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Steve · Post by **Steve** » 19 Mar 2007, 03:12

Congrats to Brad for the win, Flow for 2nd, and Juan for third, oh, and don't ask about my race please, lol

Flow · Post by **Flow** » 19 Mar 2007, 03:22

As for my qualif, i mist my braking point and went wide in grass, lost at leat 2 big second there, but still manage to qualif in 5th.

At start, nice side by side we did SteveB, but knowing you, i kew that the pressure was probaly 1000% on you, so i kept it on, and i got paid. For 1/4 of begining of race, i was little stuck behind Juan, Juan was as fast as me in practice, but maybe the nervosity and me in is ass was making him do little mistake, but not enought to let me pass him, but alot to make me slower. I was having steveB in my mirror, so i was just pushing on Juan, was great moment. Juan open the door when he exit a curve in grass, just enough to let me be in second.

Brad was now 17 sec away. I pushed, but start to make mistake, spun 4-5 times. brad exit pit on his last stop -6sec, he went to 10sec, and from there with 5 laps to do, he stated to save his car by slowing 1 sec/lap, i was 100% shure that my car was going to be Ok, push so hard, but nothing to do, finish second with +5sec behind brad.

Nice race all, too bad we are not a full grid, would be just more exciting. I head that paul and Steve never cross the start line, that is so bad.

Good for Renault (before replay/penality review)
Flow : 8 pts
Xzwins : 5 pts

(Rad 4, Boost 6, brake map 0, rpm 19400, supersoft tire and all the way to end fine)

Bilbo · Post by **Bilbo** » 19 Mar 2007, 03:24

The official replay and results files from the server can be downloaded here:

Qual results: http://nar.kicks-ass.org:8086/narresult ... a_Qual.xml
Race results: http://nar.kicks-ass.org:8086/narresult ... a_Race.xml
Replays: http://nar.kicks-ass.org:8086/narresult ... tralia.zip (12MB, contains both race and qual replays)
Web-stats: Click here for stats!

Juan G · Post by **Juan G** » 19 Mar 2007, 03:47

Congrats Brad for the win, and Flow for the second place.
Q, on 3 spot surprise

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The start was good jump to second place when Bilbo spun sorry mate

, and afther ferw laps a had Flow on my back, make nervous and I did few small mistakes.
My first pit stop was a disaster, the eng, stop and I did not what to do, lost 30 extra sec.,

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Afther that Hitman on my back, OMG, another fast guy, He realy was pushing hard, made safe on the second pit stop and manage to exit on front of Hitman, now another problem, I wasn't sure if I had fuel to finish and Hitman pushing, pushing and then few laps before the end He spun, OMG ty, no more presure and finaly made to the end.

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It was nice to see u all

JG

Flow · Post by **Flow** » 19 Mar 2007, 13:26

For faster reference, here the result (before admin replay/penality)

QUALIF
01:23.770 - 1 Brad Jaeger, Toyota
01:24.440 - 2 {NAR} Hitman, BMW Sauber
01:26.162 - 3 [NAR] Juan G, McLaren Mercedes
01:26.791 - 4 [NAR]Bilbo, McLaren Mercedes
01:26.937 - 5 [NAR]Flow, Renault
01:26.966 - 6 [NAR] Steve B, Ferrari
01:28.376 - 7 (NAR) Paul, Toyota
01:29.530 - 8 (NAR)XZWINS, Renault
01:32.014 - 9 Koma, Super Aguri
01:33.329 - 10 Quebec_MIKE, Scudiera Toro Rosso
01:36.306 - 11 [NAR]Steve, Red Bull Racing

RACE
10pts, 58 lpas, 1 Brad Jaeger 1:25:01.651, Toyota
8pts, 58 laps, 2 [NAR]Flow 1:25:07.331 +05.680 Renault
6pts, 58 laps, 3 [NAR] Juan G 1:26:06.896 +1:05.245 McLaren Mercedes
5pts, -3laps, 4 (NAR)XZWINS 1:25:57.564, Renault
4pts, -4laps, 5 {NAR} Hitman DNF (Engine), BMW Sauber

-21laps, 6 [NAR]Bilbo DNF (Engine) McLaren Mercedes
-41laps, 7 [NAR] Steve B DNF (DNF) Ferrari
-52laps, 8 Koma DNF (Engine) Super Aguri
-54laps, 9 Quebec_MIKE DNF (Suspension) Scudiera Toro Rosso
-58laps, 10 (NAR) Paul DNF (DNF) Toyota
-58laps, 11 [NAR]Steve DNF (DNF) Bull Racing

Ruben Miranda · Post by **Ruben Miranda** » 20 Mar 2007, 15:09

Hello Guys
Well for our first race as a div Not great but we learned a lot I think.
So if we learn and apply what we learn and try to fix it and make it better our future should be better.

For my self I was really nervous
Had a lot on my mind and I could not clear my head as hard as I tried and with that came a lot of mistakes.

I must Apologize to SteveB and Juan G for hitting them
Sorry Guys

With both we where having a great battle and I ruined it I have to kick myself for that.
I am really not sure what happen right now I have to remember the different driving styles I guess it was like they stopped and turned not sure if that makes any sense.
I any case I apologize and I hope that my dumbness did not cause you to leave the race.

As for me as hard as I tried led to a few track cuts I feel I slowed down thru them but that will be for the replay to determan

Malaysia will be better

Hitman

Flow · Post by **Flow** » 20 Mar 2007, 15:17

yeah hitman, too bad, you stole the lead to brad, that was just too hot from you! but you spun few corner later

pressure is not easy to handle in these race.

