NA 2010 Abu Dhabi GP race reports

[Bilbo]

The server replay and results files can be downloaded here:

Qual results: http://nar.kicks-ass.org:8086/narresult ... i_Qual.xml
Race results: http://nar.kicks-ass.org:8086/narresult ... i_Race.xml
Replays: http://nar.kicks-ass.org:8086/narresult ... uDhabi.zip (3.4MB, contains race and qual. replays)
League stats: Click here for the NAR stats
Web-stats: Click here for stats!

CONGRATS TO STEVEB FOR WINNING THE 2010 NA DIV. DRIVERS CHAMPIONSHIP!!!

Congrats to Carrera for the win and thanks to all who participated!

Note: The race was 50% length due to lack of participation.

[carrera]

Ahhh yessss.
Congrats to Steve b for the NA championship win.
My race was a nailbiter for a while.
Got a great start and got the inside line on Bilbo but I knew he was faster.
Pushed it hard and he still was gaining so I figured I would let him by by lap 4 or so.
Then while he was right on my ass he spun.Minor spin but enough for me to get a little breathing room.
I had changed my setup to more downforce just before Qualifying and it made my car stable and I was happy.
I went over the curbs many times but managed to keep it from spinning or the outcome would have been
totally different.It was great to see so many dedicated people showing up for the last race.
Now it is on to the final division battle in Korea.I will be happy to see f1rft2009 gone as f1rft2010 kicks its ass pretty badly.
On to the next arena of battle and the final race.
Congrats again to Steve B and Bilbo for their Championship positions.
A well fought year this year...rock and roll....
carrera

[Ruben Miranda]

Hello

Want To say Con Grates to STEVEBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
for his well deserved Championship.

Way to go my friend

Ruben M

[Lion_Heart]

I also would like to congratulate you SteveB and to Bilbo as well, also I want to congratulate Lion for third in the championship.

Anyways SteveB you have fought very hard for 1st place. It is deserved!
I am not happy, not because I lost the championship, it's because I missed the race by fighting against you guys. I missed the fun last night.

I am sure there will be definetely memories from 2010.
I'll want to point out 1 great race I liked in 2010. 1. CANADA GP. It was the most amazing race fighting against Rich, McDonald, SteveB, and Eleanor for positions, and it was very difficult gaining positions, you guys were very aggressive and consistent.

What I'll want in 2011 is more drivers.
We had lots of fun this year. Steve's trackpack was very nice.

I guess I will see you guys again next year.

[Bilbo]

Thank you Lion. You really should have been way in front of me in the championship based on raw talent and it's a bit sad that I edged you by one no-show too much.

This last race was more interesting for a few laps than I could ever expect, particularly as last year's was boring as hell IIRC (3 out-of-contact drivers in a processing to the end). I was even ready to pospone it as by ~20 minutes before then race I was all alone on the server and everybody was posting about missing the race. Even SteveB feinted this way! Well, it ended up being interesting for a few laps as I switched setups just before qualy and improved my speed at the cost of some twitchiness at the rear end. I made my then-PB in qualy so it was looking good, although getting the pole was quite unexpected (particularly after reading the Euro div. reports and their talk of 1:40s on heavy fuel). Carrera had a better start than me and got the lead from the start, I was happy just to hang with him. Things were pretty close for 4-5 laps until I remembered why I did not like this particular setup when I last used it in Valencia: the rear had a tendency to snap on acceleration and I was made to remember the hard way by spinning outside T1, luckily without consequence (did not make it to a wall) other than lost time. That was to happen 4-5 more times in the race until close to the end when I spun one too many time and stalled the engine, just after passing the 90% mark (whew!).

Great race by Carrera on a pretty hard and boring track (why put chicanes on a brand new track, $#$!@!@! ). Nice to see everyone making into the points (even if barely). Nice to see SteveB save his championship too, showing he can still drive when not too busy doing tracks for us!

Finally, thanks to everyone for another great season. It was a lot of fun and there were many great racing moments. I wish I could have joined more of you and more often in practice on the server but the last six months or so have been very busy for me both at home and at work and I had to cut on my practice time (almost totally for this last race) but I still tried to make it a point to attend all the races and not be too dangerous in the process.

So thanks again and see you at the RoC and the winter events!

[SteveB]

WOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

Thank You Bilbo, Carrera, Hitman and Lion

It took me 5 years to do it but I finally got one.
This Championship means so much, as you all know I have a HUGE passion for F1 and for NAR and
getting together with you guys is a special thing for me.

This last race was a no go for me till about 15 minutes until the qualy session started, I was given the green light
to race....wooooooo hoooooooo!!!!!!!!
I came into this race with only 1 lap of practice and NO setup.
Carrera gave me one(thank you) but it is hard to run a set for a race with no practice laps so I used my Bahrain set.
I knew that 3rd place would give me the championship and with only three of us racing why risk anything.......WELL......
those who raced with me know I can't do that so I gave it my all and in doing that I nearly threw the championship out
the window when exiting the last corner onto the front straight I ran wide(many times) onto the curbs and spun crossing the track
and tagging the wall loosing my front wing....lucky that is all I lost, did a FULL lap with no front wing got back to the pits
settled down and brought it home.

I can't say this enough that you guys are FANTASTIC!!!!!
We had another GREAT season even though we lost a few drivers it was still alot of fun.
I need to thank Bilbo for getting base setups from him and we had fun and frustrating times tweaking these setups
in practice, thanks buddy

We hope to see ALL of you again in March for another exciting season.

It has been a pleasure working along side with Bilbo, Neo and "Mr. G"
I also would like to give HUGE thanks to Bilbo and Jools for the use of their servers, if it wasn't for them we would be "SOL" (Shit Out of Luck) hehehehehehe

I am looking forward to hopefully join you guys with some winter races and of course to the 2011 NAR F1 season.

CIAO for now and again Thank You so much

Steve B

[Coffeemachine]

congratulations B, well deserved!!

[Mr G]

Congrats Steve B nice one

[Racer]

Steveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee B congrats m8,
finaly a great victory in Nar, great

[SteveB]

Thank you so much guys

[Juan G]

Congrats buddy, well done!.

[SteveB]

Thank you Juan

[Flow]

Congrats MrB! Congrats MrB! Congrats MrB!

[SteveB]

Congrats MrB! Congrats MrB! Congrats MrB!

WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Thank you FLOWWWWWWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwWWWWWWW