Zhuhai Post Race Results and reports

Hi all, first of all thanks for giving me the opportunity to join this race, never had so much fun in racing!!
after the race I exported my data from rsdash to excel/numbers and compared my lap times with Joeri (other session).
You can see the comparison below, it's great to see each others consistency or the lack of.. if you have any data (preferably csv) send me a message and I can add it if you like.


Short race report
Session 2 Q5 R1

I had a decent qualifying, nowhere near the pole times.
Because we had some issues with people dropping out after qualifying we needed to rearrange during the first lap of the race to the official grid order. Therefore our race lasted 5 minutes longer.
When the race started we had a tiny bid of chaos in the first corner and I came out 3rd if I remember correctly. The 2 in front of me are just too fast. number 4, big will, chased me very fast and by making a mistake I helped him past me. from there on it was quite a lonely race with a gap of 5 seconds and increasing in front of me and a gap of 7 seconds behind me.
everyone around me pitted so at some point I was first. I pitted when I had 15 liters left in the tank and to my surprise I came out back in front with the number 2 and 3 just behind me!
They had some touching and probably grass, gravel, or even a spin (don't know for sure) going on, giving me this edge
The last 30-35 minutes were tricky as the 3 people behind me were faster but (unfortunately for them, luckily for me) because of some mistakes from them I managed to stay first. The final laps big will came really close to overtaking but this track is rather difficult to overtake.
All in all, like I said in the text above, it was a great experience!

Sorry for only mentioning one name, I'm the new guy so names will come later on hopefully

Q6
R9

I had no big expetation for this race. I struggled to find a fast set-up and focus on to have a safe one for rhe race, trying to be consistent....

As expected, in qualy I did not have the pace but strangly I was not able to really heat up the tyres. I had to do 6 or 7 laps to have the left hand side about hot but right was still pretty cold. That was not the case when I was practising using actual dates and weather... after a some set-up changes in qualy it was a little bit better but not enough to produce a better lap....

Race
Starting P6, I had a good start and was lucky to end up P3 after T1 due to contact between other drivers... it was easier as tyres were hot at start and did not loose to much in such a short formation lap... Joe was P2 and let me trough as he felt that I was faster ( cheers!), I was then P2... after few lap my pace dropped a little as front tyres were cooling down, inducing some understeer... coming to the double left hander, I had a massive understeer in the first one, ended up going a bit long with 2 wheels on the grass and spun... that was bad as the car behind (not sure who) could not avoid the contact and we ended up both with damages.... only 12% front for me but enough to affect badly the car.... I was loosing 1 to 2 secs each laps, I decided to carry on to the pit window in order to have enough fulk tank space to refuel and stop only once... I pitted in lap 17. On hot tyres, anf a repaired car, the pace was back and when all drivers started to pit I manage to be back up to P5 chasing P4 slowly lap after lap closing the gap from 10 sec to 6.... but trying to push harder, I lost the rear end at exit T1, ended up in the wall with 12 % front damages again... at that point the race was done... a pit stop will have put me far behind, I tried to carry on but the car was bad to drive... the last 10 laps the car started to have strange behaviours even in straight line... being P9 with a big gap to P10 I stop to repair to finish the race safely...

Good racing from everybody as always.
Sean was untouchable as always.

Thanks a lot guys, looking for next one
Christophe

Nice race Joeri.. Karl would have jumped you at the pits because he didn't change tyres. We both decided it wasn't needed here and saved a fair chunk of time at the pit stop 👍

Hi Will,

PC2 and saving videos is just horrible. What I tried to do is stream trough Twitch, normally (it failed for me) it should save the full stream to your twitch account.
It was great racing yesterday!

Good to hear you had such a good race Will.

On the subject of saving replays check your profile to see if you've got any already saved there. The saving is really limited and you can only save about 50 minutes to an hour total which basically equates to less then one of our races. So you have to remember to delete each one before your can save another. This save limitation is a restriction on the Xbox and not just game related. They made a decision to prevent saves on the HDD and just allow it on the 256mb cache which is nuts but it is what it is.

Using Twitch or Mixer is your best bet for saving races.

I understand. Always look forward to driving with you, but everyone is under unusual pressure these days.

We messed around at Dubai after the race and it could be the best track yet. I can't stand Abu Dhabi, but this track is really great. Will and Neale got it quickly. :-o

Q 7
R 9

Same old story for me, couldn’t quite find the pace I had in practice for quali, thought I could’ve found another few tenths which would’ve meant moving up the grid by quite a few slots as the times were so close in the midfield, but could only manage a 31.8 then disengaged the pit limiter 2 meters before the line got me a 1 place penalty.

I had been considering moving to a 2 stop strategy as I’d run some fast and consistent race pace in practice but I decided late on to stay on the more conventional 1 stop, after some small issues we got the race underway and I got a fairly good start and I’d picked up 1 or 2 places, I was close behind Ian in P5 when he had a lag spike which threw his car in the air 🤗 and I latched onto Barry’s Porsche and began to put some pressure on in the last sector, then in the last hairpin as I was lining him up for a possible attack I applied the throttle and the car swapped ends and left me on the grass, I rejoined behind Ian and low and behold the same thing happened at the same corner. The car wasn’t behaving as expected and the Traction Control felt like it had failed as it wouldn’t engage. I attempted to close the gap back to the cars in front but the competitive standards are high and I couldn’t make any kind of impact. As the race went on I was fairly frustrated and began overdriving the car causing more shunts, so not a great performance from me.