When you have driver that you know can be nervous in front of you, watch out the hard braking corner, they, by nervosity (like i do sometime) brake later or earlier cause disturb by car in mirror. In front, mist the braking point, and cause driver in back te be more carefull.

I need few corner and laps to judge driver in front, and to see were i can get him, and were to watch out.

Paul??? what hapend??? You and Steve stalled on start. i remeber that on start line, my car never start, wheel stop working at Imola in 2006. That was the most frustrating moment in NAR. You must feel the same...

Aaron??? are you oK? you never came back after we lost you in practice...

And NA driver, watch back T1 replay, we were all just like PRO! nice job all.

brad · Post by **brad** » 20 Mar 2007, 15:58

congrats to everyone who finished! good but strange race for me. the cockpit eye-point thing was still messed up for me, my view was much higher than normal but i could deal with it. still, it was just odd feeling all race long. hitman got a great start and got me into t1, then i tried to stay on his ass best i could. after a slight mistake from hitman i was in the lead by the end of lap 1. push..........pitsop1=somehow didn't notice i was not pulled in all the way, and preceded to jump up real quick and stretch, then noticed nothing was happening, got back in the car, moved it forward, did the stop. came out in-front of juan, did the best i could to stay in-front with colder tires and heavy fuel(he was about to stop) but slid off(same place hitman did) and juan took the lead, only to slide wide 2 corners later, where i snuck back in on the inside for the lead. 2nd stop had 38 damage seconds added to it from a spin on lap 35 i think. had another spin in 3rd stint, flow got to 5 seconds. i was able to get that to 10, then just tried to save the car to the end.

aawil · Post by **aawil** » 20 Mar 2007, 17:17

My internet connection died on my around 7:57. I worked like hell to get it back up. At first I figured the router me just need rebooting. Nothing seemed to work. I then unplugged the cable modem and router. Restarting everything. Nothing. At around 8:20 I gave up and left home cause I just couldn't sit there. I had quite a bit of time invested and was pretty pissed off to say the least. By 8:45 the internet was back working again but I had already left and I would assume the race had started anyway. It was a cruel twiste of fate I'm afraid.

SteveB · Post by **SteveB** » 20 Mar 2007, 20:54

NP Hitman.
I watched the replay and I saw you were going for the pass at T1 then you backed off at that point I was in my braking zone and you tucked in behind me.
When we got back on track I think there was a little rear end damage which showed a few corners later when I spun and hit the wall which led to a 90 second pit stop.

After that the car wasn't the same I was spinning all over the place...LOL
hit the wall again giving me a 170 second pit stop and that was way to long for me so I ESC.

I qualifyed 6th which I should have been higher up the grid if it wasn't for the stupid move trying to warm up my tires causing me to spin hit the wall and had rear wing damage.

Hopefully MALAYSIA will be better.

CONGRATS to Brad and the others who finished

I'll get you next time so watch your mirrors....LMAO

klaaz · Post by **klaaz** » 20 Mar 2007, 22:18

Steve B wrote:
After that the car wasn't the same I was spinning all over the place...LOL
hit the wall again giving me a 170 second pit stop and that was way to long for me so I ESC.

Next time goto the toilet to do a big dump with the engine swithed off, so u can grab some points, or who knows, even a podium....

SteveB · Post by **SteveB** » 21 Mar 2007, 00:18

Flow · Post by **Flow** » 21 Mar 2007, 01:50

yeah SteveB, you trow points by not beeing patient for 2-3 minutes... after a pit of that time, your car is like a brand new one, just watch out, tire are at 40-50 on exit when it repair, and dont forget to shut engine off.

Flow · Post by **Flow** » 21 Mar 2007, 04:52

Humm, just notice that our time was close SteveB on qualif :

1:26.937, pos 5 - Flow Renault
1:26.966, pos 6 - SteveB Ferrari : + 0.029

Hehe got you by the skin of ass!

SteveB · Post by **SteveB** » 21 Mar 2007, 04:55

Indeed Flow.This is the first time ever that My qualy time was that close to yours....I am sure you made a mistake somewhere on track...LOL

Like I said WHATCH YOUR MIRRORS.....LMAO JK

Flow · Post by **Flow** » 21 Mar 2007, 04:59

Will still be hard to beat this Qual close time
(from website archives, http://www.noaidsracing.com/index.php?o ... Itemid=160)

Qualification Results - Canada NA
3 Hitman BMW 1:17.174
4 Flow STR 1:17.174 + 0.000

Qualification Results - United States NA
1 Hitman BMW 1:11.538
2 Flow STR 1:11.592 + 0.054

Qualification Results - Germany NA
1 Brad Toyota 1:14.252
2 Flow STR 1:14.267 + 0.015

Qualification Results - Japan NA
2 Aaron Ferrari 1:33.969
3 SteveB Ferrari 1:33.971 + 0.002

Alot of close time fighting for front grid position occured in '06 season.

SteveB · Post by **SteveB** » 21 Mar 2007, 05:01

WOW!!!!

Man those are close.

Flow · Post by **Flow** » 21 Mar 2007, 05:03

Euro also did a tied time in qualif in '06 :

Qualification Results - Great-Britain EURO
7 JeffB Honda 1:17.921
8 Drago Ferrari 1:17.921 + 0.000

SteveB · Post by **SteveB** » 21 Mar 2007, 05:08

I hope we can manage to do more close times this season and without the DNF...LOL

Bilbo · Post by **Bilbo** » 14 Apr 2007, 02:39

I have fixed the broken rFactor Reports link above.

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