1 for qualy, and 12 sets for the race. So that would equal to 7 or 8 sets for our 300 mile race.
In Xfinity they were indeed more limited. They had 5 for the race (including the set they start the race and qualified on) and 1 extra set for practice. So that would equal 4 sets for a 250 mile race.
For Las Vegas Cup they will have 9 sets for the race 400 miles. So our 240 mile race that would mean 5. For Xfinity and Truck it'll be 5 and 4 sets for 300 and 200 miles.
I rounded everything down in my calculations. You could also take in consideration that irl they can reuse sets (or when practice rains out, they'll have an extra set anyway), so instead of rounding down, maybe round every calculation up, which adds an extra set.
Source is jayski.com
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Keiner mit mehr als 3 funktionierenden Gehirnzellen hätte eine 3 Stop Strategie gemacht bei 3 Sets.
Mit 3 Sets wäre die Strategie für 100% des Feldes ident gewesen, 2 Stopps, ~L33 und ~L66. Damit noch 1 Set über für die late Caution, fertig. Da wäre Null zu überlegen oder taktieren oder riskieren zu gewesen. Einzig ob man ein wenig undercuttet vll.
You assume the race stays green all the way. Eventhough in pro we have a lot of clean racing, it really doesn't happen all the time. The thing with so few tiresets is that every race becomes a big lottery. It has been like this for three races in a row now (Michigan A, Cali A+B). Its not that simple that everybody just can pit at lap 33 and 66. At Michigan A Erik won because he had to take a wave around and had a set left at the end of the race when nobody else had a set left anymore. At Cali A it was a trade off between splitting every stint equally or making your last stint shorter, in case a late yellow would come out, so you would have better tires than everybody else. And it was the same thing yesterday, with the only difference there was actually a late caution. This was the sole reason I could get back to 3rd, just because me (and Gabi) pitted later than Nigel, Frank and maybe some others. Basically every race now becomes how A fixed was a couple of years ago when then had only two sets (including the one they started on). Just stay out during a caution before half way and hope for a late caution so you could luck yourself into a win. I just don't see the logic here and how this would improve the racing and/or competition. You just creat more lucky wins. And I know we all want a different winner than Carsten for these B races, but I don't think this is the way to do so. Also it creates a lot more dangerous situations when there are late cautions, because everybody is out on old tires with all the wheelspin, which could end somebody else's race. To me it would be much more logical if we would use the number of sets based on real life, adjusted for our race distance.
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At least i was not the only one with a pitstop penalty. I think more than half the field got one at some point.
First sorry Kelvin for running into you at some point after the last restart. My force feedback got numb in that turn and that threw me off which messed up my line through the turn and I went a little too low.
And great driving by Daniel. I think you really drove how superspeedways are meant to be driven! I tried to get back to the front behind Nigel, but our run got killed by some lapped traffic. I hoped Nigel would have had the patient to stay high as i think with 10 to go a run would form again on the high side. But unfortunately that didn't happen. So i fell back and after the car behind me got side drafted, we lost the lead pack.
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I forgot to sign up in time....
But when I saw there were only 11 drivers registered and i didn't have the track and was really tired after driving the 24h of Daytona i was fine with not driving this one...
Sorry to those drivers who did participate that maybe it wasn't the event you probably hoped for...
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In practice I was wearing the rears more than the fronts, so I adjusted the brakes accordingly to get more balance on the long run. But this completely backfired during the race as the tire wear did a 180 compared to practice, so I got way to tight. The first run was somewhat understandable with the dirty air, but during the second run I took it really easy and still was wearing out the fronts...
Anyway I'm happy and proud of the championship this season. Statistically my best season by far.
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hello good evening, I have a question for @Jeroen Anema.
you had some kind of problem in the 3rd stint, at first I thought you were saving tires and I did the same, but when I decided to push to up the pace of the race you started to fall behind, when in the previous two stints it didn't happen to you. In fact you made me go 100%.
Well I could stay within a second all run, but just staying there wasn't going to get me anywhere. I think I was slightly better after 50 laps or so, but the last run wasn't long enough for that. So I tried some different lines, but it seemed like the top line lost a lot of speed compared to the beginning of the race, so I think I lost .3 seconds just in one turn. Also running into the wall in turn 1 didn't help
Anyway you drove a great race. Very disciplined! Not much I could do when you got in front of me.
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Survival of the tightest. Diesen Klops rafft man doch echt nicht mehr. Sobald ich im Pulk hing oder nicht über den RF geschoben habe, wurde die Karre gnadenlos loose und es war einfach nicht mehr im selben Run zu retten. Und wenn dann noch die Bubble von hinten drückte oder jemand mit Sidedraft daneben war, wurde es noch unfahrbarer. iR könnte sich mal angewöhnen sinnvolle Sets zu machen. Dann wäre es sicher nicht so grausam. (Wenn auch machbar) Und dabei mag ich eigentlich loose Sets.
Im zweiten längeren Stint wollte ich mich übrigens hinter Jeroen halten und dort Sprit sparen. Zugleich hatte ich die Hoffnung, dass der Draft mich tighter macht. Als ich dort aber immer looser wurde und nicht einen Funken Sprit sparen konnte, habe ich das Pedal einfach mal durchgetreten. Der Wagen war etwas angenehmer zu fahren, der Tank reichte eh nicht. Also hatte ich die Hoffnung so zumindest eine kleine Lücke auf alles hinter Dani raus zu fahren und mich beim pitten auch genau dahinter orientiert.
And the most annoying lapped car award goes to....
Like you said yourself. When someone is driving really close behind you the car in front gets really loose. So guess what happened when you drove so close behind me
Either pass me or leave a bigger gap if you want to save fuel. Then you still have the draft, but then I atleast get a decent exit. Now I was slowing myself, you and Dani down, but I had no grip on the exit of t4.
Then when you and Dani finally did pass me, Dani decided to drop back behind me again and do the exact same thing....
Anyway rest of the race was pretty decent. I was surprised and impressed that some made it on 1 stop. I watched Casey Kirwan have to save a lot to do a 134 lap race on 1 stop. So saving enough to do 140 laps on 1 stop was for me not an option.
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I must say I think Kansas has become one of the most fun tracks now. It's pretty fun with all the lines you can run.
The race didn't go very well though. With every caution, I got more and more into trouble...
After the first caution I realized too late it had become a fuel milage race.
The second caution came out right after I made my pitstops, which took another tire set away.
When the third caution came I had no tires left, so I had to stay out with 30 laps older tires
And after the fourth and final caution I got so tight I couldn't do anything anymore and fell all the way back to 10th...
Anyway pretty cool to see Sven get his first pro win. I guess for him everything fell into place today
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Unfortunately something went wrong. I was pretty sure the mail was sent this past Monday, but for some reason it didn't (I might have sent the pro mail instead?? I don't know).
Anyway mail will be send today.
