Posts by Badbeatbill

Happy to win another one, and glad to see an alternative strategy work out yet again.
Maik showed how older tires could still be pretty good, earlier in the race. So I took the gamble to stay on my old tires.

Congrats to Jakub for the championship. Very fast ánd good at avoiding big hits in the points.

I hope we can find a way to start with a big field.

Interesting race. I don't have the pace to follow. But fun racing today.

Those involved in the last caution (that pitted) got put on a pretty solid strategy because of that.
I don't think anyone was counting on it suddenly going all green after that.

Quote from Smokey

Denke, ich war nicht derjenige welche, auch wenn ich ebenfalls den Moment mit Dir hatte, aber für was erwartest Du eine Entschuldigung?

You did not apologize to me, so you must have not been the one...

I have lifted/braked a fair amount of times to not wreck you past couple of days when you got out of shape (predictable or otherwise).
A bit like pit entry courtesy can work.
I feel like I take a pretty safe approach to entering pitroad under green, maybe even too safe (slower). Just like when others in front of me go pit (I'll move up a lane). Safer than what I often see from others.
But it is still racing after all, and I can understand the "call" to pit got lost, and Nathan forgot there was also a high chance for guys like me to hit the pits soon as well.

Had fun with the racing, so no hard feelings there, but you are one the last person I would need to get a lecture from .
I know off the rule, and I have too good of a memory on incidents for that.

Fun race. But good result kind of ruined by getting hit on pit entry.
I had to go around for another lap, to not get a penalty on entering.

I could have called it out slightly earlier, but I don't think that would have made a lot of difference.
Good to hear an apology tho.

Very messy race from my end. Got myself a 15sec hold penalty early on. Was recovering from that.

Sadly could not slow down enough following an incident coming off turn 4.
The racing was pretty fun up untill that point. Big hit in the points tho.
Really need to be and stay are the very front to dodge all trouble, it seems...

Fun race. I stayed out too long for the final pitstop, hoping for a cheeky well timed caution.
Almost beat Daniel to the line for 9th place finish, but he played that well.
Not my best track, so 10th is ok for me.

Good win Jonas.
Must be frustrating for Carsten, close to the first win of the season (and extra points).
But only gain 1 point on Jakub still. The gap is still pretty big.

Tricky race. Very hot track made it tricky to keep the tires in good shape.

But I had fun, and was lucky enough to dodge trouble.
Went on a bunch of outside line adventures. Top 5 would not have been in the cards without all the late cautions. So I'll be happy.

I just mentioned the gründlichkeit because it is such a lovely utterly German thing/word.
Perhaps more sarcastic to read than I meant it to be.

I respect any voluteered time spent on a league that does not demand a subscription.

That said, if rules are not clear/fair or I feel you are hurting your own league, I might respond.
For this entire topic, I'm also vocal because I care. Take that whichever way you want.

But the objections are out there, if this is how a merge should happen so be it.
I do hope for a better way to start the season, as you mention. But atleast next time, if we need to merge, the rules are more clear.

Pretty fun race. But lost all my teammates thru various incidents. That made it pretty rough towards the end.
Could still hang out as stray, somewhat lucky, dog with Jose and Kevin. Was fun working together!

Good win!
On the final restart the 4th in line left me, Daniel and Gabi. Which kinda sealed the deal for the win (in my opinion).

When looking at the incidents, a bunch seemed kinda avoidable. Others just Talladega things.

It surprises me that it has taken this long for it to be "clear" what is required for the merge.
Is that on purpose, so people cannot try and be smart about it, or is that just because the calls are being made very late?

At the same time, I don't understand the reasoning behind the form of gatekeeping.

It is not clear what FPI is used for that. Overall FPI or the FPI for the half season that has been run. Or am I missing something in reading the announcement?

What happens when a new driver was to apply for the remainder of the races. Would they be allowed to drive?
What happens to the drivers that signed up at the time of the Bristol or Talladega race. They are just screwed because they cannot make that requirement?

I understand it is hard to please everybody, but I would expect some more gründlichkeit around here.

I made contact with Rafa (sorry, minimal damage thankfully), and Jalberillo (gave me some wheel damage sadly).
About 40 seconds of optionals.

Happy to still salvage a 9th place finish.
Don't feel like I would have been able to stay on the lead lap, but going 2 laps down I will put down to the wheel damage, and the timing on that. Didn't end up being a caution...

If so, extending before this is to actually happen might be worthwhile.
Assuming they don't force them to correct that.

After some horrible NIS races, I was hoping this was a bit better.

Raul, I accept and appreciate the apology, but what happened to holding brakes?
The game was very slow to throw out the caution, but yeah, not great.
Me slowing down earlier would not have made a big difference.

Good win Jose, would have been very challenging to hold on to my lead, had that accident not happened.
But felt like a good result was atleast possible.

Good win, once again Jakub. I was trying to atleast somewhat play the same game. But it's a competitive pack to move around in, while trying to save tires.

That was a fun race. Hard work, very silly caution timing put me on the back foot. That was a trainwreck of a pit entry Fernando...

Thankfully 'only' 2 laps after I had pitted, so I did not have much older tires for the wave-around.
After that I tried to pace myself as best as I could. Very tricky to hold on to rear tires once again, but worked out well enough to get 9th. And be very very close to 8th. Sadly, I was too close to Manu when he got loose in T4.

A lot of fun fights out there.

Good win, could already tell in practice that it would be hard to match the long run pace.

It was way to easy to overheat the right rear. And I currently don't have the ability to sense it overheating as I would like.
First stint was horrible, but after the caution I did get it figured out a little bit better.

Somewhat regret not trying to go for extra pitstop on the final green run. But wanted to be a bit safe, messed up strategy badly at Atlanta.

Somehow 2nd in points after all the dust has settled. But miles behind 1st.

I have some regrets about the qualifying, but that is all my own doing.
Interesting race, but really just a follow and wait for a mistake (or be the one making a mistake).

Wrong strategy, in a few ways.
Very boring race tho, once it all became single file. Atleast that boring part got broken up by being pushed around the track for a while. Got some slight bumps at times the car was light, but that is part of trying to make it back to lead group.

Good strategy and win Daniel!

Quote from Kevin Adam

5 Minuten Stromausfall... Rennen abgehakt.

29 Fahrer, WOW fängt ja gut an. Hab erwartet das die Anzahl viel später sinken würde aber war zu optimistisch.

It is actually not much less than Daytona. But I agree.

Dare I ask why Arron Maspero and Matt Schofield are in Pro?
From Arron we seem to get 2 races a year.
Seems Matt did 4 last year, and 4 the year before that.
No specific hate towards these guys, but I'm confused as to why they are in the Pro group.
Especially after not showing up for the first two races. I feel it is in bad taste towards the league to do so (ok, little bit of hate ).

Good win Jonas!

I did not make the best call for the last green flag pitstop, regardless of the caution. Stayed out slightly too long.
Not sure if that caution kinda helped me or not. I guess it helped for getting a few freebies.