Huge congratulations firstly to Vince in his debut win, secondly we’ll done to Will for a throughly deserved P2 and Dan for his podium on his return to the championship.

Also huge congratulations to Sean and Neale for both titles and Neale securing P2 in the championship, you’re the class of our league and we’re very proud of you both.

And lastly to everyone who raced in Split 2 last night, it’s only 2 in number and certainly not In stature, another hugely competitive and exciting race event.

So, we move on to the last race of this season which has seen our League grow not only in numbers but in the quality of its drivers, looking forward to the season finale.

Cheers

Dave

That's crazy, I heard you had a quick switch of a car! There are worse cars you could get stuck with, though.ha

Q-5
R-2

I was surprised to be mid-pack after quali. I did have my PB time (1:31.5) though so, that was nice.

Race start was not so good, fifth to last by the end of T1. Neale was ahead of me and he got a good start but we were both on the outside of the track for T1 and staying wide was always going to be what we needed to do if there was any contact in T1 (39m into video). Unfortunately Nate tapped the back of Neale and went wide as well, rather than try to make the corner (not wanting to make contact with anyone on my right) I just followed Neale into the gravel and we rejoined the circuit as all the others went by.

Neale made quick work of some of the cars ahead and was up to P6 or P5 in no time it seemed. I struggled a little more to make it though the field. We both got by Peter when he went a little deep into the gravel at T1. Next lap Neale made quick work of Micko and Greg, but I couldn’t find my way pasty Micko. He placed his car well and had good exits out of most corners. I didn’t have the overspeed down the straights to get him. It was a fun little bit of racing that eventually ended at Turn 1 when I tried to overtake up the inside and went in a little hot locking the brakes. I think Micko let me have the spot in the end because I think he could have kept me behind him much longer.

Next up the road was Greg, but he had had an off after the T7 hairpin and was still rejoining the circuit when I went by. Then in the next corner I saw Nate was just rejoining the circuit as well from having an off at T9. I thought I heard him say he had some damage so I dove up the inside at the next corner. He must not have had too much damage though because he hung onto me quite well for the next lap or two.

Finally I was back up behind Neale, but he was still on a quick pace and was 5 seconds up the road. He was racing closely with Oxy and Chris and I gained some time as they were battling it out. Then Neale had a slight slide coming out of T1 on Lap 8 and I squeezed past him into P5. Neale also had his hands full with Nate and while they were racing behind I saw Nate slide out coming out of T10 to hit the barrier (about the 51 min mark in the video).

I caught up to Chris next and we had some good racing before I managed to get past him at T1. That put me up to P4 with Oxy up the road about 5 seconds. On top of that, Neale was hot on my heels again. I started setting some of my fastest laps and Neale was holding pace as well, pressuring me from behind. Eventually the pressure was too much and on Lap 15 at T7 I went too deep missing the braking point and he got through to retake P4. I stuck close to him as best I could after he got by, and we wound up catching up to Oxy in P3. But a couple laps later he went wide in the last turn following a backmarker and wound up in the pit wall barrier. That put me back to P4.

When I caught up to Oxy about 6 or 7 laps later (Lap 26ish) I couldn’t find a way past. I was a little quicker through T7,9,10 but and he had more speed in the other parts of the circuit. We had some good close racing for a couple laps then I decided to pit early and try to leap frog him in the pits. I stopped on lap 29 with Oxy just in front of me and Joeri about 7 seconds further up the road in P2. After the fuel went in and I rejoined I had managed to maintain P4.

Joeri stopped a couple laps later and I passed him before he exited the pits. I was then lapped by Sean though, which was a little disheartening if I’m honest, because I felt I was racing quite well, Sean just has way more pace than the rest of us…..maybe it’s setup related, maybe driver related, maybe a bit of both. A few laps later though he stopped for his pit and I got that lap back.

Oxy stopped about 6 or 7 laps later and I almost crashed into the pit wall coming out of the last turn trying to push to get further ahead before he could exit the pits. Meanwhile behind me Joeri and Micko were battling for position as well ,although I think Micko still needed to stop for fuel as well. With about 30mins left in the race I was in P2 with Micko, Joeri and Oxy closing in behind. I had another slide on Lap 41 at T1 that cost me a lot of time and Joeri got past me into P2. I stuck really close to him and tried to find a way past. It was tough racing and a lot of fun. I tried a move at T9 on lap 47 that was a little too close and we made contact, but no damage to either of us. I was just trying to keep the pressure on him and hope for a mistake, but when he did make the odd mistake here and there I wasn’t close enough to capitalize. Then finally on Lap 51 with less than 10 minutes to go Joeri got a poor exit from the final turn and ran wide. I just tried to focus on running clean laps from there to stay in front of him. The gap between us never got more than a couple second for a long time in the latter stages of the race, and he made a huge push on the last lap but I just managed to hold on across the line at the end.

It was a great race for me and ultimately felt like a win. Congratulations to Sean for the win and Joeri for the podium. Oxy, sorry, i feel like you could have been up on the podium as well, you had a great race.

Video is here:
mixer.com/niblips2?vod=278212142